THE BATTLE OF THE LABYRINTH Percy Jackson ... - No one's invited.

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“I thought you said monsters don’t care about mortals. That sword of yours—”
“Yeah,” I said. “Celestial bronze doesn’t hurt mortals. Most monsters would ignore you. But Luke…he
doesn’t care. He’ll use mortals, demigods,monsters , whatever. And he’ll kill anyone who gets in his
way.”
“Nice guy,” Rachel said.
“He’s under the influence of a Titan,” Annabeth said defensively. “He’s been deceived.”
Rachel looked back and forth between us. “Okay,” she said. “I’m in.”
I blinked. I hadn’t figured it would be so easy. “Are you sure?”
“Hey, my summer was going to be boring. This is the best offer I’ve gotten yet. So what do I look for?”
“We have to find an entrance to the Labyrinth,” Annabeth said. “There’s an entrance at Camp
Half-Blood, but you can’t go there. It’s off-limits to mortals.”
She saidmortalslike it was some sort of terrible condition, but Rachel just nodded. “Okay. What does
an entrance to the Labyrinth look like?”
“It could be anything,” Annabeth said.“A section of wall.A boulder.A doorway.A sewer entrance. But it
would have the mark of Daedalus on it.A Greek ?, glowing in blue.”
“Like this?” Rachel drew the symbol Delta in water on our table.
“That’s it,” Annabeth said. “You know Greek?”
“No,” Rachel said. She pulled a big blue plastic hairbrush from her pocket and started brushing the gold
out of her hair. “Let me get changed. You’d better come with me to the Marriott.”
“Why?” Annabeth said.
“Because there’s an entrance like that in the hotel basement, where we store our costumes.It’s got the
mark of Daedalus.”
FOURTEEN
MY BROTHER DUELS ME TO THE DEATH
The metal door was half hidden behind a laundry bin full of dirty hotel towels. I didn’t see anything
strange about it, but Rachel showed me where to look, and I recognized the faint blue symbol etched in
the metal.
“It hasn’t been used in a long time,” Annabeth said.