I enter the Hephaestus cabin and am immediately greeted by the scent of grease and rust. Nyssa, a girl who'd played camp counselor while Jake had mended his…broken body, greeted me as she grunted over a small compact machine.
I go over and look at the blueprint she was referring too—it seems to be an android of some sort. She wipes sweat from her dark skin and finally stops twisting the metal and looks at me. "Hey," she says, and sits back on her heels, "what do you want?"
"I need all your blueprints," I state briskly, clapping my hands together. Her eyebrows go so up, they touch her headband.
"All our blueprints?" she asks dubiously, and finally gets up. She starts to head deeper in the cabin, where they have more workstations set up. "Annabeth, no offense, but do you know how many we have? We're kids of Hephaestus—we're unorganized and we build things. I can't locate everything for you. But maybe you could tell me so I can narrow it down?"
I sigh. If we want to get this mission solved and over with, we're going to need all the help we can get. And Nyssa has proved herself worthy in the past, helping built Argo II. "We're looking for a 'magical' cup of fire; Chiron says it's what demigods have been going after for quite some time and they keep disappearing." I didn't mean to spill everything, but with such a little amount of information…well, what could I do?
She frowns. "I'm sorry, but I don't think anyone's working on-" She's cut off by the door bursting open and a crazed Leo running towards us. He's waving a blueprint in his hand and Percy is hot on his heels. They skid to a stop, and Leo puts his hands on his knees, breathing heavily.
"I found what you were looking for, Annabeth," he says, panting, "it makes no sense but I know your big head of yours can solve it." I snatch it out of his hands and unroll it on the desk. Nyssa looks over my shoulder.
"Where did you find this?" I direct the question at Percy, since he's barely out of breath. My boyfriend is in shape, funnily enough.
He smirks smugly before answering. "It was in the bunker, and Leo was there. Turns out with a little pushing of walls we found a secret compartment and it was there."
That's way too easy. I don't want to question it, but my Athena wired brain is suspicious of these developments. As I stare at the blueprint my mind quickly flicks from one line to another. But…
"What's 'Hogwarts'?" I ask Leo. He immediately snorts in laughter, and I roll my eyes, holding back a smile. The name is extremely ridiculous.
"I have no idea," he says, smiling still. "Maybe a skin clearing program?"
"Dude, you should sign up then," Percy grins back. Leo shoves him and Percy shoves him back. I roll my eyes again—boys are so immature.
"Seriously, we need-" I stop. At the corner, the paper is peeling, but there's another layers underneath. Without a second though, I pull and the blueprint is in two parts.
"Whoa," Leo breathes. I bend down, and sweep my hair out of the way to get a better look. It's an old piece of parchment, and there are words scrolled all over it. But they're moving. Names are constantly moving, all over the place. It's a castle, and surrounding the castle are a ginormous tree and forest and a huge lake.
"What the hell-?" Nyssa cries as we watch as the words run and move. "Is this a school?" A Professor McGonagall stands in a classroom, moving around.
"I think so…" I mutter, and my eyes roam the page, looking for a clue to where it would be. Wait. I know exactly where it is.
"Guess what," I announce, "we're going to Scotland."
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