Here's to a week long wait! (Something like that. . .) I made a plan *nods* I will updae over the weekend (Not including last one cause I was being BLEHHH and LAZZYYY) But I will. So expect updates over the weekend ;D A quick shout-out to Chocobo ProdoCo! Because—well, she'll know why once Thalia comes out TEEHEE.

Now, Enjoy! :D *waves*

Futuristic Lover

•Katniss's POV•

I looked around the cabin. It wasn't the neatest thing ever, but who was I to judge. "Welcome to Casa de Percy," Percy called happily. I believe it's the first time I've even been in here.

There were six bunk beds carefully aligned, the walls glowed beautifully like abalone. Even more beautiful than Morpheus's glowing mushrooms. What caught my attention the most was the little fountain filled with drachmas. Small horse-fish (I forget the name, something to do with hippos or camels) were glued onto the ceiling as decorations.

"You impressed yet, Kat?" He threw a soda can at me. I clicked it open and the gas fizzled. I drank some before responding to his question.

"Not quite, sorry." He looked playfully disappointed.

"So . . ." There goes the ominous tone. "How have you been these months? I mean it's already March and well . . . um, yeah."

"I've been fine." I sighed. I tell huge lies.

"You're such an awful liar." He smirks as he chugs down his soda. "Seriously, what's up?"

I sit next to him on his bunk. "Finnick isn't the only demigod in District 13." He snaps his finger.

"She finally told you . . . !" He looks at me intently and with a strange sense of hope.

"Who told me what?" I feel my eyes wander around in awkwardness.

"Never mind . . ." He looked away. "You were saying?" I kept my gaze on his lost one. What is he talking about? Who told me what? Or . . . who should have told me what?

"Um, Marissia came in with Rory—he's alive and well. Mitzuki and I ran some tests. We think she's Bacchus's kid." His previous statement still bothered me so much. I don't even know why. And who is this "she"?

"Mr. D? No way." He drank more. "Any other news?"

"Penelope is back." Percy almost choked.

"Penelope? As in, U.K.E Penelope?" His mouth gaped open. "Where did they find her?"

"Remember when Peeta died?"

"Um, yeah . . ." He cleared his throat.

"Well, someone blocked off the explosion, remember?" His eyes grew in realization.

"That was Penelope?" He whistles. "She's one powerful Zeus kid! I've never seen anything like that."

I looked inside my can of fizzing contents. "Percy, who is she?"

He coughed for a few seconds, like when things you drink really don't go down your throat . . ."Excuse me?"

"Before, I was saying that Finnick wasn't the only demigod in District 13. Who was supposed to tell me something?" He looked somewhat nervous and unsteady.

"Can we please drop that? It's not important. Trust me." I looked at his incredulously, but believed him. He looks to calm for it to be something that important. I sat on the bed and so did he as we drank more soda.

He started chuckling out of nowhere. "You can be a handful at times, you know that?" He beamed at me and I flushed.

"Well . . ." I turned away in embarrassment. "Someone needs to watch our backs."

There was a knock on the door. "Come in!" Percy yelled.

The annoying blonde came in. Oh, boy. "Are you guys almost done? I was thinking of a nice walk on the beach with Percy." She tilted her head and smiled. It sickened me. But not as much as other features I didn't notice until now. She looked weaker, in a way. Like, as if she were deteriorating.

"That's an amazing idea, Annabeth!" Percy shook the bed when he got up joyfully. A horrible feeling inside me rose. I want to say it was frustration, but it's something else, I can't quite put my finger on it.

"I could show you guys my favorite underwater caves and we can look at fish. There's actually a catfish that—" Percy's happy rant was interrupted.

"Percy," Annabeth looked at me with a fast glare. "I was going along the lines of it just being you and me." She laughed nervously as she tucked a blonde stray hair behind her ear. Wait, that's not blonde.

I rose to my feet and went up to her. We were inches apart. "Um, Kat?" Percy called me over nervously. I ignored it and reached out to grab the gray hair.

"Annabeth," I yanked out her piece of hair. It surprised me more when she didn't show any sign of pain at all. "Why do you have gray hair?" Her stormy eyes grew. She yanked the hair out of my hand.

"You are such a creeper," she said. I clenched my teeth together.

