EDIT: Okay, although I like the idea, reading it over, I realized that this was horribly written. So I redid it. Hopefully it'll be a bit better now. xDD

TIME WARP ... BSCHOOOOOOOO!

FUTURE!

PPOV:

I could barely breathe.

I was lying on my couch, and I could barely breathe.

Annabeth was on top of me.

I could barely breathe, and I was loving every second of it.

Suddenly, she pulled back. She looked confused. Bewildered, even. Her head tilted, as if she was listening to something.

"What's wrong?" I asked her. Then I heard it too. Soft at first, but it was quickly getting louder. In moments it became a deafening roar.

Annabeth pushed herself off me and leaped off the couch. A part of me wanted her to get back onto me, but I stood as well and followed her to the window. What we saw made my heart go numb for a moment. Annabeth screamed.

This couldn't be happening.

How could this be happening?

one hour ago

Another booming crash of thunder shook the building, and almost immediately a flash lit up the room. The TV program suddenly flickered.

"Hey!" I shouted at the TV. Annabeth laughed beside me.

The war had finally ended, and after a few years of complexity, we were both in college - the same college. It was spring break, Annabeth and I were spending a glorious night together in my dorm ... things were as perfect as could be.

The picture changed to some random infomercial. Words in capital letters began to scroll across the top of the screen: "A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ..." When our county went by, my eyebrows raised.

"Uh oh," Annabeth said with a slight laugh, and then, dragging out the last word, added, "we're in trouble ..."

I snickered. "It's probably not going to come here," I told her.

She smiled. "I know. But this storm is nuts. And I think it's getting worse." She glanced over at the window. An outrageous storm was pelting the glass as if trying to break in.

"I think you're right," I told her. "The lightning seems to be getting closer. I guess we're not going to dinner," I added with a laugh.

She nodded. "Yeah ... it's too bad. But you know -"

Suddenly the dorm room was cloaked in darkness; the television became black. "Woah," I muttered. "Oops." We both laughed.

Annabeth got off the couch and turned to look down at me. "Well, the lights are out, we're trapped in the building ..." She strode quickly to the door and made sure it was locked. Then she walked back to the sofa. "You know what we could do?"

She shoved me with both hands on the chest, pushing my head down to the cushion. I grinned and pulled my legs up onto the couch so that I was lying down. I stared up at her expectantly.

About ten minutes later, the lights came back on. We didn't care.

We were completely carefree.

We'd seen the tornado warning, but who'd have thought we'd actually get one?

For a few moments, the two of us stood at the window, mortified, watching that triangular, gray, swirling, cloudy vortex of death come ever nearer.

When I came to my senses, I tugged on Annabeth's arm, and we ran for the door. I got there first. I unlocked it quickly and threw it aside, and we bolted down the hallway.

There was no way we were using the elevator. That meant we'd have to go from floor eight - the top floor - to the lobby on the staircase. Not wanting to waste any time, I opened the door, grabbed her hand to make sure we stayed together, and we pounded down the steps, Annabeth just two behind me. The thunderous screams of the tornado were only getting louder. I felt fear gripping at my heart.

When we reached ground level, we emerged into total chaos. People were running, screaming, some even crying. There was pushing, shoving, scrambling to reach the door first. Total hysteria. When we burst through the doors, someone ran right into me, and I stumbled and fell, bringing Annabeth down with me. Nobody seemed to notice we were on the floor until they walked right over us, and we were trampled by the frenzied people struggling to escape. At first we tried to stand, but after much pain, we decided to stay down until the huge crowd was gone.

The building had no basement, but there was a storm cellar outside. You could hear in the cries of the students that no one wanted to leave the building, but everyone was speeding toward the cellar anyway.

When most of the people were out the door, Annabeth and I stood. The last few people who had also been waiting for the crowd to pass flew past us and out the door. We were alone.

Annabeth started running at the same moment that I glanced over to the window. I saw the tornado. Close. Too close.

The roar was deafening, and the next thing I knew, I could hear the massive storm tear the building apart. There is nothing more terrifying than the sheer RIIIIIIIIP of drywall and concrete being destroyed.

Annabeth made it to the double doors and ran out, pulling me along by the hand. But the tremendous wind blew the door shut as I was passing through.

