I'm so very sorry about never getting to update on this story. I had a whole bunch of chapters prepared, but my laptop was attacked by the Trojans. So imma just try something new. Who knows, maybe I'll like using the third person perspective. It'll just be a couple chapters though. Some will still be individual perspectives though such as flashbacks and stuff. I'm also gonna try and make them longer. So now that that's out of the way, onto the story!

DISCLAIMER: Based off of Mr. Rick Riordan's series.

Thalia headed for her cabin. It had been a while since she had been to camp, but she still remembered where everything was. She decided to take a detour and just walk around the whole camp. Chiron won't mind, she thought. She walked over to the Dining Pavilion, which was now clean considering right after Jace had stormed off, Chiron and Mr. D popped out of nowhere.

Jace was different than other guys. It's not like she liked him that way or anything, but she knew that he was like Percy. Maybe Lady Artemis might have approved of him. When she looked into any other guys' eyes, she would see lust and perverseness. When she looked into Jace's eyes she saw a broken guy. A guy who'd been through a lot and was still trying to stay strong, but was so close to breaking at the same time. Just like me.

Thalia was so deep in thought that she didn't even notice where she was. Out of habit, she had wandered to a grey cabin with very familiar white curtains. She had walked all the way to Athena's Cabin. Usually, right when she arrived at camp, she would head straight to greet Annabeth and along with Annabeth was usually Percy.

An aching feeling spread through Thalia's heart. She hadn't even realized how much she missed them. I mean sure, she'd mourned for about a day, but she had to focus or the Hunt would leave her behind. Tears formed in Thalia's eyes. She blinked them away and kept walking.

She walked to her the hill where her tree used to be, and where the Golden Fleece now lays. There was Peleus wide awake and guarding the Fleece.

"Hey buddy," Thalia said as she pet his head. "How you been?"

Peleus snorted at her as if to say that things were okay. Thalia still vividly remembered how she had turned from a tree back into a person.

Thalia Tree POV

I watched as Annabeth sat down next to my trunk. She had been crying all night while guarding me. Over and over again she kept on saying, "Please don't leave me." My heart ached. My branches stretched out to her, longing to capture my little sister in my arms and tell her that I'm not going anywhere.

The Golden Fleece was working and I kept getting stronger by the minute. Before Clarisse had arrived with the Fleece, I could feel my soul leaving the tree. I could see Hades reaching out to grab me. Once they put the Fleece on me, I felt a rush of energy flow through me.

Ever since then, I've been feeling better than I had in years. Right now, I could almost feel human again. There was a little rustling from afar. Annabeth quickly got up and took out her knife. The knife Luke had given her when she was still a little girl.

"One sec Thalia. Lemme go check this out. Be right back." She walked away from me. There was a hot burn throughout my whole body. All of a sudden, I felt different. It didn't feel like I was a tree anymore. I felt human. I WAS human. I could still feel the pain throughout my body when all those monsters attacked me, the day my father turned me into a tree.

I could hear Annabeth's muffled scream. I guess my ears were still adjusting? I wanted to open my eyes, but couldn't. The pain was too much. There was rustling all around me. Annabeth was on watch and they probably thought she was being attacked or something. I heard hooves. It must've been Chiron. No one did anything. For a second, there was only silence. Then there was one person who ran towards me. Their presence seemed somewhat familiar.

Whoever they were, they put their hand on my forehead. "She needs nectar and ambrosia," a boy's voice said. He sounded somewhere around 13 years old. In the distance I could hear Annabeth crying. He took my by my shoulders and put me in a sitting position, and let me tell you, it hurt like hell. No one responded to his request. "Come on!" he yelled again. "What's wrong with you people? Let's get her to the Big House."

The Big House. That's where we were headed, but I never made it. I tried to open my eyes, desperate to see the Big House, and Annabeth, hell I'd be happy to see anyone I knew. I took a shaky breath and opened my eyes. The breath ended up turned into a cough.

"Who-" I began to ask, but couldn't form the whole sentence. My eyes adjusted to the dark. Holding me steady was a boy with jet dark black hair and friendly sea green eyes.

"I'm Percy," he said. "You're safe now." For some odd reason, I believed him. The last guy I believed was Luke, and we all know how that's going...

"Strangest dream.." I said, trying to form a sentence.

"It's okay."

I shook my head, which sent a fire of burning pain. "Dying," I muttered.

