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I wandered around the school looking for Annabeth, but she was nowhere to be found. Instead, I found Rachel.

"Hey," she smiled. "Heard you got yourself into detention!"

"You say it like it's a good thing," I joked.

"No but really. How was it?" she asked.

"Awful," I said. "I got injected with this thing that gets me dehydrated really quickly."

"Ah, that explains it," she said. She didn't bother explaining what though.

"Have you seen Annabeth?" I asked.

She frowned. "No. She might be in her room. She wasn't in the library. Or maybe she's showing a newbie around."

"There's a new student?"

Rachel shrugged. "We have them so often now, so why not?"

"Oh."

I felt myself getting dry and immediately took a sip of the drink.

"For instance, take Jason Grace," she said. "He came about two weeks after you. Then there's Reyna Avila Ramirez-Arellano, who came last month. There's also Octavian who came in recently." She made a face. "He's a big troublemaker. You'd probably want to avoid him."

I nodded. "If you see Annabeth, well…"

"I'll tell her to come by," she smiled.

Right then, the announcement came on. I never knew they even had one. "Perseus Jackson, to the office please. I repeat—"

"You don't need to repeat!" Mr. D shrieked. "If he didn't hear it the first time, then that's his problem!"

The announcement ended.

"Geez. Temperamental much?" I said.

Rachel shook her head, hiding a smile. "You'd better go. I'll see you later."

"Later," I said, and made my way over to the office.

"Pedro, explain this," Mr. D said and tossed a bottle of drugs on the table.

"It's a bottle of drugs," I said.

"Well, no duh!" he said.

I noticed that there was a guy that looked like a surfer standing in the corner of the room.

"What do you want me to explain then? I can't explain any more than that!" I said.

"Argus, give me the letter," Mr. D sighed.

The guy grunted and passed him a note. Mr. D slammed it in front of me.

"Read."

"Dear punk, You left this at your house," I read. "It's from my stepdad. So what?"

"You were trying to get him to send you drugs!" Mr. D accused.

"I was not!" I protested. "I didn't even talk to him!"

"No, Mr. D! It was me!" Grover said and burst in the room.

"Grover?" I said. "What?"

"Explain yourself," Mr. D said. "Not that I care."

"I was trying to get him in trouble," he said. His voice quivered. "I got that bottle of drugs from Luke, and I pretended like I was Percy's stepdad to get him in trouble."

I shook my head when Grover looked at me. Why? I mouthed.

"Detention for you Mr. Underwood," he said. "Four days."

"Y-yes sir."

"Both of you can leave," he said.

We left, and I looked at Grover.

"Why did you do that?" I demanded. "You didn't have to lie for me!"

"It was for your own good," Grover said. "That would've got you in serious trouble, and you don't know what happens to those who got in that much trouble!"

"What happened?" I asked. "Did you find out anything?"

"Kinda," Grover said. "But not here. Let's go to your room."

We passed by Nico on the way and he shot me a murderous glare. I winced and went to my room.

"So what happened?" I said.

"Well, I was working on our environmental project on the library computer," Grover said. "So we can get it out to the rest of the world, you know? But I'm really bad with computers, and I must've clicked something wrong. This diagram or blueprint thing popped up. But luckily Annabeth was in the library too that time, and we figured out what it was."

"Which was…?"

"The Labyrinth," he said. "They send you down there. They lock you up there, and there is a way out, but it's constantly changing. No one ever found the way out. Those who were rescued went mad and died in a few days."

My mouth gaped like a fish. "But wait, is there a way out of the school like that?"

Grover hesitated. "Yeah. But Percy, you're not really thinking of—"

"It's a chance," I said. "We can tell people what's going on in there. And maybe we can get the others out."

"I guess," Grover muttered. "I mean, if you're up for it, I'll go too."

"Thanks, man," I said. "Do you know how to get in the Labyrinth?"

Grover shook his head. "The thing just said that there's a bunch of entrances around. The hard thing is finding them. As for opening them, only certain people can open them."

Certain people… Like what Daedalus had said.

"We got that covered," I said. "Classes are canceled tomorrow so we have a lot of time for snooping around."

"Okay," Grover said. "This'll be fun."

I nodded. "Let's just rest up tonight. I'll ask Annabeth if she wants to come if I see her."

Grover smirked. "Alright then. See you."

I didn't see Annabeth the whole day which was a bummer. So I spent my time with Rachel since Grover was off with Juniper doing things that I really didn't want to know about.

"The Labyrinth," Rachel said. "That's cool."

"Other than the fact that you can die in there," I added.

"What's life without a little bit of trouble?"

She was next to me, like right next to me.

I cleared my throat. "So you really didn't see Annabeth anywhere?"

Rachel shook her head, her hair flouncing all over the place. "She wasn't anywhere."

I frowned. "I was gonna ask her if she wanted to come with us to the Labyrinth."

Rachel rolled her eyes. "You just have amazing places to go on dates."

The words didn't register their meaning until a few minutes later. I took a swig from my canteen and my face flushed. "I don't like her! At least not in that way!"

Rachel chuckled, and we were just joking around during the whole dinner in the hallway… Yeah, they didn't trust us after we had wrecked that building. I wondered how the sponsors would feel about it.

