Max POV

We were worn out. We couldn't go any farther; we had been traveling for two days, with three hours of sleep every night. Percy wouldn't let us quit. Nico couldn't Shadow Travel us all at the same time, so we had to use our own transportation. We were halfway to Europe, this is the Itex and Dylan was holding his friend, Annabeth, hostage. It really wasn't too bad since we didn't have the little kids.

The little ones.

They were also with Dylan. It made me slow down thinking about it. Fang probably noticed, because he slowed down as well. He grabbed my hand and flew above me. I looked down at the ocean that was whizzing past us. We were flying over the ocean, only stopping to rest on some of the occasional islands.

"I hope we get to them in time." I said. Fang nodded. He was still a man of few words. But that didn't matter. I loved him that way. Funny thing, I always told myself I wouldn't love him anymore a few weeks after he left us. I let go of Fangs hand to get some blood back into mine, I slowed down to Iggy's speed. He was looking around for any fallen Shadow Travelers. Nico was Shadow Traveling with Thalia.

"How you doin'?" I asked

"Tired, I need to rest." Iggy replied

"Don't we a-" I was cut off by Percy, he yelled back at us,

"Hurry! We only have a small amount of time!" I could here his voice was shaky. I flew faster to catch up with him.

"You know, you may be able to will the water to push you in your sleep, but the rest of us can't do that. We are real humans… well, sort of. And we need to rest."

"Me too." He admitted softly. Then, as if a gift from Heaven, I saw land. Lots of it, because we were there. We were in Europe.

Annabeth POV

I couldn't seem to remember the last thing I ate. I stared at the girl in the cell across from me. She and I both were experiencing memory issues that were so bad, I couldn't even remember her name. Her friend wasn't even talking anymore. Just silence and tears. I had this feeling that someone was looking for me, but I couldn't place who. I thought maybe this was where I had always lived. I was even thinking that Dylan (his name was mentioned to me everyday) was the best person in the world. I heard I rattling at the door. An girl walked in holding a tray with the daily meal in it. I could of sworn she flickered into an evil looking monster, but that wasn't possible. At least, I didn't remember if I was or not, so just stayed quiet and ate. She left, and we all ate.

"What's your name, again?" I asked the girl across from me.

"Uh…" She stared blankly into my eyes, ad if they were empty sockets, "I can't remember…" She kept eating.

For some reason I could still remember mine, but just faintly. I couldn't spell it, though. I think its Anna, but I couldn't remember anything past that. The boy in the corner had been hauled away today, he died of starvation. It was awful; I never even got to see his face.

"Are you ready to leave?" A voice behind me asked. The girl in the cell across from me screamed. I turned around, and there was a boy behind me. He had dark hair, a black shirt, and something about him reminded me of someone I knew… I wanted to say his name started with an "N". "It's Nico, you remember, right?" He took my arm, "whether you remember or not, you are leaving with me, let's go." Then, I did what I had to, because I didn't know this guy, and I had been through enough pain since this morning. I screamed.

The girl who brought our meals hurried into the room, the guy disappeared, but luckily, not with me.

Percy POV

"Nico!" I yelled. He had returned alone after Shadow traveling inside to retrieve Annabeth. "Why didn't you just grab her and leave?"

"I couldn't!" He yelled back, "there is some kind of force in there that kept me from getting her out! And if you want to come with me and try, feel free." He sat down on a rock outside of the large, crumbling stone wall. No one had seen us out there, plotting and waiting to find a way to get in. There were monsters everywhere; I was surprised they didn't smell us. Something odd was happening, and I was determined to find out what.

"She didn't remember me." Nico said blankly.

"What?" I asked. Thalia moved in closer, while Max and Fang went off to go talk about private stuff. Iggy just kept still, not moving.

"She didn't remember me. She seemed so un-Annabeth-y." Nico replied, shoving his hands into his pockets.

"Un-Annabeth-y?" Thalia asked, with sarcasm in her voice. "That's not a word."

"It is now!" Nico huffed at Thalia, "Since when are you that tall?" He commented randomly.

"Does it matter?" I yelled. "Tell me more about Annabeth!"

"That's it. Then an Empusa came in, one of the ones I think you described to me as Susan?" Nico leaned back on the tree behind him, and I turned away, unable to bare the pain anymore.

"She was fine, though, wasn't she?" I asked. Nico looked over uneasily. I tensed up waiting to hear.

"She couldn't remember anything, it seemed. And for a child of Athena, I don't suppose that's 'okay'."

After a while of sitting around, pondering ideas on how to get in, I made a group decision.

"I'm going in."

At first, Thalia tried to convince me not to go, but I wanted to badly to make sure Annabeth was safe. We set up guards all around the building, Max and Fang covered the entrance, and then everyone else picked an opposite wall, the only wall we didn't cover was the north entrance, the complete opposite side of Max and Fang, because Iggy couldn't be alone, considering he's blind.

It wasn't as hard as I thought, sneaking in. All the monsters just drifted around, and completely ignored me. If one got in my way, there was a small battle, in which I came out victorious, using Riptide. The place was huge, and at one point looked like it could have been very sanitary, but the monsters had left feces, and fur on the floor, ruining it's other wise perfect white surface. I ran threw many rooms, trying to find the cellar door, looking around clean white labs, and long corridors that lead to closets holding lots of bottles, vials to be more specific. I took one and moved on. I wondered if there were any security cameras watching my every move. If maybe that Dylan kid was just waiting for the right moment. I got all the way to the cellar, before my superstition was confirmed.

"Get him." Dylan said, "And take him to Lab 4." Then, I was hit over the head, and a rag was put on my face. The world went black.