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Matt: No, Hazel is not pretending Leo is dead. She is believing that he is dead. You know, things didn't go exactly as they thought, and if Nico felt Leo was dead, Hazel would have felt like that, too. I didn't alter any important things from the book storyline. Leo revives afterward, of course.
The sun was almost gone when Alex went out of Camp Jupiter. Alex found the way home, and walked in the fading light. He saw his house after a while and frowned.
The house was all broken and burned. There was fence around the house and the police were preventing people from coming in. Sabina's family was nowhere to be seen, and there were a bunch of journalists asking questions or reporting news.
"...presumed as an IS terror attack aimed at a journalist...nobody was harmed..."
Alex wondered if they really thought that it was an IS attack, or CIA was just covering it up. He watched the wreck of his house for a while and silently walked away to find somewhere to sleep without being discovered.
Tamara Knight had watched every CCTV she could find near the scene, but couldn't find anything useful. The Mist was so thick that she couldn't see neither manticore nor weapons. All she could see clearly was Alex and a figure assumed as Jinja Naven, the Scorpia agent whose DNA was found on the gun. The last thing caught on the monitor was someone taking Alex and Jinja Naven following them in a distance.
CCTVs were too easy to be fooled by Mist. Tamara Knight sighed and turned away from the computer. It was time for her to investigate as a field agent.
Jinja Naven was lucky.
He saw Alex Rider near the house and started to follow him, with a new handgun in his hand. He followed him until nobody was near. He checked the silencer and shot as Alex till the gun was empty, and walked away.
Alex could feel nothing but pain. His chest was screaming in agony. He saw blood seeping out, and slowly, he went black.
Percy had no idea how could horses sense something wrong only with their instincts.
Percy got the call of Blackjack and now he was trying not to fell down from an overspeeding pegasus. After a few minutes, he saw a blond boy fallen on the ground, covered with blood. And took a few seconds to recognize the face of Alex Rider.
"Alex!" Percy called out. Blood was pumping out of Alex's chest and arms. Amazingly, he was still breathing sightly, but his face was incredibly pale and blood was everywhere. He looked like he was going to die anytime. Percy picked up ambrosia from her pocket, then reminded himself that Alex was mortal. Percy put him on Blackjack's back and flew to Camp Jupiter as fast as he could.
Annabeth felt a raindrop landing on her shoulder. It took her a moment to realize that it was actually blood. Shocked, she looked up and saw the silhouette of a dark pegasus flying over her head.
Blackjack landed a few meters away. Annabeth saw Blackjack and Percy covered with blood and froze. Then she saw who was really bleeding. It was Alex Rider, who left the camp an hour ago.
"What happened?"
"He was just like this when I found him. Shot, maybe."
"You should have taken him to the hospital!" Annabeth yelled.
"There's no way he can live that long. Get some unicorn draught!" Percy said urgently.
"Unicorn draught only works on wounds hurt by monsters!"
"What?"
"There's nothing we can..." Something flickered in Annabeth's head. "The Golden Fleece," she whispered.
"That's in the other side of this country!" Percy said.
Annabeth quickly pulled out a golden drachma from her pocket. "O goddess, accept my offering. Show us Nico di Angelo at Camp Half-Blood."
The image of Nico appeared. "Annabeth?" Nico said, a little surprised.
"Nico, bring the Golden Fleece to Camp Jupiter right now. Just do it." Annabeth disconnected the message as soon as she finished her words.
A moment later, a big dark shadow emerged beside them. A giant black dog ran out of the shadow, dropping a dark haired boy from its back.
"Will would kill me if he saw me doing it again..." Nico was breathing hard, then frowned when he saw them. He handed Annabeth the fleece, and she covered Alex with the fleece. Immediately, some color came back to his face, and after a minute he wounds began to heal and his breathing became more stable.
"He was really close to death. I saw his life energy fading," Nico said, as if it wasn't obvious.
Tamara Knight followed the path which she saw in the CCTV. Then she saw a pool of blood right ahead. Gripping her gun, she went closer. She saw a lot of blood, and some bullet marks on the ground nearby. If someone was shot, and bled this much... it meant certain death. But there wasn't any dead body around. Instead, she found some blood stains on the ground. The strange thing was, the shape of it showed that the bleeding person was at least 2 meters high in the sky. Tamara Knight hesitated for a second, then followed the trails of blood.
Nico hated shadow-traveling on Mrs.O'Leary. But he didn't have any choice. He would have dissolved into nothing if he used his own energy.
Nico helped Percy take Alex Rider to the infirmary. He already know Alex Rider, since he was quite popular(or notorious) in the Fields of Punishment. Almost everyone who got the harshest punishments two years ago cursed him countless times. He wondered how many arai he would have. He sat quietly and listened to Percy explaining the campers what had happened.
"...so we should let him stay here." Percy finished.
"I understand what you are saying, but we don't accept normal mortals. Besides, he let his enemy into the camp and is responsible for the death of two campers." Reyna said.
"So, we just take him out and let him die? I saw him fighting, and he was better than normal demigods. And he's not responsible for anything. He didn't even came here by himself," Frank said.
When Reyna was starting to say something more, Dakota rushed in."There's an intruder at the gate!"