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CHAPTER 3: TAKEN

Annabeth´s POV:

I froze as soon as I saw what was right above Clarisse´s head. It was the red man I had seen in my dreams last night. It was impossible that what he and the Lord were talking about was breaking into camp. How on Hades did he pass the camp´s defenses? The barrier? I remembered they were talking about kidnapping a boy or something like that and suddenly, the man looked at Percy and smiled.

He drew Riptide and prepared to strike but when the blade came near the monster he just vanished. We all thought it was gone for good but he reappeared right behind Percy and before he could even react, the black man pushed him making him land on the floor several meters away.

"Percyyy!" I drew my knife and tried to stab him on the back but the monster was fast and as easy as waving away a fly he just stopped my hand, grabbing it with incredibly force and with the other hand he took me by the throat and disappeared again, this time taking me with him. The monster appeared back in the sky and dropped me from quite a height. If it hadn´t been for some of the guys from the Hephaestus cabin I would have been dead already. I sat down on the floor coughing and trying hard not to throw up.

A girl named Olivia from the Apollo cabin tried to shoot some arrows at the red man but it was worthless. The man would just disappeared and let the arrows pass by, hitting some other campers that weren´t fast enough to get out of the way.

This was getting really serious and Chiron was nowhere to be seen. The youngest campers started running back to their cabins and no one could blame them; we just couldn't defeat this guy. Percy tried to slash him in a half again and he almost did it but the black man disappeared just in time and reappeared behind Percy, passing one arm around his neck and using his other hand to locate a little space in the lower part of his back. Percy immediately stopped moving. ¡It was impossible that this guy could know where his Achilles spot was! Right? Percy was turning a little pale trying hard not to move and I quickly jumped in to help him.

"Stop right there before I kill this little boy" he barked. Then he said to Percy "Drop your sword" I could see that the red man pushed harder with his hand on Percy's Achilles spot and he suppressed a gasp but had no other choice than to let Riptide fall to the floor. "Now, now, I see you´re good with orders. For the rest of you" he said out loud "keep enjoying your day" and with that he just disappeared taking Percy as well and not coming back this time. I yelled and ran to the place where they had disintegrated but they were gone.

The oldest campers started taking the injured ones to the infirmary and I refused to go when the Stoll brothers told me that I had a lot of bruises on my neck. I had to resist the urge of crying and concentrate on saving Percy, wherever he was, he was in grave danger, I just knew that. Clarisse came running at me and suggested that we should try and contact Chiron so we Iris-Messaged him and told him everything that had happened. He said he was going to be here as soon as he could.

45 minutes later he came back from the city explaining that he was taking care of some powerful demigod sighting in a local school and checked on the injured campers. Then we arranged a Council with all the head councilors and just when we were about to start, a familiar face popped out of nowhere.

"Nico! What are you doing here?" He looked like he´d been running for hours. "Are you all right?"

"Percy's in trouble" he said.

"How do you know? You weren't here when it happened"

"You mean you already know?" he took a moment to think and frowned "What happened?"

"Some monster took him from Camp and we just don´t know where to look" Chiron explained.

"Well then, problem solved: he's in the Underworld and he's about to die" We all let that sink in. Then I went nuts.

"We have to go there now! Chiron, Nico can take us there by shadow travel. WE HAVE TO SAVE PERCY!"

"I agree dear but it is too much dangerous, we don´t know what kind of creature is that and much less how to destroy it." And then it hit me; since my nightmare was happening to be true I decided the black man wasn't our biggest problem.

"He's going to feed from his strength" It came out as a whisper.

"Annabeth, what did you say?" Clarisse asked me so I told them about the dream and the Lord and how he was going to use Percy to rise and try to overcome the Gods.

"Why didn't you say anything before?" Chiron's gaze was disapproval.

"I don't know…I mean…I didn't know they were talking about Camp, nevertheless Percy. So what are we going to do? We can't let them kill him."

"I´m afraid some of you are going to try to rescue Percy, there´s no time to get a quest and have the help from the Oracle and be prepare because it might be a suicidal move. So who offers?" Everyone looked at me.

"Of course I'm going but Nico I need you"

"Sure thing Annabeth. But we need to get going now. Anyone else?"

"I'll go" to everyone's surprise it was Clarisse the one who was offering so we just stared at her "What? We can't just let the savior of Olympus die, can we? Let's go!"

"All right then, hurry up" Chiron said.

Nico grabbed both mine and Clarisse's hand and we just disappeared. I don´t need to tell you how shadow travel feels right? There is no time for that. We emerged behind one big stone that helped us remain unseen. I recognized we were extremely close to the River Styx and that sent a chill up my back, but what I saw and heard next just made me want to faint.

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