A/N Sorry for not updating for so long, I was just busy with school. Curse teachers that assign endless streams of homework to procrastinating teens! I CURSE YOU!
Previously on The Lost Legion…
We reached the Big Room, only to realize it had been renovated into a Huge Room. Almost everyone had arrived, and we were waiting for Reyna, when she came barging in with terrible news.
"We have a spy in our midst."
Chapter 6
Percy POV
"How do you know this?" I asked
"I accidently caught him while he was sending a Iris Message," said Reyna, "He was sending information over to Nyx, that I'm sure, but I'm not sure what they know."
"Did you catch his code?" I asked
"Yes I did," said Reyna
She went to the middle, where there was a big holographic map of our base with everyone's position. See, it follows the code that is assigned to a person when they join the Legion, as I have 1, Annabeth 2, Nico 3, and so on. When we are looking for a certain person, we enter the code in the map, and the person's point on the map brightens, while everyone else's dims. Reyna entered the code into the map, and the map started to look for the person's code. After a few seconds, it showed that the person was in the Lobby of the Control House and was heading out.
"All right," I said, "we found him, and now we follow him. Reyna, get 4 portable maps. We go in groups of two. Katie, you and the campers wait here with our kids. Maybe they can show you around or something?"
"Sure," said Katie, "We'd like that."
"All right, guys let's go," I said
We split up in our unofficially assigned groups, which was everyone with their spouse. Annabeth and I ran out the southern exit and ran around the building; Jason and Piper went out the north entrance; Thalia, Nico, Leo and Reyna went out the lobby, or west, entrance. I rand with Annabeth around the building, using the ice to speed us up slightly by make it a little slippery so that each step we slid before we took the next, and we quickly made our way towards the spy. We rounded the corner of the building which took us to the lobby entrance and found that the spy was already in pursuit by Thalia and Nico (who probably shadow-traveled them both), so I looked at Annabeth. She looked at me and we made a mutual understanding: we would trap the spy by pinning him between us four until the last four came.
We made a final burst of speed, and overtook the spy before stopping and turning around. Jason and Piper appeared on our right, and Reyna and Leo appeared on our left. We trapped the spy, and as I took a closer look, realized that it was one of the demigods who was with us when we first came here.
"Reyna," I said, "was he the one?"
"Yeah," said Reyna, "He's the spy."
"What are you talking about?" asked the demigod
"Archer, don't play dumb," said Piper, "Tell us truthfully whether you were giving information to Nyx and is now serving as a spy for her?"
Archer went dazed and I knew that Piper was charmspeaking him. He continued looking dazed as he answered, "Yes, I was giving information and I am the spy. I swear on the River Styx that I am the spy for Nyx and I don't care who knows it."
As soon as the usual after-swearing-on-Styx-thunder rumbled, he broke from his daze and said, "Wha-oh no. I am so dead, Nyx is going to kill me for giving up my position."
"Wow," said Leo, "I thought that he was just saying that because he was being charmspoken, but I guess he really is the spy."
"Please," pleaded Archer, "help me, I don't want to die."
"Oh, don't worry," said Thalia, "we won't kill you; our torture will."
Archer had sighed when he heard we weren't going to kill him, but tensed up even more after hearing the rest of Thalia's statement, and if the queen of torture says it, then it must be horrible.
"All right," I said, "Thalia, you take him to the torture room and do whatever you want to him, just make sure you nor those under you personally don't kill him. if he dies while being tortured, but is not being touched by anyone, nor anyone gave him pity and ended it for him quickly, then that's fine."
"You got it Perce," said Thalia.
I controlled the ice near him and transformed them into very, very hard and sturdy shackles around his wrists and ankles, and chained the four together. Thalia took him from behind and took him to the torture room through teleportation.
"Nico," I said after she disappeared, "go with her and make sure her methods don't kill him directly. Everyone else, get the troops ready, we're moving base."
A/N sorry it's so short and again, sorry I haven't updated in a while. A virtual blue cookie to anyone who forgives me, and a virtual blue muffin to everyone who forgets about it.
