We split into 2 groups: Percy and Grover and Calliste, Ella the Sunflower and me.
"Calliste,Nico bought of you search from this area until the throne room." Percy told us
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Calliste and I stumbled into an old dark room. Calliste made her necklace glow so we could see. I saw a girl facing backwards. She had golden blonde hair and a deep tan.
She looks a bit like Annabeth I thought
Then it hit me someone must've held her hostage so that she couldn't notify us that Persephone was here.
"Annabeth!" Calliste called while carrying Ella. Annabeth replied with a muffled mutter. I sprinted to them and untied Annabeth's rope.
"Thank the gods you came!." She cried "Demeter took me here and fed me cereal for weeks."
When I opened the door flames entered the room.
"Phoenix!" Calliste screamed
"What?" I stared at her
Annabeth sighed "A Phoenix is a bird that resembles an eagle that lived for 500 years and then burned itself to death on a pyre from whose ashes another phoenix arose."
"Okay" I replied
Annabeth was going to say something but was interrupted by a loud explosion.
"We should start running now!" Calliste said
We ran to the other side of the floor and hid behind the pillars so that it couldn't find us.
"So do you guys have a plan?" I asked them
"Annabeth you're the strategist you've gotta think of something." Calliste told Annabeth
"Calliste, Do you still have your arrows?" She asked Calliste
"Yeah. I have the arrows given by Artemis too." Calliste responded
"I think it's time you use it." Annabeth said
Calliste took the delicate silver crescent charm from her bracelet and it transformed into a bow. She did the same with the star and it turned into an arrow. She aimed at the Phoenix. It immediately burned into ashes.
"Let's go before it can reform." I say
When we entered the garden, we found Percy and the others still fighting the enchanted plants. Calliste ordered lightning and the plants dispersed into ashes.
"Thanks Calliste!!!" Tabitha pulled Calliste into an embrace.
"Um okay" Calliste responded "Can't Thalia summon lightning too?"
"She's hurt" Percy answered
Once Annabeth heard Percy's voice she looked for him and hugged him tightly.
"I missed you...." Percy was cut off by Annabeth's lips. I remembered being so jealous of them when I was a kid.
Calliste immediately rushed to Thalia. It seems that Thalia had a toxic gash from the plant.
"Percy heal her!!!" Calliste pleaded, tears forming in her eyes
Percy stopped his makeout session with Annabeth and started pouring water in Thalia's forehead and concentrated.
