"Here comes the taxi," I called, "We need to go to the nearest hotel."

Once we had started driving we decided to talk about the quest

"Annabeth? Do you know anything else about the quest that you won't tell me? You look like you are thinking about something."

"Percy, I am really worried about Nico. Since he is in the underworld, and he called for us to go and help him. You know what I mean?"

"I'm sure they can hold up fine." I told her. I hope I am telling the truth. "We are getting there as fast as we can. You can't expect us to get there in one day. I could tell that she was still thinking about it. "It'll be fine." I told her, and then I leaned over and kissed her on the cheek.

Annabeth looked up suddenly, "The oracle told me something that I just remembered."

"WHAT?" I asked immediately.

Annabeth looked really scared. "We have to get there soon. The problem is getting worse the longer it takes us to get there."

"Is this why you have been worried this whole time." I asked her.

"Yeah and for other things too." She told me.

"Like what?" I asked.

"What is actually happening down there."

Then we got to the hotel. I paid the driver, and then we headed inside.

The motel was nice. It looked pretty new, and there wasn't a lot of people there.

We had room service for dinner because we didn't want to go anywhere else.

When the food came, the lady who had brought it in stared at us for a few seconds.

"What?" I asked her. I didn't want to sound rude, but she was just staring at us.

All of a sudden she lunged at us. I ran forward with Riptide and Annabeth came in with her knife.

"What's this for?" I shouted at the lady.

Suddenly she grew to be about 10 feet tall. I was surprised she still fit in the tiny motel room.

"Annabeth look out!" I shouted to her. The monster grabbed her and lifted her up into the air.

Luckily she had a tight grip on her knife. I distracted the monster for a moment, and Annabeth stabbed the monster right where her heart was and she disappeared.

"Nice save." I told her. But when I looked over at her she looked really weak. "Are you okay?" I asked her.

"I feel very tired." She told me.

Then she fell to the floor.
"Annabeth!" I shouted as I ran over.

A few seconds later she awoke. "Percy?"

"Are you okay?" I asked her again.

"I'm fine." She replied back promptly.

"Okay then let's eat."

The dinner was very nice. After we finished we decided to get to bed, so we could head off early tomorrow morning.

That night I slept with no special dreams about anything. When I awoke Annabeth was already awake and looking out the window.

I walked over to her. "Hey are you ready to go?" I asked her.

We headed off. "I don't feel like eating today." She told me.

I agreed immediately.

We walked the rest of the way because we were very close to where the entrance to the underworld was.

"Percy?"

"Yeah?" I replied back.

"I am so glad that we got to go on this quest together."

"Same here."

We were silent for the rest of the way.

"Hey I can see where the entrance to the underworld is." Annabeth shouted excitedly.

We had finally arrived.

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