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"Now, honey, this won't hurt one bit," Alecto the Fury (Mrs Dodds, whatever!) hovered above us, and her sisters flew down too. I uncapped Riptide, and Annabeth drew her knife. Alecto snarled. "Now, now. There's no need for them." Before we could react, her sisters swooped down and grabbed them right out of our hands.

"Hey!" Annabeth protested. But we both knew that that wouldn't get us anywhere.

I looked Alecto right in the eye, which I probably shouldn't have done, but I didn't care. "What do you want?"

She growled, but said, "We want to know what you've done with the son of Hades."

Annabeth looked at me, confused. So was I. "Erm, what do you mean? 'Done with Nico'? He's with Thalia; daughter of Zeus."

"She's gone, too," barked the Fury on her right.

"Woah, woah, woah. Wait, Nico and Thalia have been taken? When? Where? Why? Are you sure?"

"All we know is that Lord Zeus and Lord Hades asked us to come and find you two," Alecto explained.

"Okay, first question: why us?" I asked.

She sighed. "Because, you're the son of Poseidon." She spoke as though we were four year olds. "You could've done it, or know something about it. Or at least have an idea. Or-"

"We get the idea. Wait, why didn't Hades and Zeus just come and ask us? I mean, they were here for the contest…" Annabeth pointed towards the campers.

"They both left for Olympus until their children are found," the Fury on the left said.

"Well, what can we do? Tell the other gods? Tell Chiron?" Annabeth suggested.

Alecto tilted her head, like she'd never thought of it. Then she landed in front of us, and her sisters dropped our weapons. "You have one hour to find out as much as possible about this. Or else, we don't want this to end up like it did when you were twelve, do we honey?"

The three Furies took off.

Annabeth turned to face me. "You thinking what I'm thinking?"

Typical me, I didn't have a clue in the name of Hades what she was talking about. "Umm, yep." She raised an eyebrow. I guess that I didn't do very well hiding it.

We paced back to Chiron and the other gods. "I've been thinking; what if they're just doing this to draw publicity for your final song?"

"Hmm, maybe, but, then, wouldn't I need to know about it?"

"Not necessarily. I mean, my cabin mates might think that the wrecking-the-cabin-for-revenge plan was just to draw attention for our final song. For all we know, they could just be hiding somewhere."

That put an idea in my head. I reached into my pocket, and instead of Riptide, brought out a golden drachma. "Yeah, what if they are just hiding?"

Annabeth caught onto my plan, and grinned. "Well, Seaweed Brain. Unless you know anyone else who cans summon water around here…"

I poked my tongue out. She poked hers out back. "And, my dad can."

Annabeth paused. "Oh yeah. Forgot they were here. But, anyways, not the point!" We went over to a light, and I make water flow around it. Annabeth tossed the coin in, and whispered, "Oh Iris, goddess of the Rainbow, accept my offering." The coin shimmered and disappeared. "Thalia Grace and Nico di Angelo."

The mist (the Iris-message type, not the magical/natural type) swirled, and an image formed. It was Thalia and Nico, all right. But something wasn't quite right. They were arguing about something.

"I told you, it's this way!" Thalia yelled.

"No, it was the last turn!" Nico argued back.

"Really?"

"Yes, Pinecone Face!"

"Death Breath!"

Next to me, Annabeth sighed. "You guys!"

They turned to face us. "Oh, right. Hi!" Nico tried to cover up the argument - badly.

"Where are you, what's going on?" I tried.

Thalia explained that the camper they'd told about the 'fire' was a daughter of Hecate, and had forced them (by using magic, surprise, surprise) into the woods, and put some sort of spell on them to make them argue loads. "But I still think that it's just Nico, the arguments thing."

"Hey!" Nico protested.

"Kidding. How long do we have until the contest starts again?"

Annabeth checked her watch(which I didn't know she even had), and said, "We have about thirty minutes."

Thalia cursed in Ancient Greek. "We'll never get back in time."

