Hey guys! This is the last chapter! I hope you enjoyed waiting for this so long! Oh, who am I kidding. READ ON MY TRUSTY STEED. idk idk

~Ella's POV (still)~

She ran over to Callie's bedside and knelt next to it. "Who, who did this?" she said in a gentle voice. Then she stood and screamed, "WHO DID THIS?"

"Ella," Connor put his hand on her shoulder. "I, I saw it happen."

"WHY DIDN'T YOU HELP HER?" Ella demanded, backing away from him.

Katie stepped up to her, "Ella," she said with tears still streaming down her face. "Let Connor tell us what he saw."

Ella looked disapprovingly at Connor, and sat down in a chair. "Fine."

~Connor's POV ~

It honestly wasn't too hard for Connor to remember what he saw, he would never forget it.

He started telling them the story, as he did he felt like he was slipping into the past himself.

He started fighting with two Roman soldiers, both were very good. Once he glanced over and saw Callie, and during that second the two boys pinned him to the ground. But also in that second, he saw something he would never, ever forget, and he had seen a bunch of terrible things.

The boy who Callie was up against had stringy blonde hair that, honestly, made him look like a farmer. But that wasn't important, the boy was ripping her apart. Not literally, but he was beating her up pretty bad. And finally when Callie had lost every ounce of strength, the boy put the knife right down to her heart and through the armor.

He heard a scream of agony, and then she was gone. That was when the same fireworks appeared in the air, and the Romans who were holding him down retreated.

When he finished the story, Ella asked him one question. "Did you try to fix the wound?"

"We had Will Solace come in, but he said that it was hopeless in trying."

"Oh." Was all Ella said before she broke down in tears.

~Ella's POV~

Katie went over to comfort Ella. "Hey, there was nothing you could have done. None of us could have done anything, it'll be ok."

Travis leaned against the wall and sighed "Is it going to be like this every time we lose a life?"

"Travis!" Katie shouted.

"Sorry," he continued sheepishly, "just trying to lighten the mood."

"No Travis, it's ok." Ella said. "Just let me fish something out of my pocket." Ella reached into her back pocket and felt her fingers close in around the note.

"Hey what is that?" Connor asked, as he came over to get a closer look.

"It's a note my mother, Hestia, left me when I was twelve."

"Well what does it say?"

Ella slowly unfurled the note, "It reads: Brace yourself. I love you."

"Whoa." Travis said "That's deep."

Katie elbowed Travis "Shut up."

Ella stood and went over to the corpse of her sister. She took one of Callie's hands and placed the note inside of it and clasped it shut. Then a look of realization spread across her face. "Connor, did you say the boy who killed her had stringy blonde hair?"

"Yes." Connor said "Wait, why?"

"Octavian! He did this!"

"Who?"

"The Augur, the one who has overrun the girl's camp!"

"Sorry to interrupt the realization fest," Travis cut in "but what is an Augur?"

"I have no clue…"

"So what are you going to do?" Connor asked.

"I'm going to kill him." Ella stated.

"WHAT?"

"Yes."

"Ella, are you ok?"

Ella walked over to Connor. "I-I don't know." She said, releasing a new burst of tears into his chest.

Connor was caught off-guard. "Well, at a time like this I listen to music. It helps calm me." He said as he pat Ella's back. "I-I could play a song for all of us."

"Yeah," Katie said "that sounds great."

"Wait. You actually write songs?" Travis asked "I thought that was just for the prank we did."

"Yes, I actually wrote a song."

"Oh, well let's go to the mess hall. I'm sure everyone alive would like to cheer up."

"Sure."

They all walked down to the mess hall, and got some lunch. They had to wait a while before Connor walked up with a stool and guitar and sat on a table with it. It easily got everybody's attention.

"Hey Camp Half Blood." Connor stated, he didn't really have to yell, everyone had immediately stopped talking once he got up.

"Well, these are very dark times," he began "very dark indeed." That got a chuckle out of everyone. "Anyway, I'm about to publicly embarrass myself, but I thought we could all use a cheering up. This is the only song I've ever written, and the only one I ever will write. I literally just wrote it a week or two ago. And it's dedicated to someone who put chili powder in cookies as a prank."

Everyone laughed, Ella looked down and smiled at the floor.

"When you try your best but you don't succeed. When you get what you want but not what you need. When you feel so tired but you can't sleep. Stuck in reverse…
And the tears come streaming down your face. When you lose something you can't replace. When you love someone but it goes to waste. Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home. And ignite your bones. And I will try to fix you."

The song continued on, and with each word it brought Ella more tears. But not sad tears, and not happy tears either, but somewhere between those two.

Once the song was finished, the attack bells rang, and everyone ran outside to battle once again. Just Ella and Connor were left in the big space.

"One of these days, we should attack their base." Connor said, walking over to grab a sword, but showing no urgency whatsoever. Ella ran up to grab her own sword, tears staining her cheeks, but with a smile on her face.

"What do you say we kick some Roman butt?" Ella asked, holding out her hand.

"I'd never thought you'd ask." Connor said, accepting.

And together, holding hands, they walked out of the mess hall, and on to the battlefield.

I know. But I can't tell you if they win or not because

(at this moment in time) the House of Hades has not

been published. So they could lose or win, so just play

it out in your mind and have fun with it!

See you in 3 months...

maybe.

~booksruletheworld4evr~

(the song is Fix You by Coldplay)