"Annabeth, I'm serious." Percy broke us up.

"How about I take Katniss outside for air?" He pushed me out the door. "Are you freaking insane?" I mentally counted to ten. I shut my eyes doing so.

I opened them with confidence. "Yeah, I am. Good night." I turned around and headed for my cabin. I can't be around him the same way. It's just been way too long.

"But," his voice rose. "It's barely five thirty-two!" A smile splattered over my face. I shut the door of the cabin. My face was burning.

"Yo." Thalia was lying on the bed. "So rumor is true." She took off her ear plugs and got up in a sitting position. "The Kat is in town." She smirks. My eyes automatically scanned her shirt to see what she had on today.

"FFXIII-2?"

"Final Fantasy." She chuckles. "Long story. Trust me." I went ahead and laid down. This was my home here after all. I almost tripped on a chair on my way to my bunk. I clenched my teeth and kicked it out of frustration over the memory I had behind it.

"Bro?" Thalia yanked out her headphones. "Are you okay?" No, I want to scream.

"I'm fine." My insides are boiling because of my frustrations with Percy, and especially the stupid blonde. She took my hand and we sat on the floor.

"Whatever is bothering you," she said looking right at me, "it'll end. A storm always ends with a drizzle." She smirked. "Come on, I'll cheer you up."

Thalia began showing me songs. Bitter Sweet by Three Days Grace, Sex on Fire by Kings of Leon, My Immortal by Evanescence, and a bunch of other songs that hurt my ears at times.

Time flied and eventually we were called out for dinner. I hesitated getting out but I didn't want to back out after Thalia showed me kindness. I ate dinner fast and offered up to Artemis.

"Hey, I'm going for a walk. Update me on announcements later." I whispered to Thalia, who sat next to me. She nodded in agreement as I set off. I wasn't scared of harpies, so it should be fine.

"Kat?" I take that back.

"What do you want, Percy?" I chuckled. "You want to make me feel like an idiot again?" He sat next to me. Too close.

"Are you, um, okay?" I could tell this didn't come easy to him, like, at all. I shake my head.

"No. You called me insane." I faced him. "Annabeth has gray hairs, you dummy." His eyes looked around awkwardly.

"I may not be a girl, but I don't think girls like hearing that—especially at this age—" I groan.

"Percy!" He shut up immediately. I didn't realize my tone was so malevolent. "Her hair is gray because of the disease. Whatever they did to her in Alcatraz is affecting her. More and more each time." He looked at me as if I needed to be transferred to some asylum. "Last time I saw her, she had color in her cheeks, and her hair wasn't as dull as it is now. Her eyes aren't even gray anymore—they're white. Ever notice that lover-boy?" I got up and began walking off.

He got up just as fast and took a fierce grip in my wrist. "Why are you being so grumpy?" He brought me closer to him. I didn't fight it. "Is something wrong?" I clenched my teeth.

"Do you think I like being here? I hate this place. Your paradise is my prison." I pushed myself away from his grasp. "Just leave me alone. I'm just an insane girl who lost so much. Don't mind me." He smiled a bit. The waves clashed softly against the shore.

"When I went into the Styx . . . I didn't think I was going to make it out alive." The waves touched my feet, and cooled me down. "Then . . ." he paused as the moon shone brightly and lit up every detail of his (sadly) beautiful face. "There was only one person I could think of." He looked up into the stars closing his eyes in bliss. "I thought of you, and you saved me from myself," he said. His voice matched the pattern of the clashing waves themselves. "What I said . . . before you last faded . . ." His ocean green eyes looked at me intently, capturing me—freezing me. "What I had meant to say was—" Someone cleared their throat. Percy and I looked over to the side to see blonde hair covering Annabeth's eyes. It looked dark and eerily.

"Percy?" Annabeth crossed her arms a few feet away from us. "What's going on?"

"Well, um, I just came to talk to—" Annabeth flung out her arms.

"I'm not stupid!" she yelled. Her eyes were puffy. "I know you two have something going on." She chuckled. "Everyone knows!" She fell to her knees and began sobbing. "You make me look ridiculous and make me feel like some stupid girl." She got up and wiped her tears. "I hate you, Percy. I thought . . ." She looked away and balled her fists with ambiguity. "Well, I thought wrong. We're done. Good bye."

