Max POV

I held Fang's hand. We had a discussion, and he explained to me everything. It was the most I had ever heard him talk, but I didn't mind his silence now, because I was so happy, but to frightened at the same time.

We were sitting on the ground, waiting to here from Nico. He was the first person Percy would report to, and he was to "Shadow Travel" they called it, and get us all to meet somewhere. It was after dinner, and I was worried. Worried for Percy, Annabeth, Nudge, Angle, Gazzy, and even a little bit for Total, who we still didn't know if he was alive. Come to think of it, I didn't know if any of them were alive. Fang put his arm around my waist and kissed me. I put my head on his shoulder, and cried a little.

"Whoa, PDA guys." Someone said. We both immediately got into a fighting stance. Someone walked out of the shadows, and I slugged him in the nose, kicked him in the gut and stood with my foot on his chest, he disappeared, and I immediately realized who I had just nearly killed. "Ooow," Nico moaned. "Goodness, do you kill everyone you see?" His nose was bleeding, but he seemed not to mind, the bleeding almost stopped instantly.

"How…?" I was amazed it stopped that fast.

"My dad is the god of the dead; it doesn't seem to affect me as much."

I sighed and shifted my weight, Fang grabbed my hand. "Percy still isn't back, and I was thinking about going in to help him."

"I think you should, but first we need a rendezvous point. Somewhere totally out of the way, top secret and such." I said.

"I couldn't agree more, which is why I'm going to try to teleport you there. It's in the side of a cliff, a cave you can barely see." Nico said. I got very uneasy. And when he teleported us there, it felt like my skin was being peeled of my face, but in the end, I kind of enjoyed it. Fang's hand was super red from where I had squeezed really hard. The cave was dark and muggy, puddles all over the place. Nico grabbed my hand and led us to the back of the cave, and pushed at the wall. A large stone rolled away, and there was even more cave. He grabbed my hand again and led my farther back. I had no idea how he could see where we were going, but he knew his way. We turned down another corridor in the cave, and I saw a light.

At first I thought I was dead, but it ended up being a very nice place with cots, and lanterns, Iggy and Thalia were already there. But there was someone else as well, my half-sister Ella, and my mother, Dr. Martinez. They were sitting next to Iggy on a sofa.

"Wow! Were did you get all this stuff?" I said, I ran up and hugged Ella and my mother, who smiled and sat back down.

"The store." Nico said, I didn't want to know if he had paid for it, so I left it at that.

Annabeth POV

I wandered the halls, looking in rooms, trying to find something about my past that I couldn't remember. Dylan hadn't come back for me yet. Something about the boy he was torturing was familiar. As if maybe we were related somehow. I couldn't think about him now. I just wanted some help… and maybe a protein bar. I found a room with comfy-looking beds; I laid down on one, and fell asleep.

I was abruptly woken; I turned over and starred at the kid I had seen Dylan hurt. His eyes were very blue, like the ocean. I blinked twice and sat up, he grabbed my hand.

"Let go." He whispered.

"I don't know you!" I shouted, and then I struggled away from his grasp. I stood up and shoved him. He didn't move very far, but a pen fell out of his pocket. He had a hole in his shirt, right at his heart. I leaned over and picked up the pen.

"Yes you do!" He cried desperately. He reached over for the pen, but I held it back from him. "I'm Percy Jackson; we went to Camp Half-Blood together for years! At the end of the summer last year, we started dating, and we had our first kiss, then we got thrown in the lake. I made an air bubble under the water. We went on date at the beginning of this summer, and I lost you. The reason you are like this is because of me!" A tear ran down his cheek, and he crumpled to his knees. He cried a little more. I squatted down on the floor next to him.

"You're crazy." I said and then walked away, twirling his pen in my fingers. Even though I believed him, really deep down inside. I had better relations now anyway. What was this one guy going to matter?

Percy POV

Anger boiled inside me, mostly for Dylan and myself. I slung my backpack over my shoulder, and ran after her. I grabbed her hand and ran, not about to let her go. I hurried into a padded cell, I ripped an open chain of the wall, I clasped it around her wrist, and then attached the chain to my own. I ran even faster now causing Annabeth to trip. I helped her up and started running again. Nico had already contacted me about the rendezvous point. And I was determined to find it. Then, Annabeth did the unexpected. She pulled an emergency block on the wall. All sorts of guards and monsters poured into the hallways. I practically dragged Annabeth from that point; she half ran half glided across the floors, me being bigger than her an increasing advantage.

