I'm baaaaaaaaack! I just couldn't stay away from this story. It took a lot to get back to writing it, mostly because I'm lazy, but I saw the reviews and immediately got back to it. Sorry in advance for any spelling mistakes. I'm a little rusty. Enjoy! :D

Annabeth trudges through the forest. Two Ares kids came running past her. Annabeth looked up at them expectantly. They were the two kids that were complaining about fighting earlier.

"Well?" She demands. "Get on with it!"

They scramble away quickly. Annabeth's laughs echo throughout the forest as she heads to the lake. That's where her friends would be. She looks through the opening of pair of trees. Bianca and Nico are sitting by the lake, soaking wet laughing. That's when Percy emerges from the water and pulls them in. They come out a few seconds later and Bianca's face is murderous. "Per-cy!"

Nico's laughing and Annabeth guesses laughing is contagious, because soon they're all laughing. Even Annabeth.

Bianca studies Percy. How is it that you're dry?"

Percy shrugs, "sea god?"

"Well I'll make you wet."

"How?" And with that Percy lands in the water and quickly comes back up, soaked.

Bianca nods, "good."

Percy pulls himself up, "the only reason I'm not wet is so that I wouldn't have to go back in."

Bianca laughs, "thanks."

Finally Annabeth walks out. Her friends aren't wearing their armor. Bianca was wearing a blue shirt with noodle straps and black capris. Nico was wearing a black tshirt and white shorts, and Percy was wearing a grey tshirt and black shorts.

"Hey guys!" Annabeth says as she steps out of the forest.

"Hi Annabeth," they all reply. Annabeth pulls her armor off so she's just wearing a yellow noodle strap shirt and white capris. She sits down beside Bianca and stares at the water. Bianca looks over at Percy and mouths one word. Wet. Percy gives the tiniest nod and without a second thought he gets up and helps Bianca push her into the water.

Annabeth swims back up undazed. "I live in California. I'm used to my dad pushing me into the water."

"Your dad?" Nico asks.

"Nico!" Bianca and Percy yell. Annabeth frowns. "I lied," she blurts out.

Percy stares at her. "About what?"

"My mom...didn't actually tell me to run away like I said."

Percy's heart drops. "Then why'd you tell my daddy she did?"

Annabeth looks down at the water. "I...I don't know. I was at home with my daddy's friend and she was watching me. And then daddy came home with, with a girl. He asked me if I liked her and I said no. He said that they were gonna get married. He said that...that she'd be my new mommy. I don't want a new mommy." Annabeth's knees are at her chest and her arms are hugging her legs. Her head is resting inbeetween her knees as she watches the others reactions. Bianca has this miserable look plastered on her face and it made Annabeth sad to see her like that.

Bianca looks at her reflection in the river. She saw a very sad face that she didn't like. She makes a face as she touches the cold water, right where her forehead was. That made ripples so she took her hand out. "I don't want a new mommy either," she whispers, wiping her hand on her leg.

Percy's lip quivers. "Me either."

Nico zips up his sweater. "Me either," he adds.

Bianca lets Nico lean into her left side. "What happens next?" She asks.

"I ran away," Annabeth says. "All by myself. I quickly ran out of money and was attacked by my first monster. It ripped off the left side of my hair. Then my mother came and she said she'd send a man and her son to fetch me. But a few days later I met Luke and Thalia. They told me they were monster hunters and that they'd help me. I almost went with them but then I remembered that my mom was sending someone for me. I waited for days and days and I thought they'd never come. I almost forgot that she had even come to me. I thought it was maybe just a dream until Percy and his dad showed up."

Percy smiles, "and then I saved the day."

Annabeth rolls her eyes, "Percy, you we're a complete weirdo. You licked your hand and put it through your hair and told me that line from...what's that show?"

"The Simpsons?"

"Yes and you called me babe-"

"That was all Aphrodite! I'm not that weird," Percy defends.

"Whatever."

Bianca thinks back to when she first met Percy. She was scared and could barely speak. Thinking of it made her face beet red.

"You said it was stupid," Percy mentions.

"Said what was stupid? That's a cuss word. I only use it when I'm really mad," Annabeth states.

"You said 'strangers are just friends you haven't met yet' was stupid!" Percy yells, pushing Annabeth back.

"Don't push me!" Annabeth screams as she pushes Percy.

"Don't push me!" Percy demands pushing Annabeth to the ground.

Annabeth gets up and tackles Percy. "I said don't push me!" She growls.

Percy rolls around so she's on the ground. He stands up slowly and stares at Annabeth. His eyes become dark and the river begins to swirl into a mini hurricane. He thrusts his hands forwards and the water responds. All of it goes straight for Annabeth. Bianca screams as she pulls Nico down with her as the waves fly over their heads.

Annabeth ducks too. The water misses her by an inch. She gets up slowly as she looks over at Percy. She has sadness written all over he face as she takes slow steps towards him. Her black converse slosh through puddles as she emerges him. "I didn't mean to hurt your feelings," she whispers. "I just felt like you hurt mine. I'm sorry." She stares hard at her wet shoes not looking into Percy's eyes.

"I know. I'm sorry, I just lost my temper."

