Chapter 1:
Darkness concealed her in a box filled with fear. She could not escape. Reyna stood there banging on the see-through material, screaming for help. Her confidence has been drained and she fell to her knees crying. An eerie mist approached her along with a fearsome growl. Reyna not knowing what it was surrendered, as she had no chance in defeating it. Shrieking whispers filled the air ' Reyna… Reyna… the time has come…A quest till the final death'. A malicious laughter came afterwards, high pitched, like nails against a chalkboard. She screamed, trying to get the voices to leave her alone, swatting the mist away from her. Her voice not obeying her, she tripped backwards, and a loud thump echoed.
Reyna jerked up from her slumber, her heart pounding and her body beaded with sweat. She looked around her surroundings, and recognised her bedroom in her villa, in beautiful New Rome. It was broad daylight, which made a smile twitch upon her lip, she finally felt relaxed, safe to be more precise. That sudden moment got ruined as claws scratched against her door, she was about to pounce at the attacker with her dagger, which was at her nightstand, until she realised that her 'attacker' was whimpering. Aurum and Argentum she thought. They wanted breakfast of course. She opened her door and her two playful dogs scattered on the wooden floor, sniffing each other's butts. Reyna couldn't resist the urge to smile. She grabbed two bowls from her kitchen counter one silver (for Argentum) and one gold (for Aurum), it was ironic as it was the colour of their names in English. She grabbed a bag filled with metal scraps from the Vulcan forge and poured it into the bowls. As soon as her hounds heard the metal clashing against their bowls, they rapidly scurried to the kitchen, and stuffed their mouths with (in their case) delicious scrap. Reyna wondered, why her helplessly adorable metal dogs, always did little things that made her laugh. Her stomach envied the dogs for having food, so to get Reyna's attention it grumbled. Reyna instantly got the message and strolled towards the fridge. She opened the fridge and the same whispers from her nightmare made an appearance in her mind, she collapsed and cupped her hands around her ears and screamed, but the voices continued and spoke these exact words ' find the oracle, fight pain, fight fear, fight the things that consume you, fight the thing you cannot fight'. They voices disappeared when cold metal nudged her elbow. She looked towards the thing that touched her… her beloved dogs. They saw her eyes water and tried to comfort her. She smiled at their decency to care about her and stroked them gently. The warm feeling with her dogs had disappeared as she had gotten a determined look in her eyes, and firmly and confidently said to her dogs "We are going to pay a visit to our friends at Camp-Half-Blood."