Shadow galloped for hours. Annabeth was surprised at how much stamina he had. Perseus must have trained Shadow for years. Building up his stamina for times like this one.

Perseus was beginning to seem more wise than what Annabeth first thought he was. She didn't mean it as an insult that Perseus was stupid, but his actions when they first met had Annabeth thinking he was just a charge-without-a-second-thought type of person. Her thoughts of him changed during the meeting as his whole demeanor suggested he had experience preparing for anything and everything.

With the new war happening, Perseus is proving to be a good ally for the upcoming battle against Gaea. Maybe he can help in my search to find The Lost Legend. It was starting to look like it would be near impossible to find him at the moment.

Shadow came to a sudden stop. Annabeth scrambled to keep hold of the reins, holding on for dear life as she was launched forward in the stop of motion.

"Shadow!" Annabeth screamed out in fright. He neighed in response, prancing to the left to get away from the water's edge.

"Was this your first time riding?" A voice came from the other side of the river. Annabeth's head shot up, recognizing the person on the back of a dark grey horse. "Or are you scared of the transportation that I had given you?" Perseus chuckled, keeping his horse in place expertly.

Annabeth huffed at the annoying male. She really needs to not send so much time with Thalia. "I wasn't exactly raised around horses. I'm a Daughter of Athena, horses hate me." As if proving her statement, Shadow reared back. Annabeth gasped and clung onto the horse. Her eyes shut tight. "Stupid horse!"

"Hey!" A splash was heard before Shadow started to calm down. "That's it. I'm sorry for the ungratefulness." Perseus gave me a stern look in the corner of his eye from where he was right in front of Shadow. "She doesn't know what she's talking about." The horse nodded his head up and down. Annabeth shrieked, hanging on even more.

"Alright, off." She looked down at him confused. "Annabeth, get off of Shadow before something happens to either of you." Annabeth quickly nodded, sliding off of Shadow's back. She accidently fell into Perseus' arms after Shadow sprinted away without her.

"Oof." Perseus painfully fell onto his back with Annabeth landing on top of him.

"Sorry..." She muttered under her breath, blushing from the position she found herself in. She tried to get up only for her to slip on the wet grass that was the water's edge, falling back onto Perseus' chest a second time.

Perseus slight groan of pain was the only indication that Annabeth's body weight was crushing him. "Annabeth..."

"Sorry." This time when she got up, she actually stayed standing. Annabeth blushed even more when she noticed that Perseus' shirt had ridden up, showing his well-toned stomach. He didn't notice her blush or he did and didn't comment on it. Either way, Annabeth was glad he wasn't reacting to this highly embarrassing situation.

Perseus stood and dusted himself off. "When I left you Shadow I didn't think you would have been stupid enough to insult him." He spoke under his breath, sending her an angry look.

Annabeth looked down, her cheeks turning red out of anger and embarrassment. "I didn't insult him. Poseidon and Athena are rivals, of course his creations would hate me." She said in defense of herself.

Perseus only stared at her, a hard look on his face. "The rivalry has nothing to do with what happened between you and Shadow. You insulted him when you assumed that he hated you because of your parentage. Horses don't care about who you are, but how you act. How you act towards others and yourself. You can learn a lot by watching how someone acts away from others. True intentions and true character are revealed." He turned and knelt at the water, holding a hand out towards the water.

Annabeth was confused on what he was doing. He seemed to be whispering to the water, speaking too low for Annabeth to hear exactly what he was saying. She waited patiently for Perseus to finish, figuring that after what happened with Shadow, Perseus probably wasn't in the best of moods.

As if he were a child of the water, the river moved and bent like he had control over it. Annabeth was going to ask about it, but she noticed some nymphs in the water. Oh, he must have talked to them and asked for...a bridge of water?

"Well, ladies first." Annabeth only stared at Perseus. "You said you needed to get to Alaska." He nodded his head straight ahead. "That is Alaska."

"I'm here already? But-"

"Annabeth, Shadow is one of the fastest horses I know. I let you ride him because of how fast and safe he is."

"Safe? He tried to-" Perseus' glare was enough to silence Annabeth's words.

"Really, Chase."

Annabeth stopped in what she was going to say next, and instead asked a question. "You called me Annabeth before. Why did start calling me by my first name?"

Perseus slightly froze as well. "I was concerned that you were going to get yourself hurt. It didn't mean anything." His voice sounded indifferent, but Annabeth could see that he was genuinely concerned for her well-being.

Before she could reply or anything, her sort of companion started to walk on the bridge made of water. "Keep up, Chase. You don't want to fall in. You might die of hypothermia."

With that encouragement, Annabeth was off. Stepping on somewhat of a solid bridge of water, she couldn't help realizing that she could see through the bridge and into the surprisingly clear water below. It felt as if the water was moving underneath her feet. Staring down the whole walk over the river that separates the mainland and a smaller island off the coast, Annabeth was really surprised when the bridge ended and she was slightly picked up by Perseus to help her off the solid water.

Once she was back on the ground, the bridge started to melt, the water dripping down until it was all gone. Disappearing as if it was never there to begin with.

"Let's go, Chase. We need to get going." Perseus called over his shoulder as he walked towards his own dark grey horse.

Annabeth wanted to say something, anything at this point really, only she figured it was best to stay silent as she didn't want to annoy the man any farther. Wait, man? He couldn't have been much older than her. She doesn't even think he's eighteen yet. Why did she call him man?

Shaking her head to rid those thoughts of hers, Annabeth noticed a hand being held out for her to take. Her eyes followed the hand to the arm to the face that was staring back at her.

With a small moment of hesitation, Annabeth took Perseus' hand and allowed him to help swing her up onto the back of the horse.

Wow, that's done. I had been working on this for a few days now. I was planning on finishing the whole in one major update, but ultimately decided not to.

This is a sorry for not updating in awhile, I have been busy with my book release that's happening tomorrow. I am so excited! I should be posting something on my profile about the book tomorrow. If you could check it out, I would appreciate it so much!

With working on an actual book for months, I realized a few things. One, I can write over 6,000 words for a chapter. Two, sometimes the first book in a series doesn't have to be all together, you can plan for better in the second book. Three, if you write for certain characters, you write with a different perspective or writing style.

I think some might say that my book is childish and isn't the best work, what I say to those who thinks that; there is more to come and better to come. Stick around to found out more.

Anyway, I am sick at the moment, have been since the Wednesday before Christmas. I have already written the first part of the next chapter so hopefully that doesn't take too long to finish.

I also wanted to warn you all that if I fall off the face of the world, know that I had received some very concerning news. It could mean life and death. I fear that things will turn for the worst, I pray it doesn't.

I know that you may not care about this long author's note, I understand if you didn't read this to the end.

Thank you for reading! You guys have no idea how much you guys have impacted my life, you make the life of a young adult writer so much better. Thank you!

~MsPenguingirl1234.

Published: January 4, 2018.