Hello my fans, readers, and new comers! I am pjoroxs, as you know, and I had written my own Mark of Athena fanfiction, which has just recently ended. Leaving it on the cliffhanger I did, I felt bad, and quite a few of you had pestered me about going ahead and creating the fourth book.

So I did! Because I love you all so much, I'm giving you the fourth book! :D I do hope you enjoy it!

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians/Heroes of Olympus or their characters. I am not, nor will I ever be, Rick Riordan, who's birthday has just passed and is now 48! Happy Birthday Rick, the genius who started it all!

The Doors of Death

PERCY

Percy had his worst nightmare yet. It was so horrible he can't even think about it without wincing. Gaea definitely had it out for him, and he was exactly stoked about it.

The only good thing was that he had awoken from his coma. The bad thing, though, Annabeth was standing over him with tears in her eyes.

The thought of making Annabeth cry, causing her this sadness, filled Percy with guilt. He didn't like being the reason why she was crying. He coughed.

"Wise Girl?" He coughed again.

She turned around from nearly yelling at Thalia, tears in her eyes.

"Percy," She breathed, letting the tears spill. She fell into the chair beside his bed, grabbed his right hand in her left, and started yelling at him.

"Perseus Jackson! Do you know how worried I was about you? I thought you were dead! Again! If you ever, ever, do something like this again, I swear I'll…I'll….I don't know what I'd do at the moment but it'd be bad!"

Percy managed a weak chuckle as his girlfriend continued on and on with threats, finally ending it with a kiss on his forehead. Her face was flushed from yelling at him.

She glared at him one last time before pulling him into a hug. He winced slightly as pain seared throughout him from where his former Achilles Heel had been, but he hugged her right back anyway.

Thalia, who Percy had momentarily forgotten, was standing on the other side of the bed and coughed loudly and rudely.

"Ehem! Excuse me, but as move as I do love seeing all this sweet tenderness and love, I need a hug to, Jackson. You owe me that much for scaring me half to Hades."

Percy laughed weakly. He was in pain, and he could feel every bone in his body ache. He felt as though another hug might just break him in his weak, glass-like state.

"C'mon, Pinecone Face, get in here!" Percy's voice was small and fragile, and despite the pain he felt, pulled back from his hug with Annabeth, and opened his arms in Thalia's direction.

Thalia smiled as Annabeth rolled her eyes, and Percy just received a small electric shock as he gave Thals her hug.

When Thalia pulled back, he gave her a small smile. "Happy now?"

Thalia gave an over-dramatic roll of the eyes and nod of her head. Percy just gave her a goofy smile. Then Percy looked around the room.

"Where's Nico?" Percy frowned. He tried to get out of his bed, but his legs felt numb. He could still move them, but just barely had he any real control.

Thalia looked around the room confused, as did Annabeth, Piper, and Leo. Reyna simply looked behind her as she heard a noise.

"What was that?" She asked cautiously.

Then came the scream.

Jason and Percy were confined to their beds. Neither of their girlfriends allowing them to leave the beds much less the room. Percy didn't feel right with letting them go without him, but knew if he even tried to go, he'd just slow them down.

Jason didn't seem to understand that as he tried to get out of his bed. Obviously he couldn't feel his legs to, because he struggled trying to move his legs over the side of the bed.

Suddenly, Jason looked over at Percy and glared.

"Why aren't you trying to get out of bed and help?" He demanded. Percy only laid back down on the bed.

"Because I know when I need to stop to rest. And I know when and when not to defy Annabeth's orders. Besides, if either of us went, in the condition we're in, we'd just slow them down anyway." He didn't like it.

Percy didn't like feeling useless and bedridden. He wanted to be up, out of bed, finding out whatever or whoever screamed.

As long as you're here they'll never make it out alive, Gaea's words rang through his mind like an echo in an empty church house.

As long as the gods reign supreme, nothing will be right and fair. All here is injustice, selfishness, and greed! All are vain and conceited while the gods rule the Earth that I am. She had told him in that terrible nightmare.

But if you help me, help me rise from my slumber, awake me fully, I can restore order and balance. All will be free of worry and vanity. All will go back to as they once were and are supposed to be!

Gaea had sounded heartbroken, trying to pull at Percy's heart, knowing his fatal flaw. Percy had been working on controlling it though. He no longer gave in to the sadness of others as he once did.

It still made him feel bad about not helping those who needed his help, but Gaea was faking, acting, trying to get him to feel bad and in doing so, entice him to help her.

So be it! You have sealed your fate demigod! Son of Poseidon, mark my words, you. Will. SUFFER!

That was when he had started screaming. The images she'd shown him were gruesome and horrible. She had played at his weak points. He shuddered at the memory, as tiredness washed over him like a tidal wave.

He sighed as he heard Jason shuffling in the other bed, either getting comfortable or still trying to get out.

And then another scream. A scream that belonged to a very familiar voice.

Percy bolted upright. For someone in much pain, he was fast when it came to this particular person.

As constant as a compass needle, Juno had said. And no matter how much Percy hated Juno/Hera, she was right. Especially when it came to his best friend. His girlfriend.

Annabeth.

So, for the first chapter of the fourth book, how was it?

I do love reading what you have to say and I do hope what you have to say is good! :)

~*J.C*~