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Chapter Seventeen: Memories

Percy POV

I couldn't believe it. She had seriously lost her memory.

It took me all my strength to keep myself from bursting into tears. I wasn't too fond of crying, but this was Annabeth.

Her eyes widened, then she looked at me sadly. "Sorry. I can't bring up any of my memories."

I wanted to scream at the world, but instead I forced myself to smile again.

"That's… okay," I said.

"Percy…?" Kana asked. "Are you okay?"

"Y-yeah. Just fine," I said.

Yup. As fine as a person who just lost the girl closest to them can get.

Kana looked skeptical for a moment, then sighed and went to Annabeth again.

"So you really don't remember anything? Other than Percy's name?"

"I think so," she replied.

"Well, then. I'm Kana Solette. This here is Nico di Angelo."

"You look kind of like me," Annabeth noted.

"Well, yeah, but I'm the soul of your—"

Kana gasped as her form flickered for a moment. We all stopped and froze. After a minute or so, her form flickered again.

"Kana? What…" I began.

"Oh my gods," she whispered under her breath.

Then it suddenly dawned on me. Kana was the spirit of Annabeth's diary. Now that the diary had been erased, the same would soon happen to her.

"Clever plan that Sai Nishiki devised, huh?" Kana growled. Her form flickered twice. "Planning to wipe out both Annabeth and I at once. I hate her."

"Kana!" I said. "What's going on?"

"I'm dying!" she wailed.

Annabeth looked up.

"I don't know you," she said, "but you guys seem to be nice people, and I don't want you to die. I'll help you."

Annabeth POV

I decided to trust them. After all, they seemed to know me very well. Other than that, I felt squeamish knowing that this Kana girl was going to die.

The large black pools of water seemed to retract a little bit. I figured that those must've been the remains of my memories, slowly fading out.

I guess it all depended on me now. I somehow had to regain my memories, which would give Kana her life back.

I sighed. I didn't have a single clue on how to do that.

I felt a small tap on my shoulder, and I turned around. It was Percy.

Percy POV

"Come on, let's take a walk," I said to her.

The black pools had gotten smaller until they were just mere puddles. However, where the tower of words used to be, it was just blank and white. We hopped off the word Percy and began to walk in silence.

At last, she spoke up.

"Annabeth… that's my name, right?"

"Y-yeah…" I said.

Even more silence. Then…

"Um… Percy…?"

"Yes?"

"Can you tell me more about yourself?"

"Well… my name is Percy Jackson."

"Percy Jackson…" she echoed.

"I'm a son of the sea god, Poseidon. Roman form is Neptune. I'm also the son of a mortal woman, Sally Jackson."

"Oh," she said. "Now, what about me?"

"Huh?" I asked, confused.

"Tell me about myself," she said.

"Well, your name is Annabeth. Your last name is Chase. You are sixteen years old. You are the daughter of the wisdom goddess Athena. Her Roman form is Minerva. You are also the daughter of Dr. Chase. You're my… girlfriend."

"I have been hearing a lot about that," she said softly. "Kana and Nico have told me. Sadly, I don't remember you. Only your name."

"How could you not remember me?" I asked. "We were… so close. We always fought together. I can't believe it's all gone."

"Sorry," she said, touching me on the shoulder. It wasn't the romantic type that she'd always given me, but just a normal one to give comfort. It made me feel even worse.

Annabeth POV

Percy looked as if he'd really lost something dear to him. Was I that important in his life? I sighed, but suddenly a voice passed through my mind.

"Annabeth!"

My eyes widened. Images flashed before my mind. I could see a knife, and the figure of Percy next to me.

Then the voice again.

"Annabeth! Annabeth!"

"Annabeth!" the voice yelled again, but this time I opened my eyes to find myself back in the blank white world. I was on my knees, screaming. Percy looked at me, worried.

"Are you alright?" he asked frantically.

"What… was that?" I asked.

"What was what?" he asked, confused. "Did something happen?"

Did he not see that? "N-nothing," I stammered. "Nothing at all."

"Okay," he said.

I exhaled softly, wondering what I'd just seen.