Mela sat on the steps of the Hades cabin, alone. Nico was in the Underworld, And her best friends Carina and Zane were both at training arena. Sadly, today wasn't the day that Mela had training. She was staring absentmindedly at a tree nymph in the distance. Mela decided to take a walk. When she passed the Demeter cabin Mela stopped to take a look at the beautiful roses. She felt the petals gently, and they immediatly withered and fell of. She sighed, then moved on. Now Mela was in front of the Athena cabin. The silver owl on the door stared at her wherever she went. She quickened her paced and headed toward the forest.
Mela leaned against the tree and closed her eyes to concentrate. She was practicing shadow traveling. A deep breath escaped her mouth. A picture formed in her mind. It was a picture her old home. Suddenly a wave of grief crossed her mind. Her orphanage, now, seemed like the most wonderful place in the world. But, no, this was her fate. The orphanage was just luck.
She was snapped out of her thoughts when she heard a rustle in the woods. It seemed far away. She tried desperatly to concentrate on shadow traveling, but when the sound continued, Mela was taken over by her curiosity. She advanced forward into the woods. It seemed like a spell was cast over her, luring her to it's destination.
Her heart was beating a thousand times a minute. Mela's breath slowly got louder. Suddenly a black figure swept past her as fast as lightning. Mela's head flew to the direction of the sound. It was about eight o'clock right now and the sky was about to get dark. The creature flew past her again. She felt her bag of stygian throwing knives get heavier. Mela's hand crept over to the bag, and she quietly grabbed a knife. Mela waited for the creature to make another movement. A minute later she heard the beast. Her hand shot up and she threw her knife with deadly precision. But, it missed. She threw another one and it still didn't touch the monster. When she threw the third knife, the monster swooped down, and it was targeting her. Mila's feet felt frozen, but luckily they started to move before the monster could get her.
She ran as fast as her feet could go. The monster was near. She could feel it. It stretched out an arm and tried to grab at her beck. It made a scratch on her back and a pain seared through her back. Her skin felt wet and her shirt was sticking to her back from the blood. She gash in her back slowed her down, but not enough that the beast could catch her.
Mila could see her cabin ahead. Her pace quickened. The camp borders were close now. One more step and she was safe. Mila took one more desperate leap to avoid the monster. Now she was inside camp borders. The monster tried to get through but was blasted back. Mila, satisfied, collapsed to the ground. She estimated that she was ran about a mile. After ten minutes, Mila heard steps approaching her. She looked up and saw Nico's face. He looked confused, after staring at her for a moment he asked, "What happened to you?"
Mila was to tired to say a single sentence, so all that came out of her mouth was,"Monster" Then Mila turn around to have her back face Nico so that he could see the cut on her back. Then everything turned black.
When Mila woke up, she was in the infirmary.