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Piper and I met up with Jane, who was going to escort us to Camp Half-Blood the next day. Jane didn't look too pleased about "wasting her valuable time on a delinquent orphan brat". She would be fired if she talked about Piper like that, so she picked on me. Not like I cared.

I fished out a grubby old business card and started ripping it to tiny pieces and scattering the pieces all over Jane's car. She would probably blow up at me for making her car messy, but I'd be gone tomorrow. Maybe she'd forget about it, although I knew that wasn't likely. After all, she still remembered the time when I recorded Tristan saying "You're fired!" and played in front of her. Her expression was comical.

Grover had given us a goodbye and the card with some words in fancy cursive, claiming that was his summer address. Well, I suppose it was his summer address.

I didn't bother trying to decipher the rest of the business card after I had made out the words Camp Half-Blood.

I already learned everything about the camp during my visits to Kronos. Maybe he had run out of topics to discuss, because he was just teaching me about stuff that he shouldn't know. The evil titan lord of time had even showed me what the place looked like, how to get there, and information about some of the people there. It was strange that he'd give me so much information, especially since I wasn't even on his side of the inevitable war.

I followed Jane and Piper to our hotel room, only partially aware of the world around me.

My instincts told me one thing: Something horrible is going to happen.

Later:

I knew Grover would be following us until we got to camp. What I didn't know was that he'd break into our hotel room in the middle of the night and wake up Piper and I with an absolutely horrified look on his face and no pants on. We sneaked out of the hotel and stole some poor guy's car.

Grover was shaking the entire time, and I didn't think it was because of the heavy rain and wind. He was muttering about monsters, and Piper and I decided to interrogate him when he was in a less fragile state.

I was driving towards the Greek camp, seeing as I was older than Piper and Grover was too terrified to do anything but shudder and bleat. And I had played enough video games to know how to operate a car. I knew how to get to the camp because of Kronos, and for the first (and hopefully last) time in my two lives, I was grateful I had exclusive meetings with him every week.

As I got closer to Camp Half-Blood, I could faintly see a dark shape that seemed to be following us.

Great. Absolutely wonderful. We had a monster following us.

I glanced at Piper and Grover. "Monster."

But as the distance between us decreased, I could see that I was wrong. It wasn't a monster. It was an army of them.

I made the car go as fast as possible, but it didn't seem to be fast enough. The monsters were catching up.

When it was clear there was no way we could outrun them, I stopped the car and got out. Piper helped Grover, who was still acting weird, out of the car.

I was drenched by the rain, but it made me stronger, and energy coursed through me. Lightning flashed, illuminating a huge pine tree.

I told Piper to run toward the tree, and she could tell by the tone of my voice it would be no good to argue.

As she helped Grover uphill, I made my bow appear and studied the army. There were less monsters than I thought. Just the minotaur, twenty dracaena, and the same number of hellhounds. So it was forty-one monsters. Who sent them? There was no way all those monsters could've gathered on thier own.

It would've been easier to kill them if I had a sword, but Riptide was probably still with Mrs. Dodds, and my other sword was presumably with Hades. But with my bow and arrows, I couldn't let them get close to me, or I'd be killed.

I shot down the hellhounds first, since they were the fastest. I was glad my arrows appeared back in my quiver after it hits its target.

I glanced back and saw Piper and Grover were almost past the borders. Almost there. I shot five of the dracaena with deadly speed and accuracy.

I turned and raced after my friends. Piper seemed to be struggling with Grover, and I realized why. The goat was unconscious. I stopped and destroyed the rest of the dracaena with my arrows.

Then I realized something I should've noticed right away. The stupid Minotaur was missing. Weird. It was faster than the dracaena...

"Percy!" Piper's terrified scream made my hair stand on end.

I spun towards the sound of her voice.

The sight of the Minotaur in bright white Fruit of the Looms would've been funny if it hadn't been holding my sister in its meaty hands. Choking her.

I was paralyzed as the Piper turned into a golden holographic image. There was a flash of blinding light, and she was gone. Gone.

"NO!" I yelled as the Minotaur turned towards Grover, sniffing curiously. Before I was aware of the arrow flying towards the Minotaur, it had a silver arrow in its heart and was turning to dust.

My weapons disappeared as I stumbled towards Grover, the energy from the rain sapping away. Maybe it was because the rain had stopped, but I didn't think so.

Piper. She was gone. Disappeared in a flash of gold. I wasn't sure what it was. Maybe she wasn't dead.

Still, I felt terrible. It was just earlier today, or technically yesterday, that I'd promised Piper we'd be fine. And now she was either dead or held captive somewhere, by someone who must be very powerful, taking her from the monster like that.

And it was all my fault. I should've seen what was going to happen. I should've noticed the Minotaur sneaking up on Piper earlier. I should've protected her from the monster. But I didn't.

I gave Grover a quick check. He seemed alright except for the fact that he was knocked out cold.

I hauled Grover to the porch of the Big House, and passed out.

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