Grover: I'm back!

Annabeth: no one cares goat boy; just show the chapter.

Rose: I hope Percy's okay! 2 broken ribs can't be good!

Grover: oh he'll be fine. He survived an exploding volcano and getting bit by a highly poisonous scorpion. I bet he's laughing at it as we speak!

Annabeth: Yeah, I guess you're right.

Grover: besides, any one who can date you without being killed is a true idol!

Annabeth: (blushing) Shut up goat boy or I will feed you to the Minatare!

Rose: well enjoy! And don't forget to R&R… or the party ponies will find you!

Ch. 3

When Kids Attack…

Percy was up all night with aches and pains. He hasn't even been able too breathe in on his own. But there was some good news in all of this. Nico's 17 year old sister was the nurse. She had the same color of hair as Nico, the same eyes, and they both had a cute smile. Annabeth visited often, but never spoke of the power seals. Percy asked once of twice, but she ignored it. Percy could only think of the worse.

Later on that week, Percy got the strength to stand up. He had to use a walking stick to get anywhere; but it was a start. Nico was avoiding him ever since he was able to walk. Percy guessed that Nico thought of him as a loser now or something.

On the way to lunch, Percy hurdled his way alone. Annabeth was in her cabin, Thalia was off hanging out with her siblings, and Grover was trying to cheer Jupiter up. So it was just him. Although, be stopped by to see Chiron who was next to the food stand. Chiron smiled as he saw him.

"Getting better Percy?" He asked as him horse feet turned around.

"Yeah, for now any way."

"Well that's always good news to hear." He frowned as he noticed Percy's scowl. "What's the matter Percy? Do your ribs still hurt?"

"A little bit, but that's not why I'm sad. I just can't believe that no one has told me what happened to the seals yet."

"Well Percy, I cannot lie to you. Nico put up a good fight, but he accidentally tripped Hestia and made her drop her seal into the fire. I am very sorry.

"And as for my Fathers?" Chiron nodded which was never a good sign. "Percy, you must get it back at all costs! You must defeat him and stop him!"

"I can't," Percy admitted. "He is the strongest demigod I have ever faced! He is almost as good as Cronos was. How am I to beat him if I cannot lay a good one punch on him?" Chiron nodded again understanding what was going on.

"Percy, he must have Hephaestus's power seal! It's the only way that he has that great power he did when you fought him. He will be tough to take down, but we can do it!" Percy smiled even though he didn't think they could. "Now get going to lunch. I hear that they have a special on burritos." Percy laughed for a moment, but if faded away as he remembered that Annabeth was in her cabin studying.

He quickly wobbled over to the Athena cabin. Percy looked through the window to see if he could spot Annabeth. But all he saw was dust. For someone who gets 3 stars on their cabin inspections; she really wasn't that tidy. Percy just walked in like she did when she visited him. She was on her laptop looking up a word on . She didn't seem to notice Percy standing by the door. He walked over and sat beside her. She didn't seem to notice still!

"Annabeth; are you okay," he asked. He poked her a few timed to make sure she wasn't dead.

"Quit it Seaweed brain! This is serious!" Percy looked at her lap top. She was looking up the wood: rue.

"Uh, I think even you know what that means. You know; to regret something! And you say that I have ADHD!" She punched him and looked at the definitions.

"No," she yelled banging her laptop against the bed. "That can not be its only definition!"

"Please tell me this is just home work or something like that," Percy asked with hope."

"Shut up Percy! This is serious"

"Just tell me what it is about already!"

"Fine! Do you really want to know fish boy! I called your old girl friend to get a prophecy, and she told me it. ALL OF IT! She said that we will all die in the end and no one will live! How stupid is that? I hate Rachel!"

"Hey, hey, hey! First of all, we were never dating. 2nd, we are not going to die!"

"You coward! How can you say that?"

"See? There you go again! You get all mad at me for trying to stay positive! What is so bad about this prophecy anyway?" There were tears in her eyes as she threw the laptop to the ground and ran out of the room crying. Percy picked it up and noticed it wasn't broken. The monitor was cracked, but you could still use it. Percy opened a different window he noticed on the bottom tab. It popped up a Microsoft word document with the prophecy Rachel told her. It was in Greek, but he could make out what it said.

