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ixie pixie: I'm not very far in, I think that John's gone crazy because he had a voice telling him to get cookies...Heh...thanks for the cookies *munches on them* Yeah, Nico is probably pretty annoyed...xD

Guest: Coco is from Cathy Cassidy's series The Chocolate Box Girls and her book is the fourth one, called Coco Caramel.

Guest: I'll do what I can about Nico winning, but the tower has a spell on it which prevents him from shadow-travelling.

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Isaac, Four, Coco, Nico and Edith remaining.

Edith POV

The trapdoor slams shut and I start to laugh. Nico and Coco are all tangled up in a mess of arms and limbs, but none of us move to help them. Me, because I'm laughing, Isaac because he probably can't see them and Four because he is looking at them in disgust.

I wonder why, then I realise that he was friends (sort-of) with Gale...They both voted for him...

"Unfortunates. This is a break room. You have fifteen minutes of time, before carrying on."

She goes silent, so I finally help Nico and Coco up. Nico is using a bunch of words that I probably shouldn't know, but to be honest the minions have said worse...It's probably a good thing that Gru doesn't speak their language properly or half of them would be fired. (I'm looking at you Dave.)

Four is at the window, staring out, without really seeing. I join him and look straight down. The cage we were stuck in is on the ground by a dock. I raise my eyes a little and see a boat slowly drawing nearer. I almost choke on my own spit. Agnes is sitting at the front of it, clinging to the stern. Her brown eyes are staring up at the tower and I want to scream at her to paddle away or something, but my voice won't work.

Next to her is a boy about Nico's age with scruffy brown hair. I look a little harder and see that he has a fake leg. He has his arm around a girl with the frizziest, reddest hair I've ever seen.

Opposite them is a boy with blonde hair. A boy with flaming red hair is next to him. He is waving about a wooden stick a lot like Hermione's. A girl sits alone at the other end of the boat with chin length black hair and tanned skin. She is wearing full black clothes like Four.

He suddenly stiffens.

"Christina?"

"Annabeth?" I jump and see Nico standing on my other side. He's staring at a blonde girl wearing a bright orange shirt. I'm sure that's a dagger at her side.

The last figure I can't make out very well because they've got their back to me, but there are eight of them, all about to take on the tower after us.

I hope that even if I don't escape then Agnes will. Margo must be going out of her mind with worry.

Isaac leans against the wall and slides down it so he's sitting. He groans and I turn to look at him.

"Hazel is one of my best friends." He says to no-one in particular. "She has lung cancer which makes her terminal, but her oxygen tank is probably running low, which means she could die soon...at least she'll be with..." He chokes up and I'm afraid to say anything.

Coco sits down next to him and starts murmuring comfort. Nico looks like he wants to join them, but doesn't know how. I walk over to him and tap his arm.

"Just go sit down."

"I can't." He looks down at me with a pained expression. "It's just...I have a sister called hazel and I don't want her to die. Well, technically she's already dead, but she is alive now..." He trails of and leaves me confused. I go to stand back by the window. They are almost at the edge of the island. If I crane my neck enough and look down, I can see Nico's sword, quivering in the rock.

I wonder what happened to that other person who escaped, Percy, or whatever his name was. There's no other boats. As if reading my mind, Nico suddenly says "He's a Son of Poseidon, who is god of the sea. Percy can use water powers."

"What can you use?" I ask. I'm interested in this sort of stuff, I know a little bit about Greek gods, especially Ares. I love all the fighting and stuff, there's so much blood! Anyway, I tune back into Nico.

"I can summon armies of the dead and I can do this pretty cool thing called shadow-travelling-" He breaks off and his eyes go wide.

He holds an arm out in front of him and clenches his fist. All of the shadows in the room bleed together on the opposite wall and start to swirl. It looks a bit like a vortex. Nico takes a breath, then runs at it. I expect him to crash into the wall, but he makes it half-way into the vortex. Then it spits him out.

"I'm guessing that was an attempt at shadow-travelling?" Coco says. Nico just stares at wall and carries on staring until the trapdoor drops open.

"Come on, let's get this done with."

Yeah, that was awful I know, I just walked in from dancing and have French to revise so it was a quick chapter :/

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