Authors notes: this chapter is rated M, so please realise this chapter requires maturity. hope you all enjoy ;)

Chapter 7: Re-United
Percy's P.O.V

I looked around and saw the beginning of a beach through the thick darkness, it was so dark the air around me looked black. Although I could clearly see Justin, he was illuminated with a slightly silver glow that permeated through the darkness, the smell of the sea was intoxicating to me and I could sense that we were walking about 30ft from the beach front. Suddenly the darkness lessened slightly and I could see a wooden pier, that was rotting slightly in some places. I walked to the edge of the water and peered into it, I could see through it like an X-Ray, but most people would have seen the water as black as night. At the bottom I saw what was undoubtably my second foe, it was a huge bronze squid, and it was looking right at me.

The colossal beast surged straight at me, it was going exceptionally fast. I ran back to the edge of the sand as the huge squid burst out of the the water in an explosion of liquid. Before I knew it, the beast was swinging its plated tentacles at me, I ran to the pier and started sprinting along the side, trying to dodge the tentacle that would inevitably jab at me... But the squid had disappeared. I looked in the water and saw a bronze tentacle whip up at me, it hit me in the leg and tore a huge gash into my leg. I howled in pain, fortunately it would be quickly fixed with some Ambrosia afterwards, assuming I survived that is. All of a sudden the squid writhed out of the sea in a flail of tentacles, I saw its far right tentacle tense to take a swing at me and I leaped at its face, hoping to get a lucky brain shot and kill it instantly like the last one. Too late I saw a tentacle from its left side lash out, it intercepted my mid-flight and sent me flying into the water. As I sunk, I felt the ribs inside my chest heal from the fractures that the squid just inflicted and I felt like I had just grown to double my size because of the influx of strength. I commanded the currents to take me up to surface as fast as they could, as I rocketed through the water I saw the squid surging away from the beach and moved on an intercept course, I bet it hadn't counted on me being a son of Poisedon.

I landed on its head as it floated away from the beach and felt it buck suddenly, I was almost thrown off before I could get a good handhold on one of the many slick plates of metal. As I was holding on I noticed a service hatch in the side of it head, I struggled over as the squid dived down, submerging us both in water. I used the water to hold me in position, I pried the hatch open and hopped in. As if knowing that I was climbing into its head, the squid started to thrash wildly but it was in vain because I was already closing the hatch.

Inside was a room about the size of a restroom, but I had to stoop a bit so that my head didn't slam against the roof every time the squid shook violently. Inside the small room was a pedestal and on it, another disk. This time instead of the orb being on the inside of the circle It was floating on the outside of the disk, orbiting around the metal slowly. This orb was an amazing purple and reminded me of a night sky because It looked like there was stars floating around inside of it. Considering that the last disk I had found was probably the robots point of power, I figured removing it would be pretty obvious. I placed my hand on the disk, feeling it smoothly rotate against my palm and wrenched the thing out of the pedestal. I felt the squids energy dwindle rapidly and realised that I might want to consider getting out of here before the metal fell to pieces.

As I returned to the surface of the water, I glanced at the second disk I had found. It remained untouched by the water because I was holding it, and I wondered what would happen if the water touched it. Would it explode? Would it short circuit, and cut off the graceful spinning pirouette it was performing? Who knows, and I didn't really want to find out. My head broke the surface and I realised that I was miles out at sea, I could only just see the land because the sun was rising behind it, the currents pushed me towards the beach where this had all started. It took about a minute before I got to the beach and during that time I had started to unzip my backpack to put the disk in there. I landed on the beach completely dry and took out both of the disks I had collected, they looked almost exactly the same, but it was like the bottom of the blue orb disk, fit with the top of the purple orb disk, I curiously slid the two together and watched in amazement as they both melded into one. The orbs stayed indifferent but the disks merged together, it looked almost exactly the same but the disk was orbiting the blue orb and the purple was orbiting the disk, it looked like it was made by Alaina, extremely cool. Once again I stowed it in my backpack, I had a feeling that it might be useful eventually. I finally looked up at my surroundings and realised that Justin had completely disappeared.