I woke up the next day feeling like all the water got sapped out of me. I was dizzy, and my vision was blurry. My throat was sore, and my hands felt wrinkly. I quickly reached out for the bottle and took a big gulp. I felt immediately better.

There was a loud clanging of the mailbox. I rushed outside and saw Argus coming to my door with a letter. He saw me and handed it to me personally.

"Is it for me?" I asked.

He nodded.

"Thanks, I guess," I said, and went back inside.

I opened the envelope and saw that it was a newsletter. A really short one as in not even half a page.

Hey, wake up all of you punks! The sponsors are coming today, so classes are canceled! Yeah, go ahead and celebrate. But you can't come out of your dorms! So no coming down to the ground floor. If we catch you, you'll be here your entire life!

-Mr. D

I scoffed. I crumpled the paper and threw it in the trashcan. It went in perfectly without hitting the rim. I left my room to wake up Grover.

I saw Nico's room along the way. The door was open which was strange. I peeked inside, ready for a barrage of curses and screaming, but none came. His room was cleared and none of his belongings were in sight. His room key was on his desk.

"Perce?" Grover yawned opening his door. "You're already awake?"

"Yeah, thanks to Argus," I said. "Did you read the letter?"

Grover nodded. "They just said not to come down, so technically we can still wander around this floor."

I grinned. "You're awesome."

"I know," he said. "Let's go wake up Annabeth."

We shuffled across the hallway in our pajamas and looking generally stupid.

"Excuse me," a voice said, and we turned around.

The owner of the voice was a guy around my age with blonde hair and blue eyes. He reminded me of Luke except this guy showed a bit more muscle (though I was sure Luke could whoop his butt any day) and he had a small scar above his lip.

"Yeah?" I said, stifling a yawn.

"You're not supposed to be wandering around here at this time," he said.

"Same goes for you," I said. "Nice Superman pajamas by the way."

His face turned red, but laughed it off. "Thanks. The staff told me to keep an eye out for anyone who breaks the rules."

"Been there, done that," Grover muttered, and I laughed.

"So you're that kind of person, eh?" I said. I offered him a hand. "Percy Jackson."

He smirked. "Jason Grace."

"Oh, you're that guy Rachel was talking about," I said.

He nodded. "She kind of creeps me out, to be honest." He grinned. "You were the guy that got called to the office, right?"

I smacked my face. "Yeah. Anyway, we'll be going now. See you around Jason."

"Ditto."

He let us go, and we continued on our way to the girls' dorm. I really hoped they weren't out in the hallway unclothed. That'd be really disturbing.

We knocked on Annabeth's door.

"Come in," she called. Dang, she sounded tired.

I opened the door, and saw Annabeth still in bed, but awake. "Hey, what are you doing here?"

"You told us to come in," I said.

"Hey, Grover," she said, ignoring me.

"Morning," he said.

"Did I do something wrong?" I said.

"No, close the door," she ordered.

I did what she asked, and she sat up in bed. It was kind of strange seeing her with her hair down after seeing it in a ponytail all the time. She looked pretty with her hair down too, even though she didn't brush it.

"Where were you yesterday?" I asked. "I was looking all over for you."

"You seemed to be having fun with Rachel," she said, flopping back in bed.

"What?"

"Oh my gods, Perce," Grover said, looking at the ceiling.

"Really, what the heck is going on?" I said.

"Keep your voice down!" Annabeth scolded. "You want them to know that you're here?"

"Right," I said. "I was gonna ask if you wanted to come to the Labyrinth with us."

"You guys are crazy," she said, and rolled herself in her blankets. She rolled away to face the wall. "Ask Rachel."

"I'm asking you," I said.

She sat up again, still wrapped in her blankets. She stared into space. "Right. What makes you think that I'll go?"

"You're the one who got us all into this," Grover said.

She gave him a glare like, Thanks for your support. "Fine."

I grinned. "I heard that today's the perfect day for sneaking around. We can go look for the entrance, no problem."

"And why is that?"

"The sponsor is coming," I said. "We just avoid them, and we're bound to hear them from a distance so we can hide if they're coming."

"Please Percy," she said rolling her eyes. "You don't need to call them the sponsor all the time."

"Then what do I call them?"

"You really don't know?" she said, as if she was talking to a child. "Othrys is coming."

Our jaws dropped.

"Othrys? No way!" Grover said.

"And I think Kronos is coming with Atlas I think," she said.

"That's awful!" Grover cried. He was being pretty overdramatic right now.

"Yeah," she agreed. "But we can still do it. Right?"

She looked at me with her sharp eyes, and I nodded. "Yup."

"Let me get cleaned up," she yawned and finally got out of bed.

"Hey, it's fine!" I said. "We're still in our pj's. It doesn't matter."

"Fine," she said and slipped her sneakers on. "But if I get humiliated, I'm blaming it on you."

"Hey, your owl pajamas are cute," I grinned.

"Shut up, Seaweed Brain," she said and smacked me. But she was blushing.

Grover rolled his eyes and sighed. "Lovebirds."

He got a smack too, courtesy of Annabeth.

"Let's get a move on," she said. "No talking about love or anything like that. Got it?"

"Got it," we chorused.