The Demigod Trials 6

CHAPTER 6

Someone shook Percy awake. His eyes snapped open to see Jason's pale face peering down at him.

"What's up man?" He asked sleepily, rubbing his eyes.

Jason glanced around. "Shh, Probatio. Don't want to wake Grover up." He pulled Percy to his feet, grinning. Grover mutted something about aluminum cans and momma goats as he rolled over snoring.

Any lingering haze of sleep had already vanished from Percy's mind. He sat up and nodded at Jason to explain what he wanted.

"I need to show you something before the wake-up." That was all Percy got from him.

Percy frowned for a moment, but quickly let it pass. "Where are we going?"

Jason rolled his eyes and grabbed Percy's arm, pulling him past sleeping demigods. "Just follow me and stay close."

They creeped through tightly strewn packs of sleeping bodies, Percy almost tripping several times. He stepped on someone's hand, earning a sharp cry of pain and then someone punching them in the calf.

"Sorry," he glanced in Jason's direction. The second in command didn't reply, just kept walking.

Once they left the lawn area and stepped onto the hard gray stone of the courtyard floor, Jason broke into a run, heading for the western wall. Percy hesitated, wondering why he needed to run, but snapped out of it quickly and followed right on Jason's heels.

The light was dim, but any obstructions loomed as darker shadows and he was able to make his way along without running into anything. He stopped quickly when Jason came to a sudden halt, almost slamming into the taller boy. Towering above them like a skyscraper- another random image that floated in the murky pool of his memory wipe (there must have been skyscrapers where he lived...in...in...). Percy noticed small red lights flashing here and there along the wall's face, weaving around, stopping, turning off and on.

"What are those?" He whispered as loudly as he dared.

Jason didn't answer for a moment. "When you need to know, you'll know."

Percy fought the urge to smack that look off his incompetent face. "Well I think it's stupid to send me to a place where nothing makes sense and not answer my questions." He kept his voice steady.

Jason broke into a laugh, but quickly cut it off. "I like you Percy. Now shut up so I can show you something."

Percy was about to retort when he realized Jason hadn't called him Probatio.

Percy stepped forward and dug his hands into the thick ivy, spreading several vines away from the wall to reaveal a dust-frosted window, a square about three feet wide. It was dark, like it was sprayed black.

Percy waited, watching the window. His ADHD brain went crazy.



WIP