It was about dinner time so I went to my table alone, as usual. I glanced to Athena's table and exchanged looks with Anabeth. She was smiling at me, while one of her brothers was talking to her. I smiled right back at her and looked to Chiron's table. Out of the blue a little satyr dashed around the table until he was next to him and started talking to her. I could see Chiron leaning down to hear the little creature. Then suddenly his face hardened and his eyebrows went up. He finished listening to the satyr and nodded in understandment as he got up straight. The satyr disappeared, hopping into the dark empty space behind Chiron.

Chiron cleared his throat and raised his voice "Attention everybody". Everyone turned their heads to him "Please finish your dinner now and go to your cabins, now". He gave us a look to show how serious he was. The kind of look that said if you do not go I'll call the cleaning harpies and they'll eat you all. I saw the kids getting up and whispering around. I looked to Chiron and he met my eyes.

I gave him a questioning look, wondering if he needed me, but he simply looked away ignoring me. What the hell was going on? He got up with the rest of the people on his table. They went towards the main house. I got up and tried to see if I could see anything ahead of them but all I could see was the lightened main house as usual and some movement in front of it. Besides that everything was dark around them.

I was still looking at them when someone touched my shoulder and I jumped.

"Gods, Anabeth! You scared the hell out of me" I said as I saw who it was.

"Sorry Percy, I was just going to ask you if you intended to stay here or go to your bed as Chiron said" She gave me a smile like she always did when she sensed I was about to do something stupid and reckless.

"Hm... I don't really know." I was dying to know what had happened but I also didn't feel like being eaten by harpies. They didn't really have a thing for me since I had escaped from them several times.

"Please don't do anything stupid Percy." She looked at me expectantly.

"Don't worry about that. I just want to know what the hell is going on." In my head several scenarios had crossed my mind. Since we being under attack (but there's no way Chiron was so calm) to something happening in the Olympus.

"I thought you had some idea. I saw you exchanging looks with Chiron."

"No. Actually it seemed he was ignoring me, he doesn't want me to know. But something is going on and it isn't good."

"Yeah, Chiron looked pretty upset." We stood in silence for a moment or two. "Anyway, Percy let's go." She grabbed my arm leading me to the cabin's area. Some satyrs were hurrying up the kids to do to bed.

I walked reluctantly to where Anabeth was leading me but I wasn't really paying attention to it. All I could do was looking around, expecting an army of monsters or whatever coming from all around. It was probably just my ADHD talking but I knew something was wrong. Everyone around me was calm. Walking calmly to the dorms, not really caring. Most of them didn't know what was normal around here since it was their first year, so they didn't noticed that what just happened was weird. Even though I expected Anabeth to know better or Clarisse, or Chris, or Nicco. The ones who had been here before. Chiron had never left dinner time like this, much less telling us to go to bed immediately. Maybe they just trusted Chiron, then why didn't I as well?

I took another glance to the main house and the lights were on and there were people moving around inside. If they were inside and picking their weapons it was because there was no battle. No one was coming. Maybe something was wrong with the camp, but that didn't really make any sense, they wouldn't make such a big deal about it. Maybe it was about the protection line around the camp, that kept the monsters from coming in. That would be a major problem, but they would need the campers to set some kind of defense. It wasn't something good that I was sure.

I finally paid attention to what was really around me and noticed we were already in the middle of the cabins. Anabeth came to halt in front of her cabin and turned to me. "Good night seaweed brain." I lowered my head to kiss her goodnight. "Goodnight Anabeth."

She went in and waved at me slightly and I smiled as she disappeared in the middle of her siblings. I turned my back on the cabin and lost my smile.

I knew what I was going to do and it wasn't like I had promised Anabeth anything. I went towards my cabin's direction slowly, waiting for everybody to go to bed. When no one seemed to be around, only some kids but they couldn't see me in the dark, I went on with my plan.