Ana's POV

"We should start moving; we'll get rest at twilight." I suggest. Elida groans.

"NO! We should rest now! My feet hurt!" I stop walking and face the trudging Elida.

"I swear you're just as bad as you were ten years ago…" I shout. Elida just rolls her eyes and walked over. She was a quiet until her face just scrunched up and she looked at me with a pleading look. "Please?" I stare at her pitiful look cold eyes and disgust.

"No."

"ROCK PAPER SISSORS!" Elida shouts as I walk away.

"Don't be ridiculous! We're twenty-six years old!" I yell at her stupidity from over my shoulder.

"So? It makes decisions!" Elida calls after me. I turn around as she grins at me.

"So I don't make decisions?" I ask her. She nods. "Oh it's on…"

We continue to argue. I would spit something out at her and she would reply a comeback that made me even more filled with rage. We continued to get louder and louder as the seconds went by.

A scream of pure pain broke our bickering. We stood there, staring at the direction of the scream and just shut up, waiting and listening. I could tell it was Lauren. We heard the clangs of Riptide clashing against another weapon. A roar startled me and I saw a flash of a figure running away. We waited.

After a while, Percy began to yell.

"Somebody! Help!" Elida and I sprang into action and we ran through the labyrinth. We ran up stares and jumped off ledges. We rounded corners just to find them. I smelled a horrid smell and I knew we were close.

"Elida…Hurry up!" I yell back and sprint in the horrid stench. I can barely hear Elida's protests when I finally see Percy hunched over Lauren's still figure.

"What happened?" I asked. Percy jerked around to see me watching him. He breathed a sigh relief.

"I though no one would come…" he said. I nod. Elida comes jogging behind me and sees Lauren.

"EWW!" Elida screeches.

"Thanks." Lauren says coldly. Percy snaps at her.

"Thank the Gods you're alive!" He says. She began to wipe her forehead, blood smearing.

"It bit me…" she whispers.

"I know." Percy comforts. "We should clean this first."

"Why take the trouble cleaning it? Just let her die!" Elida says. Lauren gasps and Percy turns.

"You're inconceivable!" He yells.

Elida looked confused. "Is that even a word?"

"In the Princess Bride, It is…" I grin.

"Well, whatever…what happened!" Elida asks

"That thing…it bit her...end of story, it took off running," he says and tears at the hem of his shirt. He opens his pack and finds a disinfecting liquid and he soaked the cloth with it. I watched as he placed the cloth on her wound and she instantly swats it away.

"What?" Percy asks dumbfounded.

"It stings!" she complains. I rolled my eyes.

"Did you expect it to be rainbows and butterflies?" Elida asks. Lauren lowers her head.

"Well, yeah…" she relied. "is that a problem?"

"The only problem is that you are going to die if you aren't healed! So theoretically, it's a lot better to deal with a little stinging than bleeding to death!" I say coldly. She stares up, her eyes the widest I've seen them. Eventually, she nods and closes her eyes. Percy takes the cloth and dabs it on her.

She instantly grits her teeth and grips the dirt the second there's contact. She muscles contract and I can she her shutting her eyes so tight I thought she'd pass out in the process.

The cleaning process took forever so Elida and I explored. We found a nice open area for a camp so we started to set it up. We could still hear Lauren whimper.

"Do you think there's wood out here?" Elida asks. I spot what I'm doing and turn to her.

"Yeah! We're just in this STONE labyrinth and there are a million trees out there!" I say sarcastically at her.

Lauren screams again, but it get's morphed at the end into something else.

"I'll check on them." I say. I also snap my fingers to make wood appear out of nowhere. Elida rustles backward and stares at me.

"See. Told you there was wood!" I say and turn away.

The first thing I saw was Percy on the ground. His shirt was soaked with blood and Lauren was nowhere to be found.

"OH MY GODS, PERCY!" I rush over to him and check his pulse. Slow, but alive. I hold up his head and begin to wipe the blood off his skull. I needed to get him in the tent.

"ELIDA! COME HELP ME!" I yell. I hear the rustling pair of heavy footsteps as she bounds around the corner and stops at my side.

"Why does all the epic stuff happen to them?" she asks. I roll my eyes.

"Complain later, we need to move him." I grab his torso and slowly lift him up, bridal style.

I stumble under the weight. "How heavy can he get?" I groan and almost drop him.

"Need help?" Elida asks, smirking. I shake my head.

"Personally, I think a minor goddess of memory is strong enough to carry an extremely muscular guy. No wonder Annabeth loves him. He's got like a six-pack!" Elida laughs and leads me to the camp.

"Now you can help me!" I say and begin to move him down. Elida holds the other side steady and together we place him on the sleeping bag.

I begin to remove his bloody shirt and I almost gag at the sight of the slash mark across his chest. I grab a washcloth and open the bottle water, then dousing the cotton with it. When the cloth touched the blood, it stained the cloth. Grossed out, I throw it across the tent at Elida.

"Ouch! What was that for?" she asks.

"Payback for throwing cheese at me ten years ago!" I say. "Just go guard!"

She mumbles away and zips the tent behind her.

I had to find away to get him up. Then I get an idea.

"I'm sorry Percy, but this will have to hurt!" I mumble to the unconscious body at my knees. I uncap the bottle of disinfectant and pour it on his chest. Once it made contact with his chest, his eyes shot open and he began to wipe the liquid off his chest.

"Percy! Stop! Stop it right now!" I command. He stops wiping his chest to look up at me.

"It's Lauryn." He says. "That bite infected her with something I don't know of. You know the concept of if you're bitten by a werewolf, you become one? Same theory, different creature!" he says. He began to sit up, but the pain made him groan.

"She did this to me. She's…something…else…" she says lying back down. He seemed tired and sad.

Then Elida comes in. "We've got guests." I walk out of the tent with Elida. By the fire were Annabeth and Chris who was singing Set the World on Fire. Annabeth looked about to explode. When Annabeth saw me, she stood up and walked over.

"Can I see him?" I nod.

"He's in the tent." I open the tent. A tear slipped her eye as she saw the wounded Percy.

"I'll leave you two alone…" I say, closing the tent. I get ready to tolerate Chris and take a breath. I turn around and am startled by Melinoe's face.


Ooh! So exciting! What do you think the thing is? Cause I don't! Please give a suggestion to what it should be! Please Review!

~Katlover101