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Max:

The second I said the word whitecoat, everyone gasped, and the girl named Annabeth looked like she was about to faint.

Percy grasped her hand, and said, "Are you okay Annabeth?!"

"Yeah..." she said. "I'm fine. The day after you left, Rachel issued a prophecy. Rachel, will you recite it please?"

"Sure," said a girl in the back. Everyone turned to look at her as she chanted.

When the earth has fallen, and flames rise again,

Angels shall arise from mortal sin,

17 days after the feast of Spes,

The heroes face another quest,

The sea snatched from wisdom's hands,

Taken away to the waterless lands,

The birds must be freed from the School,

Where mortals labor under witchs' rule

When mortal, god, and beast become one,

Wolves and Whitecoats have not yet won,

Six shall go, and bring back seven more,

The secrets they hold shall open the door,

A new threat arises, stronger than before,

Listen to the Voice or blood will pour

I barely managed to keep my head. Nudge gasped, and Fang looked like he was trying to swallow a raccoon.

Gazzy sat down hard on the bench, and now Percy looked like he was going to faint.

That was too close. One wrong move and we'd be found out. I didn't really want an entire camp full of people knowing we had wings. Even if they were half gods. I thought about it. Most of the prophecy had already happened. And it said our secrets would open the door. Did that mean they were destined to find out? I hoped not.

"Annabeth, why didn't you tell me?" Percy cried.

"I tried to earlier, but you started convulsing!" wailed Annabeth. "So you know something about this prophecy?" she asked hopefully.

Percy glanced at me nervously, and I nodded. We couldn't keep hiding secrets from them.

"Well, umm, actually I do..."

"How much of it?" asked the Aphrodite camper, Piper.

"Well, I know what the whitecoat and wolves part means," "And the School part."

People stared at me.

"We are the ones with the secrets," I said. I wasn't planning on telling about the wings quite yet, but I was willing to talk about what they had done to us at the school.

Annabeth:

"We were tortured by whitecoats at the school,"

"Whitecoats..." said Jason, dumbfounded.

"Scientists who work at the School," said Percy.

" The School?" asked Hazel.

"It's what we call the recombinant DNA testing facility in Death Valley," explained Max.

"What did they do to you?!" cried Frank, who was practically Percy's distant brother.

Percy shivered, and his eyes froze, looking but not really seeing. Oh gods, if they had hurt him... No I wouldn't believe it... No... No!

"Percy, it's okay, you can tell us," said Piper.

He gulped, and said, "Well, I woke up in a cage, in this weird building. I was left in the cage for about two days with no food or water,"

I gasped, and so did several others. They had done this to my boyfriend. How could anyone, much less a mortal do this to him? How had he not escaped?

"Oh gods, Percy!" I cried. I instantly hated the whitecoats, as the strange mortals called them.

"Wait," said the kid called Angel. "That isn't nearly all of it."

"Well," said Percy, shivering, "I had that metal collar thing on, and when these guys came to get me from the cage finally, I attacked them, and..."

He touched his neck gingerly, and when I looked closer, I saw that the skin was blistered and raw.

"Oh my gods, Percy! They burnt you!"

"Well, more like shocked me," he said, shivering. I didn't even want to keep listening, but I did.

"They made me run full speed on a treadmill and if I slowed down I got zapped. I finally passed out. Then, the next day they brought in Angel here, unconscious,"

"They made you run full speed after two days without food or water?!" cried Hazel, cringing.

Everyone stared at Percy, and the mortal kids. One of the Hermes campers fell into a dead faint.

"Hey," he said, "Those guys had it worse. They went through this every day of their life up until three years ago,"

Oh gods. They had done this to these mortals every day for years! It was too painful to imagine. If we hadn't have rescued Percy... Gods no... I can't think like that or it will break me...

"That's not all," said Angel. "They made him run through a maze, and shocked him every time he slowed down. They increase the heat as you go, and if you stop, they make it get hotter much faster. Percy, show them your feet,"

Percy winced and obliged. Some campers shrieked when they saw the underside of his feet. I couldn't stand to look at them. They were bright red, covered in angry boils and burns. I didn't even know how he had been walking on them earlier.

"Oh gods, oh gods," I screamed. This was too much.

"Hey, Annabeth, it's okay, I'm fine," he said, but he didn't look fine at all.

"Percy, continue," said Chiron shakily.

"Well, they made me walk around and touch my toes and other random weird stuff one of the days. They kept drawing my blood. And then one day, Max, Fang, and Nudge busted in the door to the room, and we met up with Gazzy and Iggy. Angel was missing, so we went to find her, but ended up getting ambushed. So everyone was caught,"

Angel cleared her throat, and said, "Yeah, I was in a room full of water, being electrocuted at the time..."

Electrocuted?! I remember the one time Percy got slightly fried from my friend Thalia, and he came out staggering. After what they had done to Percy, I couldn't imagine how hard they had shocked this poor little girl. Gods, I could kill them all with my bare hands right now. NOBODY does those kind of things to MY boyfriend.

"Well, after that, they did more blood tests, made me run on the treadmill again, and measured my pain index,"

"Ummmm, what does that mean?" asked Leo uncomfortably.

"It means they stuck sharp objects into him while he was wide awake," said Max darkly. She had a scowl on her face, and she said, "Show them your stomach Percy. He obliged, and lifted his shirt. I nearly screamed when I saw dozens of deep cuts, just starting to scab over. They had mutilated his skin to the point where it was barely recognizable.

"Percy!" I screeched, and almost hugged him, when I finally realized why he had been cringing away when I hugged him. Gods, I had been hurting him!

"Oh gosh, that's going to need a LOT of ambrosia," said Will.

Percy winced, and lowered his shirt.

I balled my hand into fists. I could scream. I just wanted to bury my head into Percy's shoulder and cry. Who would do these things to kids?!

Out of the silence, Angel said, "Look," and lifted up her shirt. So did the rest of the mortals. They all had hundreds of scars covering their stomachs. Their skin was so ruined, it looked almost pure white because of all the scars crisscrossing across their bare skin.

They also lifted up their feet, and I gasped, when I saw that their soles were entirely made of blackish, dead skin. They had made them run through that maze so many times, their skin had shriveled up and died.

Even the little girl had the foul marks the whitecoats had left on her. I now noticed the remnants of a black eye, and I realized that Max had been limping the entire time. I realized that she had been concealing a broken ankle the entire time. Gods, I remember when I broke my ankle. I couldn't even move it, much less conceal it that well. The more I looked at them, the more wounds I saw. Some were old, but several looked brand new. Fang had a big lump on the back of his head. Gazzy was missing several teeth.

These kids had been through a lot. So had Percy. Oh gods... I couldn't believe he had kept this from me for a whole day. This was awful.

Finally, everyone dispersed. When we got back to the cabin, Percy gave me a kiss goodnight, and rolled over on his side. Which I thought was very odd, because he NEVER slept on his side. He was a back sleeper. Whatever. Maybe his back is hurting him again. I cried as I slowly drifted into a restless sleep.