READ! This chapter is in Percy's point of view and it starts before the explosion in the last chapter. Enjoy!

Chapter 8

Tom wasn't looking so good so we decided to stop at a grocery store. Travis and Connor came out with some household items that you can use to make bombs. "So where is it?" I asked Tom.

"I'll tell you when we start moving." Tom snapped.

Jerk. Tom was really starting to get on my bad side. I mean, more than he already was. Sighing, I felt the scar that was now on my face. It ran from my right eye to my jaw. Just like Luke. No. That was impossible. Luke was dead. It was just chance that Tom hit me like that. Luke couldn't be alive. Backbiter felt heaver in my pocket. Could part of Luke's soul still be in Backbiter? I sat down on a bench and put my hands on my head. Percy.

"What?" I looked toward my friends and Tom.

"Huh? We didn't say anything." Jake shrugged.

"Wow, Percy, you're getting crazier and crazier the longer we continue this quest." Clarisse muttered.

"Shut it, Clarisse." Katie snapped.

"Look, this whole quest is just to find Percy's girlfriend and a stupid son of Hades. It's pointless-" Clarisse shot back.

I was in front of Clarisse before she finished her sentence. She was really starting to tick me off. I hulled her to her feet. "If it were Chris and Silena, if she was still alive, you would be doing exactly what I am. So if you don't want to continue this quest, go back to Camp Half-Blood and do us all a favor. There's no use in sitting here and complaining." I told her.

"Calm down, Clarisse." Chris put his hand on her shoulder.

"Yeah, Clarisse, calm down." I sneered.

"Oh, you're so asking for it!" Clarisse raised her fist.

"Go ahead and hit me, see what happens." I smiled.

"Clarisse." Chris said firmly.

"Whatever!" Clarisse yelled and walked away.

Chris just looked at me. He didn't look angry about me ticking off his girlfriend, instead he just looked confused. There was a large crack. Clarisse was punching something. Chris shook his head and went to comfort Clarisse. "Percy, we need to talk." Thalia put a hand on my shoulder.

We walked away from the group. "What?" I asked.

"What's up?" Thalia demanded.

"What do you mean?" I growled.

"Well, for one, why the heck did you tick off Clarisse like that?"

"If she doesn't want to help, I don't want to hear it."

Thalia bit her lip. Then she gasped and staggered back. "What?" I said.

"Y-Your eyes-they turned blue!" she told me.

"And what do you mean by that?" I asked.

"Instead of your eyes being green, they turned blue! Percy, is there something you have been hiding?" Thalia said.

"No. Are they blue now?" I rolled my eyes.

Thalia shook her head. "Good. Lets get a move on!" I snapped.

We ran back over to the group. "Travis, Connor, are you done making the bombs?" Thalia asked them.

"Yep." they said at the same time.

Clarisse came up behind Tom and hulled him to his feet. "Move it." she snarled.

Tom led us to an abandon subway tunnel, near his shop. As we descended in the darkness Katie and Jake turned on flashlights they had picked up at the store. Some poor people were taking shelter in the station. Men, women and children were gathered around a small fire. A few of the men glanced at Tom. He gulped and hurried pass them. We continued down the long tunnel. Tom kept glancing nervously behind him. "What's wrong?" I whispered.

"Nothing." Tom shrugged.

Soon we came to the end of the tunnel. It was boarded up, with chains locking it. "This is going to be fun." Travis smiled.

Connor dropped the bag of homemade bombs on the cement. "Hurry up guys." I told them.

"We'll do our best." Connor grinned.

Footsteps were coming behind us. I whipped around. The "poor people" we saw earlier, were walking toward us. The one in the front threw a coat he had been wearing. Now, his chest was bare and he had swords strabbed to his back. Blue lightning shined from the swords. "Friends of ours?" I hissed at Tom.

"Sadly," he whimpered.

The rest of the "poor people" threw their coats off. Each one had swords, daggers and spears. The front one smiled, showing a mouth full of yellow teeth. "Get the son of Poseidon." he snarled.

Two men behind him charged at me. I drew Backbiter. Ducking down, I thrust Backbiter upward. Backbiter cut one guy's face. He stumbled back and fell backward on the train tracks. I punched the other guy that came after me. "PROTECT CONNOR AND TRAVIS!" I yelled.

Clarisse planted her fist in a guy's face. I stabbed a black haired guy with Backbiter. The leader of our attackers, stood and watched. I ran at him with Backbiter. He blocked my attack with one of the swords on his back. "Nice try." he laughed and pushed me back.

He charged at me and slammed both his swords down of Backbiter. I grunted and shoved him. "Jason! They've set bombs!" someone yelled.

The one called Jason cursed under his breath. His gaze turned to Tom. "You traitorous worm!" Jason snarled.

He started walking toward Tom. I slammed into his shoulder. Jason stepped back. "Stay. Back." I hissed.

"Why do you protect him? After all it was his weapons that helped take your friends." Jason mocked.

"If Tom is going to die, I'm going to be the one to kill him." I snarled.

"I wonder, would you have the guts to do what you say?" Jason asked.

