OMG YOU GUYS I CAN'T EVEN EXPRESS HOW SORRY I AM!

School has been getting so bad and I'm going to bed at like 12 every night and I'm just really sorry. And then there's my youtube channel, and I'm just so sorry!

Let's just get on with the shoutouts...

PoppyOhare: great, that's good to know.

Izzybella12: Whoops? And thanks, also, maybe it was Polybotes, maybe it wasn't, maybe it was actually just her conscience, and maybe u just gave me a great idea and I might drift off from what I had in mind according to the idea that u gave me... who knows?

satvidesai31: I get it, and that's really cool

I suddenly felt very weak and fell to the ground.

Water enclosed me in a hurricane and bright light flashed, and then, I was me again. Just, a demigod.

Before I could collect my senses a voice cut through the air.

"PERCY!"

I turned to the sound and saw Nico making crazed gestures at me. The meaning was clear. You. Here. Now.

So like the good obedient demigod I was, I kindly turned away from him, and ignored him.

"PERCY! DON'T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE!"

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, come and get me Death Breath.

"PERCY GET YOUR LITTLE HORSIE BUTT OVER HERE RIGHT NOW!"

Ugh, it was just like him, always trying to be the boss. He can't control me, I'm my own person.

So instead of going over there, I made sure he got a good view of my "little horsie butt," cause there was no way in hell that I was going to follow his orders.

My mind took a double take.

What the heck? These thoughts weren't mine. I would never call Nico bossy... well not to his face... there are some occasions though.. No. Stop it. Nico is your friend. He is not some control freak who always orders people around and never lets anyone get a say in anything and is all around bossy... STOP IT.

What in Hades is wrong with me?

I realized that I had tuned Nico out and when I was finally done with my thought battle, I finally decided to turn towards Nico and see what was wrong.

I looked over at the forges and he was gone. Where did he go? I scanned the forges looking for him when a makeshift rope looped around my waist and tugged me down the hill I was standing on.

There in all his furious glory was Nico Di Angelo, looking as if he might explode from anger.

"What the hell Jackson! Have you not notice all the guards coming this way?! You are going to get in so much trouble!" Nico fumed

"...sorry?" I said

"Sorry? I am risking my freakin life over you. Do you know what happens to misbehaving servants here Percy?" Nico exclaimed

"Ummmm" I said intelligently.

"Oh my gods Percy! They get tortured, they are tortured over and over again, but they don't die, they get to live a tortured live where dying is not allowed."

"That's... really harsh" I stated obviously.

"Percy, we need to get you out of here, NOW," Nico said

Before I could respond, Nico was already dragging me down the hill and sprinting towards the forges.

"Ok Percy, this is important, and don't lie, how did you end up here?" Nico asked once we got to the forges.

I told him the whole story, how Polybotes came after me and captured me, how I was rescued but then came back to confront Polybotes and was then thrown in here.

"Oh Gods, if you are on Polybotes hate list this is going to get really difficult" Nico said to himself

"I don't understand, why do I need to escape so badly? Not that I wouldn't like to but, why?" Percy asked.

"Because, Percy, you're the closest thing to being my friend since... since my sister died. And, and I just can't let you go through that torture, especially after what you've told me, plus, it seems that you have a world that needs to be saved." Nico explained.

"I came here for a reason Nico, to find out what Polybotes did to me, since he captured me, I haven't exactly been myself, I've been having these breakdowns, and these new powers... I-I even attacked my friend, I can't go back there and hurt another one of them, it would destroy me." I said.

"If they are really you're friends, they would help you get through this, and if Polybotes tortures you once more, he might change you even more, you have to go." Nico explained calmly.

"Ok, but... "

"Percy, you have to go, no excuses." Nico ordered

"But, how will I get out of here? Even though monsters are really thick headed, they have a decent security" I said.

"It's already planned out, come on!" Nico led me further back into the forge.

"Don't think that all of us demigods just did whatever we were told, some of us have been secretly plotting our escape, but, no one has actually tried... so you, lucky guy, are going to be the first to try, so you're either going to succeed or fail." Nico said.

Was Nico being sarcastic or was he being serious... With his tone I really couldn't tell... I LOVE THIS GUY!

Nico took so many turns that I soon got lost and just followed him like a puppy.

We ended up at an entrance with a curtain hanging from the top.

Nico walked right through without a second thought and I soon did too.

"Hey Drag, um we need a favor" Nico said.

Drag? What kind of name was that?

"What do you want Nighthawk?"

Nighthawk? Were there code names around here?

"We need to escape, pronto, its an emergency."

"Drag" as he was called, didn't turn to look at us and kept doing whatever he was doing... I'm not sure what he was doing because it was so dark.

"What kind of emergency is this?" Drag said with nonchalance

"Drag, we don't have the time" Nico whined.

"Look Nico, I can't just initiate the escape plan without a clue of why" Drag explained.

"Can you just take your eyes off that damn project and look at us!" Nico said exasperated

Drag muttered something to himself, which I shall not repeat, rolled his eyes and finally faced us.

What I saw made me gasp of shock.

"Charlie?!"