Chapter 4
I ran into the streets, and sure enough the army was advancing quickly. I shot arrows until my quiver was empty then drew my sword. I'd never been great with a sword and probably only three or four monsters later I was on the ground in immense pain. What had happened? I felt like I needed to get up, but I couldn't move. All of a sudden I heard a loud dog's call and felt energized to stand. "Nico?" I heard Percy call and sure enough Nico Di Angelo came riding in on a hellhound. He made a few sarcastic comments that I didn't hear when suddenly Hades himself joined him. Kronos had left to take care of Olympus. I saw a Dracaena going behind Nico and ran. I stabbed it in the back and said, "You owe me Mr. Angel." He spun around confused then saw me smiling at him, "Lila?" He asked. I grinned brighter, "Hunter of Artemis at your service." We stood back to back like we had been fighting together for years. My smile faded when I saw Phoebe laying on the ground with a sword in her stomach. I ran up to her and saw she was trying to stand. "No." I told her, "Stay down stay safe." She looked like she would argue, but she sighed and said, "Take my quiver. I'm in no shape to fight." I nodded and pulled it carefully off her back. I turned to her one more time before running off, "Hey don't die on me." I ran and found Nico fighting a Hyperborean giant. I ran up and stabbed the thing in the back leaving the sword in the carcass. I drew my bow happy to have arrows again. "Lila," he said, "Maybe we can drive them back again." I shook my head, "No, it's now or never. I can just tell." I smiled, "I do have an idea though. HUNTERS TO ME!" Only about ten girls ran over and I swore. "Okay," I said as calm as possible, "To get rid of the rest of the Hyperboreans we need the element of surprise. Hunters keep shooting at a single target while Angel boy here stabs it in the back." One of the hunters stifled a laugh, "Angel Boy?" I pointed out the first target without answering and the Hunters began to shoot. Nico ran around back slashing at any other monsters in his way. I shot the thing in the eye just seconds before it had a pitch black sword through it. We continued the tactic until we started to run out of arrows. "Find any arrows you can," I ordered the hunters, "And if you have to you all have knives and swords." They nodded and I found myself back to back with Nico again. "Hey Angel Boy can you summon a couple more of those skeletons?" He looked at me, "What do you have in mind?" He summoned enough to overwhelm most of the monsters then he passed out. I followed suit exhausted hoping Phoebe and the rest of the hunters would be okay. I woke up at the same time as Nico. We stood up and he got plowed into by the girl with bright red hair. "Rachel!" He said, "Where are you going?" She looked dead serious, "Camp." He blinked, "Wait what? Rachel you're a mortal you'll die if you try to get in." She shook her head, "I have to. Tell Percy I'm taking Blackjack." And with that she ran off. Nico ran towards the Empire state without a second thought and I followed him. "It's Rachel," He told Percy, "I just ran into her down on 32nd street." Annabeth frowned, "What's she done this time?" Nico looked really worried, "It's where she's gone. I told her she would die if she tried, but she insisted. She just took Blackjack and…" Percy turned bright red, "She took my pegasus?" Nico nodded, "She's heading to Half-Blood Hill. She said she had to get to camp." They ran out and I didn't follow them. I had to find Phoebe. And I did she was laying in the street not moving and bleeding heavily. I was no healer, but I grabbed bandages and prayed as hard as I could to my father. I got lucky after a few minutes she woke up and I ran to find nectar. When I got back she was trying to stand. I poured it over her injures and she seemed in less pain. "Thank you," she coughed out. We sat there in silence until Thalia came down from Olympus on crutches. "Thalia!" I yelled, "What happened?" She started laughing which was nice to hear and eventually said, "A rock. All those monsters and titans, and I get bested by a rock." I started laughing along with her. "We are going to have to stay at camp until I heal which stinks." I rolled my eyes, "Oh everyone else will be overjoyed about that." We laughed again. I looked at Phoebe sleeping on the ground, "On second thought everyone might need a place to heal." She nodded, "Ya Percy is the only uninjured one in the war." I felt suddenly tired and said, "Night Thalia," before passing out.
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