To Taffeh., thank you for the words of encouragement, I will try my best to come up with an original plot for the story, but it may take a while for me to get it up to my personal standards. If anyone has any idea they would want to submit to this story or the Chaos one, please, do not hesitate.

Disclaimer: I believe I've said it enough times, Rick Riordan is the sole owner of PJO and HoO

Chapter 9

August 21 7:41 AM, GHS

Annabeth's PoV

I made Percy get up early this morning to get clothes from his house, since he slept over.

We got to school a little bit earlier this morning, since I wanted to see the listing for the volleyball team.

"I made the team, Percy, look!" I pointed to my name on the list, in terms of ranking of how good we did, I got second, first is an honorary spot belonging to the captain. I did better than people who were on the team last year.

He squinted like he was trying to read the page, "Is this one you, Annabeth? The one that says, 'bAthanne?'"

"Shut up, and yes, that is me." I said sternly.

"I'm kidding, that's great, Annabeth!" He said as he hugged me. "Look, Emily's on the team too, looks like you'll have a friendly face there."

"Yeah, thank the gods..."

August 29, 4:00 PM, GHS Gym

Annabeth's PoV

(A/N: I have never been to or near an official high school volleyball game before, so if I get a few things wrong, sorry.)

I was sitting in the locker room talking to Emily, my pre-game nerves were kicking in.

"I'm good at volleyball from what my friends say, but this is the first time I've been on a team for this." I pointed out. Why am I so nervous? I've killed monsters often enough, fought gods, and defeated Titans, I've even held up the sky! Why is something as simple as a volleyball game scaring me?

At that point, the coach had to go out to the gym to warm up.

When we ran out, I saw the crown cheering for us, and that just caused my nerves to get worse.

I scanned the crowd and saw Percy, and everything felt better, so I went on with warming up, I drowned out the crowd so that I could focus on this.

After we finished warming up, we went to the benches so that we could set up everyone. And to my surprise, but not too much surprise, she benched me!

I tried to argue, but she just blew her whistle in my face and told me to sit. Reluctantly, I did.

When I sat down, I turned to look at Percy, he seemed to be surprised too. He caught me looking and just mouthed, It'll be fine.

(Again, like I said, I don't know how volleyball games go, but I'm pretty sure they play 3 games to 15 points or so, and you have to win by 2, so that's what I'm going with.)

Twenty minutes later, we were getting our butts kicked, we already lost one game out of 3, and on this game we were losing 7-0.

"Langdon!" The coach screamed at Stacy as a time out was called. (It was the only last name I could think of at the time.)

"Langdon, I'm not going to beat around the bush. You suck right now! You've given up at least 10 points, you're sitting out!" The coach scolded.

"But-"

"Sit!" She cut off Stacy's protest. Stacy sat down.

"Chase, you're in!"

Excitedly, I got up and replaced Stacy's spot at front middle.

After about 15 minutes, I had already blocked two spikes, and spiked the ball myself about four times.

We won one of the games already, and on the third game the score was 9-1. I served the ball to a spot where I thought they wouldn't be able to return it, but they were able to recover and spike the ball to get it.

But the fact that they returned it wasn't what shocked me, it was the fact that where the ball hit the ground, there was a crater in the gym's wood, and I could have sworn I saw a few flames on the ball when it was moving..

I just stared at the crater for about 10 seconds, the crowd was silent too. Then I looked up at the other team, and they suddenly seemed much bigger. They made Clarisse look like a toddler.

Then it hit me, flaming balls, giant people, the name just slipped out of my mouth.

"Laistrygonians..." I turned to Percy, and he nodded, it looks like he noticed the same thing.

Percy's PoV

As soon as I saw the other team start changing in size, I knew that they were monsters. They reminded me of what happened back in Meriwether Prep. These were Laistrygonians, or Canadians, as Annabeth explained it to me the first time.

They started to show their true color, and I don't mean pink and purple, I meant their real forms.

I looked at the hole in the floor and felt that there was a pipe underneath it, I used my powers to bring up some water so the gym would begin to flood up.

When water shot up from the pipes, the principle told everyone to evacuate. Everyone was screaming and scrambling for the door. When they all got out, the only people left were me, Annabeth, and for some reason, a few people from the volleyball team.

I pulled out Riptide and rushed down to the floor, where the water was now at our ankles. The largest "girl" in the middle yelled so loud that it made the water around her moved away from her, and it also caused the scoreboard to shatter. When we all closed our eyes and ears to keep them from busting, we opened it up to see that there were already bronze cannonballs on the floor in front of them.

The leader turned to Annabeth and picked up a cannonball, which immediately ignited. "Daughter of Athena, die!" She threw the ball which ripped through the volleyball net, setting it on fire.

