***NONE OF THE CHARACTERS IN THIS STORY BELONG TO ME. THEY ARE PROPERTY OF RICK RIORDAN AND JONATHAN M. SHIFF
Once they got on the island, Percy felt a connection. Something was urging him on, trying to get him to go somewhere.
"Guys, I can feel it," Percy said. His friends looked confused.
"Feel what?" Jason asked.
"Her power." They followed Percy to this pile of rocks that kind of reminded Annabeth of Zeus's fist. Which reminded her of the time they spent in the labyrinth. In other words, bad memories. She shook them off and realized Percy had stopped.
"It leads right here. But there isn't anything her…" he was cut off as he suddenly slipped and fell. The other demigods watched in horror as Percy fell down some kind of hole and disappeared. Annabeth ran over to the hole and yelled Percy's name down it.
"I'm fine!" he yelled back. "Just a little scraped up. This is some sort of cave. It leads somewhere else…" Percy's voice trailed off as he walked deeper into the cave. Annabeth was just about to go down when Jason stopped her.
"Let me go. If there's trouble I can fly us back up." What he was saying made sense, but Annabeth hesitated. She wanted to be with Percy. After everything he did for her in Tartarus… Annabeth shuddered at the thought. And not being with him today almost killed her. They had rarely been apart since the Giant War and she didn't want to start. Eventually, she reluctantly got up and let Jason slide down. After a few minutes of waiting, Jason and Percy called up and said the coast was clear. Annabeth and Piper slid down and they were in a dark cave. The walls were made out of volcanic rock and the floor was sand. They followed the boys' voices into another small cavern. There was a bright sea-green pool in the center that matched Percy's eyes. The pool looked like it led out into the ocean.
"Uh, guys, I don't see any exits," Piper said, saying what Annabeth was thinking.
"No, it's cool. Percy is just going to float us out," Jason explained. Piper and Annabeth nodded.
"So, are we just going to leave or…" Piper trailed off.
"No way! This place is awesome!" Percy exclaimed, obviously a lot more excited about it than the rest of them.
Percy jumped into the pool and said, "It's really warm! Get in guys!"
"Percy, it's getting dark," Piper warned.
"Who cares!" Percy said and got out and grabbed Annabeth. He threw her in and was about to jump in, but the pool started bubbling. Percy desperately wanted to get in there and pull her out but he couldn't move. Annabeth started to look really scared and glanced at Percy. He tried so hard but it was not his fate. After a few seconds, it stopped and Annabeth looked fine.
"Are you okay?!" Piper asked frantically.
"Yeah, I'm fine. That was so weird," Annabeth said.
"Let's get out of here," Jason said. Percy jumped in the water and gave the other's their own air bubbles around their heads. They swam back to the shore of the island and got in Lewis's boat. Once they got back to the resort, they immediately went to bed, still feeling unsettled about what happened in the pool.