A/N: Wow. I've spent the whole day making a digital copy of my book . . . lots of typing . . . not even halfway . . . GAH. And I realized something . . . Cora and that main character have weapons that have the same enchantment . . . oops. Created around the same time so . . . heh. Anyways. Here's the chapter! You all will still be wondering what's going to happen to get Cora out!

Percy: Search and Locating

Waking up and seeing a slightly panicky Hunter did not help after a bad sleep.

As soon as me and Annabeth were both up, he started rapidly telling us something in French. Did this guy even sleep? By the looks of him, I doubted it. There were shadows under his eyes and his skin was a pale wan colour.

It took us a couple minutes, but in the end we did get him to calm down enough for us to make out a few words. More like Annabeth could figure out some words. It sounded like meaningless dribble to me. She had a better understanding of languages.

After several minutes of this, I finally managed to understand what he was saying a little bit. He kept repeating Cora's name, that wasn't hard to figure out. Basically it went a little something like this:

"Elle m'a apparu la nuit dernière dans une vision! Elle m'a dit qu'elle a été attachée dans une forteresse de montagne! Cora a dit que c'était les Montagnes de Superstition! Et les hommes qui l'ont traînent un bouquet de choses et -" Annabeth cut him off by slapping her hand over his mouth. He looked hurt, but that guy was on the verge of rambling.

"Hang on," Annabeth mumbled, her mind going a million miles an hour. "Montagnes means mountains . . . I think . . . and then you said superstition . . . Percy, grab the maps." Not bothering to argue, I opened her bag and rummaged through it. Pulling out her handy-dandy atlas/map I gave it to her and scooted next to her.

She flipped to the one of Arizona and started reading the tiny print that was everywhere (and her hand was still keeping Hunter quiet). While she did that, I thought about what she had said. Something about mountains and superstition? I looked at the map, and the first thing my eyes landed on made something click.

"You by any chance looking for the Superstition Mountains?" I asked her pointing to it. Annabeth smiled and gave me a one armed hug.

"Yes, that's what I'm looking for. Thanks Seaweed Brain," she replied.

"So . . . you think that might be where they are located?" I asked. Annabeth nodded thoughtfully, I could see she had already made up her mind.

"Yeah, I think it is. Come on, we need to get out there," she said. With the decision made she stuffed the maps back into her bag and stood up. She walked out of the structure and disappeared from view. I followed her quickly, leaving Hunter to scramble after us the best he could.

We walked through the street of Phoenix quickly. Annabeth led the way, us guys walking after. She explained that we needed to get to the mountains as fast as we could. The only thing is we didn't know how long it would take us. And unlike my sister, I couldn't magically teleport us closer. It took a very long time, but we managed to weave our way out of the city.

We had just gotten on to a track beside a high way when the air next to us shimmered. A moment later an Iris-message of Thalia appeared. She looked grim and I noticed that silvery tents were set up behind her. We stopped and huddled around the Iris-message, blocking it from the view of traffic. I wonder what the mortal's would see, probably just a rainbow.

"Good, I got through to you guys. I've been trying for a few minutes." Thanks Fluffy. "Why are you on the side of a road?" Thalia said hurriedly.

Between me and Annabeth we quickly filled her in on the news we had managed to gather. When we finished she sighed. Closing her eyes she whispered something to herself. She opened her eyes and stared at us with her electric blue eyes.

"You guys are on the right track. Last night we were alerted of some sort of cart or something moving through a pass leading to them. It was pulled by a monster and there were heavily armed men. We would help out, but we're under orders."

"Got it, we'll take the pass leading to the Superstition Mountain's. Thanks Thals, you're the best," Annabeth said. Thalia gave a nod and wished us good luck then cut through our connection.

Continuing along the road, we tired really fast. It was a cloudless day, and the sun burned brightly overhead. Apparently Apollo wouldn't take pity on us. We toiled on the road for about half of the day; it was mid-afternoon when we were hit by a stroke of luck.

An empty taxi was passing by and was kind enough to stop. We managed to convince the driver to take as close as the road allowed to the Superstition Mountain's. He was a little unsure at first, but the long trip meant a higher fare and the prospect of money soon convinced him.

It was nice not having to walk the 36 miles we would have had. It took us only 15 minutes to get there. If we walked it might have taken a day or two, so naturally we were all extremely pleased that the taxi had shown up when it did.

The taxi dropped us off, the mountains still a little ways ahead. It would take maybe one hour of walking to reach them – less if we hurried.

As soon as we had payed the driver he took off without a backwards glance. We would have to find our own way back. But to be honest, that wasn't my biggest worry. The heavily armed men were.

We set out for the mountains, and it wasn't too long before we found the pass. We stayed to the side of it, just in case something (or someone) came next to us. It was cooler in the pass; the high rock walls shielded most of the sun.

We went on for hours. Slowly the sun began setting and we lost hope of reaching . . . wherever we were heading that day.

The sun was low in the sky, turning it orange and pink when we got out of the pass. Before us was a small plain, and after that towering mountains. We scanned them quickly, searching for any sort of opening into them. Annabeth and I couldn't find anything at first.

Then Hunter tapped us and pointed to a spot. The rock came out from the mountain and curved; creating a small inlet.

"That's got to be it," Annabeth said quietly. Judging by the distance, it would take us a while to get. Not to mention the fact we would have to go slowly, taking an indirect route so we would have cover.

"Do we go now or wait till morning?" I asked her. "If there are monsters guarding, so dark might not be smart. Thoughts, Wise Girl?" Annabeth sighed and began sliding down the rocks towards an overhang. I followed her down, knowing she'd tell me once she was half way through her plan. Hunter slid down next to me, and we slid to a stop next to Annabeth.

"We wait until morning. I don't like this place, and I don't think we should try to break in during the night. Just try and get some sleep, we'll all need it," she said. I nodded and we sat down together.

We had a miserable dinner and the huge mountains looming over us didn't exactly improve our mood.

The sun finished setting and the stars came out. For a while me and Annabeth were finding different constellations, but we soon grew tired and agreed to go to sleep. We fell asleep to the silence of the night and humid air keeping us warm. Tomorrow, it would be time for a raid.

A/N: I remember when my beta reader first got this chapter; she wanted to join in the raid and got all excited! It was so funny. So, let me know what you thought, through either fav or alert or review! Just let me know!