Yessss I finally managed to update! Thanks to all of my lovely readers and reviewers last chapter, specifically ImpossibleThings12, GollyGeeWhiz, lunarchroniclesandcockatiels, Namibq, VCRx, somanyfandoms03, Crazy Fangirl No. 1, PercaBeth Fan, HeroesOfOlympusRules,and PJOIsDaBest.Lmao honestly some of your names make me laugh so hard, I love them! :)

"Do you even remember how to get to Bunker 9?" Percy wheezed as he trudged through the forest, tree limbs smacking his face with nearly every step he took.

Annabeth smirked when she saw him struggling to push his way past an especially difficult tangle of trees, and nodded. "Of course I do. I've been here for ages, and you have too, which means we're both supposed to know every square inch of this place, inside and out."

Percy huffed, pouting slightly. "I know that. I'm the head camp director, after all!"

The blonde raised her eyebrows ever so slightly in defiance. "Co-head camp director," she said, being sure to place special emphasis on the "co" part. "Just because you're the son of Poseidon and a child of the Big Three doesn't mean you get to be all high and mighty, got it, buddy?"

He raised his hands up in self-defense with a nervous chuckle. "Sorry, sorry. Besides, we both know that between the two of us, you're the brains of the operation..." Annabeth smiled, but her expression quickly dropped into a scowl when her husband added, "...and I'm in charge of the looks."

She stared at him indignantly, and he had the audacity to wink at her. Her frown only deepened, and she shoved him so that he fell down, landing hard on his bottom. He just laughed, and that further infuriated her.

When he saw her stomping off, Percy only laughed harder, and he got up to chase after her. "Honey," he chuckled, still wiping dried leaves off of his pants, "come back! Okay, okay, I'm sorry. You can be the brains and the looks. Happy?"

Annabeth glanced at him and nodded with a mocking smile. "Very. Now shut up and help me figure out how to get in here."

"What?" said Percy, glancing in front of him. He noted with some astonishment that they had arrived before a massive wall, at least 3 or 4 stories high, that was completely stone. It spanned for several yards in either direction, and was built into the side of the hill like a bulwark. Curtains of ivy, some of which must have been at least 100 feet in length, snaked their way down the wall like a poor man's choice in drapes.

"Bunker 9?" guessed Percy, not able to tear his eyes away from the impressive sight.

"Yep," said Annabeth, before she hesitantly reached forward and placed her hands on the wall's face and began running them up and down.

"Umm...Annabeth?" questioned the son of Poseidon, looking at her in confusion. "What are you doing?"

"What does it look like I'm doing?" she retorted, focused on her task. "I'm trying to find a way in."

The dark-haired man regarded her with a blank expression. "Why don't we just knock?"

She scoffed and rolled her eyes, not even bothering to consider the idea. Who could blame her? She was tired, she was hungry, she was sweaty, and, most importantly, she was pregnant.

"Come on Seaweed Brain, do you honestly think it's as easy as -"

The blonde was suddenly cut off by a grinding noise that sounded like hundreds of thousands of gears clanking against each other at the same time. The horrendously-high screech was enough to make her cover her ears in agony, and she stared at her husband with wide eyes.

"What did you do?!" she yelled, and he shrugged at her over the noise.

Annabeth turned to see that the stone wall had slowly begun to move upward, as simply as if someone was pulling up the blinds on a window. She stared at the sight in shock: that wall - that huge, enormous, gigantic, and other-synonyms-for-big wall - was moving.

After about thirty seconds, the wall was all the way up, and had revealed two people standing on the other side: one of them, a tan girl with caramel-colored hair and almond-shaped eyes. She looked stunning, thought Annabeth, even though all she wore was a simple white T-shirt with grease stains and jeans with matching brown specks.

The other person was scrawny young man with an unruly head of curls and tanned skin, slightly darker than the female beside him. His cheeks though were perfectly rosy when he grinned at them, revealing a row of astonishingly white teeth, and his eyes twinkled with mischief.

"You look like you just listened to a Fury screaming," the young man said, laughing at Annabeth's "O"-shaped mouth. No doubt he could tell by the stunned expression on her face that her ears were still slightly ringing.

"Leo," she demanded, glancing up at the wall that hovered above them, "what the Hades was that?"

"Oh, that?" the son of Hephaestus said with a chuckle, following her gaze upwards. "That's our front door. Do you like it?"

The girl beside him - Calypso - leaned forward with a roll of her eyes. "It needs a little oil, as you can probably tell."

"No kidding," mumbled Percy under his breath as he and Annabeth passed through the gaping hole in the side of the hill and into a spacious room about the size of an aircraft hangar. Annabeth gaped open-mouthed at the sight; she had only been in here a few times, and it had been several years. The Hephaestus kids (and Calypso too) tended to be pretty tight-lipped when it came to sharing about what went on inside the oh-so-secret Bunker 9.

The four of them stood there for a moment, the two newcomers gazing around in interest and the other two standing there awkwardly. The silence ended when both Calypso and Annabeth subtly elbowed the men beside them, prompting them to speak.

"We need a clue from you," Percy suddenly said, at the same time that Leo announced, "We have a clue for you."

Surprised laughter broke out amongst the friends, and Leo reached into his magical toolbelt - the one that Annabeth never saw him without - and dug out a familiar gold card.

"Sorry for the grease stains," he apologized as he handed it to Percy, subtly wiping his oily hands on his already-ruined jeans in slight-embarrassment.

Percy waved his friend's cares away, merely flipping the card over in a hurry. As he read, Annabeth smiled lovingly, enjoying her husband's eagerness for the idea she'd thought up.

It's not important

If it's wrong or right.

Just go grab a sword,

And let's have a fight!

When he finished reading, Percy glanced up in mock-surprise. "Who wrote this?" he demanded with an obviously-fake scowl on his face. "Who would dare to encourage violence in front of the son of Poseidon?"

"Oh hush," Annabeth said, silencing him with a light slap on his arm. "Do you have any idea where it is?"

Percy stared at the paper in concentration. "Well...you could have a fight pretty much anywhere. It could be in the mess hall, or in the Big House, or on top of Zeus's Fist, or near the zipline, or -"

Annabeth suddenly cut him off with a slight tsk. "Seaweed Brain, we don't even have a zipline at Camp Half-Blood!"

"That's what I mean!" the dark-haired man said, smacking the paper with his hand. "How do I even know this is a location at camp?"

All the blonde could do was let out a groan of frustration as she grabbed her husband's arm and stomped off. "Come on," she huffed, flicking her blonde curls out of her face. "We're going to the combat arena!"

"Thanks for the clue, Wise Girl," he said cheerily, laughing as she dragged him out of the bunker. She merely grumbled something incomprehensible in response.

Before they were too far out of sight, Percy turned over his shoulder long enough to wave at the couple standing in the massive doorway and shout, "By the way: congratulations on your engagement!"

Calypso blushed politely, and Leo grinned, pumping his fist in the air. "Yeah man! We'll have plenty of food, so don't worry!"

Percy gave him a thumbs-up in response, waving goodbye one last time as his wife pulled him away towards the combat arena, the sun setting so that it was now even with the tips of the trees.

Lol originally this chapter was supposed to be only about 500 words, but here we are 2000 words later, and clearly that's not the case. Thanks again for everything you guys! I'll try to update again soon, but in the meantime, try to stay happy, healthy, and safe!

~ Princess Andromeda II