She turned and walked away, dragging more than just her body with her.

I didn't know how to react. I wanted to feel dominant, but couldn't help but feel worse than a filthy sewer rat. The worst part?

I didn't do anything wrong.

•Percy's POV•

"Percy?" Annabeth crossed her arms a few feet away from where I was trying to reason with Katniss. "What's going on?"

I couldn't help but start stuttering. "Well, um, I just came to talk to—" Annabeth flung out her arms in desperation. I couldn't help but pinch myself for being so stupid in my reaction. I wasn't doing anything wrong.

"I'm not stupid!" She started yelling. Her eyes were puffy and bloated. "I know you two have something going on." She laughed maliciously. "Everyone knows!" She fell slowly onto her knees and began crying. "You make me look ridiculous and make me feel like some stupid girl." I felt strange. No one makes Annabeth feel stupid, no one. She got up, though, and wiped her tears away just as fast. That's Annabeth for you, headstrong. "I hate you, Percy. I thought . . ." She looked away and balled her fists. "Well, I thought wrong. We're done. Good bye."

I couldn't move. I heard her feet clasping against the sand, crushing it slowly until the sound faded away. I've never been dumped. Heck, I've never even dated anyone in my life. Not to mention daycare doesn't count.

"Percy?" Katniss touched my shoulder and I pushed her away.

"Katniss." I looked back at her hurt expression. I expected pity from her, but when I searched for it, it wasn't there. She was apathetic, her eyes were distant and sad.

She took a few steps back. "I'm sorry." She began walking away the same way Annabeth did. Solemnly. Betrayed. "My point exact, Percy." I couldn't bring myself to stop, but I went after her as fast as I could. And I don't mean Annabeth.

"Katniss." I turned her to face me. I looked into her eyes. Her beautiful eyes were the size of the moon. So radiant, and so beautiful. "Katniss." I repeated her name again. She looked up intently at me. My heart raced, and hers did too. "Katniss . . ." I leaned in slowly.

Annabeth.

I jerked back out before I did anything wrong. "Katniss." She slid my hands off her shoulders slowly and stepped back.

"Yes?" She smiled sadly.

"We need to get to the bottom of this issue. We need to stop the time rift." I choked on every word. She nodded.

"I know." She looked back at me. "Meet me at dusk. We have to go."

I laughed impatiently. "Annabeth just dumped my ass and you want us to leave."

Her mouth clenched, like how she does when she gets annoyed. "Do you want to fix this? Then you'll come. We have to find Kronos in order to get to Aminta." My eyes grew. She didn't mean what I thought she meant. She didn't care that I was suffering to keep two strings in one loop. "Do you know where he is?" I snap out of my spell bound trance.

"Right now? The Princess Andromeda." They had just finished announcing that the mission was tomorrow, which is awfully convenient. She looked away.

"Are we doing this or not?" Her eyes glittered in the night. They fought for liberty and everything else men desired.

"You know we're doing this." She nodded and walked off without another word. I eventually began walking when I couldn't hear her footsteps anymore.

•~ Infect. Me. With. Your. Love. Fill. Me. With. Your. Poison.~•

I woke up dully. Showered and changed. Packed and got ready. I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked pale and deteriorated. I closed my eyes to hold back pain I couldn't bear. There was a soft knock on the door. I opened it and saw Katniss up and ready. She also seemed horrible. Flaky and devastated. She only needed to look at me to let me know we were leaving. Now.

There was a silhouette next her. I didn't know who it was until I stepped outside.

Charles Beckendorf. He had a sack of explosives, I guess. I bet he also had some other nifty stuff we'll need.

We headed out on a raft she apparently prepared. "How long have you been awake?" I asked her, looking at the deteriorated raft.

"I didn't sleep." She hopped onto the unsafe raft. "You coming or are you going to continue judging my raft's bad shape?" I couldn't get myself to smile, as much as I wanted to.

"It'll do." We couldn't take Pegasus. Too risky. I stepped onto the shifting raft. I immediately knew where we needed to go and how.

"We'll need these." Beckendorf tossed Katniss the materials. She helped him into the raft. I don't even know how she knew that he was supposed to come with me to the mission or how she got him to wake up at this time instead of the time we all had originally planned.

