Chapter 1: Battle in the Labyrinth

"Go put on armor," Maude Amber, daughter of Hecate, said flatly to Madeline Mender, daughter of Hades. The two were in the midst of preparing for a battle that would be coming very soon. Most everyone was fully clad in armor and with their weapons at this point, except Maddy who had been making repairs to her double edged, stygian iron spear, which she'd accidentally snapped in two the previous day and had neglected to fix until it was absolutely necessary.

"Right, armor's a thing that exists," Maddy nodded, she began to head to the armory -despite growing up in Camp Half Blood she still didn't have her own set of armor- and Maude ran to the forest where the rest of the camp was, but Maddy's course was stopped on the way when her cousins Percy Jackson and Tyson, as well as Annabeth Chase, Grover Underwood and Maddy's brother Nico di Angelo landed in the middle of the cabin area on pegasi.

Maddy dashed towards them, stopping at the edge of the group of Apollo's archers, hearing Percy explain about how the new training instructor, Quintus, was Daedalus and Kronos was rising.

"I feared as much," Chiron sighed. "We must hurry. Hopefully you have slowed down the Titan lord, but his vanguard will still be coming through. They will be anxious for blood. Most of our defenders are already in place. Come!"

"Wait a moment," Silenus, a potbellied satyr, demanded. "What of the search for Pan? You are almost three weeks overdue, Grover Underwood! Your searcher's license is revoked!" Grover took a deep breath. He stood up straight and looked Silenus in the eye.

"Searcher's licenses don't matter any more. The great god Pan is dead. He has passed on and left us his spirit."

"What?" Silenus' face turned bright red. "Sacrilege and lies! Grover Underwood, I will have you exiled for speaking thus!"

"It's true," Percy piped up. "We were there when he died. All of us."

"Impossible! You are all liars! Nature-destroyers!"

"We will speak of this later," Chiron said calmly.

"We will speak of it now!" Silenus exclaimed, stomping down a cloven foot. "We must deal with this-!"

"Silenus," Chiron cut in. "My camp is under attack. The matter of Pan has waited two thousand years. I fear it will have to wait a bit longer. Assuming we are still here this evening." With that he readied his bow and galloped off to the rest of the campers, Apollo's archers following and the new group almost followed but was stopped when Maddy tackled Nico, somehow, even in a time of fighting she still managed to be happy.

"Nico!" She exclaimed, then promptly fell off of him. Nico sent her glares that would have scared anyone else into running to the opposite side of the globe.

"Maddy-" Percy began.

"We can catch up later," Annabeth said and ran after Chiron, the remaining five looked at each other and took off after Annabeth.

"Mads! Where's your armor!" Maude exclaimed when they arrived in the forest.

"It's too late now, Maude," Maddy sighed. "I'm here and I might not be able to help if I go back now. Besides," she patted her bag, which was still slung over her shoulder. "I've got ambrosia and nectar." Maude groaned.

"Whatever, I can't keep on looking after you with this. I've got to help Beckendorf with adding some magic into the traps." She turned and joined the children of Hephaestus.

"I'll help too!" Tyson exclaimed and followed Maude. Annabeth had joined the other children of Athena, all of whom were working on battle strategies, and backup strategies, and backup backup strategies as well as directing everyone on what they were to do in the coming battle. Everyone was helping, even Dionysus' kids, although Mr.D was nowhere to be found.

"It isn't enough," Chiron muttered. Maddy was briefly alarmed, but then realized that Luke and Kronos could have any number of monsters and enemy demigods coming up from the Labyrinth, which didn't help.

"Nice seeing you again, Nico," Maddy grinned at her brother.

"We're about to go to war and you're grinning," he scowled.

"Well, you know me. Ridiculously inproportional emotions. Happy when I should be upset, sad when I should be ecstatic."

"I don't actually know you well enough to know that yet," Nico sighed. "Why aren't you in armor?"

"Not enough time," Maddy shrugged. "I always forget when I'm not told. Anyways, Nico, can you please stay in camp after this?"

"Maddy, I don't think-" Nico was interrupted by the ground shaking, everyone stopped and they were all quiet.

That is, until Clarisse barked out a single order, "Lock Shields!" And Kronos' army of monsters burst through the entrance to the Labyrinth.

