I would really want to say how sorry I am that I haven't updated in a long time. You see Volley ball practice doesn't end till 4:30 and it's a school sport so right when school ends I have to go to practice. I also have games every Tuesday and Thursday and sometimes those don't end till 7:00pm. But I only have two weeks left so after that I should be updating much more often!

Magic Cat: Her weekends have been busy too and she's finally has free time to write.

Me: Yep! I hope I'll be able to be on a sugar high long enough to update two stories. If not then I'll just sneak out of bed once my parents are asleep.

Percy: She also kidnapped me.

Me: Yep sir-ey! Because I love him *hugs side*

Percy: Let go! *tries to push off* Let go!

Magic Cat: Read onward!

I laid down on the cold, hard stone floor and thought about what Nico had said. We were prisoners of war, we were here as punishment for beating the Titans.

Jeez why couldn't they just let it go?

Nico had said that there had been a bigger number of prisoners coming in since last week and that they were planning to bring even more campers in. Soon camp would be almost empty. I had asked Nico if he saw Malcolm anywhere

"Malcolm? You mean Annabeth's brother?"

"Yeah." Nico's face darkened and I got a really bad feeling.

"When you've been here for a while, sometimes you aren't exactly right in the head," Nico said tapping his head with one finger. "When Malcolm wouldn't give any information they tortured him, so badly. I could hear him from here and the Room is all the way across the prison." I felt my face contort into a horrified expression and couldn't answer because of what I thought he must have been through. Considering this was the Titans it must have been horrible.

Nico started talking again, "Lately they've been taking older campers, like you, but when they first started they had been taking younger campers. Like eight and nine -year-olds."

"You're kidding me right? They took little kids?" I asked. Nico nodded solemly. "Are-are they still here?" I asked afraid of the answer I might get. Nico looked sad and I knew the answer wasn't good.

"Well since they're so young they're easier to…persuade. Many went over to the Titan side after the persuasion." I knew what Nico meant bypersuasion and it made me sick. These little kids had gone through what would make a grown man break. The Titans were sick.

All day we sat in our cell doing nothing. Nico filled me in about prison procedures. The first day you not allowed food. Half way through the day all the prisoners were taken to the bottom level to that disgusting 50's styled kitchen to eat lunch, our only meal in the entire day. After that some would be taken to other areas that nobody but the prisoner and the guards knew about. Nico said that sometimes they would come out looking just as normal as they had when they went in and sometimes they came out different. Bruises, scratches, scrapes, burns or no visible wounds but they would look scared and twitchy or they would be muttering something.

I heard footsteps outside of the cell and jumped up in a fighting stance. I was about to pull out Riptide out of habit but then I remembered I didn't have it anymore.

" Well if it isn't Olympus's Savior: Percy Jackson," said a snarling voice. It was a telkhine. I just tried to glare daggers as best as I could but that was one art that Annabeth had perfected and I was still a beginner.

"Come maggots, time to eat."

I am SO sorry that this is a short chapter but I am stuck on what to do next so yeeeeeeah. Also I'm done with volley ball! Bad news is I'm only allowed to e on the computer for thirty minutes during the weekdays. Thanks mom. I'll try to write more, I promise!