Annabeth

Annabeth awoke to knocking on her door. She lifted her head of her tear stained pillow.

"Coming!" she called. She got out of bed groggily, walked to the door of her room, took a deep breath and opened it. Grover was standing in the doorway his eyes wide with worry.

"Where's Perc?" He asked breathlessly.

"What?" She asked rubbing her eyes.

"Percy! He didn't come back last night and when you came back crying I figured you guys had a fight and-"

"So?!" She asked defensively.

"Well he should've came back by now and he didn't so something's up!"

"Great!" She sighed "what did Seaweed Brain get himself into this time?"

"I don't know," said Grover nervously "but he might be in trouble! I tried Iris messaging him already and there was no signal. Where ever he is its blocking any use of magic!"

That didn't sound good, but for some reason Annabeth wasn't panicked. She figured he'd turn up eventually, he always did.

"Ok... I'll check the pier, you search around the area maybe he got lost or something!" She ordered "Now get out of here and let me get changed.

Annabeth walked along the pier to the spot where she and Percy had fought last night. She gazed out into the ocean remembering how beautiful it had been last night, remembering the ocean reflecting the suns glory. How its golden light shone on Percy. Where was he?

She began to walk back down the pier when she stepped on something. It rolled out from beneath her foot and she nearly wipped out. Looking down she saw a golden pen laying on the wooden planks. Riptide... Percy's sword. She bent down and picked it up puzzling at why it was still here, why hadn't it reappeared in his pocket like usual?

Maybe the same thing that's blocking the iris message is blocking the pen's magic as well, she concluded. Now she started to panic. Wherever Percy was, he was defenseless. She looked around for any other clues to where he might have gone and noticed, to her relief, a surveillance camera pointed directly where she was standing.

"Thank the gods" she sighed as she made her way to the small security booth at the end of the pier.

Percy

Percy awoke sprawled on the floor of cold, dark, stone cell. He sat up trying to clear his head trying to figure out where exactly he was but it was no use. He felt nauseous, dizzy and his hands were shaking. He got to his feet but his legs were to weak to hold his weight. His knees buckled and he collapsed on the cold stone floor once more. Helplessly, Percy crawled to the back of his cell and leaned against the wall, clutching his stomach. He didn't know what it was but for some reason the cold, damp walls seemed to be sapping all of his strength. He took a deep breathe, closed his eyes, and thought of happy thoughts until the nausea subsided. He opened his eyes and his thoughts cleared.

"Where am I?" He said aloud. He gazed around the cell. It was a small room entombed in stone with one exit: the heavily bolted and barred door that seemed to be made of pure iron.

Great! Percy thought. Supporting himself with one hand on the wall of the cell, he stumbled over to the door and shook it. It didn't budge, not that he had expected it too. In his condition Percy was surprised he could even walk. He looked out into the hall to see more cells, all with the same iron doors. He tried to remember what happened or how he got here. Anger boiled in his stomach (or was he just getting nauseous again) As he remembered the incident on the pier.

The strange man, Thetis, who claimed to be king of the seas. Finally it all clicked together in Percy's head: He had been kidnapped! Imprisoned! He shoved his hands in his pockets in search of Riptide but came up empty handed. Cursing in Ancient Greek, he tried the door once more, shaking it more harshly now. After having a dizzy spell that knocked him to the ground he decided the door wouldn't budge(no matter how hard he shook it). Suddenly, from the far end of the hall, he heard a door slam and a group of footsteps echo through the cells. Percy crawled away from the door seconds before a tall man loomed behind it.

"Thetis..." Percy glared up at the trench coated man.

"Hello there, Percy! Had a nice sleep?" He smiled innocently although Percy doubted he was.

"Where am I? What did you do to me!" He glared at Thetis, clutching his stomach once more. He felt even more weak with Thetis staring down at him. His ever changing eyes cutting through Percy like knives. Thetis just chuckled.

"You, my friend, are in a dungeon! My dungeon to be exact!" His eyes flashed dangerously as the colors faded by. " as for what I did to you," he turned and began pacing in front of the cell, " You see, I have this effect on the children of that pathetic excuse of sea god! I can't help it! You could say I'm their weakness!"

Percy didn't understand. His weakness? How could one man do this to him. He shook his head trying to make sense of it

"H-how?" he asked aloud, mostly to himself.

