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Percy lands outside of the Athena cabin. He groans, rubbing his rear as he struggles up. But where was Nico? And Bianca, for that matter.

He spots a crowd gathered around Thalia's Pine. Percy jogs towards the crowd.

"What is everybody looking at?" Percy asks.

"P-" is the last thing he hears before he is sucked into the ground.

He seemed to be halfway through the layers of dirt. His legs could feel the air, he knew that. But the rest of him was suffocating. He couldn't breath-correction-he could barely breath. Percy was on the point of hyperventilating. He simply panicked. His legs were thrashing through the air below him.

Okay, he thought. He needed to calm down. That's when he felt something warm touch grab his leg. Here comes the thrashing again. His sneakered foot contacted with something hard. A scream occupies his thoughts. Did he kick somebody?

The thing connected with his legs again, and he made sure not to thrash. He was pulled down. Percy lay flat on the dirt ground, gasping for air.

Something falls beside him. Bianca is laying down beside Percy. Her hair brushed against his nose. "Am I...bleeding?" She asked, not very panicked like she should. She sounded almost...bored. Nonchalant even. "Am I bleeding, Percy?"

Percy looked up. Bianca was scratched everywhere. A long slash covered her stomach, and her head was bleeding. Her shirt was torn but her pants seemed unharmed.

Percy suffocated Bianca in a hug.

"Bianca, what happened?" Percy asked letting we go.

Looking around, Bianca answered quietly, "I...I got the one on my head from you."

Percy frowns. "That stupid Gaea! I got her name right and she does this. C'mon Bianca, let's find Nico and get outta here."

Bianca stands up along with Percy. "Nico," her voice lingers. "Hmm...I don't know Percy. Nico sure can get annoying."

"Bianca!" Percy screeched. "What are you talking about? Are you cursed or something? He's family...and we have to save him."

"But Percy, if you would just think of all the trouble he's caused me-he's caused us. He gave me this cut." Bianca points to the long slash on her stomach.

"No, Bianca," Percy's voice quivers. "It was probably your imagination."

Bianca looks skeptical. She glanced down at her stomach. She frowned and looked up at Percy with tears in her eyes. "Does this look like my imagination, Percy?"

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Annabeth tiptoes throughout the deadly quiet cabin. She looked around the cabin. It was too dark for her eyes to adjust. Annabeth wandered aimlessly through the cabin. She risked using her voice, "Percy? Bianca, Nico? Where did you g-"

Bang!

Annabeth shrieks. "What the heck was that?" She demanded.

Bang!

Annabeth awakes underground. She was sitting in a scratchy wooden chair but she easily stood up with nothing binding her. Around her were broken chains lying on the ground. Annabeth bent down and felt the cold material. Diamond. Smart.

She glances around. To her left is what looked like the only exit. Stumbling down the corridor, Annabeth calls out random names. "Bi-an-ca!" She yells, spacing out each syllable. "Ni-co! Per-cy!"

"Who's there?" A voice demands.

Annabeth's eyebrows furrow in recognition of the female voice.

Annabeth slowly unsheathed her dagger, preparing for a fight. "Show yourself!" Annabeth demanded. She was fatigued, and worried, and annoyed. Why did Percy have to be such a Seaweed Brain?

A girl walks out from her cover behind the corner. She looked to be about fourteen with stormy blue eyes and blue streaks cascading through her hair.

Annabeth gasps as she drops her dagger. "Thalia!"

The girl squints. "Annabeth?"

Annabeth startles the older girl with an unexpected hug. Thalia seemed unharmed out her then a few cuts and bruises.

Thalia gently pulls her away after awhile. "Where's the others?"

Shrugging, Annabeth answers, "I don't know. I mean, I could've sworn I heard Percy, but when I turned around, nobody was there."

Thalia stands from her kneeling position. She grabbed Annabeth's hand. "Follow me."

Thalia dragged Annabeth into some strange twists and corners before Thalia slammed into an invisible wall.

Thalia breathed in, then let it out through her nose. "Go. Find them. Leave. Simple as that."

Annabeth frowned. "I'm not gonna slam through a wall."

"Annabeth-"

"I'll break my nose. My nose is fragile."

"Annabeth-"

"And I might bang my head."

"Annabeth-"

"And-"

Thalia pushed the girl through the wall. Annabeth fell to the ground. She turned around but Thalia was starring back at her, her hands placed on the wall. Annabeth raised her eyebrows at the discovery that she couldn't go back through the wall.

Thalia gave her a sympathetic look, before turning around and walking away. Annabeth felt the hot tears blurring her eyes. Did Thalia just betray her? Throw her to the wolves?

Annabeth gulped, before turning around and running through random corridors with tears streaming down her face.

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Nico pouted. He got it wrong, he knew it. He guessed Gaea. Of course that wasn't her name!

"Must've been Galea," Nico muttered kicking a rock. Now that Nico was on the ground again, alone, he didn't seem that scared. He pulled out his sword and started swinging it around. "Kung fu panda!" Nico sang as he swung his sword at the wall. "Hi-ya!" He screamed as he sliced his sword through the air. He almost cut himself when he heard a gasp. Nico rushed forward. A girl was hyperventilating, as she started down at her stomach. It had a long bloody line along it. Nico began to breath heavily as he slowly turned his sword. The tip was caked with blood. He glanced at the girl who's head was slowly rising.

Nico dropped his sword. "Bianca."

Bianca looked horrified, and she ran back the opposite way. Nico grabbed his sword and began chasing after her. But she was gone.

"Crap!" Nico yelled, dropping to the ground.

"Nico?"

Nico turns around. "Annabeth!"

"What happened?"

Nico shakes his foot, "I cut Bianca, but I swear, I didn't mean to. She just ran away." Nico took a breath. "Wait, were you crying?"

Annabeth ignored the last comment, "you cut Bianca?"

Nico hung his head. "Isn't that what I jut said?"

"C'mon, Nico. Lets find the others."

A scream echoes through the cave walls. Annabeth wrinkles her forehead. "Did you recognize that scream?"

Nico frowns from his spot on the ground. "From somewhere..."

"Somebody, please, help me!" The voice cries.

Annabeth glances at Nico, "lets find out." She helps Nico up from the ground.

"Thanks."

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