Decided to upload another chapter because I am feeling pretty good about this. As always, I don't own the Percy Jackson series, Mr. Riordan does, but I do enjoy playing around with it.

They had managed to get out undetected, but Lizzy was struggling. Whatever she had done had wiped her. Dustin was carrying her by the time they made it to safety. Her friends' worried looks bothered her, but she couldn't tell them what happened just yet, mostly because she wasn't even sure she knew. Althea watched as Lizzy kept her eyes peeled on the skies. Every now and then she would glance up too, but she didn't see anything that was a threat, but she did not want to go against whatever her friend had seen.

Dustin was wrapped in his thoughts, and only spoke up when he offered to carry Lizzy once she started tripping practically every other step. He wasn't sure why, but something really bothered him about those monsters. He shared glances with Althea every once and awhile, but wasn't sure what they were communicating, so he stopped after a few awkward stares. She'd pretty much gone back to full hunter, and no longer cared for his sorry boy-guts. He glanced up at the sky once, just to see if he could pick out a constellation, and maybe see which way they were heading.

When they finally felt they had made it far enough, Althea had a tent put up in seconds and Dustin had set Lizzy down inside sound asleep, before going out to build a quick shelter for himself. Althea made sure that Lizzy was comfortable and then went outside to start a fire.

Once she had a steady flame going she waited for Dustin to finish his rough structure. When he came back there were small rips and tears in his clothes and skin that hadn't been there before, she secretly laughed at the incompetence of men.

"What do you think she saw?" He asked quietly.

"I'm not sure, but after fighting whatever those were, I do not want to know." She sighed. "I kept watching the skies like she had asked, but I never saw anything."

"Are you worried?" He asked, looking up from his feet to have his brown eyes meet her blue. The warmth that normally was there was replaced with the flatness of fear and worry.

She waited a bit before answering, "Yes."

Lizzy dreamed of the past, which through her for a loop because she had never been able to see anything but the present before. She was confused as she relived when she first met Dustin.

Five years ago, and Dustin didn't look much different other than the fact that he had some of the childness to his face, and lacked the hardened face of a warrior. They were thirteen and met in the seventh grade class that both of their mothers had signed them up for, telling them that it was for the best. They went through a claiming process that first night, and both had been singled out. Dustin was the only child of Eros, and Lizzy was rejected by her two older siblings in the Apollo group, because she didn't seem to have the normal accuracy with projectiles that they both had, and the teachers had no explanation.

Lizzy had been sitting in a corner watching everyone else play and have fun, and she had a vision. It wasn't her first vision, but it was the first one that anyone had ever noticed. Her eyes glowed green, and she blinked. Her surroundings were much the same, but she soon realized it was a different corner, there was a boy in this one and he looked very upset. She blinked again and found teachers surrounding her, asking if she was alright. She shoved past them and ran to the corner with the boy.

"Don't be sad." Her determined green eyes shined at him, and he looked at her kind of funny. It didn't seem to phase her.

"How do you know I am sad?" He asked quietly.

"Because I saw that you were upset. You're sitting alone in a corner, and so was I. Maybe we won't be sad if we sit in a corner together."

The boy looked at her a little longer before scooting over and seeing that she was seated said, "I'm Dustin."

"I'm Elizabeth," she replied. "But you'll call me Lizzy."

"Why?"

"Because I like it better." He nodded as if it made perfect sense.

Then it was the first day of high school. At this point, Lizzy and Dustin were really close. They had spent 2 years sitting together, most of the time in a corner, talking. Going into high school for half-bloods meant traveling to a camp. There were three in the whole country: a Greek camp in New York, a Roman camp in California, and a mixed third one in the middle of Kansas. Both of them decided that they would go to the one in Kansas together.

The first day there, they met the just about everyone, and Lizzy watched as Dustin grew a crush on a daughter of Aphrodite. She couldn't blame him, of course, she was very beautiful, and was very kind; she even became close friends with Lizzy. The more infatuated Dustin got with her, the less he hung out with Lizzy, who was considered now more than ever the weirdo daughter of Apollo. His newfound siblings encouraged him to stop hanging out with her, and she remembered sitting again in a corner. Alone.

