Chapter 9

Previously on Wiccan Warriors…

"Quick, Nico! Tell some ghost to come here!" I said.

Nico snapped his fingers and a ghostly figure appeared next to me. I took a step back. The ghost smirked when he saw me. Then, he spoke.

"Hello Annabeth."

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"N-no. Stay back!" I yelled.

Luke just kept smiling.

"What? You don't want to see me?" He asked.

"Stay the hell away from her!" Percy growled through the Iris Message.

Luke turned to the message and glared at Percy.

"Stay out of this," He said to Percy.

"Just hit the cage and get out!" Nico ordered.

Luke scowled but went and hit the cage. When he was done, he went back over towards me.

"Listen, I just wante-"

He disappeared. I turned to Nico and glared.

"Why did you summon him?"

"It wasn't on purpose, I swear. I was calling Bianca, but he interfered," Nico said.

There was silence until I heard the groaning of the cage. The door creaked open and Chris, Emily, and Persephone all came out.

"Would any of you like a ride back to Camp Half-Blood?" Persephone asked.

"Um, can you take Emily back to camp and take Amphitrite back to the…ocean, please?" I asked.

Persephone nodded and grabbed Emily's arm. She went over and put a hand on the giant fishbowl before disappearing.

"Okay, let's go save Amber," Chris said.

"I'm not coming with you guys."

I turned to Ryan.

"What?"

"I have to go…" He mumbled something at the end, but I didn't hear it.

"Say it again," I demanded.

"I have to go save my sister!" He yelled.

"You have a sister?" I asked.

He scratched his head.

"Yeah. Her name's Troy. She's currently…grounded," Ryan said.

There was a pause.

"Do you think she'd join the Gods' side?" I asked.

"…maybe."

I sighed.

"Alright, here's the plan. We're going to go recruit your sister. Then, we're going to save Amber. Got it?"

Ryan nodded slowly.

"Let's go."

Amber's Pov

"So rise with me, brothers and sisters, and fight until we kill the enemy! Starting with one of the Wiccan Warriors and daughter of Poseidon, Amber Garcia!"

You see, her little speech had been pretty boring up until that last sentence where she pointed at me.

"How did you know?" I asked.

"I'm not as stupid as Zeus, naïve little girl!" Terra laughed.

She came over to me, holding a sword. She held it to my throat.

"What do you want?" She yelled at the monsters.

"Death! Death! Death!"

Then I realized that she was going to kill me. Which meant I was going to die. Poof! All my life force would go bye-bye. Then I thought, oh crap.

"LET HER GO!"

Everything was silent.

"Who dares suggest such a…a…a horrid idea?" Terra asked the crowd of monsters.

"Me."

I caught sight of her and almost sighed in relief. I didn't know her so well, but I knew she was powerful. The bad thing was that she was alone. Or so I thought.

"Who are you?" Terra asked.

Iliana thought for a moment before answering.

"I'm not telling!" Iliana stuck out her tongue in a childish gesture.

"Guards, get her!" Terra ordered.

"What about me?"

A person wearing a very colorful hoodie took the hood down and grinned.

"I am Poppet, hear me roar! RAWR!" Poppy yelled, spinning in circles.

"I'm way better than Poppy!"

Another hood, but this one was dark, came down and Ash was standing there, in all his cat-like glory.

"So not!" Poppy yelled at Ash.

"So too!"

"So not!"

"So too!"

"So not!"

"So too!"

"ENOUGH! Guards! Get them!" Terra screamed.

"Don't leave Quinn out of the party!" Quinn took off his hood, grinning.

"Aw man, who invited him?" Ash complained.

A figure flew down from the ceiling and took off her hood too.

"Oh please, Ash. As is you wouldn't invite Quinn to one of your parties. You're like a little follower!" Jez teased.

Two more people jumped from the ceiling and landed next to Jez.

"So sad, but so true. Quinn follows Ash sometimes too, though," Rashel said, taking off her hood.

"They're all idiots," Keller agreed, taking off her hood.

"What about Mr. Oh-so-perfect-goody-two-shoes Galen?" Morgead asked from where he was standing by Ash, taking off his hood.

"I'm right here, you know," Another hood, coming down.

"OH, FOR TITAN'S SAKE! GUARDS, GET THEM!" Terra screeched.

