The Silver Archer 2️⃣ (Percy Jackson)

11. The Labyrinth Entrance

Adira

We made our way around the rocks and ran into Clarisse and a bunch of other campers carrying torches.

"Where have you two been?" Clarisse demanded.

"We've been looking forever."

"But we were gone only a few minutes," I said.

Chiron trotted up, followed by Tyson and Grover. Annabeth and Brett were behind them.

"Adi!" Annabeth said, running up to me and giving me a hug. "Are you alright," she asked, checking my body for scratches like a mother.

"Percy!" Tyson said. "You are okay?"

"We're fine," Percy said. "We fell in a hole."

The others looked at Percy skeptically, then at me.

"Honest!" Percy said. "There were three scorpions after us, so we ran and hid in the rocks. But we were only gone a minute."

"You've been missing for almost an hour," Chiron said. "The game is over."

"Yeah," Grover muttered. "We would've won, but a Cyclops sat on me."

"Was an accident!" Tyson protested, and then he sneezed.

Clarisse was wearing the gold laurels, but she didn't even brag about winning them, which wasn't like her. "A hole?" she said suspiciously.

I took a deep breath. I looked around at the other campers. "Chiron... maybe we should talk about this at the Big House."

Annabeth gasped. "You found it, didn't you?"

I bit my lip. "I—Yeah. Yeah, we did."

A bunch of campers started asking questions, looking about as confused as I was, but Chiron raised his hand for silence. "Tonight is not the right time, and this is not the right place." He stared at boulders as if he'd just noticed how dangerous they were. "All of you, back to your cabins. Get some sleep. A game well played, but curfew is past!"

There was a lot of mumbling and complaints, but the campers drifted off, talking among themselves and giving us suspicious looks.

"This explains a lot," Clarisse said. "It explains what Luke is after."

"Surely... Definitely," Annabeth added.

"Wait a second," Percy said. "What do you mean? What did we find?"

I turned toward Percy. "An entrance to the Labyrinth. An invasion route straight into the heart of the camp."