Then two years ago, the Hunters of Artemis came. Lizzy had found a few friends, but for the most part she still was by herself. Her closest friend now was the daughter of Aphrodite, Althea, with who Dustin was in love. Althea though, did not like him back. Sure she enjoyed hanging out with him, but she didn't find herself ever seeing him as more than a friend. She would talk with Lizzy about it sometimes, but could see how hurt her friend was at his behavior. She wished that there was a way to remove herself from the equation of their friendship, but she didn't know how. Lizzy saw when the Hunters were coming in, and she grabbed Althea to go check them out together.

They were so interesting, and their leader was a close friend of both of the directors of camp. They seemed so strong, and independent, and that appealed to both Lizzy and Althea, but neither decided to join. Until the last day the Hunters were in camp. Dustin finally got up the nerve to ask out Althea, and she had no idea what to tell him. She tried saying that she didn't see him as anything more than a friend, but he said he didn't believe it. He was so sure that they were meant to be.

"I'm going to join." Althea had told Lizzy right after the incident.

"But, that means no boys…" Lizzy, even though burned from his actions towards her, was still concerned about his feelings, and she knew that Althea was a big part of that.

"It just feels right." That was it. It felt right, and so she turned and ran off to find the Hunters before they packed up camp.

Dustin found out at dinner, right before they left; and he found himself back in the corner with Lizzy, who took him in without a second thought. "Don't be sad," Lizzy had told him that evening.

Then it jumped forward to just earlier this evening. Their arrival, the fun, the dancing, the hunting, and then her attack. It was all a rush through her mind, like a video on fast forward.

When she woke up, her head hurt, but she knew what had happened. She was still concerned as to why she was seeing her past, and not the present, and she had a feeling that her earlier vision had been the past too. Not that the monsters were back already, but when they had first arrived. She had to tell her friends.

The whole way from the school to camp Dustin had remained in his head. He was worried about Lizzy. There hadn't been any monsters outside the school as they left, but in the effort of getting away Lizzy was not in any real condition to explain. His glances at Althea did nothing for him. Their cooperation seemed to be over now that their main goal was accomplished, however, he could tell that she was worried about their friend as well.

After he took the job of carrying Lizzy, he couldn't help thinking about what they had been through together… and how horrible he had been to her. He would always feel guilty for what he did, especially seeing how she still treated him as if he hadn't ever done any wrong to her.

Back when they first met, she was the only friend he had. He had been claimed rather early, and by a god that not many knew, and of all things, it had to be the god of love. Cooties are rampant at young ages, in both mortals and demigods. Love was such a foreign concept it was impossible to expect his classmates to understand. Lizzy wasn't afraid of cooties though, she had seen his pain, and come to make him feel better. That was something he had always admired about her: her ability to care about others instantly, with no judgments to obscure her vision. Of course, she had the clearest eyes of anyone he knew.

At first, it took some getting used to, her random glimces of things that were happening at the same moment, but not necessarily at the same place that she was. Sometimes they were quick glimces, but on rare occasions they would last as long as 10 minutes. Those always scared him, because when she has visions her eyes glow bright green and she lets off a fuzzy aura of the same color, and the longer the vision, the more it looks like her cells are trying to tear apart from one another. But he would never leave her during the episodes, because they made her so vulnerable, he was afraid of what could happen to her.

Then they went to camp. And things weren't downhill. Dustin didn't have many siblings, but when he met them, they were already labeling Lizzy as weird, and strange. He didn't want to make a bad impression on his siblings, the only other people that seemed to understand having a father that is know for love and lust. He told them that he didn't really know her all that well, and that he had always thought she was a little strange when they went to school. The only reason that he got away with this lie, was that they were the only two from their school to come here, and Lizzy must have had a vision of him telling his sisters and brother this, because she didn't even bother trying to meet his gaze at dinner that night.

He felt horrible and tried hanging out with her, but of course it was in secret. Lizzy had had time to recover, and was treating him as if it were normal, and nothing had changed. That was like a slap in the face to Dustin, but he went along with it too.

Then he started hanging out more with the Aphrodite cabin. The goddess of love, and technically his grandmother, though from what he heard from her children, she would not like to be called that. And in that cabin, he met Althea. One of the first things that drew him to her was that she made an effort to talk to Lizzy. Not to mention, she was absolutely stunning and talented. He grew to have the biggest crush on her, but she never returned the feelings. He tried and tried, and the more he tried, the less he saw Lizzy.

The night she joined the Hunt, he was hurting so bad. His siblings had warned him that having unrequited love was almost always a curse of the children of Eros, who was more a god of lust than love, but he had a hope that falling for a daughter of the love goddess would only be helpful. It just made it hurt worse.

