PROLOGUE Percy

I woke up sweating, again. I had been having bad dreams the past few weeks and I was getting kind of tired of it. Before, I had been having dreams that replayed the last dreadful moment when Luke killed Kronos, and himself, but this dream was different. This time I was in a clearing in some woods. There were ruins scattered around me, and bones. I know, it sounds like some kind of cheesy horror movie, but try actually being there. I reached in my pocket to get riptide, I felt like I needed it, and some kind of wolf walked out of the mist. I have no idea why, but I think it had an expression on its face when it looked at me, hatred.

"Who do we have here?" it spoke. I was so surprised I almost dropped riptide, almost. It circled around me a few time and I brought up riptide wherever it would go.

"Who are you?" I asked.

"I am Lupa, but who I am doesn't matter, who you are is what matters" It answered. I needed to think of something smart to say.

"Oh"

"I hope you realize we will not accept you into our camp if you don't pass the test" Lupa said

"Ok, but you need to tell me what this test is," I said. Then the scene changed from the clearing to a cave with a large, Black, dragon like creature. A voice boomed,

" We will be avenged, we will destroy the gods, but first, your task is to destroy all who would get in the way"

"Yes, we I will destroy son of Hades, son of Jupiter, and son of Neptune, but which shall I destroy first? I want to do it soon. I want to rip out their bones and burn them, and I want to cast their flesh into Taurus" What? Did he just say Jupiter? I thought.

"Patience Python, you will get your time, but you must first go for the weakest, you must go for…" And the scene changed to Nico Di Angelo.

"Percy, thank the gods I finally reached you."

"Nico, what is happening?" I asked.

"Not… time, must warn camp… will disappear…run! Percy? Your connection… breaking."

" Nico?" I yelled. "What is happening?" But the image had already disappeared. The next thing I know is that some kind of dark shape grabbed hold of me and dragged me out into the night. I tried yelling for help, but it had my mouth covered with some kind of solid mist. It dragged me to the beach and dove underwater. I tried controlling the currents to make it let go of me but the currents apparently did not affect it. I heard surprised yelps from fish, and from the naiads I heard mostly Eeps or yelps as we blasted by. It got to a large, deep trench and it dragged me deeper and deeper. The weirdest thing is that I could feel pressure from the water on my head, but no, that can not happen, I am immune to water pressure. Then I realized it wasn't from the water. I found it not on my head, but more like inside of it. It felt like Zeus had thrown a miniature copy of his bolt right in my ear. I started wondering obvious stuff like what my first name was. Then everything just went white.