Hullo. So, this is the first of (hopefully) several one-shots by me. Woo! I would love suggestions about what to write (as long as its not a lemon. XP) This chapter: What happened to Gwen in The Son of Neptune when she 'died?'

What Happened to Gwen?

Gwen

"...Hello?" I called, searching.

I wasn't sure where I was. It was dark, and I stood on a thin dirt path. Torches lined the jagged stone walls. A river cut through the humongous cavern. Wandering down the path, I looked for any other signs of life.

When I got to the river bank, I saw a small boat. I took a step closer to peer inside, and a voice behind my head startled me.

"One drachma, please." a man asked.

"I... I'm sorry?" I asked. Wasn't a drachma an old Greek coin?

"Oh, that's right. You'd have denarii. One denarii, please."

"Umm.." I checked my pockets but came up empty. "I don't have anything."

The man sighed in an aggravated way, as if demigods that randomly appeared in creepy caverns were usually broke. "Of course you don't." he said sarcastically. "Don't you demigods get anything on your funeral pyres anymore?"

"Funeral pyres? I.. I don't understand." I said, taking a frightened step backwards.

He sighed.

I turned around, looking for a way out. There- there was an open door at the end of the road. I ran to it, eager to get out of that place.

"Hey!" The man called after me. "Don't you want me to take you across the Styx?"

I cast one last look over my shoulder. "Um, no thank you." I turned back and walked through the open door.

When I opened my eyes, I was on a stretcher in the middle of the Field of Mars. Hadn't I been at the War Games before...?

Apparently War Games were over, because the whole legion was gathered on the field, all looking in various stages of shock... at me.

"Wh-What is it?" I blinked. "What is everyone looking at?"

She heard a medic whisper: "There's no way. She was dead. She has to be dead."

I tried to sit up, but couldn't. "There was a river, and a man asking... for a coin? I turned around and the exit door was open. So I just. . . I just left. I don't understand. What's happened?"

Frank knelt down beside me. "Gwen, don't try to get up. Just close your eyes for a second, okay?"

"Why What-"

"Just trust me."

I did what he asked. I couldn't see what was happening, but I heard people talking.

"Percy, Hazel- help me." Frank's voice.

"Don't!" The same medic from before. "You might-"

"What?" Someone snapped. "Make it worse?" Hazel. But make what worse?

I heard Frank take a deep breath. "Hold her steady. One, two, three!"

I opened my eyes, and Hazel bent down beside me. "It's closing on its own. I don't know how, but-"

"I feel fine." I protested. "What's everyone worried about?"

Frank and Percy helped me up.

"Gwen," Hazel said gently, "there's no easy way to say this. You were dead. Somehow you came back."

"I... what?" I stumbled back against Frank.

"Good question." Said Reyna. She turned to Hazel's brother, Nico. "Is this some power of Pluto?"

Nico shook his head. "Pluto never lets people return from the dead."

But he had.

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