The first were a dozen Laistrygonian giants erupting from the ground, yelling so loud anyone could easily have gone deaf. They carried shields made from flattened cars, and clubs that were tree trunks with rusty spikes bristling at the end. One of the giants bellowed at the Ares phalanx, smashed it sideways with his club, and the entire cabin was thrown aside, a dozen warriors tossed to the wind like rag dolls.

Maddy cursed in alarm but was drowned out by Charles Beckendorf yelling, "Fire!" The catapults Maude had worked on enchanting swung into action. Two boulders hurtled toward the giants. One deflected off a car shield with hardly a dent, but the other caught a Laistrygonian in the chest, and the giant went down. Apollo's archers fired a volley, dozens of arrows sticking in the thick armor of the giants like porcupine quills. Several found chinks in armor, and some of the giants vaporized at the touch of celestial bronze. But just when it looked like the Laistrygonians were about to get overwhelmed, the next wave surged out of the maze: thirty, maybe forty dracaenae in full battle armor, wielding spears and nets. They dispersed in all directions. Some hit the traps the Hephaestus cabin had laid. One got struck on the spikes and became an easy target for archers. Another triggered a tripwire, and pots of Greek fire exploded into green flames, engulfing several of the snake women. But many more kept coming. Argus and Athena's warriors rushed forward to meet them. That was when Nico and Maddy ran into battle, joining the fight of ever coming monsters.

Nico got caught of in a group of telekhines, Maddy was surrounded by about a dozen basilisks. She danced around them, making sure she didn't touch any of the basilisks, who were poisonous to the touch. As she did this she slashed with her spear, it absorbed the essence of each one she killed until they were all gone, Maddy was left with more than a few burns, a majority of them on her legs but one landed in the middle of her torso, a bit off centre.

When she looked up she saw Nico summoning a dozen undead warriors in a variety of different military uniforms. Maddy couldn't help but feel a twinge of jealousy, the closest she could do to that was a few bones, she once managed an entire skeleton but she'd passed out afterwards.

Suddenly, Maddy was faced with two empousai, her lapse in concentration meant that this completely alarmed her, her grip on her spear tightened as she leaned back to avoid a slice from both of the empousai's claws. Claws, that Maddy noticed, were tinted a sickly green. Was it poison? Great, more poison.

"We don't normally go after girls," one of the empousai sighed. "But all the men are busy and it just wouldn't be satisfying." She lunged forward, her fangs bared. Maddy leapt out of the way. She really hated empousai, they weren't easy to fight at all and going by their speed, they were both senior empousai. Great.

"Gonna fight?" The first taunted. "Or are you just gonna avoid? Biding time until you get help?" Maddy stabbed her spear forward, but the empousai grabbed it by the wood and redirected it, snapping it in half and then the half she held in half again.

"Come on! I just got that repaired like ten minutes ago!" Maddy exclaimed and jabbed the broken end of her spear at the empousai who promptly knocked it out of the way with the piece made purely out of wood and dropped the part with the blade. She noticed that the forest caught on fire at this point.

That was when the other empousai suddenly swiped at Maddy, her sharp, sharp nails caught on Maddy's skin just above her jaw, it then jumped down to her mid neck and continued going down until the nail reached her collarbone before Maddy managed to get away from the claws. She quickly flipped the spear around as she focused on opening up the ground a few feet back. The empousai took one step backwards and fell into the pit she had made, Maddy quickly sealed it up.

The first empousai turned as the second one fell and was sealed below the ground, Maddy took this time as an opportunity to lunge at her, but she was to quick, Maddy was able to nick her arm but the empousai dealt a blow of her own, she brought her nails up from Maddy's mid cheek, right through her eye. The pain was excruciating and she couldn't see at all from that eye, at first from the blood flooding it but then the actual cut took effect and everything was black. That was also when she noticed that the cut from the empousai that had fallen into the ground began to burn. Oh gods, that green tint really was poison. Maddy was wonderfully screwed.

"Di Immortales!" Chiron suddenly yelled and the empousai smirked.

"Stand! Do not run from her! Fight!" Tyson yelled.

Maddy flung herself at the empousai, blade out, the empousai dodged. Maddy swung the now short stick like a baseball bat, hoping to at least bruise the empousai or give her a splinter, but it did barely anything.

Suddenly, there was a pitch black sword through her stomach as she was sucked into the sword, revealing Nico.

