Hey! I'm going to be combining stargazer2100's chapters four and five so we can get to the Percy action sooner! I was planning on writing a small OC backstory but it turned out to be really long. Whoops. Enjoy, though! Rate, review, favorite, and follow!

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Lyn and Alexis belong to stargazer2100, and Ava is mine.

Okay, here's the chapter!

Uncle Rick: WHAT? SO YOU'RE NOT GONNA DO THE DISCLAIMER, HUH? HOW DARE YOU DISCREDIT ME. I WILL DISOWN YOU.

Me: GAH ALMOST FORGOT. Haha just kidding. HE OWN THAT WHOLE THING (besides the plot and the OCs of course).

Rick: DAM RIGHT. THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. GO ON NOW.

Annabeth was lying in bed, still dreaming about Percy. His sea-green eyes and his ruffled black hair were still fresh in his mind. It had been six months since his disappearance, but she still thought of him every day. She had gone out with the search party constantly in hopes of finally reuniting with her Seaweed Brain. Despite Piper's promise to search every inch of the world, Annabeth could tell that she was starting to give up hope. She sounded more weary than usual.

"Annabeth?" A concerned voice jarred her back to reality.

Annabeth, startled, shot up from her bed. She turned to look at Malcolm accusingly, who had interrupted her sleep.

"Sorry, it looked like you were having a nightmare," he explained sheepishly.

Annabeth was dreaming about Percy, but the stress and worry about him must've shown on her face. Nightmares actually had been getting more frequent, and without Percy there to protect and wake her, it was getting harder and harder to fend them off herself. It was hard, not knowing if your boyfriend was dead or alive.

"Are you alright?" Malcolm asked.

"Yeah," she lied, hoping her façade was convincing enough.

Malcolm seemed to buy it, but he had a suspicious frown on his face. "Hurry up then, we're going to be late for breakfast."

Annabeth quickly got ready and her cabin made their way to mess hall. Like she had done every other day, Annabeth avoided conversation and got straight to training after eating.

After Percy's disappearance, Annabeth trained harder than ever, to be prepared to fight anything that would take Percy away from her again. She needed to vent, to do something that would take her mind off of Percy. The gods couldn't sense his presence anywhere, and it was as if he never existed. Chiron was beginning to be very secretive, which wasn't like him at all.

Annabeth spent the rest of the day training and teaching classes, trying not to think about when Percy and her were still young and carefree. That afternoon, Annabeth went to the Big House in hopes of convincing Chiron to let her lead another search party. As she neared the door, she heard muffled talking. Not wanting to be caught eavesdropping, she knocked tentatively on the wooden door. The conversation immediately stopped and a, "Come in," was heard, so Annabeth pushed the door open and walked in just in time to see the centaur ending an Iris-Message with the Olympians. He looked alarmed.

"What happened? Did they find Percy? What's going on? What did Zeus say? Can we lead a massive search party?" Annabeth fired question after question at Chiron.

Chiron sighed, and at that moment, he looked far older than his age. He hesitantly started explaining. "T-The Olympians have just confirmed that my father and one other Primordial are rising."

"What? How..." She trailed off.

Chiron nodded gravely. "I don't know how, but it certainly is possible, Annabeth," he said. "Why don't you take a walk to the beach? Maybe it will make you feel better."

...

Annabeth followed Chiron's requests and went down to the shore. She knelt on the sand, pondering thoughts. The ocean was a beautiful shade of sea green. Don't think about Percy's eyes. Just don't. She felt a knot form in her throat. Instead of crying, she silently thanked Poseidon for the calm waters.

A voice behind her made her jump. "It's beautiful, isn't it?"

Annabeth turned around and saw the god of the sea standing behind her. She tried not to wince at the similarities between him and his son. "Y-yeah," she managed.

"I know you're just as disheartened as I am. Our greatest hero, gone once again…" Poseidon's voice broke.

The knot in Annabeth's throat grew, but she stopped herself from crying. "But it's true? Your father and another Primordial are rising?" she asked.

