WARNING: CONTENTS MAY BECOME HOT, HANDLE WITH- oops wrong warning
WARNING: I DON'T OWN PJO OR ANYTHING AFFILIATED WITH THE FRANCHISE, THOUGH I WISH I DID BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE EPIC. HAVE A NICE DAY.
MARK'S POV
Left right left right, I thought to myself, faster! Faster! I ran, though my lungs burned in protest. I risked a quick glance over my right shoulder and saw nothing, but I knew I couldn't stop. Not before I put as much distance between me and that… that thing. It looked like something straight out of a nightmare's nightmare. It was so surreal, yet there's nothing that could ever explain what I just experienced. A gnarled tree root, blanketed in green moss and crushed Autumn leaves, jutted out of the cold and sloppy mud. I tripped and plummeted quickly towards the unforgiving ground. I crashed into the earth and rolled into a fairly large tree. I got to my feet, daring a moment to rest. I tried clearing the mud off my face, but realized it was stupid considering my hands were twice as worse. As I moved my arms, I knew that I had messed up my shoulder. I also knew that there was no way I could find my way out of this forest in the middle of the night. I desperately needed rest, I could find my way out in the morning. I looked around, trying to find the best place to hunker down and withstand the night. As I walked around the tree and saw a branch. This branch in particular had some sort of blanket on it that appeared to glow with a soothing golden light. I grabbed it and walked to a large rock nearby. I formed a makeshift bed, and drifted off to a well deserved slumber.
THALIA'S POV
When I woke up that morning, I felt like something was wrong. I confirmed it with the hurriedness of my fellow campers. Oh man, I thought, what could possibly happen now? Did someone fall off a canoe? Did someone screw up the lava wall again? Well whatever it was, I was about to to find out. "Thalia!" someone called out. I turned and found Annabeth running towards me. "Thalia!" she said again as she approached, "The Fleece! Someone has taken it!"
A/N That's the first chapter! Please tell me what you think, and don't forget to tell your friends! Unless you have no friends, in that case, go tell some plants about your cheese collection. And as always, Stacy's mom does have it going on, and have a nice life!