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CHAPTER 7

Jaycee was ready for the day to be over. She needed to sneak out and shoot some targets to blow off steam. Just thinking about shooting got her rubbing her necklace between her fingers. A gift from her dad.

The necklace was that of an owl. When you twisted the black obsidian eyes a certain way, her quiver would form strapped to her side, full of the magical arrows, and her bow would be strapped to her back. All she had to do was find the button that symbolized the sun and it'd turn back into her owl necklace.

Why the owl, Jaycee had no idea. Maybe Apollo knew that she had a slight insomnia problem. She'd been called a night owl before.

Lucky for her, the end of the school day came fast. As soon as she and the rest of the class were dismissed, she got up quickly, irritated with having to wear this cursed skirt and how it restrained more fluent movement, and walked out fast.

She was out of the school building and heading to the woods behind Anubis house (After changing into something more comfortable, of course). She looked left and right, as though crossing the street, then looked behind her to make sure no one, not even a fellow demigod, had followed her.

Jaycee sighed in relief as she plunged into the brush, twisting the eyes of the owl, and having her bow and arrows spring out faster than the speed of light.

Little did she know, she was being watched after all…..

For Eddie had been watching through the window, curious as to why she was heading into the woods.

Eddie ran through the house looking for someone of Sibuna to tell of what he just saw.

He saw Joy sitting on the sofa, reading her magazine. He passed Mara-who he didn't think was the best to tell this information to. Who he needed was Nina, or Fabian, or his girlfriend Patricia. Any of them would listen without saying he was seeing things.

He ran into his room, looking for Fabian. He saw a boy in the room with the dark hair like Fabian's and Eddie sighed in relief.

"Fabian! You'll never believe what I just saw! Jaycee was heading into the woods and-" Eddie stopped as the boy turned around and Eddie wasn't staring back into the chocolate brown eyes of Fabian Rutter.

Instead, he was staring into the sea-green eyes of…Percy Jackson.

Uh Oh was Eddie's last thought before he ran out of the room with a wide-eyed Percy chasing after him.

Connor was on his way back to the house from searching for Jaycee when his more sensitive ears picked up the familiar sound of arrows firing.

He turned his head towards the woods, where he saw a nearly invisible footprint indented in the ground. He examined it for a minute before deciding that it was the footprint of Jaycee's All-Star's. Connor headed into the woods following the nearly invisible footprints, unknowing that he was being followed at a distance by Fabian Rutter and Nina Martin.

Nina stared curiously at Connor before whispering to Fabian.

"Are you sure? What if he's not part of the whole…..demigod thing?" She questioned her boyfriend.

"Well, he did come with Annabeth and Percy, and they all seemed to know each other already. And remember when Percy stopped himself at dinner? Did you see the looks he got from the others?" Fabian countered.

Nina was about to respond when the thought came to her. She hadn't noticed the looks that the others had given Percy. Surely Annabeth would have, if they meant to keep it a secret, but Jaycee, Travis, and Connor? Why would they if they weren't part of it?

"Don't forget about…the other thing," She reminded him yet again.

"Nina, calm down. Whoever 'He' is, he's not going to get whatever it is he's after." Fabian seemed on edge. He didn't mention anything about 'they who see the truth'. He was scared of what 'truth' they saw.

Nina studied her boyfriend's face before nodding.

"You're right. I'm being paranoid. Again," She added, nodding her head to the side and back.

Fabian and Nina then crept forward in silence, following after an unsuspecting Connor Stoll.

Connor suddenly stopped and spun around, clenching his hands into fists and holding them up in a defensive position.

"Who's there? And I know someone is! I heard you!" He called into the trees. Connor was about to start searching when there was another sound behind him, making Nina sigh in relief.

Jaycee had jumped down from the tree, two arrows notched in a bow that Fabian was fairly certain she wasn't supposed to have.

Jaycee had the string pulled back and Connor raised his hands in surrender. Jaycee hissed something in Ancient Greek; sounding like she was mumbling and saying nonsense to Fabian and Nina, but Connor seemed to understand.

Connor put his fists back up, standing out of Jaycee's line of fire. When Fabian and Nina looked through the brush to see the two, the arrows were aimed…

At them.

"I know you're there! Come out of hiding unless you want arrows where the sun don't shine!" Jaycee called. Fabian looked at Nina in defeat. Nina shook her head 'No', but Fabian came out of hiding.

"Why do you have a bow? I'm pretty sure it's not allowed at school!" Fabian said, his hands raised in surrender.

"Nina!" Jaycee called again, angry and irritated. "Get out! I know you're there!"

Nina-not wanting an armed and angry girl on her hands-came out from behind the tree, her hands up in defeat.

"Why are you here?" Jaycee demanded from all three. "Why did you follow me?"

Connor looked at her in disbelief. "I was looking for you! I couldn't find you anywhere! I needed to talk to in private."

Jaycee eyed him and mouthed, 'Later', then glared at Fabian and Nina.

"We were….sent to look for you, as well! Trudy needed your help with….setting the table! Yeah, that's it." Nina laughed nervously. Jaycee knew they were lying, but she nodded hesitantly.

"Well, you can go tell Trudy that I'll be in, in a minute."

Fabian and Nina were reluctant to leave at all, but when Jaycee didn't lower her bow, they decided to head back. They caught a few words though. Including something about gods, demigods, and monsters.

"I'm surprised the monsters haven't come for us yet," was the last thing they heard before they were out of earshot completely, and the woods and trees behind them.

But the scene in front of them wasn't much better than the last.


~*J.C*~