SMAACK!

APOV:

Without warning, Percy's hand was ripped from mine. I stumbled forward a few steps, but regained my balance. I whirled around to see Percy through the windows of the door. He was still inside!

He was sprawled out on the floor. A small amount of blood was leaking from his forehead.

I panicked. I ran to the doors and desperately tried to get them open, but the wind was blowing the wrong direction, and I wasn't strong enough to move them. I pounded, I shook, but nothing worked. I was almost being flattened against the door myself. I tried to call to him. He wasn't getting up.

The sound was unbearable. The whole building was shaking like nuts. It was no use. I couldn't save him.

I so desperately wanted to stay, but my instincts took over. Stupid ADHD mind. I turned around and ran wildly toward the shelter.

But then I stopped. I turned. My closest companion on Earth was in there. He was in that building, which was now far too close to a mass of swirling black rock and dust.

My skin felt like it was being compressed. The air pressure was ridiculous. I nearly collapsed on the spot. Vaguely, I heard my name being called from behind me; my peers were probably calling to me in desperation.

That was when the windows shattered.

It was like a bomb went off in the dining room. One by one they ruptured, glass exploding from their frames, shooting forward into the sky, raining down from every floor. I could feel the vibrations in the cold, hard dirt. I was slapped out of my trance. I turned. I ran.

Suddenly I heard what sounded like Mario pulling a plunger off the world's largest Goomba, followed by a tearing sound that ripped though my very core. Spinning around, I saw that the building was gone. Just gone. As I looked up, I saw it, spiraling through the sky.

What the?

I could hear my classmates screaming my name. I had to get out of there!

CRAAACK!

I fell to my left, catching a glimpse of the massive chunk of concrete as it flew past me, before my crumpled body hit the soil.

PPOV:

The first thing I noticed was the pain. My head throbbed horribly, and my body felt as it I'd been tossed around like a rag doll. Something told me I'd be dead if not for the curse of Achilles.

I opened my eyes on the floor of the dorm building. I ... wasn't dead. I was alive!

Suddenly, the whole room tilted. At first I thought I was just dizzy, but then I actually slid across the floor toward the wall. My ears popped.

And then the sound registered.

It was unbelievable, the noise. It was like being in the world's fastest wind tunnel. It deafened me, it made me fold up in pain.

Then the past few minutes returned to me. Was I ... in the tornado?

I scrambled to my feet. Looking over at where the window was, I found that the glass was gone. There were a few shards scattered on the floor, but most were missing. I saw the wind go by outside, as well as a single flying cow. I swear I heard it moo before it continued on its twirling path through the storm's ferocious winds. I thought, What the heck?

Suddenly, the room became inverted. I screamed as I suddenly fell, and my body slammed against the ceiling. Then I fell and cracked my head on the wall, before being shot toward the other wall and then back to the ceiling. Then the twisting stopped, and I simply dropped to the floor. The pain was unbelievable.

Then the building began to spin like a Crazy Top. I slid all around the floor, back and forth, slamming into wall after wall, desperately trying to grab onto something to stop myself. I was terrified. All sense of direction was gone.

BOOM!

Everything stopped. The wind died instantly during one last sudden inversion, tossing me against the wall, and then back to the floor. Everything was still now. Everything was calm.

I spent a few moments to recollect myself. Then I stood shakily, and waited for my balance to return. When it did, I wandered toward the door.

It was time to find out where I was.

I felt something solid appear in my pocket. Reaching in, I found a ballpoint pen. I pulled off the cap, and the pen shifted, transformed, and mutated into my familiar celestial bronze buddy. I was glad to know I hadn't lost it entirely.

Keeping my sword on guard, I opened the door.

My eyes widened as I saw what laid beyond the dorm.

I slowly stepped into the light. "Riptide ... I have a feeling we're not in college anymore."

Heh, heh, I had to include just one old-timey reference before I left off. xDD So review please, and tell me what you think!

EDIT: Okay, that's much better. Now it's at least slightly presentable. xDDDD It's funny, how much better I've gotten since last September. 8D I mean, I still don't know if I'd call it "good," but it's loads better than it had been. xDD