"She showed mercy, that's gotta mean something. Maybe there's a reason-" Jason said.

"Wait, what mercy?" Annabeth asked confused for once.

"The Stoll brother's ghost are still technically here, maybe- maybe she's trying to help us- or herself." Jason explained.

"The Ares cabin, some people survived." Percy added.

"Some? Some? Yes, there is probably a reason she showed mercy. A bad reason."

"Can I just-" Travis almost got to say.

"WHAT?!" Annabeth yelled at Travis.

"Alright calm down." Piper said putting charmspeak in her words.

Annabeth calmed down slightly, "Can we just-"

Yet another ghost burst into the big house. They recognized it was a girl, Clarisse. That's when everyone went crazy.

"WE'RE NOT ALONE!" Conner yelled happily. Meanwhile everyone else wasn't so happy. Clarisse was just as confused as everyone else, although she was more concerned of her inability to speak.

"If you would just listen for ONE SECOND." Travis yelled and everyone shut up. "Thank you. As I was going to say before I was so rudely interrupted! We found the recorder Conner was-"

"What recorder?" Frank asked.

"Yeah, you didn't mention anything about a recorder yesterday." Percy said.

"How did we not notice we were ghosts and not alive? Both questions that we should leave for later. Now, it was still recording when we found it, so after we...lost our consciousness we could still know where she was going after or what she said after."

"Wait I thought you couldn't pick up anything!" Percy said.

"That's what I said!" Conner said.

"Give it." Clarisse snatching the recorder with ease. "Why do you even have this?"

"We may or may not have planted recorders...everywhere..." Conner admitted. Nobody was bothered by this, like they expected that answer.

They played through the recording:

-feedback-

Conner: Turn that thing down will you...Its a little quiet for a forest.

Travis: Yeah, because this forest is never quiet.

-trap setting off sound-

-muffled laughter-

Travis: Looks like we got one.

Conner: Are we fishing or something that you have to say it like that?

Travis: Shush you. That sounded like one of the traps set for the dragon.

Conner: Even better! Let's go check it out.

-rushed footsteps-

Conner: Oh. My. Gods. How did you- Woah, were'd it go?

Travis: You! How'd you do that? Who are you?

-leaves ruffling-

-wind howls-

-panicked breathing-

Conner: Dude. Chill. It's probably just a nymph trying to scare us.

Travis: You saw her! She was human! She-

(Conner interrupts and says "Next voice!")

Unidentified: No.

-shuffling-

Conner: Uh- erm- sorry if we-

Unidentified: Get them.

-screams-

Travis: Put us down...things that got us.

Conner: What are you doing?!

Unidentified: Eliminating distractions. Weakening "allies."

-struggling sounds-

Conner: I don't know what you mean by that but put. Us. DOWN.

(Travis interrupts whispering to Conner "You had to open your big mouth." Which then started a hushed bickering between the two. Clarisse knocked their two heads together.)

Unidentified: If you say so. Rope.

Travis: Wait. Wait! Wait, wait, wait, wait, NO!

-trees shaking-

-thunder sounds-

-feedback-

-silence-

-footsteps-

Girl: That was subtle.

Unidentified: Next get the girl.

Girl: What girl?

Unidentified: Send a message. Burned print.

Girl: You- yes ma'am.

Unidentified: And do not fail like the last attempt.

Girl: Oh- that girl...yes mistress.

-electric sparks-

-silence-

-animals resume calls-

There was a lot of silence for the next few minutes, then Jason broke it, "That last voice sounded a lot like-" He didn't finish his sentence but Percy nodded. Annabeth seemed to have an idea as well.

"But that could never, and will never happen." Percy said with full confidence. "But just in case, who did that second girl look like?"

"We didn't see anyone else there." Travis said.

"Is anybody gonna talk about that "last attempt" she was talking about?" Piper asked.

"Yeah, Clarisse, who's she talking about?" Conner said.

"OK, two things. One HOW IN HADES DID YOU KNOW?! OH wait...nevermind- (Recorder if you didn't catch on) I- well that last attempt...was...on me." Clarisse admitted. "And I can tell you exactly who the little imp is."

"Well then don't be cliche and get on with it before you get taken away to the underworld before we can hear it or worse." Frank said.

"Or worse? What else can happen? Can she die again?" Annabeth said as Nico walked in. He backed out of the room slowly and left. Both Percy and Annabeth went after him.

"It was-" Clarisse almost got to say the words as Percy and Annabeth walked in carrying dragging in Nico.

"I can't go near them! The further I am the less power that drains me." Nico said already losing strength.

"How are they here?" Percy asked.

"Wow, you guys really need to get your priorities straight. Clarisse?" Hazel said.

"THA-" Clarisse said then the lights turn out to make the situation even more so cliche. Everyone who had a weapon drew it. "UGH." The only light provided was the faint glow of the 3 ghost in the room and the weapons drawn.

