Kronos growled, "I don't have time for you!" And then I started to hear his army. "Dammit...Artemis we have to go. Now."

Percy was on it, he waved at me to follow him. We ran towards him. He led us to a cave that seemed to go on forever, "Do you even know where this leads?" I asked him.

"I think you should shadow travel all of us, out of here." Thalia said.

Artemis and the rest of the hunters agreed. Percy shook his head, "Annabeth, Nico and Rachel is down this tunnel, I can't just leave them."

I groaned, "Let's just go in there with them, and then I could shadow travel you guys out of there later." I said to Artemis.

She could tell I wasn't going to leave him, and the others. "Fine, eveyrone in!" She yelled.

"Kill them!" Kronos shouted angrily behind us, "Percy!" Someone yelled from inside the cave. I looked and saw a blue plastic hairbrush hit Kronos in the eye. "Ow!" he yelled. For a moment it was only Luke's voice, full of surprise and pain. We ran and found Nico and some girl and Annabeth, who were standing in the entry hall, their eyes filled with dismay.

"Go!" I yelled to them. Percy was the first one. Once he was by Annabeth he grabbed her by the shirt and hauled her with him. We all ran as fast as we could, straight out of the fortress. We were almost back to the Labyrinth entrance when we heard the loudest bellow in the world—the voice of Kronos, coming back into control. "AFTER THEM!"

"No!" Nico yelled. He clapped his hands together, and a jagged spire of rock the size of an eighteen-wheeler erupted from the ground right in front of the fortress. The tremor it caused was so powerful the front columns of the building came crashing down. I heard muffled screams from the telekhines inside. Dust billowed everywhere. We didn't have time to admire his work, because right now we cannot fight an army alone.

We plunged into the Labyrinth and kept running, the howl of the Titan lord shaking the entire world behind us.

We ran until we were exhausted. That girl steered us away from traps, but we had no destination in mind—only away from that dark mountain and the roar of Kronos.

We stopped in a tunnel of wet white rock, like part of a natural cave. I couldn't hear anything behind us. "I can't go any farther," The girl gasped, hugging her chest.

Annabeth had been crying the entire time we'd been running. Now she collapsed and put her head between her knees. Her sobs echoed in the tunnel. Nico and Percy sat next to each other. He dropped his sword next to Percy's and took a shaky breath.

"Well...That was fun, eh?" I looked around at everyone. Annabeth was still crying, everyone just gave me an angry look and then said nothing. Thalia went to comfort Annabeth. The hunters and Artemis were talking, "-Yes, we'll have to go with Percy and the others to help fight." She said.

"Really?" I asked.

Artemis nodded, "I saw a lot of monsters...even some ancient monsters. I don't think just we can take them all out, actually it's impossible with just us, unless we go to camp half-blood and group up with them."

As we were talking Percy came over with Nico. I frowned, but then I smiled because of what he did earlier, "Nice job man!" I said proudly, he looked at me and blushed, "That was nothing campaired to what you can do."

I shook my head, "Nico, you're still new to awakening your powers. What you did just now, was something that took me at least a couple of years to master. You did awesome, don't underestimate yourself, you're capable of a lot more than you think." I nodded approvingly, he smiled sheepishly, "T-Thank you..."

"And one more thing...I'm okay...Don't apologize to me about the last time we met, okay? Because, I'm going to talk to Bianca...Not now but soon. And don't ever hold a grudge, it will be the end of you if you do." I said gently to him.

He gulped, "Alright."

Now that, that's out of the way, "We should go..." I glanced over to Annabeth, Thalia was still comforting her, Thalia's eyes were watery, just like Annabeth's eyes.

Finally Annabeth said, "What…what was wrong with Luke? What did they do to him?"

Percy told us what happened with that kid Ethan. When he pledged his service to Kronos. Annabeth couldn't believe it, "No," Annabeth said. "That can't be true. He couldn't—"

"He gave himself over to Kronos," Percy said. "I'm sorry, Annabeth. But Luke is gone."

"No!" she insisted. "You saw when Rachel hit him."

Yes...That was strange, but...I'm not entirely sure, maybe it was just because Kronos was not used to that body. I don't know. Percy nodded, looking at the one named Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush."

Rachel looked embarrassed. "It was the only thing I had."

"But you saw," Annabeth insisted. "When it hit him, just for a second, he was dazed. He came back to his senses."

"So maybe Kronos wasn't completely settled in the body, or whatever," Percy said. "It doesn't mean Luke was in control."

"You want him to be evil, is that it?" Annabeth yelled. "You didn't know him before, Percy. I did!" Thalia held Annabeth, "He doesn't want that as much as you, but...That wasn't Luke, I hate to say this...But Luke is-

Thalia's voice broke, "He's gone Annabeth..."

Annabeth started to sobbing miserably. "Percy...Come here." I waved at him.

He came over and said, "What's up...?"

"Uh...Luke...Who was he?" I asked, Percy looked surprised, but then he remembered I don't know him. "Oh...He was um...He used to be a nice guy at camp half-blood. He was an awesome sword fighter, and...Well as you heard, I didn't know him as long as Annabeth. So I'm not the one to ask about him."

Just two more chapters! They will for sure be long.

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