Thalia is in bold

"I am Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus" Annabeth had told me about her on our first quest. I lifted her up. She pushes against my chest. "I can walk by myself" I don't let go of her. She gives me a death glare, but I don't care. I carry her to the Apollo cabin. They examine her.

"She seems to be fine" Will says. She gets up. "I demand to see Chiron" I laugh. She looks at me. "What is so funny?" I chuckle again. "The fact that you think you can just boss people around." "I am Thalia, daughter of Zeus. I a-""Hold up Betty, just because you are a daughter of Zeus doesn't mean that you can just do whatever you want." "I, uh, ugh" She threw her hands in the air and stormed off.

I run after her. "Hey, hey" She stops and looks at me. I notice she has sharp blue eyes. They're really pretty. She takes a deep sigh. "Look, I'm sorry. I was just being chased by a cyclops, and then I died, became a tree, and now I'm here. Not exactly putting me in my best mood" We both chuckle. How about I give you a tour of camp, noticing how you became a tree before getting here. We share a laugh, and she gestures for me to lead the way.

After we take a tour of the camp, I take her to the beach. We sit on the sand, and I notice she was wary, like anything could attack at any minute. "Relax, nothing can penetrate the camp's borders." She sighs, and aged sigh, like she has experienced a lot, which she most likely has.

"You're right-""I always am." "Shut up" She playfully punches my shoulder. I begin to tickle her, and she shocks me. The hair on my arms stands up straight. I splash her with a huge wave. We both end up laughing, and falling against the sand. We were acting like we knew each other.

Annabeth comes up to us. "Percy it's time for dinn- Thalia?" She rushes to Thalia and hugs her. "Hey Chase. You've grown." "Thals, you're actually here. How'd this happen?" I realized I wanted to know too. "Yeah, Thals, how?" She glared at me, before explaining that it was the fleece.

Oh well. "Anyway, it's time for dinner." We all head to the pavilion, but there was something wrong. The two tables that were supposed to be empty, were, well, not empty. The Artemis table and the Hades table. The Artemis table was crowded, all girls. I asked Chiron why. "That's Artemis's hunt." Ohhhh. I think I remember them. Thalia doesn't look very happy at the sight of them, specifically Zoe.

Annabeth went over to her table, and Thalia went to sit at hers, but I realized that we were both alone, so we might as well sit together. "Thalia, you can sit at my table if you want." She seemed to consider it, and nodded. "Better than sitting alone. Thanks Kelp head."

I groaned. "Its fine pinecone face" Her turn to groan. We sat down, but I took a look at the other big three table. There was one kid sitting on it. A 10 year old boy, with some…I think mythomagic cards. "Wait here." I go over to the table. I look at the kid. "Hey" I say softly.

"Hi" he says back shyly. "Why are you sad?" "My sister left me." "Who's your sister?" He sadly nodded to the Artemis table. "She joined them." He said, half angry-half sad. I looked at the plate, he wasn't even eating. "Hey, you want to join us?" I said, gesturing to our table.

"Really?" I nodded. "Thanks." "No problem." He moved to our table. Thalia looked at me, confused. "His sister left him for them." I say gesturing to the table. Her face turns to one of disgust. "What's your name, kid?" She asks. "Nico, Nico Di Angelo." "You want to see something?" He nodded eagerly.

She held out her palm, and sparks flickered across it. "That's so cool" He looked at his palm. "Aww, I can't do it." Thalia chuckled. "You're a son of Hades, you can do other things." "Hades? He has 4000 attack power, and 5000 if somebody else attacks." He held out his palm, focused really hard, and some black wisps danced on his palm, slowly. "If you practice, you can soon do a lot of magic" He nodded. I noticed now he was eating eagerly.

Chiron looked at us, but a pleading look from me, made him nod his head. After dinner, we were going to head to all of our respective cabins, but Nico looked at Thalia and I. "It looks kind of scary, and Bianca used to tell my stories about Greek myths. Thalia and I share a glance, she shrugs, so I guess we'll be telling a bedtime story. We walk into the cabin, and it wasn't as scary as I thought. It was actually pretty nice. Nico hops into bed.

I want to know a story about…Hades. I think, and then I knew we couldn't tell a bad story, I meant it was his father. I decide to tell the story of how the three gods got their domains. Although Thalia cut me off, and started to tell the story. I shrugged, she was most likely better at telling stories.

After we knew Nico was asleep, we turned to leave. Thalia and I shared a glance at Nico, and then departed to our respective cabins. I fell asleep as soon as I hit the bed. The next morning I wake up and find, that another quest was being issued. Something about Artemis being missing. What got me stricken was that Annabeth is missing. I have to save her. Zoe said I couldn't cause only girls could come. Thalia, Zoe, Phoebe, Grover and Nico's sister were all going, and I decided I would go too.

