Chapter 2

Grover's POV

The first day of camp was always the best. Seeing old faces I hadn't seen since last summer, and new faces that I couldn't wait to get to know. I strolled down the path, watching people arriving, their parents hugging them goodbye, lugging suitcases into their cabins, hugging their friends, it was just great. I really hope that this summer, we could actually relax and just enjoy ourselves for once.

'Where's Percy and Annabeth?" I wondered. Percy was usually one of the first people to arrive at camp. But here it was, 4:00 in the afternoon, and no sign of him. I told myself not to worry, he was probably just caught in traffic or something. NOTHING would stop him from missing camp.

"Attention, campers! Hello? Yes yes, look up here. I am making an announcement." Mr. D. bellowed over the noise of a thousand campers chit chatting at the dinner tables. Everyone slowly became silent.

"Well today is the first day of camp!"

"No duh" Muttered one of the Ares kids.

"I know you all are exited. This will hopefully be a very, uh, uneventful summer. Either way it will still be agonizi- uhh I mean enjoyable and fun.

It seems most of you have arrived, though we are still missing Peter Johnson and Annabelle Chase. But I'm sure they'll be here. Unless of course, they got into a terrible accident and died a horrid death on their way here in which case, would be quite tragic. Now, enjoy your food and whatnot."

Now I was getting worried. It was already dinner and neither Percy, nor Annabeth had showed up or even made contact. I got up from the table not feeling the least bit hungry. Something was wrong.

Annabeth's POV

Oh Gods. This was BAD. I always had a feeling the government would find out sooner or later, but to have them react like THIS? Shows how selfish mankind is. Could they really use half blood DNA to make an army of super soldiers? Probably. I wouldn't put it past them. They threw me and Percy back in our cell room and we just sat there in stunned silence for a while until finally Percy said,

"This could be a problem"

"Not could be, it is"

"what are we going to do?"

"I don't know"

"well we have to do SOMETHING. We can't just sit here while they take DNA from our friends to make an army!"

"Percy, what can we do?"

"I… I don't know yet. But camp started today. Somebody has to notice our absence sooner or later."

"Yes, I sure did!" said a familiar voice and I turned to see an iris-message Grover standing next to me.

"Grover!" Annabeth and I exclaimed at the same time.

"Percy, Annabeth! Where are you guys? I'm getting worried about you. Are you okay?"

"well…. Not really. We're locked up in a government facility."

"A WHAT?"

"A top secret government facility. Grover, the government knows about Half-bloods. They captured us and they're running tests on us. Their plan is to get ALL of the half bloods and use their DNA to make an unstoppable army of super soldiers. And then, try and capture the gods!"

"Oh no…. this cannot be happening."

"Well it is! And we need you to tell Chiron and the others what is going on! Evacuate camp! And if possible… help us get out of here."

"Right! I'm on it! Don't worry, guys. We'll come for you!" Grover sighed. "So much for this being a relaxing summer"

I heard footsteps outside the door and voices.

"Quick!" Annabeth hissed. I waved my hand through the mist and Grover the satyr, was gone. Leaving me and Annabeth looking in the face of Dr. Krane.

A/N sorry for this chapter being so short! I just really wanted to get something posted since I've been keeping you waiting so long. I promise the next chapter will be much longer, kay? :)