Lizzy found him, of course. She probably hadn't even needed the aid of a vision. Once again he found guilt creeping in his conscience. She had made herself clear though, no matter what he did to her, they had been through too much for her to give up on him. They kept their friendship on the down low still, as it probably would amount to nothing more than a lot of teasing to both of them.

Dustin started following the advice of his siblings, and was just keeping to the lust that seemed to flow from him. He knew that he looked good, and he knew that he could get any girl he wanted, but Althea had made it impossible to forget how bad it hurt to think that your love was true, only to be left in the dust. He only messed with mortal girls, not any better, but the mist would make the whole night that they had together more like a dream, especially when he was on a quest. Lately, there had been a lot of those.

New monsters that no one had ever seen or heard of before. No one knew who had created them, or given birth to them, and there were so many that the camp sent out at least two quests a week, if not more. Word of the powerful trio they had faced tonight had come from the Hunters, who were visiting camp, and Althea as their new second-in-command. They had seen the monsters but had a hard time trying to defeat them because they seemed to be able to use the Mist to obscure themselves.

That was how Lizzy got position as quest leader, and how she picked Dustin first, and then Althea. She explained that she needed Althea, because she had seen them before, and that she needed me, because she had a feeling that they would need a smooth-talker.

Dustin was bright red of embarrassment, but almost everyone at camp thought it was of anger. They couldn't believe the bomb that Lizzy had set up, having Althea and Dustin on a quest together. Althea hadn't looked too thrilled either. But as usual, Lizzy had been correct, they needed him to bend the Mist and get them into the dance, as well as convince the teachers that the fighting that they were bound to see was nothing, just practice for a play or something.

Then the battle happened, and Dustin got injured, and Lizzy had done who-knows-what, and Althea had been shaken from her normal composed exterior. They set up camp in the middle of the woods and Althea had not even offered to help build a shelter, and was not even speaking to him as they sat across the fire from one another. All this time, both of them consumed in thought, neither speaking until Althea got up to go to bed and whispered a hoarse "Good night," before disappearing into her silvery tent.

Dustin sat there staring at the fire, feeling full of self-pity, guilt and confusion for a long time before he doused the fire and went to bed, and even though he had been through so much that day, he managed to have a dreamless sleep until he was woken up by Lizzy shaking him, repeating over and over how she knew what was going on, and he had to listen to her. She then lead him out to where a sleepy-looking Althea had restarted the fire, and they sat down around the warm flames to have a little bit better idea of what had happened back at the school.

Althea had been thinking up battle strategies. She didn't want to think back on the past; there was too much pain to deal with in the past. So she stayed focused on the goal at hand, which was to get away from the school. Lizzy had warned them to watch the skies, but there had been nothing there. Even as they traveled further away there hadn't been anything that remotely seemed like a threat in the sky.

After they had travel quite a ways, Althea let her thoughts wander back to her fellow Hunters. They were back at camp awaiting her return so that they could rejoin Artemis on whatever hunt she was on currently. They hadn't been overly enthusiastic about staying at camp and helping find and destroy the new threats that were appearing, but after some of the weird stuff they had seen on the last hunt, they decided to remain civil enough to help out some of the campers.

Every since she had joined the Hunt, her life had been different. Time seemed to move slower, according to the other Hunters the immortality did that; time was no longer a substantial factor in their lives. She also felt calmer, more at peace with herself and the world; she felt stronger, more powerful, and she had no doubt in her abilities anymore.

But she couldn't deny that it was hard on her at times. Her mother hadn't been thrilled at her decision to essentially give up love, and had granted her the gift of attraction. No matter where she went, boys would tend to flock to her, be drawn to her. It would cause some problems for them sometimes, but the Hunters had gotten used to ignoring the males, as if they were just stupid animals that were unworthy of any attention at all. That had bugged her a lot at the beginning, and it still got under her skin. Not all men were horrible, and she had some great friends and brothers that proved that, but she had her own theories about that as well.

On her first hunt with the goddess, they had traveled quite a bit, and she wasn't sure if it was because she had just given up men forever, of if she had just never really paid attention before, but she found that she was attracted to so many men. She had enough will power to not want to get involved, she had committed herself to the Hunt, but she struggled at times. Her attraction to them, and due to her gift, them to her was sometimes so enticing that she had almost been ready to betray Artemis, but she would come back to her senses in the nick of time.

