God! Percy is just so stupid sometimes! Ugh. What were he and Chiron talking about anyway?

"Don't worry, dearest Annabeth. It will all fall into place soon enough." A graceful voice said. I looked around. Who was that? Oh, it came from inside my head. My mother, Athena.

Why had she said that? Did Chiron tell Percy something bad, awful?

I was pacing back and forth in my cabin, and some people were staring at me.

"What are you doing?" I heard another voice. I looked around and saw Percy standing at my cabin door. What the hell? Does he just not get it?

"I am mad at you. Go away." I said, not making eye contact with him.

"Come here please." He continued, ignoring me. "I want to apologize."

I was thinking weird thoughts now, random ones in my head. How long has it been since Percy and I broke up? 3, 4 months maybe? Is that why we have been fighting so often, and unsteady relationship? Maybe we should get back together, maybe that will stop the fighting…

"Please, Annabeth?" He asked with a pleading look on his face, and he had made puppy dog eyes.

Ugh. You cannot refuse those puppy dog eyes. "Fine. Whatever." I walked out of my cabin and ever so calmly, nicely and quietly… slammed the door behind me.

"Ok. I am sorry. I didn't mean to um, go off like that. I was just having a rough time, having flash backs of the last time this happened. I am sorry. It is OK if you do not forgive me, but can we still be friends?" He asked me. I forgave him anyway. I understand what he means.

"No no. I forgive you." I said.

"Thanks." He smiled, "And also… I came here to tell you something. That Chiron told me this morning…" He looked worried.

Uh-oh. "What? What did he tell you?" I asked.

"Well… he was telling me that I needed to kill somebody. Somebody that would ruin our chances of being successful in the fight…" He had said.

"Who?" I asked him, now I was worried.

"I won't tell you who it is. It would be too hard. But Chiron was saying that he was really weak, and that I just had to kill him. I don't know why I have to kill him. He is a good fighter, but he had been hurt recently. I am thinking that Chiron want me to kill him just because he might be joining sides with Kronos, which I highly doubt. But maybe he has a secret unknown power that he doesn't himself know about yet…" Percy told me, fast and to the point.

Oh my god. "Why would you need to kill someone, even if they were weak. If Kronos wanted them dead, wouldn't he kill them himself?" I asked him, very curious about who this person was.

"That is what I was wondering, but I would NEVER go and kill a close friend of mine like that, no matter how much he annoyed me. I am not cruel." Percy said, looking very sad.

"Wow…" Is all I could get out right now, to busy thinking. Percy just walked away without saying anything.

Who would Chiron tell Percy to kill? Is Chiron even that kind of person? And why would he tell Percy to do it in the first place?

I was thinking it all hard to myself, when it all just hit me like a bus.

"He, really weak, had been hurt recently, close friend of mine, no matter how much he annoyed me."

Oh. My. GOD, I thought after I pieced the puzzle. Percy must have not realized how much he was hinting me.

GROVER. HE HAS TO KILL GROVER.

Percy's POV

I cannot believe Annabeth's face. I told her. Not who, but I told her my situation. She looked so puzzled and at the same time, so helpless. Probably what I looked like to. I am helpless. There isn't a way to get out of this. I had begged Chiron to not make me do this, but he just wouldn't have it.

"Ah ah ah, Percy. I have told you something, and you shall not disobey the camp rules. Listen to your elders Percy. You and only you need to do this for a reason." Chiron told me this morning when I tried backing out of it.

Ever since Tyson died, I haven't been able to put up with death anymore, of friends, family.

*Flashback of when Tyson died 1 year ago:*

We were running. As fast as we could. But she was faster. She was slowly gaining on us, and we had nothing to do but run faster. The only chance to escape was to run. Run.

But her 8 spidery legs were faster. We were being chased by the giant black widow spider they call O Great and Mighty on our previous quest. Although the oracle had told us that one will die and suffer, Tyson insisted on going, to protect me.

"RUN!"I screamed at Tyson, who was straggling behind. I think he tripped because he was a lot farther behind than he had been before. I was too busy looking behind me to realize there was a huge cement wall approaching.

I rammed into it while going at full speed. I couldn't register what was going on for a few seconds.

Oh no! Dead END!

"Tyson! DEAD END! TURN AROUND!"I yelled back at him, but he didn't hear me. He just ran right over to me, helped me up, and just stood next to me. A look of terror on his face, probably on mine, too.

"Hahaha!" The spider laughed, with a girl voice. "You two have nowhere to go, nowhere to run. You will both DIE!"She said, raging with laughter. I came at her with my sword, but she just shoved me away back into the wall.

"Silly Demigod! You cannot defeat me, you worthless fool!" She yelled, and continued laughing. That really pissed me off.

"Shut up!"I screamed at her. "Let us GO!" And I came at her again, only to be shoved into the wall harder. The nerve.

"Hm, your deaf too?" She asked and laughed over and over again, never stopping for a breath. It was pretty scary.

"Now to business," O Great and Mighty one said, and she lurched forward to Tyson.

"NO!" I screamed, and Tyson fell to the floor. I ran over to the giant poisonous spider and cut her head off. She didn't realize what was going to happen until it did. She is dead.

"Tyson! Are you okay?" I yelled, looking at him.

"Yeah, just got bit on ankle. Hurts a lot, but I can still walk." He said, and got up. He was limping a bit, but could decently walk.

Oh. No. He got bit. He is going to die unless we can get him back to the camp.