"Thanks," Maddy sighed. "D'you have a spare weapon?" Nico shook his head and quickly handed her the two broken parts of her spear that were both laying at the ground by his feet. Maddy took advantage of the lull in the action in the area she was in and quickly threw the wooden piece in her bag and pulled out a chunk of ambrosia, almost swallowing it whole before she ran back into the fray of the battle, but before she had reached anything, everything stopped as the sound of thousands upon thousands of brass trumpets squealed -the sounds of pure fear- emitting from the mouth of Grover Underwood.

All at once, the forces of Kronos dropped their weapons and ran for their lives. The giants trampled the dracaenae trying to get into the Labyrinth first. Telekhines and hellhounds and enemy demigods scrambled after them. The tunnel rumbled shut, and the battle was over. The clearing was quiet except for the fires burning in the woods, and the cries of the wounded.

Nico quickly walked back to Maddy and grabbed her by the arm, the venom the empousai had coated their nails in was finally taking effect, so as he gripped her arm she'd begun to wobble and the right side of her face -the blind side- was burning and her neck wound was sending pain all the way to her shoulder.

"You need to get checked out," he said.

"Where's Maude?" She asked, ignoring the statement and looking around the battlefield.

"You've been poisoned and your asking about Maude? Can you even see right now?"

"Out of my left eye."

"The entire right side of your face isn't moving, I'm taking you to the medics now," he began pulling her along.

"No. There are others that are more hurt than me, let them be taken care of first. I also want to know how Maude is."

"You have no concept of which wounds are bad and which ones aren't do you?" He sighed, still pulling, practically dragging, his half sister to the medics.

"Probably not. How's Maude?"

"She's fine," he groaned. "Her worst wound's a broken arm."

"Thank the gods," Maddy sighed. "Who were the fatalities, do you know? I felt some deaths but no one I knew well enough to identify who." Maddy was just barely able to pick up Nico shaking his head out of the corner of her eye.

Upon reaching the medics she was ushered away by Will Solace, Nico left the moment Will took her. Maddy found her attention fading, as well as the vision in her remaining eye, so she wasn't sure what Will was doing, he'd asked her if she had any nectar or ambrosia after getting the wounds, she'd told him she had and didn't remember anything after that.

Maddy missed the burning of the shrouds for the deceased, only two other people were still in the infirmary at the time, both victims of severe burns, one a child of Demeter, Alex Morgan, and the other a son of Hermes, Marcus Dorame. She was let out the next day in time for dinner. She found Nico standing in the shadows of the pavilion.

"Hey, Nico," she walked up to him, a little self conscious about her eye and the violent, green veins that were around her wounds as not all of the poison had left but it wasn't a fatal amount -though it still stung a bit- and it wouldn't leave for another few months, meaning horrifying venom veins until about the Winter Solstice. "You know, ever since they found out I was claimed there's a Hades table. You can tell because it's the only empty one that doesn't belong to Zeus, Hera, Artemis or Hestia."

"I know," he replied coldly.

"Come on, you're my brother, I want to get to know you better and I just got out of the infirmary."

"Fine," he sighed and followed Maddy to the Hades table. Nico didn't get any food and Maddy only got a vine of grapes. "How long are you staying?"

"I'm leaving after the campfire."

"Oh, what! Come on, Nico, why don't you stay? There is a Hades cabin ever since that giant deer scared the absolute Tartarus out of me and I froze everything in like a ten foot radius."

"That's almost as much of a mess as my way of showing I'd been claimed."

"Yeah, I'm sure that was entertaining. Horrifying to anyone who wasn't sure what was going on but hilarious to people who did. Or, you know, me. It'd be dead hilarious to me. Literally."

"Yeah, it was amazingly funny," Nico replied bitterly.

"Can't you stay?" Maddy asked. "At least until I leave for school at the end of August?"

"I'll think about it," he groaned.

"Yay!" Maddy popped a grape into her mouth and grinned. "Quick question, how did you summon so many dead people? The most I've managed is one brainless skeleton and I passed out afterwards."

"I don't know," Nico shrugged. "It's kind of natural to me."

"Oh," Maddy visibly sagged. "I've been trying ever since I found out that Hades's my dad."

"Well, you're pretty talented with earth, maybe you're just better suited for geokinesis and I'm better suited for the things relating to death."

"It's not like I can't do stuff with death, I can control ghosts, do that thing were I give off the feeling of death and I can bring up bones. Of course I can also do shadow stuff and make it colder, too."

