So, obviously Percy hasn't been doing enough things in this story yet, so I've got to put him in somewhere.

Tell me what you think in the comments!

~Alex

ps. I update everyday, I just didn't publish it until this morning. Phew...

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Percy woke up the next morning shivering. He'd had a horrible dream about Annabeth getting attacked by locusts.

Dreams were different now that he was here. Funny, since he would have thought that he would have worse now that they were on the ground, on foot. Right with Gaea. But no, these dreams not only haunted him at night but all through the night.

Percy sighed. He thought about Frank.

Percy shook. He should have never let Frank go. They'd only just found each other in the forest and Percy just let him wander off without him. If he hadn't let Frank go, then he'd still be alive right now, probably with them.

Percy pushed away the sad thoughts and sat up. It was the third day. He'd found three people so far - one of them was his girlfriend. Pretty good. He rubbed his neck and made a mental note: Bookshelves were not very ideal places to sleep against.

Percy leaned to check on his friends. They all slept so silently. Annabeth was laying on the floor above his head, fast asleep. Hazel was on the other side of the bookshelf with Nico. Percy could see them over the bookshlef when he stood - Hazel sleeping against the bookshelf, Nico curled up in a ball. How that kid slept like that, Percy didn't know. That guy could sleep anywhere.

Percy pulled out the phone number strip Annabeth had set down on the bookshelf.

He was sick of sitting and waiting. Percy stood and walked to the library phone.

He had planed this out last night. He was going to call Lesley, ask to come over, maybe change his identidy. That sounded fun - he'd do that. Bob? Doe? Jhon? Malone?

He shook his head. He'd just use his real name. It could be any Percy! Percy was a popular name, right?

Someone on the other line picked up the phone. "Hello?"

"Hi, is this Lesley?"

".... Yup."

Percy gulped. He didn't know what to say.

"Hey, um... its your friend, MaaaaaaPercy." He'd almost said Malone. he wacked himself in the head for being so stupid.

"Mapercy? What?"

"Uh, yeah! Your friend! Remember me from, like, kindergarten..."

"No,"

"Oh, really, we were like, BFFs, remember?"

"I don't know you."

Percy gulped. "Sure you don't! Why don't you ask your brother, Charlie? Ask if he remembers a girl named Annabeth! Friends of your brother!"

A moment passed. Percy thought she had hung up on him when she said. "Yeah, he said he met her last night. Who are you?"

"I told you, I'm Mapercy."

"I don't think that's a name."

"What do you know? You're twelve. What do you say we meet up at your house today, say, an hour?"

"I still don't know who you are."

"But your brother does! So can I come?"

"I have school today."

Percy bit his lip. "No you don't."

"Yeah I do."

"No you don't."

"Yeah I do."

Percy heard a voice in the backround. Probably Lesley's mom. "Lesley! You're going to be late!"

"Coming mom!" Lesley shouted. Percy had to cover his ears. Lesley spoke to Percy again.

"I have to go. I don't know you, so give it up. Bye."

"Wait! Your brother knows my girlfriend! He'll let me over! Let me talk to him!"

Lesley hesitated. "Fine." Then she spoke out of the phone. "Charlie! For you!"

Percy heard shuffling noises as the phone was passed on to another person.

"Hello?"

"Hi! Mapercy here! I'm a friend of your little sister, and Annabeth, so I was wondering if I could maybe come over and *cough* hang out." Percy had to cough at that point.

"You're a friend of Annabeth?"

"Yup."

"Cool. Mapercy, right? Mapercy what?"

"Uh..." Percy blurted out the first name he could think of. "Mapercy Sal Jackson!"

Charlie waited a moment. "Really?"

"The third." Percy squeaked.

Appaerently Charlie was more of a brickhead then Percy. "Cool," He said. "So, you know Annabeth? Did she talk about me? What did she say?"

Why - do - you - care?! Percy wanted to say, but he ignored the question instead.

"Look, Annabeth's my best friend, so I thought maybe we could get to know each other, see if you're worthy of her friendship. You know, rainbows and ponies and butterflies and stuff."

"What?"

"Nothing."

Percy could hear his rusty gears turning in his head. "Yeah, sure, you can come over. But it'll have to be after school. And bring Annabeth."

Percy tried to respond without sounding like an idiot this time. "Thanks, bro. I'll tell her right now. I'll bet she'll be, like, uber excited and stuff."

"Did you just say uber?"

"Did you just say uber? Anyway, I'm gonna need your address and stuff if I'm gonna, like, come to your house. Right?"

