C

Chapter 2

I wake up to three faces hovering over me, the boy that brought me here and the two people from the tent before.

"What happened?" I croak.

"You passed out from exhaustion," says the boy that brought me here in the first place.

"Well great." I snap. "What should I call you guys, because we won't get anywhere if I don't know your names."

"I'm Percy," says the boy that brought me here. "That's Annabeth," Percy says as he gestures to the blonde girl, "and that's Nico." He points to the kid that has darker hair than him.

"Okay," says Annabeth, " now that you know our names you have to tell us yours."

"O-okay," I start, " call me C"

"Just C?" questioned Annabeth.

"Yup just C" I say.

"That name sounds familiar," says Nico. "I think my father talked about wanting to name a child that. That would explain why you feel different than most, almost like my sister."

"We should get some sleep, I'll take first watch," says Percy.

"No I'll do it," says Annabeth, "you need to sleep"

"Alright , Lights out," and with that Percy falls onto the other cot and immediately starts snoring.

In my dreams there is a skull lying on a black sand beach, the water is murky and filled with trash. I look up and see no ceiling but no sky either, just thick fog. When I look back there is a boat in the water and a skeleton in a long black robe reaching out to me. I grab its hand but jolt awake before anything happens.

I wake up to Nico shaking me.

"Hurry we need to leave right now!" he almost screams but not quite.

I hurry and wipe the sleep out of my eyes. Then I get up and look outside. Annabeth and Percy are battling a massive black wolf like creature with red eyes. If I wasn't awake before I am now.

" Nico take C back to camp right now! we will meet you there!" Percy yells over the commotion.

"Okay!" Nico yells back.

I am about to ask how Nico could possibly get me to this camp faster than they could if they just ran, but before I can Nico grabs me around the waist (which is weird because he's a lot smaller than me) and runs straight into a tree. But we don't hit it, we tumble into darkness and I feel as if I am going to throw up. We come tumbling out at the top of a hill. Now Nico looks even worse than he did before.

I look out over the valley and see lots of weird things, there is a big, and I mean big, house painted light blue, there is a pavilion with Greek style pillars, an amphitheater, there is a huge forest and a beautiful beach, there is also a cluster of cabins though I wouldn't call it a cluster exactly, more like one of those Greek letters, what are they called, omega, I think. That isn't all, but I didn't have time too look more because Nico collapsed on my shoulder. Great now I get to drag him into this unknown camp place.

I grab his arm and put it around my shoulders. I start down the hill unsure of where I should go. I make the decision to take him to the big blue house because it looks like a good place. on the way there a boy with shaggy blonde hair comes up to us.

" Hi I'm Will," he says, "what did Nico do this time?"

" We were in Maine and he pulled me into a tree, then everythimg was black and now we are here. I don't know what he did or where I am."
"Amazing Ni