Ok, POV order update- Annabeth, Percy, Jason, Hazel, Leo, Nico and Frank. Exceptions will be made, of course.

Disclaimer- Rick Riordan is the king of the Percy Jackson characters ):

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XXII

Annabeth

The first thing Annabeth registered was a jarring pain up her arm as most of the arrows deflected off the shield. The 2nd sent a chill down her spine- a cry of pain.

"Percy!" she shrieked and spun around, ignoring the arrows whizzing overhead.

He was on the ground with an arrow through his stomach, groaning and losing blood, though the arrow shaft stopped most of it from leaking.

Before she could process anything else something hard hit her head and she collapsed onto the ground. Annabeth thought she saw something change in the scenery and felt momentary dizziness, but she shook it off as her face landed on the dry dirt.

Annabeth pushed herself up a little with her arms and knees, and looked around in confusion. Where were all the archers? Where was that dude, Erebus?

But the weirdest thing of all was that Percy was on his knees to- without any injury except the fact that he probably had a bad headache, from the way he clutched his head and groaned.

As soon as he saw her, Percy's eyes widened and at the same time, they both said, "Aren't you supposed to be shot by an arrow?"

Annabeth's face reddened slightly and Percy blushed. He tried again, "Um, I saw one of the archers shoot and hit you, so-"

"Well!" A voice said. They both turned around and saw Erebus leaning on a tall thing that looked like it used to be a cactus.

"Come with me, will you?" He flashed a smile that made Apollo's teeth look black and motioned for Percy and Annabeth to follow. "I'd hate to kill you painfully this early."

Annabeth looked at Percy for a moment. They silently agreed to play along for a while. "Sure!" Annabeth said in a forced cheerful voice, and they set off, maybe to their deaths.

*I'm depressed at how few words are on this chapter right now ): Linebreak*

The god of shadows and darkness walked with them, making corny jokes and sarcastic comments with his smile that would've made Leo jealous.

"If a synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the others have to die too?" He asked rhetorically and even Annabeth had to crack a small smile. There wasn't much in this gods forsaken pit of hell cheerful.

After roughly half an hour of walking, they came to a dark cave. Erebus stepped right in and Percy and Annabeth followed.

Percy shot Annabeth a look that said, now?

She shook her head. Erebus was the god of shadows, and they were in a pretty big shadow right now, which could prove to be a problem if they fought him. For now, they would just wait things out. Who knows, maybe the Furies will come again.

"We'll stay here for the night," The god said in a upbeat voice. "Don't try to escape, I can sense you moving in the shadows. I'd hate to kill you so painfully this early on."

Annabeth was getting tired, and her mind began to shut down. Just a little rest, it coaxed and Annabeth gave in.

"I'll… sleep a little," she muttered. Percy kissed her and said, "Love you."

"Love you to." And she passed out.

oOo

In her dream, Annabeth was standing in a white matrix. Everywhere, everything was white. It was like she was floating in a lightbulb.

There was a scene unfolding in front of her. The other demigods from the Argo II were playing Capture the Flag, when Rachel came out of the woods and did her green smoke thing, spewing a prophecy.

In the Iris-Message thing, all she could hear was the prophecy.

Gold, bronze and earth at war,
As the demigods seal Death's Doors.
While the pieces of the bane are searched and found,
Wisdom and water continue underground.
Tartarus takes one down to death,
Whilst an oath is kept with a final breath.

(Yes, I changed the prophecy... again. I promise this is the last time... I hope)

Then the image faded, and Annabeth found herself in the matrix again.

The only other thing was a man with sea-green eyes just like Percy and a fisherman's hat, a trident in one hand. "Lord Poseidon?" she asked cautiously.

There was a good chance that this was one of Gaea's tricks.

The man looked up and smiled weakly. He looked about 30 years old. "Annabeth Chase. It's been a while."

"Um, what are you doing?" Annabeth asked and mentally slapped herself for being so informal. Gods had a tendency to turn you into potted plants or blast you to ashes when you didn't act all lordly to them.

"Listen. I don't have my time. It takes quite a bit of power to exist in this hellhole."

He leaned forward, completely business. "Annabeth, you DO realize the severity of this situation?"

"Well, of course! We're in Ta-"

"Girl, this is much more then about you and I. You realize that without you two, the prophecy cannot be completed? If that happens, more than just Western Civilization will fall. Everything that we have ever known, everything humanity and the gods have achieved in the last tens of thousands of years will be destroyed."

"I've heard that a lot," Annabeth sighed. "Just cut to the chase."

"A couple months ago. You were still at Camp Half Blood. You were playing capture the flag. You were separated from the rest and attacked. Am I correct?'

Annabeth thought for a moment. "Yeah."

Poseidon swore. "Gaea has been more clever than we expected."

"Which isn't much," she reminded him.

"Annabeth… the prophecy. Aphrodite was wrong. They were all wrong. This isn't going to end happily ever after."

"What do you mean?" asked Annabeth. She was starting to panic a little.

"Sh-" His form started to flicker. "I'm using too much time. Gaea will sense me and cut me off from Olympus. Just listen! The Earth goddess is using you as a catalyst! She's goi-"

And then he disappeared completely, leaving Annabeth to ponder what he meant.

A little cheesy, isn't it? Hope you enjoyed and didn't have a heart attack! That's bad because then you can't write a review yelling, "NOOO!" Wait, but you can!

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