At first, she had just been absorbed in her attraction to men, that she hadn't noticed the looks of longing on some of the other girls' faces when they had to interact with males. She now had the theory that the Hunters were so cold to men, because it made it easier to hold back their own attraction to them. Treat them like dogs, and you will soon see them as dogs.

Once they had made camp, and Althea had taken care of settling Lizzy, she couldn't believe how much her friend had changed since she had last seen her. Lizzy had always been a bit on the petite side, but with her curly blond hair and big, bright, green eyes she seemed taller. She had a sort of ability to draw your attention in a way that made you see her as more powerful. Now, she had grown a bit, and all the training at camp had made her gain a bit of muscle, a tan and a dash of freckles across her nose. She still managed to draw attention, but now she seemed to exude power. Lizzy didn't really know this, or if she did, she didn't use it. But standing near her, you just had the feeling that there was power within her, and that at times it felt like it was fighting to get out.

She looked almost peaceful, but she would sometimes have fits in her sleep. She was dreaming, that was for sure, but of what? Althea had no idea. All she could do was hope that she would share once she awoke.

Once their living area was set, she went out to build a fire. She got one going rather quickly, and then just sat there thinking about the monsters, trying to run through all of the myths that had similar characteristics. Trying to figure out who could have created them. She could hear Dustin stumbling through the woods, tripping, cussing, and snapping branches as he built his own shelter. She wanted to help him, but was unsure of how he would react. He didn't seem to still have a huge crush on her, but she didn't want to take the chance of reigniting them.

He eventually came to sit across from her, silence flowing between them, though it didn't feel awkward to Althea. After awhile, she retired to the silvery tent and fell asleep almost instantly. She dreamed of the battle, like she was reliving it, only this time she didn't win. She often had dreams like this; they were the only things that made her doubt her ability to perform. But they also spurred her on to become the best she could be.

She didn't clearly remember being woken up, or restarting the fire, but once Lizzy came out with Dustin behind her, she had woken up enough to understand that Lizzy had been dreaming of something important.

"Guys, I know what happened! I remember what I did before I almost died, and I have an idea of why we didn't see any monsters even though I had a vision of them. I don't know if this is a good thing, but I at least feel better knowing." She was wide-awake, and practically bouncing up and down with the excitement of her discovery.

"Well, get on with it," Dustin grumbled. Obviously he was still a little groggy and a bit half-asleep, and Lizzy seemed to understand completely, she didn't seem hurt by his tone at all, but then again, Althea had never seen her hurt by anything he had said or done.

"Well, I had found the last shade-thing, and was firing at it with my bow. It was missing my arrows, and I was frustrated. I had two arrows left and when I shot my first of them, it missed. I thought I was done for, but suddenly, I had an idea. He hadn't been surprised at all when I shot my arrows with my bow. The one way I could surprise him is if I used my last arrow in an unorthodox way. He was already sensing that I was essentially doomed to fail, and so he was moving back towards me. Once he was close enough, I grabbed my last arrow, got a good grip on it, and charged him. Screaming to ignore the pain in my leg from my injury, and to hopefully throw him off a bit. He seemed shocked, but recovered enough to block my first attempt at stabbing him. Unfortunately for him, I nailed him in the heart the second time by some miracle, and I don't know if it was where I got him, but he burst into a golden light and then broke to dust.

"It was so weird. And then I woke up to Althea. When I had my vision, I had seen our three opponents floating above the school. I thought they had reappeared already, and would be after us for revenge. But then when I was sleeping, my dreams where of events in the past, like, meeting Dustin, and going to camp, and then showing up at the school and then my battle. That doesn't normally happen to me. I dream of things, and see things that happen at the same time that I am dreaming or having a vision, but it may not be in the same place. Going through all of these past events, I realized that I was seeing the past in my vision! Not the present! For some reason, I think that blast in battle has made something happen to me to see the past rather than the present!"

She ended with a maniac smile and light in her eyes, that Althea was sure that she'd lost it. But, unfortunately, it made sense. It concerned Althea though, there was a reason that Lizzy had been given the gift of seeing things that are happening at the same time, but while she had never been sure of it, she had known that there was a reason.

Althea chanced a glance at Dustin to see how he was taking it. He was awake now, and had a look of uneasiness on his face, as if he weren't really sure that that was something to be excited about. But he composed himself enough to be the first to speak.

"Alright… Well, what now?" Lizzy's face fell a bit, and the light in her eyes was gone.

"I think that we should get back to camp. I need to ask some people some questions." Lizzy responded. They started camp teardown immediately.

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