I willed up a wall of water to block the cannonball. Unfortunately, all it did was slow it down a bit and douse the fire. But this was enough time for Annabeth to dive out of the way.

She pulled out her dagger, and I raised Riptide. We dived as another ball was thrown.

"Annabeth! do you have your hat?" I asked her, keeping alert for another fireball.

"Yeah, it's in my bag, go grab it, I can keep them distracted. It's on the bleachers, main pocket!"

I dashed off to the sidelines and found Annabeth's gym bag. After about 15 very long seconds, I was able to get the hat and get back to Annabeth.

After tossing her the cap, I sent a wave of water over towards the Laistrygonians so that Annabeth could slip on her cap while they were distracted.

She slipped around to the left, the Laistrygonians obviously didn't see her, since they were focused on me, but I saw the shockwaves from Annabeth's movements.

I rushed towards the enemies over the top of the water, they threw a bunch of fireballs, but I dodged them and got within slashing range.

I kept dodging their punches and smashes with the cannonballs, waiting for Annabeth to kill the first Laistrygonian.

At that same moment, I saw the furthest one away explode into golden dust, and get carried away in the current of the water.

After about 5 more minutes of distracting, dodging, and insulting, all of the Laistrygonians were killed, except for what seemed to be the leader.

"That was a fun game, but I think our team won, don't you?" I asked, risking a smirk.

"Never! Our master will have her revenge, you will pay for what you have done, Perseus Jackson and Annabeth Chase!"

"Wait, who's your mast-" Annabeth started, but was cut off by the Laistrygonian smashing the last cannonball into itself, commiting suicide.

"I guess we'll have to wait to see, I doubt this is the last time something like this is going to happen." I told Annabeth. I capped Riptide and willed the water back down into the pipes.

We looked around at the destruction of the gym. "Ugh, looks like you have another thing that you can design."

That's when we saw a few straggler volleyball team members hiding in the bleachers. We just stared at them dumbfounded.

For some unknown reason, the coach started to clap. "Jackson! Chase! That was great! Chiron really trained you well didn't he?" She turned to the three girls that were left behind. "You see girls? THAT'S how you handle monsters!"

Annabeth's PoV

This time it was me and Percy's turn to be dumbfounded.

"What are you talking about? What monsters?" I hoped she was just a clear-sighted mortal.

"Don't try it with me, Chase, all four of us saw you kill those Laistrygonians, like I said before, Chiron's trained you well!" She replied. "You handled them beter than these three would." She pointed to three volleyball players that were hiding in the bleachers.

They poked their heads out and I was flabbergasted. Emily, a girl named Jessica, and, of course, Stacy.

"Woah, woah, woah. You're demigods?" Percy exclaimed.

"Yeah, two years ago, coach said I had gotten claimed when this thing appeared above my head. She said my dad was Hermes." Emily replied.

"What about you?" I asked Jessica.

"My mom's Nemesis." She replied.

I turned to Stacy. I'll bet that her mom's Aphrodite.

Stacy sighed, "My dad-" damn, "-is Apollo."

"Wow..." Was all I could muster out.

"What about you, coach?" Percy asked her.

"Ares, I used to be the cabin counselor about 20 years ago, when I left, I decided I'd train demigods like Chiron, and I have his direct permission to do so. Alright, what about you two, who are your parents?" She asked us.

"My mom's Athena." I told her with a hint of pride in my voice.

"A very lovely goddess, quite nice. And you, Jackson?"

"Poseidon..." He mumbled.

"I'm sorry, what was that, Jackson? Speak up!"

"Poseidon!" He exclaimed, starting to turn a bit red, from anger or embarrassment, I don't know.

"Poseidon? Ha, I knew he had a kid that saved Olympus two years ago, I never knew it was you! So you're the one that beat down Kronos, and, from what I heard from Chiron, turned down immortality?" She asked, getting very excited now. "And even more dangerous than fighting Kronos, you're dating a daughter of Athena?"

"Yeah, I turned down immortality, but I didn't beat Kronos alone. Annabeth played a big part, and so did our friend, Luke... And yes, I'm dating Annabeth." He said, turning even more red than before.

"Coach, how did you know that Chiron trained us?" I asked her.

"Oh, the necklaces. Chiron's been up with that tradition for a long time now, so when I saw those necklaces around your necks, it was a dead giveaway. I still have mine after 20 years." She told us.

"Ah. So..." I said, trying to change the subject, "what do you think that Laistrygonian meant when she said 'Our master will have her revenge?'"

"I don't know, but all I can say is to keep an eye out. Not even the Fates know what going to happen next, so you'd be wise to keep on the alert." She replied gravely.

So, what do you guys think? Sorry it took me long to update, I was without internet access for the majority of Friday and Saturday.