Chapter 4-Part 1 – CHRIS POV

And that brings things to now, Victoria on watch, and me trying to close my eyes.

I don't dream like the others do, all three of them say it's not just a dream it's a vision sometimes of the past, and sometimes of the future, sometimes a message from our parents.

But I don't, I think it's because I'm a son of Thanatos, I just dream of darkness, I float around, relive memories of my own choosing, and when I'm about to wake up I see this little white light, I go through it and I wake up, it's very weird I know, but it's what happens.

I woke up the way I had gone to sleep that night, I gently woke Elizabeth up, she stared into my eyes and I couldn't help but smile, and when she smiled back I realized my arms were still on her shoulders, I blushed and took them off. Then to spare an awkward silence, I woke the others up, we shared some granola bars, and set off. But we only got a few blocks before, our day was officially ruined. A hell-hound was just a few feet away; it had just bounded out of the shadows, right in front of us. We tried to step back slowly and quietly, but that didn't work, it turned around and barred its fangs. I hate it when they do that. We turned and sprinted, down an alley, when a thought struck me.

"Fire Escape!" I yelled. Thank god Victoria understood, she ran at a fire escape jumped and yanked the ladder down. She started climbing, then William, then me, then Elizabeth. But then the hell-hound jumped and caught Elizabeth's leg she fell, but thankfully, it was only one rung. Victoria and William were already up, but Elizabeth was having trouble climbing. So I jumped, stupidest thing I've ever done, well actually about seventh stupidest thing I've ever done.

WHAT, I done a lot of stupid stuff.

I back flipped onto the beast's back, and it started bucking like a bronco. It felt a lot worse than a mechanical bull. Elizabeth was up now on the third floor fire escape. I jumped off, and ran to the fire escape, I started climbing, got to the second floor, and sat down, quite relieved. Then I heard Elizabeth scream. I bounded up the stairs, to see her on the floor, screaming, pointing ove the side of the railing. The hell-hound had leapt to the first floor ledge, and was dangling like little dogs do when they're climbing a sofa, but when it's a hell-hound it is as nowhere as cute as when a little dog does it.

I was sure her scream would get some unwanted attention and I was right, a boy about my age opened the window to see us, he had black hair and sea-green eyes (A/N: Come on, it is a Percy Jackson fanfic), he looked confused, when he saw Elizabeth he looked scared. Then he saw the hell-hound and well that last emotion got booted up a 100%. The hell-hound was almost on the third floor, right where we were. Then another idea popped into my head.

"GET IN! NOW!" I yelled, I pushed William in, the random boy must've been freaking out, William helped Victoria get Elizabeth through the window, then Victoria, went through. Then as I was about to go through, the fire escape wobbled and collapsed under the hell-hounds weight, and I went tumbling down with the mangled iron what used to be fire escape, and a massive hell-hound. And for the third time in less than 24 hours, I blacked out again.

Just a line break, don't mind me

I woke up, drained, a boy, the boy was hovering above me. His black hair was dangling in front of his sea-green eyes. I tried to move, to get away from this stranger, but when I tried he jumped up and put his hand on my chest, and gently pushed me back down.

"Please rest, you need to be careful…You might injure yourself if you push too hard…And you wouldn't want to do that your friends, they're already scared to death right now."

"My friends… where are they, WHERE ARE THEY!"

"Relax, it's okay, it's okay. Your friends are perfectly fine, it's you who's hurt, and you need to rest."

He rested my head on a pillow, then pulled the blanket up to my mid-chest.

"Who are you?"

"My name is Percy Jackson, I'm a half-blood too, son of Poseidon. Okay. You can trust me."

"Percy Jackson?!"

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