Chapter Nine Is Up! I'm really happy with this one too. I have finally estimated how long this is going to be, fifteen chapters, it seems about right. And, had anyone figured out what the prophecy means? Anyway, on with the story!

3rd person

"Percy, Harry, Ron?" Annabeth shouted. She couldn't see them anywhere. She and Hermione had been searching for three hours, still with no luck. She knew Lamia wouldn't have killed them, because she had been chasing Hermione and herself. "Hermione," She said. "Have you seen them yet?"

"Come here and look. I found something!" Hermione called back.

Annabeth's eyes lit up. "I'm coming!" Annabeth ran over to where Hermione was. Hermione was sitting looking at something on the ground. "What is it?" Annabeth asked.

"Harry's glasses…we need to find them, quickly!"

Annabeth nodded, as Hermione scooped up Harry's glasses and ran. Where were they? They headed west, thinking that was probably where they were heading. They found the road they had been on, Argus had left. They'd been here before, looking with no luck about an hour ago. They probably wouldn't since they'd been looking for three hours, but it never hurt to look.

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Percy's Pov

Harry, Ron and I didn't know where Hermione and Annabeth were, and we'd been looking for the past three hours. We'd looked high and low, and Harry had lost his glasses. I held Riptide at the ready, in case we were sprung on by monsters, which wasn't unusual for us.

"Percy! Look at this!" I heard Harry call. I ran over, to see a blonde hair snagged on a bush. "Annabeth's!" Harry said.

"Yeah, it could be – but there must have been over blonde haired people in these woods." I said, trying to sound like it wasn't them, as I wasn't going to excite myself, encase it wasn't them and Lamia had killed them.

"But is this a coincidence?" Ron said. He was pointing to see about three long brown hairs on a bush right beside the one with the blonde hairs on it. Hermione's, I thought.

"No," I said. "They have been here; let's go and look."

We all ran off, looking, really hoping we would find them soon. We'd been walking for a while now, through the forest. Everything was silent, except the snapping of sticks and the rustle of the wind in the leaves. We wondered where they were, they seemed to be nowhere. And then we heard it, the snapping of branches underfoot. I unsheathed riptide, hoping it wasn't a monster. Just then we saw two girls rounding the corner. One with bushy brown hair and a bow slung over one shoulder, the other girl had curly blonde hair and stormy grey eyes, with a bronze knife in one hand, a small piece of tattered paper in the other. Both were wearing bright orange t-shirts with 'Camp Half Blood' written on them. It was Hermione and Annabeth.

"HERMIONE!" I heard Ron scream. He ran up and hugged her, while her face turned bright red, redder than I've ever seen anyone. She pulled away, going to hug Harry instead.

"Seaweed Brain, why the Hades did you run away like that?!" Annabeth scolded. I just looked at her.

"Um, it was you that ran off," I said. Annabeth rolled her eyes and stomped off.

"Come on, we've got a quest to finish!" Annabeth said impatiently. Hermione returned Harry's glasses and we all walked off through the forest.

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"Anyone got any ideas where we're going?" Ron asked.

"No, not a clue," I said. We didn't even have a compass, and none of us really knew east to west, so we were totally lost. By the way, we're not stupid. We just forgot. Suddenly we heard a funny noise like a scraping of claws and a growling. I'd heard that noise before; I just couldn't put my mind to what it was. I found out soon enough though. Something rounded the corner; the creature was a lion, with a goat's head emerging from its back and a snake's tail. Chimera. I'd almost died the last time I'd seen it, this time though, echidna wasn't with it.

"Run!" I shouted. Harry, Ron, Hermione and Annabeth obeyed, and we ran for our lives. Jumping over tree stumps, fallen logs, and giant roots. Soon we came to the edge of the forest, where they was a Highway (A/N A road here in the UK, but as Percy is American, I've tried.) Lots of cars speeded by, and we were sure to be run over if we tried to run over it, and get killed in a nastier way than how we were about to be. I turned round, riptide at the ready. Hermione fitted an arrow into her bow, Harry and Ron got their swords and the ready and Annabeth got her knife at the ready, just as Chimera lunged. I swung my sword, cutting the tail of Chimera off. Chimera howled in pain, and that made it even angrier. Oops. I swung again, this time I missed its neck by an inch. Annabeth tried to stab at it, only to miss it. Harry and Ron swung too, but no luck. Chimera's mouth was open, showing rows of spikey yellow teeth. Suddenly, Hermione shot at it with her arrow, right in the jaw. It fell over, not completely dead, but Annabeth stabbed it, and we were victorious.

"That takes care of that then," Harry said. "Well done, Hermione and Annabeth."

They smiled. "Thanks," Annabeth said.

We found a tunnel that lead under the Highway, and when we came to the other side; we saw a cliff, with a cave in it.

"We could sleep there tonight, it's getting late," Hermione said.

We all agreed and went in, to find a nice dry cave, that wasn't too dark we settled down for the night, unfolded our sleeping bags and built a small fire and ate our food. We drifted off into sleep, not knowing what the next morning would bring...

A/N this was the longest chapter I've ever done for this fanfic!