I woke up in a room that I didn't recognize. Percy and Nico weren't in the bed with me, which made no sense, as normally I was first to wake up. I slipped out of the bed and went through the door, where I found another unfamiliar room. A door on the opposite side of that room opened and Thalia walked out, looking exactly as confused as I felt.
"What's going on?" she asked, confused.
"I don't know." I said as two other doors opened and Leo and Reyna walked out.
For some odd reason, all of us were wearing actual clothes, not super fancy clothes, but actual clothes.
A big burly man came through one of the other doors and looked at us.
"Oh, you're awake." He said, sighing.
"What's going on?" Thalia asked, more like demanded.
"Do you know who your parents are?" He asked, ignoring her question.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"Yep, definitely Jupiter's kids."
"Who's Jupiter? Why are we here? Who are you-"
"The better question would be, what the hell is going on?" Reyna asked, fuming.
"Okay, all I know is that your moms-" he pointed to Thalia, Leo, and me. "and your dad-" he pointed to Reyna. "brought you to Olympia to keep you safe. Jupiter located you a few months ago and decided to bring you here."
"Whoa, hold up, where exactly is here?" I asked, almost scared of the answer.
"You're in the palace of Olympus, Olympia's newest and worst enemy." A new voice said coming out of the same room that the man had came out of. It was a girl, more like a woman.
"What?!"
"And, you're the missing Princes and Princesses." She added sheepishly.
"What?!"
"Before you say anything else," she said, "I don't agree with this plan at all. I just want this stupid war to be over with."
"Who are you anyways?" Thalia asked.
"I'm Beckendorf, son of Hephaestus. This is Hylla, daughter of Bellona." The man, Beckendorf, said.
"His last name is Beckendorf, first is Charles, but no one calls him that." Hylla added. Looking closer, she looked a lot like Reyna, just older, and a lot taller.
"You do."
"Fine, only Silena and I call him that, but Silena calls him Charlie. Happy?"
"Always."
"What- is- going- on?" Thalia snapped.
"I just told you. You might want to get comfortable, you aren't going to be leaving any time soon." Hylla said.
Later that day, Jupiter, Bellona, and Hephaestus (all of us refused to call them King or Queen, Jupiter didn't like it, but Bellona and Hephaestus looked amused at it) came into the room. Jake and Nyssa appeared later, out of their separate rooms. Turns out they were dating Will and Kayla, the two who had fixed the multitude of scars that we had on our backs from the whippings (most of them were infected, some of them ran so deep that they had messed up our nerves, but apparently the reason we couldn't feel them was because we had gotten do used to the pain).
We learned that we weren't allowed to leave the chambers(at least it wasn't a small, dirty cell, that the main inhabitant was rats, rats that had rabies).
Apparently, some servants would bring us food. The servants were normally little kids no older than 5. One had a scar on his face and when Thalia asked about, Hylla told her that he had dropped something while serving Jupiter and Jupiter cut his face with a knife.
When she said that, I had a distinct memory from when I was 5, I had just started serving meals at the boarding school, and I dropped a bowl of soup onto a sixteen year old's lap. He got mad, and I ended up with a black eye.
Thalia had replied to that, "So?"
"I don't agree with what Jupiter did, but he's really harsh on them." Hylla replied.
The only thing to do in those chambers was to read or to listen to one of the others tell a story, but most of the time the stories ended up with everyone upset as everyone missed someone from Olympia. The reading was hard, as Leo, Reyna, and I learned how to read from outdated textbooks in the boarding school that the instructors were required to give us. Thalia had gone to school for a few months, but that's pretty much how she learned to read too. We normally only got about half an hour a week to attempt to read something, that time lessening as we got older. Hylla, Beckendorf, Nyssa, and Jake would sometimes correct our pronunciation of words when we read out loud under our breaths.
We were there for a few weeks before it happened.
It happened at night. Thalia and I were in the sitting room/main room in the chambers and some men appeared, climbing through the windows. Our initial reaction was to fight against them, but they slipped a rag damp with chloroform* over our mouths. I don't remember anything after I slipped into unconsciousness, but I do remember seeing Thalia kick the guy that was holding her in the wrong place before she passed out**.
I know it's short, but hopefully I shocked some people. The next chapter will probably be around the same length.
Feel free to ask questions, I will love to answer them!(in PM if you're a member and it's open, in the next chapter if you're a guest) I will also publish all questions in the chapter after the last chapter with the character and story information that helped me while writing this.
*render (someone) unconscious; a colorless, volatile, sweet-smelling liquid used as a solvent and formerly as a general anesthetic. Taken from Google.
**Thalia goes under right before Jason.
