The Quest for the Magic Sword

Part 3: The Great Pyramid

They just keep getting longer and longer...

"Wahoo! Yeah!" I shouted as we sped off towards the Middle East on our hippocampi. It was really fun, going at top speed on a hippocampi.

"We're almost there; wow these things are fast," Thalia said as her hippocampi did a jump in the air. I could see the pyramids from here. They were so big in real life!

"What's that??" Grover pointed up to the sky. As we looked up I could see a huge monster flying around a pyramid. As we got closer I could see it had enormous eagle wings and the body of a lion. I didn't need to see its head to know it was a-

"Griffin!" Annabeth shouted, "Wow look at these pyramids!!! The architecture is amazing!"

Just then the griffin spotted us and came flying toward us.

"Aaah! I'm scared!"

"Grover, you're always scared," Thalia said as she ducked a swipe from the griffin.

"I don't think that thing likes us!" I said as we all ran towards the pyramid, hoping to find cover. We ducked into the entrance and I smashed into a steel door blocking the entrance into the pyramid.

"Ow," I said, rubbing my head.

"How do we open this door?" Annabeth said, "Hmmm… griffins protect treasures and tombs… Aha I think we have to kill it to open this door!"

"Ok then sounds easy enough to me," I jumped out and attacked the griffin with a blast of water. The griffin swooped down, only to get a blast of lighting fry it into oblivion. Ok, maybe it wasn't oblivion yet, but we had almost defeated it. Then it did something unexpected: it let out a loud cry. Then nothing. The griffin waited. Nothing. Waited. Then, all of sudden four more cries replied, and four more griffins appeared before us.

"I can kill one griffin but not five at the same time!!!" I exclaimed as they all attacked us. Grover played a song and prickly vines entangled 2 of the griffins. Thalia sent a blast of lighting from behind me and paralyzed a griffin. I went in, slashed, and the griffin disappeared in a flash of green light. 1 down, 4 to go.

The vines squeezed the griffins hard but they escaped, needles poking out from every part of their bodies. I sent a jet of water as hard as I could and defeated one of the griffins. Annabeth put on her cap of invisibility and took out 2 of the 3 remaining griffins with her knife thingy.

"Only 1 griffin left, guys!" Thalia said as she sent a bolt of lighting at the last griffin. The griffin dodged the lighting, swooped down, and picked Thalia up.

"AAAAAAAAH!!!" she screamed, looking down.

"Don't look down, we'll save you!" Grover shouted up. We all knew Thalia was still afraid of heights. Thalia squeezed her eyes shut and took some deep breaths. Then sparks flew all around her. And just about when the griffin was flying out of sight a huge ball of lighting enveloped Thalia and the griffin. The griffin disintegrated in green light and Thalia fell down, down.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" Thalia screamed as she fell. I ran over to save her and held my arms out ready for her to fall into my arms. Instead, she slammed into my back and sent me face first into the sand.

"Oops sorry Percy, heh at least you saved me," Thalia said, getting off of my back.

"It's ok," I spit some sand out of my mouth, "Yuck."

Then we heard a rumbling sound and the steel door slide aside and revealed the entrance to a huge cavernous pyramid. Then I noticed that the pyramid was bigger than any other in sight. It was the Great Pyramid!

Our footsteps echoed around the pyramid as we went inside. It was really dark, so we had to hold hands so we wouldn't get lost. Grover took my hand, I took Annabeth's, and she took Thalia's. We walked down a hallway for what seemed like an eternity until the hallway split into 2 paths.

"Which path should we take?" I asked.

"Split up, Grover you go with Percy, I'll go with Annabeth," Thalia said. I let go of Annabeth's hand (a bit reluctantly) and set off to the right with Grover. I looked around and saw that the path we were taking was dimly lit with torches… how weird. We kept on walking and walking until we heard a shrill scream echo from behind us. Grover and I ran towards the sound and when we got to the 2 paths we went left. The screaming got closer and we saw Annabeth and Thalia confronting a mummy.

"Whoa is that really a mummy?" Grover asked as the mummy slowly walked towards us.

"Run!" I shouted. The mummy cocked its head towards me. Suddenly I couldn't move. "Why can't I move?!" Annabeth, Thalia, and Grover pulled me back towards the two paths, but the mummy was still on our tail, slowly but steadily heading towards us.

"Down the other way!" Grover shouted as we headed down the lit hallway.

"Phew we've lost the mummy, and I can move again!" I said as we kept on walking.

When we got to the end we saw a huge sarcophagus in the middle of an even bigger room than the entrance room. Thank the gods it wasn't golden…

Suddenly, a giant axe swung down and nearly cut my head off.

"Woah!" I said as the axe swung again, "It's a booby trap!"

"I've always wondered why they call it a 'booby' trap… Uhhh… Whatever…" Grover said as 2 more axes swung down. Spikes protruded from the walls and shot out at us. The statues started bellowing fire out of their mouths.

"Ahhh! What the hell is so special about this sarcophagus?!" I asked as a spike pinned me to the wall.

Annabeth managed to get to the sarcophagus and take a good look at it.

"It looks like we'll need a key!" Just as Annabeth said that, the mummy appeared at the entranceway and approached us.

"Oh great…" Thalia said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Ok! I've had enough of this mummy!!!" I took out Riptide and slashed it in half. "Wow that was too easy…" Then in place of where the mummy just was there was a key. I picked the golden and red trimmed key up and threw it to Annabeth. "Here!" I said as she caught it.

Annabeth took the key and opened the sarcophagus. She reached in and took out- a shard of the Magical Sword!

"Yes! We got it! So now what?"

"RUUUN!" Grover shouted, pointing up to the ceiling, which was collapsing! We ran for our lives, and we reached the exit just as the steel door began to close. We all jumped through the entrance and made it outside.

"Phew, so we got 2 shards of the magical sword…" Thalia said as we walked back to our hippocampi waiting for us. Suddenly, a blast of sand smacked me into the ground.

"What was that?" I asked, and as if in reply, a sandstorm whipped up and smacked me into the ground again.

"Sandstorm!" Grover shouted. "Run!" We ran as fast as we could, with the sandstorm getting bigger and bigger; we were almost to the beach… SPLASH! We fell into the water, got picked up by the hippocampi, and rode away, leaving the raging sandstorm behind us.

I shook sand out of my hair as I got another golden drachma ready for an I- M. This time, it was Mr. D who replied.

"Hello Mr. D, where's Chiron?"

"Well, there's a slight problem back here in Camp Half- Blood, so most of the campers are taking care of it."

"And what are you doing?"

"Drinking tea."

"…Umm ook so where next?"

"Don't ask me I have no idea."

"What?!?!?"

"Well, if you really want to know then you'll have to come back to Camp Half- Blood and ask Chiron."

"Ugh fine."

"Oh, and will you fix the problem while your at it? I think you would be able to calm your brothers down."

"My… brothers?" As soon as I said it I realized what was happening. I ended the Iris- Message and told the others.

"We have to go back to Camp Half- Blood and ask Chiron where to go next… and we have to calm down some cyclops there, too." And with that, we sped off towards Long Island.

Yay cyclops! Or are they bad… Ummm… ook…