A Lost Empire

Nathan

I sat at the desk going through every single book of Greek mythology Annabeth had given me. Chiron now wanted a few people to be the 'experts' on Greek mythology. Which included Annabeth ( of course ), a boy from the Hermes cabin and of course me. I have been locked away for three days now with nothing but a self re-filling water bottle and a half eaten cookie. I wasn't hungry, all I wanted was to finish these books before the end of summer. But no matter how hard I try to finish a book, it feels like it magically gets longer.

I was down to my last 20 books when Annabeth walked in. 'Oh my Gods Percy! How can you loose Jason!? Go help Piper find him. I will come out in a second.' She said as she pointed outside.
'It wasn't my fault, he disappeared." Said a voice in the distance.

She turned to me and tried to put on a smile.
"Would you like to take a break and help us find Jason?"
"Sure." Truth is sometimes that girl could be scary, but most of the time she was a great half-sister. I would gladly come and find Jason if it meant taking a break from studying. True, That's not what you would expect of a son of Athena, you would be saying "Your a son of Athena, your meant to enjoy studying and being wise." But sometimes even we need breaks from studying for two weeks straight.

I got out of the seat and walked over to the holographic map of camp.
"If we're going to find Jason, we are going to need a bigger map." I said
" Your right, we are going to need one of the Hephaestus kids. I'm going to go get someone one of them."

She walked out the door with her blonde hair which was up in a ponytail swinging from side to side. The door closed and everything was silent except for the distant laughter. I looked around wondering what to do to help. I checked the holographic map to check one more time if Jason was within the camp. If he wasn't he could be in the forest which I really hope he wasn't because if he gets attacked by surprise he could be a goner. Sadly the map doesn't show the forest even if it did the tree tops would be in the way. We need a better satellite signal.

"Just in here" Annabeth said to Max disrupting my train of thought. I look over to the door where Annabeth was holding it open for Max. I hadn't really noticed what he looked like until now. He had light brown eyes and chestnut hair like mine. He was tall and skinny and had burns up his arm. He carried a hammer with his name in graved in it, in his right hand.

"We need a better satellite signal. That way we can see if Jason is somewhere else." I said.

Percy opened the door with a worried expression. "He's no where within the camp."
"Did you look in the valley?" Asked Annabeth looking half concerned half annoyed.
"No" he said blankly.
Percy turned around and closed the door.

"Ok, the map is done" Max said with a smile on his face. "Now you can scroll around, and look anywhere in America!"
"Ok, Nathan you scroll around for anywhere Jason might be." Said Annabeth then turning to Max. "Thanks for the help."
Max bowed with a smirk, said goodbye and walked out the door.

Annabeth started to scroll through the map.

"There" She said as she zoomed in on a spot in the forest. I saw a tuft of blonde hair stick out near the edge of the forest. I took note of how far away he was so I could find him.
"I'm going to tell Percy and Piper"
"Yeah, you go. I'll find out why he isn't moving" she said as she looked at the map. I realised that she was right there was no movement, Jason wasn't moving.

I ran towards the forest with Piper and Percy closely behind me. I entered and ran what felt like a kilometre towards the middle. I slowed down to a stop and pulled out the map I checked my surroundings and found out that we were near Jason. Percy and Piper stood next to me. "Is Jason around here?" Asked Piper with a worried look.
"We have about two hundred metres to go." I replied
"Well then lets go." Said Percy.
We ran towards where I thought Jason was and as we came closer we could hear moaning. Percy and I pulled out our sword and Piper pulled out her dagger. We walked carefully through the next lot of trees.

In front of us stood Jason. His eyes were pure white.  He was muttering  something to quiet to be heard. Piper ran over and put her hands on his shoulder.

"Jason! Can you hear me!"
"He can't hear you, Piper"
"And How do you know that? He could still hear me"
"Nathan, run back and get help I will follow the best I can."
Piper stood up, I noticed that tears stained her face. I ran back to the camp. I ran till I got the big house. Two girls were deep in conversation on the other side of the room. Chiron was lost seated in his wheel chair next to the fire, drinking coffee. "Chiron! Jason. Found him. Hurt. Very bad." I said bending over trying to catch my breath. Chiron looked at me then within a millisecond the wheelchair was empty and a centaur was standing in front of me. "Go find a Apollo healer and bring him back to me." He said to one of the girls. She nodded and quickly left.

"Nathan this might mean very bad news for our worlds future. A war bigger than the last is coming....