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Mac

As the body fell, I somewhat recognized him. I could tell that this was the Percy Jackson, Hero of Olympus, the "Lightning Thief", Savior of the Golden Fleece, Rescuer of Artemis, and Explorer of the Labyrinth. And he was dead, falling of the Empire State Building. I turned away. I didn't want to see him die. He wasn't a close friend, but he still was a friend, a companion, a comrade. And now he's dead.

I set out, just wandering, when I happen to find this kid fighting a monster, but he was losing. The monster was a telekhine. The kid was medium sized, about 12, with black hair and a black aviator's jacket and although his skin was pale he seemed dark. Oh well, I thought. You can't save every demigod. Where had my sense of loyalty gone? I was once told that my undying sense of loyalty was a major trait of mine, but it seemed to have disappeared with our chances of victory in the battle earlier today.

Anyway, then I recognized the black aviator's jacket. Only one demigod I knew wore an aviator's jacket. Nico di Angelo, the next most powerful demigod alive, the son of Hades, was lying unarmed with a monster at his throat. So silently I snuck up behind him, me being a super-stealthy son of Hermes, and stabbed the monster in the back.

After that, things got kind of interesting. After a pep talk, stealing a bag of enchiladas from this guy that I hate, and a run-in with two satyrs, I'm roaming New York City with a partner, but it wasn't Nico. It was a satyr named Scotty Knight.

He was one of the satyrs who we met at the café and was a half-blood finder. He has been working since he was 6 satyr years, or 3 human year old, which seems like way too long but I'm not one to judge. Anyways, we were just roaming the streets, walking by Madison Square Garden, which if you haven't been to New York City is a giant building that is a basketball stadium, a hockey rink, and a concert floor for popular bands and singers, when Scotty sniffed something that wasn't the Empire State Building. We already scouted it out, and they took over it and were using it as their headquarters, which was so not right. I knew he just kept smelling demigods that betrayed the gods and went to help Kronos. But he smelled someone at MSG. Time to find our first demigod (hopefully).

We walk into the Garden through the front entrance, and we look all around from the entrance. The building is huge and creepy, because nobody is in it. Actually, just our luck, a guy runs in right after us. I look at Scotty, who can smell monsters and demigods alike, but he shook his head. This guy was normal.

"Hey kids," he called in a deep voice. He was tall, about 6'6", muscular, wore sunglasses; just like the security guys in movies. "You're not supposed to be here."

"We're just looking for a friend," I lied easily. I had to learn to lie quickly, my cabin was made up of lies and stolen goods. "We'll be out in a minute. Besides, there's nothing going on here until tonight."

"Fine," he called back, "but if you're not back in an hour, I'm calling the cops. And I'm gonna have to check you for weapons." Now normally this would have been a problem for a sword wielding demigod, but I had the perfect solution. My sheath, which was magical and could hold a few items at once, was invisible, and Scotty was unarmed. So he inspected us, and then let us go.

"So why are you unarmed?" Scotty asked a little worried about what would happen in case of a monster attack.

"I'm not." I said simply. Then I explained the magic invisible sheath. "So where does your nose say we should go?" I asked.

"Right behind us," he said, gesturing at a closed door directly behind me. I took my weapon out and gave him my spare sword.

1…, I gestured, 2…, 3! and we burst into the room. A girl charged out and knocked my sword away. I ran back to get my sword when she called out:

"Mac?" she questioned, blushing a little. "I'm so sorry; I didn't know it was you." I looked up and recognized her immediately. Her name was Lynnette Vernon, but most people just called her Lynn. She had long, straight black hair that ran all the way to the middle of her back, and had stunning hazel green eyes. She was about half a foot shorter than me and was pretty slim. She wore an orange camp T-shirt, jean shorts, and Nikes, but she looked kind of bruised from the battle. Her dad was Hephaestus, god of blacksmiths and fire.

"Hey Lynn." Lynn was one of my best friends at camp since I met her, and I was really glad to see that she was still alive and fighting. She had got to camp a month after I did, and we were the same age. I welcomed her to camp, and that's when we became close friends.

"You're still attached to Phantom, I see," she said gesturing at my sword. Ok, so I named my sword. Well, I thought that Phantom was a cool name. Besides, I loved the sword and I was really good at using it. Plus, with a little bit of help from Lynn, I created it myself.

"Yup. You got better with a sword," I complimented. She blushed again.

"Thanks. You're lucky that I'm on your side," she smirked.

"That's kind of what I wanted to talk about," I said. "Look, we kind of lost really badly-"

"Kind of?" she muttered.

"Anyways…" I continued "I believe the gods would have been taken as prisoners. The Titans are in control. I want to fight back. I already have someone else with me. He's looking in other parts of the city for survivors. Anyone we could find is good. Are you in?" I pleaded. I knew she would join, we were really close friends.

"Will I be the third to join?" she asked jokingly.

"We're paying for pizza if you decide you want to join," I replied.

"You had me at fight back," she said and smiled.

"Great. Now there's a security guard downstairs, and I don't want to keep him waiting. Where's the next demigod Scotty?"

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