Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson

This is a rather short chapter, and I apologize for that. A lot does happen, though.

I kept watch even though I knew nothing would find us. I opened my backpack and pulled out the tiara. The sunlight from the orb of sun rays in the crown glowed slightly in the moonlight. I smiled at it, thinking of my dad. I thought about the prophecy and what it meant. I pondered this for hours. Hours. Soon, light started to shine through the sky as the sun rose. I looked at the tiara one last time and put it away.

I wasn't tired, I never was. Weird, right? I guess it's a child of the sun god thing.

I woke up Logan and Annabeth and we packed up camp. I remembered the idea that ran through my head over the night. I figured that I wouldn't hurt to mention it to them.

"Uh guys I think I have an idea." I mumbled.

"Well?" Annabeth asked, curious.

"I was thinking last night, about the line in the prophecy-'will be shown the way by a trail of light'-and I have a thought on that. I think it's the tiara." They looked at me skeptically and Logan was about to say something but I didn't let him.

"Just hear me out." I continue. "If I wear it, a light emanates from it, right? Well it might create a trail of light that could eventually lead us to where Percy is!"

Logan pondered the idea in his head. Well this'll take a while, I thought.

Annabeth looked like she was running through, in her head, all the pros and cons of the plan. "Ya know... that just might work." she spoke.

"Well I think it's worth a shot." Logan finally said.

I smiled at him. Took ya long enough, I thought. I placed the tiara on the crown of my head and waited. At first, nothing happened. A faint glow was eminating from it, but not enough to signify a trail. I started to become disappointed. What if this doesn't work?

Then a trail of light appeared in front of us. The tiara was lighting it up for us.

We started to follow the trail. We walked arround for hours following it. A little bit of time later,we entered the city of Las Vegas. We walked through the streets, people giving us strange looks; probably as to why 2 kids and a young adult were walking around randomly. After a while, the trail began to shine brighter and it led us to some place out of the way of traffic.

I looked over my shoulder (since I was leading them) to see how Annabeth and Logan were doing. Logan seemed to be fine, just being wary so no monsters jumped out at us. Annabeth looked, well, pale. Her face had gone chalky white and she started to slow down her pace and eventually stopped. I was really curious as to why she stopped moving. I looked ahead and saw a large building in the distance. The light trail seemed to be in its direction.

"Stop." Anabeth said, her voice icy cold. "I know where this leads. Almost 12 years ago, I had come here with Percy and got caught in the Lotus Hotel and Casino. That is where he is. I feel him, in my heart. He's here, I'm positive." she said, with her voice cracking a few times.

"Well let's get your boyfriend back sis!" Logan said in his all oo cherrvoice.

I rolled my eyes and walked back to Annabeth. "Look, were gonna go in there and beat the crap out of whoever is holding him hostage. Ok?"

She nodded her head in understanding. She stood up straight and put on a brave face. "Youre right. I'm gonna get Percy back and there's nothing than anyone can do to stop me."

I gave her an encouraging smile and ran back to the front. We didn't even have to follow the trail at all afterards.

Not a moment later we were standing in front of the large building. The windows were all covered in spider webs. It had obviously been closed for years but you could see lights inside. We slowly opened the door quietly and slipped in. I let Annabeth lead since she was familiar with the place, and followed her down a corridor.

She obviously didn't like the spiders and neither did Logan. They both had looks of fear on their faces.

I whispered to Logan,"it's cool they can't hurt you." and gve a small smile.

He whispered back "Thanks." I just simply nodded in return.

Annabeth sushed us as we reached a door because we could hear someone talking. His voice was raspy but stern.

"...ere are the rest who escaped? Where are they?" The man asked, for what must have been the 3 billionth time he asked that question. He must be really irritated.

"I will never tell you. You can keep me here as long as you like but you'll never find out." Annabeth was smiling like an idiot when she heard him talk. That must be Percy, I thought.

"Oh, really? Well do u even know where they are?" The man asked

"I will say nothing more, because I have nothing left to say." Percy said sternly. The man just growled in frustration.

We opened the door a bit and saw a monster person who I believed to be a cyclops. He was just standing there, watching Percy. Percy was tied up in chains and kneeling down against the wall on the other side of the room. I looked over at Annabeth and she had a look of pure concern in her eyes. And yes...fear.

If he looked up, he would see us, I thought.

Just then, Percy looked up at the cyclops, but he clearly saw us. He smiled quickly while the man was not looking. Annabeth looked at me and I knew what to do. As quietly as possible, I took the bow off my shoulder and steadied it in my arms. I pulled an arrow from the quiver on my back and set it up.

I thought of the archery back at camp and smiled. I just hoped that I had the same amazing accuracy when I shoot real targets.

Percy seemed to notice the tiara because his eyes drifted to the top of my head. When he looked back down at me I mouthed to him "watch out for arrow" he slowly nodded his head, so as to not attract any attention.

I closed my eyes and let the arrow fly.

I heard a scream, but I didn't know who or what it came from. I kept my eyes closed tightly, squeezing them tighter as the seconds went by.

If I accidentally hurt Percy, I'll never be able to live with myself.

Ohhhhhh... clifhanger.

I hate them too so i won't let you hang there for long, hopefully. Well, until next time...Review!