GAHHH! F. U. SCHOOL! I HAVE TONS OF HW BUT I SUMHOW MANAGE TO KEEP UPDATING. im a freak xD IM HYPER RIGHT NOW AND IM HALF-WAY THRU CH.10 CUZ I JUST ATE GELATO FOR LUNCH. I just lahve walking to places for lunch xDDD anywazzzz HERE ET IS!

DISCLAIMER: *grabs all readers' hands* Kumbaya, my lord, Kumbaya...Peace to all!

~Percy's POV~

I saw Kyron twirl his fingers and at a moments notice we were at Athens.

We were in the Acropolis. It's kind of an honor to be right where Greek mythology started. It feels good. It was cloudy here at Athens and there were tourists everywhere taking pictures like crazy.

I bet Paul and my mom would like to visit here one day.

"Oh my gosh! This is epic!" Stephanie exclaimed as her eyes grew.

"Let's go up to see the Parthenon up close." Kyron said and Stephanie followed along happily.

"Wait, aren't we in search of Annabeth?" I asked Rachael.

"Yes we were, but I have a feeling we should also take a look at this place. After all, it's not everyday you get to come to Greece for free." She says with optimism.

There was silence. I see Kyron and Stephanie at the entrance already.

"Percy did you see how Kyron teleported us here in a flash and not one sweat drop off him? Not even Nico can do that." She exclaimed as we started walking up to the Parthenon.

I didn't notice that, honestly. I was too concentrated on how would Nico and Katniss get along and why the heck was Annabeth all the way in Athens.

"Another thing. Why would Annabeth be over here?" I asked her.

I saw Kyron and Stephanie getting all these brochures and trying to carry them all back. Well they were enjoying themselves greatly.

"I don't know Percy. Wait isn't Athens made in honor of Athena? And the Parthenon," she said pointing at it, "is a temple made in Athena's honor as well."

I put my hand over my forehead. I've never thought of that, this is Athena's city. The city my dad and Athena fought for. Rachael you're a genius! We have to talk to Athena, and what other place is better than the original temple itself?

"Percy! Rachael! Look at all these information brochures! We can go skydiving later on in Thebes! It's only an hour away from here!" Stephanie squealed.

"Skydiving? That sounds….amusing I've always wanted to try." Rachael said as she wondered off into space.

"Yeah! I've always wanted to skydive!" Kyron encourages.

In my opinion I would not, but the main reason we are here is for Annabeth, we aren't on vacation.

"Guys, we aren't on vacation. We are on a mission." I exclaim.

"Aw boo! Don't be a party pooper, Percy!" Kyron exclaims.

"I'm not! I'm here for Annabeth and no one else!" I say somewhat regretting saying it like that.

I turn to see Rachael somewhat hurt. Stephanie has a small frown and Kyron just stayed quiet.

"Well then." Rachael clapped her hands saying, "If you don't mind, I'll be hopping on that bus over there, someone needs to look for your "cousin" and clearly you're to busy. So be it."

"Rachael! Wait!" Stephanie exclaims going after her.

From a small distance I can see Stephanie grabbing Rachael's hand and Rachael telling her something calmly, still smiling, but her eyes shining. I have a feeling that she's tearing, but that's impossible. Rachael is un-breakable. I think…

"She's not coming back for a while." Stephanie says sadly.

I look over to where Rachael is and she is getting on a bus. Why would she do all that? And she is smiling while she's doing that.

"Well this has been…fun." Kyron says casually.

There is silence.

"Hey, Percy." Stephanie says with her head cast down.

"What?" I say calmly so I won't make matters worse.

"Where are Katniss and Nico?"

My eyes grew, I could feel it. I looked over at Kyron and he shrugged.

"Don't look at me. Nico and I last met here. I don't know where he is now." Kyron exclaimed as he put up his hands in defense.

"Great! Hopefully Rachael can locate them. Meanwhile we have to get clues." I say.

"Why don't we get to the Parthenon? Maybe we can get a clue on Athena's turf." Stephanie says supporting.

"Let's hope so…"

~Katniss POV~

I aimed my arrow for the head and the arrow automatically turned on with fire.

"Katniss! There's something you should know about the Hy-" Nico began but then got hit by the creature's tail and got knocked back a few feet.

"WHAT?" I yelled as I shot the flaming arrow.

It hit a head and the head was disintegrating. Then two other heads came out as that one disintegrating.

"THAT! Shoot a head, and two come out! Now there are six!" He yelled as he stabbed the earth.

