Percy's POV
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I woke up to sunlight pouring into my cabin. I opened and closed my eyes several times before I realized where I was. I was at camp. Not at home. I kinda missed waking up in my room. My mom always does fun stuff with it while I was at camp. Last summer, the summer of the war against Kronos, she painted it sea blue so I could keep the water with me all the time.
I crawled out of bed. I changed into some tan shorts and then went to unbutton my shirt before I remembered that Annabeth had chopped them off the night before. I smiled as I pulled it off and stuck on a new, clean shirt (with buttons still intact).
I stepped out into the bright light of the June sun. I looked around. Everything seemed normal. The sun was beating down like always, and I saw that lots of campers were already in the sword arena. How long did I sleep in? Did I miss breakfast?
I ran out to talk to Thalia and the rest of the Hunters who were here too. Woah! When did they get here? What was going on?
"Thalia!" I yelled. "What's happened?"
She turned around. I could tell she'd been crying all morning. "Percy…"
Lord Zeus, I hate it when she says my name like that.
"Where's Aang?" He was the first thing I thought of.
"He's in the infirmiry," She wiped a tear from her eye. "Percy, it's Annabeth."
"What?" Oh. My. Gods. "Where is she? What happened?"
Ditch Aang, this was the worst moment of my life. Thalia wasn't answering. I couldn't tell what was going to happen next. Annabeth was somewhere. I didn't even know what had happened. I had no idea what was going on.
I looked at the big clock at the Big House and it read 3:00. In the afternoon? Why hadn't someone wakened me?
"Percy, I need you to shut up for about half an hour while I explain," Thalia said, sharply.
"Okay," I whispered, because it was all I could manage.
"This morning, a lot of the campers weren't up for breakfast which upset Chiron," She sighed. "He sent campers to get them to the hall, but they wouldn't wake up. Annabeth was one of the campers. There were 17 of them, Percy. They tried everything. Cold water, loud noises, hypnosis, medicine, and finally they had to give up. Once we realized how many there were, we couldn't take them all to the infirmary.
"We had no idea what to do, Percy! Thank goodness you're awake, though!"
"Me?" I asked, perplexed.
"You were one of the seventeen," Thalia shifted nervously.
"There's something else you're not telling me."
"The only people who have this…spell on them, are the people who talked to you yesterday. Umm… a few people think, um…"
"For Poseidon's sake Thalia, tell me already."
She exhaled deeply, putting her fingers on her temples. "Some of them think you did something to them."
"And myself?"
"I doubt it was you, so I don't listen to what they're saying," She said. "So, the ones that are asleep are still in their cabins. You have to go talk to Chiron."
"Okay," I told her. I walked towards the Big House, but had no intentions of actually going there.