Poseidon nodded slightly. "I have a feeling this is tied in with Percy's disappearance."

"We will find him, Lord Poseidon. I'll bring him back to you and Sally," she promised.

He smiled faintly. "Thank you, Annabeth Chase. For now, we must hope for the best. Farewell." In a flash, Poseidon disappeared, leaving behind the smell of saltwater and sea mist.

If Annabeth was able to stop herself before, she couldn't now. She let the tears fall freely and wet the sand beneath her. She went back to her cabin without saying goodnight, and, as she had done every night before, cried herself to sleep.

This is where Lyn's story begins.

She was always a lively girl, always smiling. She loved to help out in the family restaurant when she got old enough. Everyone who knew her thought she was going to stay happy and lively forever.

They were wrong.

Lyn had always wondered who her mother was. Her father was always secretive about it, and he only told Lyn one thing about her: she was beautiful and mesmerizing, and she left them because she couldn't stay for longer; and she never clarified why.

One night she had a dream. A beautiful woman had visited her. I must give you these, she had said. You will need them soon. She had held up a dagger and some throwing knives. When Lyn woke up in the morning, they were on her nightstand. She had strapped the dagger to her belt and concealed the knives in her combat boots.

That also happened to be the morning when everything changed.

A monster appeared in their apartment. Lyn's father was trying to defend himself and his daughter, but all the knives from the kitchen went right through it. Lyn was tempted to take out her dagger, but she was too soft-hearted to kill it. That was a fatal mistake. Lyn had watched, helpless, as it had sunk its teeth into her father's shoulder.

Lyn was now powered by rage. She loved her father, and she would do anything to save him. Despite her past uncertainties, she unsheathed her dagger and drove it into the monster's heart.

Lyn was covered in yellow dust. She had put down the dagger and ran to her father, his shirt covered in blood. "Lyn," he had said. "Your mother…the Titan goddess Mnemosyne. Her domain is memory. You have her powers…"

Lyn was shocked at what she heard. She was half Titan.

"This place is no longer safe for you." Her father's voice was shaky. "Go to Camp-Half-Blood. There's a map in my office. You are a fighter. Fight for me, Lyn. I don't have much longer."

Lyn had nodded, tears in her eyes. She hurried to his office and grabbed the map in her shaking hands. She came back to the kitchen and knelt at her father's side.

"Lyn," he had croaked, "go. Don't worry about me. I'll see you again someday…I dare to hope…"

With that, he closed his eyes for the final time. "Dad," she sobbed, her voice a mixture of sadness and rage. "No."

She wanted to sit there and mourn forever. The only one who had cared for her had just died right in front of her. But her father had given her an order. She looked at the map. Camp Half-Blood, Long Island Sound.

Lyn encountered numerous monsters throughout her journey. She slaughtered them without a second look. With every kill, her bitterness and pain had become more intense, like fuel to a fire. Each one made her more determined to reach camp, to make her father proud.

Lyn was no longer the lively, young girl everyone knew. Instead, here stood a rage-induced twelve-year-old girl with her dagger, killing everything that stood in her path. Lyn wasn't proud of what she had become, but she had to do this. For the father she loved. For the mother she never knew.

When she reached Camp Half-Blood, she was exhausted and driven almost insane. The demigods were all friendly and calmed her down somewhat. She was placed in the Hermes cabin, because she decided to leave her parentage unknown.

Lyn fought against Kronos' army in the Battle of Manhattan. She brought down demigods, demigods who didn't know their godly parentage and turned over to the dark side, Kronos' side.

This made Lyn mad. She didn't know who her mother was for most of her life, and these kids were so fed up with their parents that they felt a need to join an uprising.

And that's exactly what she did.

Lyn left Camp Half-Blood without a sign one day, and ventured out to find a new home. She only had her dagger, throwing knives, and an unstoppable rage.

She sat down to rest one day, leaning against a birch tree, and closed her eyes. She heard voices a couple minutes after she had done so.

