"Where am I" I woke looking around at the shadowy mountains around me and the blazing campfire warming me. Annabeth placed her hand on my forehead nodded to herself and went to sit on a log. I sat up with my head feeling a bit dizzy. I only saw Annabeth and our backpacks. "Where is Percy and Kyle?" I asked feeling stupid of myself.
"Don't worry" Annabeth said soothingly, "they'll be back soon, there just taking a look around the village" she pointed over to a group of lights. She turned back to me, her gray eyes looking at me with sorrow. "You should rest, we got a long and dangerous day tomorrow". I nodded the laid my head on my backpack and fell into a deep sleep.
The next time I awoke, the sun was just coming out. I got up feeling a load better and walked over to a small sand dune to watch the sunrise. There was a small breeze that was coming from the west, how did I know that? I do not know. My black hair fluttered in the wind, it felt good to feel cool again, away from the heat. Someone stirred behind me and my bow appeared instantly in my hand. I turned to see I was facing my friend.
"You gonna shoot me or something" Kyle asked me his face in a joking mood. I sighed with relief and laid my bow next to me. He walked over and sat next to me. "You know what you did yesterday with the merman was pretty brave, I wasn't expecting that from you" he said. I turned to him, his blonde hair flying in the wind.
"Well, I had to get you guys out of there somehow" I addmited trying to sound cool. He chuckled. I gave him a glare like I meant what I said. "What happened?" I asked him.
"Oh, well, you were being controlled by the merman. As long as you were on his leash you were under his power so you were attacking us. Umm, when we cut the leash you used so much power that you wiped out. But percy killed the man so nothing to worry about" Kyle assured me. I looked down, I was in shock that this had happened to me and I survived. I should probably say thanks but then again Kyle was the one who got me into the mess.
"Kyle, Silver we have to get moving before mosters start attacking us again" Percy shouted at us from behind. We both got up and took one last look at the sunrise and headed down the hill to fetch our sacks. It took us no more then a five minute walk to get to town. As we entered , the stands were just opening with a bunch of old antiques for sale. We couldn't buy anything but it was cool to see what was in for another country. We were following Annabeth because she was the one counting the steps towards the temple entrence. She finally stopped looking confused.
"Hmm, weird. The entrence should be here but this is an old rundown bookstore" Annabeth explained.
"We might as well take a look inside" Percy suggested, we all agreed and entered the rundown store. It was very dusty and old, it almost looked like no one has been here for ages, except I could smell the odor of an underwater beast that passed through here recently.
"Look at all the books, there written in ancient greek plus there all about water" Annabeth said as she fiddled around with a book. The scent of the sea got stronger as we continued into the store. Finally we stopped. We were right infront of a vault. "This is the entrence if we followed the directions correctly" Annabeth concluded. It must be right I though to myself, both me and Percy were tense which must mean danger but also water. Kyle and Percy stepped infront of me and Annabeth and started turning the vault wheel. It was large and rusty but after two or three turns the hatch opened. We all looked inside to see a spiral staircase leading down, the long staircase had torches on the side to see where you are. I noticed a spider on the wall where Annabeth squealed, then ran into Percy's arm. Percy muttered something in her ear, I caught him say something like "don't worry i'm here, nothing is going to happen to you" but I might of been mistaken. As we entered Annabeth held Percy's hand a little to tight because Percy looked like he was going to burst out in pain. I marched down the eerie stairs confidently probably cause I sensed no danger nearby but only water. After ten minutes of stairs we hit the bottom. There was moss on the walls and it was really humid I even started to sweat. At the end of the room was a big body of water which reached all the way to a wall.
"It's a dead end" Kyle exclaimed. For a second I thought he was right until we approached the body of water.
"No, look under the water there's a tunnel leading to the next room but we will have to swim in order to arrive there." I explained pointing over towards the tunnel in the murky water. Kyle leaned over but I pulled him back. "Don't fall in yet, you won't be able to see it, the water is too mudy. I can only see it cause I got wolf eyes." I glared at him seriously. He looked deep into my eyes and read what I meant.
" Ok, so how we gonna get down there?" Kyle asked us.
" Percy" Annabeth grimaced looking into Percy's eyes.
"Yah I can create an air bubble for us all to breathe underwater. The catch is you guys have to stay close to me in order for it to work." Percy explained to us.
"Right, let's do this quick before the sea creature I smelled will gobble us up" I said getting into the water, everyone followed me. Both me and Annabeth pulled back our hair while Percy and Kyle took off there shirts to keep them dry. We all were soon wading in the muddy water. Percy took mine and Annabeth's hand and Kyle grabed onto his shoe. He suddenely dived into the murky water. I found myself holding my breath but after five minutes I was able to breathe. I looked at Annabeth, her eyes were closed while she was trying to fight the current. I turned around to look at Kyle, he was doing the same the only one who was different was Percy, who had his bright green eyes open and focused on the water infront of him. We swiftly turnned around the corner and were in a tunnel. Now I couldn't see a thing, I felt the current against me and Percy holding me tight. After what seemed two hours I saw light. Percy went at full speed toward the light I knew why, the air bubble was breaking and once it was gone me, Annabeth and Kyle won't be able to breathe. We got out of the tunnel and raced for the surface. Percy went a bit too fast because once we hit the surface we sorta rocketshiped out of there. We all landed with thud. It looked like Annabeth had broken her arm as the way she was clutching it, Percy ran over to her with the backpack and forced her to eat the cracker, the arm healed instantly. Kyle meanwhile ran toward me to make sure I was ok, of course I was so I sat up quickly before he managed to help me up. I looked around the new room we were in, it was almost similar to the last one except there was a small shoreline where it met up with a vast sea although far into the distance I made out a builiding very far away, that must be where the orb is. I explained my theorie to my friends but it turns out Percy has no more power to pull us thorugh the water.