A New Path

I do not own PJO all rights to Rick Riordan

setting 5 months after the giant war at camp half

Percy POV

I was sitting on Zeus's fist staring at the moon thinking about everything that had happened it had been five months since the giant war ended. Camp half blood and camp Jupiter had made peace days after the war ended, Octavine was exiled for abusing his power as Augur to trick the Romans into war. The different aspects of the gods had been unified and things between Me and Annabeth couldn't be better or so I thought.

Flash back

I was waiting on the beach by camp half blood for Annabeth and my hands couldn't stop

shaking, and it wasn't because of the cool autumn air, after all this time I was going to propose to her. I had it all planned out we were going to meet here and then going to italy courtesy of Hermes (who had his Caedus stolen again and promised me anything if I didn't tell anyone so he could avoid the embarrassment). We would have dinner at a restaurant called 'calope' or something but I could never remember I only chose it because it came very highly recommended by Aphrodite.

We would then take a walk down to the colosseum (one of Annabeth's favorites) and I would propose. I was taken out of my thoughts when someone said "Hey Percy" I turned around to see Annabeth walking towards me.

"Hey Annabeth you ready for our date...are you okay" I asked.

"Y-Ya I'm fine" she said. I knew she was lying she was stuttering which she only did when she was nervous and she refused to look me in the eye.

"I know you're not fine now tell me what's wrong." I said as gentle as I could.

"I don't really feel it anymore." she half mumbled to herself.

"Don't feel what?" I asked.

Annabeth took a deep breath looked me straight in the eye and said "Us I don't feel like this is going anywhere so as of today we're over." she said in a calm voice.

I was dumbfounded "w-what why? Where did I go wrong?".

"Its nothing you did it's just who you are, every time a monster attacks or even during the wars you would put yourself in the most dangerous most life threatening positions to protect your friends and family and I admire you for that but I can't take it any more, one of these day you're gonna get yourself killed and I am not just going to wait till your luck runs out. I hope we can still be friends." and with that she left.

Hermes came by a few minutes later to find Me sitting on the sand staring into space, he asked me what happened. At first I wouldn't say anything but eventually I told him what happened, all Hermes could say was sorry and he left. A week later I found out she had been seeing some guy at camp Jupiter for over a month which meant she was just looking for an excuse to break up.

End flashback

Third Person POV

It had been 3 months since Annabeth had dumped him and Percy was still devastated, all his closest friends Frank, Hazel, Leo, Jason, Piper, Nico had tried to comfort him even Clarisse had tried talking to him but nothing got through he would just eat, sleep, and train. He rarely spoke and when he did it was usually just short yes and no answers to people's questions. His mom, Paul, Poseidon, and Thalia would come visit when they could but he had remained unresponsive. 'It's late I best be getting back' he thought, slowly Percy sighed got up and went home.

Thalia's POV

"Hey Percy can I come in." I asked as I opened the door to the Poseidon cabin.

"Sure" Percy said he was just sitting on his cot staring at the wall. I was sad to see my friend so depressed 'how could Annabeth do this to him' I thought 'he used to be so energetic even if he was a little lazy but now he is just a shell of who he used to be'.

I asked him how things were going. "Fine" he said without emotion, it hurt to see him like this I tried to cheer him up by telling him about some of the trips the hunt had recently gone on and how Leo got beaten up by Phoebe after he tried to flirt with her but nothing got through.

'I am seriously going to beat the crap out of Annabeth when she gets back from her dad's' most of the camp knew why Annabeth had broken up with Percy and none of the agree with it, a lot of them just went on if nothing happened but some of Percy's closer friends 'his real friends' I thought had started to shun Annabeth. I, Nico, and the other five from the prophecy of the seven were among them. I talked to him for a few more minutes then left. I just wish I knew some way to get my friend back.

Percy's POV

I was still sit on my bed after Thalia left, I felt bad I really did, I wanted to move on or at least make it look like I was getting better. I saw the effect I was have them and I hated bringing them down with me in my depression but after what Annabeth did to me I just felt shattered. It took everything I had just to get myself out of bed and train but even then I knew I was barely even trying "Well guess I better go train for a little bit" I said to myself.

I grabbed riptide and headed for the door, just as I was about to open it someone else did.

I looked up to see Thalia standing there with a big grin on her face "Hey Percy" she said stepping aside so I could get out "me, the hunters, and Artemis are heading out to take care of a nest of dracena that have been cause trouble in Colorado."

"Cool." I said as I started to make my way to the sword arena.

"Don't you want to know why I'm telling you this?" Thalia asked.

"Sure" I said not turning around.

"I'm telling this because you're coming with us and don't you even think of saying no because this is a request of Lady Artemis" at that I stopped in my tracks 'a request Lady Artemis no no I probably just misheard her'

"A request from who?" I asked turning around.

"You heard me." she said smugly "Lady Artemis."

'Crap' I thought 'if I say no thank you she might take it as an insult and probably just kill me or worse turn me into a gerbil'. "Fine I'll go" I said.

"Great now you better get packed seaweed brain lunch is in an hour and we're leaving right after" I silently cursed and went back to my cabin to pack but before I went in I could have sworn I saw a guy in a silver cloak (think of it as a cloak and trench coat mix that goes down to his ankles) with a hood over his head and a mask (like kakashi's) over his face, his cloak was held over his torso by 3 buckles that were also silver, staring at me I blinked and he was gone.