"I have oars—" she said quietly.

"We don't need them." I looked over to her. "I'll steer my way." They didn't protest. Katniss got as far away from me as she possibly could instead. I wouldn't be surprised if Beckendorf wanted to jump out of the raft right now and flee from our madness.

"You should sleep," I advised her quietly. "We'll watch you." She tensed, but listened. She took out a soft fleece blanket and covered herself.

Once it was visible that she was sleeping. Beckendorf broke the silence. "I heard you and Annabeth . . . yeah." He rubbed the back of his head. "Don't worry man, we'll hit a party and we'll find some girls." I looked at Beckendorf in awe while I bended the waves to our raft. Beckendorf was never so, um, open.

"Thanks?" I smiled. "Aren't you dating Silena?" He looked away and blushed.

"I didn't say I was going to look for a girl myself." He cleared his throat. "Why did she dump you anyway?"

I looked ahead and sighed. "She thought I was cheating on her with Katniss." Beckendorf looked at Katniss as she slept.

"Well," He said and tilted his head. "You guys are pretty close and all . . . but I could never see you two, um, together." My heart sank. I didn't even want to know why.

"Yeah she's too . . ." I couldn't even find the right words. Stupid, annoying, stubborn . . . beautiful, hot, graceful . . . I shuddered at my disgraceful thoughts.

"Hot headed?" Beckendorf chuckled. "I've never met anyone like her in my life. She just barged into the shop and demanded to know who 'Beckendorf' was."

I smiled with pride. That's my girl. "Yeah, she's very straightforward."

"Oh, yeah." He chuckled. "I can see why she and Annabeth can't get along. Annabeth is extremely calculative while Katniss is impulsive." Annabeth always has a plan. I smiled at the thought. Then there's Katniss, who doesn't care of the consequences, she does what has to be done at the moment. "I'm, um, sorry if I reminded you of Annabeth." I shook my head.

"Hey, it's her loss." I looked away. Even if I didn't want to admit it to myself, I was slowly dying on the inside. "Besides, she knows me and Kat are just working together for now, until we can fix the time rift. I could care less of what happened to her." Beckedorf raised his eyebrow.

"Really? 'Cause you seem to be fond of her." He smirked.

"Well . . ." Damn it. "She gets on my neves more than anything." I really hope she wasn't awake.

"If you say so . . ." He smirked unintentionally.

A few hours passed, I was beginning to see the sun rise. And my body ached from steering. We were near Virginia's coastline.

I threw myself on deck—startling Katniss. She got up abruptly. She scanned the area, once her gaze went onto me, she turned away.

"Morning," she whispered. Beckendorf was sound asleep and snoring the day away.

"Morning." I wanted to look, but I felt disgusted to look at her.

"I don't like you." She said strongly. "I want you to get that through your head right now." She looked at me. Her eyes were stirring, and she looked so furious. "I don't like you in that way, and I never will for as long as I live. So stop believing every word your blondie tells you. It isn't the law." My heart sank. I can't explain it but I felt even worse than before. "How far off are we?" her powering voice asked.

"An hour or two at best. Just keep going forward and make sure the coastline is still in sight." She nodded and took out an oar that she apparently brought. So much for listening to me, but I got to hand it to her, she's a handy person.

"Go to sleep. We're about to step into a fierce battle. You'll need all the strength you can get." I realized how her timid voice was gone. She now spoke with confidence. She meant what she said. I take a deep breath.

"Thanks." I laid down and shut my eyes. "And for the record," I let my eyes remain closed, I don't think I could bare seeing her expression. "You're the sister I never had."

"Yeah, you made that very clear last night, lover-boy." I was tempted to punch her, but I didn't.

I went to sleep.

•Katniss's POV•

I skipped rocks across the ocean. I was tempted to throw Percy into the ocean, but then he'll still be alive. I can't believe he said those things. He—above all people—knows I'm the lightest sleeper alive. And he still had the freaking guts to say those things. I thought I could trust him. I thought wrong. He's an asshole. He never cared of me or Annabeth.

"I could care less of what happened to her."

Tears went down my face slowly. I wiped them away with my sleeve.

