Chapter 3

Marcy was still up when Nico knocked on her cabin door, even though it was an hour past light's out. She could see the grim look on his face when she opened the door. "Nico,' she said calmly, wondering what the HADES he was doing at her cabin, since it was a quarter till midnight, " What do I owe the pleasure of having you at my door?" "Marcy," the son of hades replied,"there's trouble at the big house...there's been a monster attack and the victim is acting...most irregular." "Who?" asked Marcy, clearly wondering since it seemed like this person's problem was a problem for the whole camp. "Percy Jackson." Nico stated, as his dark eyes flared with panic, an emotion Marcy hadn't seen Nico show her before.

A minute later Marcy strolled into the room in her vampire smiley-face t-shirt, dark skinny jeans and black and blood red converse, taking in the seen of the grim campers, the clearly saddened Chiron, and the emotionally traumatized Annabeth. Then she stopped at the bed, and began firing questions at Annabeth.

"Where did you find him?"

"In the w-woods-s."

" Who attacked him?"

"A w-wolf."

"Monster?"

"Y-yes."

Marcy prayed to the gods that Annabeth would say no to her last question

"Did you see any, and i mean even if you saw one drop-any sort of blueish substance oozing from his wound?'

"yes.." Annabeth replied as she trembled softly.

Marcy cursed in ancient greek and looked at the clock. Her violet eyes widened. Ten minutes to midnight.

"Chiron, PLEASE tell me you have some monster proof chains."

"Why yes we do in the closet, but I-"

He was inturupted when Marcy kicked open the door of the closet and yelled, "Clarisse, and you other beef punks. HELP ME!"

Clarisse angrily said, " Don't you dare-

"CLARRISE LARUE YOU BETTER GET YOUR SORRY BUTT OVER HERE WITH SOME OF THE ARES CABIN OR GODS HELP ME I WILL PUT A CURSE ON YOUR CABIN THAT TURNS THEM INTO POT BELLIED PIGS FOR A WEEK!"

Clarisse was stunned for a minute and then went over with some others of the Ares cabin and helped Marcy with the metal chains. "Wow, I thought Annabeth here was the emotional one." Clarisse muttered under her breath.

"Good," said Marcy,as Clarisse and the other kids from the Ares cabin put them on Percy's bed. "Now wrap them around Percy and tie them to the bedpost"

Everyone sort of gasped as they heard what Marcy said, but the Ares kids did what they were told. Annabeth was about to rush to Marcy and shake some sense into her, but Chiron put out an arm to stop her. They chained Percy to the wall.

5 minutes to midnight.

"Everyone, you can come in, even though I don't want you to see this. Make a wide berth around Percy."

2 minutes to midnight

"What the-"

1 minute to midnight

"shhh...now watch"

0 minutes to midnight

"The transformation has begun", Marcy whispered, as a blueish light engulfed Percy.

(A/N Wow that was a long chapter!)