THE BATTLE OF THE LABYRINTH Percy Jackson ... - No one's invited.
THE BATTLE OF THE LABYRINTH Percy Jackson ... - No one's invited.
THE BATTLE OF THE LABYRINTH Percy Jackson ... - No one's invited.
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“Oh, sure.Sorry if…”<br />
But Rachel was already curling up, using her backpack as a pillow. She closed her eyes and lay very<br />
still, but I got the feeling she wasn’t really asleep.<br />
A few minutes later, Annabeth came back. She tossed some more sticks on the fire. She looked at<br />
Rachel, then at me.<br />
“I’ll take first watch,” she said. “You should sleep, too.”<br />
“You don’t have to act like that.”<br />
“Like what?”<br />
“Like…never mind.” I lay down, feeling miserable. I was so tired I fell asleep as soon as my eyes<br />
closed.<br />
In my dreams I heard laughter.Cold, harsh laughter, like knives being sharpened.<br />
I was standing at the edge of a pit in the depths ofTartarus . Below me the darkness seethed like inky<br />
soup.<br />
“So close to your own destruction, little hero,” the voice of Kronos chided.“And still you are blind.”<br />
The voice was different than it had been before. It seemed almost physical now, as if it were speaking<br />
from a real body instead of…whatever he’d been in his chopped-up condition.<br />
***<br />
“I have much to thank you for,” Kronos said. “You have assured my rise.”<br />
The shadows in the cavern became deeper and heavier. I tried to back away from the edge of the pit,<br />
but it was like swimming through oil. Time slowed down. My breathing almost stopped.<br />
“A favor,” Kronos said. “The Titan lord always pays his debts. Perhaps a glimpse of the friends you<br />
abandoned…”<br />
The darkness rippled around me, and I was in a different cave.<br />
“Hurry!”Tyson said. He came barreling into the room. Grover stumbled along behind him. There was a<br />
rumbling in the corridor they’d come from, and the head of an enormous snake burst into the cave. I<br />
mean, this thing was so big its body barely fit through the tunnel. Its scales were coppery. Its head was<br />
diamond-shaped like a rattler, and its yellow eyes glowed with hatred. When it opened its mouth, its<br />
fangs were as tall as Tyson.<br />
It lashed at Grover, but Grover scampered out of the way. The snake got a mouthful of dirt. Tyson<br />
picked up a boulder and threw it at the monster, smacking it between the eyes, but the snake just<br />
recoiled and hissed.<br />
“It’s going to eat you!” Grover yelled at Tyson.