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?"
