A/N: IMA STILL ON THAT CA- No.

Chapter Twenty-One

-Sparklez

"Seto?" I said tentatively, and I twisted the doorknob. It didn't open, and I frowned. I could hear something happening inside, so I yelled his name and jiggled the doorknob frantically.

"Seto? Seto! Let me in!" I yelled, and I banged on the door. "Seto!" I heard Seto scream so I kicked the door. It burst open and I watched Seto collapse again, so I ran in and grabbed him. He wasn't breathing. He wasn't breathing! His nose trickled red and he was limp, so I screamed, and then people were rushing in but I couldn't hear anything, because Seto wasn't frigging breathing and nothing else mattered except the fact he had no damn pulse and his chest wasn't slowly rising and then falling with every inhale and exhale because he wasn't breathing.

"Jordan, let go of him!" someone yelled, shoving me back. I watched in horror as that person picked him up and carried him out and I saw a crowd of people in the doorframe, staring at me in shock, mouths agape and eyes wide. I recognised Tiffany, Static and Misty as the people carrying Seto and saw the crowd consisted of people who lived in the hallway. They had all just watched their leader lose it. I stood up shakily and pushed my way out, my ears ringing. This was my fault. If I hadn't made Seto do all this magic he would be breathing. I started running, so fast my heart felt like it would thump out of my chest, and it was my fault. Everything was my fault. I realised I was crying and then my vision tunnelled and suddenly I was in my bedroom. I crumpled on the floor and hugged my knees, crying without even caring anymore if people could hear me.

-Percy

We made it back. Everyone had given Mitch some space, and we'd needed to help Tobuscus walk, but we made it back. We took him up to the Infirmary, and we noticed a crowd of people on level three. Mitch gasped.

"Oh Notch, that's Seto's room," he said, and we looked at the crowd of people outside it. We ran up the stairs, well Tobuscus limped, but when we got upstairs we went straight into the Infirmary. Tiffany, Static, Misty and another guy I didn't recognise were crowded around a bed, talking softly and urgently, and I realised the person on the bed was Seto. They were giving him potions, doing compressions on his chest, but I could tell something was terribly wrong. We helped Tobuscus up onto a bed and Mitch fumbled around and found a healing potion and gave it to him, and we tried to ignore the others frantically working. Mitch ended up ripping the arrow out of his knee, causing Tobuscus, or Toby as I'd learnt his real name to be, to bite down on a pillow and scream at it. Then Mitch wrapped a bandage around it and sent him on his way with something to lean on.

"Static, pass me the healing three potion and the get the electrics," Tiffany demanded, and Static and the boy rushed off to grab things. Misty worked quickly, doing compressions, while Tiffany did something to his wrists. We watched wordlessly as Static and the boy bought back vials of potions and a short, wooden stick with runes carved into it.

"Clear the area, no contact!" Tiffany ordered, and everyone stepped back as Tiffany touched the stick to Seto's chest. The runes lit up with yellow and then it flashed, and Seto jerked.

"For Notch's sake, we need more power!" Tiffany said, zapping him again. Jason suddenly stepped up, pushed Tiffany out of the way and put his hands on Seto's chest. Everything flashed and there was boom and Seto's body jumped up into the air, and when he came down Seto was gasping.

"Holy shit," Seto said, and Tiffany hugged Jason tight.

"Oh my Notch, thank you Jason, you saved his life!" Tiffany said, and Seto looked around.

"I found them," Seto said excitedly, and Tiffany left the shocked looking Jason and pushed Seto down.

"You idiot, Seto! Endangering your life like that! For Notch's sake, you could've died!" Tiffany yelled, and Static and Misty adopted a cool attitude and came over to us. Misty and Static started tending to Mitch and Bonkers while the boy asked if I needed assistance and I declined. Static avoided me and I ignored her, looking at Seto and Tiffany.

"Listen to me, I-" Seto tired, and Tiffany shook her head, her face red with rage.

"If you died, Seto, I would have killed you again," Tiffany said. "I'm putting you on magic ban for a month, you have drained yourself completely."

"I nearly had it! I don't know why it didn't work!"

"I don't care it didn't work, I care about your life, Seto! What the Nether were you trying to do?" Tiffany screamed, and Seto recoiled a bit.

