No! I thought. I whipped around which made my head spin, I still was weak from those daily sessions of draining. I saw Heken had Annabeth trapped in smoky binds that came from his body and she was growing paler and paler, her face looked like she was exhausted. Her face was sweating.

"Let her go!" I yelled and charged at Heken, my rage was so strong that if looks could kill, Heken would have died a painful death a thousand times over.

Heken laughed evilly and floated about 10 feet above my head taking Annabeth with him.

"And why would I do that hero?" He asked smugly, as if seeing me mad was the best show ever. I heard the wizards run up to where I was and they pointed their wands at Heken.

"We WILL fire if you don't release her!" It was Hermione, she looked fierce and I knew I would not want that wand pointed at me. Heken seemed to contemplate this and then answered almost… happily.

"Fine then," he rose up higher, almost another 10 feet, and then retracted the restraints around Annabeth. But then she started falling. Her falling must have made her wake up a bit because her eyes were as wide as dinner plates and she failed her arms. I ran to where I thought she was going to fall but one of the wizards shouted a spell, I think it was Harry, it sounded weird like Wizgarem Leviosuh, and Annabeth halted in midair, and she slowly floated back down to the cold hard floor.

"Annabeth!" I yelled and ran over to her, she was laying on the ground with her eyes still wide. Herry got a sudden look of 'Eureka!' on his face and pointed his wand upwards toward Heken. He shouted" Expecto Patronum!" I saw a bright white light that was shaped like a deer( weird huh?) Heken was gone, just like that. Where did he go? I shook the thought away and looked down at my beautiful Annabeth. I put my hands behind her head and back, pulled her on to my lap, and wiped sweat-drenched hair out of her face. It hurt my wrist that was still broken but I didn't care, I had to know that Annabeth was okay.

"Percy?" Annabeth whispered.

"Yes! Are you okay?" I asked even though I knew she wasn't.

"I-I feel so tired, drained. But it hurt, so bad. And I saw- I saw," She stuttered. Annabeth never stuttered, she always knew what to say, why couldn't she say it now?

"What is Annabeth?" What did you see?"

"I saw… you. Your were in a white room chained to a wall. That-that thing had his hand on your forehead and you were screaming. So much. Is-is that what you went through? That pain?" She said as if she wanted to know but at the same time like it was the very last thing she ever wanted to know.

I nodded slowly, it was- and is one- of the worst things I had -and have- ever been through.

" Percy…" Annabeth opened her mouth to say something but Ron stepped forward and said "I hate to break up your romantic moment but we need to get out of here." I hoisted Annabeth up and held her in my arms bride-style "So how do we get out of here?" Hermione said that they found rips in space where Heken and Despro had kidnapped Harry and I and that they could be reopened. Hermione had shoved her wand into the rip where I said I had come in. Her wand got stuck but the rip wouldn't open. When she pulled it out she fell on her butt and Ron rushed over and helped her up. Nico tried to then shadow travel us out but it wouldn't work. Hermione then tried to shove her wand in the rip Harry had come through and- thankfully- it opened.

"Well let's go then." I said. I was worried about going to England, we would be questioned and I didn't really know what to say to cover Annabeth, Grover, Nico, and I.

I walked forward with Annabeth in my arms still, We were all going to hop in the hole as a group. We stood in front of the hole and were about to jump, our muscles tensed, When something grabbed my leg from behind. I fell to the floor and smacked my face on the stone floor. I felt warm wetness on my face and Annabeth tumbled from my arms on the floor.

"Percy!" She yelled, "Behind you!" She tried to get up but immediately fell back to the floor.

I looke behind me and I saw the thing was a smoky black rope like thing and it was wrapped around my ankles and was winding itself around them. It wound it's last coil and started dragging me back, I scratched at the hard ground and I felt my finger nails break and fingers start to bleed. The rope twisted itself around and flipped me on my back which made me scrape my left arm. Finally it came to a stop right in front of Heken. Heken had a murderous glint in his eyes that meant business and I was truly afraid.

