-1Percy POV

"I don't suppose you want to say anything offensive. It may cost you your life. Not like I'm going to let you live anyway, I just want to let you know how much misery I'm in, so the next time we see each other in the Fields of Punishment, you can feel guilty." He pulled his… Salad tongs? His new hands were salad tongs. I would have burst out laughing had I not had a baby holding a knife to my back. "You want to why my hands are like this?" He stood and grabbed the collar of my shirt, which felt odd, and had a very weak grip with his salad tongs. I don't know how long it would take me to get over the fact that his hands were salad tongs. "Because we used up all of the injections on stupid demigod warriors like you. Of course, this is temporary, it just takes some time to grow whole hands back. If I had had an injection like the others, they would already be BACK!" He spit with his words, then he kicked the base of my chair, and it rolled away slightly, and knocked the baby over, it began to cry, and it crawled away, leaving the knife. It stood and hugged Dylan's leg. He looked down at it like it was a frog or something. He picked it up by the back of it's shirt, and handed it to Omega, who probably could have crushed it. But he just set it outside the door. I saw a familiar old lady walk by, but I couldn't place her. Omega pulled out some Germ-Ex for Dylan and himself. I found it odd to watch him spread the Germ-Ex over his… alright here it goes, salad tongs. I slouched, and crossed my legs in front of me.

"You think we can't replace that baby, Perseus Jackson? You are wrong, don't get to comfortable."

"Oh, I wasn't. We won't be here long anyway." I said sarcastically.

"I'll tell you how long you're going to be here!" He snapped at my, and I could tell he wanted to just kill me now and get the whole thing over with. But strange enough, he didn't. Which meant he needed information from me or something.

"What do you want from us?" I asked him, but he just stared blankly into my skull.

"It's not from us." He inhaled slowly, and let it out again. "It's just you." He fell into his chair, then rolled his eyes. Now he was talking to someone else, as if listening through a commons unit. He stiffened, and clapped his salad tong hands. Omega rolled us to the other side of the room, he tried to shove all for chairs into the unlit fire place, but we didn't all fit. He sent Jake and I in first, then pressed a button. Something dark shut over the opening, and we started to go down. Really far down. The fireplace came to an abrupt stop, and the covering came out. The fireplace seemed to tip, and we rolled out into a really large cell. But it was kind of nice, in that, I might die here in this cell with a vase of flowers in it way. The door behind us closed, and I could see the wall shake as it went back up.

"Okay, that, was officially the coolest elevator ever!" Jake said, and with our free hands, we untied the chairs, and stood up. Our hands were still chained together, but we couldn't do anything about that until my sword came back to me. Then it came back to me. I pulled it out, and struggled to take the cap off. I held it up and smashed it against the chains, they didn't give away easily, it took a few tries. They girls still weren't down yet before we broke free, of each other. Still with a cuff around our wrists. I sat down on the chair.

"I wonder what he meant by just you…." Jake said.

"A lot of people want a lot of things, but I don't think Dylan wanted anything from me, I think the person talking to him in the commons unit wanted something from me. I don't think he's the master mind behind this. He's being controlled." Just then, the door opened and in slid Annabeth and Angel. We broke them free, and then discussed what had happened. There was a table in the room. There was no windows or spaces. Just a large cement block with a table and a vase of wilting flowers. There was a bed too, but none of us would sleep well in this oxygen lacking room. Annabeth had the same conclusion that Jake and I discussed. I crossed my arms on the table, and laid my head on them. Before I new it, I had fallen asleep.

I could here murmurs, they were talking about how to get out, and what oxygen we would have and for how much longer. But I could barely hold my head up. When I awoke, I saw Annabeth and Angel sharing the bed, and Jake had spread the whirly chairs out in a line and was attempting sleep on them. The room wasn't much different, the flowers from the vase had been stuck in a hole in the wall. I silently moved the desk over to them, and pulled them out, the end was wet. There was water in the hole. I could feel a breeze coming from the hole. I instantly knew how far down we were. I remembered there being water at the bottom of the gorge, and how far down we had traveled to get to this secret underground room. I woke everyone up. Annabeth's hair looked like a cat had played with it like yarn, but to me, she was still beautiful. And Jake was crouched over like an old man from his uncomfortable sleeping experience.

"Yes, Percy?" Annabeth said, trying to comb her hair down with her finger.

