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IMPORTANT NOTE: I forgot to mention Tris in the last chapter but she is also on the top floor with Annabeth.

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Tris POV

Thanks Percy. So, now we're all drenched, I'm guessing that they're rescuing us? I mean, that gaping hole in the side of the tower means that we can either jump and fall to our deaths, or let Rapunzel winch us down on her hair...

Or the dragon could take us. Hiccup pats it on the head and gestures to us all to get on. Percy and Nico shake their heads.

"I'll come." Thalia hops on the back. "Seeing as I'm the only one Zeus won't blast out of the sky."

"But I thought you-" Nico trails off as she slowly turns to give him an evil look. "Never mind. Have fun."

"Okay, so we're going down to the bottom to see if we can get in going upwards. If you can, keep going down. We should meet half-way, then we can get the hell out of here." Hiccup explains. I just nod, feeling slightly bemused. They take off and Percy turns to the centre of the room.

"We should in theory be able to mess with the mechanics and make the trapdoor open without draining our powers." Annabeth says, kneeling by the door. A voice crackles to life from somewhere around us.

"You will never escape. Don't try to leave the tower." It crackles off again, but Rapunzel has a far off look in her eye.

"I need to get to the top of the tower."

"We were just there!" Nico protests.

"No." She fixes him with a steely look. "The very top of the tower."

Thalia POV

ARGH.

When we land, I have officially decided. I am never riding a dragon again. Hiccup doesn't seem in the least bit fazed as he slips off the dragon's back.

"Nice job, Toothless." TOOTHLESS? Of all the things to call the dragon, he calls it Toothless?

I slid of weakly and stagger after him to the piece of corrugated iron at the bottom of the tower. He looks at it critically, then tugs experimentally. It doesn't budge.

"Need a hand?" I crouch and help him. It slowly peels away from the wall. We toss it to the side and peer upwards. "Don't tell me we're climbing up that chute."

"Heh..."

After a couple of attempts, we get the hang of it. Pressing my hands a feet against the sides, I can brace myself and get up. On the first attempt, we got a couple of metres before I slipped and slid backwards, taking Hiccup with me.

Now, we are getting further and further away from the bottom. I stop suddenly when I hit my head on a piece of wood.

"We're there!"

Hiccup fidgets a little, but I don't take notice. I feel around and manage to grab at a lever just below me. Well that's convenient.

"Pull the lever, Hiccup!" It clicks down, then I realise that there were two levers. The sides of the chutes widen and we both go sliding downwards. "WRONG LEVER!"

I manage to slow myself down about half-way and stop myself. My hands make a screeching noise as they are dragged along. I'm not sure where Hiccup is.

"Thalia! You okay?" He calls down. Wait, down? I look up and see him hanging from a metal pipe.

"How did you- Never mind, lets carry on." I swing myself up again and this time, we pull the right lever. The trapdoor drops open and hits Hiccup on the head. He pulls himself up and runs across the room. I drag myself up after him and look around. The wooden walls are damp and rotting. One good lightning bolt would send this place crumbling.

"You came back!" Hiccup is kneeling in front of a red-headed girl. She has chains draped over. They look heavy.

"Of course I came back. What did you think I was going to do?"

"Well, you could have flown off on your dragon." I turn to see a brown-haired boy grinning weakly at them. The last person in the room is a girl with tangled brown hair. She grins at me and I smile back, feeling very confused.

"So, who are you?" The boy looks at me. "I'm Jack Frost." Oh really? Then where's his white hair? But actually, he looks a lot like Jack Frost. I've seen him before, trying to make it snow at Camp. He hasn't succeeded yet.

"Thalia. Daughter of Zeus and Lieutenant of Artemis."

"That's a long name." The brown haired girl shakes her head, whilst laughing. "I'm Coco."

"Merida." The red-head speaks. "Is there any way you can get these chains off?"

I think on it. I mean, I could break them with electricity, but the impact would probably kill them. My bow and arrows for some reason aren't appearing. The only thing I can think of to do is to use Aegis.

"Close your eyes." Merida shuts them. I tap my wrist. "Aegis." My shield spirals out to glare at the chains. They clink backwards, tripping over themselves to get away. Well, that's new.

I swing round to Coco, who also had her eyes shut. In a matter of seconds, she's free. I turn to Jack. He shrinks away and stares at Aegis in horror. "Shut your eyes." I order. He does so, as though my words jolted him into being able to think again. The chains snake away and he falls forwards. Merida and Hiccup hurry to help him up.

"I need snow. Ice and snow." Ah, so he is Jack Frost.

"There is none."

Rapunzel POV

I peer out of the gap in the wall, holding onto the crumbling wall to steady myself. There's a hook where the cage is suspended from. I toss my hair up to it and it catches.

Nico follows me. I take a breath and look sideways at him. "I'm going up there."

"Then I'm coming too." He scowls slightly when I shake my head.

"You have no idea what we're dealing with here."

"But-" He doesn't have a chance to finish. I swing out from the tower and begin hauling myself upwards. The howling wind buffets me and I grip as tightly as I can. Thank goodness for all those hours I spent in my tower practising. I near the hook. When I get there, I wrap my hair around it another couple of times, just to be sure.

I am at the bottom of the roof. If I look up, I can see another room jutting out from the top of it. I separate another section of my hair and toss it towards the room. It wraps around something, I think it's a window handle. After testing it to check it's going to hold, I start scrambling up.

It's hard work, more than once the tiles slip from under me and scatter down the roof, before falling into nothingness. My hair is slippery with the mist and I slip down a couple of metres.

Eventually, I reach where I was headed. The window is shut. I tap it. Nothing. Fine. I take a flower pin from a strand of my hair and jab it into the window as hard as I can. Cracks splinter around it. I pull it out and try again. My cracks. On the third time, a large shard of glass comes free. Carefully, I pull it out and toss it away. I work at it, wrapping my hand in hair and pulling out fragments.

I manage to cut through a small section of hair accidentally. It is still long, but it turns brown. I mentally curse myself, before using that section to bandage my hand more tightly. The window is almost completely gone now. I slide through, avoiding broken glass. When my feet touch the ground, I allow myself to look around.

In the centre of the room is a huge watch tank. It has a model tower in it. I catch my breath. I can see everything. Toothless is sitting on the rock at the bottom, waiting for Hiccup and Thalia. As I watch, I see a wave surge up the side of the tower. The room below where we were loses part of its wall.

"Interesting, isn't it?"

I spin around. A lady is smiling coldly at me. She is wearing a blood red dress and has straight black hair.

"Aunt Gothel."

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