"What about shadow-travel?" I suggested. "Nico, you can transport another person, right?"

He nodded. "But that means I'll be too tired to sing again…not that I'm complaining, or anything."

Thalia nodded sarcastically. "Yeah, 'course." For some reason, she said that part in a British accent. "But how else are we going to get back? We haven't been to this part of the woods before."

"We could show the gods or Chiron where you are, and see if they know."

The images started shimmering, and their voices started to fade. "Quick! Tell Chiron where we are - and send us an IM when you do; just be careful, and don't-" The image blinked out completely, before Thalia could finish.

I turned to Annabeth. "C'mon!"

We raced towards the gods, not slowing down until we got there. Chiron greeted us. "Ah! Percy, Annabeth! We presume that you've heard the news about Thalia and Nico…" he trailed off.

I nodded. "We IM-ed them, and-" Annabeth finished telling him about it.

Horror filled his face. "We must tell the gods immediately." He raced off, leaving us.

"Hey! Chiron! Wait up-you know what? Forget it," Annabeth called.

"The slow way it is, then," I stated. She glared at me. "What? I was just saying!"

She rolled her eyes, then took off without me. Yeah, great girlfriend there.

I caught up with her, and we went up to my father, Poseidon. "Umm, hi Dad."

He smiled at me. "Ah! Percy! I was just looking for you, Chiron told me that you've seen Thalia and Nico."

"Yeah, well, indirectly." Poseidon frowned. "Iris-messaging." Annabeth briefly explained. He nodded. "Anyway," she continued, "they're lost somewhere in the woods, and Nico can't shadow-travel them out, cuz' then he'd just fall asleep straight afterwards. And what with the song contest and all…" Annabeth turned to me for help.

I didn't know what else to say - we'd covered it all. Just then, to cover the awkward silence that was about to follow, Hermes said that there was a call for Poseidon, and he had to leave.

"What now? Tell Thalia and Nico?" I asked.

It took Annabeth a few moments to focus on me, then nodded. "Umm, yeah. Listen, I have an idea about who did this and why. I think…" She told me about her idea.

I stared at her. "But that's crazy! Why would they do that?"

She shrugged, then widened her eyes. "To get revenge…on me."

"But, isn't revenge, like, usually to the person it's for?"

"Not all the time - it could be to annoy me. We better hurry to IM them. C'mon!"

I followed her(again - I was getting sick of the following her or other people) to the same spot by the light, and got the message working.

Annabeth explained about her idea of who and why, and Nico nodded in agreement.

"That does seem like the kind of thing they'd do," he said thoughtfully.

"So, what do we do?" Thalia asked, then frowned. "Umm, what are those things behind you…" By habit, she grabbed her bow.

I turned, to find the three Furies again, coming down towards us.

Nico frowned. "Alecto? What are you doing here? I thought that my father told you to carry on torturing that preacher. Why have you disobeyed his orders?" Under his breath, he muttered, "Again.", but I was sure that I had just imagined it.

Alecto scowled at him. "For your information, honey," Nico glared at that, "your father and Lord Zeus sent us to search for you."

Thalia raised her eyebrows. "Wow. Did not see that coming." I knew what she meant; non of our parents could exactly - gods forbid - kept an eye on their kids, so it was unexpected and surprising when they looked for you, or turned at camp to see you.

"Umm, anyway," Annabeth said. "Alecto, continue."

"We need to get you back, and fast. The pesky daughter of Hecate will get punished for this, I guarantee. Now; any ideas?"

Nico tapped his skull ring, thinking. Thalia rubbed her bracelet. Annabeth gripped her knife hilt. I fingered Riptide in my pocket. There were a few moments of silence, then Nico's eye lit up - just like when he was ten.

"Got it! We can…" He told us his idea, which was quite good.

Annabeth looked concerned. "But won't that tire you? You haven't summoned that many skeletons before."

"True, but my father could help, and it's night, that helps too.""

Then it hit me - I knew a group of…creatures that could help us."

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