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"We should get some sleep." suggested Annabeth. I agreed wholeheartedly to that suggestion. I was about to fall asleep standing up.

We had just gotten back onto the Argo II after fighting of some of Gaea's enforcements. We had just landed at on of the Ionian Islands to relax for a second and fix the mast, which had been cracked during a fight with a sea monster; one of Gaea's minions. The mast had been leaning dangerously to the side and we just barely made it to Ionian. Unfortunately right after we, meaning Leo, fixed the mast we were attacked by a dozen Roman soldiers and dracaena and a minotaur. We managed to defeat them and with no major injuries, just some minor bruises and cuts.

Tomorrow we were heading for the island of Crete. It seemed that Minos had come back to life and had an idea to destroy the gods. He probably did to, considering how close he had come to coming back to life and know he had. He would stop at nothing to get his revenge on the gods. Considering how evil he is it still shocks me that he was one of the judges in the Underworld.

"I agree with that. Goodnight." Leo cheerfully said while turning around and walking towards his room.

After some quick "good-nights" we all went to our room to get some well deserved rest. We had all got our own rooms to sleep in, a lot like our cabins. It went without saying that my room was an ocean themed, being a son of Poseidon and all. It took only a few seconds after laying down in my bed to fall asleep. But this sleep would be anything but peaceful.

I was in some type of throne room completely made out of rocks and crystal. It had to be underground. Any other time I would be staring around in shock at all the jewels and how big it was but my eyes were drawn to three people at the end of the room. Well, actually one of them was Gaea, that much was obvious, her being completely made out of earth. Standing in front of was a male and female. The male I could tell was Minos in all of his evil glory. He was wearing a crown and battle armor. The female had long dark hair and was petite, tall but thin, like a popular girl from school. She had a sword hanging at her side as well as a bow and quiver full with arrows. She looked familiar but with her back turned to me I couldn't tell who she was.

"My Lady, those idiot demigods are coming to Crete. They will be here by tomorrow afternoon. What do you wish for me to do?" it was Minos speaking. How did he know we were coming? Tomorrow so wasn't going to be easy.

"Gather your enforcements and be ready to fight, but try not to hurt any of them, especially Perseus Jackson and Hazel Levesque. I don't want them dead yet, at least not before they see their friend Nico di Angelo." Gaea purred out to Minos.
Wait, Nico? They had Nico? I knew he had been captured but I had no idea where he was being held. Looks like not only will we be stopping Minos but we would be getting Nico back. I felt my heart sore at that thought. Nico was like a little brother to me and when I found out that he'd been captured it was torture to me. I didn't want anything to happen to Nico. He'd already been through to much for a kid. Now that I knew at least who had him I was going to make sure I got him out of the situation he was in.

Minos let out a chuckle "Oh, yes, I'm sure the son of Hades would be happy to see his little friends at our mercy. Maybe I could make him beg us not to kill his friends," the last part Minos said more to himself then anyone else, "It would be very interesting to see how he takes that his friends are goi-" Minos never got to finish his sentence.

"Quiet. Someone is watching us." the girl hissed at Minos.

That voice was strangely familiar but I couldn't put my finger on it. That was until she turned around. I automatically recognized the facial features of Bianca di Angelo. But that was impossible. Bianca was dead, wasn't she? And even if she was alive, for she seemed to be, why would she be with Minos and Gaea? That just made no sense. Especially if Nico was being held prisoner by them. No sense at all.

"Who is it?" Gaea asked, the purr to her voice disappearing only to be replaced with anger that someone was listening in to her conversation.

"Salt and sea breeze. Perseus Jackson. It's Perseus Jackson." Bianca cried out.

I had no idea how she knew it was me, but then again Nico had sensed me before when I had seen him in a dream. Must be a children of Hades thing. I didn't have much time for thinking about it for right at that moment an arrow was sent straight towards me, courtesy of Bianca. I closed my, waiting to feel an arrow going right through me. But it never happened. Opening my eyes I was shocked to see that instead of the throne room I was in sometime of cell.

Hearing a whimper behind me I spun around. To say I was shocked would be an understatement. Nico was there curled up on the ground with multiple wounds ranging from bruises to what looked like a dagger wound. Luckily the dagger wound seemed to be in a nonfatal place. That was probably the only good thing about it. There were shackles around his wrists and one around his neck. You could see his skin starting to become irritated by the shackles rubbing against it. The chains lead fully into the wall where they seemed to just merge with it.

Dropping to my knees I whispered to Nico, hoping he could hear me "Nico, come on wake up, it's me, Percy."

Nico's eyelids fluttered open, seeming to see nothing, "P-p-Percy." the kid stuttered out, frowning like he was trying to remember who I was. Suddenly his eyes lighted up and he focused on me "Percy!" he cried out.

"Ya, Nico, it's me. Now listen I need you to tell me where exactly you are right now." I needed to find out where exactly he was on the island, otherwise I would be looking around for days before finding him.

"I-I don't know. I was unconscious when I was taken here." Nico stammers while pushing himself up into a sitting position.

All of a sudden Nico let out a cry of pain and clutched his head. I immediately began to worry more. The pain seemed to stem from his head and if there was one thing I knew it was that head injuries were dangerous and painful.

"Nico. Nico, what hurts?" I ask, trying to get his attention back to me.

"My head," he ground out between clenched teeth "Dizzy."

Not good "Nico, what happened, head injury?"

"Hit in head with sword hilt." Nico gasped out.

Definitely not good. I didn't know much but he most likely had a concussion. And concussions were never good for the person who got them.

"You must have a concussion. Real quickly, 'cause I'm sure we'll get interrupted by someone, what is Bianca doing here?" I asked the question that had been in my mind for since I saw, but I immediately regretted by when a look of pain fluttered across his face.

"She-she came back to life and then joined Gaea. She was with Minos when they caught me." Nico explains, I can hear his voice quivering and see the unshed tears in his eyes.

"Well, you won't have to worry soon, some friends and I will be landing at Crete tomorrow." I inform Nico, no matter how many monsters they have attacking us there was no way I was going to leave Nico.

"NO!" shouts Nico, his eyes wild with fear "They'll kill you, or capture you and force you to help them. You can't come here. It will be the end of you."

I couldn't help but feel proud of him, here he was getting tortured and he still didn't want anyone to get hurt. He was willing to sacrifice his life to make sure I didn't die and the gods continued to reign. You could tell just how scared he was and yet he still thought of others over himself. But I couldn't just leave him here to rot.

"No, Nico, we were coming anyways, we will just kill to birds with one stone and get you back. No arguing." the last part was added cause I could see him getting ready to argue with me about getting out of here.

All of a sudden everything started getting blurry. I knew what that meant, that this conversation was over for now.

"I'm sorry, Nico. I've got to go for now, just hold on a little longer. We'll be getting you out of here in no time." I manage to say this just as the dream ends but I swear that I heard Nico whimper for me to stay with him.

Sitting bolt up right in the bed I quickly scan the room to make sure no one else was in it. When I was sure that there was no unwanted visitors I turned my thoughts to what I had heard and my conversation with Nico. Minos had to be a general for Gaea and Bianca was working for him. I just couldn't believe that she would actually hurt her brother like that. Nico practically worshiped the ground she walked on, had spent a year trying to bring her back, had been willing to do anything to bring her back and she just helped bring him to Gaea. I couldn't but feel angry at Bianca for doing that to Nico. And all the wounds on Nico, it was all to obvious that he was getting tortured by Minos, and probably by some other people too. I had to get him out of there.

Laying back down I made a promise: no matter what I would get Nico out of there and nothing was going to stop me.