Then, as if on cue, a strange pointy gray triangle stuck out from the water. And as seconds passed another, then another. They circled the raft.

I ran next to Percy and shook him. "Percy?" He wouldn't wake and so I thought, what the hell? I rolled him over the side and threw him into the water. I laughed out loud. I knew he'd be furious with me when he came out after his chat with the sharks.

"What the hell, Katniss?" He came out of the water furiously. I couldn't help but laugh. "You know they would have eaten me, right?" I laughed harder.

"It's payback, lover-boy." Beckendorf rubbed his eyes as he woke.

"What did I miss?"

"Katniss tried to kill me!" Percy yelled. I don't think I've ever seen him mad.

"H—How?" Beckendorf asked worried.

"I just rolled him off deck."

"Yeah, with sharks." He spit out seaweed. Beckendorf's head went back and forth between us.

"You wouldn't wake up! They were going to take down my raft." He laughed incredulously.

"You are insane, you know that?" I shrugged, even though it hurt a bit. It didn't matter, he deserves it.

••~Ready. For. Abduction.~••

"We're here." Beckendorf whispered. I wasn't really sure what the Princess Andromeda even was. I just knew it was a boat, I just didn't know it was a huge boat about seven stories high. The head of the boat was a woman in chains, struggling for life as it seemed. She must be the ship's namesake. I gulped involuntarily. Beckendorf look over at me to commence the plan.

We armed ourselves with breastplates and such. I was nervous about this. I've never been around so many monsters, and it made my stomach queasy in nausea, considering the fact that they might not care of mortals.

"You'll be fine." Percy grumbled to me. "Just focus on the mission." I nodded. I really wish he cracked a joke to break my tension.

After exactly ten minutes or so, Beckendorf told me to climb. Since I'm not a demigod, they won't sniff me up so easily. So I can easily sneak in and help them aboard.

I climbed up with these suck-things and reached the stern deck. I looked around and began taking the rope out. I stabbed the wooden deck with a stake and tied the rope onto it, and then threw it down. I also covered the stake with cloth to distract the monsters from it.

I'm ready to go, lead me into the light.

•Percy's POV•

I really didn't want to show it, but I wanted to go scream after Katniss and tell her she is not safe. That she was walking into a death trap. She's not a mortal. She's a demigod! She's Diana's daughter. This is going to be bad.

"The rope's here." Beckendorf began climbing and I followed.

You're an alien, your touch so foreign. It's supernatural.

•Katniss's POV•

We overheard some telkhines having a conversation about smelling demigods onboard, but one of them blew the other one off, saying their brain was meat loaf or something. We raced down the stairs into the engine room. Beckendorf cut through the knob as if it were butter.

"Shhh," he said as he opened the door. The engine room had big turbines the size of doors, and I think even bigger. They hummed ferociously. You could hear the faint clatter of a keyboard.

"I know you're there." A telkhine behind the keyboard called. My instincts turned themselves on. I rolled myself inside and unstrapped Paggos Fotia. While I rolled, I got an arrow out.

"Katniss!" Percy yelled as he went after me.

The telkhine was about to sound the alarm before I shot him and he disintegrated. I'm smiled to myself. A clean shot.

"You need to be more careful." Percy groaned to me annoyed. "Stay close to me." I rolled my eyes.

"Uh huh, sure." I smiled. "That's gonna happen."

Beckendorf tosses us Greek fire jars and a "demigod's best friend": duct tape.

While we tapped the jars on the control panels, we heard a clatter of footsteps on metal steps upstairs, and over the noise of the turbines—they were still pretty loud.

My heart beat like a hummingbird's wings. I can't help but stop feeling the fear of so many monsters in one place, then I ask myself . . .

Why am I feeling this? Could I be just a plain mortal?

•Percy's POV•

"How much longer?" I yell over at Beckendorf.

"Too much." He tapped the watch detonator. "I still have to wire the receiver to the primer. Ten minutes best." Katniss cursed over by my side. And I don't blame her, from the sound of the footsteps, it was more like ten seconds.

She taped viciously the last Greek fire jar and morphed her bracelet into her bow. "We'll kill time, then." She called determined. "Come on, Percy." She stole just my intention.

"Meet back at the rendezvous point." I tell Beckendorf.

