One Strange Maze

Four

Thomas' POV

Okay so Gally might have actually been right, for once. I was the son of someone. I was the son of Athena, which explained why I had a need to know everything. Annabeth was my sister, well, half-sister, but it was still a lot to try to comprehend.

"And you," Annabeth said, pointing to Katniss, "are the daughter of Apollo. That's what the lyre meant."
"So what does Apollo do?" she asked.
"He's the god of music, healing, and archery." Percy explained. Peeta's eyes widened, "Oh! Your Mom's like the doctor of the District, so that's healing, you can sing like the mockingjay's, and you hit the bull's eye every time!"

"Way to use your brain, Peeta." Katniss rolled her eyes.
"Hold up!" Alby said, "You explained what you are, but you haven't explained how you got here."
Percy sighed, "It's a really, really long story." I checked my watch. 2:00.
"We got time, now start talking," Alby said.

"I'm only gonna go over the basics, because the rest is to confusing for you to understand," Annabeth said.
"There's this thing called a Labyrinth."
As she said that, I felt a wind blow from the Maze. She shivered but continued, "And, it's a giant maze that goes all throughout the United States. There's also this... being, called Kronos, he's not a god though. He's a Titan. A really, really-"
"Really," Percy added.
"Long time ago he was chopped into
trillions of pieces and banished to Tartarus."

I opened my mouth to ask what that was but she held up a hand, "It's like Hell for monsters." I nodded and she continued, "But, three years ago, a friend of ours, actually I guess I should say ex-friend, he was tempted
into trying to help him come back to life. He built an army-"
"Almost killed me," Percy muttered, "Multiple times."
"And they are matching through the Labyrinth to try to get into our camp and destroy us, so we have to find the creator of the Labyrinth, because he's the only one that can navigate and destroy it.

"While we were searching for him, that," she stopped and seemed at a loss for words.
"We call'em Grievers," Newt filled in.
"The Griever started chasing us and we ended up here."
Suddenly, the world seemed to be spinning. Whoa, Thomas, slow down. My mind was swirling.
"Thomas you okay? You look like you're about to klunk yourself." Chuck asked me.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine," Thomas muttered.
"You don't look fine, should I get the med-jacks," Chuck asked.

Thomas shook his head and stumbled over to where Alby, Minho, and Newt were all talking. "Thomas? You look like you've seen a Griever, what's wrong?" Newt asked.
"I was thinking-" Thomas started to say.
"Oh, here we go," Minho scoffed.
"If they came in through the Maze, there must be a way out." Thomas finished, glaring at Minho.

They didn't say anything, just stood there thinking. "That actually makes sense," Minho finally said, "But, we've been searching the Maze for two years, I almost have it memorized."
"So why don't we ask them to explain every detail, if you have it memorized then maybe you can see if their description seems familiar."
Minho nodded, "Alright, we can do that. Alby? You want to?"

Alby exhaled through his nose and stared at Thomas for a long time before saying, "Fine, go get 'em. But we're meeting in the Homestead, I don't want anyone else to hear this."
We all nodded, and Thomas jogged over to where Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and Tyson were standing.
"Hey guys, Alby needs to meet with you in the Homestead."
They nodded and followed Thomas to the room. In the room, there was only a table, two chairs, and a small cot in the corner.

Alby was already in a chair, while Newt was standing in the corner with his arms crossed over his chest and Minho was laying on the cot. I pushed Minho's legs aside so there would be room to sit. Percy let Annabeth sit in the chair, what a gentlemen. Honestly, Annabeth was kinda cute, but now that I know she's my sister it'd be kinda weird if I thought that.

Percy, Grover, and Tyson all stood behind her. "You called?" Percy stated. "We need you to explain in detail how you got here." Alby said.
"Okay."
"And when I say detailed I mean like, there was a crack in the ground, the ground was stone, the walls were close together, etc."
"Got it. Let's see, it was pitch black, so we were just stumbling around. It felt like we were in a big room. There was a ledge, a big ledge. We were trying to climb up when we saw the Griever's eyes. So we really tried to get up there quick, when we finally did, it was like the ledge was a divider between dark and light.

"At the bottom if the ledge was dark, and at the top it was lighter, gloomy, but still lighter. Then the Griever kept chasing us and we ended up here." Percy finished.
"And in that room I ran into that thing," Tyson said quietly. Percy nodded, "Yeah, he ran into something in the dark side of the ledge."

Alby looked over at Thomas and Minho, "Ring any bells?" Minho nodded, "Oh yeah. The bells are deafening, but I know you won't like it." Minho looked at Thomas, "You can say it."
Thomas took a deep breath, "The came in through the Cliff."