"She's one of them. I know it. She has a powerful aura…"

Her hand twitched and crept to her belt, ready to unsheath her dagger.

"Do you think she'd want to join us?"

Lyn couldn't believe that people were spying on her. How long could they have been doing this? She decided to give them a piece of her mind.

"I don't know, but we cou–"

She opened her eyes and shot up, startling the two in front of her. She waved her dagger in their faces, and they stumbled back, holding up their hands in surrender. "How dare you stalk me?! Who do you want me to join? Who?" she demanded.

She was standing in front of a girl and a boy.

The boy whistled. "Wow, she's feisty. We're with Kronos and looking for people to recruit. Looking at your shirt, I assume you've left Camp Half-Blood?"

Lyn nodded. "I need a new home."

The girl said, "She's alert, too. You'd be great in our army. We're looking for a third Titan War. Want to be a part of this one, except on the opposite side?"

"Promise on the River Styx you're actually going to take me to train for the war, and not somewhere else to try and kill me," she said.

They did so, and that was when Lyn trusted them. She sheathed her dagger and got to her feet.

The two introduced themselves. "Alexis," said the boy. His eyes were a deep shade of violet and were lively and bright.

"Welcome to the club! I'm Ava."

"Lyn."

"So…you know your parentage? I'm a descendant of Nyx, and Ava is a daughter of Themis," Alexis said.

"Yeah. Daughter of Mnemosyne," she replied.

"Wow, cool. Memory is really powerful, you'd be useful for recruiting other powerful people who resist," Ava added.

The trio trekked on, telling stories about their lives.

…

They soon reached Mount Othrys, the Titan's headquarters. Lyn trained vigorously every day to prepare for the war. Every week, she, Alexis, and Ava went out to try and recruit new people to their army. Even though the training she went through was a lot more difficult than what she had done at Camp Half-Blood, she enjoyed it more than when she had trained there. Lyn was happy to be a part of Kronos' army. A year passed, and she was now skilled with a dagger and had a good aim with her knives. She got very close with Alexis and Ava. They were inseparable.

Until one day, when the trio were out recruiting, trouble found them.

They got captured by cannibals. The evil creatures decided to eat them one at a time, slowly, to savor their taste.

Lyn, Alexis, and Ava were put through rigorous torture while the cannibals watched and tried to decide who to eat first. The torture consisted of lugging pounds and pounds of heavy objects over hot coals and being tied to a pole and forced to watch while the monsters ate other people.

They considered Alexis, because he was muscular and could give them more meat than the two girls.

They considered Ava, because she often struggled or refused to do their horrible labor. Eating her would be a punishment for her stubbornness.

But Lyn was quickly eliminated from the pick.

She was too alert, too ready for anything to happen. The cannibals feared she could get away easily from their grasp. Lyn was to be thrown into a cellar while they decided.

Silently, through the roar of the flames, Ava and Alexis made a promise to Lyn to try to escape from the monsters and come back to her prison to free her.

Lyn had a sliver of hope that both of them would come back, not just one.

~ Alexis POV ~

The horrible creatures studied the two before them, murmuring among themselves about who to kill first.

Alexis' hand was laced in Ava's, and that made him feel safer. One of us won't survive through the night, he thought. I've got to tell her.

He took a deep breath. "Ava, if I don't make it, I just wanted you to know…I have a crush on you." He shut his eyes, waiting for her response.

"Alexis…I've wanted to tell you for so long, but now seems like a good time. I have a crush on you too," she confessed.

The words hit him like a wave. He was momentarily overjoyed, until he remembered.

We're not going to make it out alive. We can't be together.

Ava seemed to realize this at the same moment he did. "Oh, Alexis, no," she sobbed. Tears trickled down her cheeks.

Alexis clasped her hand tighter. "It's going to be alright. Maybe Lyn can –"

His voice was cut off by the booming voice of one of the cannibals. "We have decided!" the monster proclaimed.

