Here's chapter 3! In this chapter, Annabeth and Percy will go back to camp!
Disclaimer: I don't own PJO
Annabeth's POV
"Come on, come on!" I muttered as I tried to get ahold of Lilly.
Hi this is Lilly. I'm not here right now... Oh great, her voicemail. To leave a voice message, press one. I pressed it. Beep.
"Lilly, it's Mom. If you get this, call me right away, otherwise I'm calling the cops." I hung up. Oh gods, why didn't I just let Percy tell her the truth? He was right. We should've told her before, now it might be too late.
I picked my phone back up and speed dialed Percy.
"Hello?" He said.
"Percy! Where are you?"
"At work, but I'm really busy right now, can I-"
"No! You can't call me back! This is an emergency!"
"What happened?"
"It's Lilly! I think she's been kidnapped!"
"What?! How did this-"
"I'll explain later. Right now, I think we should go to camp."
"So you think this was... you know who's doing?" He was probably still at his office and didn't want other people to hear him talk about Kronos or monsters.
"Yep. I'll explain when we get to camp." I heard a beep on the other end, probably his car getting unlocked.
"Okay. I'm on my way."
Lilly's POV
Thump.....Thump....Thump... I woke up when I felt myself moving up and back down again every few seconds. I looked around and saw that we were in the trunk of a van. Out the window, I could see that we were on a bumpy country road with no buildings in sight. We obviously weren't in Manhattan anymore. I felt something on my wrists and amkles and realized they were tied. My head ached badly and I groaned.
"Lilly?" someone asked quietly. I turned my head and saw Ally sitting next to me.
"What happened?"
"I'm not sure, but I've got a feeling pretty soon we're going to figure out what's so special about our families."
Percy's POV
I pulled up at Camp Half Blood. It felt strange because I hadn't been here in fifteen and a half years. When I got out, I saw Annabeth pulling up. When she parked, I went over and opened her car door.
She stood and enveloped me in a hug. Her face was red and I saw tears running down her cheeks. At first I thought her tears were coming down my cheek as we hugged, but then I realized they were mine.
"How could I have let this happen?" She sobbed. "You were right. I should've listened to you."
"Shh." I tried to comfort her. "It's not your fault. You just wanted to protect her." After a few minutes of sobbing together, she pulled away.
"We should go into camp now and talk to Chiron." Annabeth said as she wiped her eyes. I nodded and we began walking up the hill. I wanted desperately to know how our daughter had been kidnapped, but I knew pushing Annabeth would just make her cry again, so I waited.
When we reached the top of the hill, I saw how different everything looked. Instead of just twelve cabins, there had to be at least forty. The Big House looked even bigger than before, at least five stories now. Campers were everywhere, playing volleyball or practicing archery.
"Whoa," I heard Annabeth mutter and together we started toward the Big House.
"Chiron?" I shouted when we walked into the empty Big House. We looked around in a few rooms that hadn't been there on my last visit and finally gave up after checking every single room. "What about the attic?" Annabeth said and I shook my head.
"He wouldn't be in there, would he?" She shrugged.
"Everything else seems to have changed, why would that be the same?" We started towards the attic and I immediately knew Annabeth was right: it had changed. Instead of a ladder leading up to the attic, there were stairs.
"This is new," I said as I began climbing. I knocked on the door, which had obviously been replaced, and listened, but all I heard was some lady talking.
"Now down, and up! Down and up!" A woman's voice that I didn't recognize was saying. I looked at Annabeth, who looked as confused as I felt. "Can you feel it?" The woman said.
"Yes! I feel it!" a man replied. I knocked again and was surprised to hear an answer.
"Stop knocking and just come in!" Definitely Chrion. I opened the door and was surprised to see a room full of exercise equipment. A satyr was doing squats in front of a television.
"I feel it!" he shouted at the TV, which was turned to an exercise channel. Chiron was on a treadmill and I saw a few others using other pieces of equipment or doing squats with the satyr.
"Now why were you knocking?" Chiron said. "You know-" he turned to us and recognition dawned on his face. "Percy! Annabeth! What a delightful surprise!" His legs had stopped moving from shock that we were here and he slid off the treadmill. "Where's Lilly? I haven't seen her since she was a baby!" The huge smile on his face disappeared when he saw our expressions and tear filled eyes.
"Oh no," he said, "what happened?"
"She was kidnapped," Annabeth said andshe started to sob. "It's all my fault. If I would've listened to Percy... this never would have happened." I put my arm around her comfortingly and Chiron trotted over.
"Don't blame yourself," he said as he enveloped both of us in a hug.
"Umm, Chiron?" I said. I knew I was ruining the moment, but I couldn't stand it anymore.
"Yes?" he said.
"Umm, how can I put this nicely? You're sweating like a pig and you smell like a skunk." He pulled away.
"Do pigs sweat?" He asked and I shrugged. He smiled. "It's great to have you two back." He hugged us again.
"Chiron?" Annabeth said.
"Oh, right, sorry." He said and pulled away again. "Let's go downstairs and tell everyone about your arrival. Then we can figure out what to do about the girls."
"The girls? " I asked. "Who else is missing?" "Come downstairs. There's some old friends of yours I want you to see."
There's chapter 3! I hope you liked it! Review! Please and thank you! :D
