My computer isn't fixed but I'm gonna take the time to hastily post the last two chapters.

Here you go.

Chapter Twenty: The Ending (Annabeth POV)

Well. I never knew Sai had superpowers.

Gee, I can't believe she never told me. I mean, we're totes besties, right?

NOT!

Sai advanced on us. I was shocked to see her hand light up in purple flames.

"What are you?" I hissed. "Are you a demigod? Daughter of Hephaestus, perhaps?"

"I would not say so," she snarled. "A better way to describe me would be that I am a manifestation of you."

My breath caught.

"What?" I said. My voice was barely audible. "You…?"

She cackled wickedly. "I'll say it again. I'm a manifestation of you. I am the side of your heart gone evil. Perhaps I should explain it this way."

She snapped her fingers, and I could feel purple bonds wrapping around me, tying me up. I looked beside me. Percy was pretty much suffering the same fate. I could feel my heart tightening as I looked into his sea-green eyes.

"A person is actually always three," she said. "There is the angel, the devil, and the normal person itself. Everyone has one. No matter how kind the person may seem, a devil lives within them.

"Now, most people can manage to keep their other two selves inside their body. That is why people are often arguing with themselves. They have those two inner voices—one is always being righteous, and one always wants to do terrible deeds. However, when a person uses a diary, they pour a bit of these two selves in. You see, a diary does not tend to focus on the person itself, but rather its secrets and the things that they think inside. Which are the angel and the devil. They are the ones inside a person.

"When a person gives their inner selves to a diary, it begins to have a life of its own. Now, most people find that this is not much of a problem. You are different. You see, when a major event is triggered, and it is written in the diary, the power is not able to be withheld. The two selves begin to peel away from the diary until they are separated. That is how Hikana Solette was created… and how I was created."

She smirked at my shocked face. "Yes, yes. Hikana Solette told you that she is the spirit of your diary, I am sure? What she never told you was that she was not the only one. There were two spirits of your diary. There are two spirits of every diary. The angel, and the devil. I was the other one. That is why I could erase your memory so easily. Since my body was Outside of the diary, and yours was inside, all I had to do was will myself to do it, then snap my fingers. Boom.

"Now, you've made quite a little mistake, Annabeth Chase. Do you know what you did wrong? You regained your memory. If you didn't kiss Percy, then I would've died. Faded away. Just like 'Kana' would've. A person's two other selves cannot live witout the person itself. What a mistake you've made. You ended up putting Percy and everyone else in danger, just because of your wish to regain your useless past."

"That's not true!" Percy yelled out from next to me. "She saved Kana by doing so!"

Sai laughed softly. It was a dangerous sound, deadly and secretive. "Do you really think that you have saved Hikana Solette? You have left her in the diary once again. Alone and betrayed. She will never see anyone for the rest of eternity. Is that what you wanted, Percy Jackson? Why, of course. You are always breaking people. You have killed countless monsters. You left Hikana in a doom worse than death. You have broken me. All because of one.

"Annabeth Chase, isn't it? It's always because of her. All those monsters you killed, you did that to protect her. You seemed willing to give Hikana into loneliness, just to have Annabeth's memory back and have the two of you safely out of the diary. You left me alone, just for the sake of wanting her. You both are very selfish, did you not know that? Clueless and selfish. No wonder Nico di Angelo was having problems."

"Wha—what do you mean?" I asked. "Nico…"

She smirked. "Well, of course you wouldn't know, but Nico has just the tiniest little feeling for a certain one of you."

"Huh?" Percy looked confused. My heart felt like a fist, tightening even more. No way… it couldn't be…

"You, Perseus." Percy flinched at his real name. "Have you not realized? Why Nico di Angelo is always so uncomfortable around you two? Why he can't meet Annabeth in the eyes? Nico is in love with you, Percy. Ever since that first time you met, he's admired you."

The words hung suspended in the air. I gasped. What?

"Shut up!" Nico screamed as he charged towards Sai. The army of the dead rose from the ground, pinning her down, but her eyes glowed red—not the soft red of Kana's eyes, but a dark, evil red—and Nico was suddenly thrashing against fiery red bindings that were holding him down.

My eyes widened. Nico was a relatively powerful demigod. For him to be withheld so easily was just too scary. Sai laughed.

"Don't fight your feelings," she said in a deathly tone. "Isn't that what Cupid said to you before? Percy will never love you. Just like he will never love me. Isn't that right? We can be lonely together." A red tentacle reached out and grabbed him, pulling him dangerously close to her. "Look into my eyes," she said.

"No!" Nico struggled against his bonds. "Let me go, you witch1"

Sai grabbed Nico's face and tilted his head upward to stare at her. He continued to fight back, but he accidentally caught a glimpse of her and couldn't look away. Her red eyes bored into his, and you could see the pupils in his eyes disappear and turn just as red as her own. Purple mist began to steam eerily out of him.

Sai released him. He fell onto the ground, then floated up into the air.

Possessed demigod. Sai had turned him into a possessed demigod.

"Attack," said Sai softly.

Nico marched forward.

Fighting the ghost king was remarkably hard.

Fighting the ghost king while being tied down by purple bonds was even harder.

"Roll to the left!" I shouted as Nico lunged for us. Percy and I both tumbled like eggs on the ground.

"Roll to the right!"

Nico roared, and the army of the dead rose from the ground once again… but this time we had to worry about it. It was headed for us.

"Question," Percy said to me hastily. "How the Hades do you avoid an army of dead people that can rise from anywhere?"

There was a crack below my foot. I yelped in alarm as a skeleton hand poked out of the dirt and grabbed my ankle. I scuttled like a crab toward Percy. The hand succeeded in pulling my shoe off.