The towering giant walked over to where they were standing, and Alexis braced himself to be picked up and thrown over the fire. Instead, the hand reached next him, pulling Ava upward. His grip held on her hand, straining to hold on to the love of his life.

"What is this?" the cannibal roared.

"Alexis, let go. Please," she shouted.

"How can I? I've loved you from the moment I met you, and now I'm supposed to stand here and watch you get eaten?"

"I'm sorry, Alexis, but yes. At least you can move on. Don't forget me."

His fingers unclenched from her's, his eyes stinging. Ava was raised up and up, until she reached the pole over the fire. As she was being tied to it, he heard her voice.

"I love you, Alexis. I'll see you again. I promise."

He sobbed when he heard this and watched as the heat cut off her life, her eyes shut tightly and her face in a grimace as she accepted her inevitable, painful death.

Too late, he remembered their plans to escape. He would be the only one going back to Lyn's cellar.

While the cannibals were distracted by Ava, he silently crept out of the cavern.

Alexis knew he would never be the same again.

~ Lyn POV ~

Lyn sat in the cellar, waiting for either Ava or Alexis to return so they could escape back to Mount Othrys.

No. Both will come back. Don't think that way.

She had learned to mask her fear from an early age. It just came naturally to her, and here she used it more than ever.

She was just getting impatient when she heard crying from the corridor.

"Why her? Why not me?"

Lyn recognized the voice immediately. Alexis.

She had never heard him so distraught. It was at that moment she realized.

Ava. She's dead.

But why was Alexis so sad?

"Hey. Over here," she called.

"Lyn?" he asked, and stumbled into view.

She took one look at him, and couldn't believe how different he was. He shook with fear, shuddering with every breath. His eyes, usually vibrant and lively, were an incredibly dark shade of purple.

Lyn had known Alexis for a little while, and couldn't stand to see him like this. "What happened? Get me out and explain."

"Al-alright."

He summoned spirits from the essence of night to pry open the steel bars. Lyn had seen him do this before, but the spirits seemed to move sluggishly and took longer to bend the metal into an opening in which she could fit through, which surprised her, since Alexis' damned souls were usually very strong, inhumanly strong.

As Lyn started to navigate a way out, Alexis explained. "I knew we weren't going to make it out alive, so I told her I had a crush on her. She told me she liked me too, and we knew we couldn't be together," he said, sniffling.

Lyn never knew he felt that way about Ava. She didn't want to admit it, but she herself had started to develop feelings for Alexis.

"When they were going to pick up one of us, I-I thought it was going to be me. When he picked her up, I held on to her. She told me to let go. That she loved me. That I would see her again." His voice cracked with sorrow, and more tears streamed down his face.

Lyn felt tears in her eyes, too. She looked ahead, avoiding eye contact with him. Light streamed in from the end of the corridor they were walking in.

"Look, Alexis! Light! We're free!" she exclaimed, trying to lift the mood. She rushed toward it, and pulled him with her.

…

They reached Mount Othrys shortly after. Kronos was saddened by Ava's death, since she was one of his earliest warriors. That night, he set out to replace her with someone much more powerful, who was in a place Lyn would never go to again.

They knew this one would resist. They knew he would try to flee.

But they had a plan. To make him the leader. Permanently.

Lyn was given special training from Kronos himself so she could learn how to control her mother's powers. This would be very crucial in keeping him on their side.

Lyn and Alexis were instructed to give him harsh training and to leave no room for error.

The replacement was Percy Jackson.

This is only the beginning of Alexis and Lyn's story.

Oops! Did I say "Ava is mine" in the intro? Well, I meant "Ava was mine". Sorry (not really)!

Wow, I didn't expect this to be that long. I know some of you don't like OCs (me included) but just hang in there. Next chapter is first chapter I write that isn't included in stargazer2100's story! I'm all on my own. Feel free to leave feedback or suggestions!

Virtual hugs, blue cookies, and X-TREME CHEDDAR Goldfish!

– Lily