As Nico stabbed the earth, it started cracking open. Skeletons came out and charged toward the Hydra.

I was making a mental strategy. If I can't hit the heads, the heart it is.

I charged toward the heart. Then heads started breathing fire, aiming at me. Nico threw himself over me, and saved me from getting burned. Sadly, the skeletons didn't survive the fire.

"They breathe fire?" I asked astonished as I was getting to my feet.

"You just saw it, didn't you?" he yelled rudely as he wiped some dirt from his face.

I didn't feel like responding to that.

I aimed at the heart with a fire arrow and the Hydra went back, but it didn't harm it that much.

Nico, then, charged forward with his bitter black sword, dodging all the fire attacks, but just barely. When he finally got to the heart he was about to stab it when one of the heads was right on top of him ready to burn him alive, soon the other heads followed along, all aiming at hopeless Nico.

I had to think fast. I threw the bow and arrows to the ground as I looked around for objects and I only saw spiky rocks about four inches each all around, so I automatically grabbed four spiky rocks.

I threw one at one of heads.

"Hey, ugly!" I yelled ruefully. Percy's battle skills are rubbing off me now.

The head turned and I threw two other rocks to the ones next to it, one of the rocks bounced off to another head.

I had four heads distracted and just when the other two heads where about to breathe their mighty fire I threw my last rock at one of the heads that was going to breathe fire on Nico, by hitting that one it caused a domino effect and that head fell against the other.

They looked at me and all at once and immediately started to breathe fire. I wasn't prepared for the fire.

I covered myself with my arms but I still felt the fire burn the arm that was covering my face.

Then the Hydra screeched and I saw that Nico stabbed it. I got the bow and arrows from the floor and I shot a fire arrow into the heart, and once again the Hydra went back a bit losing some of its balance.

I then ran closer to Nico. Nico tossed his sword to the ground and he took advantage that the Hydra lost balance, to kick one of the heads, the main one. I grabbed his black sword while Nico was kicking the Hydra repeatedly and used it as an arrow. When I aimed the sword the bow became this deathly black color. I didn't have time to figure out why so I just shot the damn sword into the Hydra's heart. The Hydra screeched once more and then disintegrated.

Nico and I were panting heavily.

Then the pain got to me. I looked at my arm. It wasn't that bad because I wasn't that close and Nico stabbed it before it could do me more damage.

I guess Nico saw how I rubbed my arm because he said, "Do you need to see doctor?"

"I don't think it's that bad." I say still rubbing my red arm.

He gave me this look then grabbed my arm unexpectedly and looked at it himself.

"I think this is that bad. It's getting a bit black. It may not have hit you so long or so much, but it's still fire." He said

Fire. I am the Girl on Fire. I look at the burn. It is getting a bit black, but I've been through worse. I've gone through two Hunger Games, seen many people die, and felt when my district fell to the ashes of the fire itself. It all revolves around fire. My father's death, Cinna's death, my district's death, and maybe in the near future, my death. My head aches to think about fire. It's such a warm beautiful element. The best of all four in my opinion, but if you don't use it wisely, you can fall victim to it.

"Fire…." I whisper involuntarily.

I look at Nico who is looking at me closely like wondering, 'What the hell is wrong with you?" I don't blame him. Ever since the games, I'll never be sane. I'm insane and I can feel it. Strangely, I don't suffer from insanity.

I enjoy every moment of it.

"We should really get you somewhere, Katniss. It looks terrible now." He says looking out toward the sea.

I look at the sea. It sparkles. It's radiance of blues and greens, with its mixture of yellow from the sun itself. The smell of the water reminds me of Percy. I slowly inhale it. I smell water mixed with salt. I listen to the waves crashing against the rocks.

"No. I won't go anywhere. I'll be fine." I say simply, still in the trance with water.

"Nico! Katniss! There you guys are!" Nico and I automatically turn around.

I see a redhead with gleaming thoughtful green eyes. Something about her expression seemed….tense. Like she's holding back from something.

"Rachael…." I say slowly.

Her eyes are glittery, it must be with all the water.

"Where are the others?" Nico asked casually.

"The others are sightseeing at the Parthenon and the rest of the Acropolis."

"Why are you here alone?" I asked her.

"Because Percy is being…..ridiculous. He is too concentrated on finding 'Annabeth'." She says.

Who is this Annabeth? Nobody even told me who I'm looking for!

"Who is Annabeth?" I asked them.

Nico sighed. But not the lovesick sigh but more like a 'get real' sigh.

"Annabeth is this girl who is just out for herself. She has too much pride and..a-and…" Rachael began breaking down. She was balling her fists and calming down slowly.

