Chapter 2: Lost Memories

Percy POV

Her face looked so familiar, but where did I see it before? I puzzled over this until my head hurt. I shook my head and decided to think about it later-she was unconscious and hurt, after all. I took a hunting horn hung to my belt and blew three times. Three calls meant Hello! Need some medical help here!

After a few minutes, two kids from the Apollo cabin and Josie Vileguard came. Josie was also a daughter of Poseidon and not only could she use water to heal her own wounds but she was an expert at using the element to cure other people's injuries, too. She hurried over to the mysterious girl's side.

"Who's this?" Will Solace, the son of Apollo, asked.

"She was being chased by some telekines. They're being taken care of down the hill."

They nodded their heads and bent next to the girl. I hastily moved out of the way and watched them work. I waited to see their reaction when they saw her face. They didn't say anything. Hmm, maybe the familiarity of her appearance was just my imagination.

"Oh yeah," I said, remembering, "I think there's something wrong with her leg-she was running with a limp."

"Why is she unconscious?" the other Apollo guy asked.

"She stopped moving after her head hit Peleus' scales," I replied.

He looked at questionably like, Who in the right mind would smash their own head against a dragon? But, he didn't say anything.

Josie had rolled up one of the girl's pant cuffs, and I saw that the girl's ankle was bruised green and blue.

"It looks like she sprained it really bad," Josie said.

She reached into her jacket pocket and took out a mini plastic bottle of water. She twisted off the cap and spread the water on the girl's ankle. Josie closed her eyes and murmured some healing hymn. The water glowed with a radiant sapphire color, and sparkled with silver ripples. The bruises slowly disappeared from the girl's ankle.

"Amazing," I told her.

"Thanks," she replied, grinning.

Will and the other guy stood up. "We checked her head," Will Solace said. "We can't find any injuries, so the impact probably wasn't too bad. We should still bring her back to the Big House, though."

He stretched out his hand and a shimmery golden stretcher appeared out of nowhere. I jumped a little and he grinned at me, "Just a little privilege of being Apollo's son."

The other Apollo guy picked up the girl and gently laid her on the stretcher. He and Will picked it up and slowly started towards the Big House.

"Did you see anything strange about the girl's face?" I asked Josie.

"No, why?" she inquired.

"Oh, it's nothing," I said quickly.

She looked at me confused and said, "Well, you better go check the battle going down there. It doesn't look bad for us, but it's better to check. I'm going to help Jaden and Will with the girl."

She waved goodbye to me and ran towards the healers. I wondered more about where I've seen the girl before, but decided quickly that it was just my imagination.

Once, I got down the hill, I realized that all that remained of the telekines was monster dust. Byron coughed and brushed some dust out of his hair and clothes. His blonde hair was powdered with brown dust and his face was streaked with filth.

"What happened to you?" I asked.

"Telekines must've thought I smelled like dog food. Thirty of them came after me," he replied.

"Thirty?" I said, "That's impressive."

"Well, they're just telekines, after all. It was nothing compared to the dragons I faced coming to camp," he said.

"Dragons," I said, "Seriously?"

He smiled and brushed some monster dust of his sleeve. "I've always been okay at fighting monsters."

Okay at fighting monsters? Byron was seriously being modest. There was a rumor that Byron had also single-handedly defeated a drakon. Trust me, that's no small feat. Hector walked over and sheathed his silver sword. Hector's sword had a hilt that was a shape of an owl. Its eye was a large, milky pearl.

"How about the girl, Percy?" Hector said

"Well, uh, she kinda got knocked out…"

"What?" he exclaimed.

"Well, you see…"

I explained all of what happened; except for the fact that I thought I've seen her somewhere else before.

"She was a fast runner, though," Hector said, but he was cleared unimpressed with my inability to complete a simple task.

I went back to the training grounds, and after asking some campers questions and pissing off some Ares kids, I figured out where the girl was. She was in the sick room, the same place I was after I faced the Minotaur for the first time. When I wandered into the room, the manner of the room was silent and depressing. The girl was awake, looking obviously confused, but other than that, she looked fine; what was to worry about? I glanced at Chiron's dark expression and realized something was very wrong. Argus was leaning on the wall, all of his blue eyes looking sad and worried. Josie's face was buried in her hands and she looked utterly downcast. Even Mr. D, who is normally bugged by all of the arriving demigods, was sitting at a small table and looked concerned.

"What's wrong?" I asked uncertainly.

"The girl…" Josie said. Her voice trailed off.

"What?" I insisted.

Chiron looked up; his usually bright eyes were dark. "She can't remember anything."

"What are you talking about?" I asked bewildered. I wasn't sure if I just understood what he said.

"It's simple, Patrick Jordon," Dionysus said, "She's lost all her memories."