"You just need practice. You must not get a lot of time to try since you go to a boarding school."

"Yeah, I guess," Maddy sighed, then grinned. "Anyway, I was thinking about going to someone in the Aphrodite cabin to get my hair to cover up my eye instead of wearing an eye patch and looking like a tiny pirate with a weird skin problem, but a lot of them are pretty obnoxious. Well, not Selena but she's pretty busy."

"I don't know what to tell you," Nico replied, boredly.

"Where's Daedalus?"

"The Underworld. He died after the battle."

"I guess all I can say is good. I mean, he isn't a bad guy but he's the second death cheater I've met in three months. Unfortunately, the first guy did something weird so he should be dead but he isn't. It's really frustrating but two other death cheaters finally arrived in the Underworld because of it, so I mean," Maddy trailed of and shrugged. Nico raised an eyebrow.

"That's good, but what did that first one do to avoid death?"

"Ugh, it wasn't explained to me. I was going to ask dad but I've been too busy."

"I'm never busy, I could ask him for you if you tell me more about it."

"No, it's fine. I doubt a lot of things'll be happening after the whole labyrinth thing."

"Hmm," Nico replied.

"Come on, I'll show you cabin thirteen," Maddy said, plopping the last grape into her mouth and standing up.

Maddy woke up to the sound of a clicking at one of the few windows. She sat up and peered over to Nico's bed. Still asleep. Good, she didn't want to explain the non demigod related magic thing to him.

She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and opened the window, a large barn owl flew across the room and dropped the letter, as Maddy walked over it screeched and shot out the window so fast it blew a small gust of wind. Nico shot up, looking bewildered.

"What was that?" He asked, looking around the cabin that was only lit by irredentist green lights.

"Nothing, just a bug," Maddy said.

"Bugs don't screech like that."

"Oh, that was me," Maddy lied weakly, quickly performing a poor imitation of the owl's screech and grinned, embarrassed. "I'm, uh, terrified of bugs."

"I thought bugs avoided you."

"Um, not the big ones. Like lizards and- wait not lizards, lizards aren't bugs. I mean, gigantic spiders, moths, uh, you know, the big things."

"Okay," Nico said slowly, his baggy eyes narrowed. "I'm going back to sleep. You stop acting weird."

"Ahah, yeah, will do," Maddy grinned nervously, then, as Nico layed back down, throwing his blanket over his head, she turned to her letter, which she assumed was a Hogwarts letter, forgetting that it was too early for that by about a week. Instead, it was from Ron. She quickly opened it, it read:

Maddy,

How's your summer been? Mine's been boring, but Fred and George have been playing Quidditch with me. I'm planning to try out when school starts back. Have you heard from Harry? I've sent him letters but he hasn't replied yet, Hermione and Bella say the same. Elliot didn't say, she mostly just called me a 'worrying sack of a ginger mop' and some other things, then asked me when I'm going to Diagon Alley so she can ridicule me in person. Her words.

Maddy had to stifle a laugh after reading that part, it sounded like Elliot hadn't changed much.

I'll probably be in Diagon Alley two weeks before school starts, that's when we always go, Bella said she wouldn't be able to go that soon, though, but Hermione'll be there.

Anyway, I'm really worried about Harry. Expect an owl from Hermione too.

-Ron

P.S. When's your birthday? We all know each others but not yours.

P.P.S. What're you getting Harry? I' haven't decided yet, do you have any ideas?

Maddy pulled a pen and notebook from her bag, flipped open the notebook to somewhere in the middle where she began to write:

Ron,

My summer's been decent enough, pretty normal. I didn't think any positions were opening up on the Quidditch team, Bell will be thrilled to try out anyway. I hope you two don't compete for the same spot, because, sorry Ron, Bell would definitely kick your ass.

No, I haven't heard from Harry, but I haven't written him either. I also have no idea what to get him. And it's good to know Elliot hasn't miraculously become a better person, I would miss her rude remarks and sense of humour. Not a joke.

I'll most likely be able to go to Diagon Alley then, I doubt my brother would mind it if I left.

I don't even know my birthday to be honest, I didn't even know my exact age until I realized that all the first years were eleven.

-The Best Person(Maddy)

P.S. Elliot was right to call you a worrying sack of a ginger mop, you really shouldn't be worried. I'm sure Harry's fine.

