Artemis showed me a vision, gray clouds swirled over a mountain not too far from San Francisco. Once I saw it, I shadow traveled and we were there, but...all around us was fog. "This isn't the Moun-"

"Silence, you fool!" Artemis ordered, "Fool?" I felt a little hurt, I know she's a goddess, but did she have to say 'fool?' I mean come on at least say boy or just tell me to be quiet...I kept quiet, Artemis was being stealthy. There was only one path to the top, directly in front of us. And it led through a lush meadow of shadows and flowers: the garden of twilight.

If it hadn't been for the enormous dragon, the garden would've been the most beautiful place I'd ever seen...Actually no one can beat Calypso's garden.

The grass shimmered with silvery evening light, and the flowers were such brilliant colors they almost glowed in the dark.

Stepping stones of polished black marble led around either side of a five-story-tall apple tree, every bough glittering with golden apples. I decided to follow Artemis's lead and sneak around the dragon. Once we were out of earshot, I said, "What's that the dragon protecting?"

"The apples of immortality," Artemis said. "Hera's wedding gift from Zeus." I looked back and the dragon was still asleep. Immortality huh? My mind was on the fruit, will I be immortal if I take one of them? I wonder if that's true, I'm not saying Artemis is a liar, but...Sometimes...Things are too good to be true.

Artemis stopped, I listened to see if there was trouble up ahead, but instead there was a beautiful, eerie singing, like voices from the bottom of a well. Four figures shimmered into existence, four young women who looked very much like Zoe, which made me almost ask what is she doing here, but there's four of them so I didn't say anything.

"We've been expecting you, Lady Artemis." They said and bowed respectfully. I don't like this. "Get out of our way." I said coldly to them, they regraded me coldly and one said, "Wyatt Knight, we have no business with you."

I chuckled lightly, "Well it would seem you guys have a friend of mine…So this is my business. I'll ask one more time, Get. Out. Of. The. Way. Please." I said calmly. They had no emotions in their eyes just glassy and completely black eyes. They didn't seem to want to back down, so they stood their ground. "All we have to do it raise our voices and Ladon will wake." One mused.

"Artemis, can you restore my energy? If you could then I could takes us to the top and that will be it." I whispered to her. Artemis looked at me calmly and nodded, she put her hand on my forehead. All four of the girls in front of us shouted, "Wake! Ladon!"

My body felt like I just spent a week sleeping, fresh and new. I Shadow traveled with Artemis. We were at the top of the mountain. At the top of mountain were ruins, blocks of black granite and marble as big as houses. Broken columns. Statues of bronze that looked as though they'd been half melted.

Artemis looked troubled, "The ruins of Mount Othrys,"

"The mount of Othrys? What's that? I asked.

Artemis advanced slowly, "The mountain fortress of the Titans," Artemis said. "In the first war, Olympus and Othrys were the two rival capitals of the world. Othrys was blasted to pieces."

I see why she's troubled, it's being rebuilt slowly…But surely, it will be built for the titans, there's no doubt about that. "Say Artemis…Isn't this mountain Atlas's mountain?" I asked her.

Artemis nodded, "Yes, but…By now I should have sensed him…He is not here." She said quietly and ran forward. I followed, we had reached the summit. A few yards ahead of us, gray clouds swirled in a heavy vortex, making a funnel cloud that almost touched the mountaintop, in front of me I saw Annabeth, and everything I felt during this day…It drained away in an instant.

I ran toward Annabeth and called out to her, "Annabeth!" She strained to look at me, "No! Wyatt!" She said, I didn't listen I still ran up to her. She was on her back, she had her hands and feet up, like she was trying to keep something up. It dawned on me why this is Atlas's mountain.

"Atlas was the one before Annabeth to hold the sky…" I whispered to myself, Artemis said quietly, "Yes…This was a trap."

I don't care if it's a trap. I bent down and tried to feel where the edge of the sky was, once I found it, I lifted it up. If the sky was this heavy then how was Annabeth able to carry it? I struggled to keep it up.

"Go…!" I said, Artemis helped Annabeth up, "Bravo!" A booming voice said behind us and clapped. I turned around, which was really difficult, because I had to carry the sky with one hand.

Good thing Artemis restored my power. "Atlas." Artemis said coldly. I saw Luke beside Atlas. Luke looked bad, he was pale, and his scar looked like it was recently reopened. "Artemis! GO!" I shouted, "Get Annabeth out of here!"

Annabeth was too weak to speak, but Artemis said, "No, we got here together, we leave together."

"No…Just go, Percy and the other's will be able to help me. Plus you need to tell the gods about this. And that monster too. Whatever it is, you have to tell them!" I pleaded to Artemis. But she can't leave without me…I'm the only one that can shadow travel. Luke circled around us, he was now right behind me.

There was a chain on the ground. He put it around my ankle. "Luke…What are you doing?" I asked angrily. "I have to do this Wyatt…This is your own fault." He told me and went back to Atlas's side.

I can't do anything right now…Artemis can take them down…I'm positive she can.

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