Chapter 10: i don't want to say goodbye

Ok so this chapter has alot of drama, plus alot of song lyrics in it. so some michael will sing, but that is the next chapter. Annabeth will have a pov in the next chapter, and a little drew. This chapter though, is having Zoe and Michael pov. so i was thinking of having apollo and michael interaction. thaat might be in chapter 12 and theres going to be clarrise, and michael might get stupid. so just wait till my updates so thnx

-Zoe

Zoe pov

As soon as i felt that arrow in my side, i knew i was done for it. What got me worried is was Percy ok. then another arrow was fired. right next to the other. the arrows made me drowsy, i kept hearing murmurs, but the first one that covered my eyes and mouth had hold of my ears. I couldn't feel my rear, then it crept to my stomach, and i knew it was coming straight for my heart. hopefully my life force, the necklace that laid around my neck given to me by my mother would help me survive, or else im done for. As i laid in that cage i was unconcious for a long time. a couple days at least. i knew it had started raining, but it kept getting colder untill it had made snow on my fur. i knew would be more vulnerable, in this form. As i laid there motionless i could have sworn i heard a conch shell. we have lost, but that didn't matter to me, all that mattered was making sure Percy was ok. I knew that i could control trees and stuff but i was too weak. These prison gates just won't open for me. the truth, i was terrified of these four walls, these iron bars contain my soul. i think if keith was here, he could show me how to survive, after all he survived thirteen years. All i needed was him. He could show me how it is to be the last one standing. but i couldn't cry out to him neither anyone else, all because of this muzzle.

i started to wake up, no i was dreaming, i had floated from the place i laid, yet i was still, there. Was i dead?, did I follow the oath? but a voice had spoken to me. You are not dead, sweetheart. it said. who are you i spoke back i am nearly your half sister, I am the titaness Rhea. she said, well her voice. I am here behalf of your brother, i will show you the situation he is currently in and a glimpse of the future of what may happen. she said. Your the mother of the big three. i said. yes, you are trying to save my grandchild, or your nephews son, and they will soon appreciate you, and come to there senses about us Gaea children. it is all thanks to you.She had said calmy then revealing where she was, she was wearing this beautiful maroon veil and gown with black trims on the bottom. i looked around us. it was as if we were flying at the speed of light across new york. this is a simple illusion, the one that holds your brother in captive, prevents me from letting you find his whereabouts, though i wish you could know. she turned to me. there were so many thoughts in my spiritual head. who is keeping my brother captive? i took a long breath. only time will tell you, my brother, the lord of time, will give you the answer. she smirked. Then we reached to where my brother was supposedly there. He was in a rink, like a dog fighting rink. anger boiled through my veins. i hated these places. he was fighting two big hellhounds defending a nother demigod,no it was a demigod in a dog form. then i looked around his neck, laid a symbol. i remembered that symbol, it was rheas brothers symbol. Cronos. Poor thing, such a shame, when they hold these, my poor nephew, so young. she said while turning away. then something clicked in her head. darling, the other titans sense this, you must go, fall back to sleep, and remember the oath, you will change our childrens' perspective of us gaea children. soon as she said that the we just experienced was fading, i started to come back to where i laid. then i woke up.

I rose my head. I heard footsteps very loud, like it was right there. the truth was that it was storming. It was pouring rain. Most of them were hephaestus kids. And one of them was Leo. he wasn't on crutches yet he limped with the brace on.

"We have to get all of them out of bunker nine, before it floods the place out." he screamed. I needed his help. i couldn't bark, i needed to get this muzzle off of me. i didn't know i had a cut on my arm. So i used my good arm and pulled the muzzle off. It took a while but it finally got it off, but it was too late he was already almost there to bunker nine. don't worry i told myself, i'll make sure he finds me the time he comes back around. but the poison was coming back around, and i made me weak again. the footsteps got louder again. I started to bark. each time i made it louder. then i heard murmuring.

"What was that?" someone asked, but it sounded like harley, another demigod.

"I don't know, i-it sounds like Mrs. O 'leary." someone voice sounded shakey. it sounded like a smaller hephaestus kid.

"We better go" someone suggested.

"No, stop" Leo said. thank the moaned and grumbled

"No, listen" That was my cue. I barked quickly then let out a howl.

"see that is mrs o'leary, we better go." some had said and then left.

