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Thalia Grace was a stubborn girl. A very stubborn girl.

For over the past two weeks she had been on the run non-stop. She had been fighting monsters everywhere with no rest. It was a miracle that she was still on her feet.

However, Thalia Grace was almost on the brink of exhaustion. Running for two weeks (or maybe more, she had lost track of time), had taken its toll. Her whole body ached and her muscles were stiff, especially her legs –oh Holy Zeus, her legs- were killing her. Well, not literally.

So here the daughter of Zeus was. Running again, this time for the last possible time. Thalia panted heavily as she pushed through the undergrowth of a small forest she had found. This forest was her only hope, her only chance, of contacting her sisters and her Lady.

Ever since Jason had been found and the unfortunate event when her cousin, Percy Jackson, disappeared, her life had been in turmoil. Of course, having Jason back was a miracle in its least. She had thought he was dead! Oh, how she had missed him terribly.

Percy, on the other hand, was a Seaweed Brain. He had disappeared after kissing Annabeth goodnight. Surely Annabeth's kisses weren't that bad.

Swatting a fly off her arm, Thalia felt pretty well sick. Maybe I should rest for a while, she thought tiredly.

Slowing her pace, she looked around for a good sleeping spot. Thalia found one behind a clump of well-dense bushes. Ah, rest. She slowly let herself sink into oblivion, ignoring the twigs and leaf litter poking her back. She, the great Thalia Grace, daughter of the almighty powerful Zeus, had given up.

She sighed tiredly. Thalia had had enough of this running around and hiding. She had had enough of this fighting until she was all sore and exhausted. Especially ever since the monsters started forming back together again after they were killed. All she wanted to do was go to sleep and wake up to find that everything was a dream.

You see, after the battle against the Titans, everything went haywire. Of course there were a few months of peace when the whole world was quiet. Something happened though. After the battle against Kronos and when he was sent to Tartarus, he had unknowingly (Thalia presumed) caused Gaea to stir from her sleep. This was a problem, but not the main problem.

Gaea was not- is not- supposed to wake up. Her slumber was meant to be forever since the age of the primordial gods rule had ended ages ago. Now, the Western civilisation is ruled by Zeus.

Through Gaea's awakening however, Gaea had caused some other primordial gods and monsters to stir from their slumber, too.

Also, since Gaea is, theoretically speaking, "Mother Earth", her slow movements in the Earth which she will make when she rises, will be disastrous. They will cause many of the world's invisible divine barriers to crumble down.

These divine barriers are, as said, invisible. They are the walls that separate each divine kingdom from another – like Olympus is the home of the Greek deities, which is situated in New York, where the Western civilisation is in power. On the other hand, other gods, for example the Egyptians gods are situated in wherever their culture is the most powerful. Therefore, if each and every wall slowly crumbled, chaos would ensue – all the gods of each religion and such would be able to cross into another's kingdom. This would result in fights for more territory to control and rule in. And if this ever happened, the fight would be a huge war, bigger than that ever fought within the Big Three.

Thalia frowned in her sleep. Thinking about this gave her a mighty headache. She erased all thoughts of her current predicament and fell into a deep sleep, coloured with dreams...

There was a bright meadow. It was filled with all her friends from Camp Half-Blood, those alive and those that had passed on. Thalia stared at them and spotted Luke among the crowd. Her heart gave a painful lurch but she ignored it. She waved to her friends but the crowd seemed to look beyond her, as if she weren't there.

"Guys? Yoo-hoo! I'm here!" She called, waving her arms furiously above her head like some demented chicken.

They continued ignoring her until Travis Stoll (without a smile or smirk on his face, which was quite peculiar) raised one hand and pointed at something behind her.

The camper's faces began to twist and contort into expressions of fear. Their mouths formed words and screams but Thalia heard nothing come out of their mouths.

Feeling nervousness and curiosity brew inside of her, she turned around and gasped. The image of what she saw was horrendous.

Across the lovely meadow was a bleak grey and black world. Cities were torn apart and deserted, possibly left to rot. Buildings, houses and schools, all destroyed and slowly decaying. And what of the people? Dead. Piled and piles of bodies, lined up in a neat row.

In the heart of all this destruction were four divine beings, one of which she recognised immediately. There, within the city battling with his lightning bolt held aloft was her father, Zeus. Thalia wasn't the least surprised when she realised that even though Zeus was in the middle of a ferocious battle, he looked immaculate as usual, with not a hair out of place.

The other gods (Thalia assumed they were gods, as they didn't blast to pieces when battling her father) were dressed differently to one another.

One god was fighting with vigour, as if he enjoyed this particular battle. His expression made Thalia shiver. Another god was a very old looking man. He was fighting with only a sword. His fighting movements were fluid and graceful.

These gods were all unknown to Thalia, except for the fourth and last god. He looked Egyptian, with kohl lined eyes and wearing a strange hat thingy. What was it called again? Oh, right. A Pharaoh's headdress. Thalia let out a small smile in the recognition of something. See? She had paid some attention in class.

Thalia turned away from the horrific scene to face a tall blonde boy with striking blue eyes. Her eyes. Their father's eyes.

"Don't give up, Thals." He said, his eyes boring into her. Jason Grace looked oddly serious. "Wake up and don't give up so soon."

With those words being said, Thalia's eyes flew open just in time to hear a loud screech and the sound of feet thundering towards her location.

A/N: Hello :] So this is our (Gwen [Fruttie Fromage] and I) first story that has been uploaded on here.

To those who like fast updates, sorry in advance. Gwen and I only meet up on weekends, we're kinda too busy at school and after school.

Review? :] -hopeful face-

Thank you to my sis, Tabby, for editing/beta-ing.

~ Skye & Gwen. Xx

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