I stood up and looked at Horatia; She was summoning a lot of energy and she was floating in midair. Somehow, I knew what she was going to do- destroy the thrones of the gods.

"Don't give up, Annabeth." a soft feminine voice said.

I turned and saw Elpis, who glowed with incredible yellow light around her. Then I thought of an idea. It was incredibly risky and defied all logic, but logic had been tossed out the window a long time ago. And it's the only idea I had.

"Elpis, can you help me?"

She looked at me curiously. "What do you need?"

"I need you to throw me towards her."

The spirit of hope didn't question my plan. She then blasted me with yellow energy at a rapid speed towards Horatia. I slashed my weapons at her chest and her arm. She screamed in agony as she fell back first onto the ground. I landed on my feet and she groaned in pain.

The evil maiden got up. "No! I will not succumb to defeat!"

She blasted a beam of silver and gold energy towards me, but it hit my mother's throne instead. It started to crumble before my eyes.

"This is for Percy!"

I stabbed Horatia in the gut with both of my weapons. She screamed in pain before falling to the ground yelling, "Curse you Annabeth!"

A large thud was heard. It was over. Horatia was dead. There was a moment of silence before I realized...

"Percy!"

I ran over to him. He looked so lifeless. I held his body within my arms and sobbed uncontrollably. A number of gods soon showed up. These gods included Mars, Aphrodite, Jupiter, Hephaestus, Poseidon, Pluto, Dionysus and Hebe.

"Oh no..." Poseidon said. He gasped upon seeing Percy. He formed a water sphere and put him into it. Aphrodite and Mars lifted the column that crushed Piper.

"Is she okay?" Mars asked.

Soon Apollo arrived and saw all the causalities. "Oh dear..."

"Can you help them?" I asked.

"Most of your friends have been knocked unconscious. Piper, Percy and Calypso have been seriously injured however." Apollo began to heal Piper as the others woke up.

"Ow... What happened?" Leo asked drowsily.

"Ugh..." Calypso groaned. "Ow! I think that jerk Hercules broke some of my bones!"

Apollo healed up Calypso. "Normally I wouldn't heal broken bones, but sometime during my time as a mortal, I think I may have broken some myself."

"Is Percy... dead?" I asked.

Pluto walked up to the water sphere as Reyna, Grover, Thalia and Nico walked into the room. Nico was completely unconscious, being carried by Grover and Thalia. The god of death and wealth looked grim.

"I'm afraid..."

Suddenly Percy gasped and woke up. He soon realized that he was suspended in a water bubble. He motioned for me to come closer and extended his hand out of the bubble. I took his hand and entered the water bubble, being completely dry as Percy threw his arms around me.

"I feel so weak..." he murmured. "I thought I was going to lose you."

I started tearing up and threw my arms around him. "Oh, Percy! I thought you were dead! I'm so glad you're ok!"

I heard everyone saying, "Aw..." and or smiling. I heard a voice and turned around, but the spirit of Horatia was stopped dead in her tracks.

"Hold it right there!" a feminine voice shrieked. It came from the same black-cloaked figure who was with Melinoe. "You are not getting away this time!" She pulled her arms as if Horatia's spirit was entrapped in chains and pulled her spirit into a bracelet with white and black gems.

"Thanatos, is that you?" Hebe asked.

"That can't be him. Their voice is way too feminine!" Dionysus exclaimed.

Jupiter immediately turned back to Zeus, who held his Master Bolt in his hand. "Hooded necromancer, identity yourself or face the wrath of my thunderbolt!"

"I will take down my hood," she began. "But be warned, you may not like who see."

She took her hands and slowly took her hood down, revealing Gwen. Many of us gasped and I gasped the loudest.

"Gwendolyn?" Jason asked.

I exited the water bubble. "But how? I thought you were dead! I saw you jump off a cliff."

"I was supposed to die from that fall, but I happened to land in a pond. One of the evil maiden's servants found me and saved me. In return, I had to pretend that I would willingly join her. By doing this, I attempted to get her alone and kill her, but this proved to be impossible with her subjects, especially Hercules."

"Her name is Horatia." I explained. "That's her true name."

I explained who Horatia was, her past, and every one of her servants. Afterwards, Pluto looked at Gwen suspiciously. "Did you resurrect Percy?"

She stuttered. Thanatos appeared and gave her an intense glare. She held her hands in surrender. "It's true. Guilty as charged. I know I'm not supposed to be resurrecting poor unfortunate souls." She extended her closed fists as if she was waiting to be handcuffed. "So I shall take his place."

We all gasped. Reyna looked at her sadly. "Gwen! You can't do that!"

"It'll be alright. I doubt my father will even keep his promise. He's cruel."

He looked at his daughter. He put his hand on her shoulder, which, surprisingly, didn't kill her. "I'm not going to force you to sacrifice yourself."

"How...?" Frank tried to ask.

"I'm death's daughter, of course I'd be immune to his deadly touch."

"In fact..." He got out a scroll with the signatures of Juno and Lucina. Gwen held her hands to her face as she gasped in awe. "I'm almost done. All I need is Diana's signature, but I haven't been able to find her anywhere. Where in the world is she?!"

"She's chained into holding up the sky." Leo answered.

Those who didn't know yelled, "What?!"

"No wonder I couldn't find her!" Apollo said. He then found an unconscious Atlas. "I'm going to put this outlaw back in his place."

"I'll go with you. Just to be sure that he doesn't escape." Hephaestus said.

The god of blacksmiths and the god of healing left with Atlas to find Artemis. Dionysus, Zeus, Poseidon and Pluto left to deal with Hercules. Gwen rubbed her arm awkwardly. She looked at her bracelet.

