Sorry for the long wait in my update! And Thankyou to everyone who reviewed! This is the first chapter of the next book, "Sea of Monsters", and we are getting closer to reaching BOLT! Anyway, I hope you like this chapter, and I tried to add alot more percabeth, as requested from you guys!

Chapter: A Shadow that Belonged to no one

Time: In the first page of BOLT, when Annabeth meets percy at his school to tell him about camp. (Pages 1- 28)

I finally stopped at a big brown stone building, about five stories high, and I caught my breath.

I had been running all morning, escaping from irritating weak monsters just to get to Percy.

I gathered my breath and looked up at the building.
It was pretty humid, for being early in the morning.

The sun was bleaching, and cast a long shadow down the side walk. Mortals didn't notice it, the mist covered it, but any other demigod would see a shadow. A shadow that belonged to no one, considering I was invisible at the moment.

I ran behind the building and found a set of black metal stairs leading straight up to a bedroom window. And an unexplainable feeling told me it was Percy's apartment.

I started up the stairs slowly, still exhausted from this morning. But my thoughts weren't at rest as I climbed the steps.

Flash backs of my dreams surrounded me- the camp in flames, Thalia's tree falling, Chrion injured-had Percy seen them too? I desperately needed to talk to him, tell him about my dreams, and about camp.

I raced to the top- fifth story, and finally reached the bedroom window. The bleaching sun reflected off the glass, making me squint.

I peered inside through the heavy glass, and saw a- somewhat normal room. My eyes searched around till I saw him.

There he was, my friend from last summer. Percy was curled up in his bed.

And I found myself thinking about what a Seaweed Brain he still was. It was pretty early in the morning, but he should have been up by now. How could he lazily be sleeping, while all this stuff was happening at camp?

I felt like an invader, but I couldn't stop myself as I glanced all around Percy's room. There was a desk in the corner, a nightstand by his bed with a telephone, a dresser next to a closet and a blue carpet in the center of the room.

I'd always wondered what Percy's normal life was like, and I guess I found it quite… interesting to see his mortal home. Well it filled up all my curiosity, anyway.

I shook my thoughts, and refocused on my goal. I was just about to knock on the window and get Percy's attention when he suddenly jerked bolt upright in his bed.

And I hadn't noticed it before but he was shivering, and slowly panting.

Butterflies filled my stomach, thought I couldn't figure out why.

Had Percy just gotten those dreams, right now?

I had to talk to him- and soon.

Once again, before I could act- I was interrupted, this time it was a voice from outside the room.

"Percy, you're going to be late" It called. And I realized it was a woman's voice-Percy's mother.
Last summer he had lost her, but he had done Hades favor and brought her back.

Her voice was sweet and tranquil, and just for a minute I felt, a strange… envy. I had never heard that voice from my step mother… much less goddess Athena.

The strangest memories stirred up inside of me, from my child hood at the sound of that motherly tone.

And then I heard a voice in my head, that sounded so accurate and real, it startled me. It was Percy's voice… it spoke in my head, "Hey, don't worry. I promise things are going to get better, Annabeth. Just don't give up on your family. Give it time." And that was exactly something Percy would say, but I had no idea how it just popped into my head.

And once again, as much as I hated to admit it… Seaweed Brain was right, just like he was when he gave me his advice last summer. He had told me not to give up on my father, and to write to him.

You could say, my year with them went by smoothly, and I honestly was happy to see my father again.
My step mother did try to be a little better this year. And I guess, I owed this to Percy. After all, it wasn't for him, I would have never written to my father.

I was shook out of my thoughts when I realized that Percy was looking directly through the window, staring at me. The blood in my veins rushed as my mind processed what to do, and what kind of an excuse to make, for looking straight into Percy's bedroom.

But I quickly recovered myself, and remembered I was invisible.

He shouldn't be able to see me, and I shouldn't have felt so nervous- but his stormy green eyes were directly fixed on me. It took me a while to convince myself that Percy was probably just looking outside staring at the sky.

"Come on, dear," His mother called again. "Last day of school. You should be excited! You've almost made it!"

I wasn't able to see his mother. I had only seen her once before- and it was in the underworld. I shivered at the dark memory.