Maddy tore out the paper and folded it up, then left the dark cabin out to the equally dark outside world. It was probably some early hour of the morning, definitely before five, which is when the early risers began early rising. She called for Melinoe, the screech owl swooped down from the forest in a matter of seconds and perched on Maddy's arm, a leg extended. She attached the paper to her owl's leg and sent her off to find the Weasleys. Then, she returned back to her cabin to sleep again.

Another letter arrived while Maddy was sitting in the shade of the forest instead of learning to ride pegasi, she'd given up on that years ago, they never even let her get close enough to touch them. This time, the owl just dropped it right into her lap and swooped away. She eagerly opened it.

Dear Maddy,

How are you? I'm great, although I do wish I could practice magic, don't you? Anyway, have you heard from Harry this summer? I'm really very worried, you know how his relatives are, they could be doing something horrible(Ron thinks they're confiscating his mail, but I don't think so)

Will you be able to go to Diagon Alley two weeks before the first?

Sorry about how short this letter is!

Hoping your summer's been good,

Hermione

Hermione,

I'm fine and if you lived in America you could practice magic. There are different laws for underaged magic over here. No, I haven't heard from Harry, and you shouldn't worry. As Elliot said to Ron, you're being a 'worrying sack of a ginger mop'. And I can go to Diagon Alley then.

-Maddy

Maddy was exhausted, she'd just shadow travelled down to the Underworld, she'd finally found the time to talk to her father about the Philosopher's Stone remnants she still held in her pocket. She could feel the weight in her pocket and it was horrible, she hated the stone. She pulled the stone bits out of her pocket and stared down at the mesmerising bits of red as she made her way to Hades' throne room.

"Maddy," he said shortly when she entered.

"Father," she replied. "I'm sorry for taking so long, but I have the parts of the Philosopher's Stone. I wanted to make sure it's destroyed properly." She held out the red rocks to her father, who reached down and took them from her, examining them.

"They are destroyed sufficiently for the average wizard, however a powerful one could easily repair it, as could certain demigods and the gods," he stated, setting the stone remains down on the table and they suddenly burst into tiny, miniscule pieces so small they almost couldn't be seen. A skeletal guard walked forward and began gathering up the dust. "Dump it into the river Styx," Hades said offhandedly, waving the guard away. "Thank you, Maddy."

"Well," Maddy shifted uncomfortably, "I couldn't exactly let something that prevents death and gives you an ultimate amount of wealth continue existing, it's just wrong." She stifled a yawn once she finished talking.

"Yes," he nodded, "it is. Do you need to rest before returning?"

"Yeah," Maddy nodded.

"One of the skeletons can take you to a room," he waved his hand and one of the skeletal guards walked forward and showed her to one of the guest rooms, where she promptly collapsed onto the bed and fell asleep almost immediately.

Maddy got a third letter two days later as she was heading to breakfast, this time Nico saw the owl drop the letter into her lap and looked at her suspiciously, an eyebrow raised. She was sure the reason why no one had noticed an owl dropping a letter on Maddy the previous year was because they'd all been distracted with food and friends, but Nico didn't have anything to distract him from the owl's actions.

"Did that owl just give you a letter?" He asked.

"What? No," Maddy laughed nervously, shoving her letter into her pocket. "What owl? There wasn't an owl."

"Maddy, you aren't doing a very good job of lying."

"Because I know you won't believe me. I am a very good liar, Death Breath."

"If I'm Death Breath to you now too, you're Bone Brain."

"Excuse you, child."

"You can't call me child, I'm technically eighty years older then you," Nico pointed out.

"Whatever, you small child," Maddy replied. "You go on, I've got a thing. Catch up to you in like twenty minutes tops!" She raised her voice as she ran back into Cabin Thirteen. She plopped down on her bed and struggled to read the second letter from Ron.

The Worst Person(Maddy),

There isn't an opening, they just have tryouts every year incase someone better than that's already on the team comes around and for backups in case of injuries, I'll be trying for Chaser but I really want to be Keeper(like that'll happen, Wood would have to die to lose his place on the team before graduation) but I guess I'll try for Keeper incase Wood does get injured(he'd still play with every bone in his body broken) then I'd still get to go practice at least. I think Bell's going for to try for Chaser, Beater and Seeker(there probably should be a backup Seeker, being honest, that way they'll still be able to play when Harry gets hurt)

Why haven't you written to anyone? You have an owl so I know that's not the problem. What type of paper did you write on? I've never seen paper with lines on it before and it's so weak.

