I was still dizzy from the shadow travel. So dizzy I almost fell off the gutter.

 After Nico had traveled us out of the classroom through the shadows we had watched the fight.

6 ninjas, against a superior force of stone people. At least I assumed they were ninjas.

For some reason they looked familiar to me.Percy took the cap off Riptide. The celestial bronze sword appeared in his hand.

Nico conjured up his Stygian iron sword.

Annabeth jumped off the gutter and we jumped after it.

Percy used Riptide to get rid of the stones.

Nico also made good use of his sword and Annabeth used her hands and feet.

I sprinted through the passage Nico had made and radiated a bright light.

One of the stone warriors threw his sword at me."Look out!" someone yelled, seeming to shake someone else awake.

I listened to the advice and commanded the light to obey me.It was unusual for a child of Apollo to be able to use photokinesis, but I could.The light obeyed me and a beam of golden light hit the stone warrior in the chest as he held up a jar filled with poison to throw.

"Ow!" shouted someone I knew all too well.

Nico.

 I turned around and saw that the poison had come over Nico.

"Nico!" I yelled.

"Make his heart beat faster!" someone shouted.

Okay. I thought. Make Nico's heart beat faster. I could.

I ran to Nico and kissed him full on the lips.

Nico turned bright red and I felt his heart pound against his ribs. And mine too.

"I think," Percy said, "you can make his heart beat faster."

I looked around. To whom all surrounded me.

Of course Nico and Percy and Annabeth.And those 5 ninjas.

I wondered where the sixth was.Percy put the cap back on Riptide and Nico made his sword disappear in a black shadow.

 I saw 5 pairs of eyes staring at me and my friends.I looked closely.

Then I saw it.Those eyes: amber, brown, blue, gray and an unnatural shade of blue with white pupils, like lenses.

I pointed to them one by one.Cole, Kai, Nya, Jay, Zane.

Jay took off his mask and cursed, "We've been discovered."

'Where,' I asked, 'is Lloyd.'

"Um..." Kai looked uncomfortable. "He wás there."

He pointed to the big purple snake."Hey, people." he said to us. 'I'm Python. And I'm afraid your friend is coming with me. And you, when you hear what happened, will soon see him again.'

Suddenly Pythor began to shoot green rays of light.'What? What is happening?!' exclaimed the snake.

 Then Pythor shattered, and when the dust settled, Lloyd stood where Pythor had been before.

He looked like he just went through someone's digestive system.Maybe he was.

"Ew." he said, wiping slime from blond hair. 'But you were looking for me? Well, I'm here.'

"Wait," Percy said. "So you're ninjas?!"

"Yep."  Said Zane.

"Zane!" shouted Cole.

'What?'

 'Never mind.'

 "I have to say, we haven't been completely honest with you either."

"Will." Nico cut me off. "Do you have to do this now?"

"It's almost break anyway." I reasoned.

'Okay. In the break, so in 5 minutes, meet here. And then we tell each other everything. No more secrets.' Cole said.

"But," Zane began, "that's in 4 minutes, 32 seconds, and 57 milliseconds.

"Oh Zane, not exactly." Nya cut him off.