PERCY JACKSON AND THE FORGOTTEN GOD II (sequel) By IShipIt2004

Chapter 4

Percy, Nico, Bianca, and Grover snuck back into the hallway, unsure if the commotion that had just happened in the room attracted any unwanted attention. 

"Come, follow me," Percy told everyone. "Grover, do you smell any monsters?" 

Grover sniffed the air, turning in a circle. "Uh, there may be something. Or it could just be Thorn's monster dust that I smell," he said hopefully.

"We better hurry anyway. We need to find Thalia and the other two."

"Wait, what about us?" Bianca said.

Percy looked down at her. Actually, she was more of at his eye level. He hated being short, especially since he was about two years older than her, if he had guessed correctly that she was 12.

"You can follow me, I will keep you both safe. I swear that I will," he answered, looking them both in the eye, then slipped back down the hallway, walking in the shadows.

"You swear," Nico softly echoed back, then followed his sister, Percy, and Grover. Nobody heard him say it.

Several minutes later, the group had searched all of the dorm rooms and other random rooms in the building. They had also looked through the gym where the dance was still going strong, so the group decided to search the entrance hall and the cafeteria, the last rooms in the school. 

"Grover? Do you feel that?" Percy whispered to him. A sickly sweet odor was coming from behind the cafeteria door. A cold presence seemed to radiate from it too.

"Y--yeah. It feels evil," Grover summed up pretty well.

Bianca and Nico were shivering and glancing at the cafeteria door as well.

"What do you guys think?" Percy asked the siblings.

"I--it r--radiates death, and fear. I can d--definitely feel that. What are you, exactly? You haven't told us that yet," she reminds him.

"I can't tell you that right now, sorry. It will increase your scent, right, Grover?"

"Yeah. We aren't trying to be mysterious, we just can't tell you yet," he agreed.

"Well, I should go scout out the cafeteria. No offense to any of you, but I think I would be most likely to survive."

"Wait, we need to stay together. You said that. We have to go in with you," Bianca said.

"Hm... Okay. But stay behind me, I will protect you," Percy said hesitantly. He carefully pushed open the cafeteria door, then darted inside. A spear came whizzing at his head, but he cut it out of the air with his sword immediately.

"Percy?" A voice asked, resonating out from the dark side of the cafeteria. Grover searched for a light switch, but couldn't find one.

"Thalia?" Percy called back. "Is that you?"

"Y--yeah," she said.

Percy and Grover looked at each other. Thalia's voice never sounded that scared. She would always put on a brave mask, even when she was freaking out. Something was seriously wrong.

"Thalia, turn the lights on," Percy called.

"I can't find the switch," she instantly told him. 

"Can't you create a spark from your fingers to see with?" Percy asked. Thalia had shown him that trick, one night at camp, when they were walking back to the cabin area from the campfire. 

"Not right now..."

"Thalia, come into the light," Grover told her.

"Okay," she answered back. The door violently slammed shut behind Nico, who was the last one to enter the cafeteria. He jumped, and skittered away from the door, hugging Bianca tightly.

A tall, ragged, humanoid figure stepped out from the gloom. When they all looked up, they could see that it had a large, single eye in the middle of it's forehead.

"Hello," the cyclops said in exactly Thalia's voice. But it then changed to a gruff, deep tone. "I see that I will be having a good meal tonight. Six halfbloods and a satyr. Yum."

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--IShipIt2004