Talofa! Tried to capture the real Percy Jackson. Tell me how I went.

All the counsellors of the cabins sat around our usual meeting place. The ping – pong table in the Big House. I know, not very classy, but hey, we're AHD and if we got bored (which happened a lot) at least we had the chance to play some ping – pong.

I was sitting next to Annabeth, but I tried not to look her way. She was giving me the look. She always does it when something happens. Her grey, stormy eyes turn into a stony glare and her nose scrunches up real cute (but I don't tell her that). It was like she was trying to pull all these bits of information from my head and then mush it up into a book she could read. I guess sons and daughters of Athena are like that.

It must have been hard though, cause my head is pretty messed up.

Avoiding Annabeth's gaze, I looked around the room. It looked like most of the counsellors were here. I could see Leo; he made the ping – pong match interesting by setting the ball on fire. There was Clarisse, looking like she wanted to beat my face to pulp, which was normal. Piper and Jason were spending time at Camp Jupiter, so they weren't here and I could see Nico and Will, hand in hand. All in all, it was a good turnout, most of the people from the other cabins were there.

All the talking stopped once Chiron walked into the room. He was in full Centaur form with his white, mare horse body from waist down. He was wearing an orange T-shirt that read: 'This bad boy has a heart of stone'.

How ironic.

"Hello everyone." He said. We all muttered our replies. "Now, we all know why we are here." He continued.

"Yeah," Clarisse said, "Prissy, had an accident in his pants after finding someone in his cabin." People snickered.

Chiron stamped his hoof. "I'm afraid it isn't that simple Clarisse." He gave her a steady look, and she slowly crumbled.

"Whatever." She muttered.

Chiron sighed, but he seemed satisfied. "Jamie was found in Percy's cabin this morning." Everyone turned to stare at me. "He had been turned to stone." Chiron continued.

The room grew quiet and the Stolls hung their heads.

"His funeral pire will be burned tonight." Chiron said. "But right now we need to focus on what did this and how we can track it down."

"I have an idea." I said darkly. "It was Medusa, looks like Tartarus is after revenge and has sent one of my old enemies to get it." Everyone winced at the name of the darkest place in the underworld. "Sorry." I said.

I heard Clarisse muttering that it was all about me, stuff like that. But I knew what I said was true.

"Percy," Annabeth started. "If Tartarus is after revenge and sent Medusa to kill you… Why didn't she do it she was in your cabin?"

"What?" I said. "How would you know she was in my cabin?"

"Oh, yeah sure." She said. "Jamie, the stone statue, just walked to your cabin hoping scare you when you woke up." Annabeth rolled her eyes at me, I hated it when she did that.

I opened my mouth to say something, but realised she was right and frankly me and my fantastic hypothesis of Jamie just appearing in my room wasn't.

I gave her a smirk, "Thanks for the update wise girl." Her face went bright red, good sign, I said to myself; then her hand went for her dagger. Bad sign. I scrambled away from her quickly and then it was her turn to smirk.

"Stop the drama love birds." Clarisse snickered. And of course, that's when I realised everyone was looking at Annabeth and me. I could feel my face growing hot and I decided to change the topic.

"Um," I said. "Chiron, could I get a new door because it seems Medusa took mine…"

"Actually…" Travis Stoll said. "That was us." He and his twin brother grinned and high fived each other. I sighed.

"Annabeth is right." Chiron said, "Medusa must have dragged Jamie into Percy's cabin, but the question is: Why didn't she kill Percy?"

"Maybe this is all just a really crazy joke?" Leo suggested. Everyone turned to stare at him. "Yeah, forget it." He said.

I said, "I don't know why she didn't kill me, but honestly, would it have been any better if she did?" I hoped someone didn't say otherwise. Clarisse (no surprise) looked like she would.

Before Clarisse could say anything, Annabeth cut in, "I guess all we can do is capture Medusa and question her." She slipped her hand into mine, like she was trying to give me strength.

"I doubt that'll be easy if she turns everyone she sees to stone." Will said.

"Hey, me and Annabeth have done it before, we can do it again." I said, hoping I was right.

Suddenly a satyr ran in and whispered in Chiron's ear nervously. It couldn't have been good, because Chiron looked like he had been told he was a cow waist down. He turned to all the campers sitting around the table.

"I'm afraid," Chiron started, "It won't be as easy this time Percy. I was just told, from a reliable source, that a twelfth of the forest has been turned into stone." All the demigods around the table went quiet. "It seems…" Chiron said. "That Medusa has grown in strength by a tenth fold."

A veil of discomfort settled over the Big House.

"Well," I said. Trying to be encouraging. "It looks like we have a Snake to kill."

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