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-SleepingNinja47


Thalia's P.O.V.

I was following Annabeth through camp when I suddenly yawned so loud that some campers near us turned their heads to look at me. I just ignored it and acted like nothing happened. The silence between me an Annabeth was really bothering me, so I tried to start up a conversation.

"So how's Grover been?"

"He's still doing good the last I've heard. He IM's me and Per-... We talk every once in a while. Not as much as him and Juniper, though." I noticed how she stopped herself short when she said Percy's name, but I pretended I didn't notice. She'll tell me soon.

"I'm glad to hear that," we arrived at the beach, but continued to walk as I kicked up some sand. As we started to get far from camp I saw this giant rock- no, boulder is a more accurate description. I've never seen a boulder this big before and I've been to a lot of places. As we got closer I saw that there was a hole in the side, just big enough for us to fit through if we squatted down. And that's where we went: inside it.

I've never been inside a giant boulder before, but it was pretty amazing when we got inside it. The thing really shocked me though, was that it was bigger on the inside. It also had lights. It kind of looked like a house on the inside. There was a large open area with thick, plush rugs, a nice couch that looked a little worn but looked like the most comfortable couch ever, there was a fireplace a little in front of the couch that cast a nice warm glow upon the whole living room, and there was a T.V. mounted above the fireplace, and two doors on either side of the room. There was a little kitchen connected to living room that made it one big connected area.

I must have gasped because Annabeth looked of at me and smiled at my completely dumbfounded expression and said, "It's amazing, isn't it? I had the same reaction when Percy first showed it to me..." Her smile faded away as she mentioned Percy again. I slowly grew accustomed to the interior of the boulder, and my shock slowly ebbed away. Now I can focus on what's wrong with Annabeth, I just hope she wouldn't tell me that her and Percy broke up, because that would be so awkward for me, because they'd probably force me to pick a side and I don't want to do that.

"So now that we're alone, I have some questions I want to ask. Number one, what is this place?" It was a genuine question, I was really wondering about it.

"Well, it's basically Percy's house. His dad made it for him after he defeated Kronos, and Percy showed this place to me and said that we could live here forever, just the two of us. Most nights we stay in our cabins to avoid suspicion from the campers, but we came here sometimes. We were planning on telling Chiron about it and moving in full time," she explained. And now that my curiosity about the boulder, I could focus on my other questions.

"This place is really cool. But anyways, back to the original question; what's wrong?" I asked as we sat on the couch. It was way more comfortable than it looked, and it already looked pretty comfy. I'm sure the couches in Elysium don't even feel this good. I glanced at Annabeth and she had the sad look on her face again.

"It's about me and Percy... and someone else, too," she started.

"Oh my gods, he wasn't cheating on you, was he? I didn't picture him as a cheating type, he's always so kind, sweet, funny, and so loyal. The most loyal person I know, actually. I can't believe he would ever do such a cruel-hearted thing! What kind of sick evil person would cheat on someone that loves them with all their heart! He should feel ashamed of himse-"

"Thalia. He didn't cheat on me..."

"Did this other person do something bad to your relationship? Is that why Percy wasn't at dinner? Well whatever he did, you just have to remember that Percy will always love you, no matter what. I know he will, because he's told me how much he loves y-"

"It wasn't that either Thals. It was all my fault."

I was stunned. I never would have thought she would have done anything bad to their relationship. "What did you do, Annabeth?"

She was silent. She didn't look at me, but I could see the tears pouring down her face. I felt bad for her, but I was also starting to get angry. How dare she do something to their relationship? Why would she ever do something like that!?

"Answer me, Annabeth. What. Did. You. Do?" I was boiling now, I had a horrible feeling that I knew what she did, but I didn't want to believe it. But it was the most likely thing that could have happened.

"I...I...I cheated on him." It came out nothing more than a whisper. And after she said that, all was silent except for her muffled crying. I hadn't noticed that the fire was making crackling sounds until it stopped after her confession. Maybe Lady Hestia is listening in, I thought. It was so silent that you could literally hear a pin fall.

That's when I started yelling.


"He was your best friend, your boyfriend! Why would you ever do something like this to him? No one can be as good as Percy, I bet he's the best male on this entire world. Don't you at least have the decency to break up with him before you start dating someone else? I never would have expected something this cruel hearted from you. I'm ashamed of you, Annabeth." I yelled and yelled and yelled until I couldn't breathe and my anger started to dissolve. As I started to calm down I noticed how bad Annabeth was crying and shaking. I gently slid over to lay a hand on her shoulder.