"I… I found them. I was using Energy Signals."

"The last time you tried to use those frigging energy signals you knocked yourself out! Why did you try it again?"

"Because it worked, partly. Tiffany, I found Herobrine's base."

-Nico

I opened my eyes and they stung from the floating dirt in the air. I was caked it dirt and muck and my leg was trapped under a rock. I could see the portal and gaped in shock. It was working. It was actually working. The purple substance floating around in between the black rocks and I grinned and tried to move. I gasped in pain. The rocks above my leg shifted and hurt like the nothing I'd never felt before. It had to be broken. I tried to calm myself down and took deep breaths as tears tracked through the grime on my face. I could shadow-travel out, but in this state it would probably not work. I needed Mrs O'Leary. I heard someone yelling and I screwed my eyes shut. I needed to get out. Focus number one: get out of here. I looked around. Okay, the room had caved in, big time. I started to feel a little claustrophobic, thinking of the jar the giants had kept me in. I couldn't quell the panic any more.

"Help! I'm down here!" I yelled at the top of my lungs, and I heard someone faintly yelling back. I screamed again until I ran out of breath and collapsed against the ground. Gods, this was the worst situation ever. I saw a beam of light cut through from the top of the cavern and hope sparked.

"Down here!" I screamed, and the light slowly grew bigger. A kid I recognised from the Hephaestus cabin looked down at me.

"Don't yell, it's unstable," he said, his voice echoing. I nodded, relieved. He threw down a rope and slid down, armed with tools. He stood on the rock my leg was under and I bit my lip, holding in the cry of pain.

"Sorry, Sorry, oh gods, sorry!" he apologised profusely. He palmed one of his tools and a small, concentrated burst of fire came out. He used it to cut away at the rock, moving it away with chunks until I was free. He spoke calmly to me while he did it. He told me his name was Ethan, he was the son of Hephaestus, and he told me a story about how once he fought a Drakon with his friends and got stabbed in the butt with a toothpick. He told me about his brother Dylan who once got his foot stuck in one of the holes at a golf course and how they'd needed to remove all of the ground around it to break him free, and by the time he was done my leg was free. I'd calmed down considerably with him just casually talking, like he freed trapped people from cave ins all the time. Just an everyday job. Ethan then helped me up, and he helped me get to the rope, which he then wrapped around me and then they pulled me up, and then he came up after to me. My leg was on fire with pain and it was nearly unbearable. Ethan and two other kids, Chelsea and David, got me out of Zeus's Fist and the set me down and the Apollo kids got to work as soon as I was out while Piper cried and Frank slept on the grass peacefully. I couldn't wait to tell them about the portal.

-Sparklez

Mark and Nick found me curled up on the ground in my bedroom.

"Jordan, what the heck?" Mark said, and I didn't look up.

"He's having a moment, Mark," Nick snickered, and I heard a thump and Nick swore. Mark crouched down beside me and shook my shoulder lightly.

"Jordan, it's okay mate. Seto's alive," Mark said softly, and I let out this weird sound that sounded like a gasp and a sob rolled into one.

"It's my fault, Mark," I said, and he shook his head.

"It is not. Give me one good reason why this is your fault."

"I'm the one who told Seto to try and use the energy signals magic. If I hadn't made him do it, he would've have nearly died."

"Okay, that's a valid reason."

"Not helping."

"That's the point, dumbass. I'm not here to help. I'm here to slap sense into you," Mark snorted, and I looked up at him, realising I looked like an idiot, crying over nothing. Nick stood behind Mark, still on crutches.

"I think I'm having a bit of a breakdown," I sniffed, and Mark shrugged.

"I dunno, maybe. You've been under a lot of pressure so you're due a few breakdowns," Mark said and I smiled weakly.

"Did they find Bonkers and Percy?" I asked and Mark rolled his eyes.

"You aren't worrying about that right now, you're resting and ignoring the world."

"I can't do that, I have things to do!"

"Well, I just said that you're going to rest so you're resting. Now," Mark said, and I sighed. There wasn't any point in trying to disobey Mark, because he would continuously annoy you until you did what he wanted. I stood up and sat down on my bed, Mark yelled at me to go sleep and forget everything, and then he and Nick left and I surprised myself by falling asleep.

A/N: Do you forgive me for hurting Seto now?