me: Rick Riordan guess what!

RR: What?

me: I own the Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus Series!

RR: OK *waves hand and water comes up and douses me* DO YOU OWN IT NOW PUNK? HUH DO YA?

(in otherwords I don't own any characters except ELLA. ELLA IS MINE)

After lunch, at around five o'clock, Ella went down to the stables to say hi to Eclipse. Once she got to the stables two campers from the Apollo cabin, along with the camp activities director, Chiron (A/N: For those who dont know Chiron is a centaur), were next to Eclipse's stable. Eclipse was lying down and shaking from head to hoofs, covered in blankets.

"Chiron, what's going on?"

"Well it appears that, um you call him Eclipse yes?"

Ella nodded.

"Well it appears that Eclipse is sick, so sick he refuses to eat the nectar and abrosia we are trying to feed him. My dear, he has simply lost the will to live." Chiron confirmed.

Ella never realized it was this serious. She new he was sick but, not living? She refused to think of it. This pegasus wasn't going to abandon her like her mother did. No she wouldn't let it slip away, not again.

"Let me talk to him," She looked to Chiron. "alone. But leave the nectar and ambrosia."

"Ok Ella, try if you must. But know that it might be his time, you can't change The Fate's decision." He warned.

Once Chiron and the two healers from the Apollo cabin left, Ella approached Eclipse cautiously, using soothing tones in her voice.

"Ok Eclipse, it's just you and me now. No need to be worried. Everything is going to be ok."

She knelt next to him and stroked his head. She tilted it up and slowly brought the ambrosia square to his mouth, all while saying:

"See Eclipse? I got a treat for you. Hey, once I feed you this, we can go flying. Doesn't that sound good boy? I bet it does considering I haven't ridden you yet."

Eclipse took just a sliver of the ambrosia, stood up, shook the blankets off, and knelt, waiting for her to get on. Ella got on his back and trotted out to the open pasture. Once there they took off. Flying.

Eclipse was having a blast making Ella dizzy. He was doing all sorts of fancy tricks. They flew over the Big House, and Chiron reared up on his hind legs in approval. After they were done with their little joy ride, Ella took Eclipse back to the pasture.

When they reached the pasture, after Ella had already gotton off, the black pegasus cantered to his stable. Ella ran after him. Eclipse collapsed on the hay bed. He was breathing fast. She attempted giving him more ambrosia, but he refused.

Ella started crying. She wailed "Come on! You have to take this! Please!"

She curled up into a ball next to his neck and hugged him. Eclipse put his head on her shoulder and sighed. As if to say, You rode me, you should be happy. I held on a little bit longer, just for you. He sighed one last breath, and closed his eyes.

Ella was still sobbing into the pegasus's black mane.

~One Hour Later~

She didn't know how long it had been before they found her, she guessed probably an hour. Chiron trotted up to her "Ella, where-" He noticed the dead pegasus. "Come on, your friends have been worried."

Chiron knelt and gently picked her up and put her on his back. Ella sobbed until she couldn't sob anymore. Chiron trotted over to the Big House and set her on the sofa. Shortly after, Annabeth, Piper, and Leo burst into the room riding Chiron.

"Oh my gods!" Annabeth exclaimed. "Ella, what, where-"

Chiron took them to another room, and shut the door behind them. Probably to explain what had happened.

When they came out, Annabeth's and Piper's eyes were red and puffy already. And they had only been in that room, for what, five minutes? Leo, on the other hand was smiling weakly. As if trying not to let the the tears leakout, for his eyes were glossy. Ella didn't blame him, crying with a bunch of girls? Not very macho.

"I'm - well he had a good run for it, right?" Leo said. "But you actually rode him? How cool is that! No one believed he was rideable because well, you know...two pegasus flights in one day! Ella, you're too flight happy."

Ella managed a weak smile, then, all of a sudden, she felt rage. Not toward Leo or the pegasus, but to life in general. Just like when parents say life isn't fair. Well it's true. But people don't realize it until they lose someone very close to them. Why even live if people know they will die?

Ella abruptly stood. "I'm going to the sword areana."

~Sword Areana~

Once she reached the sword areana, she pulled out her retractable sword. It was nothing special, it started as a dagger and turned into a sword. When you directly pushed the heart-shaped carving, it grew into a sword.

She started slashing at all the dummies. Each slash represented something in her life that was terrible. Each time she struck she would say it aloud.

"This one is for mom leaving!" SLASH "Eclipse dying! Dad dying! Drew!" SLASH SLASH SLASH "This one is for life!" SLASH.

"Oh don't stop there, hon. Please continue slashing away your pain."

Ella turned and came face to face with Drew and her two friends. You would think she would stop bullying people after Piper became in charge of her cabin. But she still took her anger out on the minor demigod kids.

"What do you want?" Ella demanded.

"Ooh, fiesty. Oh, I just came by to tell you that I heard about Eclispe. Why did you care about some stupid pegasus? He never did anything useful. Just a stupid. Sick. Pathetic. Pegasus!"

Ella thought she heard something in the bushes, probably just a rabbit.

Drew shoved her. "Come on girl, fight back."

Ella concentrated on not falling under the charmspeak. "No, I don't believe in fighting unless absolutly necessary."

Drew shoved her harder. "You have the advantage though. You have the weapon."

"No."

Drew shoved her, hard, into the pavement. Ella's elbows were already numb from the impact.

"Ahh! One of her hands is on fire!" one of Drew's friends exclaimed.

Drew looked startled but masked it with smug. "Oh, so you are a fire user huh? Just like Leo."

"Wait...Leo has this power too?"

"Yeah, but you know what they say about fire users? They only destroy. So I better take care of this little situation."

0.0 CLIFF HANGER! (lol)

Sorry it is short. But I want to have enough to work with for the *cough* next chapters *cough*

Anyway...REVIEW PLEASE MAKE ME FEEL LOVED

OR TERRIBLE. (anyway works)

But seriously, if you're going to tell me something is bad. say it in a NICE way.

OMG! My underarms are sweaty...

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