The guards rushed forward, but more hooded figures came out. I realized it was the Night People. The humans must have stayed behind. Terra was barking orders, but it was no use. Alex and the others back at camp must have given them all daggers, because monsters were being killed every second. Poppy made her way over to me and untied me. I took out Tsunami.

"Poppy, send them a message to fall back! We need to get out of here before they call in reinforcements!" I said.

She nodded and I heard her announcement in my head.

Time to go! Let's leave! Follow Amber!

But it was just getting fun! Morgead complained.

We all got into the tunnels and I looked to see who all was here. Poppy, James, Iliana, Keller, Galen, Rashel, Quinn, Ash, Delos, Morgead, and Jez.

"What the fershizzle happened?"

We all turned to Iliana.

"What? I don't like cussing," She muttered.

"Anyway, Annabeth and Ryan should be getting the others out of the jail thing they have here so we should meet them up somehow," I said.

We started on our little journey.

"I'm still better than Poppy."

"Whatever, Ashley."

Annabeth's Pov

After walking for about an hour, we found a door. Ryan walked over to the door and knocked.

"Who wants my graceful presence?" Someone asked through the door.

"It's me, Inferno," Ryan rolled his eyes.

The doors opened and Chris and I almost walked in, but Ryan pushed us back. A column of fire flew out of the door. Then, he walked in. Chris and I followed. There was a girl standing there with a hand on her hip. She had hip-length hair and it was the same as Ryan's. Her eyes were the same flame as Ryan's and she was currently glaring at her brother. She was wearing a white sundress with sweetheart neckline and no sleeves that stopped at her knees with a flame pattern on the hem. She also had on black knee high converse with rainbow laces.

"What do you want?" She growled.

"Jeez, Inferno, don't be so hot-headed. I…I'm switching sides. Dad's only going to destroy and the Gods will help rebuild. So…you want to come?" Ryan asked.

"Very subtle, Flame," Troy said.

"So?"

Troy nodded.

"Anything to get away from dad. He's just always expecting me to be this annoyingly preppy, rule-following-girly-girlish chick who doesn't want to fight! I want to fight! Especially if it's against out father," Troy said.

"Alright! Let's get a move on! We have more people to save and we need to get back to camp ASAP," Chris said.

"He's right. We still have to save-"

"Amber. Yes, I'm fine. We got us some reinforcements!" Amber said, coming into the room too.

"Hey, not to interrupt or anything, but we better get going if we want to get out of here alive," Troy said.

"We can get back to camp through that little water place back there. I can go through it in a bubble with you guys, but it'll be tough since there's so many of us," I said.

"Told you not to eat that burrito the other day, Ash," Quinn mumbled.

"Shut it, John," Ash growled.

"Only Rashel can call me that!" Quinn hissed.

"Oh yeah? Well I don-"

"Will both of you just shut up?" Jez asked.

Ash grumbled something under his breath and Quinn growled, but they both shut up.

Amber's Pov

We were currently in the bubble and I was about to faint. I was concentrating on keeping the bubble big enough and strong enough to hold all of us.

"Hey, look! I can see the surface!" Morgead cheered.

Rashel squinted up.

"I can't see it," She said.

"Neither can I," Iliana said, also squinting.

"That's because you don't have awesome senses like us!" Ash laughed.

"Ash? Do me a favor please? Go stake yourself," Rashel said.

Ash scowled at her. I felt the pressure go back to normal and we surfaced. Just for some fun, I popped the bubble. Everyone was starting to swim.

"Amber!" Iliana whined.

"Sorry, couldn't hold it that long!" I laughed.

We all swam to shore and I went around and dried everyone using my powers.

"Okay, so we need to get back up there and make sure that everyone is guarded and wearing armo-" I was interrupted by a hug.

"You're okay! I had a vision and it looked like…anyway, you're okay!" Alex said.

"You had a vision?" I asked.

Alex looked down.

"It…it was bad. But it didn't come true, so…"

"What was your vision Alex?"

"She killed you," Alex said, looking at Troy.

Troy looked up and looked from me to Alex.

"What?" Troy asked.

"You killed her. With some kind of fiery dagger," Alex said.

Troy's face paled.

"Did it have this symbol?" She showed Alex the bracelet she had.

There was a weird looking symbol that looked like fire.

"Yeah. That's it," Alex confirmed.