Thetis laughed "Of course you wouldn't understand! You're a clueless little boy but i suppose I could explain it agin, just for you!" He bent down until his eyes were level with Percy's and said in the coyest voice:

"I am stronger and more powerful than you will ever be. As long as you are in my kingdom, I have complete control over you!"

Percy must've made the most stupid facial expression of shock ever because Thetis smiled and stood up, obviously amused.

"That's right kiddo! You are under my control now! Whatever I want, you will have to obey like a good little soldier!" His ugly smirk was really making Percy mad. He was about to make a decent comeback when Thetis interrupted his thought process.

"Anyways," he continued cooly. "I've got to go but sweet dreams, Percy! I'll chat with you later!" before Percy could figure out what he meant, Thetis flicked his hand towards Percy. Immediately Percy's eyelids drew heavy. His eyes rolled back into his head and he fell to the floor, unconcious.

Annabeth

"Excuse me! Hello!?" Annabeth knocked on the window of the security booth until the guard finally took out his head phones and put down his Flash comic book.

"How can I help ya!?" asked the pudgy guard.

Well you can pay more attention for one thing, Annabeth thought but decided that he should not say it.

"I was here last night with a boy... We were standing right there-"

"Oh ya! You two were fight'n weren't ya? Hoo... that was pretty intense. Have you sorted things out?"

"No... Actually, he's missing and I was wondering if you saw him leave? And maybe where he went?" She replied.

"Gosh," he said scratching his flame colored hair. "I don't think I saw him leave! Hey, I could check the security footage for ya!"

Annabeth sighed with relief "That would be great! Thank-you!"

The guard logged on to his computer and stared at it silently. A few minutes in he jumped back in his chair, then leaned forward just as fast and squinting at the screen, puzzled.

"Weird,"he said "There's somethin' wrong with it!"

"What?" She asked

"Come see this!" He said bewildered.

She squeezed in the small booth beside him and watched the screen. The guard rewinded it to when Annabeth stomped off, leaving Percy alone on the pier. Suddenly Percy turned around and the tape went black. When the scene returned Percy was gone.

"Weird... hunh?" Said the guard.

"Wait... Stop it at the part right before it goes black!" She said. The guard looked at he weirdly but she just smiled and batted her eyes as if to say Pretty please?

"Alrighty then!" He rewinded it and stopped it to the part Annabeth wanted

"There!" She shouted thrusting a finger at the screen "Look!". In the very corner of the screen stood a young man in a trench coat. He had short black hair.
"What? I can't see nothing!" Said the guard, squinting even more to try and see what was there. Annabeth sighed.

"Of course you don't! I forgot!" How could she forget! Whatever she could see was covered by the Mist. A magical veil that shielded the real world from all mortals.

"What!?" Said the guard, confused.

"Sorry... Nothing... I gotta go, thanks!" She smiled, turned and ran of toward the beach. She had to get to Grover and fast. Whoever that man was the Mist needed to conceal him and that meant he was dangerous.

She made it to the beach and was about to turn across the street to the motel when she heard a loud Splash! She turned toward the sea where, a few yards away, a creature bobbed up and down in the water, flapping its hooves frantically as if trying to get someone's attention. Wait! Hooves? That didn't seem right to Annabeth. She walked out back on the pier until the creature was right under her.

"Wait... Rainbow?" She asked bewildered. The hippocampus splashed happily.

"What are you doing here!?" She hadn't seen Rainbow in... well, forever! Rainbow had helped her, Percy and Tyson when they were searching for the sea of monsters. And that had been at least three or four years ago!

Rainbow whinnied urgently. Her eyes suddenly wide with panic.

"What is it?" Annabeth asked. Rainbow whipped her tail and splashed her hooves. She needed to tell Annabeth something, something important.

"Wait..." Said Annabeth, thinking "Ha-have you seen Percy?"

Rainbow whinnied excitedly, as if Annabeth had won the million dollar question on a game show.

"What! Where? Can you show me?" Annabeth exclaimed. Rainbow turned around and brought her scaly back out of the water as if to say:

Hop on! I'll give you a ride!

Annabeth looked around the pier to see if anyone was watching. She secured her dagger and her New York Yankees hat of invisibility onto her belt more tightly. She'd hate to lose those. Then, without hesitation, she climbed over the railing of the pier and dove into the sea.

Author's Note: Hope you guys are liking this! Like I said before, I wrote this a few years ago so all I have to do is edit and upload! Hopefully I can get the chapters out as soon as possible! Hope you like it so far!