"That doesn't sound like the hellhound, it sounds more like a dog" Leo had said to the remaining demigods. then i let my last howl i could manage, i couldn't breathe, it was harder to manage breathing, it's like the poison had spread through my lungs and ate it up inside.

"wait, that is a dog howl, then, zoe has been missing in this forest, four days now, then," he carried on. four days, how did i manage to survive for four days.

" Zoe!" he yelled. then it was followed by the other demigods. i tried to howl, but i only managed to let out a small whine. luckily, leo was right there. it started to stop raining, but the wind got heavier and colder. the demigods that i could see cleary, was shivering.

"Zoe.." he managed, and looked at me like when we were in the infirmary, depressed. he started to remove his jacket, and Nyssa started to do the same.

"Here" he said, while he laid the jacket on top of me" you must be freezing" then Nyssa did the same, then got back up and said to the what i could see, three demigods,

"Go tell Chiron, go get one of the apollo healers, tell piper, just go get help. he said at them like a true leader would. i made a weak smile. He could be a great leader, why does he have to be treated like a third wheel. He is so sweet. Helpful. it started to snow. each drop of snow on me, felt like one dagger in me making me weaker. he looked at me cautiously, while picking me up. he felt so warm.

" just relax" he tried to reassure me, but i could here the quiver in his voice. it felt like a mile, by the time it took to get to the big house.

"Chiron, Chiron" Leo started to yell.

" ahh young demigods, you found her, lets take a look." Chiron said. but as soon as he said that he opened his eyes widely. I tried to lift the front part of me, but Leo pushed me down and whispered"relax".

"Chiron tell me shes going to be okay, please tell me.." chiron shushed him

"Shes going to be fine, she just needs time to heal." chiron said patiently. leo sighed a sigh of relief, or was he just shivering. Luckily, Harley and Michael came up to us. Michael stopped in his tracks with the first sight of me, while harley just went up to leo and whispered to him. i couldn't hear him but Leo nodded. I started to raise my head and see michael. Then Leo started to take a step, but realized that Michael was there and retreated. Why was he so worried about me, then i realized, he was afraid of trying to love someone. But why?. worrying was apart of loving someone. so why did he not express it? maybe it was something that happened to him, the past?

"Zoe, what happened?" Michael asked. leo started to head out of the room with Harley. he was smiling but his eyes were full of sorrow. michael put his hand to his face, then remembered Chiron was there.

"i-i'll go get the ambrosia and nectar" he said and quickly left to go get it. i closed my eyes a bit and saw my brothers face. it was the same picture i have in my suitcase. It had my dad my brother and me. it was taken exactly the year before my mother took him away. we all had a big smiles upon our faces. then some warm arms lifted me from my daze and put ambrosia in my mouth. I opened my eyes, and Michael smiled."at least your not dead" he said trying to cheer me up.

"This might hurt." he said he grabbed hold of my hurt arm and dropped some nectar. i gave a yelp. but the wound started to heal on its he did the same on where the poison had started it hurt worst. He looked at me. "sorry" he said.

"Seems like the poison had spread" chiron said." what i don't understand is how she survived with it" chiron said. I wanted to say my necklace but it was hard to speak much.

"here" michael said and started to wrap my wounds with a bandage. After he was finished with that, he went to go sit on the couch. I tried to get up but it was kind of hard but i managed to stand. I took a step, but fell down. Michael leaned over and tried to help me, but i didn't want to. The wind blew into the big house and i instantlly started to shiver. Michael got up and went to grab some blankets. Hiron had left a little while ago, and went to play pinochle with Mr. D.

"Michael, heres dinner"

"Thanks Will" He said, he was about to say bye, when he noticed me. he had wide eyes like he was guilty of something. I shook that thought away, when i smelled hamburger. yum. i wanted Michael to be happy, so i did something i do only when i like someone. I joke around. I made the tree next to the entrance of the big house and made the branch bring the food torwards me. it drained alot of my energy, but i would soon regain it from this juicy hamburger. i started to nibble at it so he would notice and catch me red-handed. just in time, right there he stared at me.

"hey, that was my dinner" he said then smiled. i noticed i could finally speak normally.

"Yeah, for a girl who has been in the freezing cold for four days with poison, can wait another day for food." i said, then he smiled.