"That's my father's dagger. It's supposed to be given to…to the Chosen One," Troy said.

"The Chosen One?" Annabeth asked.

"The Chosen One is the one person who can lead Darkness to victory. The one person who can take on anyone. Even a Wild Power or a Wiccan Warrior. Daddy said that he knew who it was and I always thought it was Ryan. The Chosen One is basically the new definition of Evil," Troy explained.

"Uh oh," Chris muttered.

"Uh oh is right. Alex, are you sure Troy's the Chosen One?" Ryan asked.

There was a pause.

"Look at her wrist. In my vision, this symbol was on her wrist," Alex said.

Everyone looked at Troy. She held up her wrist and gasped. Part of the symbol was there. It wasn't complete yet. Troy was shaking.

"Shh, it's okay," Ryan soothed his sister.

"How is it going to be okay? I'm Evil!" Troy said.

"No. Not yet you aren't. It's not done yet," I said.

"Wait, if you two are here, will they still attack camp?" Alex asked.

"No. I was supposed to lead it. Even if they got here on their own, they would never stand a chance without me and Troy. Dad will cancel it anyway. He'll be so pissed at Troy and me," Ryan grinned.

"I like it when dad is pissed. It gives me satisfaction to know that he's mad because of me!" Troy said.

"It sure does," Ryan muttered.

"Excuse me? What was that, Flame?" Troy asked.

"Nothing."

"Thought so," Troy said.

"So there isn't going to be an attack?" Alex asked.

"Nope."

Alex sighed in relief.

"Okay then. Come one you guys. Back to our cabins! Chop chop!" Alex said.

Everyone began to grumble and went back to their cabins.

"Ryan, you and Troy are going to stay in the Poseidon cabin with us," I said.

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Alex asked.

"Positive. Now come on, I need to go do something," I said, grabbing her arm and running up towards camp.

We made it all the way to the Arena before I stopped running.

"What is it?" Alex asked.

I took a deep breath.

"I still love Nico," I said.

I heard a noise behind me and I slowly turned around. Nico was standing there, holding a shield. Behind him, the Night Worlders stood there, looking at me and Alex. I realized Nico had dropped his dagger. I backed up a step. They were all looking at me. All of them. I turned and ran out. When I was halfway to my cabin, I ran into someone.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to run into you," I said to the person.

He helped me up and I realized he was a new camper.

"It's okay. It was my fault. I wasn't watching where I was going. I'm Chase," He held out a hand.

He had light brown hair and light blue eyes.

"I'm Amber, daughter of Poseidon," I said.

"Yeah, I don't know who my dad is yet," He smiled.

"It'll happen soon," I said.

"Not so sure about that…"

"Well, I guess I'll see you around," I said.

"Yeah…you too," Chase watched me as I walked back to my cabin.

I walked into the cabin to see Percy trying to stop a fight between Jez and Rashel.

"I know he's an idiot but that doesn't give you the right to call him that!"

"Oh, right! Just because you used to be the Cat, I'm supposed to be afraid of you?"

"You should be!"

"And why is that?"

"Ladies! Enough!" Percy shouted.

"You want to go, half-breed?"

"Bring it on, vermin!"

"Oh hell no!" Rashel lunged at Jez and they began to roll around the cabin, fighting.

"Hey!" Percy yelled.

I put my hands up and Percy, Jez, and Rashel froze. I silently thanked the Gods for my powers. I had frozen them at the right time too. Rashel had found a pencil and was about to stab Jez while Jez's eyes were silver and her fangs were out, ready to bite.

"Let's see if I can do this…" I muttered to myself.

I put one hand up at Percy and he unfroze. Rashel and Jez were still frozen. Percy looked at the two girls and sighed.

"I'll take Rashel," He said, going towards Rashel.

I smirked.

"Aw, is wittle Pewcy afwaid of a wittle vampiwe?" I asked.

"Just shut up and grab Jez," He grumbled.

I laughed and pulled Jez away from Rashel. They unfroze and looked around. Jez's eyes went back to normal and her fangs disappeared. They glared at each other.

"I'm going to train," Rashel announced.

"I'm going too. You want to go one-on-one?"

"Sure."

They both walked out of the cabin. Percy stared after them and then looked at me.

"I will never understand girls," He said.

"What about Annabeth?" I asked.

"Annabeth is perfect," Percy said.