"No one ever escapes. Never." He pulled back the rope ad I was standing up. The flicked his hand and the rope wrapped it's self around my wrists tightly which made the pain in my broken wrists flare. He held me in a captive's hold, like when on cop shows when the evil killer has a captive and they threaten to kill the captive if the cops don't put their guns down. Heken gripped my hair and pulled back hard so that my neck was fully exposed. He made a trendil of black smoke come up and form into a smoky black knife held against my skin. Despitewhat it was made out of I could feel the sharpness of a blade when it touched my skin.

"I swear I will kill him. Put you wands and weapons down and he will live." Heken threatened. Oh yeah, definitely like a cop show.

All of them just stood there, contemplating whether they should listen to him or not. Nico and Grover looked like they really wanted to and Annabeth was still dazed on the floor. None of the wizards, except for Harry, really looked as willing as my friends but hey, they just met me. I didn't expect them to immediately be best buds with them.

Heken hissed like a cobra and pushed the knife against my skin harder, so hard in fact it almost cut my skin.

"So be it." Heken said, and he pushed the knife deeper and harder. The knife cut through my skin and it started bleeding heavily. I started choking as blood rose in my throat and I heard Nico and Grover drop their weapons and start yelling at Heken to stop. The wizards also dropped their wands and yelled for him to stop. Annabeth shoved herself off the floor with help from the wall and started stumbling toward me , she practically screeched at him to stop and then fell to her knees on the floor halfway over to me. Then I noticed something different. I felt like something was coursing through me, spreading pain throughout me. I held my hand shakily and saw it was still a sickly pale color but also something that broke the creepiness scales and was just down right scary. Black was overcoming the blue veins in my arm and hand. Like my blood was turning black. I saw that it was happening on my other hand I slide out of Hekens hold and collapsed on the ground coughing and choking on blood. It tasted like metal n mouth, I wiped some away of my cheek, and I saw it was black.

Everyone rushed forward and started panicking. Except for the girls. All three, Annabeth, Hermione, and Ginny, tried to help me. Hermione and Ginny were muttering spells and Annabeth had ripped her long sleeve off of her shirt, which I didn't get how she could do in her weakend state, and held it over my neck in order to try to stop the bleeding. The cut wasn't deep ebought to actually cut through my throat and make me stop breathing but it was still deep.

But something else was happening, my limbs felt numb and I could barely move, probably from blood loss, but the pain was going away and being replaced with exhaustion. I wanted nothing more that to go to sleep but I knew I would probably never see light again. I looked at Nico and asked the question with my eyes. Am I dying? Nico looked sad and had a sorrowful look on his face. I turned to Annabeth and barely managed to choke out "I love you." Annabeth's eyes were filled with tears and she nodded "I love you too, so much."

I felt better knowing this but I didn't let go of life, I held on. I imagined I was attached to a bungee cord and the bungee cord was attached to what I call life. My Family, friends, and Annabeth. I

looked over and saw Harry wasn't there. I managed to look behind me and saw Harry pointing his wand at Heken and shout that spell "Expecto Patronum!" And a bright white light formed a deer. But then I placed the word and saw it was a majestic stag. Heken screeched and then he was gone. Harry ran back over to us and yelled at us "Come on! Get to the portal! We can get help!" Everyone else nodded and took my arms and dragged me over to the portal, I saw a swirling black hole and saw a light.

Hello my dear and wonderful readers! I am so dreadfully sorry for not updating! But I have been very busy! Not a very original excuse I know but it is very true! Luckily for you though that Volley ball, the main time taker upper, is going to end this week and I will most probably likely have more time to type! I hope to update one more story before the weekend ends but for now I hope you enjoyed thid chapter!

Magic Cat: And guess what?

Mysterious Audience: What?

Me: I kidnapped Percy!

Mysterious Audience: *gasps*

Percy: Help me. She is a crazy person!

Me: Oh Percy you flatter me so. HUGS! *tackles Percy* I got the idea from Skell (Skellingtonfan1) when she kidnapped Fang from the Maximum Ride books which for some reason my libray DOESN"T have the first book and the book store for some reason does NOT have the books!

Percy: Please help me.