Chapter 10: The Day Gets Even Longer
I had another nightmare. Luckily, it was quite short.
I was in the Underworld and all I heard was this:
"Percy, what are you doing?" a voice said. "Get back here."
"Surely, you would like me better, Perseus?" another voice said. "Come here, let me kiss you."
The very next thing I heard was:
"Yo! Seeweed Brain! Get up!" a voice yelled.
I opened my eyes, Thalia was standing in front of me, along with Grover, Annabeth and Nico.
Geez! I wished that the human lightning bolt would go mind her own business.
"Yeah," I said wearily. "What's up?"
I turned to face Annabeth, a person much more pleasant to look at, as compared to Thalia.
"It's time, Percy," Annabeth said. "It's all screwed up. You know what time it is?"
"Too early...because I haven't waken up yet, call me in 5 hours, will ya?"
I closed my eyes again. I heard Annabeth growl in frustration as she walked away. I also heard someone else approach me.
"Percy. It's 6.5:00 a.m.," Nico whispered.
What the?
"What the?" I finally woke up. "Whaddya mean 6.5 a.m.?"
"Look at my watch," Thalia finally said.
Sure enough, in between the 6 and the 7, there was a new line that read 6.5... That's freaky.
"You know what else, Grover has been asking the villagers around here," Thalia said, "and everybody seems too think that this is perfectly normal. Just what does Kronos think he's doing?"
"So, instead of 24 hours, there's 48?"
They all nodded. Oh...that made me feel a whole ton better. At least it wasn't me that was crazy, it was the world.
"I think we would better get going then."
"Where?" Nico asked. "To Kronos' hideout?"
"No...not yet...I have another place in mind."