Ch. 3

Percy's pov

     I woke up to the sound of soft crying. The first thing I realized when I opened my eyes was that I was not in my bed. I wad in a small cabin with sunlight filtering through a small window by a door. It smelled like something that had always comforted me: the ocean.

       I slipped out of bed, but strangely, even though I had never been in this room, it somehow felt like home.

     I opened the door and found myself surrounded by many other cabins but none of them were the same. There were cabins with giant pillars, cabins with vines creeping up the sides of walls, and cabins that seemed to reflect sunlight in the most annoying way possible.

   There were no people around and the sun was barely rising, so I guessed it was pretty early.

    After wandering and studying the cabins for a bit, I decided to find the source of the constant sobbing. As I walked towards a huge cabin with pillars, a kid about my age, maybe a little younger, ran into me calling somebody's name.

    "Oh Sorry!" He said with a worried expression on his face. "Have you seen anybody named bianca?"  "who?" I questioned. "My sister" he replied. "I woke up in a weird mini house and then I bumped into you."

     Mini house? Seriously? This kid seemed even younger then he looked! Maybe he wasn't my age. "Maybe we can check for her in there." I said, pointing to one of the pillars where the crying seemed to be coming from. "Good idea!" He said brightening.

    We walked into the big room to find a small, blonde, toddler (maybe about 2 or 3) bawling hysterically. Me being seven, I decided that since i'm most likely older then Nico that I would go and try to comfort the crying baby.

    I walked up to him and he looked at me with his sad, electric blue, eyes. I smiled at him and bent down. "Hey" I said. "What's wrong?" At this he started crying again.

    "Th-thal-ie" he croaked between giant, heaving, breaths. "Hey," I said, "its okay, we will help you fix this." I put a hand comfortingly on his shoulder. "Yeah!" Nico said, "What's a thalie?" The boy calmed down a bit and repeated, "T-thalie?"

   I rolled my eyes. Thalie was obviously someone related to him and I told Nico just that.

    That was when I realized that I had family too. Family that would be worried sick about me. Oh no. I would be in so much trouble when gabe realized that I was missing! What would he do to me when I came back? What would he do to mom?! I had to get back! If he hurt her, I would kill him!

   I started running towards the door determined to find a way out of this mess but a girl stepped in my way calling for someone named Jason. The toddler let out a gurgle. Maybe this was thalie! He definitely seamed to recognize her!

          I stopped running just before I bumped into her. into her. "Are you thalie?" I asked hoping that she would be the blonde kid's sister.

     "Thalie?" She asked. Okay, apparently she wasn't. I pushed past her and kept running. I had to get home, no matter what it took.

    There were more people outside. This might be harder to escape then I thought. Nico started running after me "where are you going?!" He yelled. "You cant just leave us!"

     I slid to a stop. He was right. They needed my help and they were probably just as scared as I was.

    I turned around to see that the girl had chased after us and caught Nico and the little boy. "Let go of them!" I growled at her.

    The moment I saw that she had chased after us I realized something. These people, whoever they were, had kidnapped us. By now, there were kids everywhere.

    "Hey beauty queen!"  A kid said walking up to us, "what's going on?" He didn't know what was happening? Maybe just the girl kidnapped us. She knew exactly where to find us anyway. Maybe this kid could help us!

     "Help!" I yelled to him, "she kidnapped us!" Both of their eyes widened as the girl stared at me in disbelief.  "Kidnapped You?" She said incredulously, "you were in my boyfriends cabin!" "Well you are the one keeping us from leaving so you must have kidnapped us! How else did we get here?!"

    "First you barge in here, and now you have the audacity to accuse me of kidnapping you?! You must have some pretty low morale standards!" I glared at her and she flinched.

    "Okay, first of all," I said, "I have no idea what half of those words mean, but im pretty sure that whatever a corale standard is, yours is lower. At least I don't kidnap children!"

     "For the last time" she said exasperated, "I didn't kidnap you!"

     By now, she had let go of Nico and Blondie, that's what I nicknamed him(real original, I know) and they started inching their way towards me.

     "Okay guys," said the elf looking dude. "How about we just settle down and figure out what's happening.

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Leo's pov

     Okay, this was weird. I decided that I needed to be the peacemaker here because piper and the black haired kid were arguing and I didn't think they would stop anytime soon.

     "Okay guys," I said in a soothing voice, "how about we just settle down and figure out what's happening." They both glared at me. Okay, maybe this wasn't going to work so well.

    "I-I think I know what happened." Said Katie, stepping forward. "Yeah," said Travis, following her, dragging his twin behind him. I gave them a suspicious look.

    "What did you guys do?" I asked. "Uh, well..." Katie said, "We kinda gave Percy Nico and Jason a potion. It obviously didn't work and I think it turned them tiny.

    "How do you know our names?!" The grumpy kid asked. "That is so cool!" The one holding who I assumed must be Jason said.

    Piper was staring at the blonde toddler that was apparently her boyfriend. I assumed that Percy was the one holding him because the other one was to angry at everything to be Percy.

    "Okay Nico," I said, "lets just talk this out before accusing and blaming everyone, we don't know exactly what happened yet."

     "But I didn't accuse anyone." The one holding Jason said. My eyes widened. Was this cheerful little kid actually Nico? The one who must be Percy smirked. I swear he had like a malign glint in his eye. Okay, little kid Percy officially scared me.

   "Hey," Annabeth said, running up to us, "does anyone know where Percy is? I can't find him anywhere."

Oh no, I thought. This was going to be a mess.