"This is what you deserve," Sai snarled. "You have hurt many. Does anyone even matter in your world anymore? Except the two of you? All your friends today… all of them have been hurt at some point. By you."

The army surged forward. We scrambled away from them, waddling like penguins. My bonds cut into my arms. I scowled. That was going to leave a mark. It didn't matter. I had more important things to think about.

"You… you are a shame!" Sai screamed. "No one wants to see you! What are you but just two demigods lost in the world?"

We frantically avoided another skeleton. My breath came in pants. We couldn't possibly hold out much longer.

Percy lifted his head. "Nico!" he cried. "I'm sorry!"

"You lie," Sai hissed. "You are never sorry. Oh, dear. Do you even know how many people have cursed you? You have tricked people with invisibility. You have left people abandoned on islands. How many monsters have you killed?"

"NICO! Listen to me! I'm really sorry! I didn't know!"

The skeletons kept coming. I yelped as one of them grabbed my arms and held me there. More of them began coming, until I was surrounded by them.

Trapped.

Percy stared at me in horror. "Nico! Let her go! Don't kill her!"

"No," Nico said softly. "Still thinking about her. You lied…"

"No, no, no! I can't just leave her! I'm sorry, Nico!" Percy buried his head in his arms. "Why was I born to hurt everyone? Can't life just be easier?"

"I'm sorry, Nico!" I screamed. "I really didn't know about… about this!"

"You just want Percy for yourself," said Nico.

"An apology will not help," Sai said. "Nico needs the love you will never give. It is something he has never experienced. His whole life was built on misery—his sister dying, and never being able to fit in. You will never be able to bring him back."

Thoughts swam through my head. The love you will never give…

…Never experienced before…

I thought back to when I experienced my memory loss in the soul of my diary. I slowly raised my fingers to my lips. They still tasted of him.

Maybe if…

I glanced at Percy. He was looking at me worriedly.

I thought back to a while ago, when Silena had started up a conversation with me.

"I just know it," she'd said. "You liiiiike Percy.

"It's okay, Annabeth. Just kiss him.

"Even if he doesn't love you back, that's alright. Because friends can kiss sometimes, too."

Friends can kiss sometimes, too…

I knew what had to happen next. It was unchangeable, and either way, I didn't plan on changing it.

I turned back to look at Percy, and tried to mouth to him what was going on.

A skeleton loomed up behind him.

"Percy!" I screamed.

At that moment, Percy stood up and ran over to Nico, grabbing his face with his hands.

He kissed him.

Nico's eyes widened. You could see the pupils returning, eyes shifting back to their dark color. The purple aura faded from him, and he slowly slipped away, out of control.

They separated, and Nico fell to the ground.

The skeletons holding me disappeared. My bonds vanished as well.

I ran up to them.

"Nico!" I said. "Are you alright?"

He could barely stand from the exhaustion and power overload.

"Hmph! Whatever!" Sai said from behind us. We turned around to see her holding my diary. My fists clenched.

"It doesn't matter! I've still got this diary! Now, once I rip it to shreds, Percy, it will all be over. Annabeth will disappear. I will too, but that is just a tiny sacrifice. Everything that was ever important to you will be lost."

She was holding Riptide. How did that get there? I wondered.

She uncapped the sword and held it over the diary.

Then brought it down onto the book.

In that split second, Percy yelled, "Hikana!"

Hikana!? What was Percy thinking? Before I could register what he'd said, the book glowed, and Sai flickered. She was replaced by none other than Hikana Solette.

"Jeez!" Kana looked downright annoyed. "Don't—call—me—by—my—real—name—!"

"Kana!" I cried.

She turned to me. "Annabeth—" Her form flickered, and Sai was back.

"HIKANA! What are you doing here!" she bellowed.

Flicker. Kana was standing there again.

"Did you not hear what I just said? Well, whatever. I'm here because I'm the angel, right? I might be trapped inside, but at least I can switch bodies with you if I have the power. I'm afraid I can't let you destroy the diary. It belongs to Annabeth, just like her existence does. You might be technically the same person, but you are not her." She put her hands on her hips and rolled her eyes as if she was an exasperated mother dealing with five children.

"Ugh, you are so annoying. I'm going to destroy this diary, I don't care! I'm not listening to you, Hikana Solette!" said Sai, who was once again where Kana had just been. She grabbed Riptide again and brought the sword down into the book. It stabbed exactly in the center.

I cried out sharply and Percy ran to me, alarm in his green eyes. It felt as if I'd been impaled in the heart.

All of a sudden, I could feel things mending inside of me—a warm, golden feeling that spread throughout my entire body. A voice inside of my head.

Fight it for us… and for you.

After all this time, I've been watching you.

My diary flew open.

"I said, DON'T CALL ME BY MY REAL NAME!" it screamed.

A golden light flew out of it.

The light reminded me a little bit of a laser. It shined extremely bright. I turned and averted my eyes.

The light hit Sai directly in the eye.

She screamed.

"I'm banishing you to somewhere dark and secluded," the diary continued to yell, "where Annabeth will never have to see you again!"

The light died out.

Sai was gone.

A soft groan could be heard from beside us.

Nico was stirring.

We immediately ran over to him. "Nico!" I cried. "You're okay, right?"

"Yeaah," he managed to say. "Feeling fine."

I also noticed other bodies stirring around us. Other demigods and creatures from Camp Half-Blood. Clarisse, Thalia, Grover, and Juniper were among them. They weren't possessed anymore.

"Everyone!" I ran over to Thalia and wrapped my arms around her in a hug. "I'm so glad you're all okay!"