So, I have been gone for awhile and I know nothing will make up for that, but I have worked hard on this chapter so I hope you enjoy!

I do not own PJO!


Chapter Seven

The man in the leather outfit just looked at us like he wanted to kill us. "Dad?" Hadie asked.

"Hello Hadie, Diego, and friends. I see you have already started your quest." said Hades in an icey voice. "Well i'm here to give you all some gifts from your parents." He said like it was a chore. I was itching in anticipation just to get moving but I couldn't ignore Hades or else he would literally send me to the fields of punishment. I was getting nervous now because it was taking him forever to get the stuff out of his very unorganized bag. "Aroura, here I have a pair of earings for you."

"Ummm...thanks?" Aroura asked/stated while looking at me for support. I just nodded. While giving Aroura some nonverbal support, Christine got a jacket that changed as the backround did and Hadie got a Stygian Ice dagger.

"Diego, here." Hades handed Diego a battle-ax. It was as dark as nightmare and I could feel my fear rising. Thats when it hit me. His ax could radiate fear just like Hades's helm of darkness; this wasn't good. As far as I could tell only Hadie and Diego didn't notice the energy coming off the ax in waves. "Hadie and Diego, I also have this for you, and remember that things and people change over time. Expect the unexpected." After giving his children a picture and the unhelpful advice he left in a shadow of darkness.

"So any clues on where to go?" I asked the Hades kids. The were both staring at the picture as if it had told them they were going to die. "Ummm...Hadie, Diego? Are you guys alive?" I got some glares in reply so that was good but I didn't like the silence.

"Sonny, do you remember where I am from?" Hadie asked with a shaky voice.

"Ummm...yes. You came from Tucson, Arizona right?" I said. All Diego did was nod and thats when I started to get worried because Diego was usually the talkitive one out of the two. "Whats wrong guys. Tell me now." I demanded. All Hadie did was hand me the picture. It was of a girl laughing and she was pale like Hadie and Diego but thats all they had in common. The girl had ice blue eyes and black hair. She was actually tall unlike Hadie and Diego and thats when I saw something in the backround. I froze. In the backround was a mirror and it just so happened to be our enemy who was taking the picture. Skye had found Hadie's and Diego's sister. This was not good at all. I started to get chills up my spine like we were being watched. Then I passed out into endless darkness. When I saw a sudden light I went toward it. When I reached the sorce of the light I realized I was in a flashback. I saw Skye in the underworld walking toward a girl. "Hello Atlanta, I am Skye. Your sibilings sent me here to fetch you. They miss you terribly so, why don't you come with me. I can take you to them." she politely said with a edge of sympathy. "I promise I will." she vowed. Something told me that she was lying about it. "

"My brother sent you? But I thought that he hated me along with Hadie. What are you really doing here?"

"I hate your sister and the only way to get back at her is to form an allience with you. You must be stronger that her since she is pretty weak now, or even dead."

"You hurt her. You did what I was going to do! Why did you have to take my chance away from me? I need to kill her inorder to come back to life fully. If she is dead then I must kill my sweet brother." Atlanta looked scary. She had the same glare as Hadie, but hers wasn't as scary in a way. It was like she didn't have any emotions in it.

"What do you mean by fully? Aren't you already alive?"

"No, I must kill someone who shares the same blood. Why don't we form an alliance? That way I can have a way to them."

"Sure...but why are you telling me this? Shouldn't you be keeping this a secret?"

"I am telling you this because if you betray me, I will kill you with my own two hands Daughter of Zeus." Atlanta said with a voice that I have only heard once. I could tell that she ment it because Hadie used that voice to make her threats come true. Atlanta was using the fear from Skye against her. Atlanta then looked around and said; "There is a presence from the future here. We must leave, oh and Daughter of Apollo, if you ever want to see Skylar again, I suggest that you tell no one of what you have heard." I was still with fear.

"Daughter of Apollo? Sonny! Shes here! That must mean Hadie is still alive! We must hurry." Skye exclaimed with enthusiasm. Then I was thrust back into my wonderful present. When I woke up my head was pounding with pain. I looked around only to see my friends fighting the dreaded empousa. She always was trying to kill me! She stalked me from Tyler, Texas all the way to camp. I got up and pressed my braclet. I know I was never that good with bows and arrows but this, I felt like I could do. I notched my arrow and let go. The arrow narrowly missed Aroura and got the Empousa inbetween the eyes.