"No," he shook his head in reply. "You're okay. What's your name?" Who was this that he didn't know who I was? I mean I'm only one of the only children of the Big Three. I stared into his eyes to see if he was serious. Apparently he was.

"I am Thalia," I said clearly. "Daughter of Zeus." His face was priceless, yet it a hint of relief spread across his face. I finally had control of my body again and was able to sit up by myself. He noticed that he was still holding me by the shoulders and blushed. Really? Leave it to a guy to make things awkward.
I raised my eyebrows at him. "You planning on telling me who you are?"

"Oh uhh yea. Sorry," he stuck his hand out. "I'm Percy. Son of Poseidon."

It dawned on me that he did somewhat resemble Uncle Poseidon. It also dawned on me that we could either be best friends, or mortal enemies. I mean, our dads were the two most powerful gods. Well my dad is more powerful, but let's not get into that argument or I'll be going on forever.

I took his hand in mine and shook it. "Nice to meet you. I guess,"

"Yeah," he smiled goofily at me and I thought to myself, Maybe we could get along.

I looked around and saw the beauty of camp, my home. The sun was just rising and campers were starting to come out of their cabins, wondering what all the commotion was about. To the right of me was none other than the two of the last people I had seen before I turned into a tree. There was Grover, his mouth agape, and Annabeth with tears streaming down her face and her hand over her mouth. Chiron was towering over them looking at me like I would be an issue eventually, but look went away soon after he realized I noticed it.

I wanted to go over to Annabeth, seeing as she was too much in shock to come over to me, so I tried to get up. First try, my legs felt like jelly and Percy caught me before I fell over completely. Second time wasn't that bad I was adjusting to the feeling of actually having legs again. Gods, it felt amazing. Annabeth and Grover were about a few feet away, so it took a lot of my energy. But it was worth it. About halfway, Percy slowly let go of me and I started walking by myself. in every single step I felt a new strength surging in me, and by the time I made it to Annabeth, I was actually walking like a normal person.

First I looked at Grover. I reached out and shut his mouth. "Shut your mouth Goat Boy. You'll catch flies." he chuckled awkwardly.

"Listen Thalia-" I knew he was about to apologize and go on and on, so I stopped him.

"It's okay Goat Boy," His eyes teared up. I rolled my eyes.

"Oh my gods Grover. Don't get all emotional on me."

"Yea yea," he stuttered, wiping away his newly formed tears hastily.

I turned over to Annabeth. The tears had slowed down a little, but the were still going pretty fast. "Hey," I said to her.

"Hi," she croaked out. Then she ran over and engulfed me in this huge hug. It took me a while to come back to my senses considering she almost squeezed the life out of me, but when I did, I hugged her like there was no tomorrow. It all felt so surreal. I didn't want to let go. I mean, what if this wasn't really happening? What if I was just dreaming? My heart couldn't take any more pain.

I soon realized that I, too, was crying. We just stood there for a while trying to grasp that this was really happening. I was actually back. When we finally let go, we both wiped our tears away. She grinned like crazy and grabbed my hand. "C'mon," she said excitedly.

"Where are we going?" I asked stupidly.

She stared at me blankly. "I'm going to show you around camp?"

"Ohhhh," I said. She rolled her eyes and smiled. "Well I'm sorry I'm not a Wise Girl like you are." I stuck my tongue out her.

I felt a hand on my shoulder and flinched. Guess my body was still in battle mode or something because I took the hand and flipped the person and they landed on their back. "Ouch," mumbled Percy. I stifled a laugh and looked over at Annabeth. She was biting her lip in an effort to stop the laughing. We both failed and started bursting out in laughter. Percy turned beet red and pouted. I offered him my hand and helped him up. Annabeth came over and punched his shoulder.

"Get over it Seaweed Brain." He stuck his bottom lip out and stomped his feet.

"Not fair," he whined.

"Well, life's not fair."

Annabeth grabbed my arm and dragged me away. I noticed how she was slightly blushing around Percy. I looked back at Percy, and he too, was blushing. He stared at Annabeth until he noticed me looking at him. Then he awkwardly looked away. Well, it wasn't that hard to put two and two together so once we were out of hearing distance, "Oh my gods!" I yelled at her.

Her eyes widened and she looked at me like I was crazy. "What?" I started smirking like crazy.

"Nothing."

"Ugh Thals. You know I hate when people do that."

"Exactly."

"Tell meeeee."

"No thanks."

"Nope."

"Please?"

