They were working with Percy, Annabeth, and several of the senior counselors to deal with a large group of monsters. Eventually, though, Ciella and Nico were weak enough that they would do more harm than good staying in the battle.
"Both of you, take a pegasus and fly back to Camp. No protests. I'll let Chiron know you're on your way. Now GO!" ordered Percy, seeing their state. He felt kind of guilty for them having to come in the first place, even though they were children of the Big Three, as both of them had had the flu a couple of days ago.
Seeing the look on Percy's face, they complied. Flying over a desert (AN: I'm Canadian, so I don't know much about the geography of the States. The desert is there purely for story purposes), Ciella got a really bad feeling, just before Nico was blasted off the pegasus. She turned and saw that they were being pursued (AN: Can't think of a monster that can fly but that's what it was).
Before she knew it, she too was torn from the back of the pegasus, and the desert sand rushed up to meet her.
*I am a line break*
Ciella blinked, the first thing she saw that she was locked in a CAGE!
"Let me go!" she screamed, thrashing against the excruciatingly tight chains with large balls of metal on the ends, and hanging her from her hands, leaving her sagging a foot above the ground.
"Don't worry, I will," growled the monster entering the cage with a wicked-looking torture knife in hand. "But first..."
She could only scream in pain.
*I am a line break*
Percy and the others arrived back at Camp only to find that Ciella and Nico had never made it back, although their pegasus had. He paled when he heard the news. This couldn't be good.
*I am a line break*
Nico staggered to his feet, cursing in Greek, Italian, and English (AN: as well as all the other languages he could possibly know. Rick only told us those three.). He had all the supplies they'd had, which meant that Ciella didn't have anything. His blood ran cold as he heard a scream- Ciella.
He'd secretly had a crush on the daughter of Poseidon for some time, and his feelings only grew stronger as he ran to where the scream had come from.
The son of Hades arrived in time to see Ciella scream again- a sound of pure agony- as the monster in front of her dragged a knife through her flesh. She slumped against the chains, unconscious. Before she passed out, though, her eyes met Nico's, and the look in them would haunt him forever. They were empty, as though her soul had given up. But there was also a plea for help.