Hey people of Earth! …and Pluto. Don't worry Pluto; I'm not a planet either, so we're just special like that. Has anyone noticed that Hades' name was Pluto, he's not one of the twelve Olympians, and he was kicked out of our solar system? Do they like, hate Hades/Pluto? THAT'S TOTALLY, MAJORLY, RACIST TO DEAD PEOPLE EVERYWHERE. Now since I've had that terrible rant on Pluto/planets/Racism towards dead people, here's the next chapter:

THALIA POV.

'He didn't answer his phone.' I thought absently, as Karter worked on target practice, shooting at elk that bounded across the forest.

"How was that?" She asked, jumping up and down like a small child at a fair. I walked over to a freshly killed elk, and looking at where the arrow was lodged, she'd shot it in the large intestine.

"Close, but no. You hit it in the large intestine… You want to hit it about here, in the heart." I pointed to its heart which was still faintly beating; I laughed. This reminded me of how my heart had been for the past few days. Barely alive, barely breathing, but had to keep holding on to the life I had left.

"Lemme try again!" She cried, pointing at the elk like she wanted me to make it come back to life.

"We have to wait for another target to practice on." I sighed flatly as she looked utterly saddened.

"Karter, um, Artemis needs to see you." Naomi called from fifty feet away in the thick underbrush, and as Karter bounded away, she turned and yelled,

"Again later!" And was off. Naomi stalked over, like Naomi does, and we stood next to each other in silence.

"That boy bothering you again?" She grinned, her dirty blonde curly hair playing in the wind, her gray eyes (finally) not racing a million miles an hour.

"Thank you for reminding me."

"Do you have the time to listen to me whine of everything I had once? I am one of the melodramatic fools, neurotic to the bone no doubt about it." My phone played the ringtone I'd set specifically for him. It explained him when I set it, and was too lazy to change it. I flipped open my phone and answered, "WHAT."

"Hey Pinecone face." He laughed lightly, but behind the laugh was worry and pain.

"Lemme give him a piece of my mind!" Naomi exclaimed as she ripped my phone from my hand and started her rant with, "HOW DARE YOU TREAT THALIA LIKE THIS! She deserves so much better than Hades' scum! You broke her heart and I'm going to break your face-" She started into her rant, but Nico interrupted saying,

"I just wanted to tell her good bye. We won't be seeing each other for some time." And with that, my relationship with the best guy in the universe was over.

"What in Hades…" I mumbled quietly to myself, as my inside broke down. It wasn't just my heart, it was everything inside of me; everything just stopped. I broke down into tears and fell to my knees. Naomi stood there awkwardly for a minute, then sat next to me and patted my back, cooing, "It's okay.. You deserve better. He was terrible to you. It's okay."

"He was my everything, Naomi. He wasn't just a crush, he was my… my first love. There won't be another, and I never even gave him a chance." I choked back a sob, as my head fell onto her shoulder and the tears rolled down her shirt.

Now I remembered that my fatal flaw was vanity. Everything I did was right, everything I would do was right, and everything I said was about me. There was nothing to change that, and if there was, it would already be done. Why couldn't my fatal flaw have been hubris, or loyalty like Annabeth and Percy? Why couldn't I have given him a chance? Why?

"C-C'mon Thales. I've gotta be off." She smiled sheepishly as she lightly pushed my head off of her shoulder.

"Y-Yeah… Um, so, I'll see you later?" I asked quietly, my voice cracking every word from crying.

"Yeah… Oh, um, where's camp half blood?" She asked curiously, and of course I told her where it was. She was a half blood, daughter of Athena, but she'd never been because she was recruited from Artemis so young.

"Okay. Feel better!" She called as her legs took her across the beach, until she disappeared into the thick forest.

"Wait," I stopped myself, "Why did she need to know where camp half blood was?"

I want to thank the most amazing person on fanfiction, SizzlingSparks0, my best friend in the universe. She's an amazing writer and you know you want to read her stories…. Right? If not, write your name and number and I'll kill you later.