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Annabeth

I was sitting on the bed, waiting for the voices downstairs to stop. It seemed rude to stay there so I decided to wait up here. I was basically dying of boredom, so at some point I ended up occupying myself by pacing the room muttering, "99 bottles of blood on the wall, 99 bottles of blood. Take one down, pass it around. 98 bottles of blood on the wall…"

After reaching 52 bottles of blood I heard a laugh coming from behind me.

"What are you doing?" asked Percy, a grin plastered to his face.

"I got bored…" I muttered, sitting back down on the bed. "So what was that all about?"

"What was what all about?"

"Percy, what did your dad tell you?"

"It's not importa-"

"It's about Kronos having Thalia and Nico's blood, right?"

He sighed and ran his fingers through his already messy hair. Then he said down next to me with his head in his hands. "How did you find out?"

"I heard you while you were talking to Luke. Now tell me."

"I asked dad to come here so he could explain what Kronos was going to do with the blood."

"And what is he going to do?"

Percy hesitated, and I lifted his head so he faced me. Then he answered. "If he drinks their blood on the blood moon, he'll be able to control every werewolf and hunter alive. He doesn't have my blood, but really he's powerful enough already. He won't need it."

"When's the blood moon?"

"Three days."

I hugged Percy, resting my head on his chest. He wrapped his arms around me and we sat like that for a long time.

"Percy," I began, holding onto him tighter. "He'll be able to control me too."

"I know."

That was all he said.

We walked downstairs again and I could see Thalia, Nico, and Luke talking to Percy's dad. Percy and I joined them.

"Did you tell her?" asked Thalia, looking at Percy. He nodded.

"Annabeth," began Percy's father. "I never got to introduce myself. I'm Poseidon, Percy's father."

"It's nice to meet you," I replied.

"So back to our problem," said Nico. "Are you sure there's no possible way to find him?"

"Positive, he's good at hiding himself when needed. But he will drink the blood at the Circle, in the forest. If he doesn't drink it there it won't work."

"Why?" I asked, suddenly curious.

"I don't know."

"You don't know?" asked Nico, with a face that screamed you're-freaking-kidding-me-right?

"Just because I've lived for centuries doesn't mean I know everything. But he will be at the Circle on the night of the blood moon, you can be sure of that," said Poseidon, rolling his eyes.

"The Circle," said Thalia, giving a small laugh. "Now that brings back memories."

Percy nodded. "I still can't believe you guys stole all my pants."

"Yeah," laughed Nico. "You were running around in boxers the entire day."

"What's the Circle?" I asked feeling slightly left out at the moment.

"It's this giant rock," explained Percy. "It's about three feet high and really, really huge and it's in a perfect circle."

"Really? You measured the diameter and-"

"No, it just looks enough like a perfect circle for us to assume that it is," said Thalia, grinning.

"Guys," said Percy. "How are we going to do this? Dad?"

"Well," began Poseidon. "First you have to know that if he drinks the blood, Thalia and Nico are going to the dark side. Annabeth too, she is a hunter, right? And I presume you still keep contact with Travis and Connor Stoll; they will also be controlled by Kronos. Your plans have to work even if the turn against you."

"It there no way we can fight it?" asked Thalia.

"I wish, but no. The only werewolf and hunter that will remain unaffected are my brothers."

"So how are we supposed to kill him?" Luke asked. I almost forgot he was even there. "He has all the strengths of a vampire, werewolf and hunter."

"Does he have all the weaknesses?" I asked. Everyone looked at me. "Well, vampires are injured by wood, right? So wood will affect him. And what about werewolves, what do you use to kill them?"

"Silver, don't you know?" said Nico.

"Well most of my stereotypes have been proven wrong so I just wanted to be sure. So that means silver will hurt him. What about hunters?"

"We are just like humans, except for the fact that we have certain battle reflexes that make us hard to beat. Anything that injures humans will injure us," answered Thalia.

"Well there you go."

Percy smiled at me. It made me feel warm and happy inside. Then he said, "So we should all get guns with silver and wooden bullets?"

"Pretty much," said Poseidon. "And just try to kill him before he drinks it."

"Wait, are you going to help us?" Percy asked. Poseidon shrugged.

"I probably will unless something tragic happens and I coincidently die just before the blood moon."

Luckily, that didn't happen. We spent the next three days preparing. Thalia trained me to fight and bandage my wounds. I barely saw Percy until the day of the blood moon. It was in the afternoon, and I was upstairs alone looking out the window.

"What are you looking at?" asked Percy as he came up behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist.

"Doesn't it look beautiful?"

"If you mean and old almost deserted town, tall grass, a forest, and a bunch of hills, then yes. I grew up here."

"What was it like?"

"Everyone had accents, Thalia wore dresses, I was shorter, Nico was kind of an annoying brat-"

"Okay," I said cutting him off. "You don't have to tell me."

"But I am. That's what it was like. If you wanted to hear some story about us running around in a beautiful meadow playing tag, with Thalia making little bracelets with flowers then I'm sorry."

Laughing, I answered, "So you had a pretty normal childhood?"

"Yes, if you count drinking blood as normal."

"Eh, it's pretty normal now."

"Annabeth," Percy said, his voice softening. "You know I love you right?"

I turned around to face him and he smiled slightly. "Yeah, you just said it."

He laughed and pulled me into his arms. "I wanted to say it before we left, just in case."

"I love you too."

And I meant it.

Then we heard Thalia's voice call our names from downstairs.

"It's time," said Percy grimly. I nodded and smiled, and we walked down.

The rest of them were waiting for us: Thalia, Nico, Luke, Travis, Connor, and Poseidon.

"Are Zeus and Hades-?" asked Percy, very well knowing the answer.

"I'm not sure, we left messages. They'll come if they want to I guess," said Thalia.

I looked around at everyone. I hadn't known them for centuries as they had known each other, but I still cared for them.

They had become my family. I had become part of theirs.

A/N: 99 bottles of blood on the wall, 99 bottles of blood…see now that it's stuck in my head I have no hopes of getting it out. I hope you guys don't get it stuck in your heads too.

Happy New Year's guys! I know it is tomorrow, but a day early can't hurt. :D

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