The Mark of Athena

(My Version)

Annabeth I

As soon as Jason, Leo and Piper had returned from their quest and found the blueprint for the Argo II, Annabeth was panicked. She wouldn't let you get more than eight hours of sleep unless you worked more than ten hours on the Argo II during the day. Even the Hermes cabin couldn't figure out how she managed to put alarm owls in every single cabin in one night. Annabeth had worked for at least thirteen hours every day and she only got about five hours of sleep. Her hair was always falling out of it's ponytail and around her face because she never had time to redo it. There were dark circles under her eyes and she would randomly either burst in to tears or anger spontaneously. The only people who she let see her after campfire were Piper and Rachel. Piper was the best with advice for Annabeth about what to do when she saw Percy again. You see, her boyfriend had gone missing eight months, nine days, five hours twenty six minutes and three... no four seconds ago (she'd been counting). Percy had been switched with Jason from the Roman camp and Annabeth had worked relentlessly to find him. In only three days, they'd take off to California to find the Roman camp since that was the closest Jason could remember to where the Roman camp was. Anyway, Piper would say, "Come on Annabeth, it'll be ok, you'll see Percy again. My mom will make it allright. Just please don't cry." Rachel on the other hand would try to cheer her up with silly skits and stuff but the downside was she'd spontaneously burst into prophecy in the middle of them and it would either make Annabeth crack up or start crying again.

Piper II

The days seemed to last forever. Piper's nails were charred with dirt and ash, her feet ached and she basically didn't look like a member of the Aphrodite cabin anymore. Of course in the morning after she showered she looked beautiful, but at the end of the day she looked like a member of the Hephaestus cabin. Everyone did. The campers worked from dawn till dark on the Argo II (thanks to Annabeth). Every day Piper and the rest of the Aphrodite cabin woke up to the sound of owls screeching and they only had ten minutes to shower and get dressed before Annabeth would come in and pull you out of the cabin even if you were still in your pajamas and force you to work on the Argo II. Of course that only happened to Drew (who was forced to shower last every day by the rest of the cabin) every day and Conner and Travis Stoll had so many pictures of Drew in the morning that they covered the inside of the Hermes compartment of the Argo II. Piper had thought that it was nice that Leo made a compartment for each cabin. Even though they totaled up to about twenty when all of the compartments were added. Right now the only thing that they were working on was the exterior and interior decorating of the Argo II. The outside gleamed the colors of fire (according to Leo's precise instructions) and there was the gleaming head of Festus on the front. The Aphrodite compartment (the only one that Piper could see) was decorated with satiny pink walls. The beds were made of gleaming gold and the comfertors and pillows had dove down in them. The perfect cabin for Aphrodite's children.

Piper wasn't concerned with all of this stuff though. She was concerned about Annabeth. Annabeth looked like a mess and Piper wasn't sure how Percy would take it if his girlfriend looked how she did when he saw her again. So every day Piper would pray to her mom to clean Annabeth up as soon as they reached the Roman camp because seriously Annabeth needed to look the way that she'd feel when she was happy again.

Leo III

"All aboard to Camp Jupiter!" Leo called. The Argo II was finally finished and he'd just finished his scroll/iris message thingy and sent it to Percy so hopefully the Romans wouldn't shoot them out of the sky. There was a compartment on the ship for every cabin at Camp Half Blood. They had a 20 foot deep pool (which Leo figured Percy would love when he came on the ship), a HWii (a Hepheastus-Cabin-Made Wii) which people could play whenever they wanted without it going haywire since it ran on magic; not electricity, a weapon room (to store their weapons for when they went to Greece), and finally the best feature (or so Leo thought) a 100 foot food court with every food from Pizza to Shish-kabob, Chinese to Apple Pie, Ambrosia to Tin cans (hey they had some satyrs aboard) and every other kind of food you could think of.

As soon as those words came out of Leo's mouth; Annabeth knocked him over in a rush to get on the ship. She had on her pink Designer of Olympus t-shirt and white jeans which were piled with dirt. There was a hastily packed bag at her side and her hair wasn't even in a ponytail. "Woah," Leo thought before he was trampled over by the rest of the 300 specially selected campers (lottery selected if they weren't one of the suspected seven) the last thing Leo remembered was having someone's converse sneaker in his mouth.

Annabeth

IV

"Calm down." Annabeth thought to herself as she sat in the Athena cabin's bunks on the Argo II. Just a couple minutes ago, Leo had announced that they were currently flying over Illinois. Thalia had Iris-Messaged the ship an hour ago and said that her and the Hunters of Artemis would get on the ship when they made a pit stop in Arizona. Annabeth had contacted Thalia back at Camp Half-Blood and asked her if she could come on board the Argo II before they reached Camp Jupiter. Annabeth didn't want to risk Percy not remembering her without getting pulverized by Thalia. Which she had promised she would do if Percy didn't remember Annabeth, "Percy will remember you, he just has to. Hera can't be that cruel. Can she?"

"Hey," Piper said as she came up to Annabeth. "Wow, you're certainly love struck."

"Why wouldn't I be?" Annabeth asked. "I haven't seen my boyfriend in over eight months."

"I wasn't saying that it was a bad thing. I was just saying that I could tell how much you love Percy just by looking at you." You know that's very rare.

Piper

V

Piper had been dreaming the night before. Instead of her usual Gaea-Filled dreams this time she was in multiple places at once. But the same people were there. First she was standing at Camp Half-Blood watching a much younger Annabeth and a boy with raven black hair who she assumed was Percy. Percy struggled across the camp borders while carrying Grover. Annabeth saw him and her eyes lit up. Then it was about a year later, Percy and Annabeth raced across the finish line in a chariot race and then Annabeth kissed him on the cheek. The memories continued; Percy searching for Annabeth, Annabeth's jealousy of Rachel, Annabeth and Percy kissing underwater.

"Charming aren't they." A voice came from behind Piper. Piper turned around to see her mom Aphrodite smiling down at her with her perfect smile and ever-changing eyes. "How rare to find a love so pure, or one that shines with vibrancy as theirs."

"What do you mean?" Piper questioned of her mother.

"I only mean that even though I am the goddess of love and beauty I did not cause this to happen. I can only create lust or crushes or unattainable obsession but no, not true love. Since people have sort of stopped believing in true love it is very rare especially for demigods. But you would know that wouldn't you?"

"No I do not know." Piper answered.

"Here, let me give you an example that attributes to real life." As Aphrodite said that a diagram appeared in front of them blocking out the memories of Percy and Annabeth.