The Story of Pipercy

Chapter 16: A shadowy figure

Pipers mouth dropped as she stared down the gaping hole in the air at the sea of skeletons. "Should we?" Her words were a whisper as they escaped her mouth. She slowly stepped closer to Percy.

"Yeah, let's go. No time for hugging" Annabeth starts her decent into the labyrinth. She scales half way down the wall, stopping wait for the others to follow. They sigh together and follow her lead scaling down the wall slowly, stealthy, silent.

Once they're halfway down the deadly, shadowy abyss, the skeletons begin vanish. As they're disappearing a puff of darkness rises to the demigods. "you shouldn't be here" can be heard from the darkness.

Percy freezes in his tracks once he touches down on a ledge. "You! Why are here, you should be dead!" Percy snapped, his hand slipping into his pocket clasping riptide.

A girls head appears from the darkness, followed by a body. "Me dead? Um no. My dad just lied about that. My brother wasted his trying to find me." She giggles touching down in front of Percy.

"You are a heartless person." Annabeth finds her self standing side by side with Percy, like the old times.

"Who's your brother?" Piper asks, almost a whisper. Jason nods along.

"A little child of... wait. Does he prefer the Greeks or Romans. I forget" the unknown girl giggles.

"Greek" Annabeth snaps. "You should know that! Your dad is Greek!"

"Well then..." the girl says. "My brother is a little child of hades. "

"Nico..." Jason finds his hand in his pocket, clasping his trusty gold drachma.

"Yes. Very smart Son of Jupiter " she nods. "Be warned. Many of you are in for surprises. " the girl vanishes in front of the demigods in a puff of shadows.

"Who was that?" Piper furrows her brow, pulling Percy towards herself.

"Bianca Di Angelo. Nico's older sister" Perry answers slowly but surely.

Annabeth just nods.

"This is bad" Jason says.

"I didn't notice" Percy rolls his eyes.

"Let's just get going" Annabeth growls descending further into the gaping hole in the ground. Getting consumed by the darkness. Once they touch down on the ground they realise that it was all true with Grover said. The labyrinth really was fixed. But by who?

They walk around for what seemed like miles until they finally find the correct route. They end up in a circular room, made up of orange, torn up bricks, painted with dust.

"This looks familiar. "Annabeth starts to look around the room.

"Yeah it does. Doesn't it?" Piper asks walking around, running her hand across the dusty walls. Percy follows her, one arm around her waist.

Jason finds a worn out plank of wood and an extinguished torch on a wall. He zaps the wood with a bolt or pure lightning igniting the wood. He carefully holds the flame next to the torch until it catches fire. "There we go" he smirks taking the torch of the wall. Dropping the plank.

"Good job honey" Annabeth pays him with a soft peck on his cheek.

He blushes and smiles. "Thank you."He starts to examine the room, that's revealed by the piercing light.

After what seems like few hours of examining the room they give up and set up a base camp in the room.

Annabeth pulls out two pop up tents handing one to Piper. "Here" she says. "You and se- Percy will need this" she blushes almost saying seaweed brain.

"Thanks" Piper smiles and tosses it at Percys face with a giggle. "Think fast kelp face" she pulls hin into a warming hug.

The tent hits the floor as it hits of Percy's face. He smiles and holds her. "Any one know how to cook?" He asks.

Piper shakes her head against Percy's chest.

Annabeth shakes her head along with Piper.

"I cook a bit" Jason owns up.

"Then it's decided. You're the chief. " Percy smirks.

After a well deserved meal, they camp out in tents. Piper and Perry share a tent. Annaneth and Jason share one.

Piper cuddles into Percys chest. "I love you"

Percy smiles. "I love you t-" he's cut off by the sound of water pipes.