"Percy—" He looked as if he wanted to argue, and I don't blame him, the mission was to get in, then get out without being spotted.

"Wish us luck." He nods reluctantly.

"Good luck."

Katniss was shooting volleys of arrows through the stairs before the telkhines could even yelp. I uncapped Riptide and joined the party. Katniss and I trumped up the stairs as the telkhines kept disintegrating.

"Why did you let that small telkhine live? Just 'cause he's small," She shot down five telkhines in a row, "doesn't mean you let him live." The alarm blared. She glared at me. "Point proven."

Gods she's amazing. "His Lil' Demons lunchbox was badass." Katniss smiled as she bombed the door for us to advance onto deck six. "And also for us to diverge their attention from the engine room to us." We look both sides before running. "Come on." I get a tight grip on her wrist and make a mad dash for the main deck. The alarm blared in the background.

"Ew, this carpet is full of—" Katniss complained as we stepped on various monster fluids I don't even dare look at.

"Monster fluids. Yeah, I got that." I glanced back to see her rolling her eyes and break free from my grip.

"So what's the plan?" For some reason this question struck me sadly. If Annabeth would have been here, she would have been already up and at it with the plan. "Percy?" Katniss drew my attention back. I sighed as we kept running no were.

"Just keep running, Kat." I couldn't help but notice that I was flawless and so was she despite our previous battle. We didn't even break a sweat. The Styx actually worked its magic. Soon we arrived at the promenade of the ship. There was a huge mall occupying it. And a surprise laid on the fountain ready for us.

It was a crab.

No, not one of those $7.99 all-you-can-eat-Alaskan-king-crabs, I mean the motherfucker was bigger than the fountain itself; ten feet higher than the water. Its shell was blue and moldy green. Its pincers were the size of my body. The creature's mouth didn't make it better. Talk about crab rabies.

"Percy . . . what's that?" Katniss's voice trembled a bit. I didn't notice 'till now that Katniss was actually scared. I mean she seemed pretty calm when agreeing to get on this mad ship in the first place. I guess her demigod instincts are finally kicking in. It's reminds me of when I went through puberty. This moment also struck me funny because it reminds me of a typical sunny day when I was minding my own business and BAM, hot girl lands on my bed—followed by a Minotaur chasing us down.

"That is a crab." She glared at me with a hidden smirk.

"Seriously, this place is going to be flooded in monsters soon. We have to get around the, um, crab." She refused to lose eye contact with the crab while she talked to me.

"Here, crabby crab. My friend and I are just going to—" The thing hissed at me and sea foam erupted from its mouth. The smell was like a garbage can with fish sitting out it the desert.

"Percy," Katniss pointed to the top if the crab. "The shell." I recalled where I had heard that before. It's a story. "Percy! Gods! Hercules! Remember? Stepping on it?" Oh, duh.

"Yeah, my sneakers aren't gonna crush that." She rolled her eyes and began shooting electrified arrows. The crab fizzed in electricity and came tumbling out the fountain. I went ahead and mounted the creature.

"Percy!" Katniss pointed to the entrance. Dracaenae crawled inside. "Stab the crab from under. I'll keep them busy." She began shooting. The snake women dodged them easily and hit Katniss with the spear in the side.

"Foooolishhh demigodssss." She hissed. Katniss yelled in pain.

I winced at hearing her scream but I began hearing the dracaenae hissing and fizzling. I love you, River Styx.

The crab moved with incredible speed. Gladly, so did I. I somehow did a flip on top of its shell before it charged at me again. It crashed against the gift shop concrete pillars. I slid under it baseball style and shanked the crab. I scooted backwards and ran towards Katniss with no weapon. She was kicking all three Dracaenae down with no help from Paggos Fotia. Soon they were all dead.

"You're late." She smirked and directed me up the flight of stairs.

"Get the damnnn demigodsss!" More Dracaenae hissed below us. I gulped. They knew Katniss was a demigod. Hellhounds howled not far back as we ran on deck eight. But it didn't matter, we were killing time for Beckendorf.

Out of the shadows, some kid jumped out and stabbed Katniss on her hip. She yelled in pain, but I felt her fury rage through every vein in her system. She punched the kid down and drew him up by his neck onto the wall. His armor was on crooked and it didn't help that he looked as if he just woke up.