"Yeah. You gonna write it down?"

Percy stole a pad and paper from the librarian's desk. "Ready." He copied down the address Charlie recited.

"Thanks," Percy said. "I'll be at your house straight after school. That okay?"

"Yup. Nice meeting you. Don't forget to bring Annabeth."

"Ooookaaaay." Percy streatched out his words. Charlie hung up. Percy sighed in relief. You can always count on blockheads.

Percy smiled. Like him. You could always count on blockhead Percy to do blockhead things.

"Percy, what are you doing?"

"Blockhead- oh, hi Annabeth." Annabeth was standing by a bookshelf coming out her bedhead with her fingers.

"Percy, did you just call Lesley?"

"Maybe."

"Percy! Without me!" Annabeth stepped foreward. "How did it go? What happened?"

"Uh, well, we're coming over to there house after school. It went, um... it was an interesting talk."

Annabeth folded her arms. "Seaweed Brain?"

Percy sighed. "Well, first of all, I changed my name to Mapercy Sal Jackson the Third."

Annabeth stared at him. "Percy, you blockhead!" She punched him in the arm.

"That's exactly what I was thinking! So I got their address so that we could get to their house..." He saw Annabeth staring at him in awe. "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Annabeth hugged him. "We have Lesley's address! We know where they live! We might even be able to find Frank!"

"Yeah, that's what I was kinda going for when I asked to come over..." Annabeth squeezed him tighter.

"Do we have a plan?" She asked.

"That's your job, Wise Girl."

"Right. Uh... Once we're there, I'll deal with Lesley while you take care of Charlie or whatever...."

"Um, actually, I think Charlie's going to want to hang out with you. He seemed interested with you when I talked to him."

Annabeth turned beet red. "Percy, I hope you're not getting the wrong idea..."

"What do you mean?"

"Nothing! Oh, nothing, um...." Annabeth patted her hair. "Charlie's a nutcase, that's all. C'mon. we've got to get ready for our little playdate."

*** 

Leo had another dream that night.

In this one he was sitting on the roof of Mark's Repair Shop. He tried to get off, but couldn't move. He saw Mark step outside. "Leo?" He called. "Leo, you're late for work! Come out!"

Leo tried to reply but no sound came out of his mouth. He tried banging on the roof, clapping his hands to make noise, trying to get Mark's attention. But no sound came. Mark just kept calling for Leo.

Leo wasn't sure what Mark was trying to accomplish, uselessly calling out his name, saying he was late for work. It gave Leo a bad feeling.

Leo looked up to see harpies - the same ones that attacked the Argo II - flying his way.

"Harpies!" Leo yelled, but no words came out of his mouth. "Mark! Watch out!

Mark didn't notice the harpies. He just kept calling for Leo. He didn't even see them when they picked him up by his arms.

"MARK!" Leo screamed, using all of his streagth to stand, but his butt stayed glued to the roof. "MARK! MARK!"

Leo tried throwing a fireball, but nothing happened. He put all of his will into it, until finally flames appeared. But a minute too late. Mark had been carried off into the distance.

"Mark!" Leo called one last time, still silent.

Leo felt a stab in his back. A silver dagger sliced through his chest.

Leo didn't know how he knew the name, or how he knew it was the person who stabbed him, but he murmered, voice and sound returned.

"Lesley,"

Leo woke up with a cold sweat.

He patted his chest furiously. No dagger, no blood, safe. He looked around. Still in his makeshift bed. Good. Just a dream.

Lesley. Leo remembered now - Frank had mentioned how a girl named Lesley had kidnapped him. Piper and Frank both knew Lesley.... apparently she was not to be trusted. At all. What so ever. Piper had learned that the hard way.

Leo huffed. Piper talked in her sleep too much. She was giving out valuable information. While she had been knocked out on the floor she had mummbled at lot of bad things about Lesley. Leo could see why. That girl was asking for it.

Leo was greeted by Jason.

"Hey, you're awake, man! Where have you been?"

Jason rubbed his head where he'd been hit. "I was in the hostpital."

Leo noticed his cast. "Yeah, how'd you break your leg?"

Jason shrugged. "Probably hit it on the way off the ship. Those harpies are hard."

"Tell me about it." Leo rubbed the back of his shoulder where he's been scratched by one of the beasts.

Jason shifted uncomfortably in his crutches. "Piper said you were here, and Frank went searching."

"Yeah, he's trying to find the others. He's worried Lesley might have kidnapped them."

