When I get back to camp it's dark and gloomy, I can see the hunters watching me with a mix of confused pity glances and the look they give a target, calculating, I ignore them and walk toward the cabin, seeing it empty for the first time in a while, which confuses me greatly but I assume that they're all out somewhere. I lay down to rest but am interrupted by a knock on my door "Percy!" Nico's voice calls out and he sounds regretful so I hurry to the door, his eyes are downcast and his clothes are ripped.

He hesitates before speaking and when he does my blood freezes in my veins "your team is in the infirmary" that's all he gets out before I take off to the infirmary, seeing Luke at Zoe's unconscious side and Silena and Beckendorf holding hands even in their unresponsive states. I stand at Luke's side and look down at his pale face, his breaths moving his chest up and down. How? A hand is placed on my shoulder and I turn to see Will giving me a sorry look "go to bed Percy, you look like you need it" is all he says and I know I must have been a sore sight. I have to speak to the dragon first though to see what I should do.

On my way out of the infirmary my head pounds once then twice then becomes a steady stream of pain so I take off to the Chaos cabin for some solitude. A hacking cough is drawn from my throat as I collapse to my knees, my vision blurring and black invading my vision, not black out black but black dust which surrounds me and finally I collapse, unconscious and ungracefully onto the floor. 

In my dream I stand in the fields of Aphostel, the trees and stalagmites instantly giving that away as I glance around and as always I follow my instincts to a cave much like the one Grover was dragged into by those possessed sneakers and much to my hesitance I enter; the ground doesn't slope down nor up but the shadows get darker and seem to swirl around me like winds of black. The tunnel gets smaller and smaller to the point where I have to crouch until it just...ends. A dead end but in the wall is a symbol, a crest of some sort, a seal. The symbol for Alpha, Beta and omega; beginning, present and end; past present and future. 3 swirls connected forming a triangle shape, the name escapes me but as I touch the symbol, one swirl lights up in silver and the shadows slither closer until it slithers onto my hand and onto the rock, the second swirl is black against the grey stone. 

One is missing, one swirl and I can get through. I reach out as my hand glows white but I never touch. I wake with a gasp on the Chaos cabin floor, I must ask Chaos what this means, I think about the dream as the portal opens and I race through it. Chaos seems startled as I appear in front of him with a panicked expression "I just had a dream, a demi-god dream well kind of" I stutter out before I recite my dream to him in detail, as I progress his eyes go wider until he is as pale as a sheet "this isn't good, where's your team?" he asks, almost looking scared "unconscious or in comas, I'm not sure which" I answer a he ushers me out, into another portal he made. 

After the cold feeling of portal traveling dissipates I find myself standing in front of the silver dragon who is flickering like a hologram during a power shortage.