Ok. I'm updating again, because Ultra Happy Peep promised me virtual cookies. Thank her/him. I also wanted 50 reviews by the end of Winter Break. Bribery! (I used to think that that was only done in a classroom!)

To Ultra HAPPY Peep: I think you should get an account, you write loooooooonng reviews that give good advice so you obviously know what they're talking about. And I really love your ideas. But I think the girls should all be spies, and the guys are like, victims. Of something. And while protecting them, the girls develop crushes! If you've ever read the Gallagher Girl series than this will be something similar to that, but with no guy spies. The author of Masking the Pain is one of my favorites. You should try some of her other stories. This chapter is again dedicated to you.

Also, to Guest: Aww, you think they're gonna have a happy ending? Well this is my reply. Pft. The fates hate Percy. But, after like, 100 chapters, I might allow them to have a happy ending.

To fantasy girl loves fantasy: HE IS NOT DEAD! I would never kill Percy. There's this kid in my class who I yell at every day because he thinks that Percy and Annabeth will die in the next book. So yeah. Just wanted to let you know.

To EVERYONE: If you want to read anything epic… Read A) Not a fairytale (Loganlover19) B) Life on the Line (Dragons8298) (I'm gonna continue that story)

Disclaimer:

Annabeth: Thank the Gods! He's not dead! Where is he?!

Bianca: Um… I… Um… Percy… Saved me… But he… Um…

Abby (for those of you who didn't know, that's my real name. I now feel comfortable using it on Fan Fiction): You'll find out in this chapter, K Bethie?

Annabeth:*draws dagger* don't call me Bethie.

Abby: I OWN NOTHING EXCEPT FOR THIS PLOT.

Percy POV

When I wake up, Polybotes is pacing in front of me, looking at me like I'm a specimen in a lab. "Mmm." I try to speak. It doesn't really work out for me.

"Hello, Son of Poseidon. I see you're back." He says, smugly, kneeling down over me. He's gotten bigger, much bigger. The last time I saw him he was roughly the size of a building. Now he's roughly the size of Olympus. His hand is the size of a building. Maybe that will help you understand what he did next.

One hand scoops me up, while the other covers it, so I have no chance of escaping. Slowly, it gets harder to breathe. Harder and harder. The hands slowly press in on me. Until one hand is on top of my chest, and the other is putting an amount of pressure that shouldn't be possible on my back. I try to scream, cry out, do anything to make it stop, but it doesn't work. Eventually, I can't take it anymore and slip into unconsciousness.

When I wake up, I'm tied up in a chair, my arms and legs bound tightly to it. I can talk now. I can't see anyone, but I can hear breathing. "Who's there?" I call into the darkness. "Relax, Perseus." Luke says.
"Just me."

I inwardly groan. Wait, why am I inwardly groaning? I openly hate this guy. "Ung." I groan.

"Oh, don't be like that Percy! We went through a lot of trouble to get these torture devices!" He says cheerfully.

"Yes, I'm so happy for you, Luke. Let me go home now." I told him. He walked in front of me, glaring so fiercely Annabeth might have looked away. But not me. I just glared back. He grabs the arms of the chair, untying me. He then drags me over to what looks like a dentist's chair. I'm forced into it, and the thing whirs to life, beeping. Shackles suddenly appear to hold my wrists and ankles in place.

"Have you ever been on fire, Perseus?" Luke asks me calmly, like he's not about to painfully extract information from me.

"Yeah. That one time, Clarisse was playing with the campfire matches. Set my cabin on fire. After that I had the Stolls prank her cabin." I mused, lost in the memories.

"Well, Perseus. This is called Greek fire. It literally cannot be extinguished. Just last week, we perfected a tool where a small flame appears, and it can be used to write on a person's skin.

My stomach starts to hurt. "Luke. Luke you're not really going to-"

I was cut off by a scream, my scream. It was loud and long and full of agony. The fire, it was burning holes in my skin, through my arm. I screamed louder, and struggled to get away from the tool of destruction. It didn't work.

See, Jackson? This, this is real pain. Real pain feels like this. Kronos said inside my mind.

"I get it." I choked out. "You can let me go now."

Why would we do that? When we're getting revenge?

Annabeth's POV

"What do you mean he's alive?" I asked the girl who was supposed to be dead.

Bianca told us how she was captured while she was in Talos, how they only figured out who she was a week ago and how they used her against Percy.

"Gods, Percy! He-he saved me. We have to help him! I saw some of the things they had planned for him. Gods, it was horrible, electricity (Jason and Thalia both cringed) they found a way to make him drown, they have these interrogation thingies, pre-programed with thousands of ways to torture the specific person. If he doesn't answer, or doesn't answer right," she stops there, shuddering. Nico holds her closer and she doesn't let go. We're all silent for a moment, wondering what they're doing to him right now.

I have horrible images of them hurting him, whipping him again, of Percy drowning, calling for help.

I don't cry. I can't cry. Not while Percy needs me.

Finally, Chiron breaks the silence. "Would you like to stay in the Artemis cabin, or the Hades one?" he asks her. I don't think I'm the only one who notices Nico's grip tighten. Bianca eyes Thalia's silver circlet, and Thalia nods.

"I'm staying with my brother." She says. Nico smiles slowly at her.

I'm happy for them, but I want to find Percy. I don't watch them introduce Hazel to Bianca, or really watch anything. I just stay there, until Thalia drags me over to her cabin, the Artemis one.

"We need to talk."

Sorry about the crappy ending, my sister wants to use my laptop, grrr… but anyway, Review! I want 50 by the end of fall break. I'll try to update daily, K guys? Anyway, the next three chapters will be kinda like this, with Percy getting tortured, and Annabeth trying to find him. I have a really big plot this coming up. I'll give you a hint. It involves the HOO series and Gaea. I'll award you if you get it right. Happy reading!