"Come on buddy."I said, and we jogged back out of the tunnel, and met Nico. He only came along so we could Shadow travel our way to places.

"Tyson got bit. Poisonous spider."Tyson said to Nico. Little did we know that he only had a few minutes left.

"Uh oh." Nico said, and he grabbed both of our arms all of a sudden, we felt really dizzy and we were spinning through a dark tunnel. Moments later we arrived at the camp.

"Ow!"Tyson said, "It feels like someone is burning my ankle off!"And he fell to the ground. "Can't walk anymore."

Nico and I took his arms and dragged him into the camp, which took about 10 minutes because of his weight.

We ran to Chiron for help and moments after we came back, he was dead.

*End of Tyson's death Flashback:*

I just couldn't handle it anymore, and killing Grover would worsen my life.

Just then, Grover came to my door, knocked and all he said was, "Come to the dining pavilion, Chiron." With a mad look on his face.

Crap. Now he's pissed. Can this day get any worse?

I got up and walked outside, to see everyone else making their way over to the pavilion. I saw Annabeth walking by herself and I ran over to her.

"What's up?" I asked after seeing the very depressed look on her face.

"Grover." Was all she said.

"You know?" I asked, knowing what she was referring to.

She nodded. "You hinted me a lot, probably without realizing it, and I fitted the pieces together. I am so sorry Percy. We have to get you out of this mess."

It was starting to feel like my situation was more important than the whole "Kronos coming to kill us all" one.

We continued walking over to the dining pavilion, and we made our way to the Poseidon table thru the crowds. Grover came and sat across from us, as usual.

"I have called you all here," Chiron started from the front of all the tables, "to announce your classes."

He pulled out a list full of names on everyone in the camp. "I will call your names and your numbers, somewhere between 1-12. You will get in lines based on the coordinating numbers amongst yourselves." Chiron yelled.

"To start off with the Athena cabin. Sally McNamee, 8. Jack Jollring, 2. Annabeth Chase, 5."Chiron continued thru the list of everyone, finally ending with the Poseidon cabin.

"Percy Jackson."He said, with a loud voice. "You are number 5."

"Oh, how SUPRISING!" Clarisse yelled, "He got the same number as Annabeth! Whoop-de-do!"

Everyone turned to look at her, me glaring.

"Shut the hell up, Clarisse!"Annabeth yelled to her.

"Wholly freaking crap!" someone yelled, "Annabeth just stood up to Clarisse!"

"Quiet!"Chiron yelled. Now get into your lines, and MOVE!" He yelled.

I walked over to the line Annabeth was in, and looked at her.

"What class is this?" I asked her, not knowing because all Chiron told us was the number.

"This is the Close Combat class. Where we train to defeat more dangerous creatures, and… Kronos." She told me.

Wow. I got put in the class that I wanted. That is a surprise. I stood next to her, as each of our teachers explained where we would be meeting at each day and what time.

Our instructors name was Caleb. He was one of the cabin leaders.

"Alright guys, so we will be meeting over here by the dining pavilion each morning, you will wake at 7 am, come eat breakfast and we will meet over hear. You will then train from 7:30 until 1pm, and you will have a break for lunch. Then at 1:30pm we will continue all the way until 6pm. Then we will have dinner and that will be the end of the you may feel free to go to the gym and do some personal training after the group training if you would like. So that's how the days will go from here on out until the battle. We will have training every day. Any questions?" Caleb said.

Nobody asked any questions, so he continued. "Alright. So you can go on back to your cabin's for the next hour and come back here for lunch at 1. Bring your weapons, one weapon of your choice, preferably a sword/dagger. We will start training today, but not for the usual 8 hours. We will go for 6 hours, just for today. Ok?"

Everybody nodded and headed back to their cabins. Me and Annabeth walked side by side to my cabin, instead of heading back to her cabin, she just came to mine.

"Hey Percy, can we talk while we wait?" She asked me.

Ugh. "Um… ya fine sure." I said. We walked over to my desk and she sat in a chair and I sat in my bed.

"So. I figured out it was Grover."She said. Dang. Not this again.

"Ya. I know."I told her.

"How are we going to handle this?" She asked me.

"I don't know, Annabeth. I just don't. I already begged Chiron to not make me do this, but he said no. He said me and only me had to this. I can't back out of it, or I will apparently 'break 'a camp rule, though I have already broken enough as it is. I have to do it, Annabeth."

"No."She said. "I am not gonna make you go through with this. There has to be another way! I have to somehow convince Chiron to make someone else do it. Wait no, I have to convince him not to kill Grover at all." She said.

"I don't know…" I said, having an edgy feeling to my voice. "He sounded pretty serious…"

"Percy! Who cares! You are not doing this!" Annabeth said, raising her voice a little.

"Ok, ok." I said.

"After training, I am going to go to Chiron and convince him, no, FORCE him to let Grover live. Ok? She asked, well actually told me.

"Fine." Was all I said, and we sat there in silence for the rest of the 45 minutes. When I looked up from the floor at my alarm clock, it was already 12:57.

"We better get going." I told Annabeth, and she nodded. She got up and left, obviously to go back to her cabin and grab her dagger.

I looked around for Riptide, soon realizing it was in my pocket.

Wow.

I headed out my cabin door and jogged back to the dining pavilion, only to find Annabeth and everyone else already there.

She went and grabbed her lunch, but I wasn't hungry.

I had too much on my mind right now.