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I woke up at a familiar looking place feeling dried up like when Daedalus accidentally injected his failed experiment in me. I tried to look and found a girl with caramel colored hair and almond eyes.

"Who…?" I croaked.

"Shh," she said. "Don't strain yourself. I am Calypso."

She started singing and I felt my body relax. Magic, I realized, before falling back asleep.

When I woke up again, it was night. I couldn't tell if it was the same day or the next. Heck, I probably could've slept for a century considering how tired I was.

"You're awake," Calypso smiled.

She was wearing a white dress and her hair was braided over her shoulder. The moonlight made her look like a goddess.

I looked around the garden and saw a familiar looking building. "Wait, this is—"

"Goode," she replied. "Goode High."

My jaw fell open. "But I was—"

"You were in the limbo, and you can get anywhere from there," Calypso said. "But no one will bother us here. I cast a magic shield around this place recently, so no one should be able to come here. But because of that, time passes around differently here, and it's hard to measure time."

I nodded, trying to wrap my head around that. "You're name is Calypso, right?"

She nodded.

"Did you get experimented on?"

"Of course," she sighed. "Especially because of my heritage, I was one of the first. But I was different, and they didn't alter my memories." She looked at my face. "You should rest. Don't strain yourself."

I was about to protest that I was fine, but she was right. I still felt weak and felt like I was going to faint any minute. My knees buckled, and she caught me.

"Rest," she said, and began singing again. I began to relax as she set me on a bench. I passed out again.

The next time I woke up, it was night again, but I felt better. Not as good as I usually feel, but good enough to move.

I found Calypso by her garden, and I couldn't help thinking that the garden was familiar. Then I made the connection as the garden that Bianca had told us about.

"Hello," she greeted. "How are you feeling?"

"Better," I said. "What are you doing?"

"Planting," she said. "Would you like to try?"

She gently placed a small glowing sapling in my hands, and directed me where to plant it. Her hands brushed against mine as she piled the dirt around the plant. Our eyes met, but she quickly looked away.

"I love my garden," she said, suddenly changing the subject.

I nodded. "It's awesome."

The flowers seemed like they were glowing, and the one that I just planted seemed to be glowing the brightest. "What kind are those?"

"Moonlace," she said. "It's another one of their experiments, but I kind of adopted it since it didn't really impress them. It can only be planted at night."

"What does it do?"

"Do?" she mused. "Well, I don't suppose it does anything. It gives beauty, it provides light. Does it need to do anything else?"

"Well, I guess not," I said. My eyes flitted over to another shimmering patch of flowers. My heart stopped for a moment when I saw a name on the plaque. "Zoë…"

"Yes," Calypso sighed. "Daughter of Atlas, a favorite of Artemis's."

"She was associated with both companies," I muttered. "But Atlas didn't seem that concerned about her death."

"Of course not," Calypso sighed. "He doesn't care about his children."

"He has more?"

She nodded. "Would you like some dinner? You need to eat."

She led me over to a little table, and some invisible servants placed some apple cider and beef stew on the table. I didn't notice them before, but they seemed to be everywhere, folding laundry, watering plants, and weaving things on her loom.

"Is this where you always stay?" I asked.

She nodded. "I tend to the gardens here, at least before I cast this shield. But before here, I lived somewhere else—one of the limbos of the Labyrinth. But Othrys kicked me out so I guess I'm here now."

"Why did you kick you out?" I frowned.

She shrugged. "I don't know."

I eyed the place where Zoë's name was printed on the plaque. "Is she actually—"

Calypso nodded. "I buried her. Especially since she was my half-sister—" She covered her mouth.

"Atlas is your father?" I asked. "Is that why you were one of the first people to be experimented on?"

Calypso covered her stew with a napkin, and a servant whisked it away. "Yes. My other half-sisters—Zoë's sisters—are somewhere else out in the world. They're the ones that everyone knows about, but I don't mind. I have my own little garden, and I know I had a sister who has been through the same things as me."

"I have to leave," I said. I didn't know how big this shield was, but everything outside the garden seemed distorted and blurry. "Othrys is going to try to get the students."

"Not yet," Calypso said. "You're not fully healed."

"But Annabeth—"

"Just a little while," she said. "I'll do my best to get you fixed up."

I calmed down. "Sure. Okay."

She let out a sigh of relief. "Get some rest. That way you'll be able to leave… quickly."

She walked away, leaving me confused.

I stayed for a few more days, maybe even a week. Like Calypso said, it was hard to tell time here. But I didn't just want to leave Calypso here. I knew I had to leave, but I couldn't bring myself up to it. I asked Calypso to come with me, but she always declined.

"Are you ready to go?" she asked. Her eyes started to water.

"I guess," I said. "Calypso, you can come with me."

Calypso looked up at the night sky, and a stray tear fell down her cheek. "Percy, I can't."