I managed to get her outside the building, I ran to the side with that the cliff was on. I looked behind me. Susan the Empusa was running after me, her and two others I didn't know. I took my bag off while running, there was a grappling hook in there, I held tight to one end and jumped, I had no time to secure it, I hopped it would grab the ground while I fell. Luckily it did, but too soon, I could just barely see the opening to the cave. My hand was around Annabeth's waist, holding her, so she would fall and rip her wrist out of socket. I could here the shout of the Empusa, so I let go of the rope. I fell faster than I anticipated. I reached for anything my free hand could grab onto. Luckily, that was a large rock right above the opening to the cave. I swung in, and landed on my side. I rolled over, out of they way of the entrance, digging my shoulder into Annabeth's collar bone. She winced in pain, but still sat speechless. I emptied the remaining contents of my bag onto the floor, then I filled the bag with rocks and threw it over the side to give the impression I was still falling. And I think Susan believed it, because she said,

"Let's say we killed the boy, and threw him over the side of the cliff, then say we couldn't stop the girl from throwing herself over. They'll be dead anyway." With that, I didn't here them talk again. I stood up slowly, and grabbed a flashlight that was in the bag. I was determined not to use it until necessary.

Annabeth got up and grunted with pain. She collapsed back onto the floor. I then found it necessary to turn on the flashlight and get a closer inspection. She had put my pen in the pocket of her jeans, and during everything, it came un-capped the sword had expanded into her thigh.

"Annabeth!" I cried out. I lifted her up, and then carried her to the back of the cave. All the way to the stone that had to be moved out of the way, but that could only be done by Nico. I set Annabeth on the ground. I banged on the stone, and pushed it a little bit. Nico was on the other side, and he opened it all the way.

"Hey man-" he stopped short when he saw the blood on my white shirt, and Annabeth laying on the floor. "Oh, dude. I'm sorry." He whispered.

"It's not you fault." I said, and picked Annabeth back up. She was loosing a lot of blood, which caused her pass out. "If it's anyone's, it's mine." I walked past him, and he followed, "Hey, Max's mom is a doctor, and she's here. I went and got her when I heard about the memory problem, so maybe she could fix this too."

"I sure hope so."

When we got the room, everyone gasped in horror at Annabeth and me. Blood was all down my leg, and hers. "Help me." I rasped out. It looked even worse in bright light. Someone I had never seen before that must have been Max's mom rolled a cot up to me. I set her down, but didn't let go of her hand, (mostly because it was cuffed to mine.)

"Percy," Max's mom said, "You need to let go." I lifted my hand up.

"I can't." I grabbed her hand again, and stared at her eyes, even though they were closed. Nico came over and took out a celestial bronze knife to cut the chain with. I covered my face with my hands and took a shaky breath.

"Hey, dude," Nico said sympathetically. "Its gunna' be alright. For it to get better, you're going to have to let go." He snapped the chain with his knife, and Annabeth was wheeled into another room. Max followed with a big bag that had a red cross on it.

Max came back in later without the bag. It felt like it had been three hours, but Thalia had assured me it was only three minutes. I lay down, even though I knew I wasn't going to fall asleep. Within seconds I fell asleep.

I awoke to a sharp scream. I sat up fast and looked around. The only people in the room were Iggy, a girl I hadn't seen before, and Thalia.

"What was that?" I said. Thalia walked over to the side of my bed.

"Annabeth is no longer unconscious, but she still hasn't completely got her memory back. She still thinks she's going out with Dylan. Did you know she's going out with Dylan? Yeah, it was kind of weird at first, but I realized it was the memory stuff…" She jabbered on. I got up as quick as I could without becoming dizzy. I ran into the part of the cave Annabeth was in. She was no longer wearing jeans, but shorts instead. Her Camp-Half Blood T-shirt was still on, the end was badly stained with blood. Dr. Martinez was stitching up her leg, and Annabeth was wincing in pain, occasionally letting out a high pitch scream.

"Percy," Dr. Martinez said. "She's going to be all right, but you still need to wait in the other room." She continued stitching Annabeth's leg. I walked out slowly, but turned quickly,

"What about her memory?" I asked walking toward them, "Will you be able to restore it back?" I turned to face Dr. Martinez.

"Only if I had a sample of what they gave her, which is nearly impossible. You can't go back in there, they'll capture you." She sighed. "Here is your sword young man." She handed me my pen.

"Thanks," I shoved the pen in my pocket, and felt something else in there. Then, I remembered, I had grabbed a bottle from a closet near the cellar. I pulled it out. "What about this?" I handed her the bottle.

"It doesn't have a label," Dr. Martinez said. I examined the bottle more closely. I turned it 360 degrees, looked on the cap, and in the cap. When I took the lid off, a strong smell filled my nostrils.

"Ugh! That smells awful, Dr… Wait, what's your name again?" I closed the bottle. The… Dr. looked at me and frowned.

"That stuff is very strong, if it made you forget just by smelling it. In a matter of fact, if they would have given anyone in that jail enough, they could forget how to function properly, and die."