Heroes of Olympus: Life at Camp Half-Blood (DISCONTINUED)

Chapter 56: Enter the Maze

Rachel led the seven to an alleyway near a deserted construction site. The alleyway's walls were littered with graffiti.

"The entrance to the Labyrinth is behind the dumpster." Rachel said pointing to the huge dumpster at the alleyway's left wall. "Help me move it."

They all nodded and stood at one end of the dumpster and pushed it. Sure enough a blue triangle was painted on the wall. "This is it?" Piper asked.

"Yes." Percy said. He knelt to stand at the same level of the painted symbol. "Are you all ready?" He asked looking back at the rest. None uttered a word, they simply nodded. Percy traced his finger on the triangle's outline.

Blue light erupted all around them, and the wall shock, moving backwards to reveal a hole big enough to let a person through. A staircase leading underground appeared too. Percy stood up and beckoned Leo forward to lead the way.

A ball of fire danced on Leo's hand as they descended down the stairs, the wall shutting behind them. Isolating them from the world they know.

The staircases led to a narrow hallway. The walls were made of brick, it looked brand new. "Do you know what changed down here?" Annabeth asked Rachel.

Rachel shrugged. "Not much. Just more monsters and traps."

"So more deadlier. Great, just what we needed." Percy shock his head.

"How will we get to Olympus from here?" Jason asked. "The faster we get out of here, the better."

"I haven't figured that out, yet. But there is an entrance to Olympus from here." Rachel said as the neared the end of the hallway.

"Left or right?" Hazel asked. As the hallway opened to two other tunnels.

"I prefer going right. Especially when in a maze." Annabeth suggested.

"Maybe we should go left. The majority would go right but after the maze was changed the death traps may be right to trick people. So we go left." Jason said.

Piper nodded. "I'm at Jason's side in this."

"Count me in." Leo said.

"I still think we should go right. Its for the best." Annabeth defended her idea.

"Right of left won't defer at this moment. It will all lead to Daedalus' liar. The middle of the labyrinth. Where we need to go." Rachel said breaking the starting argument.

"You just said you don't know how to get to Olympus?" Leo asked.

"I don't." She admitted. "But the thought just came to me. Maybe Daedalus had a map of the Labyrinth or where to find things in it. It could lead us."

"But the Labyrinth has changed." Jason added.

Rachel shrugged. "How much has it changed? Thats the unanswered question. The maze might have changed but the old maze's ruins could still be below the new rebuilt one. If Daedalus had a map or book about the directions it would lead us to where the entrance is, the old maze's entrance. If we go to the same spot the entrance was in, just below the rebuilt Labyrinth we will find the entrance."

Silence took over the seven demigods for a minute. "Makes sense." Annabeth said though she sounded unhappy with Rachel figuring it out instead of her.

"What if the entrance is ruined?" Piper said.

"Its a risk." Frank said. "But Olympus has god magic in it, the entrance may be magical as well so it might still be standing. It's a risk we have to take."