Chapter Two

So this is Egyptian culture, thought Percy, he and his mom had just caught a tour, Sally was listening to the tour guide with rapt attention. The Egyptian where weird people, Percy deducted, who worshiped half animal half human gods? The tour guide had lead them into a room full of clay statues, what did the tour guide say? Shabit, shatties, he didn't know but there tour guide looked like he grew up in ancient Egypt.

It wasn't totally boring, the death mask of King Tut was cool. But he couldn't get over the way they buried their dead, trying to make the dead look like they were still alive.

"Percy hurry up, don't lag behind the group," said Sally, as the tour guide lead the group into a different room.

"Okay", said Percy. But he had the strangest feeling that he was being watch, he had it since they left the Park. It seemed to be getting worse, it was a constantly prickly feeling on the back of his neck. The tour was all out of the room when Percy noticed his shoelace untied and he bent down to tie it. Although it had taken him less than a minute to do so, when he stood up again he was surrounded by people dressed in weird white clothing. How so many entered the room without making a sound was baffling.

"Surrender young demigod, or face the wrath of the House of Life" said one of the guys who looked to be the leader.

"Who in Hades are you and why should I be afraid of you?" said Percy, although he was nervous he didn't get the monster vibe off of them, never the less he started reaching for Riptide.

"I am Farid, a magician of the House of Life, surrender now or you will be harmed," stated the leader, pulling out a staff from the air. Percy had no idea where it came from. It had looked like Farid had reached out in front of him and pulled it out of thin air.

"Well I'm Percy Jackson and I want to know why you are wearing pajamas in the middle of the day"

Farid sneered at the comment.

"If that is how you want to play it, prepare to lose demigod. Per- Halm" said Farid, and giant balls of fire rushed towards Percy. Percy laughed and grabbed each flaming ball by his bare hands and flung them back towards the ring of magicians, drawing Riptide all within the same moment. Farid was open-mouthed amazed for a second, how did the demigod do that without being burnt to a crisp. One of the balls Percy threw was coming at him, but he was too quick. He shouted another spell pointing his staff at the balls of flame, instantly changing the fire balls into a bunch of knives and directed them towards Percy. Percy didn't even try to run as the barrage of knives came hurtling forward. He swatted most of them away with Riptide, the one that he missed bounced of his skin. He was glad that the knives were coming from one direction. He would have been at a loss if the knives attacked both of his sides, he would have never been able to defend his Heel if that happened. That gave all the information Farid needed to know, the demigod in front of him was invincible, he stopped all of attacks to stare at the boy in front of him. He looked around at his group of magicians, when something caught his eye, two of his magicians apparently had left the fight to bring some much needed leverage to the situation.

"So the little demigod is invincible, but is your mother?" said Farid, as the two magicians entered the room for all to see, dragging Sally with them. Farid turned his attention back to the demigod, who had a look of horror on his face. "Throw me your sword and surrender yourself and I promise that she will be let go, unharmed. If you continue to fight I will send her to the to the Duat, a place of her worst nightmares, which would be worse than death. It filled with beasts that would make a man's blood turn to ice. So choose demigod, you or your mother."

Percy looked at his mom, her eyes were saying to run and leave her, but this wasn't like the minotaur Percy realized there would be no ransoming his mother back, or chance to save her like the last time. He was up against a brick wall, and there was only one way out.

"Alright, I surrender, just let my mother go," said Percy, throwing Riptide over to Farid. But the magician didn't release Sally, if not he gripped her arm tighter.

"I said I would but first I have to leave a message on her," said Farid, with that he started to make a spell and after he was done, there was a set of burning hieroglyphics on Sally's arm. "Now go take this little message to Mount Olympus if you want your son to live," Farid told Sally.

"No, take me instead; let Percy go, please, he's my only child!" by this time tears was streaming down Sally's face.

Farid looked at her like he was sorry, but the expression so disappeared like he remembered something. "NO, my orders are for your son, not you. You are no use to my cause. Be gone from here before I change my mind." Finally releasing his hold on her arm.

Sally look at Farid, and then ran to Percy hugging him good-bye.

"Don't worry mom, everything will be fine," said Percy, trying to sound confident, but inside he was very scared. More scared than when he feared Annabeth would die.

Before Sally could answer, a magician roughly grabbed her and threw her away from Percy. Another magician escorted her out of the museum. When Sally was out of sight Farid turned back to Percy with a devilish grin on his face.

"Now young demigod its time to go meet your new master, but first a special treat", said Farid, and from his robes he produced one of the collars. Percy tried to escape then, knowing something bad would happen if the collar was put on him. He sprinted towards the exit. Percy managed to escape the first couple of magician that were blocking his path with ease, but that ended when a large magician tackled him from behind when was ten feet away from the exit.

