If it was not for Annabeth, I would have been crushed under gazillion tons of dirt and rocks by now.
The path we took gradually turned into a mineshaft, there were flimsy wooden supports on the side that barely kept it from collapsing.
"Wait," Annabeth said, as she knelt and narrowed her eyes, "there is a tripwire."
She points forward towards the ground if it wasn't for her, I would have never spotted that. There was a transparent spider-web thin line across the ground, to the side, it is connected to a bottle of Greek Fire, which was carefully camouflaged. If someone activated the tripwire, the Greek Fire would spill on to the wood, and the wood would denigrate and bring down the whole area.
She carefully took out the bottle of Greek Fire and put it securely in her backpack.
"I bet this place has more boobytraps, come on, Seaweed Brain, let's hope we don't die."
Never doubt Annabeth. That's what I learned.
She was right about the boobytraps, they were everywhere. Every half of a mile or so, Annabeth would stop and disarm one of the traps.
Whoever owns this place has high-tech home defense systems.
But I don't think this is a normal tunnel, it seems as if it was playing tricks with me. Unless this was the Labyrinth…
No. I thought I would have been dead if it was the Labyrinth, but the thing is, it seems to be leading us somewhere.
Suddenly, I heard a bunch a tiny ticking sounds,
"Annabeth…" She turned and looked at me, and just then a wave of blackness advanced from behind Annabeth.
Spiders. Tiny metal spiders much like the ones we saw at the waterpark 5 years ago, when I went on the quest to retrieve Zeus's Lightning Bolt.
Annabeth turned around again and screamed, falling on her butt, I stepped in front of her waving my sword.
"Sta-stay back," I managed to say, and the spiders hissing in return and formed a circle around me and Annabeth, crawling on the walls and completely engulfing us.
The Earth Mother sent us, They whispered in my mind, you shall be taken alive.
What? I thought, The Earth Mother? I didn't have time to think about what that meant because just then, the army of spiders advanced.
I closed my eyes and concentrated, water, I thought, and the deep rumbling sound of waves shook the passage and when I thrust my hand out, water came shooting out of the sides, forming a circle around me and Annabeth, drowning the spiders.
But just when I thought I was winning, laughter echoed through the tunnel, and a hole opened up beneath us.