"Lesley?" Jason asked. He looked like a confused puppy.

"Yeah, she's this evil wacko twelve year old girl who's working for Gaea. She's the one who set off the bloodhound, according to Frank."

"Really? A twelve year old?" Jason asked. Leo nodded.

Jason shook his head. "Crazy." Then he looked up. "Piper said you got a job."

"Yup. I work here, in Mark's Repair."

"Suits you."

"That's what Frank said."

"So, where is Frank?"

Good question. Leo rubbed his chin. "Last night he said he's be gone a couple hours, so I don't know why he's not here..." He looked at Jason helpfully. "Stuck in traffic?"

Jason sighed. "I don't know, I just hope he's okay. It would be a shame for the new praetor to fail so soon....." Both Jason and Leo shivered. Leo had had enough of important people dying.

Leo rolled up his sleeves. "So wheres Piper?"

"She's looking in your... whats it called? I don't know, the celestial bronze. She said it showed her imagies last night."

Leo jumped up. "Its working? I didn't activate it! How did she do it?"

Jason shrugged, like, Don't ask me.

Leo rushed to the other room to Piper. She was studying the bronze with a fasinated look, like it might be the answers to all her questions. But nothing was showing.

"Piper, how did you get it to work?"

Piper looked up. "Good Morning to you too, Leo."

"Morning Piper. How'd it work? What did it show?" Jason appeared next to him.

Piper bit her lip. "I have no idea. I was bored, so I was just fiddling with my zipper and stuff, and it turned on."

"Were you, say, singing, of some sort when it turned on?" Leo asked anxiously.

Piper looked confused. "Uh, I hummed a bit. Why?"

Leo jumped with excitment. "Music! Music is the key! You activated it by humming!" Leo remembered when he tried that trick with Calypso for the first time. He let the nice memories energize him.

Leo sat down across from Piper. "What did you see?"

"Well..." Piper started. Leo was impatent. He was bouncing in his seat.

"Well, I saw Annabeth sitting on the steps of a library, and she was talking to... to some guy."

"Percy?" Jason guessed. Piper shook her head.

"No, not Percy. He said his name was Charlie. She seemed really annoyed with him, probably because she didn't want to talk. Yeah. But then the guy, Charlie, started hitting on her..."

"Can we get to the point?" Leo said.

"Right. Charlie told Annabeth that his little sister, Lesley, loved the Percy Jackson series.

"What?" Leo and Jason said at the same time.

Piper sighed. "I think... I think we're book characters. I think."

"I don't understand." Jason said.

"I don't either." Piper tugged at her hair.

Jason touched her hand. "Go on."

Piper sighed. "Well, he said his sister really liked the series, and Annabeth looked surprised when he told her it was Lesley. Which means she must know about her."

"Right." Leo said. "Then what?"

"Annabeth asked for Charlie's phone number and immediatly went inside the library. Percy, Nico, and I think Hazel were all there."

Leo and Jason both looked at each other, like, cheating on Percy?

"Then she showed the phone number to them and explained how they could use it to track down Lesley."

Leo and Jason sighed in relief. Not cheating on Percy. Annabeth wouldn't fall for some random guy she just met on the street. She was with Percy.

"Then the screen went black."

Leo looked at her. "Thats it? Thats all you saw?"

Piper nodded. Jason said, "What information does that give us, though?"

Piper smiled. "It tells us where they are. Public library. I passed by it on my way to the forest." She looked at Leo. "That's when I encountered Lesley."

"And the bloodhound," Leo noted.

"And the bloodhound," Piper agreed.

"Well, what now, do we go to the library?" Jason suggested.

"Considering that's where our friends are, yeah." Leo said.

Piper stood up. "But we need someone to stay here and wait for Frank, right?"

Jason nodded. "I can wait here."

"Nah, I already have to be here, so it might as well be me." Leo offered.

"Then we have a plan. Me and Piper go look for the others in the library, and Leo stays here." Jason looked around. "Any objections?"

Leo wanted to go with them, super, super badly. Now that he'd found his friends he didn't want to waste another minute waiting around for them to fix everything.

That's when Frank  poped up.

"Guys," He said, breath wary. "The graveyard. Leo-" He looked eyed Leo. "Your grandfather's grave. Sammy Valdez. There was blood."

"What are you talking about?" Piper asked.

"My grandfather's grave? What?" Leo told Frank.

Frank motioned him outside. "See for yourself. I saw the grave of Sammy Valdez splattered with blood."