Chapter 4! Thanks for the support! I hope you like how I'm doing the story. Special shout-out to TrueTeal for the nice comment!

Max:

I jolted upright, and immediately regretted it. My head swam, and I almost passed out again. I took a deep breath, and counted to three. OK, much better now. I looked around me. Fang was moaning, clutching his head. So was Gazzy. And... well you get the point. We had all suffered head injuries. Suddenly, I remembered: Angel. "Fang!" I shouted. "What? We're not at the school, they just left us here. What's the big deal?"

"Fang! They took Angel!"

"Angel?" asked Gazzy dazedly.

"Angel?!" cried Iggy. "We've got to go save her!"

"My head hurts so much..." Gazzy groaned.

"Shut up Gazzy," said Nudge.

"Watch it Nudge, this is my sister we're talking about here!" shouted Gazzy. He winced, and pressed against his temples. I can imagine he had a pretty bad headache. We all did, but he got hit really bad. Almost as bad as Fang. He was gritting his teeth. Nothing like good old tree trunk to give you a migraine.

"Okay, " I said. "Here's the plan: Me, Nudge, and Fang go rescue Angel. Gazzy and Iggy stay at the house on the off chance that she escapes and comes back here."

"WHAT?!" exclaimed Gazzy. "She's MY sister!"

"You just don't want me to come because I'm blind!" complained Iggy.

"You're right Iggy. I'm sorry, but you'll slow us down in combat. You can fly fine around here, because you know your way, but we'll be flying in foreign territory."

"Fine, Captain Bossypants," said Iggy.

"What about me?" cried Gazzy.

"You need to stay with Iggy okay?!" I said.

"Come on!"

"Gazzy..."

"Oh alright. I'll stay here with Iggy."

"Good boy. Let's go," I shouted.

The three of us launched ourselves off the cliff, and headed in the direction of the school, flying at top speed.

Percy:

Ugh. I felt like I'd been run over by a hellhound fifteen times. I sat up groggily and blinked in the bright light. I was on a cool, hard surface. As my vision cleared, I realized I was staring at a cage door. I was in a cage. A freaking cage! How humiliating.

There were several other cages in a line beside mine. I looked around my own cage. It was meant for a large dog. I couldn't even stand up in it. I could almost touch the sides if I extended my arms, and I was JUST able to lie down, with my feet crammed against the door.

I wasn't in my Camp Half Blood T-shirt anymore. Someone had changed me into a plain white shirt and shorts. I noticed that there wasn't a speck of color in this place. Everything was shades of black and white. I felt for Riptide, and was relieved that it was still there. But my bead necklace from camp was gone. Instead, a little wire was fastened round my neck. I couldn't believe it! The trident from my first year at camp, the maze from my fourth, that necklace was made of memories, memories that had just been stolen from me. I felt like I had been amnesiafied by Hera all over again.

Immediately, my though switched to Annabeth. Had she been caught too? Where was she? Was she hurt? Did camp know yet? Was anyone coming for me? As hundreds of questions swirled through my head, two locked into place: Where am I and who kidnapped me?

I sat in the cage for days it felt like. Okay, I'm exaggerating. But I was left in the cage for at least five hours without food, water, or a bathroom break. Finally, I resorted to doing my business through the bars of the cage. Hey, sue me, I really had to go!

My ADHD self was so bored by the time the men came I could scream. The door burst open and three burly men walked in. It had been almost a full two days without food and water. My mouth was so dry my tongue stuck to the roof of my mouth when I tried to talk. My stomach had stopped complaining ages ago, like it had finally realized I wasn't going to feed it. I was really to kill anyone who walked in the door right now.

"Who are you and where am I?" I asked, rather rudely.

They just laughed cruelly and one took out a ring of keys. He unlocked my cage. The minute the door swung open, I was in action. I uncapped Riptide, and hoped that it killed them, since they were obviously mortal. Luckily, it did, and I managed to slice into one's chest before the other two started growing fur, and sprouting fang and claws. The wounded one yelped in pain, and ran out of the room. Coward.

The biggest of the two growled, "No so fast," as I lunged at him.

Suddenly, I was on the floor writhing in pain as electricity flowed through my neck. The wire necklace was a freaking shock collar! The jerks! They took my sword and threw it a chute that I assumed led to an incinerator. Nooooo! Riptide! I could only hope it returned to my pocket before the generator turned on.

They picked me up and practically had to drag me because my legs had turned to jelly. "Walk or we'll make you walk, Ugly #1 said, prodding me with the remote that shocked me. That got me moving. I never wanted shocked with that thing again. It was almost more painful than a few of the curses I had been given by the Arai in Tartarus.

They walked me down several different hallways, and my demigod brain instantly memorized the layout, planning my escape.

As if reading my mind, Ugly #2 said, "Don't even think about trying to escape. It's impossible." Yeah right. They all say it's impossible to escape them. Then they meet me.

As we walked, I looked through the windows into several different rooms. What I saw horrified me. In one room, there was a brain on a stick. It was covered in wires and sensors that led to a computer screen filling in answers to questions seeming on its own. Was that brain alive somehow?! I wanted to vomit when I saw the next room. There was a boy with horns lying in a cage. It looked a lot like my friend Grover. The poor boy was covered in bright red blisters, and was writhing in agony.

We finally reached a room. "In," ordered Ugly #1. I opened the door. Inside, a tall lady with a cruel look in her eyes, and an expression that said, "I can't wait to torture you!", greeted the wolf-men. "Is this subject B6?" she asked them. Subject B6? Had they brought her something? Then I realized that they were talking about me. I was subject B6. They had brought me to a lab, stripped me of my identity, and left me in a cage for two days without food or water.

I growled, "Who are you?"

The lady laughed, and said, "It talks,"

"Of course I talk. What is your problem lady?"

"Oh, it has an attitude. Well, that can be fixed. She pulled out a remote and pressed the button. I was on the floor again, clutching my neck, a scream issuing from my mouth. When the pain finally subsided, the evil woman told the wolf-men, "Do endurance testing today,"

The wolf-men growled, and dragged me out of the room. We came to a room with a treadmill. Ugly #1 prodded me with the stick, so I got on the treadmill. "Are you going to seriously make me run?" I asked. "I haven't had food or water in ages; I can't run!"

"You will, or you will suffer the consequences," said Ugly #2. He gave me a small shock to prove his point.

"Wow!" I said, my eyes widening. "That actually had four syllables! Good job man!" I said sarcastically. I probably shouldn't because it earned me another horrible shock.

The treadmill started moving so fast, I almost fell flat on my face. My legs were already jelly, and my head spun from the lack of water and the repeated shocks. I had to sprint to keep up with the treadmill, which just kept speeding up. Soon, I wouldn't be able to stay on anymore. It had been about ten minutes when I stumbled, and slowed down. The wolf man growled, and gave me a harsh shock. It was all I could do to keep from falling over. Somehow, I managed to stay up for a whole twenty more minutes. I received shocks every time I slowed down. Eventually, my legs became numb, and I couldn't hardly see anymore. My breath came in ragged gasps.

I stumbled, and I got a really bad shock. But I didn't care anymore. I couldn't feel anything. My legs crumpled, and my vision failed. I fell to the ground, senseless. I felt several giant shocks rack through my limp body, and I fell unconscious.