Everyone will parish under the new kings order, except the all time high scorer, Camp will burn down in no time at all, and then you will all die under the master claw, When the end comes you will always rue, trapping the lord under your brutal shoe!

Percy had no comment on that interesting passage. He accidentally moved the mouse with his elbow making the document scroll down. Below was another prophecy? Percy read that one too…

The demigods of the big 3 will be the start and the end, because of the rules that you will bend, the lost ones will be forgotten, all because of their only one sin!

Percy was confused on the 2 prophecies. He said both over and over in his mind to remember it. Once he got it, he exited out and dropped it on the floor making it look like it was untouched. He still didn't get why it had 2, but he didn't care.

Percy remained in his cabin for the rest of the day. When night came by, Caitlin and Marcus came in to go to sleep.

"Percy," they both said. They ran to him and gave him a big hug.

"Are you doing better," asked Caitlin.

"Yeah, I'm just fine now. I need to use a walking stick from now on, but at least I can walk now." Marcus hugged him once more, but then went to sleep. With the lights out, Percy realized how much anger Annabeth had today. She seemed hurt for some reason. Percy put that aside and closed his eyes. His dream seemed to be black. Either that or he couldn't remember it. It was a long night sleeping with millions of thoughts in his head.

There was a knock at the door. And not just any knock, but the secret one. The one that warns you of danger. Percy got out of bed quickly and woke up Marcus and Caitlin. After that, Percy walked over to the door and kicked it open. There were only a few campers out side. The only one he knew was Rose. Percy limped over to him since he didn't have his walking stick and stood at her side.

"What is going on here," Percy asked looking for the other campers. The cabins were empty, but where was everyone.

"Your question is just as good as my answer. None of us know why we are out side. I don't see a fire or any other kind o…" Her voice fell silent. Over by Thalia's tree, there was a scream. All the campers ran over to the tree why Percy and his siblings helped him walk. Thalia walked out of her cabin and noticed Percy. She ran over to him to ask what was up.

"I don't know," he responded. "But there was a scream over by the pine tree." She squinted her eyes to see. The tree was a quarter of a mile away. All she could see were a big cloud of campers. "Go on and help them out. I'll get there soon enough," Percy said as he was getting tired of walking already. She nodded and ran off to the crowd. Percy spotted Annabeth in the crowd. As Thalia ran up, Annabeth looked to see who was running to her and saw Percy in the corner of her eyes. She turned to her and yelled-…

"PERCY!!!" She then turned her attention away to focus on the thing that they were looking at or what ever they were doing. It was a good 2 minutes until they reached the huddle of people. Percy looked through the crowd as they made a circle surrounding something. Percy looked above every ones heads. He saw a dead body on the ground. Afraid it was Nico, Percy pushed his way through. On the ground was a demigod that was not Nico, but a satyr. There was a javelin stabbed in his heart. Next to him, a black mist formed. Faiths appearance showed up and there she was! Annabeth didn't trust her any longer, so she rolled her eyes at her.

"Hello, Percy Jackson. We meet again, don't we?"

"What did you do to this satyr," Percy asked.

"Me," she said confused. "I didn't do anything! And it is highly rude of you to blame me for it! I think that the apprentice did it." Annabeth rolled her eyes again and ran through the crowd to where Percy and Faith were.

"You liar," She hissed at her! "If it wasn't you, then don't you think that it is a little strange you happened to show up right after Percy got here?" Faith glared at her. Annabeth glared back. It looked like a fist fight was about to unroll.

"I came at this specific time because I can sense emotions. Since I care for the camps safety, I sensed that there was a sudden burst of sadness. So I came here to see what was going on. Is that enough for you to handle princess of drama?" Annabeth pushed deeply on her knuckles and was about to throw a punch. Percy jumped in the way of both of them as fast as he could. Before Annabeth's punch slammed onto Percy face, the satyr moved his hand a little. Annabeth lowered her fist and looked towards him. Percy, (while holding onto Annabeth's shoulder,) kneeled down next to his head. The satyr turned so his face faced Percy's.

"I tried to warn you," he began breathing in deeply. He spat blood onto the floor next to him and began again. "He is going to kill you! Run… Run… RUN!!!!!!!!" His eyes burst wide open as his jaw fell flat letting some blood seep down his neck. All turned their heads to the place he was looking.