"I see you still have your bracelet." her father noted.

"Don't you remember, you enchanted it so that I couldn't lose it or get rid of it."

"You tried to get rid of it?" Leo asked.

She chuckled. "Numerous times. It was a gift for my 16th birthday. It also serves as a Stygian iron sword when thrown into the air." She demonstrated. Her bracelet turned into a sword with a silver halt with an onyx on it. She pressed down on the onyx, turning her sword back into a bracelet. She looked away sadly. "I still don't understand how it happened."

"I know you have the idea that the miscarriage occurred because of your powers and your parentage. You were cursed for a different reason. Do you remember that one year you spent in your homeland of Tokyo?"

Her eyebrows widened. "I haven't recalled those memories in years."

"You remember your high school? And you remember a girl named Hinata Maki?"

Thanatos snapped his fingers and a screen appeared, showing footage of a 16 year old Gwen being thrown back-first into a wall, then being pushed down the stairs and being tripped up by a 17 year old girl with short black hair, green eyes and an all black wardrobe. Her name was Hinata Maki.

"She bullied you. You were never one for fighting or standing up for yourself, but one day, you declared you had had enough of it."

The scene switched to Gwen punching Hinata down.

"I've had enough of this. I don't know why you're like this, but I'm not dealing with it anymore!"

She got out her blade. "Stop! Stop! Have you no mercy for one with child?" Hinata pleaded.

Gwen widened her eyes and gasped loudly. She put her sword away. "Who... who did this to you?"

"My father. He's been bullying me his whole life. I have no way to release my anger."

She looked her hands. "Look, normally I would not advise this, but in your case, I think you should get an abortion."

Hinata looked at her questionably. "Isn't that like illegal in this country?"

"In most cases. But they'd make an expectation since you were molested."

"Even then, I'd still need parental consent, and my father would never allow it."

Gwen put her finger to her chin. "What about your mother?"

Hinata sniffed, trying to hold back tears. "She's an angel in the ground."

She turned sorrowful. "Oh. I'm so sorry for your loss. Your not the only one who's lost their mother."

"I thought your father was dead."

"Oh, he's not dead, but he's very busy and doesn't really care about me. I also hate the work he does. And I thought my father was terrible!"

"Why? What does he do?"

She hesitated. "To put it in simple terms, he's a bounty hunter."

"Of course, since you claim to respect life."

"Hinata, what's the matter?" She turned away. "Hinata?"

She slapped Gwen, which caused her to stumble into the wall.

"You're just trying to trick me, but it won't work! May you lose your loved one in the worst possible way ten years from now!"

She ran away, leaving Gwen there. The screen disappeared.

"You thought it would refer to one of your living relatives or your husband, so you tried so hard to protect them. You didn't realize that the curse would apply to the unborn, but that made it all the more devastating."

Suddenly her wrist jerked involuntarily. She groaned in agony.

"Gwen, what's happening?!" Reyna asked.

"Horatia's trying to escape!" she answered.

She was suddenly knocked down as Horatia's spirit escaped the bracelet. Thanatos quickly grabbed her. "You're not going anywhere!"

Gwen slowly got up. "I better transport her to the Underworld before she escapes again."

"I'll go with you, just for added security. Also, this gives us some time to bond."

She smiled darkly. "If that's your idea of father-daughter time, then let's get on with it."

"No, this can't be happening! I'm innocent, I tell you!" Horatia exclaimed.

Thanatos looked at her doubtfully. "That's what they all say."

He and Gwen started marching her off. "Curse you, Annabeth Chase!" Horatia screamed.

"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of Hades." Gwen said.

The two disappeared and then I realized...

Oh no...

During this fight, I probably suffered from a miscarriage with all those devastating blows... Before I could say anything aloud, I saw a strange vision. Magnus was standing in a tundra (Niflheim possibly?) face to face with a woman wearing a long black dress. Her skin was leathery and she hid her face with a white veil. Her gloves were as red as blood. And that was all I had seen before the vision ended.

Zeus then reappeared. "Annabeth Chase, Hero and Savior of Olympus. We can not thank you enough for saving not only us and our home, but the entire universe. You can ask us for anything you desire as long as it is within our power."

"I.. I don't know what to say." I slowly answered.

Hera and Hestia reappeared. The former smiled as she looked at me. "I have a deal for her, if she will accept it; the ultimate dream wedding."

I was bewildered. "You... you would do that?"

She smiled warmly. "Of course I would."

"Even though we hated each other for several years?"

"That's all water under the bridge now. You never did answer my question though."

"In this case, yes. Although I never proposed to him." I turned to Percy Jackson.

"Well, I think that can easily be fixed." Hestia said. She made an apple appear in my hands. "You're a smart cookie. How do you propose with this?"

I smiled. I threw the apple towards Percy, who was out of his water bubble and smart enough to catch it. "I do."

A chorus of gods and demigods said, "Aw..." Then my phone rang. I looked at the caller ID. It was Magnus.

"Sorry. Do you mind if I take this?" I asked.

"No, go ahead. I'm sure your cousin wants to hear from you." Aphrodite said.

I pressed accept and held the phone to my ear, walking away from the Olympians. "Hello?"

"Oh Annabeth, I didn't think you were going to respond."

I asked, "How come?"

His voice shuttered with sorrow and fear. "I've been trying to call you for the last two hours! Where have you been?!"

"It's a long story. I hope you have a tuxedo, cause you're going to need one."

He groaned. "Oh no, don't tell me there's another wedding to crash."

I chuckled. "Oh don't worry, Magnus. No crashing or bride impersonating is required."

"That's great. Who's the lucky lovebirds?"

"Me and Percy."