Percy

"Time for some fun," the voice said.

"Hurry, the jar!" Annabeth said and I quickly rushed to get it. "And make sure the cake is okay."

"The cake's fine! It's doing better than all of us," I muttered. I looked at the jar. "At least they didn't release Hope yet."

The tiny room flickered dark. This office didn't even have any windows! I started feeling claustrophobic.

"What did the thing mean by some 'fun?'" Sadie asked.

"Something bad," Carter assumed.

"Well, duh. Even I knew that."

"What do you think that voice is?" I asked.

"I don't know," Annabeth said a bit frustrated. "We need some light."

I uncapped Riptide and Annabeth unsheathed her knife. They cast a dim bronze glow around the room.

"Wait, where is everybody?" I asked.

"Over here," they said, but all the voices blurred in my head.

"Where?" I called, I was sure I heard more than three voices.

Something squeezed my arm. "Percy, is this you?"

I managed not to yelp. I let Riptide brighten some of the darkness and saw Annabeth's face. "Yeah."

"Thank the gods I found you," she said.

Her face started to change until it was a gray horrifying face of a monster. The eyes were black with big ears, like elves, and the face was hard, like it had been carved from stone.

It laughed in a squeaky voice. "Oh yes, our master made us. We're modern monsters!"

"Wait, who's your master?" I asked.

"Oh, you wouldn't recognize him, even if I told you," it said. It bared its sharp teeth and bit my left shoulder.

"Agh," I put down the jar and clutched my shoulder.

I quickly slashed at the monster and its head got chopped off with a nasty squelch! Black blood started flowing out until it disintegrated.

I stuffed Pandora's pithos in my backpack. I winced as I moved my shoulder. I picked up the cake in my other hand and called for the others again.

The tiny office seemed to have expanded in the darkness.

"Annabeth?" I called.

"Percy!" I heard Carter's voice say instead. "Is that you or a monster?

"I could ask you the same thing," I said. "Where are you anyway?"

"Uh… behind you."

I whipped around and saw Carter behind me with his curved sword (which I still thought was weird). "Thank the gods," I said. "I thought that I wouldn't be able to find you."

"Yeah," Carter said. "Did you see those monsters?"

I nodded. "Just killed one. Any idea how to get out of here?"

"Nope. None at all."

I thought about tiny room. How high was the ceiling? I reached up and touched it with my sword. Good, not too high. "Hey, you think you can go in your chicken-man form again and break the ceiling?"

"I told you, it's a falcon, an avatar of Horus," he grumbled. "And I used it before too, so I don't know if I still have the strength to do it, but I'll try."

He closed in eyes in concentration. I heard footsteps coming from behind me and I whirled back.

"Sadie?" I asked.

"No, of course not!" she turned into the monster again and I lopped off its head. Suddenly, there was a bright light that entered the room.

"Ow, my head," Carter groaned.

There was a big hole in the ceiling which explained the brightness. And a piece of plaster near him which explained the sudden ow. I looked around. The office did expand. In fact, it was huge. The tiny table and chair were still in the middle.

"Sorry. I couldn't get the avatar going again so I just used a spell," he said rubbing his head.

The weird monsters were still roaming around in the room, half behind me (I quickly turned around) and the other half on the other side. "What's going on there?"

"I don't know," Carter said. "Keep a hand on your backpack, they seem to want something from there."

"What? My homework?" I said. Then I remembered that I put the jar in there. That explained it.

There was some more yelling on the other side of the room. I chopped off more heads as I ran towards it.

I killed and wove through the crowd of monsters and saw Annabeth fighting a giant in the middle.

"Percy!" Annabeth said. "You mind helping?"

The giant swatted her away with his gigantic hand and she hit the wall, groaning. I made my way to her and gave her some ambrosia.

"You okay?" I asked helping her up.

"Yeah, I've been through worse," she muttered. "That giant… He's Olympus."

"Why, yes I am!" the giant grinned. He was clearly the voice that we heard. "Everyone knows about me!"

"Olympus," I repeated. "Like as in the one above the Empire State Building?"

Olympus's face turned purple. "No, as in the one who led the rebel against Zeus!"

"And his foster-father," Annabeth added.

"Silence!" he bellowed. "Yes, but he defeated the giants and slew me. For that, I'll take revenge upon all the gods!"

He eyed my backpack. "We'll let you go in peace if you just give us that jar."

Carter joined in with Sadie. "Sure," Sadie said. She took out a… jelly jar? She threw it to him. "Let's go!"

"Really? A jelly jar?" Annabeth asked giving Sadie a strange look. She pried open the door.

"I found some monsters eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and I took the jar," she said. "After killing them of course."

"She means after tying up," Carter corrected.

"Does this count as a win?" I asked. "I mean, running away from Olympus?"

"I hope," Annabeth said. "When we get to camp, I'll ask some of the Hermes kids to hack into the system just to make sure."

"Come back here!" Olympus yelled.

"Not likely," I muttered.

We went back to the cells.

"Here," I said and we skidded to a stop. I whistled and two shaped in the sky came flying down.

Hey, boss, Blackjack said. You got some of your friends here? I brought Porkpie with me.

"Yeah," I said. "We're kind of in a hurry. There's this giant coming after us."

Sure boss. Hop on. Hey, do we get donuts later?

"Sure. Hop on," I said. I jumped on Blackjack and Annabeth came behind me. Carter and Sadie rode on Porkpie.

We lifted off just as Olympus came running into the cells waving the jelly jar. "You will pay for this!"

"Thank the gods we made it out of there," Annabeth said.

"Yeah," Carter agreed.

"So where are you headed anyway?" I asked. "We'll drop by there first."

"Brooklyn," Sadie said.

"Oh, Brooklyn?" Annabeth said a bit stiffly. "Nice place."

Annabeth got weird looks but she shrugged it off.

"Come on Wise Girl," I said. "You should be tired. You were on watch weren't you?"

"Yeah," she said. She leaned against me. "You don't mind, do you?"

I shook my head and she fell asleep.

Aw, come on boss! If you two are going to cuddle, get me some donuts. I don't carry around couples on my back for free you know! Blackjack complained.

"Fine," I grumbled. "But don't call me boss!"

Whatever you say boss.

"I said, don't call me boss!"

I only got like one review, but I got some favorites. XD Anyway, that's it for this chapter.

And just so you know, it says on Theoi that Olympus was actually a giant. "OLYMPOS (or Olympus) was a giant or Titan wof the island of Krete (Crete). He raised the young god Zeus, but later incited the Gigantes to rebel against him and was destroyed in the battle which ensued."

So yeah. Now I've got a question. Do you think this story should just end here or should I write more? Please review and tell me your thoughts~