You have a brother? Why didn't you ever tell us?

Looking forward to seeing you at Diagon Alley.

-Ron

Worrying Sack of a Ginger Mop(Ronald),

The Quidditch team does need a backup Seeker, Harry gets hurt too much(I'm not really one to talk, though)

I haven't written because I've been busy, and Melinoe likes to fly around, you know, hunting.

Yes, I have a brother, well, half brother. I met him last Christmas but I knew about him a little before school started last year. I didn't tell you because I never found it important information, if you couldn't tell I'm a fairly private person.

That's regular notebook paper. I guess it's just a muggle thing. Looking forward to seeing you as well, being completely honest I'm looking forward to seeing Hermione and Bella more.

-Better Than All Your Friends(Maddy)

Worst of All My Friends(Madeline),

Elliot also can't go to Diagon Alley when we're going.

Fred, George and I are going to borrow my dad's flying car and rescue Harry from his aunt and uncle tonight, we think they're intercepting his mail somehow.

-For the Record, Bell Would Not Kick my Arse(Ron)

Bell Would Totally Kick Your Ass(Ronald Weasley),

That sucks, but that's a great idea. I doubt his aunt and uncle could intercept his mail, but it sounds like fun. See you guys next week.

-Better Than You(Mads)

Horrible Friend(Madeline Mender),

It worked! Turns out his aunt and uncle weren't intercepting his mail, it was a house elf who doesn't want him to go to Hogwarts this year. Apparently something horrible's supposed to happen. I dunno what could be worse than You-Know-Who teaching us Defence. Unless he was referring to Gilderoy Lockhart.

Can you believe that he made all of his textbooks his books! Mum and dad always say Defence was great but I guess it'll be another rubbish year. I don't know how we're going to be able to afford five complete sets of his books, they're supposed to be really expensive and from what I heard not very good.

-Upset but Still Better Than You(Ron)

Ginger Mop(Ronaldo Weasel),

House elf? How mad was your dad when you took his car?(On a range from one to death, please)

Going off of the fact that one of the required books is his autobiography, I think Lockhart's going to be worse than Voldemort. I could buy some of you some books, apparently my mom's from a pureblood family and she works at the Ministry of Magic, and I get ALL of her money!

-Fight me Weasley(Your Very Good Friend, Maddy)

P.S. Don't send me a letter back, I won't get the letter until after we meet up in Diagon Alley.

P.P.S. We brawl in Madam Malkin's at noon(kidding, I'll meet you guys in Flourish and Blotts)

"Another owl delivered letter?" Nico asked, approaching with Percy, Annabeth and Maude as Maddy sent the letter to Ron off.

"No," she replied, biting her bottom lip. Annabeth frowned at her, she'd never approved of the way Maddy had used her mother's sacred animal as a messenger.

"Didn't you say that was a Scottish thing?" Percy asked.

"Yeah, it was one of my friends from school. I'm meeting up with some of them tomorrow and am staying for the rest of the break."

"So I can leave without you hunting me down?" Nico asked.

"I don't hunt you down," Maddy rolled her eyes.

"You probably would, though," Maude said.

"Thanks, Maude, you're the best friend I could ever ask for. Now, who wants to go fail at kicking Clarisse's ass in Sword and Shield practice!"

"I think you're the only who's going to fail," Percy joked.

"Excuse you, did you break through a mountain troll's skull a few months ago?"

"When did that happened?" Annabeth asked.

"Halloween. A troll broke into the school," Maddy shrugged.

"And you didn't tell us about this sooner why?" Maude asked.

"Well it never came up."

"I wrote you far too many letters to you for that to happen."

"I second that," Annabeth agreed. "Why can't you just let us IM you instead of making me strap letters to the leg of an owl."

"Time differences, Annabeth, also that's literally the only way for letters to get there. The school is in the middle of nowhere somewhere in the depths of the Scottish highlands, it doesn't even have an address."

"That's amazing," Maude said.

"I'm definitely visiting you this year," Percy said.

"At least nothing else'll get hurt when you blow up the school," Annabeth smirked and Percy looked jokingly hurt.

The group continued to talk and joke until they had to split up for lunch.

So the first chapter of CoS! There are ten chapters in this one and they're all longer than in PS, this is one of the shortest chapters so yeah