After being dragged out the front doors of my high school by my friend Annabeth (who had a surprisingly strong grip), we rushed down the front steps and ran all the way to the nearest bus station which by the way wasn't that near. I was breathing heavy, hands on my knees, bent over, and my jeans were still falling down. Annabeth wasn't tired at all. She seemed to be too concerned with her crisis which she still hadn't told me about.
"Are you gonna tell me now?" I asked her, gasping for air.
"Percy, I got word that an Iris message came to Chiron yesterday," she explained.
"From who?" I asked.
"From…from—," she hesitated.
"Luke," I completed her unfinished sentence.
"Yeah," she said, looking down. Last summer, near the end of our quest to the Labyrinth, I saw Luke, a traitor to everyone at Camp Half-Blood, give his body to Kronos to possess. Annabeth had known Luke since she was seven and I knew she had always had a crush on him. When he betrayed us by going over to the titan's side, Annabeth was badly hurt. And when she found out Kronos took over his body, she had been completely crushed.
"Well what did the Iris message say?" I asked her, wanting to change the subject.
"Chiron didn't say exactly, but he told me he threatened us all." Annabeth said, face darkening.
"Okay, now why the heck would Luke tell Chiron what he was going to do?" I asked, confused."Well, that's the part I don't get," she told me, thinking hard. "I think it could possibly be a trap, but I'm just not sure. Come on Percy, let's get to camp." She said, ending our conversation.
We took the bus all the way to Long Island station, got off, and took a taxi to Half-Blood Hill. It was funny to see the look on the cab driver's face as we got out of the taxi. He thought he was dropping us off at some empty hill. That's because the mist changes the way regular mortals see things.
Annabeth and I walked down the hill to the Big House where Chiron would be.
"Chiron!" Annabeth yelled as she ran into the room. Chiron looked up from the book he was reading.
"Hello child," he said, smiling. He was in wheelchair form which struck me as odd because Chiron was a centaur and preferred to not be in wheelchair form. "You've grown over the year, Annabeth! And you too Percy!" He looked at me. Yet something in his eyes told me something was wrong.
"Chiron, what's going on?" I asked. "Annabeth told me—"
"Annabeth," Chiron said in a warning tone.
Annabeth gave me a murderous glare. Obviously she wasn't supposed to have told me anything and I just told Chiron that she did. Oops.
"I'm sorry Chiron, I just—"she started.
"I made her tell me," I said. I remembered another time when I made Annabeth tell me something I shouldn't have been told and she got in trouble for it. "I'm sorry." I said.
"Well Percy, I guess I should tell you Kronos's warnings. Yet we are unsure of whether he is misleading us or not." He might have said more but just then someone outside screamed.
Everyone in the room froze.
"What in the world?" I said.