"Coming," He managed. His voice dry.

I let out a silent sigh. I had lost my chance to speak to him, again. I turned around- leaving myself with a final image of Percy gripping riptide in pen form and getting out of bed-and I headed down the metal steps.

Within minutes of me making it just across the street, I saw Percy running down his building stairs- he wore jeans and a T-shirt, his backpack slung over one shoulder- and he disappeared inside the Number Two Train.

Me… well I had different ways of transportation. I yanked off my invisibility cap, and managed to catch a taxi.

"Meriwether College Prep." I told the cab driver, as I remembered the name of Percy's school. He had told me about it through an email during the year. The drive was a good ten minutes, and as we arrived I threw a roll of mortal cash at the drivers face. I needed to find Percy quickly and catch up; I jumped out of the cab and ran toward the big building, while putting on my invisibility cap.

Finding Percy wasn't hard, his first class was English, and I managed to peer through a small window built into a door. Percy was already arguing with some older looking kid. (And over my experience with him, I had learned to expect that from his stubborn Seaweed Brain mind.)

By Percy's side stood an odd looking kid, he was tall and for a second when he turned I caught a glimpse of his face. My heart sank… but I convinced myself that I was just imagining things after my long morning. It couldn't be a … Cyclops, could it? And just at the thought, horrible vibes surged through me.

The morning went fast; I followed Percy around in science, and then social studies. Still desperately trying to find anytime he was alone. But most of the time he was with that odd looking kid.

I thought about just waiting for Percy outside when school was over, but I found myself enjoying Percy's normal life. I had never seen this side to him. His normal mortal side, I mean. And I guess I was admitting that I had always been curious about his regular life, I'd always wanted to see what he would be like.

I observed the social studies class room. I could faintly hear the students talking over the teacher.
Percy looked deep in thought as he played around with a pencil, and if I was next to him, I would have hit him and told him to pay attention.

I watched as Percy opened up his notebook, and something caught his eye. I couldn't see exactly what he was staring at, but he looked at it carefully, and he almost… smiled.

Suddenly a group of kids- the ones Percy was arguing with earlier- reached up behind him and pulled the page right out of the rings.

"Hey!" Percy protested.

The kid observed the picture, and held it up, just enough for me to see.

And my eyes went wide.

It was a picture of… me.

I recognized it- I had emailed it to him early in the school year while I was on vacation in Washington DC. I didn't know Percy had printed it out and kept it in his binder.

Before I could get myself totally confused in thoughts- I heard the kids' voice speak again.
"No way, Jackson. Who is that? She is not your-"

"Give it back!" Percy sounded furious, his ears turning red.

But before Percy could grab it the three fat kids ripped it up and chewed it. (Now it was personal, considering I had really liked that picture of me.)

And I had to give Percy some credit for holding back and not punching the kid's right there.

I found myself studying the three kids, something about them gave me an uneasy feeling. And that's when I realized who they were. I looked hard- through the mist, at their real form. Laistrygonians. What were they doing at Percy's school, and had he even noticed them?!

My thoughts were interrupted as the bell rang; Percy and the odd looking kid were the last ones to leave the class room. And as they came near… my mouth almost fell open- that was no odd looking kid…I had been right, he was a Cyclops.

A strange memory of Luke, Thalia, Grover and me at a Cyclops mansion, entered my head. It took all my willpower to refocus on reality.

As they exited the room I whispered, "Percy,"

And Percy jerked and turned around, but he didn't see where the voice came from.
Before I could call again, a crowd of kids rushed for the gym carrying Percy along.

I ran along, but stopped at a heavy door. It took me a minute to read through my dyslexia. I made out "BOY'S LOCKER ROOM"

"Whoa," I said silently to myself "There is no way I'm following Seaweed Brain in there"

It wasn't long before all the boys entered the gym wearing sky blue shorts and a tie dyed T-shirts. I tried to ignore the fact that they looked like a bunch of young aged hippies.

(A/N: Now this is the part where Percy and Tyson fight the Laistrygonians in the gym. And the next paragraph starts from after the fight.)


I took my chance and kicked the monster into the huge explosion erupting in front of me. This was going too far, with- dreams, camp, monsters in Percy's school, a Cyclops looking thing next to Percy- I needed to act now.