"Put me down, you bit—" Katniss kicked him in the shin. He winced.

"Shut up." She told him. Her side was healing slowly. The thought of this demigod being brainwashed by Kronos depressed me. He looks about the same age when I first came into camp.

"I'll handle this, Kat." She looked over to me with ruthless eyes. "Trust me. Keep going." We could hear monsters not far back. She let go of his neck and he sank to the floor while she ran.

I took Riptide out and disarmed him and had him at death point. "My name is Percy Jackson. If you and your demigod friends want to live, get off the boat now." I shoved him against the wall and he scurried off terrified. It made me sad. Not to mention that just jeopardized our mission.

I caught up to Katniss. "Where to?" I pointed to the helipad, our rendezvous point. She nodded, but before we could move . . .

"You're late," Luke spat at us from a balcony onto of us. He looked like a typical college guy; white t-shirt, jeans, flip flops. His eyes told the truth though, they were solid gold. "We've actually been expecting you for some days now." Luke's voice was still there, but then he began shuddering as if he drank a sour substance. "Come, bow before me." Luke's voice morphed into an ancient voice of the past. A voice with a trace of evil and power.

"Yeah, that'll happen," I tell Kronos. Katniss smirked.

"Stand down," She told him, which really has no effect but hey, she tries.

Laistrygonian giants aligned the pool ready for battle. Hellhounds pounced on the rails and growled at us. Demigod archers stood beside Luke in position. We were completely surrounded. Anger boiled inside me. I wanted to rip Luke's smile right off his face—literally. I was going to fight him eventually, why not now?

"You. You can save him." I heard May Castallan's shrilly voice invade my mind.

"Come, if you dare," Kronos challenged. "You're welcome as well." He was talking to Katniss. "What? Did you think we would pay no heed to a demigod as valuable as yourself? An illegitimate child of Diana is as valuable as a Big Three child, you know." He roared in laughter. It made me sick, it was the same laughter he used on Rhea so long ago.

I looked over at Katniss. She stares blankly into nothingness. Her eyebrows breached. Her entire body went on hyper drive. Someone made her mad . . . "I accept your puny challenge, titan." The demigods on the balcony laughed at her.

"Yeah, sure. Good luck with that, hot stuff." It's strange but I can sense just about every emotion radiating off her, and not to mention all her annoyances as well. She charged an arrow and shot it through whoever said that. It went right through his heart. It even shocked me as his limp body fell over the balcony and spewed blood.

"Who's next?" She grumbled. Not only could I feel her annoyance over what happened, but I began feeling mixes emotions of ambiguity and sadness. She feels guilt.

She charged at Kronos but time went slow. He aimed right at her eye. My instincts roared up in a storm. I don't know why, but I cannot let him hit her there. Riptide appeared at the right time and I launched the sword, spearlike, at Kronos's Scythe. PLEASE MAKE IT. JUST THIS ONCE, I begged. And my prayers were answered. I expected Riptide to shatter after that hit but it didn't, my little baby was strong. It made daddy proud.

Katniss gasped in shock. I ran to her side and Kronos roared in laughter. "You two are so foolish. If you came for my daughter," he chuckled evilly, "she's not here." I grinded my teeth. "Nakamura!" Kronos's ancient voice called him forth.

Nakamura dragged Beckendorf along. "Mitzuki." Katniss's eyes grew in awe as she saw Ethan come in. "He's . . ."

"We found him headed to the engine room ready to set the bombs." Ethan spoke to Kronos.

"How do you know that?" He asked.

"Well, he was headed there, my lord." Ethan cleared his voice. "And he's still equipped with the bombs." Katniss was about to talk, but as soon as I made eye contact with her, she understood the plan. Beckendorf had fooled them. He's a mad genius. I scanned Kronos's face and begged him mentally to buy the theory.

"Check the bag." Kronos called. Ethan yanked the bag out of Beckendorf's hand, he turned the sack upside down and peaches rolled out. Kronos groaned.

"Did it ever occur to you dumbasses to check the engine room?" Ethan inched back.

"We'll check immediately, sir." He bolted out of there.

"Percy, what's the plan?" Katniss whispered to me.

