Hey ppl I updated quickish! Yay! Be happy! Lol so anyways any got sunburns? Well I do and im a hating 'em! Seriously my nose in peeling and.. TMI sry. Anywhos back from Cali and sad to say I missed the cold rainy Oregon weather! Though warm beaches are nice… even if you get sunburned. Lol Oh, one last little thing, does anyone know how to post a new story, I mean to get around the error 2 crap? Cause I can't and it's pissing me off! I have a couple little songfics I want to post but I cant! Ok a lied this is the last little thing, you guys wouldn't mind it if I posted my quick little one shots on this story and just got rid of them when FF is done being a bitch? Of course you guys don't care! Jk lol im gonna stop rambling and let you guys read the story!

We ran down the path with some creature following a good distance behind, but quickly gaining on us. The good thing about this path was it was straight. No twists or turns, anything. The bad thing about this path was it was a dead end.

Funny how life works.

The thing was gaining on us quick and Grover stared to panic. Tyson started to cry and Annabeth was staring at Ian, so no help what so ever. Ian was freaking out so only Thalia and me were actually trying to find away out or around. I looked at the wall and realized it was like a boulder—ish rock. Thalia seemed to get what I was getting at.

"Tyson!" he stopped crying when Thalia called.

"Buddy, can you move the boulder?" Everyone looked at us like we were crazy. "Just do it!" I screamed as the thundering footsteps roared all around us. He nodded and bolted up and ran shoulder first into the wall. The rock immediately rolled away and we sprinted through. Turning around we all pushed the rock back into place. The monster on the other side screamed in defiance. Breathing sighs of relief I commented,

"Looks like we trapped him." Thalia gave me a weird look.

"No shit Sherlock." Laughing nervously Grover coughs.

"Uh, guys, maybe I don't know but maybe we…" Annabeth interrupted him.

"Trapped ourselves in." She finished waving her hand around, gesturing for us to look. Finally taking in our surroundings I almost snorted, of course we did. The room we were in was a small jail cell looking thing. There were bars on the other side of the room.

"Ty…" I trailed off slightly angry that I had to rely on someone else to something I could easily do on my own and because I heard something. There was this loud sobbing sound coming from above us and a weird rasping voice that sounded kind of like… I shook my head, anything but her. Grover finally seemed to pick up on the noise because he told us ever so politely to 'shut up.'

Tyson's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates. "Can't be…"

'Please be wrong. Please be wrong.' I muttered because if Tyson recognized it, then… it really is…

He ran over to the bars and bent them open, running off down the halls.

"Wait…" Grover and Thalia called but he wasn't going to wait.

"He really has lost it…" Ian muttered and I growled. Everyone took a step back but I was already running after Tyson with only his loud footsteps to guide me to the big guy. Glancing slightly behind me I noticed they were struggling to keep up. I slowed down cursing and thanking the gods, for going too fast but not at wolf speed. Annabeth was the first to catch up. "I know this place," she said. "It's Alcatraz." My eyes widened in surprise, Alcatraz? It didn't look like it was being used as a jail anymore.

"Like near San Francisco?" I asked stupidly, well duh it's near San Fran. Annabeth just nodded.

"School field trip, it's a shame it's not a jail anymore, it was really effective, with the architecture designs making it almost impossible to escape, not to mention…" I blocked her out after that; leave it to a daughter of Athena to some how put architecture into the equation.

We continued to run and finally caught up to Tyson.

"Stop!" Grover yelled grabbing his arm. "Can't you see it?" I glanced up and growled under my breath. Damn, I hate it when I'm right sometimes.

In front of stood one of the ugliest monsters in history. It was like a centaur or satyr, you know the whole half human half animal thing? Well from the top up it was a woman but from waist down was the body of a dragon. Like twenty feet long, long black scales, huge claws stained with the blood of her victims, and a barbed tail, that most likely was poisonous. Her body was covered in snakes and her hair was a bunch of snakes, reminding me of Medusa. I shuddered at the thought of her, but then again this monster makes me want to go running back to Forks. Her skin, or is it even skin? The area… yeah better way to describe it, where her human half meets the dragon was all bubbly and had the faces of animals.

"It's her…" Tyson whimpered as we hid behind a rock but it wasn't looking at us, it was talking in the tongues of old to someone or something in another cell.

"What is she saying?" Thalia asked.

"Tongues of old," shuddering Tyson continued. "What mother earth spoke to Titan's and… and her c-children-n."

"Do you understand it?" Annabeth questioned. He nodded.

Tyson's voice changed and in her rasping voice snarled, "You will work for the master or suffer." Annabeth, Thalia and Grover shivered and I had to agree, Cyclopes' uncanny way to mimic voices could get really creepy.