I took off invisibility cap and tucked it into my pocket.

Percy's eyes widened as the smoke cleared and I came into view. The older looking kid who had chewed up my photo pointed at me, and blinked. "That's the girl…That's the girl-"

Percy had probably been dying to hit this kid all year and I silently dedicated it to Percy- As I punched him in the nose and knocked him flat. "And you' I said "lay off my friend"

I walked towards Percy who was still staring at me wide eyed, his mouth ajar.

"Annabeth…" he stammered "How did you…how long have you…"

"Pretty much all morning." I said truthfully, sheathing my bronze knife. "I've been trying to find a good time to talk to you, but you were never alone."

"The shadow I saw this morning-that was-"A shade of red slowly creeping up his face. "Oh my gods, you were looking in my bedroom window?"

Percy caught me off guard for just a second, and I hadn't realized that he had caught my shadow. "There's no time to explain!" I snapped, though I felt red-faced myself. "I just didn't want to-"

Fortunately for me, I was interrupted from further explaining. "There!" A woman screamed and adults came pouring into the gym.

"Meet my outside," I told Percy. Then I managed to point at the hideous Cyclops by his side. "And him. You'd better bring him."

"What?" His head was full of kelp! Did he not realize that he was a monster!

"No time!" I screamed "Hurry!"

I put on my cap and invisibly ran outside the school; Percy met me in an alley down Church Street. He was with the Cyclops and I pulled them of the sidewalk just as a fire truck passed.

I took a deep breath and faced Percy, his expression completely confused.

"Where'd you find him?" I demanded, pointing at Tyson.

Now under different circumstance, I would have been happy to see Percy. We'd made our peace last summer, despite the fact that my mom- goddess Athena, didn't get along with his dad- Lord Poseidon. And I'd probably missed Percy, more than I wanted to admit.

But he was with a Cyclops…I mean, those big stupid hideous monsters that nearly killed Luke, Thalia and Grover when we were small!

"He's my friend" Percy looked at me confidently.

I ignored Seaweed Brain's stupid comment, and began asking questions trying hard to understand what was going on.

"Is he homeless?"

"What does that have to do with anything? He can hear you, you know. Why don't you just ask him yourself?"

I stared at the Cyclops, surprised. "He can talk?"

"I talk" The Cyclops admitted. "You are pretty."

"Ah! Gross!" I stepped back.

Percy was still staring at me, like an idiot. That made me madder, how could Percy not realize there was a monster standing next to him.

Last summer, I had learned that Percy was unpredictable, and that his head was full of kelp- but this was beyond anything!

" Tyson" Percy said in disbelief, "You're hands aren't even burned."

"Of course not," I mumbled "I'm surprised the Laistrygonians had the guts to attack you with him around."

I noticed that the Cyclops- now known as Tyson- was still staring at me, almost fascinated by my blonde hair, and I smacked his hand away for all I was worth, as he tried to touch it.

" Annabeth" Percy said, "What are you talking about? Laistry-what?"

I didn't even bother to roll my eyes. Like I said- I had learned to expect this from Percy.

(A/N: I'm going to skip a paragraph, where Annabeth explains Laistrygonainans. Next paragraph starts from after the explanation)

"Now come on, we have to get out of here." I said

"The police will be after me." Percy told me, and I realized how many bigger issue's we had.

"That's the least of our problems. Have you been having the dreams?"

"The dreams…. About Grover?" He said.

My face turned pale, as a phase of worry rushed through me. "Grover? No, what about Grover?"

Percy quickly told me about Grover running from some monster. "Why? What were you dreaming about?"

This was too much! Camp… and now Grover. My thoughts raced, and then I focused back on Percy who was waiting for me to answer.

"Camp," I said "Big trouble at camp."

After this, Annabeth continues explaining, and I'm stopping here- because there isn't much percabeth in the later discussion.

Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. A lot of people requested more percabeth from Annabeth's side, in reviews. So I tried to add more percabeth in this chapter! Please tell me what you think of it!

Next chapter: When Percy and Annabeth get into a huge argument (which is full of percabeth) over Tyson being claimed. Stay tuned for the next chapter! And please Review!

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