"Fine, but i'm hungry too" he said as he stuffed his mouth with fries. I liked when he was happy, i wanted this to never end. then i sharp pain entered my head.I only usually get these when i have empathy links, but it was my mothers voice."Do you want to break this poor boys heart, The one you must save is in danger" Obiously Michael had noticed.

"Are you okay?" he asekd. I reassured him,but he still had a worried look on his face. then another pain shot hrough me." i'm warning you, you must end this now,and complete the oath" i wanted to yell at her,but michael tapped me.

"Zoe-" he was about to say, but i interrupted him.

"I said i'm fine" he was still worried so i laid my head on his lap. that made him smile. I knew i had to break it to him.

"Michael.." i said softly." i have to tell you something" he understood me, like he was reading my mind. he looked sad again. no, I can't do this. but its better to do this now.

"Michael, it's better if we pretend that we don't-" I said but a sharp pain entered my head again. I thought it was my mom, but this time it was..my brother. I closed my eyes,and listened to him, trying to find where he was. i lifted my nose high,and stood up. I heard michael say something but i blocked it out.

"Sis, are you there" my brother whispered in my head.

"Yeah"

"I found my location" he said softly, like he culd get punished for saying it.

"Where."

"i'm in a forest,we passed this river with a rope bridge." he said quickly. i jumped up on the couch,and looked out the window. it was a bit hard to see throuugh this snow. but i looked harder.

"Where" i asked, because i know i hate water.

"Somewhere in new york, manhattan i think."

"is that why your presence is strong, your close by." i asked cautiously, because i know my brother is overly protective of me. like pecy and annabeth.

"Wait, where are you?" he asked. i was afraid he was going to ask that.

"camp half-blood." i said. he breathed heavily.

"I want to see you to Keith." i breathed" but you know how powerful we are" he simply said yes.

"i don't want you here either" he said softly.

"why,w-wait, who is your.."

"Keeper." he asked, trying to finish my sentence.

"I can't tell you" he said. I asked why, but he was silent.

"dont look for me, i can't keep this up, my keeper senses this, you must go."

"But, keith" i asked."keith don't go, i need you, your the only one that knows what happened between us and mom." but he was gone. tears rolled down my cheek, and everything went black. I had a strange dream though. I was on a boat, and when i mean boat, i don't mean a little tugboat or raft, i mean warship style. i saw seven other demigods, but like my dream with rhea, the were in dog form. most of them had scars all along them. the all had necklaces with symbols on their collars. there was Athena, aphrodite, Apollo, Hephaestus, and Hermes. then the last one was Gaea, and that particular one was My brother, i was sure of it. then another one was next to him, it was... me. then it changed, a kid with black hair had a knife, no, a trident to his back side, while a girl with blonde hair was shaking him, and trying to get him up as she cried so hard. blood was collecting around him by the second. then the one, that i knew was me, was standing uneasy in front of them in between them and a god, i couldn't see his face, but one sweep of his hand mad me the dream-world me on the ground. then a girl with brown hair and a boy with brown hair came and comforted the other me. then a god that looked very familiar to the dead boy, had stood in front of all of them and retrieved the trident and started to fight the other god. then the dream started to fade and i heard a voice, it was my mothers though."you must complete the oath and forget about the boy, or do you want him to end up like this"she said and my dream changed. it was a boy about less than five feet, and he was holding an bow and arrow. he looked like he was with another archer and the both had brown or black hair, but then i realized he was holding the bow and arrow th wrong way, pointing at himself. i could here part of what he was saying.

"don't take .." he said" pull trigger" that's all that i could really hear. but another kid yelled and screamed no, no. then a tough looking girl had pushed the arrow out of the way in time. then the dreamed ended as someone shooken me awake. Then i realized who the kid was in my dream.

Michael pov

i thought Zoe was dead, she wasn't moving after that weird thing with the headache and the window thing. i held her close, and whispered to her.

"Zoe, don't die, please, youv'e been through so much." i said, what suprised me more was what i said next.

"the truth is that i really do like you, i don't want you dead. i heard some loud footsteps, and i looked at the window and saw brown hair sweep by and i wondered, who was that? thank the gods that Zoe got up though. she asked what happened but i shushed her down.

"what happened?" she said but itold her calmly.

"it's ok, just relax."