A mist formed around them, the same shade of green as the Oracle's mist. The lights started flickering at a steady pace. The only person it scared was Conner who lunged to floor after screaming "SALT!"

Everytime the lights went on everyone saw a dark shadow. Percy got up and walked (yes, walked) calmly to the light switch where Chiron, of all people, was standing.

"I needed to get your attention, and yours only." He explained. "Go to your cabin." Percy was skeptical, mainly because Chiron wouldn't look at him, but he obeyed.

He walked through the doorway which revealed a hallway. He could hear a sound, chuckling. He walked down the hallway that shouldn't have been there, only the sounds of his foot prints remained. He expected to hear a scream but he got out completely safe, unharmed. He saw what Chiron wanted him to see. On his cabin, what looked spray painted on was a message that said:

WATCH.

Ooo scary. Percy thought, he got closer to his cabin and the message disappeared. He touched the place were the message was formerly. His hand shot back feeling burnt. He was tempted to toss a few waves at the cabin but he ignored it and walked inside. He didn't expect to literally "watch" anything. But there in his room a whole camera system, with wires sticking out from random places, and a few monitors on a table. The cameras were moving side to side by themselves like they were mounted on fans, which didn't make since because it was dead cold outside, hardest winds they'd ever experienced.

Percy noticed there was a camera in every room, including his (at that moment noticing a fan on the ceiling) and the Big House. Every cabin, even in the bathrooms which didn't rotate, and some spaces in the forest but those only played audio apparently. It felt like a game, watch what happens until there's action, Percy didn't want to do that. But he had no choice.

Percy picked up the pair of headphones and put them around his neck so he could hear the forest. He knew something would happen there eventually. In the Big House Chiron was calming down everyone, the shadowy figure was gone. He wished he could get Annabeth's attention so they could be together figuring this out. The cameras synced in movement. He was particularly interested in the Hades cabin, which was completely normal. But the movement of the camera, back between to side of the room, the left side he could see Nico, then it moved so far that he couldn't see him anymore. It was making him more nervous than normal.

He looked at the other rooms, the Hermes cabin was less energetic, the Ares cabin had less people, he looked at the camera for his room, no change. The Hephaestus cabin was deserted, which wasn't exactly different. The Aphrodite cabin had a few demigods cowering under the covers which was slightly sad to see, most cabins were as usual.

He looked back at the Hades cabin. Nico was on the right side of the room now, he was sitting legs crossed looking at wall, he was just staring, Percy hadn't even noticed him move. At that moment everyone in the cabins noticed the cameras, that or the fans. They stared in wonder.

The Hephaestus cabin had a few people in them now, they were climbing up a ladder getting closer to the camera, the camera moving away and toward them again. In the Apollo cabin, Will Solace held out his hand toward the camera causing it to fall and break. The Aphrodite kids were arguing about something, for a few seconds Percy saw a completely different picture on the monitors, almost like it was masking the truth and it was malfunctioning.

Everyone had hollow eyes and were paler than pale. All staring at the camera. The only rooms that stayed normal was the Big House. The picture flickered back to normal except for the Big House which took its turn.

Percy heard kids laughing and lots of rustling in the forest, along with violent wind sounds. Percy shot up out of the seat and ran to his door.

"Hey stop it!" He heard outside of his cabin. He violently shook the doorknob, but it opened from the outside.

Percy rammed into Annabeth, who appeared to his relief, Annabeth not so much.

"Seaweed brain! I was about to check on you, thought you got taken too." Annabeth said quickly, shaken. She was with Nico.

Percy put together a sentence, "Too?" Percy started walking toward the forest where other deceased kids from the Ares cabin were all gathered. He and Annabeth saw something that made them want to cry and throw their hands and scream UUGH.

Hazel and Frank were hugging awkwardly. Hazel saw them and pulled Frank in their direction, "Oh good! We were worried, what happened?" Hazel said.

Annabeth was too stunned to speak. Nico came with them to see why there was so much "dead energy" in one place. Percy stared, the sight send shivers down his back, he felt frozen in place. Nico stood next to them and froze, he saw something completely different. He touched Hazel's face, tears welling up in his eyes.

He blinked back tears. He tried to say something but his voice wouldn't work.

"What? Uh, Hazel said she felt something new and weird over here, turns out there were ghost...here...What are you guys-" Frank said, he waved his hands to wake them from their trance.

"Hazel." Nico said his mouth twitching, she was terrifying to look at but he couldn't help it.

"You guys, do you- do you- You guys are-" Annabeth couldn't say the rest. Frank and Hazel where confused they looked at each other again and jumped back. They called out each other's names in surprise.

"Your face!" Hazel said. "Your face!" Frank said. Then their expressions turn to confusion, then to surprise again. They both said "Ohh" realizing what had happened.

The odds and ends-

Notes: By the way I can't tell any information until the story is told. Also writing horror is not as easy as showing it, there are no jump-scares, all I can do is describe.