Nico's P.O.V.
"None of us know how to fly!" I shouted after Annabeth pushed me out of the window. I tried to give her a pointed look but it turns out while falling from a window five hundred feet above ground facial expression are hard to have control over.
"I can't see!" the red head announced with a bit of panic. I knew what she met. The wind rushed passed us that our eyes began to water uncontrollably. Percy was falling to my left and looked like an over-sized duck flapping his wings for dear life.
Well if I die right now I can avoid this prophecy stuff Minos talked about and I can be with Bianca. I tried to stay calm and the peacefulness of death wash over me. I spread my arms out wide planning to go out in style. If your gonna die the small things that make you smile still can count right? I noticed the wind was no longer rushing passed me.
"Extend your arms and glide!" Annabeth shouted then looked back at me and smiled. "Just like how Nico is doing." I realized I had a more controled fall and that I was more of gliding in the air than falling. Maybe my dad helped me here? By me excepting death he let me live? No. He doesn't really care and I'm sure the humans didn't exactly make up everything about physics.
We were playing around with our wings until Annabeth took control again.
"Land! These wings wont last forever!" she shouted for us all to hear.
"How long will they last?" the red head asked.
"I don't know but I'm not too keen on finding out." Annabeth answered.
We landed and I noticed our wings would've broken from our backs if we were flying for a moment longer. Percy stuffed all our wings in the trash regretfully. For a kid who's practically a fish he seemed to enjoy the wings. He then started running off without telling anyone where he was going. Annabeth sighed and followed after him and the red head and I followed too. He used the tourist binoculars to look back at where we came and nothing was there.
"The shop already moved." Annabeth figured.
"What do we do now? Go back into the maze?" Percy asked.
"No, Daedalus said his life form was tied to the maze. If he dies then I assumed it would collapse and that wouldn't be helpful to us."
"He isn't dead." I said. They looked at me curiously.
"How can you be sure?" Percy asked me.
"I know when people die. It's this feeling I get, like a buzzing in my ears." I admitted.
"What about Tyson and Grover?" Percy asked hopefully. I shook my head in an apologetic way.
"They're neither human or half-blood. They don't have mortal souls, it's harder." Annabeth pursed her lips then looked at all of us.
"We should go back into town. We've got to get back into the Labyrinth and get to camp before Luke does."
"We could just a plane," the red head said. I paled further and Percy shuddered.
"I don't fly." he said.
"But you just did." she pressed.
"That was low-flying, even that was risky. Flying up really high- Rachel, that's Zeus' territory. I can't do it. Besides we don't have time for a flight. The Labyrinth is the quickest way back."
"Now we just need a car to take us into the city." Annabeth stated. The red head, Rachel, grimaced as if she were about to do something she'd regret.
"I'll take care of it." she declared.
"How?" Annabeth asked.
"Just trust me," Rachel pleaded. Annabeth looked uneasy but nodded.
"I'm going into the gift shop to buy a prism to make a rainbow for an iris message." Annabeth said.
"I'll go with you, I'm hungry!" I said as my stomach growled. Rachel didn't look to happy about being left with Percy which made me think what was going between those two.
Annabeth talked to Chiron as I ate a tuna a turkey and ham sandwhich. We met back up with Percy and Rachel at some car with a driver and Annabeth told them how Chiron said he just needs all the heroes he can get to defend the camp. Rachel then told the driver to drive into the city because we needed to look around. Percy kept trying to ask her how she got a driver in a few different discreet ways. After a while of relaxing while looking for a Labyrinth entrance Rachel sat straight up and shouted at the driver to get off the highway. He swerved onto the exit.
"A museum? An old run-down out of business museum?" Percy questioned.
"There's an entrance." she said in a low voice.
"How do you know?" Annabeth asked.
"I can see it, okay?" she huffed.