THE APPRINTICE! He was standing on top of a hill across the street. His black and red jacket glared back at the moon as its light shined on it. No one moved or dared to blink. He said something. You could only tell because the bottom of his jacked moved up and down indicating that his jaw was moving. He spoke up and repeated his words.

"Rise my minions and conquer the camp for good!" Faith started to freak out and walked back and forth.

"I need to go," she called and disappeared in her black smoke. Percy tried to call out, 'wait,' but she was already gone.

Smoke was seeping through the ground in front of the apprentice. Heads, then stomachs, then feet started to rise from the ground. Figured of ghosts came and giggled as they looked right at the campers. Chiron ran up, (horse style,) to the huddle and saw the dead entities. He had nothing to say. He just looked at Percy, and then back at the ghosts. No one seemed to notice that the ghosts were really young and short. They didn't seem to care either that they were only children. Little or not, they charges at high speed! Percy felt defenseless, for he wasn't in good shape to fight or run. The demigods charged and ran in all directions. They knew quite well that last time they fought a ghost; it didn't turn out so well. Annabeth had the idea to put Percy on Chiron's horse back, but he was busy trying to fight the ghosts.

The campers were being pushed back further and further towards the forest. They were next to the cabins again! Percy was trying his best to stay ahead of the group. He was the only one who really couldn't do anything.

"Do you want a piece of this," Clarisse yelled to the ghosts as she tried to slice them in half. A small 8 year old ghost grabbed her weapon away from her and chased her with it laughing and singing a peaceful song…

We'll slice and dice them over and over again! Kill them, eat them, and save their brains for lunch! Now some people say that this is a sin! But how can a bunch of ghosts who are already dead kill the demigod bunch?

They sang over and over again. Percy felt like the camp was going to be destroyed by these little kids! But then Rose rubbed her muddy feet off in the grass and when a ghost came up to attach her; her reflexes caused her to punch it. But instead of just fading through it, it let out a little shock on the ghost's nose.

"Owww," it yelled in pain. Rose rubbed her feet again and touched her. Another spark hit the ghost. "Owww, quit it will you?" Rose smiled. Some campers that saw that did to. Everyone went to the grass of the archery field, rubbed their feet in it, and touched a ghost. A big light lit up the camp and a bunch of owwws filled the air. 'The ghosts were harmed by static electricity!' Percy realized. But rubbing your feet didn't collect enough static to scare them away! They needed a lot of it. Then he got an idea…

"Thalia," Percy called. She walked over to him jollily. "I need you to rub your feet on grass and collect the static by using your powers. Then use all the static your body can hold and shoot it at them!" Thalia looked at him strangely. It was a long shot; they both knew it, but she nodded any way.

"I'm not sure I can collect static electricity, but I'll give it a try," She replied. She ran off to the others and rubbed her feet as fast as she could. Static was sizzling in her body. She kept it up until she looked sick to her stomach and held out her hand to aim it at the ghosts on the right side of the crowd. Once the electricity was released, the campers ducked. When the static hit the first ghosts, he was barbecued to crisp as he fell on the ground. She slowly moved it to the left to kill off all of the ghosts. She ran out of electricity once she burnt the last one. Thalia was so exhausted; she fell to the ground and took a little nap.

The ghosts got up one by one as they ran away into the night. Seeing the ghosts retreat angered the apprentice as 2 of his followers appeared beside him. They wore the same clothing and had a black shadow covering their faces. They talked for a minute or 2 until they made up their mind on what to do. The 2 followers held out their hands aiming for camp and released something that caused Percy to think that they were going to die just like the prophecy said.

About a 50 foot high fire emerged from their finger tips. The fire was like a gigantic fire ball. It was wide enough to cover the whole camp! They all slowly walked backwards as the fire burnt the street to ashes. The heat was already making Percy sweat. He thought fast of all the things he could do. Percy and Nico looked at one another and nodded having the same thought. Nico ran over to the armory to Mrs. O'Leary. Percy; although having 2 broken ribs, ran to the stables. With every step he took, a cracking sound came. But he didn't care.

"Blackjack," he yelled along with whistled. The Pegasus came to his orders.

