Changing pov:

Keefe was proud to say that this time he managed to leap without having faded even a little bit, much to Ro's annoyance who claimed that Keefe looked cute in his faded form, to which Keefe had replied that he always looked cute, making Wylie shut both of them up.

But once the shock of coming on a desert had faded, he realised that right about a little way from him a girl and a boy, with what looked like horns stood with a horse.

Who goes to horse riding in desert?

But that questions became the least of his worries when it was followed by a black winged horse, ridden by two people (and if he was not wrong, one of them had only one eye) came flying in. And beside it landed a horse which looked like it was made of pure storm. And it flew.

But the most marvellous of the sight was probably the metal dragon landing gracefully on the undisturbed sand and a small latino boy being pushed ungracefully out of it, by another man with horns.

"You dare push me, bad boy supreme, down from my own dragon?" He shouted pompously towards the man, who rolled his eyes and jumped down. Two more boys jumped down.

One was so pale, he made a match for Bangs boy and the other was so muscly, he looked like he was the incarnation of a greek god.

"If I had to endure any more of your jokes, I would have pushed you down myself." The pale boy threatened. 

Then it struck Keefe; flying dragon, storm horse, black winged horse, horned men, and one eyed boy. These were the people Foster had been talking about! But what were they doing here? 

Before he could say anything, Sander and Grizel marched out towards them, with their swords out. The remaining also followed, Ro with her sword and the rest ready to use their abilities if necessary. 

Annabeth looked as three monsters came towards them with their swords drawn. She drew her own drakon bone sword, and heard the others draw their respective weapons. Were these the people who kidnapped Percy?

No. 

Wait a minute. 

She hadn't seen much in her dream darkness, but she definitely remembered the orge with pink chop tails. And chiron had mentioned that not all orges had pink hair.

"Who are you all? Have you got Sophie?" The goblin in the front asked, in a teddy bear voice.

"I should be asking you the same thing. Have you got Percy?" Nico asked, in a cold voice.

Annabeth thought quickly. 

According to him, Sophie was kidnapped too. Her friends thought that these people had kidnapped Percy, and they thought that they had kidnapped Sophie. Shit.

"Why should we have got Percy? You don't try to change the topic." Sandor said, threatening Nico with his sword.

"Oh, don't you dare try to hurt Neeks." Jason said, unsheathing his gladius. Oh gods, this was going to end disastrously. 

The prophecy mentioned elves and demigods working together, so it made sense that someone who didn't want the drakon dead kidnap the leaders from both sides and pitch them against each other.

They were at each others neck already.

Someone sensible from the other side must have realised that too, because they tried to stop Sandor as Annabeth pacified the demigods.

"I think there is a misunderstanding, guys. Let's not kill each other just yet." Keefe said.

Sophie/Percy Pov:

"So let's revise again." Percy began, "We are stuck here in the middle of the Earth, for all we know. They have slit my jeans pocket so that riptide cannot resurface. There are no holes in the walls, which is mud, so you cannot blast it with your weird mindy thing, or else, the roof will fall because as I said, we might be in the middle of the Earth, which is, according to you, is not lava.

Ok. Sure, why not? I've seen weirder."

"Right, there are no holes in the wall, still we are able to breath properly which means there has to be some sort of mechanism here." Sophie said, looking carefully around the room, with the light of her goblin star, which was emitting light of it's own. Then she saw something, a tiny silver dot in the edge between the wall and the floor. She quickly dug the soil around it and a small ball like gadget was found.

Percy looking at Sophie's sudden excitement came to see. He looked at the device.

Seeing this, Percy and Sophie started scanning around the room for more of such things, percy with the goblin star and Sophie with her Exillium night vision practise. Sophie even checked the roof by levitating for a few seconds, then falling, then levitating again. She really would have to work on her skills once she gets back.

Once she gets back. She didn't even know how she would get back, if she would even get back in the first place. 

After what felt like an eternity, but was probably an hour they sat down in the middle of the room, with no other devices found.

"Reminds me of when I searched for Jolie's room for her report on neverseen. " Sophie said.

"Whose room?" Percy asked, sighing, tired after all the squinting and standing. How long was it since he hadn't eaten?

"Jolie. You could say she is my adopted sister, but she died before I was adopted. Murdered, more like, by Brant." She didn't know why she was telling all this to Percy. Maybe for the fact that she has known of Percy and his trustworthiness since she was eight, maybe because he was the only one here, she didn't know.

"Who's Brant? The dude who did that shadowy thing to you?" Percy asked.

"Nah, she's Umber. Brant was Jolie's boyfriend. He's dead now." 

"False boyfriend, you mean." Percy said, he couldn't imagine killing Annabeth, even if she became evil, though that would never happen. And he knew all about abusive significant others, didn't he?

Sophie sighed as if reliving memories. "No, Brant loved Jolie. He genuinely did. But he was a bad guy. Helped the wrong team. Said that Jolie had to join the bad guys too. But she already was with the good guys. The one's who made me. The situation escalated and he killed. He was a pyrokinetic, you know. Like Leo, you could say."

"Made you?" 

"Yeah, I am like an experiment. Tweaked genes." Sophie said waving her hand like it was nothing.

"I guess now I know how I sound when I tell someone about my life." Percy said.

"You bet. You are freaking related to Pegsus. Hey, I have  Alicorn DNA too. We can be the horse siblings." Sophie said. 

Percy laughed. "Horse siblings. Winged flying horse siblings."

"Guess we got sidetracked. I wish Dex was here. Even Leo could be here. Neither of us can tell anything about this device." Sophie said, immediately dampening the mood, though the ice between the two of them had broke. 

"My guess is that everything is worked by this thing." Percy said. 

"Yeah, our breathing, the restriction on the tracker, your water abilities, my telepathy." Percy had tried calling water to him, but it seemed at almost all the water had been removed from the surroundings. It seemed naturally impossible, so her guess was it was artificial too.

"So, what do we do?" Percy asked.

"Blast it." Sophie said.

"And after that?"

"Then I will reach out to Fitz."

"Who?"

"My boyfriend."

 "The blonde one?"

"Who? Keefe? No, the teal eyed one."

"You don't sound too sure."

Sophie sighed, putting her love related worries at the back of her mind. It was getting a really filled space. "We got off the topic." 

Sophie outward channelled the device and blasted it. And in three seconds small balls of fire started falling on them.

Sophie dodged, missing by two centimetres, her heart hammering against her ribcage.

"Guess, we can't wait for your boyfriend now." Percy said, dodging a ball of fire.