Captured

A PJATO Fanfiction

©- Rick Riordan; PJATO

Summary:

It's been nearly a year since the Second Titan War, and Annabeth Chase has a problem. A HUGE problem. Her boyfriend, Percy Jackson, recently went missing. Who took Percy? As if TLH never ever happened. An OC is added, and Nico is 15.

Chapter 4

Chris

Normally this early in the morning, I would still be asleep. But no, Jessicahadto wake me up from my totally awesome dream. I dreamed Clarisse and I were in a meadow of flowers, and she was sitting in my lap, kissing me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's kinda like Twilight. Don't blame me! Silena made me and Clarisse watch that. Ugh, never ever watch a girly movie like that. I mean c'mon, vampires don't sparkle! Give me an action movie any day.

Anyway, I can't even begin to explain lightning travel. You're traveling so fast, you can't even comprehend what's going on. Thalia had us to Percy's house in a matter of seconds. Clarisse, Thalia, and I appeared right in the middle of the Jacksons' living room, where Mrs. Jackson—er—Blofis was crying. Thalia collapsed, but Clarisse and I caught her. Annabeth, Mrs. Blofis, and Mr. Blofis seemed to finally notice us. Wow.

"Thalia?" Annabeth exclaimed, getting up. Oh, just ignore us, Annabeth. I got a closer look at the daughter of Athena when she helped us drag a groggy Thalia to a recliner. Annabeth's blonde hair was messily tied up, as if she had just woken up, and her gray eyes were brimming with tears and had bags under them. She was wearing pajamas like the rest of us, other than Thalia and Nico. Oh, and speaking of Nico, he and Jess had just appeared. Nico looked at Thalia, pouting.

"She beat us here?" Jess rolled her eyes.

"Hi, Sally," she said, sitting in the loveseat. Mrs. Jackson—er—Mrs. Blofis, gods, that's such a weird last name. I'll just call her Sally. Sally looked up, and then smiled.

"So, Annabeth, remind me why we're here." I said dryly. "Clarisse and I got a wake up call from a certain daughter of Athena." I looked at Jess accusingly, and she grinned.

"Yeah," Clarisse added. "What kind of trouble did Prissy get himself intothis time?" Annabeth shot her a glare that saidWatch what you say. His parents are in here.Thalia glanced wearily at Percy's mom and step-dad.

"Hey guys, why don't we go to Annabeth's room?" she suggested. Annabeth seemed to get what she meant and nodded.

"Come on, it's this way." Annabeth said, helping Thalia up. We all got up and followed Annabeth to her temporary room in the Jackson-Blofis household. We entered into her room, and each took a seat. Annabeth's room was blue (Why am I not surprised?) with seashell wallpapers. You could really tell it was her room by the mess of papers, blueprints, pencils, and other stuff like that scattered on Annabeth's desk and on the floor.

"Alright, spill," Jess ordered. The elder daughter of Athena sighed.

"Okay, recently I've been having these dreams." I narrowed my eyes.

"What kind of dreams?" I asked suspiciously.

"Demigod dreams. I've seen all of us together, searching for someone," Annabeth explained.

"Percy," Thalia said bluntly. Annabeth nodded.

"I haven't known who it was until last night's dream," she added. "Then, Sally woke me up and told me to wake up Percy, but when I went to go wake him up—"

"He was gone," Nico finished. Annabeth's grim expression told us the clear answer. All of us sat silently, thinking. Where was Percy? Who took him?

"So, what do we plan to do about it?" Clarisse asked, finally breaking the silence.

"Well, we're obviously supposed to search for him," Annabeth said. How straightforward.

"How about we split up?" Jess suggested. Her face brightened. "It's a great time to test-try Dad's new invention." See, Jess's dad is this inventor who has his own invention company. "And don't worry, Dad made the invention demigod safe."

She grabbed something from her pocket. It was clear box, one of Mr. Smith's inventions. The box was used for storage, and it compressed all the items inside of it so the invention could fit more things inside of it. Jess pulled out five watches, most of them different colors. She handed Annabeth a gray watch, Nico a black one, Thalia an electric blue one, Clarisse a red one, and me a light blue one. I noticed she already had a gray watch on.

"A watch?" Thalia asked. Jess rolled her eyes.

"Yes, but also quite a few other things. It's a communication device," she explained. Jess hit a button, then began to talk into it. "See?" I heard her voice project from each of our watches. "And the demigod part," She hit another button, and my watch vibrated.

"Did your watch just vibrate?" I asked Nico. He nodded, grinning.

"It sends a distress signal out to whoever else has a watch and that's in your contacts," Jess explained. Her smile widened. "There's also a tracking device on it, so you can find whoever's on your contacts. I also talked Dad into adding a music player, a camera, a surveillance camera, and Wi-Fi. Plus, it doesn't attract as many monsters as a cell phone!" I grinned.

"Awesome!" Clarisse exclaimed. I nodded in agreement.

"I had one for Percy..," Jess added, pulling out a sea-green watch. She pulled out another light blue one. "And an extra Hermes one…"

"Well, we'd better get going," Annabeth reminded, interrupting. "Time's ticking."

"Um, Annabeth," Thalia said. "Half of us are still in our pajamas." The lieutenant of Artemis glanced at Jess, Clarisse, and I.

"Hey, you said to be here in thirty minutes!" Jess protested. My stomach growled.

"One, we need to change into mortal clothes. Two, I'm hungry!" I exclaimed.

"Me too!" Nico added. Clarisse opened her mouth to say something, but Annabeth cut her off.

"Sally has blue waffles downstairs." In a flash, Thalia, Nico, Clarisse, Jess, and I were running downstairs. Blue waffles! Yes!