"I don't have to explain myself to you." I said firmly.

"Yes. However, something is different about you since last time I saw you." Jason told me.

"IT'S GOING TO BLOW!" Connor cried.

Crap! I ducked and covered my head with my arms. There was a large explosin. Parts of the chain and wood flew pass my head. I uncovered my head and looked behind me. Dust was blocking my view. When the dust cleared, I saw the men that tried to kill us dead on the floor. Jason was nowhere to be seen though. "Thalia? Travis? Connor?" I called.

All my friends walked from the ruin. "Lets not do that again." Thalia coughed.

"We'll go in together, go it?" I asked my friends.

They all nodded. We waited until the dust cleared then headed in. There was a long corridor lit my dim light bulbs. My hands trembled and I tightened my grip on Backbiter. This place was crepping me out. Finally we came to a metal door. Clarisse and I forced it open. We entered a lab with test tubes and everything. What was this place? There was a gunfire. I ducked down and pressed my back against a lab table. There were more gunfires. Thalia sat next to me. "Find the people shooting at us." I told her. "Take Katie with you."

Thalia nodded and ran to Katie. The two disappeared into a room. Clarisse and Chris were behind another lab table. "Clarisse! Chris! Find Nico!" I yelled. "Jake and Pollux, see if you can find another demigod here besides Annabeth and Nico! Travis and Connor, see if you can find any useful weapons! Tom...just stay where you are!"

There was a door close to me. Quickly, I ran inside and shut the door. I turned and a guy dressed in an army outfit charged me. Backbiter stabbed him through the stomach. As he fell, I raced down the hallway. There were so many doors. A door on my left has bars instead of a window. I peered in. Annabeth was laying on the ground. I stepped back from the door, with all my strength I kicked the door. Amazingly, it brust open. "Annabeth!" I knelt next to her.

She slowly looked up at me. "P-Percy? Is that really you?" she asked.

"Yeah, it's really me!" I wrapped her in my arms.

Annabeth buried her head in my neck. "Why did you come for me?" she sobbed.

"Why wouldn't I?" I asked.

"You shouldn't be here!" she cried.

"What do you mean?" I said.

"Percy, you have to leave me." Annabeth sobbed.

"Annabeth, I'll never leave you." I told her.

She pulled away from me and looked into my eyes. "I love you, Percy, but you have to leave me." she said tears running down her cheeks.

Then she kissed me. I wrapped my arms around her, wishing she'd just listen to me. "I love you, too." I whispered.

"Then you have to leave me." Annabeth said.

I didn't want to leave her, but she wasn't giving me much choice. Annabeth was hurt and very weak. I was scared to think about what would happen to her if I did leave. Her foot was chained to the wall the same blue lightning on the weapons was on the chain. Which meant I couldn't break it if I tried. I stood up, my legs trembling. When I got to the doorway, I looked back at Annabeth. "I'll be back for you." I promised and ran down the hallway.

I met Clarisse and Chris when I was almost back to the lab. "We found Nico and Jake found another demigod." Clarisse reported.

"Good." I said.

"Wait. Where's Annabeth? Is she-?" Chris stopped.

"She's alive. But I can't free her." I was on the edge of tears. "The chains had that same blue lightning. I can't break it."

Chris nodded. We ran to the lab and discovered it was trashed. Broken glass was all over the ground and lab table flipped over. I knelt next to Travis. "Hey, do we have anymore bombs?" I panted.

"Yeah, we have four. Why?" Travis asked.

"Nevermind why. Give them to me." I demanded.

Connor took the bag off his shoulder and handed it to me. "I want you guys to find everybody and get them out." I commanded.

"What are you going to do?" Connor asked.

I ignored him and took off. I ran back down the hallway where Annabeth was. She was gone. Suddenly, someone pucnhed my cheek. I fell over and looked up at my attacker. Cain. "How's it going?" Cain smiled.

I glanced at the cell where Annabeth had been. "She's gone. It looks like you're going to have to find her all over again." he said.

I threw Backbiter and it went through Cain's shoulder. He cried out in pain. I ripped Backbiter out of his shoulder and kicked his face. Cain stumbled back. I ran in another door. It led to another hallway. My legs were on fire. Finally I came to a boiler room. I took the bombs and tape out of the bag. I began taping the bombs to the boiler. Annabeth wasn't in danger at least. She was probably miles away from here by now. I finished taping the bombs. I set the timer to two minutes. Before I hit start, I put Backbiter back in my pocket. I pressed start on all four bombs and ran as fast as I could out of the room.

Something was wrong. Suddenly, I was surounded by fire. I was blown through the roof. Remebering my Achilles spot I turned my slef around so I was facing whatever I hit. The explosin blew me out through the sewer. I remembered being in the air and then landing on the street. Cold rain hit my back and face. People screamed all around me. I closed my eyes and blacked out.

OK the whole "Percy, you have to leave me" part, my friend, Jenny, came up with. We were babysitting and we had to wait for parents to come pick their kids up, so Jenny acted out that whole scene. It was really funny.