Ok, I know I haven't updated for a while and im sorry. We have ppl visiting from europe and we were in yosemite for a few days showing them around. Anyways, here's the next chapter, so enjoy! Btw, school is starting soon, so I don't know how often ill be able to update.

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Chapter 27: Annabeth

Annabeth felt a sense of deja vu as the ship rose off the ground for a second time. The people on the ground were waving and shouting advice, like "Kick some monster butts for us!" Annabeth waved back, but all she felt was a sense of oncoming doom, like Gaea would destroy them in the most terrible way possible.

Once camp was out of sight, Annabeth looked out at the Atlantic Ocean stretching out before them. She had been on so many quests, and yet she felt completely vulnerable compared to what they were heading out to face. And there were only seven of them. Trying to keep everyone's mind off of what they were doing, she turned to the other six, but directed her question towards Leo. "How long is this going to take?"

Leo glanced up at her and said, "Probably about four to five days, if we don't get caught up in anything big, but we probably will." Annabeth wondered how he said it so casually.

"We should probably get some sleep, but in shifts." Jason suggested. Annabeth nodded in agreement. They had left just as the sun was disappearing behind the hills, and now it was getting dark. Besides, none of them knew what lay ahead, tomorrow or the days after that.

Leo decided to stay up for the first shift. Everybody else went below deck to get some rest. Annabeth sat down on her bed and stared at her reflection in the closet door. She looked sad and depressed, but mostly, drained of hope. She usually wasn't like that. Annabeth turned away and lay down on her back. Surprisingly, she fell asleep almost immediately.

Annabeth had the strange dream about the Parthenon again, but this time, she was at the bottom of the acropolis. She was standing on a rock watching the battle raging in front of her eyes. She could see giants and demigods, none that she knew. The demigods were losing terribly. Apparently, the gods weren't helping.

Give up hope. A voice whispered in Annabeth's head. She turned around, but she knew that a very strong force was communicating with her. She could feel it beneath her feet. Give up hope, and you will avoid all the pain and suffering you would otherwise endure.

"Gaea" Annabeth muttered, imaging a huge, sleeping, earthen face. The smile in her mind seemed to get bigger when she said the name.

Wise one, do you not see how strong my forces are? Puny demigods will not stand in my way. You are doomed. Give up now. You of all seven should understand that you have no chance.

"No." Annabeth's voice was firm and calm, and she knew Gaea was trying to trick her. Even so, her head was starting to hurt, as if the dirt woman in her brain was trying to come out.

The smile seemed to get even bigger at this. Very well, then, daughter of Athena. Though I think we both know how this will end. Annabeth felt the ground tugging at her, and suddenly she was falling through a huge chasm as the earth swallowed her up.

Annabeth sat bolt right up in bed, breathing hard. She took a deep breath and tried to calm herself. Gaea was awakening faster than Annabeth had expected. She knew that the tugging of the earth had been real. The demigods fighting out there probably felt it too. But was that in the future? The past? The present? Whichever it was, she'd have to find out. In the morning, she'd discuss her dream with everybody, see what they thought about it.

Then Annabeth looked out her window and saw faint light streaming through. The sunrise. With nothing else to do, she walked up to the deck and was greeted by Bobby. He was sitting with his back against the side of the ship, using a dagger to peel of wood shavings off of what looked suspiciously like a spear tip. He looked up at her when she climbed out onto the deck and said, "Hey. You're up early."

Annabeth shrugged. "Just woke up. Decided there was no point to sleep any longer."

Bobby nodded, then looked back up at her. "No point to sleep longer, or didn't want any more dreams?"

Annabeth scowled at him. "Ha ha. Both, actually. What are you making, anyways?"

"Oh, this?" Bobby said, "It's going to be a spear tip. It has a metal base, then wood around that, then there's going to be imperial gold as the top layer."

Annabeth nodded absently, then turned back towards Bobby curiously. "Imperial gold?" she asked. "Not celestial bronze?" Jason had had an imperial gold weapon before he lost it on his quest, and his new on was also imperial gold.

"Well, imperial gold kills monsters perfectly fine, doesn't it?" Bobby said. "Oh wait, but Percy had a sword that was a different. Must have been celestial bronze. So now we know two metals that turn monsters into pixie dust."

It was funny how much Bobby was like Leo. They had similar senses of humor. And about the weapons, Annabeth knew she should have made the connection sooner. The Romans used imperial gold, the Greeks used celestial bronze.

The door opened behind Annabeth, and she turned to see Percy come out onto the deck, along with Jason and Piper. "Hey." Percy said. "Anything interesting come up yet?"

"Don't worry, Percy." Annabeth replied. "I'm sure things will get plenty interesting soon enough."

Percy shrugged and said, "We'll see. I'm kind of surprised Zeus hasn't blasted me out of the sky yet. I mean, it wouldn't affect Jason anyways."

"Closed Olympus, remember?" Piper said. "And its bad luck to talk that way."

"Yeah I guess." Percy said. Annabeth could tell that he was trying to keep everybody's spirits up. She decided to go along with it. Besides, there probably wouldn't be much more time for laughing.

That day went without event until around noon, when winds started getting really strong, buffeting the ship and threatening to throw everyone on board off.

"What's going on!" Jason yelled above the winds. Annabeth looked towards him as she grabbed onto the rail. He had one hand holding onto the rail and the other held out in front of him, trying to control the sudden winds.

"Aeolus, probably!" Piper yelled back. "Gaea is influencing him, remember?" Then the ship suddenly lurched sideways suddenly, and Piper nearly got thrown off, before she managed to grab onto the rail.

Annabeth felt the ship start to tip. She looked ahead and saw exactly what she didn't want to see.

Leo

Leo lunged back towards the wheel and managed to grab a hold of it. Then he pushed a button on the control panel, making the engine more able to make sharper turns faster and so that the ship would go faster. Not that the ship needed to go any faster.

Leo pulled up on the wheel, trying to keep the ship from tipping. The wind hitting him in the face and making his eyes sting was definitely stronger than it should have been, even at this speed.

Somewhere behind him he heard Jason yell in frustration, trying to control the ship but apparently failing. Leo barely heard him because the wind was so strong, strong enough that there was actually some air resistance, so they weren't falling as fast as they would have been without air resistance. But it was still pretty darn fast.

Leo was sure he swore at least a dozen times on the way down. Or he would have if he could move his mouth. The engine wasn't responding and had completely died out. The wheel wasn't doing much good now either. Leo knew that lightening the load on the ship wasn't an option, that would just make it easier for the winds to throw around. But if they didn't do anything, all of them would get injured, if not killed in the impact. There was some beach coming up fast. Too fast. And they wouldn't make it into the water. So Leo did the only thing he could to save as many of them as possible.

"Jason!" he managed to yell. "Grab a few people and go! We're not going to make it!"

"Leo, that will only make it worse!" Jason yelled back. Leo looked up from the controls and his body went numb. They were seconds away from crashing.

"Just go!" Leo yelled back. "If you don't, none us will survive!" Jason had a pained look on his face, but didn't argue this time. Leo glanced behind him quickly and saw that he had taken Piper and Bobby with him. The faces of Percy, Annabeth, and Reyna looked scared but determined. Leo gulped and turned back to the wheel, only to feel a sudden change in direction, then a sharp pain in his forehead and see nothing but sudden black.

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