Parents are so unfair! My mom refused to let me read "the Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan on the night it came out, so I had to wait an entire DAY to read and complete the greatest series EVER. But at least I finished it before we went on a vacation from our small house in Houston, Texas to New York. So anyways, we flew from there to new jersey, where we took a train to New York city, home of the statue of liberty, shopping paradise, empire state building, and, according to the P.J.O. series, mount Olympus, home of the gods. But that was just a fiction story, its not like I was about to run into any of the characters, right?

Well, I was on the most boring train ride EVER, so after I finished the titans curse for the fiftieth time, I got up with my book, and went to look around. I high-fived a girl wearing the same shirt as me, black with Percy's picture on the front and Percy Jackson and the Olympians in silver writing on the back. I was also wearing my one-of-a-kind customized special PJO hat, which was green and silver, and said Percabeth rocks on the front in english, and Percabeth rox on the back in Greek. Just so you get the right mental picture, I have blonde hair and green eyes. Anyways, I found out there was a coffee shop, of all things, in the dining car. I ordered a special caramel macchiato, but I never got to drink it, because when I turned around, I forgot all about the coffee. I noticed a really cute guy with sea green eyes and black hair swept across his face. Okay, I thought, weird coincidence, not anything major, except for the fact he was standing next to a pretty (well beautiful) girl. Her eyes traced the menu board as she flicked her curly hair out of her face. Her gray eyes and blonde hair. Wow, creepy. Like really, really creepy. I turned away and pretended to tie my shoes as they ordered. Then, as the two walked away, I got up and followed them back to their seats, where I did a double take. My eyes were about to pop out my head because there was a guy sitting next to them with brown curly hair and a Rasta cap on. I couldn't help it. I went over to them.

"Percy? Annabeth?" I asked. Both jumped and looked right at me. Umm okay, I thought, bad idea. Annabeth had unsheathed her knife and had it against my chest, and Percy had his pen pulled out, but looked a little hesitant. I remembered my hat and quickly pulled it off. I must have looked really freaked out or embarrassed, because Percy said,

"Relax, Annabeth, she's not dangerous." Thank you captain obvious! Annabeth clearly disagreed, because she didn't lower the deadly blade.

"Um excuse me, but could you please put that down? I know it wont hurt me but its still kind of weird to be pointing it at me. I have nothing against you, unless you're trying to kill me." I reasoned. She didn't look convinced, but she lowered the knife.

" Fine, but answer our questions." She said. "First of all, how much do you know, and why is there a picture of Percy on your shirt?"

I grinned. "I know that your parents are Frederick chase and Athena, goddess of wisdom and battle, and Sally Jackson and Poseidon, god of the sea. You both go to camp Half-Blood, which is run by the god Dionysus and the centaur Chiron. I know that Annabeth ran away from home when she was seven, and met up with Thalia and Luke Castellan, but Thalia got turned into a pine tree on half-blood hill. About 4 or 5 years later, Percy was attacked by the kindly one, Alecto, at his school, and then attacked by the Minotaur, with his mother and Grover on his way to Camp Half-blood." I paused, wondering what point in the books they were in. They looked about 13 or 14, but I couldn't be sure.

"How old are you?" I asked.

"12" Percy answered. "We're on our way back from Los Angeles, and the Underworld. And my mom was Sally Jackson, but now Hades has her." Annabeth shot him a "shut up you idiot" look.

"Ah," I said smiling slyly. "Well, Percy, if I were you, I'd only worry about the third line. The last isn't as bad as it sounds. Annabeth, hmmm, don't feel too bad about what happens, you cant do anything about it. If you need me, I'll be in the car two down. Bye the way, my name is Alexis. Alexis Jacoles." I hoped they had forgotten the question about my shirt. They glanced at each other, so I took my chance and ran.

PERCY POV

Well that's great! Just fabulous! She acts like she knows everything that's ever happened to us, and everything that is going to, then she just runs- "whats this?"Annabeth asked, interrupting my thoughts. I looked at the thing, which turned out to be a book. The cover looked like it said "ETH NITATS UERSC" but after a few minutes of struggling, Annabeth said, "I think it says THE TITANS CURSE. hmm, what could that mean?" she opened it, and sighed in frustration. "I wish I could just read the stupid thing. It just looks like gibberish." She complained. Just then, the girl, Alexis Jacoles, ran back and snatched the book out of Annabeth's hands.

"You can't read that!" she exclaimed.

" Why not?" asked Annabeth, deciding not to mention that she was dyslexic and couldn't read it anyways. With out another word, Alexis ran off. I exchanged a look with Annabeth, and we got up and ran after her. We found her shoving the book into a partially full book bag. She closed the bag straightened up, and saw us. It got really quiet.

"Well?" said Annabeth finally

"What?" asked Alexis, "hey are you hungry? I could really go for a cheeseburger right now." She tried to swing around us with her book bag, but Annabeth stepped in front of her. "Tell us the whole thing. Now."