Darkness.

Then I awoke.

Where am I? I thought then I cracked open my eyes, as bright, painful, fluorescent lighting wormed its way into my eyes, I closed them fast and tried to sit up, key word being "tried" I felt dizzy again and I suddenly slumped back down, I twisted upright and cracked open my eyes again and became aware of my head throbbing, I gingerly probed the area and found a bleeding bump on my head the size of a frikin goose egg! I probed it a little too hard, hard enough to pass out. My last thought before the darkness took me was "Annabeth is gonna kill me"

"Perseussss. Named after the hero that slayed medusa? Interesting choice for a son of Posidon…"

"Yes, well I have provided the demigods as you asked Aro. Now set me free."

"Hmmm. You have been useful, but, God of War, your time has come to an end here."

"What? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Puny God, I can slay even Immortal vampires, you thought I could not finish you?"

"Ahh… Ah. ahhhh."

A giant swirl of light enveloped the room as Ares turned to his true form and died.

I woke up yet again from troubling dreams, but this time they made absolutely NO sense. Vampires? Ares dead? I might have beef with Ares, but he would not risk the wrath of Poseidon for... What? The dream hadn't confirmed, but, I sensed I would find out. Dreams came to demigods in time of trouble, too warn or give information.

"P-Percy?" A small voice came from the cage next to me, and I saw Annabeth curled into a ball ont the floor, bleeding from a gunshot wound on her shoulder,

"ANNABETH!" I yelled out her name, then she replied

"Shush! We don't know where we are, and who is holding us! It could be the Titans for all I know!" I shook my head and replied,

"I had a dream Annabeth, I don't think it's the Titans holding us." She looked at me with wide eyes as I recounted my dream, the vampires and Ares dying.

"But a mortal could never kill a God!" Annabeth mused, "In some legends vampires ARE immortal, but those are legends, I mean the empousi aren't immortal…" Annabeth trailed off in thought but then grunted in pain and clapped a hand to her shoulder,

"How did that happen Annabeth?" I asked worriedly.

"Oh, right" Annabeth chuckled "You really need to stop getting kidnapped alright!"

"HaHa, Very funny."

"So we had a date tonight, remember? YOU didn't show.", Annabeth looked accusingly at me and then continued, "I went to your cabin, the beach, everywhere you would usually be…" Annabeth trailed off obviously remembering the pain of not knowing were I was. She looked at me and I was surprised to see that there where tears in her eyes, she continued saying, "I.. I thought the Gods had taken you again." She sniffled and wiped away her tears "but then I heard a halicopter flying over head and… and I began to consider other variables. I grabbed my bone sword and called blackjack, and followed you for a few hours. When we finally got here, I knocked out the guards, normal humans, by the look of them, so I was… unprepared, for the…" Annabeth hesitated then continued, "The… I don't know what they were! They were humans, but wolves! I did take 6 of them to subdue me though! They shot me with 3-4 tranquillizers but as I was fighting I was shot with an actual gun as more of those… things came to deal with me. Then I woke up in here." Annabeth finished looking subdued.

"How are we going to get out of here?" I asked Annabeth worriedly

"Well…" as Annabeth contemplated I asked,

"What happened to Blackjack?"

"I'm not sure actually!" Annabeth brightened at the prospect "Percy, can you try to like, "talk" to him?"

"I'll try.." I projected my thoughts outward "I can't reach him but I…"

I trailed off as another mind touched my own "They are coming for you."