"Justin," I called loudly, "c'mere boy."

He didn't come to me and I wondered if he just got bored and wanted to go do something else, well he helped me a lot anyway. Then I realised that Chiron had said that their were 3 rogue automatons, I had no idea where the last one was.

"Screw it." I finally thought, I had defeated two of the robots in one night and probably wouldn't be as lucky with the next one. In the state I'm in I definitely need to have a shower and get some sleep, I opened up my bag and grabbed out a wad of cash. It was about 70 dollars, that would definitely do for a day and night in a motel.

After sleeping and having a shower, paired with a new set of jeans and a yellow Camp Half-Blood T-Shirt I felt like a new man. I sat down and watched a bit of TV with a packet of crisps in hand, it had been a while since I had done this because at camp, tv networks don't broadcast, magical interference or something. I was just starting to relax, when I heard a sharp knock on the door. I got up and subconsciously pulled out riptide, but didn't uncap him. I opened the door slowly, and I noticed Justin prance through the door first. I looked up too late to see Annabeth tackle me into a crushing hug, having almost no time to brace my self all I could do was try not to fall backwards, after I regained my balance I pulled her in close, she buried her face and body into my chest. I noticed she was sobbing slightly, realising that I could do almost nothing, I embraced her tightly and kissed the top of her head.

"It's alright wise girl, it's alright." I murmured, my speech getting muffled by her hair which I was still burying my face in. I finally noticed Grover fidgeting sheepishly outside the door, or goatishly... I guess. After Annabeth stopped death gripping me Grover told me he would rent another room for the night, saying that he need the privacy, when he was stepping out the door I shot him a thankful look and he smiled grimly at me, for such a friend he really did act like a protector and not the fun kind.

I heard the clock tick over and looked at the face; 11:24, I looked down at Annabeth, she was curled up in my lap and had her head buried into my shirt, the "new" T-shirt now looked like it had been squirted with a water gun, because down the left side of my chest was a thin streak of dried up tears, making it look a bit see through. I nudged Annabeth and she looked up at me, beautiful but tear streaked.

"I think I need to change into a different shirt, babe." I said, gesturing at my current one.

"Fine." She said, with a little bit of a scowl on her face, I got the feeling if she didn't have to, she wouldn't have moved. Like ever.

I walked over to my backpack and pulled out the last clean shirt I had, I quickly made a mental note to buy another on the way to the 3rd robot. I stripped off my shirt and scrunched it into the bag, ready to pull on my new one. All of a sudden I felt Annabeths cold fingers sliding around my waist and wrapping themselves around each other, apparently the death grip was back because she leaned her head into my back and tightened her arms. I slowly undid her grip from around my stomach and turned around, she was looking at me in that sort of cute, sort of scary Annabeth way. I leaned down tenderly and slowly pressed my lips onto hers, passionately exploring her mouth with my tongue. She responded slowly and I could feel her body pressing up against mine, I was overcome by a strong sense of lust so I softly pushed both my hands into her hair, feeling her blonde, silky hair pushed me over the edge and I slowly disengaged the kiss to gently push her against the white plaster walls, I passionately met her lips in a ferocious kiss. As we waged a pleasurable war with each other my hands traced the sides of her jaw, feeling every contour and smooth edge, at the same time I could feel Annabeth's hands exploring my stomach, I shuddered as she started feeling every muscle on my chest. Quick as lightning I reached down and took hold of Annabeth's thighs, she released a low moan as I wrapped her legs around my waist and held her up against the wall, I released my hold on her lips to press mine against her neck making her shiver against me, I looked into her eyes and realised how much I loved this woman. Maybe leaving her on her own was worse than letting a monster attack her, I thought. She laced her arms around my shoulders and leaned in for another kiss and I indulged her, after that, things turned into a fuzzy darkness as I descended into a night of pleasure with Annabeth Chase.