"Who shot that?" Aroura exclaimed grabbing her chest.

"Ummm...sorry. I did." I mummbled. Everyone looked at me with a gleam in their eyes.

"OH MY GODS! You are alive! You have been passed out for four days!" Christine and Diego yelled.

"Psh...of course I am." I said confidently. "Nothing will keep me down for long."

"But weren't you out of action for four days." Aroura reminded me.

"Ummm...yeah. I was but that doesn't matter any more. Now we go onward!" I yelled. We all started to move when I suddenly felt dizzy. "On second thought lets stay here for the night." Eveyone looked at me weirdly but Hadie. When we had a fire going I sat next to Hadie. "Hadie I need to talk to you. Its important." I whispered to her. All she did was clutch her head in pain. It looked like she was gasping for air. I grabbed her hand and was thrust somewhere else.

"Skye! Hand me the scarf!" It was Atlanta.

"Coming!" Skye was holding an old scarf that belonged to Hadie. It was one of the many things that we had used as a bandage to keep her broken arm in place. "Are you in her head yet?"

"No! She is fighting me. She knows that I am strong, but something is wrong. I should be stronger! I can't use her fears against her!" Atlanta exclaimed worridly.

"Try harder then! You must be stronger than her!" Skye screamed.

"Skye! She is using my own fear against me. I must keep trying, I must be the one of the prophecey! I will not stand for her to defeat me! Skye! She is here." Skye then picked up a dagger, it was the one that almost killed Hadie! She started walking towards me, but I couldn't move. She brought the dagger down to my chest. I screamed in agony. I started having flash backs about Hadie in the woods come back to me. Then all around me turned into a golden room. I looked around and then I saw my father.

"Dad?" I asked.

"Hey Sonny! How are you feel'in? Everything alright?" He asked like nothing happened to me.

"Dad, I just got stabbed and then I wake up here when I should be with my friends to warn them about what Atlanta is going to do. I have to save Skylar and..." I trailed off. His face had a look of amusment.

"Dear, you do realize that this is just a dream right?" He asked stiffling a laugh.

"How was I supposed to know?" I exclaimed

"You could have looked at what you are wearing." He said like it was the most obvious thing in the world. I looked down and saw that I was wearing my dream outfit. I had a hoodie on over a signed JB shirt! I did a little happy dance in my head, not wanting to embarress myself infront of my dad. "So I guess you want to know why you are here?"

"Ummmm...do you really need an answer?"

"Did you just answer my question with a question?

"I just answered your question with a question and you answered my question with another question. Did that really just happen?"

"So wait, did you just.."

"Stop! You are making me confused!" I yelled.

"Thats how you need to stop your enemy. You need to make them so confused that they won't be able to predict what would happen next. Now it's time for you to go back to your friends. Bye Sonny." That was when I felt a pain that would have matched no other.

"Ahhh!" I screamed my head off. When I looked around I saw that time must have paused because Hadie was still holding her head and Diego still had his stick in the fire. Thats when I looked down. I saw where the dagger went into my chest. I collapsed and then Hadie looked fine. She looked around and sceamed my name. I knew that I had to tell her there and then. "Hadie, your sister. She..."

"Shhh...don't talk. I have to help you. Christine! Get the book from her bag!" Hadie yelled.

"Hadie...you have to listen to me." I stated.

"No! I can feel your life force fading away, don't speak!" Hadie sceamed in my face. I felt tears swell up in my eyes. I started to think that maybe I should tell Diego. Then I thought about what Hadie said...she could feel my life force fading away? Ok now that was new and scary. When I looked over at Diego I could see the same expression on his face that Hadie had. I guess they really could feel my life force fading, but I wasn't going that easily. I felt Christine hold my hand and then she put this liquid on my wound. I screamed in agony. This was definitly something that I will not like to experience again. It felt like someone had sent one thousand rats to eat me alive. Slowly and painfully I started to feel better. I got up and saw that my wound was almost gone. I got up and scanned my surroundings. I must have been out of it for a while 'cause everyone was asleep, except for Diego. I stumbled over to him.

"Diego? Can we talk?" I asked.

"Sure." Diego said bewildered. "So whats' up?"

"I had a vision. It was of Atlanta...Diego i'm so sorry, but she is going to try to..." There was a rustle in the bushes. Then I saw a figure move out from the shadows. I gasped for air when I say who it was.

"Atlanta!"