Chapter 2: All directions lead one way

"Well, nowhere in particular," said Thalia still cautious of the older boy, not knowing what to do, they hadn't really thought of a plan when leaving, the main goal was just getting away. Now that they were away they didn't know what to do next. Thalia had enough of wandering around and decided that her best bet was sticking around with Percy.

"Hey Percy, where you headed to?" asked Luke reading Thalia's face as if they shared a brain. Luke, who had been the leader of the group, had always been willing to take a little risk now in exchange for an easy future. If Percy had a place that they could stay at and be safe, it would be a dream come true for the boy.

Percy frowned, he knew he wanted to take them to camp halfblood, and he wanted to protect them the entire way, but he was already breaking one of the few rules set by the fates on the first day, he didn't want to make it two. Then again if he helped Luke now he may never start hating the gods for letting Thalia die, but if he knew one thing, it was that prophecies didn't care your reasoning, or intentions. A prophecies would always be completed, no matter how hard you fought it. Percy didn't know what to say so he said nothing. Which lead to Luke repeating his question. To which percy let out a heavy sigh, and said "Luke I don't really know, I don't know how I got here, I don't know where here is, and I don't know where I would go once I got away from here."

Annabeth, who had remained silently following the conversation, didn't know what to do, which was a rare event, much like one of Luke's 'plans' working perfectly. She had always trusted her answer bank of a brain, and now with it drawing blanks didn't know what to do. However she didn't have to think of a plan as Luke just said "If you want to tag along, we are just heading east," with that Luke started walking away, Annabeth running after him. Thalia said "Hope we see each other again, I have to catch up to them before they get to far," just in time for Luke and Annabeth to walk back through the opening, heading in the opposite direction they were just headed, with Annabeth muttering something about Luke traveling the wrong way. Thalia followed her two companions as they walked into the treeline, Percy watching them, unsure what to do. He didn't stand there for long as he started to follow them at a distance, he had a plan. If he couldn't have contact with them, he could at the very the least help keep some monsters off of them, try to save Thalia.

Time skip

After a few weeks of killing all the monsters that came after the group of demigods, and subtly leading them towards the camp halfblood, Percy was at the point of exhaustion, it had gotten to the point where he wasn't even rejuvenated by water. He didn't know if he had enough left in him to fight the untold waves of monsters that would almost certainly attack the group when they reached the Camp. He knew that he had to try to save Thalia, but as the days dragged on he had less hope he would succeed. As he meandered after the group he got lost in his thoughts.

Thalia had found it a little weird that they hadn't been attacked by, let alone seen a monster since encountering that man in the woods. She didn't know if the monsters were about to ambush them, or they had taken a holiday, she just knew she had to be ready. Her thoughts were broken up as Luke crested the hill he shouting about some sort of camp in the distance. With that Annabeth took off like a rocket up the hill, wanting to see if this was another one of Luke's pranks. Thalia watched as half up the hill Annabeth started to be chased by a hellhound, then another ran out of the woods, then another, suddenly a pack separated Thalia from the young daughter of Athena. Thalia started to run up the hill, but this was reduced to a crawl as some of the hellhounds turned started coming after her.

Luke up to this point was busy talking to his brand new friend, Grover, that was until Grover started to panic and Luke finally noticed the hounds and took off down the hill, trying to reach Annabeth, who at this point had been caught by the hellhounds, and was fighting a desperate losing battle. Luke was in a state of pure panic when one of the hounds jumped on Annabeth top of the demigod and pinned her to the group, which made the little girl scream. Luke was wrestling with some of the dogs to outside of the formation that seemed to be guarding the offending hound. He was desperate to get to Annabeth, but Hound after Hound kept getting into the way. Meanwhile Thalia was in a desperate fight of her own as more hounds started to pour out of the woods all around her, surrounding her by a group of 20 dogs all ready to feast on the girl.

Annabeth's screams broke Percy out of his trance, and in an instant he was ready to fight, the exhaustion, was gone, replaced with white hot rage, he disappeared into a mist and reappeared in the opening where the hounds were surrounding Thalia, Percy didn't wait, he threw himself instantly into the group punching and kicking, making a few into golden dust and making most following him up the hill, where he took the water from the grass and slammed it into the dog on top of the young girl. By now almost all the hounds were coming after Percy and he was cutting them down. Luke and Annabeth watching in amazement, that's when they heard a scream and a thud, the scream was from Thalia, the thud was from a club a cyclops was wielding, which had just come out of the woods, making contact with Thalia and sending her flying to the top of the hill, which hit the ground with a sickening thud. Lightning coursed through the sky, striking the girl and killing all the monsters in the area. Percy let out a bloodcurdling Nooo, as he watched the tree grow. He took into the woods, leaving the area, almost instantly being following by a taxi.

The taxi easily caught up to the fleeing Demigod and door flew open, Percy reluctantly entered the taxi and slammed the door shut.

"You know Percy, we knew you were stupid," said the Fate behind the wheel,

"But not that stupid!" said another Fate,

"And before you ask, they won't remember you," said the third fate

"The mist is a wonderful and powerful thing," said the second fate

"What are you going to do with me?" asked Percy, unsure of the Fate's intentions.

"We can't trust you anymore, we set a few basic ground rules and you broke most within a month." said the driver

"We are here to prevent that from happening again, you see the past doesn't like to be changed, you change events that you know and well, it won't end well." said the third event in a voice that sounded very condescending.

"You have a few options, first option being, go stay in Canada until, you have caught back up" said the driver.

"The second option is we kill you and send you to the underworld," said the second fate

"I here it is nice down there this time of the year,"

Said the driver,

"Or we can make you young again and send you to a different camp, you will keep your memories, but you will keep nothing else." said the third fate smiling.

"I think I will take the third option," said Percy.

AN I think I should cut this chapter here, I am pretty happy with it. Took a bit longer than I would have liked, next chapter will be up in a more responsible time frame. I would love to here some feedback, I want to know if you love it or hate it, but please say why you feel the way you do. I have a lot of options to branch out from here and would love some ideas. Thanks for your time! Have good one! -Kate