" Wait i had to say something to you didn't i." she stared at me. I could just see the sadness in her eyes. who was Keith?

"i was, saying that i can't be with you. she said softly. she was probably trying to not hurt me, by avoiding eye contact, but it didn't work.

"Who's keith, who is he?" i asked cautiously.

"my.. brother" she sighed. Her brother, but how would he survive out there. she laid her head on my lap again.

"i'm sorry, i didn't know that ..." i tried to say.

"it's okay" she lifted her muzzle."you don't have to be sorry."

"what was it that you wanted to say?" i asked cautiously again, because i didn't know how she would take it. she sighed like she was ashamed to say it.

"it's okay, you dont have to-" i said but she calmly interupted me.

"no, i have to talk about it" she said. she stayed motionless for like a minute, like she was remembering something and then talked about it.

"it's just the oath, it makes it hard t-to.." she faltered. "nevermind, i can't do it." she muttered to herself. Then i caught on what she had meant.

" this is about your brother." i said, obiously mad now." i see, you need more than i do, so why don't you just go." her eyes lit up, in disbelief probably.

"Michael, I-it's not that , I-i was just thinking about-" but i rudely barged in.

"How you think your better off without me, you think your so courageous and you need your brother." i breathed. " why don't you go, then"

"go?" she said." where?, i don't know where he is, if were together and i leave camp, we can start a war, you would see the end of the world." she said. with tears welled up in her eyes.

"just go" i said as i pushed her. she must have been still weak, because she stumbled. and fell on her face. she whimpered. that made me come to my senses. She didn't want to leave. she looked at her necklace and she stared at intently like it brang to many memories. then took away step away from me. every step made me hurt inside, this was..goodbye.

Zoe pov

don't look back, don't look back i told myself. I couldn't believe what Michael said, he knows me better than i do, and he wants me just to leave, why? but i just had to look back. He was staring at the fireplace. the fire reflected in his eyes, it was full of sorrow. i did something that suprised us both. i ran into his chest. i rubbed my head into his warm chest. I knew i was going to miss this, why did i have to leave? i either rammed into him to hard or he was too shocked because he gasped. i knew his mouth was hanging open, but i still stayed there, i didn't want this to end.

"st-stop, just stop it." he finally said. i released myself from his chest, but something stopped me. It was his hands. he held my head sp that i was forced to stare at him. He obviously didn't want me to leave, but he would deny that. tears started to roll down my cheeks again. but like any soap opera, he raised his thumbs and gently wipe the tears away. Now that broke my heart. He really did love me.

He simply said," no tears" as if he rehearsed then tears swelled up in his eyes. i wanted to say something but he pushed me away. i took one more step. Don't look back, don't look back. but i ran up to him, i had to say something. he stared out the window as if he didn't noticed me. I gave him the dog version of kissing someone, i kissed him on the cheek, which jarred him back to reality. I laid my muzzle on his left shoulder and whispered in his ear, so no one would hear.

"You realize, if i go, i will probably can't come back, and if i do.." i said as more tears poured out.".. i won't be the same, i won't be the same person i am today." he shut his eyes tightly, like he was afraid of me saying that.

"you do realize this, right" he grimly nodded.

"don't go looking for me." i said then gulped." you wouldn't want to find me dead, would you?" i said.

"if it makes you happy, go find your brother, i won't go looking for you, i promise on the river styx" he said, and avoided eye contact.

"goodbye michael, goodbye" before i could start leaving he held my head. I thought he was going to say no more tears, but instead he raised my head torwards face and he kissed me on the forhead. then looked at the hearth of the fire. i went to go tell Chiron i wanted a quest.

thx for the wait, its way longer than most chapter, almost three times, so thnx for the readers and help. next chapter, will be tomorrow, or this weekend, i promise. Will she find her brother, ooh, Michael will get pretty stupid, i guess, if i tell you i'll ruin it, so sorry. will annabeth and maybe clarrisse will get pov, maybe drew, so yeah, annabeth will soon regret what she did to Zoe, when she notices how Michael reacts when Zoe leaves afterward. Leo will have a Flashback in this, just remember what happens, when Micahel sees a brown haired boy, and how he reacted in this chapter, will she return to the long awaited Michael or will she face the same consequences as her dad, die at sea. so just wait, hope my grammer and spelling improved tnx

-Zoe