As I was sneaking out, I was caught by Dionysus. He seemed to think on what to do. He decided to let me go. "Really? You're letting me go?" He shrugged. "If you make it through, I'll punish you when I get back, and if you die on the quest, well, no harm done." Wow… I shrugged and continued. They traveled all the way to the desert.

As I watch, Bianca picks up something for her brother, who I learned was Nico, and was killed in the process. I was stricken, but for Nico. Poor Nico. I grabbed the figurine and put it in my pocket. Then we traveled all the way to the Hoover Dam. While unloading on the truck, I bumped into Thalia, and the hat fell off. "Kelp head? Were you following us?" I gave her a sarcastic reply. "No, I magically teleported using pony power" Zoe looked disgusted.

"Well, since we've come this far, we can keep the boy." I innerly raged. I was the devil, no way was I a possession. I calmed myself down. I can totally torture later. "Thalia, you can stand next to the boy, and make sure he doesn't try anything funny."

I felt so degraded. As we walked, Thalia muttered under her breath: "Why'd you come? I can handle myself." I replied: "It isn't about you; it's about Annabeth. I came to save her." "Why, cause you didn't think I could do it? I paused. I didn't have a reply for that.

After a while, Phoebe had to use the restroom. Standing outside, Zoe muttered, "Where's the dam snack bar, I'm hungry." I snickered. "What's so funny boy?" "Where's the dam gift shop?" Thalia pitched in. "I want a dam T-shirt" Grover's going "I want some dam food" We all burst out laughing.

"What is so funny, boy?" I was too busy laughing to reply. Phoebe came out.

*time skip*

We find Atlas. I see Annabeth, in rags, looking sickly, and Artemis, struggling and crumbling under the weight of the world. I run to her. She looks at me.

"What are you doing here, boy?" I take a few steps back, and get ready to charge. "What are you doing?" Everybody (including Luke) say at the same time. I charge toward Artemis. I push her hard, she falls to the ground, and the world in my hands, literally. "Save Annabeth" She was all that mattered.

I can hear fighting all around me, but I can't see anything. I hear a cry of pain, and a distraught noise. I felt alert, and prayed that it wasn't Annabeth. There was silence. I see a bright light, very bright, and if I wasn't protected by the fog covering the world, I might've died. It must have been a godly form. Only god, is Artemis. I feel the world lifted from my arms, and I see Atlas willingly taking the world. How, I don't know.

I walk out from underneath the world, to see Artemis and Phoebe, on their knees, silently crying. A limp body close by. "What happened?" I asked, hoping it was not Annabeth. I move closer, to see Zoe's limp body. Even Thalia, as much as she didn't like Zoe, had unshed tears in her eyes. Annabeth seemed to be in shock. I, on the other hand, barely knew Zoe, and she treated me like I was an object, so I didn't really feel anything. Correction: I didn't feel anything. Call me heartless.

I guess if Annabeth and Thalia, were both tearing up, I could make sure Zoe wouldn't make into hell, but I am pretty sure she wouldn't anyway. Artemis got up, and brushed herself off. "We should get going, but first." She raised her hands, and a new set of stars appeared in the sky. "The hunter…for Zoe"

We headed back, and on the way, Artemis showed a lot of sadness for Bianca. Not as much as Zoe too. I realized that Nico would be heart broken. Well, poor Nico. At least Annabeth was alive. I realized how much I had missed her, and no, I don't like her.

As we got back, Dionysus held a party, though it was probably to try and sneak some wine, and for this, I went to the stars. I sat on the beach, and looked up at the newest constellation. I hear some rustling, and somebody is in the sand beside me.

"I feel bad, you know. Even though I didn't like Zoe, she was still a person, and her life was taken from her." I said nothing. She sighs. She sits up, and stares at the water. "Hey" I said sitting up. "What's wrong?" "I came back from being a tree, and witness two deaths, and my best friend turned evil" I flinched when she mentioned Luke. I knew that would be a touchy subject.

I stare into her eyes. She had electric blue eyes that were startling. Fireworks crackled in the distance. I paid no attention to them. Our head went closer together.

And we kissed, and no it wasn't a short kiss. It was a kiss, just a kiss. And it was the best feeling ever, just the two of us, in the sand. We broke apart the kiss. She stared at me. She was breathing heavily. "That…was my first kiss. And it was my favorite one" We kissed again, the waves crashing excitedly on the shore, wetting us. But we didn't care. It was the best feeling I've had in all of this chaos. And I planned to savor it.

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Hey guys! I hoped you enjoyed this chapter, I hope I didn't leave you with a cliffhanger. I don't really know how to give those. Anyway… it was still hard to make Percy a character that was dark, but still a funny character. Nothing that has been stated in the previous chapter(s) has changed. I hope you like it!

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