Chapter 20

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What? An update? Yup. You probably haven't read this in a while so I advise going back to the last chapter and reading the last few sentences. Anyway, bye!
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Percy's POV

   I blinked and looked up. What happened, I wondered. I was in the middle of the forest, the moon was up and the sky was dark. Wait- where's Ron and Hermione? I wondered looking around. They were no where in sight. I tried to remember what had happened. First, we fell out of the train, then Hermione, Ron, and me started wandering around. Then, we Iris messaged Nico, and then, I heard a growl, and then... I tried to remember but found that I couldn't. I checked the watch I was wearing, 5:50. I sighed and got up, I decided that I should try to find my way back to the tracks. I looked around, not knowing which way to go. I decided to go left. The endless maze of trees made things confusing. Suddenly, I heard a soft rustle of leaves behind me. I immediately paused. Suddenly, an arrow flew right next to my ear and hit the tree in front of it. "Oh," I heard a familiar voice said sounding bored. "It's just you,"
   I turned around,"Thalia!" I said running towards her.
   "Sup kelp head," Thalia said hugging me.
   Phoebe emerged from behind a tree and scrunched her nose. "Don't touch him," she said.
   Thalia let go. "What are you doing here?" Thalia asked
   "Oh the train I was on broke and I fell out with my friends and now I don't know where they are and also I don't remember most of what happened in the last two hours are so, no biggie," I said
   "No biggie?!"
   "Yup,"
   "We should get you to camp then,"
   "That would help but what about my friends? And Nico is supposed to find me,"
   "Well, the Nico problem is so hard but finding your friends, that'll be a lot harder,"
   "Well, if only we had some type of dog that could sniff them out by the scent of them but too bad we don't,"
   Phoebe and Thalia looked at each other. "Do we really have to help out this boy?" Phoebe asked
   "Well he's one of my friends so yes, plus Annabeth would get extremely angry if we lose him," Thalia said.
   Phoebe sighed. "Fine, we'll help you find your friends, just remember, you owe us," phoebe said. "We have wolves that could track down the scent, they just need something to smell, have anything?"
   I reached into my pocket expecting to find nothing except for riptide but found something in it. I pulled it out, it was a piece of parchment. On it, was writing in Hermione's handwriting. I didn't remember having it before. "Hey I don't remember having this before," I said showing it to Phoebe and Thalia.
  
Dear Percy,

   Find the hidden treasure before the sun rises again, rescue us from H in the land where the ice burns cold and under the x that marks the spot

                     -Hermione Granger

   The whole thing looked rush. What treasure? Save them from where? Ugh this is like another prophecy! "I know right?" Thalia said.
   "Wait did I say that out loud?" I asked
   "Yup,"
   There was an awkward silence. Then I asked "do you think the wolves could track down the scent using the paper?"
   "Duh," Thalia answered 
   Phoebe shook her head "dumb boys,"
   "Hey!" I whined.
   "Let's go," Thalia said.
   We started walking. After a couple minutes and a lot of walking, Thalia asked something "Whose H?"
   "Oh, probably stands for Harry," I answered
   "And that is..." Thalia said motioning to go on
   "Harry! You know, like Harry,"
   Thalia face palmed. "She means who is Harry," Phoebe said in monotone with a hint of annoyance.
   "Oh, then why didn't you just say so," I said
   This time, Phoebe face palmed. "Harry's just some kid that I was going to wizarding school with and then he was having nightmares about Kronos and he didn't want to join him so Harry's memory got wiped and then somehow he sleep walked and took a dip in the Styx or something and now Kronos is possessing him and is controlling Harry which is why he sent his minions, not the little yellow dudes, but big bad dudes- wait sorry, only one of his minions to the train and then some weird stuff happened and then we went through a tunnel and the lights went out and all the other students on the bus disappeared and then me and my two friends were walking around looking for everyone and then the train suddenly started moving again like, really fast and then," I took a giant breath. "The floor of the train had a crack and it grew bigger and bigger and we ended up falling out of the train so then we tried to get back to the train but of course it was to fast so, we, no me, came up with the idea to follow the train tracks and then we realized that it'll take a while and then I remembered that we could just Iris message Nico and tell him to pick us up but, he told us to stay where we are and of course, why would we do that so then, I heard a low growl coming from behind me and I turned around and it was a hellhound and then I destroyed it," I realized I was remembering something and tried to continue remembering. "And then..." I realized I couldn't remember. "Some weird stuff happened probably including Harry and by probably, I mean like maybe like 88 percent and then, maybe I hit my head or something and either was dragged or fell in the middle of a forest or something and then, I got up and decided to try and get back to the tracks but you almost shot my head and then we started talking and then walking and now, here we are," I summarized
   Phoebe and Thalia were gaping. "Umm, guys- I mean girls, we're here," I said gesturing towards the camp of all girls.
   "Oh," Phoebe said quickly recovering.
   "Umm, I not actually sure if boys are allowed near the camp without lady Artemis's permission," Thalia said
   "Oh, so how do I get her permission," I asked. 
   "Be right back," Phoebe said darting towards a tent. 
   "Soo...." I said awkwardly. "How's life?"
   "Good... I guess...." Thalia said.
   I nodded. "That's good,"
   We watched the camp in silence. The 2 minutes that went by felt like an hour. "Is Phoebe coming back?" I asked.
   "I don't know," Thalia said.
  
10 seconds later...

   "Oh! Is that Phoebe?" I asked
   "No, that's someone else," Thalia said.

10 more seconds later...

   "Hey! Is that Phoebe?" I asked
   "No..." Thalia said.

10 more seconds later...

   "Wait! Is that Phoebe?" I asked
   "Nope," Thalia sighed.

Another 10 seconds later...

   "Hey! What about her? Is she Phoeb-" I started
   "Nope," Thalia interrupted

10 minutes later...

   "Oh! Is that-" I got interrupted
   "No," Thalia said. "For the last time, that isn't- wait, that is Phoebe!"
   Phoebe walked towards us. "Artemis granted you permission to enter the camp," Phoebe said.
   "Okay," I said walking forwards.
   Phoebe led us through what felt like a maze of of tents. Finally, we got to the wolves. It saw me and tried to bite. I may or may not of screamed like a girl in front of Thalia and Phoebe. They just laughed at me. Phoebe pet the wolf. "Okay, give me the paper," Phoebe said.
   I gave it to her. She inspected it and then put it in front of the wolf's nose. It sniffed and then looked up into the air, then it started running into the woods. "Now we follow it," Thalia said.
   We ran after it. Soon, I saw the tracks. The wolf slowed down and looked both ways. Then it ran left, along the tracks. We followed. Then, the wolf turned left again and into the forest. I sighed as we came into another opening. This time, it was a cliff. The wolf looked around and walked in a circle then, it started barking at a tree. "Huh?" I said.
   Thalia observed the tree closely and then knocked on the tree. It sounded like metal! I walked towards the tree and noticed some strange engravements on it. I walked around it. There was a hole on one side. I inspected it. It looked like a button, I pressed it, not knowing what was going to happen, hopefully it didn't explode, I thought.

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