Annabeth POV
I woke up in a start, my guts telling me something was wrong, something is missing. I rushed out at that instant, my siblings all looking at me weirdly.
I rushed towards infirmary, looked around and saw Percy's bed empty. I panicked and rushed out again, this time towards Poseidon's cabin, I peeked in and saw no one.
I knocked on Zeus's cabin's door. Thalia opened up and I fired a question "Where is he?"
Thalia grabbed my shoulders "Wait, calm down Annabeth, where is who?"
I took a deep breath and repeated "Percy, where is Percy?"
Thalia's face changed, "Percy? He's not in the infirmary?"
"No, he's not in his cabin too."
Thalia's brother, Jason stood up, "did he run away?"
We all rushed out. Thalia knocked on the Hades cabin to call Nico and Bianca. As we were leaving the camp borders, someone blocked our path. It was Chiron, the camp director.
"My, my. Where are all of you going this late into the night?"
"Our friend ran out, we have to get him back." I answered
"I'm afraid I can't let you do that. Anybody who runs away can't be considered strong enough to face a battle."
I was angry, how could he say something like that about Percy. Thalia spoke up "It is Percy, you know him right? The guy who caused the flood."
"Oh, then there's the more reason I shouldn't let you find him. He's dangerous."
My anger is rising, and I just shouted. "HE'S A FRIEND, I CAN'T JUST LEAVE HIM"
I rushed past Chiron and out into the woods. Chiron spoke up again "Leaving the camp borders without permission is violation of the rules, you will not be allowed in again."
I never stopped running out. Thalia and Bianca followed me, then Jason and Nico also came along.
We ran and ran, searched and searched but we couldn't find the son of Poseidon. Then I thought, the son of Poseidon, the sea obviously.
We took a cab to the nearest beach, Montauk beach. There was certainly a figure there, two figures actually.
We went closer and saw Percy and Poseidon talking. After a while, Poseidon went back into the sea, and Percy sat down on the sandy beach.
I went forward instinctively and put a hand on Percy's shoulder. He looked back and was surprised to see me.
"How did you find me?"
"A son of Poseidon wouldn't be far from the sea would he?"
He smiled a bit and looked back at the sea. "I screwed up this time did I?"
"Yeah, you sure did. Chiron told us that we are not allowed to go back."
He stood up "What? Why did you come out then?"
"We are friends, and friends support each other during hard times."
"I don't think I ever helped you though"
"Your time will come." and I laughed.
"Enough alone time for the love birds" A voice came from behind.
Percy looked back and was shocked to see the rest of them. He smiled and stood up "Now what are we going to do, since we're outcasts now."
At that moment, a loud roar came.
Nico POV
Our reunion lasted for that small moment then the monster appeared. It seems like it is a griffin, half eagle half lion.
It was flying above us, waiting to strike. We all drew our weapons, Annabeth seems to be studying it very closely as if trying to find it's weakness.
It suddenly flew straight at Bianca, deciding she was the weakest target. Bianca shot an arrow at it, but it's skin is so hard that the arrow just bounced off.
Annabeth threw her knife at it and it turned towards her. She backed into the sea, and everyone was looking warily.
When the griffin was very close to the water, Annabeth shouted "Percy, NOW"
The sea water suddenly burst out and hit the griffin straight in the face. It fell on the ground and probably can't fly anymore because it's wings are wet and thus too heavy.
Percy ran towards the griffin and stabbed his sword into it's stomach. The rest of us seemed to have snapped out of it and also rushed towards the griffin.
I took my sword and slashed it across it's chest. Thalia and Jason conjured up lighting and striked the griffin. And now it's toast.
Our problems came again when we heard an army rushing towards us from both ends.
Annabeth spoke up "Look's like it's bad having all of the children of the big Three gathering at one place.
Thalia snapped "You don't say…"
Percy spoke up "We should split up. Meet back at Empire State Building in two days at 5pm. Don't be late"
Why two days and why at a specific time, I don't know. But what I do know is that I need to run away quick.
Bianca grabbed my hand and ran out of the beach and turned right, I saw Jason and Thalia running left. Where is Percy and Annabeth?
I caught a glimpse of them going into the sea. Into the sea?
I have to focus on running now. The monster army is hot on our heels and I hear Bianca running out of breath.
I looked towards an alley and saw shadows. A crazy idea but I prayed to my dad and rushed straight into the shadows, thinking about one place I had in mind, the apartment I lived in with the others.
When I opened my eyes, I was lying on my bed in the apartment. Bianca saw me and rushed towards me "I'm glad you are awake. That thing you did, it was amazing."
I laughed. "Dad helped me with it. How long was I out anyways?"
"One day. We're supposed to meet the rest at the Empire State Building tomorrow."
"Okay. Did you see Percy and Annabeth entering the waters?"
"Yeah with Percy's under water ability, they should be able to survive. I'm more worried about Thalia and Jason, I didn't see them escape."
"They should be fine, it's Thalia we're talking about."
The next day, we gathered our supplies and left the apartment. I don't think we are ever going to come back here.
We stood outside the Empire State Building waiting for them. I hope they are safe.
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