"We're getting out of here." I answered, and then explained.

"Oh, yeah. We saw the hole, so I took the flowers and shoved them in there, you know. To test for water… And oxygen." She took in a deep breath, but it was staggered. We were running out of oxygen, not very fast, but we were.

"Alright, everyone, hold your breath, and then if we need it, I'll make an air bubble." I could feel a tug in my gut, and water began poring through the hole, at first just like a sink, then like a gutter, and then like a geyser. The water was almost to the top of the room, so I stopped the flow, and with every last piece of strength I had, and slammed the force against the wall. I almost slammed all my friends against the wall, but remembered they couldn't withstand the weight of the water like I could, and forced some of the water to try and make a box around them. There was a large CRACK, and if I had a guess, then it was about as loud as an airplane being snapped in half.

I drained some of the water out of the room. Annabeth and Jake burst from the water box, and swam to the top. I had forgotten to make an air bubble in the box! I turned to see Angel, but she was fine, breathing normally, I saw little bubbles sprout from her neck. Wow, they equipped those bird-kids with everything. The wall began to rumble, the same way it had when the elevator was coming down. I figured Omega was on his way to come and get us for the rest of our meeting. I tried to drain the water a little faster. I willed the water to pull Annabeth and Jake down, and sealed them in an air bubble. It made me a little uncomfortable, but I always said if I couldn't trust Annabeth, I couldn't trust anyone. I smashed the water against the wall once more, and a small hole formed. I began gushing more water out of it, the rumbling stopped, and more wall fell away until it was the size of a manhole cover. A head popped out.

"Jeez!" Nico called. "You're drowning us!"

"Who's we?" I asked.

"Thalia and I!" He said, and I saw Thalia behind him.

"Thalia!" I said, "How did you make it out?"

"Well, I waited by the window, and when they were making a mad grab for everybody, I slipped outside and got Nico. Then, we were captured." She said, as the last bit of water poured out. "When the water came through, we knew it was you, so Nico tried to help with the wall, but his power hasn't been working well with him recently."

"That explains the rumbling." I said. Annabeth, Angel and Jake joined me as the hole, and we all slipped though to Nico and Thalia's side.

"How'd you get thrown down here?" Angel asked as she surveyed the wall with Annabeth.

"The shoved us in a trash can, and I was dumped." Nico answered and rubbed his arm, as if remembering old pains.

"You were dumped, but you weren't even dating." Angel said sarcastically, and Thalia burst out laughing. I could help but laugh too, and Annabeth joined in shortly. Nico crossed his arms in protest, but we could tell he was fighting a smile. The wall rumbled, and we all quit.

"I didn't do that this time…" Nico said, and we all ran to once side of the room, our backs against the wall, mine more than everyone else's. I pulled out Riptide, but I was the only one with a weapon, everyone else had been disarmed.

"We still have our arms." Angel said, as if reading my mind.

"It means to have your weapon taken away. Can you read minds?"

"Yeah, for a while now I can also send messages to other people in their minds so I pick up a lot of neat information. Nico's jealous of your perfect relationship with Annabeth." She said, and I blushed. Nico was really red.

"You have no business saying that!" He snapped at her, she was a lot shorter than him, since she was so young, and he towered over her, starring her down Jake pulled him back, and he starred daggers at Angel. Annabeth shifted uncomfortably. I didn't even know Nico liked girls yet. He was still only twelve, maybe thirteen I wasn't sure when his birthday was. I was going into some deep thought, until Omega burst into the room.

"Well, Jackson, I see you tried to break." His sentences were formed better than the last time we'd talked.

"Not really…" I replied, and he stepped forward a little bit.

"Good, because we have lines and lines of cement cell."

"No you don't."

We all looked at Annabeth, and Omega stepped a lot closer to her.

"How much you want to bet?" Omega said. He was so close, his breath blew her wet hair.

"A lot."

"Like your life?" He moved his hand toward a sheathed knife, but I had a feeling it wouldn't stay sheathed for long. "Or how about, his life?" He drew the dagger, grabbed my hair, and pulled me so my back was to his knife. That was it, Annabeth's pride would get me killed. Plus, the fact that I had enough hair to get a solid grip on made me feel like I might need to cut it.

"How do you and Dylan even know were it is?" I strained against him pulling at my hair.

"We clone you Percy. Or did you forget that? It took few tries, but we found it."