So that's it. She was holding back tears of hate and despair. She then cleared her voice and her eyes turned to that confident look.

"And she is in love with Percy and he loves her back. There's nothing that will ever change that. He told us the real reason he was here was for her and no one else."

For some reason my heart felt empty. I don't know why. It just feels like I've been stabbed. My stomach is also doing uncomfortable flips.

"You….." I say, "You are in love with him…aren't you?"

Rachael looked up with this shocked expression.

"No! Of course not! He is nice and all, and helpful, and, and…..handsome." She says uncomfortably.

I look at Nico. He was back near the cliff edge, listening to us and the ocean. Also flipping a small coin.

I looked at Rachael for a moment. I felt mad. Mad at her. Why? She didn't want to admit something that was there before her eyes. Something she could feel, but would not say it because of fear that he would not return her feelings for sure.

"You are in love with him! Just say it and get it over with already!"

She looked taken aback. She didn't expect me to say something like that.

I then clenched my fists and continued, "Who cares if he loves someone already! If it's not official then it means you have a chance! A chance to be with the one you love and be able to never let go of him, because once you have him….you w-won't let h-him go!"

My voice was cracking. Who am I kidding! I wasn't mad at Rachael all this time. I was mad at myself. What I told Rachael is what I felt myself. I'm the one who won't admit I love…..that I love Peeta Mellark.

"I'm the one…" I say as I cast my head down, I then ball my fists and grab onto Rachael's hand, "Never let go of the one you love."

She looked at me emotionless. Eventually she squeezed my hand and smiled. She pulled me into a hug. I felt small tears on my shirt. I soon felt small tears leave my face.

I said it, well thought it. I'm in love with Peeta Mellark. And out of no where, these flashbacks overcome me…..

The bread, the reaping, the interview, the cave, the berries, the victory tour, the proposal, the Quell, and the pearl.

I then come back to Earth. Peeta…..I've always loved you…and now…I realized it too late. I always thought Gale was going to end up with me. I thought being with Peeta was a game, part of our survival. But looking back now…..I realize….that's wrong. All the things I've been through, I've only surpassed them with him. He is my comfort. My all. My everything, forevermore.

Rachael then finally pulled away. This time she grabbed my hand and squeezed it.

"Never let go…..of the one you love, Katniss."

I smiled at her.

"This might be the beginning of a new friendship."

~Percy's POV~

I look at the statue of Athena. Alone. Stephanie and Kyron went who knows where. Probably to get more brochures.

I look at a blond girl with blue eyes holding hands with her boyfriend next to me. The guy has sandy hair and gleaming hazel eyes.

I then look at the statue of Athena once more. Why did I say that? Why did Rachael leave?

"I'm here for Annabeth and no one else!"

I grab my chest. I feel horrible for saying it that way. I didn't mean to say it like that. Annabeth is one of my best friends. She means a whole lot to me. I would have done the same for Rachael, too.

From a small distance I can see Stephanie grabbing Rachael's hand and Rachael telling her something calmly, still smiling, but her eyes shining.

My head aches even more. Why did Rachael react that way?

"OH PERCY! You're so….BLIND! Yeah! That's the word! And that's why I like you!" A familiar voice I didn't feel like hearing at the moment says.

I turn from the statue to see Aphrodite standing in front of me.

"What do you want?" I say harshly.

"Well, don't be rude! And I'm here to just….look at your confusion state." Her smile broadened.

"My confusion state?" I ask curiously.

"Hehehe! Of course! You remind me of my son! Ahhh, my Justin. He sings a song which I absolutely love! It's called Eenie Meenie! Except that YOU'RE the eenie meenie lover."

Justin Beiber is her son? And how do I remind her of him? I don't blabber about endless love for a living. Wow. Some things are never what they seem. No wonder all he sings is about is love. Which reminds me, Rachael is a huge fan of him, but she doesn't like telling people.

"I'm an eenie meenie lover?" I ask, kind of offended.

"Of course! You don't know who to choose! You're in love, Percy!"

I twitch and take a step back when she says, 'You're in love, Percy!'

"YES PERSEUS! You're human and you have the ability to love! Believe it or not." She says cheerfully.

"I…b-but….don't love….I…think….I d-don't know." I stutter.

She puts her finger to my lips and traces them with her finger. I feel awkward. She then smiles and puts her finger to her lips, to shush me.

"Αγάπη, ενώ μπορείτε, Περσέας…." she says and I automatically understand.