"Hmmm..." I pretended to think about it. "No!"

"Ugh!" She prepared to stomp away. I started laughing like crazy. People started looking at me weirdly. "You think this is funny Thalia Grace?" I winced at my surname.

"Gods Annabeth. Could you be any louder? What if somebody heard?" I hissed.

She smirked. "HEY EVERYBODY. THALIA'S LAST NAME IS GR-"

"FINE! I'll tell you."

"I'm waiting," She crossed her hands and leaned on her hip. I rolled my eyes.

"Fine. Fine." I got closer to her and whispered, "You like him don't you?"

Her eyes widened and she blushed. "Pfffft," she laughed and blushed even more, "What would make you think I liked Percy?"

I raised my eyebrow and smiled in triumph. "Who said anything about Percy?" Her face was priceless. "Thalia-1, Annabeth-0." She glared at me.

"I'll get you back for this Grace."

I made a scared face. "Ooooh. Last names. So threatening. Annabeth Chase is out to get me! Whatever shall I do?" I know people usually see me as the tough girl who strong, fearless, and always cranky, but it was different with Annabeth. She was my little sister. Of course I treated her differently. She punched me in the shoulder. I stopped walking and took everything in. Camp, my friends, just the fact that I was human again. I took a deep breath. It's good to be home.

Thalia stood there for a while just petting Peleus until she heard rustling from the other side of the tree. Her Hunter skills kicking in, she immediately got out her bow and arrow magically because of the blessing of Artemis. A thought occurred to her. Why didn't I get out my bow when the manticore attacked me? Slowly she circled around the tree, her arrow coming face to face with

"Oh my gods. What the hades are you doing out here Jace?" she put down her bow, but at the same time never let her guard down. Last time she was at this tree it had been with the same boy but she had almost died the last time.

He tried to laugh, but it sounded more like a choke. "I come here to relax. It's peaceful here. Well it used to be, until the parts where a manticore almost killed me and now this very deadly girl is pointing her arrow at me."

"Sorry," Thalia apologized. She stared off into the distance. "I guess I haven't been the same since I was attacked. He said a lot of things that got to me. It takes a lot to get to me."

Jace nodded his head as if to say he understands. He felt like he had a connection to this girl. Should I tell her now? How though? It's kinda creepy if I just go up to her and say, "Hey! A couple hours before you arrived at camp I was dreaming about you. Yeah! I saw you wandering alone in the forest while I was half naked." Jace observed her face as she stared off into the distance. He could tell that she was one of those girls who always had that strong wall up that blocked anyone for ever getting close to their feelings. He knew because he too, had that wall. He knew that you only have that wall up if you've been hurt before.

"I understand," he said. "That's happened to me before. I had just ran away from home. I had no idea where the hades I was going, but it was better than putting my family in danger. One day while I was at school, I got a call that my house was robbed. I ran straight home and found my mom and my two baby sisters hiding in the corner refusing to se anyone or let anyone touch them. The weird thing was, it was just my room that was trashed. It was then I realized that whoever, or whatever in this case, that got in my house, was looking for me. At that moment I knew that I was a danger to my family and people around me. I ran away that night." He had no idea why he was telling Thalia this, but by the end of his story he was holding back sobs. Thalia sadly looked at Jace and put her hand on his shoulder. "I haven't seen them ever since."

"Wow," Thalia said softly."I wish I was like that. I ran awy cause my mom was a bitch who hated me. And I later figured out that she gave away my brother because of her grudge against my father. But once I got the news that she died, I still felt bad for what I did to her. The way I treated her." Thalia also had no idea why she was just revealing her story to some random person, a guy no less.

They both sat down next to Thalia's tree and just vented for a while. Got to know each other. Slowly, both their walls came down and they were talking like old friends. It had been about 5 hours already when the sun started to come up. Jace saw how tired Thalia was getting so he said they should sleep now. Chiron favoured both of them so he would probably let them sleep in. Surprisingly, Thalia hugged Jace as a goodnight. Right when they came apart, there was a load roar coming from the bottom of the hill. Thalia got out her bow and Jace got out his bracelet.

"Jace. Now's not the time for jewelry." Thalia yelled at him. Jace smirked. He loved it when he got to show off his weapon. The bracelet was made up of two rings. When he twisted the top one, a sword appeared in his hands. Thalia looked at it with admiration. She shrugged off her amazement. "Not bad kid."
And with that they both ran down the hill, ready to attack whatever the danger down there was.