"Thanks," I muttered, but it was Annabeth's turn to speak.

"I would if I didn't care about him so much." She said.

"Lucky for me." I said sarcastically.

"He seems to be forgetting I could put his life on the line."

"She seems to be forgetting she already has!"

"You want me to take the bet?" She practically yelled at me.

"Ya! Then, I wouldn't have to put up with your stupid pri-"

"That's enough!" Thalia interrupted, Omega was watching us like we were his favorite Soap Opera. Annabeth fumed and Omega continually looked back and forth between all of us.

"You should of said that three sentences ago." I muttered.

"I said, that's enough." She reemphasized.

"Maybe you should have just quit talking instead, Percy!" Annabeth yelled, and it started all back up again. Maybe I was wrong, maybe we couldn't get through a conversation without strangling each other, even with Luke gone. I pulled free of Omega's grasp and we continued yelling at each other until we were both red in the face and nose to nose.

"Maybe I should have gone off with Luke! Then he could be alive, and you could be dead!" Annabeth said. Oh no, not Luke again.

"Maybe I should have accepted being a god, I'd be away from you!" I called in return. Her expression of anger turned into guilt and then pain. Omega had somehow pulled out a bag of popcorn, and was sitting on the floor, just watching us. I could feel tears welling up in my eyes, and the same was going on for Annabeth.

"Annabeth I'm-"

"Don't." She said through tears. "Just don't say anything." She turned away, and stepped through the hole, sitting on the other side of the wall, were I couldn't see her.

"Way to go." Nico remarked.

"Hey! It's not my fault!"

"Ya, and I was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Percy, you totally started it." He turned at sat down next to the wall, starring intently at Angel, as if he was coming up with slow and very painful ways for her to die- which he probably was. I let out a slow and staggered breath, and walked toward the hole so I could talk to Annabeth.

"I wouldn't if I were-" Angle began, but I cut her off,

"I do a lot of things I shouldn't." Omega followed me, but I asked him to leave. So, as a compromise, he just stood and watched on the outside of the hole.

"Annabeth," I tried, but she wouldn't listen.

"Just go away, Percy." I like my name, don't get me wrong, I just like it better when Annabeth calls me Seaweed Brain. No one else but Annabeth, though.

I walked back to the hole, and sat next to it, just waiting, looking at Annabeth.

Max POV

After they were all taken, Gazzy, Fang, Iggy and I flew away, not wanting to risk getting taken and not being able to save everyone. I would have said friends, but I haven't known them very long. "Anyone have a plan?" Gazzy asked, as we flew over the battle scene. Itex had the upper hand. Iggy and Gazzy had wanted to drop some bombs, but it was to inter-mixed. With half bloods and the other good-guys mixed with the bad ones, we'd have to clear the battle field first. We would have dropped some inside the Itex building, but we didn't know were Angel, Percy, Jake and Annabeth were. I felt like there was nothing we could do. We finally landed by the drop-off to the cliff, and dangled our legs over the edge.

"There's always a-"

"Don't try that one." Iggy cut me off.

"But I do have o-"

"I think we all know you just say that all the time." This time it was Gazzy.

"Because there always is o-"

"No, there isn't." Fang surprised me by not being on my side. "We have no plans here. This is all very unfamiliar to all of us. Demigods, dragons, gods, et cetera. We don't know anything, and we certainly don't know enough."

"But there is a plan." I said in a small voice. "There's always a-"

"No there's not!" Everyone said in unison.

We sat in silence for a while, waiting.

"Now there's a pla-"

"Is there really, or are you just saying that?" Iggy interjected.

"Neither," I replied.

"So there is not a an is plan?" He asked.

"What?"

"There is not a an is plan." He said, as if we all should understand.

"Iggy," Gazzy interrupted, "even I don't know what your talking about."

"Gazzy," Iggy replied, "even I don't know what I'm talking about."

I groaned and fell forward, plummeting down the side of the cliff and snapping out my wings, barely missing a rock the jutted out of the side. I continued plummeting until I reached the river far below. Gazzy, Iggy and Fang were not far behind me when I noticed the river flowing in an un-riverly direction.

"Am I the only noticing the river flowing toward the rocks?" I asked, and we flew down and landed at the spot were it seemed to be flowing towards. A large hole was appearing in the rock as the water flowed inside. I looked at Fang.

"Percy."