Hey! I apologize for not updating for a while, things have been NUTS around here. I give you lots of cookies if you remember what was happening, because, heck, I didn't remember what was happening~

***RECAP***

"Yah. And Caroline- I have to know- what happened to Izzy and Cristina? Are they okay?"

Caroline's eyes widened and she stumbled back a bit.

I could *feel* the fear and sadness roll off of her.

"No-Caroline- what happened to them?!" I said, grabbing her shoulders again, and she pushed me away, and started gripping her shoulders and looking at me with scared eyes. She looked like a beaten animal. And with her wings, I guess she was, in a way.

"Caroline?!" I said, and she fumbled for her bow on her back.

I drew my sword and held it in ready position.

Another feeling hit me- rage.

Oh gods-what happened to her?! To them?!

"Why did you join them Amelia? All these killers. You- aren't one- but they-" she said, and dropped her bow, and she dropped to the ground.

"Caroline? Caroline please be okay!"

"They're here Amelia. They're here for revenge. For -" Caroline's voice was cut off as a metal bolt punched through her shoulder, and her eyes widened.

"GET THEM!"

***BEGIN CHAPTER 4***

Joanne POV

I ducked a tree, and continued running.

There were screams in the distance, and I heard yelling.

I had figure out what was happening- I heard yelling, and what sounded like Hope's voice, but it was so far away, I couldn't hear that well.

I ran towards, and away.

Away from the people following me, chasing me.

*flashback*

"Hey. I want your food." A girl's voice said, an older girl's voice.

"I don't have any. I'm sorry." I said, and, went back to what I was doing.

"It wasn't a question. I am taking your food. Give it to me, and any weapon you have."

"I'm not giving you anything."

"I think you are." She said, and she took out a sharpened rock- obsidian? Where would you get obsidian in a forest?- attached to a piece of metal. A makeshift spear.

"I seriously don't have any." I said, more confidently then I felt.

Maylee took the WORST POSSIBLE moment to speak.

"That's right. Maylee knows we don't have any food. Joanne say Maylee to her that she said no eat bunny bunny."

It took the girl a minute to comprehend just what Maylee was saying.

"Is that girl high or something? What the hell's wrong with her? And what was that-"She moved her make-shift spear closer to my shirt- "About a bunny."

I looked away from the girl and her gods-awful breath to the sound of stretching.

An arrow was pointing through the trees.

"Maylee!" I said nervously, but she just giggled on the tree.

"Tell me!" The girl cried, hysteria hinting in her voice. "That girl a demon or something?! Gimme your FOOD!"

Maylee, queen of AWFUL timing- decided to flip off the branch.

The girl freaked out, trying to stab me, thinking Maylee was attacking her.

I pushed the spear girl away roughly, and stumbled a bit.

Luckily the archer's arrow went wild, because it would have hit Maylee in the eye.

"JOANNE!" Maylee called, and I turned, as she cut my shoulder open with a wild swing of a Spear Girl's blade.

I unsheathed my dagger, and I would stabbed her if my dagger hadn't slipped.

Maylee ran into the lean-to, avoiding the fray, and a arrow hit her leg as she ducked down- probably met for her chest- and begun screaming.

It was HORRIBLE. The cut was probably wasn't worse than, say, a paper cut, but she was screaming like someone was slowly torturing her while showing her the same treatment being done upon her SOULMATE- or something.

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" She screamed, and I cut into the Spear Girl's hand, and my dagger cut through a finger, I think. Blood came out of he hands quickly, and she too was screaming, and I picked up her bow and ran as fast as I could for cover before the girl with the arrows could hit me.

The Spear Girl now looked at me with murderous eyes, and she tried to get up, but screamed. She started crawling towards Maylee's screaming form with a murderous and revengeful look in her eye.

I kept dodging arrows as the other girl begun shooting at me, and Spear Girl was getting close.

I began sweating.

I thought of a million situations in under a minute, and finally I decided on the thing would probably not kill Maylee and I.

Hopefully, like, if-my-plan-does-not-go-well-best-situation, I die.

Good odds. Demigod odds. They always seem to work out with no people dead.

I ran out of the cover of my tree, and I grabbed Spear Girl's shoulders and threw her out of the way, and her nails raked up my arm, leaving white lines from my wrist to my elbow.

Something wet hit my face, but I didn't look.

I ran into the lean-too and shattered the cage of bunnies, and they ran, panicked, out of the lean-too.

I pulled Maylee in. This is how far my plan had gone. I was done.

I took my dagger, which I had managed to hold on too, and cut the top down, and hushed Maylee.

Spear Girl started yelling and I waited….

Spear girl pulled the logs away from our heads.

I threw the spear at her chest, and ran, Maylee in hand, as fast as I could.

***END FLASHBACK**

I turned another corner, and not ten seconds later a arrow stuck out of a tree where I would have been.

Maybe I could lose them in the chaos of whatever was happening.

Cannons were firing off left and right.

I shoved Maylee in a hollowed out tree trunk after arrows stopped firing for a while, and gave her my spear. "Take this and don't die, okay?" I said, and continued running. Hopefully they were following me.

I felt something wrap around my leg, and I hit the ground, the wind knocked out of me, and I sucked in bits of dead leaves.

I coughed them out as I turned quickly to see what I tripped on- or rather, what grabbed me- and I saw a pale hand wrapped around my ankle.

I tried desperately to get my foot AWAY and keep RUNNING- I stood up and tried to run that way, but the thing holding my hand wouldn't move.

Finally, I yanked it free.

The thing- I realized it was a girl- let out a cry of pain, and withdrew its hand, curling into the fetal position.

I realized I was in The Camp's clearing.

People were fighting everywhere.

Three people were fighting a whole mob, and seemed to be losing pretty badly. The three people, anyway.

I looked back towards the girl as a cannon boomed

The girl cried out again, and wound herself even tighter. I groaned, I had to help this girl.

I grabbed her, and immediately her sobs stopped.

I pulled her out of the path, and I almost sighed at my intense luck. There was a hollowed out hole, big enough for one person.

I crawled in it, ignoring the bugs and probable maggots, I dragged her to cover the opening, and she stayed sprawled, almost like a rag doll, and I put her hand in the hole, and I grabbed it. The golden glow of my eyes lit up the two-toned rot of the bark.

I wished to any god or goddess I could think of that Maylee didn't do anything stupid, and lived, like she most likely would do.

Stress and worry made my heart clinch up, the way I would when I left my homework at school, except a hundred hold. Why was I even thinking of homework at a time like this?!

The girl seemed to be getting a bit better, but when another cannon boomed, the progress vanished. I wondered if she would feel the dead.

That would be a scary thought.

Soon, the cannons stopped, and yelling sounded.

The girl started to sit up, and quickly left go of my hand.

I snatched it back quickly, hoping in vain she didn't notice, when a sword blade cut through the tree, cutting it as easily as butter, and a boot kicked it off, letting midday sunlight into my hiding spot.

I was toast.

***End chapter 4***

Again, I am sorry for the lack of updates, but I have a flash drive now, so…YAY! I can work on it ALL THE TIME at school now that my friends got a different lunch time and I'm alone!

Lots of Love,

TigerL1ly81~