AN: And here is another instalment of the story. Please enjoy.

Previously:They followed the water flow and Percy started to pull the rocks apart. The glow faded as he pulled, and his air was almost spent. 'Come on. Come on. Just a little longer Percy.'

Percy dug and dug through the loose rocks, even after the light from Annabeth's hair faded out. The current grew stronger, and Percy was seeing dark spots on the edge of his vision when the rocks came free, and they were dumped into the flowing river below. Annabeth and Percy threw themselves onto the shore, gasping for air.

"We made it!" Annabeth exclaimed.

"Her hair glows!" Percy said, absolutely stunned.

"We're alive. We're alive." Annabeth kept saying as she tried to catch her breath.

"I didn't see that coming. Her hair actually glows!"

"Percy,"

"Why does her hair glow!" Percy yelled at Pascal, who just hooted knowingly at him.

"Percy!"

"What!" Annabeth had already climbed out of the river and was hauling her hair in.

"It doesn't just glow." Annabeth said. Pascal smiled at Percy.

"Why is he smiling at me?" Percy asked nervously, not knowing what was going to come next.

Mother Hera waited patiently by the exit to the tunnel that she was sure Annabeth would come out of with that thief. She heard voices and coughing, and crept forward with her knife at the ready.

After discovering a palace horse with no rider, she realized someone must have found her flower and now she had to find her before she lost her forever. She tracked Annabeth to the Snuggly Duckling pub where she found her flower singing and dancing with pub thugs and that thief, Percy Jackson, who's wanted posters are all over the kingdom. She could have sworn she had seen his face before, a few years ago when she had visited the kingdom of Arboria. She thought nothing of it and focused more on her lost flower. When the castle guards showed up, she hid and waited. After they had followed Annabeth and the thief down the tunnel, Hera convinced a thug to tell her where the tunnel let out.

Now she was about to kill the thief who had stolen her flower. But just as she approached the opening door, the two who came out weren't the familiar thief and Annabeth; instead it was two big, burly, ugly thieves, who's wanted posters were also posted all over the place. She crept back behind a boulder and waited more.

"I'll kill him. I'll kill that Jackson!" The thug without the scar on his face said. Hera paid close attention to what he said next, "Better off to kill him, and get back the crown. Come on." He gestured for his brother to follow him, but Hera suddenly had an idea.

"Oh boys!" She called out to them from the top of the boulder. "Perhaps you want to stop acting like wild dogs chasing their tail, and think for a moment." She waved the satchel with the crown in it in front of their faces. Both thieves drew their knives and growled. "Oh please, there's no need for that." She tossed them the satchel with a chuckle.

"Well, if that's what you desire, then be on your way. I was going to offer you something worth one thousand crowns, would have made you rich beyond belief. And that wasn't even the best part." Hera tempted them, "Oh well, c'est la vie; enjoy your crown." She began to saunter away.

"What's the best part?" Travis Stoll asked, a greedy smile creeping onto his face.

"It comes with revenge on Percy Jackson." She said and showed them a wanted poster. The Stoll brothers grinned evilly and they began plotting.

AN: There it is. Hope you like it. Also, I'm thinking of doing The Little Mermaid with PJO characters. Percy=merman, Annabeth=human princess, etc. Any thoughts? TIA