"Why not?" I said. "It's just a step out of there!"

"You don't understand," she said miserably. "I tried many times after I created this shield, but I can't. I'm the maker of this, and I can't just leave it here alone and I can't just break it apart. I never really had a firm control over my power, and I guess this was destined ever since I was stuck in the limbo."

"But you can try," I said. "It won't hurt to try."

She shook her head. "I do not even know if you can get out here safely. You're right, it is just one step, but that one step can cause success or doom."

"But when Othrys comes, they might demolish this whole place using forbidden methods," I said. "How will you be safe?"

"I don't know," she said. "I might be killed, I might survive. I don't know."

"Calypso, come on!" I begged. "Please!"

"No, I cannot," she said firmly, and she was crying now. She bent down and picked up a moonlace. She slipped it in the pocket of my shirt. "Don't forget me."

"I won't," I said, knowing that I wouldn't convince her. "Maybe I can come back."

"Don't. Don't even think about it," she said. She stood on her tiptoes and kissed me on the forehead, like a blessing. "Now go on. Defeat Othrys and save all the others for me."

"Calypso…"

She pushed me away gently, and I felt my feet walking me to the edge of the garden. I looked back and saw her closing her eyes in concentration. Or maybe it was to prevent more tears from coming out. I felt my body tingle as I stepped through the shield. When I looked back, I couldn't see anything. No Calypso, no garden.

"I'll come back for you," I said. "One day."

There was a big explosion as the main building exploded. My eyes widened. What if someone was in there? Before I could think it through, I sprinted into the flaming building.

I coughed and tried to see my way through the smoke. I heard students screaming and the staff trying to calm them.

I went up the stairs by three, and I saw a flash of blonde. I wasn't sure if I was hallucinating or not. My eyes burned and were starting to water.

"Percy!" Annabeth yelled. She was leading a group of students probably to the Labyrinth. "Clarisse, take them. You know where it is."

Clarisse nodded. "This way, punks. If any of you are left behind, it's not my responsibility."

They ran down the stairs.

"You're alive," Annabeth said. "A week Percy. You were gone for a week."

"Annabeth, I can explain."

"Not now," she said. "I've been coming here and taking students out over to Hestia's. But I might've been too late for some of them. I think there's a few more. Percy, can you check the boys' dorms? Or douse the fire?"

"I might be able to weaken it," I coughed.

"Okay. You do that, and I'll try to round up the others," she said. She was covered in sweat. "Meet me in the main office."

"Right."

I ran down the stairs to the restrooms, and slammed open the doors. I concentrated, and the pipes burst. I raised my arms and fashioned the water into a narrow but strong stream of water. I directed it to the fire and upstairs to the dorm rooms. The flames hissed and started to die down. That didn't mean we were safe though.

I kept controlling the water until I ran out. I went upstairs and made the pipes up there explode. After I was satisfied that I'd done an okay job, I went back down to Mr. D's office.

Mr. D obviously wasn't there. I wondered if Chiron left. Probably not.

"In here," Annabeth said, and ushered the students into the office. She jumped down into a hole below the desk. "I'll lead. Percy, you cover for the back."

"Got it."

I waited until the few students that Annabeth rounded up had gone. I only recognized a few of them, like Reyna, Phoebe, Dakota, and Gwen. Oh, and Octavian. I didn't like him, and he resembled Luke a bit too closely.

The Labyrinth entrance closed right when I jumped in. It was pitch dark, but Annabeth led the way with a flashlight. Of course Wise Girl had everything planned out.

"The other group left behind Ariadne's string, so we should be able to find our way out," Annabeth said.

"Oh, so why should we trust you?" Octavian said. "You might be leading us to our deaths!"
He started strangling a teddy bear. "Yes, I see it! We will be doomed and will die if we go with you!"

"We're trying to save you if you haven't noticed," Annabeth said. "So shut up."

"Really? Because I think—"

"Would you like to lead then?" I growled. "Or if you'd prefer, you can just leave us at the next fork. Lay off, Octavian."

He sneered at me, but stayed silent.

We made our way past a few traps until we got out of the Labyrinth. Annabeth balled up the string as we stepped out into Hestia's place. Clarisse's group was still in the dining room, and a few of the others that came earlier were eating.

"Oh, thank goodness you're all right!" Hestia said. "The rooms are upstairs—boys on the second floor, girls on third. You can share rooms with someone if you'd like. Come down for dinner whenever."

"Thank you Hestia," Annabeth said. "Everybody that's not eating, up! Stop crowding the place!"

People started hustling up at Annabeth's order. I gave her an impressed look.

"Things happened," she said. "Nico found Rachel and Grover if you want to see them."

"Later," I said. I still had adrenaline pumping through my body from our escape. "Let's eat first. You can tell me what happened while I was gone."

She raised an eyebrow. "Then you tell me yours."

"Deal."