Chapter 4

The Trio

The trio had been running for a long time and were finally about to get to their safe house near Jamestown. The girl in front was running for her life her blue eyes sparking with panic as she ran through the trees, only looking back to make sure her friends were still there behind her.

A 14 year-old boy with sandy blonde hair and blue eyes was running behind her with a beaten and bruised 7 year-old girl with curly blonde hair on his back, her leg limp and flying around, with bite marks on it.

They had been ambushed by a huge swarm of monsters and though they managed to kill quite a few they eventually had to retreat when they realized they were outnumbered and the little girl had been bitten by a hellhound. It was a miracle the seven year-old still had her leg. They had been running ever since and the monsters were still on their tail.

"How much farther Thalia?" Luke shouted from behind her starting to tire from carrying the girl. "I don't think Annabeth can last much longer."

"Just a bit more, we're almost there." Thalia yelled back, just as she said that they came out of the woods near the James riverside. Right to their left the safe house they had set up, a small shack at the edge of the woods.

Thalia dashed for the safe house as Luke followed her. They ran inside and barricaded the door with a table from the corner. She turned around and took a look at her friends. Luke was exhausted but tried, and failed to hide it.

Annabeth was battered and bruised and was still losing a lot of blood, she was in no shape to fight and Thalia was against letting her fight to begin with. Given how things were she probably wasn't going to hold out for much longer.

Thalia herself was tried and injured and would be able to fight for long,

"This is it," She thought "This is our last stand, but if I'm gonna die I'll die for my family."

That's when everything went crazy. Suddenly there was a loud, roar that sounded like nothing she had ever heard before. A loud explosion soon followed as the monsters howled in pain. Thalia was afraid to open the door but as the noise died down she gathered her courage and opened the door. What she saw shocked her.

She was greeted with the sight of a sixteen year-old boy holding a black katana surrounded by golden dust and smoking craters. There was a small boy behind him that was stuck in awe since he witnessed what happened, the older boy just had a casual look on his face as if nothing interesting happened.

Thalia just couldn't believe her eyes. There must have been at least 50 monsters chasing them and he wiped them all out in less than the 2 minutes they were in the safe house. She wanted to sound bold and intimidating but all she could manage was a small "W-Who are you… what do you want?"

The stranger turned to her, smiled, and gently said "Don't worry I'm a friend, I just wanted to help. My name is Jason, my little friend here is Percy. We were waiting at the train station when for some reason I smelled ozone and heard the monsters charging through the woods. I decided to run over here to see what was happening and help and here we are." He finished as his sword turned into a key on his belt loop.

Thalia shuddered when he mention his name as it reminded her of her little brother that she lost thanks to her mother's insanity. This obviously wasn't him since he was much older but the name still carried a lot of weight with it for her. Jason notice her discomfort but decided it was best not to bother her when he really didn't know her. She continued to compose herself to keep asking questions

"How did you kill all of those monsters there must have been at least 50 of them and you got rid of them in less than 2 minutes." Thalia asked scared of the answer she might get thinking he might be something worse than the monsters.

"74,"

"Wha-?"

"There were 74 monsters, I only killed them so quickly because I caught them of guard, I may not be a demigod but I have more than my fair share of tricks" Jason said lighting a flame on his fingertip. He then noticed that Thalia was injured.

"You look like you need some help, lets head inside and I'll help you with your injuries." He said to a very puzzled Thalia. She was still trying to wrap her mind around how one person, even with fire powers, was able to beat so many monster so fast. Wait he said he isn't a demigod, and he doesn't look like a monster and doesn't seem like he wanted to harm anyone, he even had a little kid around Annabeth's age so he couldn't be evil. So how did he manage to kill them all?

"Ok" she said leading him inside. As she stepped inside she immediately started to panic at the sight of her friends. Luke had passed out from exhaustion, and Annabeth was still bleeding and looking extremely faint. She broke down crying by the door.

As Jason stepped inside with Percy he was surprised to see Thalia crying though he soon saw why. He quickly took off his backpack and reached for a pouch attached to his belt. He ran towards the little girl and fed her a bean from the pouch. He helped her chew and swallow. A second later her wounds closed up and the color returned to her face. She started to wake up and was startled by the stranger looming over her.

Thalia was just dumbstruck at what Jason did as he instantly healed Annabeth and had just taken down a swarm of monsters. If she didn't know better she'd think he was a god, but he didn't radiate the same type of power her father did when she had met him. He gave of a type of feeling that exerts power but seemed to protect people rather than try to dominate them. But those thought were forgotten when she remembered that Annabeth was still alive and was suddenly overtaken with joy.

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