"I'm sorry I went off on you like that. It's just that I never would have thought this would have happened. I'm shocked, torn, upset, disappointed, and much more. Why didn't you just break up with him? It would have saved him a lot more heartache." I said much more calmly than before.

"I...I...I don't know, Thalia. I just didn't want to break his heart. And I was planning on doing it eventually, I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I know that I do love him, but not like he loves me, not like a lover. He's like an older brother to me," she confessed as she sniffled and tried wiping at her tear-streaked face and running mascara, but to no avail.

"I really messed up, Thals."

"Yes you did, Annie," I nodded my head in agreement.

"I need to apologize, but I don't know if he'll listen to me. He probably hates my guts right now," she said sadly.

"Well, we definitely aren't going to tell him at..." It struck me that I didn't know what time it was, I have no idea how long I've been here. I glanced at the oven in the kitchen that was connected to the living room and saw that it was 1:37A.M. "Oh my gods, it's really late! Let's go to sleep, and in the morning you can go apologize to Percy," I commanded.

"I'm nervous about talking to him about it," she confessed and hung her head.

"I don't care, Annabeth. You need to apologize to him. What you did isn't right, and you know it."

"I know, Thals. I know."

"Where are the bedrooms at?" The thought just struck me that there must be beds to sleep in here. She pointed to a door to the left of the couch we were still sitting on, and she said, "Down the hall, it's the door on the second right."

"Thanks, good night, see you in the morning."

"No, thank you, Thalia. I really needed to get that off my chest."

"Hey, what are friends for?" I walked through the door and went to the room that she told me to go to. When I opened the door I barely even looked around because I was so tired. I just flopped on the bed and closed my eyes to enter the realm of dreams. Too bad it happened to be another one of the infamous demigod dreams.


I was flying.

I don't know how, where, why, heck, I didn't know anything right now. I was just so terrified of being in the air. I didn't want to look down, but I needed to know where I was at. I looked down at the ground, or should I say sea. Oh great, I'm flying above Poseidon's domain, so I have to keep flying or else die for trespassing, yay, I thought. I felt a rain drop splatter on my cheek and I looked up to see that there's a violent storm brewing. And the waves were sloshing violently. I could just tell that Zeus and Poseidon were at it again.

The rain was really starting to pick up, and gusts of wind were whooshing around, tossing me from side to side and hammering me all over. I was starting to feel nauseous when suddenly I heard a giant BOOM! It was a thunderbolt. I could see a small cloud of smoke quickly dissipating because of the violent weather that Zeus was causing. As the last of the smoke cleared away I saw the faint outline of an orange blur on top of a huge black flying thing and they had a little shield of sea green surrounding them. I was curios as to what it was, so I picked up my courage and faced my fears. I flew towards it.

As I neared it, I could slowly start to see them better, even though it was still really difficult to see because of all the rain. Finally I could make out that it was a person riding a pure black Pegasus. Just as I realized that it was a person I tasted a metallic taste in my mouth and BOOM! Another thunder strike came crashing down from the heavens towards the person on the Pegasus. It hit the sea green shield with a thunderous CRACK! Everything was blurred for a moment and then the cloud finally cleared away and I saw that the person was still alive. I was quiet amazed. I would have expected my father's lightning bolt to be more powerful, even though I knew Poseidon was very powerful as well. But I did notice that the green protective layer around the figure was gone.

Then the air felt more metallic and I knew another bolt would strike them, and this time they were done for. Obviously they sensed it to, because he -I was close enough to tell it was a guy- covered his head with his arms as if that would help. His futile attempt to protect himself would have been sort of funny if under a different circumstance, and also what happened next made me have a sudden epiphany.

The sea rose to the person, and I realized that he was holding his arms of above his head so the water that he was controlling would follow his actions and a giant water shield was suddenly above his head and it was about a foot thick and about thirty feet wide. The bolt came crashing down and at first the shield held, but it quickly dissipated and before he could get more water another high voltage bolt was blasted towards him, and I could tell this one was way more powerful than the others. He wasn't fast enough, but he probably didn't have enough energy left to hold off that bolt either, and as the bolt was racing toward the unprotected man I felt a scream come to my lips and I let it out.

