I looked over at Nico and if I hadn't known he was alive, I would've thought he was dead. His skin pale, eyes closed, and hair matted, the only missing was rotting skin and he could be in the Thriller video.

"Hey! Hey! Somethings wrong with him! Someone!" I yelled, hoping to get a guards attention. I hope that one of the over-grown zits came, that would just make this even better. I gripped the bars tight on that were on the door and tried to pull at least my head out of the cell, trying to get someone's attention.

"HEY!" I yelled. I saw the two zit Cyclopes and kept shouting. Baldy turned around and glared with his one eye and tapped his buddy on the shoulder. The other zit whom I dubbed Tufty, growled but turned around and both started walking toward our cell. I kept shouting for them to come and when they finally got to me, I yelled even louder, just to get on their nerves. I didn't stop until Tufty almost hit me with his club

"Wha? Wha do youz want?" said Baldy.

"The guy in here, Nico, he's sick, he won't wake up." The Cyclopes muttered to each other and then sighed in harmony. It was kind of weird.

Please work, please work, please work. I prayed.

"Uh-kay, youz stand back, stand back! Udder-side ah the ceil." Tufty said. I nodded and went to the other side of the cell, and watched as the zits went over to where Nico was 'unconscious.'

Blady poked him with his wooden club. Right then Nico grabbed the club, pulled down hard, making the Cyclops stagger, and release the club. Tufty growled and was about to pound his fists into Nico's face when I ran from the other side of the room and jumped on the other one's shoulders. I held on tight and didn't let go.

"Wha are youz doin'? Lets goz!" the giant (and smelly) Cyclopes said, waving his hands around, one of which had his sword in his hand.

"Sorry you big zit, but I think you're going to take a trip down south, all the way down to Tartarus." I said. I yanked his sword (which was really heavy) from his hands and stabbed downwards into his gigantic skull and prayed to the gods that the sword was celestial bronze. I guess the gods decided to give me some slack because the moment the sword pierced Tufty's skin he exploded into golden dust.

I fell to the ground on my knees and looked over at Nico. He was holding off Baldy pretty well but with no celestial bronze he couldn't win that fight.

"Nico!" I called and threw the sword. Nico looked over, dropped the club, and caught the sword. He almost dropped it because of its weight but managed to hold it. He swung the sword around got Baldy right in the stomach.

Blady just stared stupidly, said "Ouwch," and collapsed into golden dust.

"Dude, that was awesome." Nico said. I looked over and saw Nico grabbing a ring of keys from the pile of golden dust.

"Couldn't agree more." I said. We ran over to the lock on our door. Nico handed me the ring of keys, but what I had not noticed was that there were tons of keys on the ring. Some were skeleton keys, other were modern silvery keys. I think there were a few golden keys, and I swear to the gods that there were hotel keycards.

"Just great." I grumbled and then got to work.

Hi! Hi! Hi! Did 'ya miss me?

Percy: No.

Me: Seriously? Cause some conflicting reviews say otherwise.

Anyway! Yeah. (Ms. Bailey would not approve!) I. Am. BAAAAack! This chapter was originally longer but I wasn't done with it yet and I feel the greatest urge to post something before my Friday is swept away in a whirlwind of Dad's birthday party, guests, and screaming kids. Doesn't my Friday night sound just delightful?

I just noticed something! POW has 91 REVEIWS! *sound of something falling and crashing*

Percy: what was that.

Magic Cat: She just had a spaz attack and fell out the chair.

My poor inbox is lonely!

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