"Love while you can, Perseus…."

When I am about to tell her what does she mean, she fades with her finger still on her lips.

"Yo, Percy! We Iris messaged Nico!" I heard Kyron tell me from behind.

I turned and saw Stephanie clinging to him while his hands were in his pockets. Then Stephanie let go of her grasp of him.

"They are a few kilometers away, well about three hours away. But no worries! Kyron can teleport us." She said as she winked at me.

My head still hurt from Aphrodite's visit. But for some reason I felt like asking something to these two people right before me. I look into these chocolate eyes and green-purple eyes before me.

"Did you hear where Rachael went?"

They looked at each other and Stephanie was about to speak when Kyron beat her to it.

"Why would you care? You just care about your oh-so-precious 'Annabeth'."

I clenched my fists. "Where is she? We have to find Rachael before we look for Annabeth."

Then Stephanie smiled and put her hand on my shoulder. "No need, she's with Nico and Katniss. It's nice to know you care about her. Even willing to look for her before Annabeth."

I look over to Kyron. He's smiling. He set me up. He wanted me to say that. Stephanie as well. They wanted to show me something. I still don't know what it is, but I will find out sooner or later.

I smiled. "Kyron get us out of here."

"Whatever." He then twirled his finger and we teleported immediately to a cliff. I looked at my surroundings.

I could smell the sea not far, there were some trees blocking the way to the cliff. As we started walking I heard familiar voices.

"Never let go…..of the one you love Katniss."

I was taken aback. That was Rachael's voice. What the heck is going on? We get into the clearing where we see Rachael and Katniss holding each others hands.

"Katniss! Rachael!" Stephanie yelled as she ran toward them and tackled them.

"Stephanie! What the f***!" Rachael yelled playfully.

"Stephanie!" Katniss yelled somewhat annoyed, not playful at all.

"Okay! Geez, I'll let go!" Stephanie said as she jumped to her feet. "Be that way and don't miss me!" She said playfully as she crossed her arms.

Rachael got up laughing and helped an annoyed Katniss up. Her hair was beyond messed up.

Kyron then started laughing and soon Stephanie laughed along. Katniss just stood there with her arms crossed, very annoyed.

Then a smirk crept over Katniss' face. She went up to Stephanie and mashed up her hair. Stephanie had this 'OMG! GASP!' expression. It was hilarious.

Katniss then laughed while Stephanie stood there with her hair shaped like those people from the Grinch.

Then that's when Nico spoke. "What's wrong with you people?"

Stephanie went up to him, and she was going to mess up his hair, but before she could he said, "Don't even think about it, sun girl."

His tone was serious enough to make Stephanie go back slowly.

That's when I saw Katniss' black arm.

"What happened?"

~Katniss POV

I was enjoying myself, when obviously I shouldn't. Peeta is still out there. I can feel Peeta's pain.

Then I saw Percy's gaze travel to me and to my arm and his smile faded.

"Katniss! What happened to your arm?" He asked

I bit my lip and looked over to Nico, who was looking at me like 'told you so'. After a few seconds I knew I didn't plan on answering.

"She got burnt. We had a little meeting with the Hydra." Nico said.

"The Hydra?" Kyron asked, "And I wasn't here? Aw boo. I wanted to kick butt!"

Stephanie looked over to him amusingly.

"I didn't notice it before. We have to take care of it." Rachael said, worried I bet.

"I'm fine! Seriously, guys." I say reassuringly.

And then this feeling surrounded me and soon I fell back. My head hit a rock and I blacked out.

I heard several people call my name as I felt myself tumbling down to who knows where. Then I felt….airborne.

"Now I see darkness. I've lost consciousness."

~Percy's POV~

"I'm fine seriously, guys." Katniss says uneasily.

Then all of then sudden she fell back and her eyes where closing and opening at a fast pace. Now she's rolling down the cliff!

"KATNISS!" Rachael yells as she goes after her.

"KAT!" Stephanie yells as she runs alongside Rachael.

Nico and Kyron stay still. They don't move. They are frozen in shock of what is happening, considering they both have ADHD.

I then run after the girls alone.

Then Stephanie and Rachael stop at the end of the cliff. Oh no. I run faster and I look over the edge.

"She's gone. But not toward the future….I can feel it."

Well this is a cliffie :P In the next chappie, Katniss will finally meet the gods xD Feel free to reveiw and tell me how yu veiw the characters. The OC are ment to make the story spin toward the story tht im developing, so PLEASE tell me wat yu think about thm. Feel free to also ask stuff. The name of this chapter is Love