Percy

"Um… It's okay," I said. "We'll just uh-follow out instincts!"

"My instincts are telling me that you're being a Seaweed Brain again," Annabeth said.

"Fine then," I said. "I'll lead. Unless you have any complaints?"

"Uh, yeah," Carter said. "Are you sure you're going to be leading us in the right way?"

"Nope!" I grinned.

"We shouldn't have followed that monster," Annabeth groaned. She looked around nervously. "This reminds me of the labyrinth."

I opened the nearest door and peeked in. It seemed to be leading outside with bunch of dead trees. Real happy. "Does this count as an exit?"

Sadie peeked in. "Unless you want to go out there, no."

I shut the door and sighed.

"The exit shouldn't be this near the cells," Annabeth said. "They're probably a bit farther from the cells. If the people who built this were smart."

"Let's say that they were," Carter said. "Which way do you want to go? I say this way."

Carter and I both pointed at opposite directions. Sadie just stared at us not knowing what to do.

We started debating (a very mild word for what actually happened) about which way to go when Annabeth sushed us. "I hear voices," she whispered.

We quieted down and Annabeth was right: we did hear voices… and footsteps. "What do we do?" Sadie asked.

"Get inside a room and wait for them to pass. Then if we follow them when they go back, we might be able to find the exit," Annabeth whispered. "I'll go follow them."

"Won't they see you?" Carter asked.

Annabeth smirked. "No they won't."

She brought out her invisibility cap (which was luckily working now) and turned invisible.

"Come on!" I hissed.

I pushed them in a random room (not the one with the dead trees) and I was about to go in too when Annabeth whispered "Hansel and Gretel."

She gave me a light kiss on the cheek and slammed the door on my face. Literally. Great thing a girlfriend could do.

"Ow!" I groaned. Then I said, "What the heck does that mean?"

"What the heck does what mean?" Carter's voice said from somewhere.

I took my first look at the room and saw that it was dark, only lighted with Greek fire torches. Basically like the Hades cabin. Would Nico like it here? I shook the thought away.

"Annabeth whispered to me 'Hansel and Gretel' right before she slammed the door in my face."

"Isn't Hansel and Gretel the story where they nearly get eaten by that witch?" Sadie asked.

"Yeah, to put it simply," Carter said.

"I wonder how long it's going to take Annabeth," I said.

There was a knock on the door.

"Is that her?" Sadie asked.

"I don't know," I said. "Should we open it?"

"You going to open the door Seaweed Brain?" Annabeth's voice said.

Carter nodded.

Something didn't feel right, but I opened the door… but Annabeth wasn't there. Instead, I was face to face with a cyclops.

"You finally opened the door," the cyclops said in Annabeth's voice.

"What is that thing with one eye? It's a sorry excuse for an eye." Sadie said, obviously disgusted.

I didn't blame her. My brother Tyson was a cyclops, but this cyclops was even bigger and smelled worse too. I brought out Riptide and Carter asked, "What's a pen going to do?"

Of course, that was before I uncapped it.

"Just give us Pandora's pithos and we'll let you and your friends free," the cyclops said in his regular deep voice. "You want your girlfriend to be free don't you?"

I froze. They caught Annabeth? Annabeth wasn't the type to be easily captured.

"I'll just kill you first," I said trying to keep the fear out of my voice.

I saw Carter pull out his curved sword, a khopesh, I think it was and came beside me. I slashed at the cyclops, but he was pretty quick. It dodged by sword and Carter's swing missed. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Sadie holding a staff like a long ruler. The cyclops roared and tried to pound me, but I ducked under it and came up kneeling.

"Move back," Carter told me.

I did and not a moment too soon. Sadie's staff had disappeared and a lion took its place and jumped on the cyclops, but just swatted it away. It crashed against the wall as the bricks fell on it. I had bad experiences with lions, but it was still sad to see. There was a poof and the lion turned back into Sadie's staff which was broken in half.

Sadie stomped her foot. "How many staffs am I going to break?!"

The cyclops chuckled. "You don't have a weapon now do you?"

The cyclops changed its target to Sadie and charged.

"Sadie, run!" Carter yelled.

"I know! I'm not stupid!" Sadie said and moved out of the way in the last minute.

The cyclops crashed his head into the wall causing bricks to fall on his head. It looked more like he was burying his head in the wall. I threw my sword and it impaled itself in the cyclops's back.

"Oh, you will be killed painfully!" the cyclops wailed trying to get his head out.

I looked at the torches of Greek fire. Hmm… It would set the whole room on fire, maybe the whole building, but it was worth it.

"Get out," I said to Carter and Sadie.

"What exactly are you going to do?" Carter asked.

I grabbed a torch from the wall. "You'll see."

His eyes widened. "You're not going to set the whole place on—"

I raised my eyebrows. "Fire? Yeah, I am. Or at least this room. The place probably has some magic around it."

We left the room and I grabbed the door handle. I thrust the Greek fire in the floor of the room and quickly shut the door.

"You sure that's going to kill the cyclops?" Carter asked.

"Yeah," I said. "Now how do we find—"

"Look, bread crumbs," Sadie said pointing at the floor.

I looked at the floor and saw that she was right. There were bread crumbs leading a path. "Annabeth said 'Hansel and Gretel,'" I said. "They left a trail of bread crumbs. Annabeth made this trail. I'm sure of it."

I hope you guyslike this chapter. It wasn't the best chapter, but I hope it's okay. .