I screamed as the bolt slammed into his chest with enough force to throw him off his Pegasus and into the violent, whipping air. His body was thrashing for a moment until he became still. I could only cross my fingers and hope that he was only unconscious, but it was way more likely that he was dead. It pained me to think it, but that blast was too powerful. It would kill nearly anything. As he was falling I saw the Pegasus dart around and fly after its falling master. And as the man hit the water, he started to sink -which I thought was odd, because normally bodies float- but that didn't stop the Pegasus. The Pegasus was determined to be with its master, so he dove after him into the water.

I floated there in shock as the winds and the rain died down until they were gone completely. I had figured out who the man was once the water responded to his movements. It didn't take a genius to realize he was a son of Poseidon, and there was only one child of Poseidon; Percy.


I jerked out of my slumber. I need to talk to Annabeth before I forget the dream I just had. I jumped up and ran to the door to go find her. As I ran down the hallway and into the living room, I saw that she was already awake and making fresh blueberry pancakes with extra blue dye. She really regretted what she did, I could tell she missed him. I opened my mouth to tell her, but as I did I smelt the delicious small of pancakes and it caused me to forget what I was going to say. My stomach growled. I guess that if it's important enough, I'll remember it, I thought.

So she handed me a plate of pancakes and I scarfed them down and I was on my third one before Annabeth was completely finished with her first. She was staring at them, but not in the I'm-hungry-and-I'm-going-to-eat-you kind of look. I knew that look. Let's just say that when we were young, food was pretty scarce and I was sure she was really close to resorting to cannibalism at some times. But this was a sad kind of look. One that shows her sadness and her longing. The blue reminds her of Percy.

"I had...a dream...last night," I said in between bites of my pancakes and drinks of milk. She looked up at me with a curios look in her eyes. She didn't look nearly as depressed as yesterday.

"I don't quiet remember what happened, but I do know that Percy was in it and it wasn't good," I elaborated.

"What? Something happened to Percy? We need to get to camp and see what happened!" She looked frantic. She rushed to the door and gestured for me to follow.

"Annie, I don't think he's at camp..." I grasped the small grain of knowledge from the dream and tried to pry out the rest of the memory.

"He...He was flying on Blackjack, I think. And...There was a storm and there was lightning everywhere, and...Percy got hit by the lightning and him and Blackjack both fell into the ocean." I slowly started to remember until the whole dream was fresh in my memory.

"Oh my gods, we have to tell Chiron!" She was still frantic and worried.

"Let's finish eating first, then we can get cleaned up and then go back to camp," I suggested.

"But-"

"Annabeth, there's no way I'm going out there without eating some more of these delicious pancakes and I still need to take a shower," I made it evident that there's no way I was doing otherwise with the tone of my voice and the look on my face.

"Okay...but hurry, please," she begged.

"Fine, I will."


After getting washed up and a belly full of food, me and Annabeth left the boulder house and started walking back to camp. She was walking at a vey fast pace and I was walking at a slow and leisurely pace. She eventually had to stop to wait for me to catch up. When I reached where she was standing she began walking again at a little slower pace. We were finally close enough to see the camp.

As we neared the camp we noticed that people were running around frantically. I started walking faster and faster until I was running toward camp with Annabeth on my heels. When some campers saw us they looked a little relieved, but they were still freaking out for some reason. As we were passing by some Aphrodite girls we stopped and asked what was going on.

"We thought you and Annabeth were kidnapped or something!"

"I broke a nail!"

"Percy's missing, nobody can find him anywhere!"

"There's this weird looking thing trying to get into the camp, and it's up by your tree."

They all shouted different things at the same time, I could only hear a few, and I couldn't help but roll my eyes at the girl -oh wait, it was a guy- that complained about their broken fingernail. Me and Annnabeth gave each other a worried look and sprinted to the tree. When we were almost there we saw Chiron, and we yelled his name until he turned around and cantered over to us.

"First," I started, "I know what happened to Percy. And second, what's trying to get in the camp?"


That's the end of this chapter. I hope you all enjoyed this! It's twice as long as my second longest chapter! I'm so happy about all of your guys' reviews. I finally got the internet at my house, so I should be able to update a lot faster now! Yay! How many of you Percy Jackson lovers dye your pancakes blue? *raises hand* I do sometimes and it makes me feel like I'm Percy, which is an awesome feeling, btw. Anyways, don't forget to review, it lets me know I'm doing good!

-SleepingNinja47