"I will never serve." He said in a deep, scared voice. Switching back to the monster's voice he growled. "I will enjoy your suffering, Briares." His voice cracked as he said the name. "Then prepare yourself, because the last… session, was only child's play. Think about it." She stomped out of the cave and extended her huge bat wings and flew away.

"Nightmare…" Tyson said shaking so hard I thought he was going to fall over. Ian snorted,

"No we're awake, but I bet you wish, huh. Idiot." Tyson's eyes began to water and he murmured,

"Big brother…" Ian just rolled his eyes and everyone was fuming at him, even Annabeth looked slightly disgusted. I couldn't hold it, something about Tyson made me feel really protective, kinda like with the twins of Hades. I launched forward and slammed my hands into his shoulders throwing him into the wall. My lips curled up in a snarl as I pinned him against the wall. I let my claws slide out a bit and dug them into his shoulders, I could tell my eyes had just gotten darker, I growled in a low dangerous tone,

"Shut the Hades up, you. Who do you think you are? The child of the prophecy?" I spit on his shoe and glared into his eyes, he was shaking, but at the mention of the prophecy he dared to sneer at me.

"You can't hurt—" he started and I dug my claws deeper into him and thrust him against the wall again. In a barely audible whisper I growled in his ear, "Try me." I swear he almost wet himself, and I should have stopped but I was on a roll, anger getting the best of me. What can I say? We shape-shifters have anger… problems.

"The child of the prophecy? Do you even know what the great prophecy says? The one you just love to brag about? Who said that the 'great' child got to come home alive?" He gulped and I relished the fear in his dull green eyes. "Besides who said it was even thou? For all thou knows, I'm older than thee."

Kay confession time when I'm pissed and I mean Pissed, I started speaking in old English, bad habit but it's a good alarm for me. Taking deep breaths I loosened my muscles and pulled away leaving him to fall to the ground. He gasped and wiggled away. I closed my eyes, 'don't kill your own quest members. Leave that for the monsters.'

I looked around to see Grover and Tyson gone, but Annabeth and Thalia staring at me in shock. I tried to give them a small reassuring smile but it wasn't even a grimace, a small barely visible twitch of the lips.

"Sorry…" I panted out my voice slowly going from the dark tone it was in and back to normal. "Where are Grover and Tyson…" I trailed off because they just jerked their thumbs behind them still gapping at me.

"I don't bite, you know." I said trying to lift the mood, even if I lied.

"Coulda fooled me." Thalia muttered and turned away but Annabeth seemed frozen. I walked up to her and waved a hand in front of her face, she blinked but her mouth was still on the floor.

"You'll catch flies." I told her and she turned bright red. I smirked at her and she gave a feeble glare.

"How did you know?" she asked finally in a small scared that made me feel bad.

"The prophecy? Chiron hasn't told you everything and before you ask, I can't tell you Wise girl." I said and blushed on the inside. 'Wise girl? Where did that come from?'

"Wise girl? Really Seaweed brain?" she said her cheeks still a rosy color. I laughed at her nickname. "What? It's better than Wise girl." She huffed. I chuckled.

"You think that." I said and she rolled her eyes. Annabeth was actually easy to be around when she wasn't drooling over that pathetic brother of mine.

We joined the others who were talking to… wait is that a Hundred Handed One? Tyson was coaxing him and he didn't look quite as miserable as he had sounded.

"I cannot come out, Kampe is back, and the Titan will rise." He said, his voice barely a whisper.

"Yes you can!" I said to him, "You're a hundred handed one, for gods sake! You break mountains! Use your strength! Godsdammit!" Okay the last bit wasn't necessary, I was still a little riled up from earlier, and I think it was pretty obvious to everyone judging by Ian taking a step away and everyone giving me nervous glances like I was gonna blow at any moment. But I wont! I mean we have anger… issues, but I can't control myself! Deep breathe, okay maybe not right now. In a calmer voice I continued,

"Come on, where's the honor in that? Just, hiding? Wouldn't you rather go down fighting?" I shook my head and gave him a look of sympathy. Mood swings. "But if you'd rather sit there and rot will Kampe comes back with worse torturous things, be my guest." Briares looked at Tyson and the big guy nodded. He paled but a new look of determination set in.

"Only if the Cyclopes…"

"Tyson." Ty put in, gotta love the big guy. Briares nodded in acceptance.

"Only if Tyson is with me, fighting by my side." I smiled at him showing teeth and my slight fangs.

"I think that can be arranged, right guys?" Everyone nodded, even Ian. He nodded and got up and gave a slight glance at Tyson. Getting up Tyson put his hands on the bars of his cell quickly Briares joined him and before you knew it they had ripped open an opening. He stumbled out shielding his eyes from the small light in the middle of the room.

"Uh, guys while this is… moving and I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but um—" Grover didn't have to finish for us to know what he meant. Kampe was back.

And she looked pissed.