I tried to stand up but my entire body was like stone. I couldn't see and I couldn't hear a thing. I was alive though - I could hear my heart beat slowly 'thump thump'. Then I realised where I was, what I had just done for Thalia.
I was trapped here, wherever here was, forever - or maybe just until someone found the golden fleece. With that thought, I suddenly became so tired.
*Thump thump*
"I'll try and save you" whispered a voice. I tried to nod but I couldn't.
*Thump thump*
"Why's there a statue on Half Blood Hill?"
"A kid saved Thalia. Don't know who he was, he didn't say. He saved her, but I don't know why,"
" Kid of Ares?"
"Dunno, he never did anything. Just made her run to safety, fought well but lost."
"Oh."
*Thump thump*
"Help me somebody!" I tried to shout.
"Did that statue just say something?"
*Thump thump*
"Chiron, I think the boy in the statue can hear you. I think he's still alive"
"Hmm... I'll send out a quest for the golden fleece. Only because he saved three of my favourite campers."
*Thump thump*
"Statue boy, my name is Annabeth. I'm 7. How old are you?"
I thought to myself, 15, but knew she couldn't hear.
*Thump thump*
"It's Thalia. Thankyou for saving me. Thankyou for saving us,"
*Thump thump*
"You've been like this a year"
*Thump thump*
I seemed to be floating like I was in a dream. I needed to get out of here but I was trapped.
*Thump thump*
"It's my nineth birthday today"
*Thump thump*
"... I've got it"
I felt something be dropped on me.
*Thump thump*
"I'm ten today"
I felt my arm slacken and I could just feel one finger move.
*Thump thump*
I could just remember that in just over a year, the younger me would be here at camp. It all seemed like a dream still.
*Thump thump*
"Chiron! It moved just an inch! His finger moved"
My whole body felt like stone, except for one hand. I flexed my fingers into a fist.
"That doesn't mean a thing Thalia" Chiron whispered.
*Thump thump*
"Thalia, you have had the Golden Fleece there for two years. It's been three years since he became that statue. I think it's too late"
"One more month Chiron, please!"
"Alright, thirty days"
*Thump thump*
I tried to open my eyes and found that if I tried hard enough, I could just about open one eye. I was still so tired though, so very tired. I found that
I was still as good as frozen. My hands would move slightly but my arms and legs and even my neck still wouldn't move. I saw Thalia staring at me
and knew that maybe the thirty days were over. Maybe I would be like this forever.
"Thalia...?" I managed to croak out.
"Oh my gods! It worked. We've saved you!"
"I wouldn't be so sure yet. I can't even move my arm. I can barely talk"
" What's your name?" she asked.
"Percy Jackson, son of Posiedon."
"Wow."
"Thalia, daughter of Zeus, I think I've made a terrible mistake."
*Thump thump*
I should never have told her my name, but now it was too late to complain.
I opened one eye and looked out at Half Blood Hill.
"I'm sixteen in three months Percy, the prophecy."
It was at that second that I knew that I might just have caused the destruction of the world.
"Styx! I've killed us all!"
"Percy?"
*Thump thump*
"You have two days Percy! Come on! If you can do this, you can do anything! There's a new camper coming tommorrow"
I knew that the new camper was - me.
*Thump thump*
"All you have to do is walk one step Percy, sometimes I think I am mad and that you never talked to me, that I have made all these conversations up"
*Thump thump*
"If there really is someone alive in that statue then they should be able to wake up Thalia."
"Give it five more minutes Chiron,"
I had a way I could wake up properly - water. I was stronger in water so if someone could pour water over me I might be free of the statue.
Right now I could not see, I was blind again. A minute passed and I could not even move an eyelid.
"Maybe I was dreaming it all," said Thalia sadly.
Suddenly, a bottle of water dropped on me.
"Styx! I'm so clumsy!" shouted Annabeth.
Suddenly I felt stronger- maybe even strong enough to wake. I felt like I was spinning, falling over and over again.
I opened my eyes properly for the first time in three years and looked up at the campers above me. There was Annabeth, exactly as she used to look, and Thalia.
I even tried to sit up, and after a while I stood, shakily to my feet.
"Who is he?" a camper I didn't recgonise called out.
"I am Percy Jackson, son of Posiedon."
After that there was a mountain of whispering and I turned and saw Thalia standing behind me, holding me up to stop me from falling. I looked down over the valley and saw the minotaur
, Grover and my Mom disspearing. I was barely able to walk but I managed to persaude Thalia to help me there.
"Thalia, this is really important. I can't explain why but you have to help me save that kid."
"I don't think you're well enough to be fighting at all"
"Well you save him, it's really important."
"Why?"
"If you save him you'll find out why,"
"Fine"
I sat and watched as the younger me defeated the minotaur and then was dragged across the property line by Thalia. I looked on in dread as the 12 year old Percy was dragged into the Big House. I was feeling a
little shaky on my feet so walked in and watched as Chiron quizzed both of us at the same time. Annabeth was sitting in the corner watching.
"Who are you? How old are you?"
"I'm Percy Jackson, son of Posiedon and I'm about fifteen. Well I was..."
"I'm Percy Jackson and I'm eleven"
Chiron looked confused. "How can you both have the same name? What a conincidence...."
"Chiron, it's not a coincidence." I told him.
"This is very odd... Tell me both of you, who is your mother?"
"Sally Jackson" we both replied in unison.
Chiron then looked at me. "You have been there about three years. Add nine months to your age. When will you turn 16 if you add those nine months?"
"In two months"
Chiron looked like he was about to cry. "The same as Thalia. We have a battle about to rage,"
"Chiron, do you want to know why me and him look so alike, have the same name and the same parent?"
He nodded gravely.
"Well, I am from the future and I have ruined everything. The whole world is going to be different now and it is all my fault. Thalia was turned into a tree in my timeline. Me and Annabeth saved her when I was 12 and then she joined
the Hunters. And I was the one the prophecy was about. We have had years to prepare. Now I am all alone here, without Annabeth..."
"I'm right here you know!" she cried out but I just shook my head.
Chiron looked thoughtful. "Well Percy, if you have already damaged the timeline then you might as well fight for us.
"There is another thing Chiron. Keep Luke under guard. Please. He will soon be possessed by Kronos - by the end of the summer he will try and kill me."
He looked shocked but nodded. I looked down at myself sitting watching me.
Then the younger me went "What the hell is this place?"
I had a lot of explaining to do...