After taking several few long breaths, I got up and began making my way back to school, wherever that was.

I just walked endlessly, over fallen trees, across streams and past a few tree nymphs.

I was about to give up when I suddenly realized that there was a wall of mist with an image beside me. I turned and saw my best friend, Annabeth, in Iris Message form.

"Hey, Seaweed Brain," she said. She had grown a since the last time I saw her about five months ago.

"Hey Wisegirl. Will you please stop calling me that," I muttered.

"Why would I do that?"

"Uh...I don't know."

"Alright then. So...why are you in the woods."

"There was an empousa-"

"Oh. I see. Well, you need to get to Camp Half-Blood. Now."

"Why? What happened?"

"I'll only say that it involves your father. He's in danger."

That got my attention. I loved my father even though I barely knew him in the first 12 years of my life.

"I'll be right there." The second I finished saying that, Annabeth smiled and waved her hand over the rainbow, cutting of the connection. I wondered how I'd get to camp.

I suddenly felt a tugging in my gut and felt myself being pulled toward a particularly large river.

I found myself jumping in and on instinct I began taking deep breaths. Being the son of Poseidon has its perks like breathing under water.

I saw a blur of movement near the river floor and swam towards it. It was a turtle caught in a fishing net.

I hated when things like this happened. Some lazy fisherman would get a creature caught and just cut the line, leaving the creature there to die.

I pulled out Riptide and cut the turtle free.

Thank you Lord, it said. I just smiled and swam back to the surface.

When I reached the surface, the coordinates of where I was came to me. I needed to move 100 feet west, 20 feet north to get back to the school.

Annabeth's POV

I wondered what Seaweed brain was doing in the woods.

He looked terrible, with a scrape over his left brow and his mop of black hair stuck to his forehead.

I ran out of my cabin to tell Chiron about the empousa attack.

He was in the middle of archery practice.

"And...go!" His students-Apollo children-set loose their arrows. Every arrow hit the bulls-eye.

"Chiron. I just IM'd Percy. He just suffered from an empousa attack and he's on his way here."

"Thank you, child. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to my class."

"Ok." Suddenly, I heard a whole bunch of cheering, hellos', clapping, high fiving and giggling.

I turned and saw a group of campers surrounding someone.

When they saw me, they parted, making a path.

When I saw who was there, I smiled.

It was seaweed brain.

I ran up to him and hugged him. He smiled but then his expression became serious.

"What's happened, Annabeth?"