"We improvise," I whispered back. I quickly grabbed the nearest lifesavers and tossed them at the nearer monsters. I helped Beckendorf while Katniss had my back. "They're escaping!" Kronos roared. NO DUH, I thought.

I slid on the rails down to the bottom deck; Katniss and Beckendorf following. We kept running afterwards. Just a few more feet and we can jump over the edge into the amazing ocean.

"I hit the detonator. It's counting down a minute. We need to get—" Beckendorf's eyes grew an he fell face-first to the ground. Katniss made a strangled scream. Blood poured out from his side. The Scythe had cut right through him.

"Don't move," Kronos warned. I could feel the rail behind me, and beyond it—the sea. I grabbed Katniss's hand and she squeezed it and let it go.

"We have to dive over the side," she whispered.

"But Beckendorf—" I began. Images of when Yoli died sweep through my mind. It's our lives or a dead Beckendorf. I told myself, just like I told Katniss back then.

"—is dead," she bluntly stated. I glanced at Beckndorf's watch.

0:20:20

Twenty second 'till explosion. "Seize them!" Kronos yelled. I gulped.

"On three," I told Katniss sadly.

"One," She said climbing on the rail. The monster shot at us but got deflected thanks to our new powers.

"Two." Hellhounds barked at us and charged, but we scooted off to the last centimeter of the boat.

"Three," we said at the same time. We fell backwards right before hellhounds could eat us up into biscuits.

Arrows blazed by my face, but none of them touched me. I reached over for Katniss's hand so she wouldn't feel the water's impact when we landed.

We hit the water, but not fast enough, the impact of the explosion sent us into the deep dark depths.

And I blacked out.

•Katniss's POV•

I'm used to not relying on Percy to be my hero now, so it didn't come to me as a surprise when he decided to go unconscious. I had already intended using my bubble charm.

My only apparent problem was, where am I?

Soon enough I tried to fall asleep in my bubble next to Percy. But, I couldn't. I had a mix of emotions inside of me. I don't know who I am fighting for anymore. I also feel bad for Annabeth. I didn't wish her to run off like that. Percy and I have nothing going on, but she won't listen. She had said everyone knew. I clutched my knees closer to myself. It's because they don't know about Peeta. They think I had no one I fought for until the end, to them I'm just a monster who terrorizes.

Speaking of a monster, I'm Diana's daughter according to Kronos. I can't help but hold it against Artemis. Why did she try to fool me? Am I that weak to not be able to take information? Maybe I am. I'll never know.

"Kat?" Percy rubs his eyes and looks around. "Where—?"

"Underwater is all I know. You figure the rest." I looked away.

He sighed. "We're off the coast of Florida. Near the Bermuda Triangle. I'll steer the other way or we'll be in trouble if we get into the Triangle." I nod.

We had this silence thing going on. I didn't want to speak. "Katniss." He stopped steering and plopped next to me. He ran his hand through his hair. "About what I was saying to Beckendorf . . ." I stopped breathing for a while.

"What about it?" I looked straight ahead blankly. "You don't care about me, you made that clear."

"No, I do." He looked over at me. "Just not like, um, that." He turned away. "The truth is . . ." Small colorful fish swam around us in schools making the ocean look beautiful. "For you, I'd risk it all."

"Then why . . ." I couldn't even speak. I was dumbfounded. Badly, at that.

"Because if I tell the whole world that I'd do anything for you, what conclusions does that lead into?" I gulped. I felt like Apollo's cows; stupid, slow, red.

"Thanks, Percy." I laid down. I could actually sleep now, in sweet glittery dreams where all I could think of is Percy. I don't know what I did to deserve him, I'm still deciphering whether he's a reward, or my punishment.

Every move is magic. You're from a whole other world, a different dimension. You open my eyes.

Whoo! For "friendship" ;D HARR HARR! I was OBSESSED with that Katy Perry song and it just went so well with this *bashes eyelashes*Either way, it's a good chapter. . .right? xD

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PS~ Check out "Ignorance Is Bliss" from the PJO X THG archieve. It's a spinoff of my story with other scenes with other characters! The one made for this chap is called "The Blacksmith Wears Prada". ;D I love stalling with that spinoff :DDDD

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