Annabeth's POV:

"Percy?" I gasped. My body straightened up and I looked over his appearance, he was wearing the same outfit he wore when he died. The blood stain was still there as well.

Tears filled my eyes and I ran to him, yearning for the warmth that his embrace always brought me. His eyes were cautious and he brought his hands out in front of him as if to stop me.

I pretended not to notice as I finally reached him, instinctively jumping up to wrap my body around his. But as I made the leap I wasn't greeted with tan, muscular flesh; no, I was met with the cold, damp grass.

I looked back and saw Percy's figure tremble slightly before resuming its previous stance. I flipped my body around so that I was on my back and began to crawl backwards, but he just came closer.

"Who are you? What do you want?" I yelled at the Percy impostor. Its bad enough that I had to lose him once, but this is just cruel.

"It's me, Annabeth. I'm a ghost," I scoffed. Yes there are ghosts, unicorns, and other mythical creatures because we live in a magical wonderland.

"Ghosts don't exist. Now leave me alone," I responded bitterly. I pushed myself to my feet and began to leave, it I tried to run I would've fallen since my legs were already shaky.

"Wait, I can prove it! After the war with Kronos we were dumped into the lake." he tried. My mind thought it over, actually considering that he was the real deal.

"Pfft. Half the camp participated in dumping us-Percy and I, into the lake. One of them could have just told you," his eyebrows scrunched together as he tried to give it another try. I have to admit, he did look kind of like Percy when he did tha- what am I saying? Get a grip, Annabeth.

"Okay. Umm.. the kiss in the mountain. When I was about to go fight the telekhines you kissed me," There was no way he could have known that, but it just can't be him. Ghosts don't exist!

"Look, I'm not falling for it. So could you do us both a favor and just leave me alone?" I asked. I gave him one last glance before I continued on my way, even though my mind was screaming for me to stay.

"The sirens. I tied you up so that you could listen to what they had to say, but you escaped by cutting the ropes. I had to swim out there and get you and then drag you back to the boat," he called.

Shivers ran up my spine because there was no way he could know that. It was only us two on that part of the journey, and we hadn't mentioned it to anybody.

"It's really you." I stated. He put a hand on my shoulder which made me flinch, I didn't realize a ghost could have such speed.

It made my heart ache to only be able to see his hand touching me, and not actually get the luxury of feeling it.

"What happened to you?" I whispered.

"Well you were there so you should know," I almost smacked him on the shoulder to show him that I wasn't playing around, but the pain in my chest reminded me that it wouldn't hit him.

"Okay, okay. Well since I wasn't really supposed to die the Gods are arguing it out. Hades hasn't made a decision yet, so that's why he turned me into a ghost." he explained.

So Hades can just leave Percy here to torment me? Being so close, yet so far is more painful than knowing that he was actually gone.

"I guess I should be grateful, but.." I choked. Tears sprang to my eyes as my throat closed up, preventing the words from reaching my lips.

Percy's arms rose up as if they were going to wrap around me, but they dropped just as quickly. We both came to the realization that this was going to be much harder than either of us expected.

Mt. Olympus

Poseidon had left his kingdom to be controlled by his wife as he stayed in Mt. Olympus. He refused to leave until Hades came to a decision.

Hurricanes, Tsunamis, and Earthquakes erupted all over the globe, because of him. He tried to stop his actions but the water was always in perfect symphony with his mood.

The Gods who had previously sided with Hades, now sided with Poseidon for the sake of the humans. Which meant everyone was once again against Hades, and that made him really upset.

He struggled to find a loop hole in this situation, there was no way he was willing to give up his reputation.

He considered taking Annabeth's life so that Percy could live, but he knew the Gods wouldn't go for that one; especially Athena.

"That's it!" Hades yelled to no one in particular. A devious smile graced his lips as he disappeared in a heap of smoke to Mt. Olympus.

A meeting wasn't necessary since the Gods were already seated around in the throne room.

"Well?" Zeus questioned. Percy was by no means his favorite nephew, but he was quite curious as to what would happen to him.

"Percy has to fight Achilles. The winner gets a second shot at life." Poseidon let out an enraged huff, it wasn't fair that Percy had to fight the Greatest Greek Warrior.

Apollo sunk a little lower in his throne, the mention of Achilles making his heart beat frantically with guilt. After all, he did help Paris kill him.

The Gods glanced nervously at one another, if Percy lost this battle then all Hades would break loose.

"Alright, you're on." Poseidon answered. He felt confident that Percy would win, if he can defeat Ares then he can defeat Achilles.

I hope this was long enough, I kept telling myself to write more. If you have any other requests than just tell me, I promise I will do my best to pursue them. And Alexius, dreams are just your subconscious so that means you really want to marry Luke. Please R & R! Thanks! :)