Chapter 23: Home away from home

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The ride was growing long, but Percy was more excited than anything. Her mom had told her they were going on a trip, but this time without Clint's family. Percy loved Aunt Laura and Uncle Clint, but Lila and Cooper were a completely different story.

She could see the ocean as they drove, which made her excited. The black-haired girl hadn't been to a beach since she was six, and she was currently twelve. 

"We're almost at Montauk. We're going to unpack tomorrow and sleep once we get there," her mom told her.

It was the middle of the night when Percy awoke to thunder and rain pounding at the beach house. That would have been a fine and normal if a silhouette of a large man wasn't standing just on the horizon.

"Percy!"

"Mom!"

The two met in the kitchen and ran out to the car, knowing it would be best to get away from the beach house so they wouldn't have to explain or pay for any wreckages.

"Percy," her mom said as they sped away, "If something happens, go find the nearest home and contact Uncle Clint or Uncle Phi- uh, Grandpa Fury, okay? I sent a message, but I don't know where we're going. You have to find out where we are, and make sure to use the training I gave you." 

Percy didn't have time to respond as the car was thrown off the road, tumbling into a ditch. She was knocked out for a second, but was awakened to her mom carrying her up a hill towards a 'Delphi's Strawberry Farm' up on a hill.

"You got a concusion, I'm not leaving you alone. We have enough distancce that we should be fine." Percy could tell her mom was slightly worried, but she was phasing in and out of reality, and just saw the same figure from the cottage investigaitng the car.

"Mom," she loudly whispered, "I think he's blind."

At the sound of her voice, the... man?.. turned over towards the two and stalked over in their vague direction, which was probably miscarried over from the rain.

Natasha, still carrying Percy, ran faster up the hill until she slammed into an invisible wall, which caused her to launch her daughter, who was not affected by the field.

Percy hit her head on a tree and blacked out.


"The minotaur... another woman... she was supposed to come a while ago..."

Percy caught little bits of the conversation going on around as she woke up.

Use the training I gave you

She made a big show of waking up, streching and grunting, which she assumed happened when a normal person woke up.

She heard shuffling and hurried voices as she woke up, her possible captives not knowing her level of training, and preparing for a lost child (as Percy guessed).

Percy opened her eyes to see a blond, sunkissed kid staring at her, and a man in a wheelchair entering the room.

"Are you okay? We found you passed out just inside the camp boundaries, and a wrecked car on the road," Blond dude asked.

Percy looked around and noticed a window while maintaining a panicked look. She looked back to the two in front of her. "Where am I? Where's my mom? What's going on?" She demanded, actually curious.

The wheelchair man glanced at the blond dude, and signalled for him to leave the room. "If you'll excuse us."

You're young and innocent. Use that to your advantage; if you act like you don't know anything, they won't expect something.

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