Screams woke me up that night, along with the help of my oh so wonderful maid, Amy, who was shaking me violently.

"What's the matter?" I asked, rubbing the sleep out of my eyes. Her eyes were wide with fear. I sat up and stretched a little bit.

"I don't know. Your mother said to get you up and to leave as fast as possible." She said, tugging me out of the bed. She didn't need to, because I sprang out of the bed.

"Where's my mother now?" I demanded, fishing around my wardrobe for something that I could run in easily. It was a loose, gray dress that hung a little bit above my feet. I tugged it on as fast as I could.

"I don't know, but we need to leave." She said urgently. Someone screamed loudly- much closer than they were before. I pulled my shoes on just as many people came bursting through my door, Percy in the lead. I ran over to him, worried beyond belief.

"Percy, what is going on?" I asked, more than concerned about the scared look in his eyes.

"Someone's attacking the castle. We need to escape. Now!" He exclaimed, pulling me over to a bookshelf on the wall across from my bed. He pulled out a book and the whole bookshelf swung open, revealing a spiral staircase, leading down.

Percy grabbed my hand, running down the stairs at top speed. I didn't look back to see if everyone else was following us, but I could most certainly hear them. After a couple of minutes of running down stairs, we ran out into fresh air.

"This way!" Percy yelled, pointing away from the direction of marching people and trotting horses. I assumed that's where the attack was coming from.

People started rushing around us, screaming. Percy and I tried to keep together, but we got separated in the rush.

"Percy! Percy, where are you?" I yelled. I could hear him yelling for me in the distance. "Percy!" I tried to follow his voice, but I just couldn't.

"Annabeth!" I looked around for Percy among the rushing children of the court, but instead, I found Thalia, Amy, Katie, Clarisse, and my other friends. They grabbed me from behind and started rushing me forward.

"Wait, where's Percy?" I yelled at them.

"Just move, Annabeth! We'll find him later!" Juniper yelled back. We rushed forward, passing many of our other friends. We passed Chris, Leo and Jason, Grover, Will Solace, Connor and Travis, and so many others.

"Come on!" Someone yelled from the front of the horde of people. We ran into the forest surrounding the castle. Following everybody, we reached a clearing. Everyone was just scattered around, trying to stick to the people they knew the best.

"Everybody, everybody, calm down! Hey. Hey! HEY!" Thalia yelled, getting everyone's attention. They all turned to her. "Thank you! Now, Percy Jackson, where are you?" She yelled. My heart beat faster, hoping that he would turn up. He didn't.

"Okay, no Percy. I guess he'll just have to show up. Okay, does anybody have any extra clothes or blankets that we can use until we can figure out what to do?" Clarisse asked. Nobody stepped forward. "Of course. We're going to camp out here for the night until we can figure out what to do, okay? Good, now scatter!" Clarisse yelled. They did as told, seeing as how nobody wanted to mess with Clarisse.

"What are we going to do?" Silena asked, looking around at everybody. You could tell that she was looking for Beckendorf.

"I don't know. I guess we're going to have to wait until the morning to figure everything out." Juniper sighed. And, wait we did...

"Everybody, wake up!" I heard a masculine, familiar voice say from above me. I cracked open my eyes to blinding sunlight, but it was soon blocked by a black figure. "Miss me?" Percy smirked down at me. I shot up and hugged him, then punched him in the arm.

"Where have you been?" I demanded, crossing my arms over my chest. Everyone else in the clearing was stirring.

"Travis, Connor, Grover, Beckendorf, and I have been doing some scouting around. We have a bunch of information that we need to tell everyone. Will, Annabeth, Clarisse, Thalia, Silena, Nico, Pollux, Katie, come with me!" The aforementioned all followed him, Travis, Connor, Grover, and Beckendorf a safe distance away into the woods.

"What happened?" Silena asked, mainly looking at Beckendorf. She always did fall in love easily.

"Well, we found out a lot of information. Most of it is really bad." Travis said, hopping around a little bit like he had to go to the bathroom.

"Well, if you would like to share with us, that would be great." Thalia said sarcastically. The guys scowled at her.

"We found out who's leading the attack. Kronos." Percy said, not sounding all that worried. However, I gasped in horror. I was probably the only one who knew why that was awful.

"What's so bad about Kronos?" Beckendorf asked. Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Several years before we were even born, there was a huge war, headed by Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades on one side. The other side was heading by Kronos. It was a long time before the scales were tipped in favor of our parents. Eventually, they won. Kronos and the ones who sided with him were forced into exile and have stayed there quietly ever since. Apparently, up until last night." I explained. Then, everyone realized why it was so bad.

"Should we fight alongside our parents or what?" Katie asked. We mulled it over for a minute.

"None of us are properly trained. We don't even have any weapons and no means of getting them." Connor stated.

"Well, yeah, but there's a forge near the castle that we could use." Beckendorf said. He normally spent most of his time in the forges, so he would know.

"You're not going to go into the forges at night! That's way too dangerous." Silena exclaimed, obviously worrying about him. He started to say something, but I interrupted.

"No, he would go in the day. Kronos only fights at night. He believes himself to be the strongest at night. Nobody knows why, but he does. So, that could be an advantage. Connor and Travis, you should gather up some people, sneak into the castle and get some supplies. Go." I said, and they took off back toward the clearing. "Beckendorf, you do the same, but go to the forges." He went lumbering back, which left us three short. "Grover and Juniper, go looking for water and edible plants because we might not always have a lot of food. Pollux, get some people and scout the castle, see if its inhabitable. Nico, work out a good place to train, because we're not going to have a lot of room in the clearing. Thalia and Will, work with some people at making bows and arrows and stuff like that. Silena, see if anyone's missing. Clarisse and Percy, you're with me." My natural battle instincts had kicked in, as you could probably tell. The rest of them went back, but me, Clarisse, and Percy stayed.

"Nice. So, what do we do?" Clarisse asked. I thought for a minute.

"Well, I think that Percy should lead us. He's the best fighter and the best leader." I stated, much to the surprise of my two companions.

"Annabeth, be reasonable-" Clarisse started, but I interrupted her.

"No, Clarisse. This is the right thing. Percy also needs to train us, because he has the most training." I reasoned. Clarisse sighed, defeated. I turned to Percy, who was slowly recovering from shock.

"If I'm going to lead, I want Annabeth to co-lead." He said, determined.

"I was planning to anyways." I said with a smile on my face.

A/N: I'm baaaaaaaaack! Okay, so I'm going to ask you a huge favor and not hate me. I asked a bunch of people if they would like to take over the story, but they all said no. However, Avatard1234 gave me this amazing idea, so I'm going to work off of this and I hope you enjoy it and go and read his stories. Please, review. Please. :3 Merry Christmas!