"Well, according to the map, we should be at the apartment complex," Annabeth said to the map, I rolled my eyes, grabbed Annabeths wrist (she shrieked) I pulled her inside the complex, I smiled at the bored looking man behind the counter,

"Hi. Is there a resident under the name Sally Jackson?" I smiled.

He looked up at me and sighed then lazily typed something into his computer,

"Yes she is in room 27 floor 3 have a nice day." He mumbled.

I was waiting for the lift when it binged to say it was here I punched (literally) number 3 Weird music kept playing, the doors opened and there was number 27.

I looked over at Annabeth who sighed and knocked on the sky blue door. It opened to reveal a confused Ms. Jackson.

I smiled at her Annabeth was smiling probably 'cause she was going to see Percy.

"Hello. Are you Sally Jackson?" Stupid question and Annabeth shot me a look saying well duh!

"Yes?" Sally looked really suspicious

"My name is Thalia and this is Annabeth." Realization crossed her face and then we were caught in a giant hug,

"Oh I'm sorry! Percy isn't here… but come in!" Sally opened the door wider.

After 15 minutes Annabeth and I were sitting on the familiar coach, sipping tea and eating Sally's blue chocolate chip cookies.

"I'm very sorry but Percy is…" She looked quite weird,"away on camp." Sally looked nervous Hmmm… weird.

I looked at Annabeth, she looked at me. "Do you know where Bianca and Nico live?" I asked she squirmed.

"Nico is away with Percy." Sally said quickly.

"Ok. Well we need to go umm…" Annabeth looked at me Help!

"Back to our camp!" I finished for her smiling. Sally looks suspicious

"Ooooooooooooooook?" It sounded like a question.

"Bye Sally!" Annabeth said as she gave Sally her cell phone number, before we left for camp.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Time laps! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We were roughly about an hour away from camp when the gryphon swooped down screeching like a banshee, Annabeth whipped her dagger out and I slapped my bracelet and held the shield up to protect me and my best friend.

Then a sound that sounded like cardboard ripping reached my ears then the gryphon screeched.

I lowered my shield slowly only to find a pile of golden dust.

"Hello Demigods" A female voice said off to my left, my head snapped to my left and I saw a bunch of girls wearing only sliver clothes.

"The Hunters" Annabeth breathed.

I knelt down as did Annabeth. A girl around 12 stepped forward,

"Get up girls." Her Moon like eyes marked her down as Lady Artemis.

I stood up, unsure what to do, Lady Artemis looked at us,

"Do you want to join the Hunters?" Annabeth looked at me, unsure, then she shook her head,

"No thank you Lady Artemis." She said politely I thought about it, no men, no love I sighed then nodded

"Yes I would my Lady" Annabeth gasped Artemis beckoned me forward, I obliged and she whispered the lines I had to say,

I repeated them.

"I accept."

I felt a tingly sensation run down my spine I opened my eyes and looked at Annabeth.

Annabeth stared at me, "Well? Do I look different?" I asked.

"No, not really Thalia. Just, I won't be seeing you for a while Thalia."

She pulled me into a hug and we cried together.

Artemis gently pulled Annabeth and me apart

"We will accompany you to Camp Half-Blood"

Artemis said as she started to walk past us and we followed her to Half-Blood hill,

where Annabeth hugged me goodbye, Then, she disappeared down to Camp… Alone.

Ok I wrote this Chapter for Strawberry Moppet, she and I have been Pming each other and she helped me through this tough time, my Mum and Dad maybe splitting up so sorry if this Chapter was a little bad. It's just… I love my mum and it hurts that my dad hurt her like that. Bye!

~~ Marie~~