"You are only making this more difficult than it needs to be demigod" said Farid, as he walked up to Percy, who was still on the ground under the magician. Farid knelt down and proceed to put it around Percy's neck. No matter how much he struggled he couldn't get out from underneath the man. As soon as the collar was clasped, Percy felt weak, he could barely raise his head to glare at Farid.

"You like? I especially made this collar to be opposite of your powers. Your powers come from the oceans, you can draw strength from it. The collar is harnessed with the powers of the desert and the sun, accentually draining your powers, keeping you as weak as a kitten. I will have to tinker with it, it has to be modified for your invincibility," he said. The magician finally got off of Percy, who was in no shape now to run away. Two magicians grabbed him beneath his arms, hauling him to his feet.

With that they lead him to the Portal and went into the first Nome. The rest of Farid's magicians were already there, surrounding a group of demigods that they had captured. All were restrained, sitting on the ground. The only girl that had been captured was heavily restrained, even now she was pulling on her bonds yelling insults to Farid's magicians, demanding to be let go, she had put up quite a fight. The others were also voicing protests, but all fell quite when Percy was thrown into their mists.

"Percy?" questioned the boy with blonde hair and storm gray eyes. Percy only raised his head to look at him weakly before letting it sink back down.

"What have you done to him!" demanded the girl. She seemed afraid that Percy was so weak. Clarisse who was the girl, was indeed afraid. Everyone in camp knew that Percy was invincible, nothing could hurt. Whoever these House of Life people where, they weren't powerless.

"I have just made sure that he wouldn't cause us any problems," stated Farid.

All the demigods could do was stare at Percy, wondering if their own fates would end like his also.

"Desjardins will know see what you have brought Farid," a man said, it was Mel.

The demigods were hauled to their feet and were forced into a building, each wondering what was in store for them. Why had they been captured in the first place? Who was Desjardins? They were marched down halls filled with power. Images on the walls kept shifting changing times. The magicians finally shoved them in what look like the head honchos office. The man behind the desk smiled at them evilly.

"Welcome young demigods. I am Desjardin head of the House of Life, and I hold your fate in my hands."

Desjardin turned to Farid. "Any trouble bringing them in?"

"A little sir. The daughter of Ares put up quite a fight. So did the son of Poseidon. I will have to modify his collar shortly, apparently he is invincible. The Hermes and Athena kids were easily caught. It is my opinion Sir, that only the son of Poseidon needs to be collared. The others are too powerless to cause us any real problems."

Desjardin stroked his chin deep in thought complementing what Farid had said. "Alright, only the ocean brat will be fitted with a collar. But I suggest that you modify the collar now."

Farid noticed the veiled threat and motion for two of his magicians to hold Percy. He quickly undid the catch. Almost immediately Percy's color came flooding back, and he looked like he was more aware of what was going on around him.

"Try anything demigod, and your friends will die" snared Desjardin.

Percy looked around and saw what Desjardin had meant. Sandwiched between two burly magicians were Clarisse, Malcolm, Travis and Conner. They all looked at each other, all seemed to realize that Desjardin was as dangerous as a Fury.

As Farid put the necessary spells on the collar, Desjardin gloated his plans to the demigods. "Unless your parents do exactly what I say, you will all die."

Percy cast his eyes downwards, not looking up until he saw Farids feet in front of him. Only then did he look up into his eyes. Percy saw something that looked like guilt flash through the young mans eyes. The collar that Farid was holding used to be a ruby red collar, but know it looked more ominous by being so dark of a black that Hades would be scared. He closed his eyes as he felt the cool metal of the collar touch his skin, he heard it clasp ever so softly. The collar stayed cool for about a second longer before it busted on Percy skin with a wave of heat. It felt like every nerve in his body was on fire. He heard himself screaming, the shouts of Clarisse. He would have gladly jumped in the river of Styx ten times again. The pain he was feeling made that fell like he scraped his knee.

He screamed till he could not scream anymore, but he held his mouth open in silent screams. He heard a commotion from outside his cocoon of pain. He opened his eyes to see his friends struggling with the magicians.

"I'm going to make you wish you were never born" yelled an enraged Clarisse. For a moment it looked as if the demigods were winning, but soon re-enforcement arrived and they were again quickly subdued.

"Take all of them to the dungeon. Leave the Poseidon brat, I want the gods to see what were capable of."

Percy drew into himself, desperately fighting back the pain.

Well there's the rewrite of chapter two, hope you liked it better.