We out and began walking and to Percy's utter surprise and my mild one, the two girls began to have a civilized conversation. Annabeth asked about Rachel's background but Rachel didn't offer much to contribute to that part of the conversation. Then they got into talking about architecture which Rachel had some knowledge of through art. Annabeth looked impressed with the amount of information Rachel knew.
Unfortunately that left Percy to walk next to me in smothering silence. Percy looked uncomfortable as well but I knew that I should be the one to break it which made it smothering to me. Yet, Percy surprised me by making the first move.
"Thanks for soming after us." he said. I narrowed my eyes in suspicion he'd had all the world's reason to be angry with me yet he thanked me.
"Well I owed you for the ranch, Percy… plus I wanted to see Daedalus for myself. Minos was right in a way. Daedalus should die. Nobody should be able to avoid death for that long it's unnatural."
"You were after Daedalus at first to trade his soul for your sisters," Percy reminded me which made my heart and jaw clench.
I walked for a while trying to calm myself and think of how to reply to Percy's obvious statement.
"It's never been easy, you know. Having only the dead company, I mean. Knowing I'll never be accepted among the living. The dead respect me only out of fear."
"You could be accept. You could have friends at camp." Percy tried but I knew that'd be a vain attempt. Who would want Hades' son at their happy little camp?
"Do you really belive that, Percy?" I asked him. He hesitated, he wasn't so sure himself." Percy was about to say something but got a mouth full of Rachel's hair.
"Is that the way?' he asked.
"No, not at all." Rachel said with an eerily calm yet shaky voice.
"Then why have we stopped?" he asked preplexed.
"Listen," she insisted quietly. A smell came with a breeze and I recognized it and apparetnly so did Percy.
"California. I can smell the Eucalyptus trees." he said wrinkling his nose.
"There's something very powerful and evil down there." Rachel said
"And the smell of death," I noted which seemed to bring everyone down another notch. Percy and Annabeth did that annoying glance exchange where in the fraction of a second they spoke a whole freaking chapter to each other.
"Luke's entrance." they both said then Annabeth continued. "Mount Othrys, the titan's palace."
Thalia's P.O.V.
An emotional mess is what I could describe myself as. A heartless bitch is what anyone else would describe me as and you know what, maybe I am taking my anger out on everyone.
I'm elated to have Jason back in my life, I honestly still can't believe it. I'm sad because he's upset over the fact our mom is either dead, still in the maze, or under Luke's command. I'm sad because Percy and I broke up. Well, I broke up with him but over what? All I had were suspicions but the innocent and confused look on his face has me backtracking my decision. Then there's Annabeth, who I threw away our friendship. I should have waited and found out first.
But what if I was right? Nah, if I was then I'd still want to have done things differently so I could make Percy slowly pay for hurting me.
We arrived at Camp Half-Blood an hour ago and were now sitting around the ping pong table trying to have a serious meeting.
"I contacted my camp," Jason spoke. "They're watching Mount Othrys and have sensed something but they aren't quite sure what's going on over there."
"Titans preparing for battle?" Malcolm offered. Malcolm. Annabeth's brother and head counselor of the Athena cabin since she joined the hunt. If she were here he'd offer to let her resume her old position because he valued her opinion that much.
"Maybe but like I said they don't know for sure."
"Is there any possible way for them to come and help us out?" Conner Stoll asked with grim hope.
"It's too far plus the Titan's would destroy our camp first then come here to yours. They're already upset I'm not there and the fact that I found two more demigods that could've helped."
"But they're Greek." Chiron said.
"Excuse me?" Jason asked lost.
"Piper and Leo are Greek demigods not Roman. There's no doubt about it." Chiron cleared up. I noticed Jason frown a bit and glance over my should to Piper who stood behind me.
"Sorry you had to come to camp at such a rough time, sis." Silena said with a small smile.
"Sorry I couldn't have been of help any sooner and maybe got trainging in to actually be of assistance." Piper replied.
Looking around the table at all the faces I couldn't help but think three people would leave us into a much better shape but not great against our enemy. Especially one who had powers none of us do. One who had dark hair and eyes like the sea.