Annabeth's grey eyes slowly look up at Percy's green ones. Their eyes lock. A single tear is making its way down Annabeth's nose. It reached the tip and drips off onto Annabeth's lip where Annabeth uses the back of her hand to wipe it off.

Percy and Annabeth both step towards each other and hug. Annabeth's eyes shut and her lips upturned into a smile.

They both pull back and Annabeth glances at Bianca. She has a huge smile on her face as she runs over to Annabeth and hugs her. "I'm glad you guys made up."

"You know what I've realized?" Annabeth asks. "That I have no power."

Bianca shrugs, "I don't have a power."

"Lots of kids here don't have powers," Percy agrees. "Like the Ares kids-"

"Strength," Annabeth points out.

"Or Apollo kids," Bianca adds.

"Singing...and medicine."

"Hermes," Percy tries.

"Flying shoes."

"Aphrodite," Bianca suggests.

"Fashion."

"And what good is that?"

Annabeth sighs. "All I have is...brains." She sits down at the edge of the river. "I've always been smart...but can I be anything more?" Annabeth sits cross-legged and is tugging at the green grass and making a small pile.

Bianca sits down so that she's shoulder to shoulder with Annabeth. "You can be lots of things if you really tried," she whispers.

Annabeth stares down at her pile and continues to pull the grass.

"Like what?" Annabeth snaps. "And another thing, Bianca, you do have powers! Big 3 children all have powers, okay?"

Bianca's brown eyes sadden. "I. Don't. Have. Powers!" She screams, suddenly very angry. Behind her skeletons begin to rise from the ground like it was jello but Bianca doesn't notice. "I was just trying to help you! But apparently Miss. Know-it-all, doesn't want help!"

Annabeth's eyes were diverted behind Bianca though.

"What are you looking at?!" Bianca demands turning around.

Annabeth stands up. "Your powers."

Bianca's jaw drops. She did that? She could barely get her straw into her cup at McDonalds nonetheless that.

"I-I'm sorry. You can...go," Bianaca mutters. She swats her hands at them and the skeletons look slightly confused but go back into the earth. Bianca straightens out her shirt. "Sorry, I'm sorry," she mumbles.

During this whole mess, Percy and Nico had just been sitting their, watching. Get inbeetween two girls fighting? No male would ever want to get involved in that.

Annabeth had been in two fights since she got there. She wasn't like that though. She was way too confident.

Percy finally speaks out, "uh, maybe we could have some fun?"

The two girls necks turn to face him. "Fun?" Annabeth asks doubtfully.

"Yeah!" Nico grins.

Percy's face lights up. "I have an idea!" Percy yells. "Everybody in the water!"

Bianca shoots him a look of confusion. "Why? I can't swim. Nico can't swim."

"Don't worry. I just wanna try the bubble thing."

"What bubble thing?"

Annabeth groans in realization. "His dad made water bubbles so that we could breathe underwater-"

"Cool!" Bianca yells. "And then we can explore and...stuff!"

"Exactly!" Percy agrees.

Annabeth's shocked. "No! He's never done it before. Think if all the things that could go wrong! The bubble could pop! We could drown! We might not be able to control it!"

Percy rolls his eyes. Annabeth was so tight sometimes. She needed to stop seeing the flaws of the plan and try to see the positives. "Annabeth...your a killjoy," he states. It was such a simple comment, but if you truly explored it, it could mean so much more.

Saying Annabeth's jaw dropped would be an understatement. Saying it dropped and dug its way to China would be just about right. "I can have fun!"

Percy summons one huge bubble for them all to sit in.* The round bubble floated up to the top and boobbed there only about 1/4 out of the water. "I'll go first," Percy he smiles at Annabeth and slips into the bubble through the top. Next, Nico jumps into the bubble and waves to them. Bianca hesitates. "Together?" She asks, holding out a hand. Annabeth quickly agrees and clenches Bianca's hand.

"On the count of three," Annabeth breathes.

Bianca nods. "One."

"Two."

Before they can get to the last number, two arms reach out and pull them in.

Both girls glare daggers at Percy who shrugs in reply. "You took too long."

Bianca admires their surroundings. "This is so cool," she sighs. They were all sitting in a circle with their legs crossed, knee to knee. Bianca was sitting between Annabeth and Nico and Percy was across from her. Beside Nico was Percy and Bianca, beside Annabeth was Bianca and Percy and beside Percy was Annabeth and Nico.

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Annabeth shifted awkwardly. "So," she mumbled, "where to?"

"I can't see a thing!" Bianca yells.

Percy was confused. "I can see everything."

Nico squinted out into the distance. "Something over there is glowing," he says, pointing to his left. Everybody shifts so they can see out in the direction.

They could all see something glowing, faintly green. The glow got stronger and stronger as it approached them. But what was it?

That's when Annabeth yelled. "Wait a second! That's-"

*Okay, not exactly how the bubble thing works. You need pearls, you stomp on them and say where you want to go. Not sit in them and maneuver them. But for this story, thats how it is. Now onto other things.

What better way to start off this story again with a cliff-hanger? I've never really tried one of those before so I just had to try it! Hope you enjoyed, it's almost 12 a.m by the way. Oh and I just realized this story didn't end off with the word thanks. Sorry. But don't worry, future chapters will. And check out my new story, "Cupid's home, baby!" Their will be loads of Percabeth in that story within future chapters. Bye!