"You dinged," he said happy as even. Then he looked up at the fire approaching them. It already passed Thalia's tree and was still progressing. "Holly mama! That is one big barbeque."

"Get the other pegasi out of the stables and tell them to rescue the campers! Are the party ponies still in Vegas?"

"Afraid so. It's just the 5 of us today. Only problem is each one of us can only hold up to 3 people. How is everyone going to escape?" Percy suddenly thought of an idea. He remembered about the river in the forest. It was a long shot and not even a one percent chance it would work. But he had to try. Blackjack let the other pegasi out and they roamed around looking for the campers. Percy saw Mrs. O'Leary carrying 15 people on his back and still looking for more passengers. Nico was riding on his head like the captain on his ship. There were about 150 demigods, so he had to try his idea. If only he had more time. Wait; he did have more time. He spotted Mathew over by a Pegasus getting on its back. Percy yelled at him and told him to come at once! Mathew did as told and ran over to him.

"What's going on Percy," he asked out of breath? "Do you have a plan or not?" Percy nodded watching the fire progress at a speed of 40 miles per hour.

"I need you to use your abilities to slow down the fire," he said. Mathew looked lost. He was only 14 years old.

"My Father is the god of wind, not fire," he said to him.

"I know that! Use you wind power to slow it down!"

"Percy; that is crazy! I don't know if I can do that."

"Do it now! It's our only chance to survive." He unhappily nodded and focused his energy. We walked a few yards forward for space. Percy managed a short smile, but then got to work. He felt the waves of the river! The power of his Father. After a short period of time, a dinging sound rang in his head. It was time to release it! Percy opened his eyes. Mathew was doing an excellent job. He was holding it up to where it only went 20 miles per hour. Still pretty fast, but it'll have to do.

Percy let his power go free. The river rose from being in the woods, and like a wave has risen over the campers. It was a huge wave and it blocked out the light of the moon. Small drips of water fell down on the campers cooling them off from the heat of the fire. As Percy kept it moving, so did Mathew. The fire was so close to him now, his shirt was now completely dissolved away.

"Retreat," Percy yelled to him. "Or you will get crushed!"

"I don't care," he yelled with his lungs filled with smoke. "I have to keep this up or you will all die!"

"No you won't! I have a bunch of water here and if you don't move, I'll get too tired to keep the weight of it still."

"Don't keep it floating then! Use it to take out the fire now!"

"Not with out you at my side!" Marcus who was riding on a pegasus in the air saw his friend Mathew down there about to die. He lost his control over him self and sliced the air in front of him. A big bubble of water burst out of the cloud of water Percy was holding up in the air and hit Mathew with it pushing him backwards next to Percy. The fire was going faster then ever now, but Percy was now able to drop it onto the fire making it explode in white smoke. The fire was now out. Marcus saved him!

Although all was not well again. All the cabins were burned down to ashes! The only thing that remained undestroyed was Thalia's tree with the fleece protecting it from the fire. Percy didn't even save the cabins! They too were burned down to the floor.

"The prophecy was right," Annabeth said to herself. "Camp will burn down in no time at all," She repeated from the first prophecy. Marcus landed on the dirt next to Mathew. There were no hugs, no, 'thanks for saving my life's,' and no people happy that they at least had each other! Mathew rolled up into a ball and laid on the muddy floor going to bed. Soon, everyone else followed!

Thalia: well Percy screwed up again!

Annabeth: Yep. It was entirely his fault!

Percy: I hate you guys.

Annabeth: I hate you 2.

Grover: wow, through out that chapter, the writer didn't even mention me! I was at a diner party with Jupiter in the woods if anyone cares!

Annabeth: We don't and that is why he didn't mention you. You're not important enough!

Jupiter: Oh, don't listen to them. They are just mean people! I think you are important!- ish…

Grover: thanks guys! Feeling the love!

Percy: Grover, if you don't mind; we would kind of enjoy it if you didn't speak to us any more! Your squeaky voice is annoying.

Grover: You should show me more respect. I should have joined the hunters than stay with you guys!

Thalia: The hunters are for girls only idiot.

Annabeth: exactly why he would fit in!

Grover: That's it! I'm going to bed. Peace out!