Percy.
Me and Annabeth were walking along the beach. It has been two days since Gaea's defeat. Roman campers were still around, helping repair Camp Half-Blood. Campers were trying to get back to normal.
We were still cleaning up from the parties we threw after Gaea was defeated. Despite the many friends and allies we lost, it was still a joyous time.
Annabeth and I wanted some time to ourselves. We decided to go on a romantic walk along the beach. It was great.
"Hey, Annabeth."
"Yes, Percy?" she inquired.
"This is nice."
"It sure is, seaweed brain." I used to hate it when she called me that. Not anymore. Now I couldn't help but smile.
"I wish it could be like this every day."
"I do wish it could be like this every day. But it can't. Not now, Percy. There's so much we need to clean up. After that we have to rebuild." she explained, "It's actually given me and some of the other Athena kids an opportunity to redesign some of the buildings. Some of them need a serious architectural updateI. We might even take some cues from New Rome. The damage also revealed sole issues in some of the less-maintained buildings as well."
"Geez, wise girl. Can't even have one date without you gushing about architecture?"
Annabeth playfully punched me in the shoulder, and I couldn't help but start laughing.
"Well, seaweed brain," Annabeth began, "We'll have plenty of time for dates when we're done with damage control. With almost every major enemy of the gods gone, all that's really left are monsters. And facing what we faced, I don't think that's an issue."
"Yeah, I guess so..." I couldn't help but feel a bit doubtful of that. After all, it seemed like the gods wanted me to doe something for them every five minutes. But still, it was nice to believe she was right.
Annabeth asked me, "Percy, what's that?"
"What?"
"That, that looks like...A METEOR! A METEOR'S HEADING RIGHT FOR US!"
"WHAT!?" I yelled. I turned around, and sure enough, there was a massive ball of fire heading our way.
I instantly shoved Annabeth out of the way before summoning a wall of water to stop the meteor. I dived to the side just when it made contact with the water. I rolled to a halt, and immediately went to look at what almost crushed us, prepared to curse whatever god sent it our way.
Annabeth was already up, and she was heading to the crater created by the meteor. She got there a bit before me, and her eyes grew wide as she gasped.
"What?" I asked. Before she could say anything, something got up out of the crater. It wasn't a meteor. It was a...
Cliffhanger! So, vote in the reviews! How would you like Soundwave to appear in the next chapter? Vote in the reviews! Would you like him to appear either as...
1) A Pretender. (Human disguise)
2) A Cybertronian. (Robot mode)