Ellalncarnate: Yeah, thanks. I wasn't really sure what to do with that part, so I left it the way it was. But either way, thanks. I'm glad you said that I'm doing okay with the romantic stuff, I feel awkward writing it.

Pepperoni Zebra: Thanks! I'm glad you like it.

HungerGamesLuver13: Lol, yep it is pretty cute, if I do say so myself.

Chapter Ten: Fears from the Past Return

Percy felt water bumping up against his feet. He yelped, pulling his feet back and looking over to his side; Annabeth was gone. In her place was a piece of notebook paper under a small stone, which he picked up and unfolded it. A note was written on it that read,

Percy,

I'm leaving you. I just can't do this anymore, and I've decided to join the Hunters. You barely talk to me anymore, and I don't know why. You've been too busy playing solider, and I'm tired of it.

Goodbye,

Annabeth

Percy's eyes stung with tears, what was she talking about? He needed to talk to her, now. Percy rolled onto his stomach, pulling himself onto his feet. For some reason, it felt warmer as he walked up the hill to camp, and then he saw why. The camp, the whole entire forest as well, was engulfed by flames, people were running around frantically, trying to evade the monsters and armored troops killing anything that moved. Percy tried to move his feet, but they were rock heavy. Someone was walking towards him; he had a familiar looking sword dangling from his belt-Backbiter.

The figure let out a steely laugh, "I have you now, Perseus Jackson." The silhouette glowered, but that didn't hide the golden eyes that belonged to Kronos.

"Kronos." Percy growled, he didn't understand, how did he return so quickly?

"Saying my name won't stop this, we are in control now. We have crippled the gods, and they will fall. By killing off the demigods, they won't stand a chance." Kronos turned his back to Percy, "Kill the centaur!"

"No!" Percy bellowed as he saw the figure of a centaur fall to its knees. He reached into his pocket, Riptide was gone. The titan laughed, turning back towards Percy.

"Looking for this?" He clicked the pen, and it turned into a sword. He tossed it into the air; it flipped a couple of times, and landed back into the titans' hands, point facing towards the ground. "There's nothing you can do, Jackson."

Kronos thrust the sword into the ground until his fist was touching the earth. The ground cracked and groaned, and a massive pit that fell into a dark abyss was below Percy's feet. He screamed as he did a free fall down the pit. He landed before the feet of Poseidon, "Perseus." The tone in his voice was hardened and serious.

He looked up at his dad, who wore a scowl on his face, "Dad, what's wrong?"

"Perseus, you have failed me. You have humiliated me before the rest of the gods. You are a disgrace to my name! You are not my son; now get out of my sight! NOW!" He bellowed.

He shoved his trident into Percy's torso, and the vision of his dad disappeared.

A new scene formed, and Percy was in an empty church. By the altar was a wooden casket with two people standing by it. He moved closer, but they didn't seem to notice him. They both had sandy blonde hair, one was a man who looked to be in his forties, and the other was a woman who also looked about forty.

"I'm going to miss mom." The woman sobbed.

"Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to miss her, too." The man said.

Percy looked into the casket, and elderly woman was placed in it, and it faintly looked like, Annabeth, strangely enough.

Another man entered the room, but he looked only about thirty years old, "Hey, guys." He said solemnly.

"Hey, Percy." The brother and sister turned. What are they talking about, I don't know these- Percy trailed off when he saw the other Percy.

It was like an older version of him, how was he not aged like Annabeth?

The final vision faded again, and Percy woke up, writhing around in the sand.

"Percy? Percy! Are you okay?"

Percy staggered to his feet, only to fall back to the ground. He pinched the bridge of his nose while clamping his eyes shut, "Yeah, I'm fine." He lied.

Annabeth held his forearms to get him to look at her, "You don't look okay, c'mon, tell me what's wrong." He sighed,

"Just a bad dream, I don't want to talk about it." Said Percy.

She looked taken aback, "Okay, if you're sure." He looked into her eyes, "Yeah, I am."

Annabeth had already packed up the picnic stuff, and was getting ready to leave.

"Annabeth-wait." He chased after her.

She turned towards him, "You ready to tell me, now?"

He told the dream to her, every little detail. When he finished it, Annabeth gasped in shock from the horror-like story Percy had just told her, "Percy, that's just-"She paused, "Terrible. Are you sure you're okay?"

"Yeah, I'm used to it." Percy replied, but Annabeth looked unsure,

"Okay, if you say so." She picked the picnic basket out of the sand, "See you around, Perce."

Percy finally had some time to himself. Well, almost. If you take away the Aphrodite girls who were stalking him from behind a boulder, then yeah, he was alone.

Well, I know this chapter was short. I was trying to make the dream much darker, but it was hard to find the right words for it.

But anyway, I may not update for a while again. I've got all kinds of tests and schoolwork coming up, and it piles up pretty damn quick. And plus I've got to watch out for Greg O.O, I corn-dogged him yesterday and he said he was going to get payback. Hopefully it doesn't snow anytime soon, because he could be real sneaky and throw a snowball with some sort of surprise in the middle at me…Either WAY, I think he still likes me, even though he's a year younger than me. But, he likes my sister, because he randomly said, "Izzy is pretty." While we were playing video games O.O But I don't mind if he makes a move on her, better than the kid you lives up the street from us who used to date her (he dates all the ladies ;) ). I'll tell you more about him some other time…because that's a whole other story right there!

Bye people, and thanks for adding this story to your faves!

~iGwyn12