"Good answer, Seaweed Brain."

Annabeth was standing in the doorway, smirking.

"Aw, come on. You know I'm your Seaweed Brain," Percy said, going over to hug her.

"And you always will be," Annabeth laughed.

I watched them and felt a pang of jealousy. They were perfect for each other. They loved each other. Did Nico and I feel that way? I mean, wed did break up. But so did Annabeth and Percy when I first came. But what if I was the second time and Nico and I weren't really meant for each other which might mean that it was-

"Knock knock."

The three of us turned to look at the doorway.

"Amber, can I talk to you?" Nico asked.

I took a deep breath.

"Yeah. Sure," I said.

We both left the cabin and went into the woods. I leaned on a tree while Nico paced in front of me.

"So, uh, what did you want to talk about?" I asked.

Nico stopped and turned to look at me.

"Is it true?"

"Is what true?"

"That you still love me?" He asked, sounding slightly frustrated.

"Before I say anything, why would you think that?" I asked.

"Because I've been watching you! I heard your conversation with Percy. And what Thalia told you. And what you said in the Arena!" Nico said.

Flashbacks suddenly came into my mind.

"So, Nico must have been focusing on the one thing that held him to the world. That one person. I'm thinking..."

"So what if it was me. He's not with me anymore," I said.

"That's my point. You were the thing holding him here. Without you..." He trailed off.

I stared at him.

"You don't think he could...die, do you?" I asked.

He looked me in the eyes.

"I don't know. Annabeth and I were only separated from each other for a short time. I don't know if Erica can replace you as that spot," He said.

"You know, I was going to ask him, beg him, to take me back. Thalia reminded me that Nico wasn't the type of guy who would do that. But now...now he's with Erica. I don't know what I'm going to do," I looked out into the sunset.

"We have to keep fighting," He said.

"Thanks for the talk, big bro," I said.

"No problem."

Little did I know that someone had been watching the whole conversation.

"Amber, I know this is hard to accept, but I've known Nico for a while. He's not the type of guy who would cheat. I think it was forced and Rachel got a picture of it," Thalia said.

I looked her in the eye.

"You sure?" I asked.

"Definitely."

"I still love Nico," I said.

"Oh gods."

"Yeah. I heard it all. I just need to know," He said. "Was it true?"

There was a pause. I was about to answer when Aurora ran in.

"They're attacking! They're trying to get Troy and Ryan back!" She yelled.

Nico and I shared a look before running outside. I took out Tsunami and ran to the bottom of Half-Blood hill. It was as if there was a concert going on, and monsters were the only ones attending. Ryan and Troy were standing behind everyone else, and they looked guilty.

"This is all our fault," Troy said.

"No its not," I said.

"We have to help by fighting," Ryan said.

"No. We were ready for a fight anyway. Just go back into the Big House and wait there," I said.

They nodded and reluctantly left. I looked over the fight. Demigods, vampires, and shapeshifters were going against monsters. There were even some werewolves on the monsters side, which was bad for us. Alex came up to me.

"Ready for some Wiccan action?" She asked.

"Let's go!" I grinned.

I sheathed my sword and went down to the first monster. I made a hand gesture and blew him up. Alex had done the same to another monster. I turned, left and right, blowing them up.

"Amber, look out!"

I turned around and blew up the empousa that had snuck up behind me. An alarm went off in my mind.

Danger. Danger. Danger.

And Nico yelled in agony. Everything seemed to freeze.

I screamed, "No!"

I held my hands up and a gold light shone, blinding me for a second. When it died down, about twenty of the monsters that had been in front of me were gone. I ran towards Nico and slid onto the ground next to him. Thalia was already feeding him some Ambrosia.

"What happened?" I asked.

"I…the monsters had me surrounded. I didn't see… I couldn't…he got in the way and they stabbed him in his Achilles heel," Thalia said.

"Can the Ambrosia-"

"It's too late, Amber. You can't save him," Annabeth said from behind me.

"Like hell, I can't," I grabbed the Ambrosia and gave him more.

"That's too much!" Thalia stole back the bag of Godly food.

"I have to save him!"

"You can't!"

I leaned forward and shook Nico slightly.

"Nico? Nico, can you hear me? Nico?" I asked.

He coughed and looked at me.

"I love you Nico. I do. Now please, don't leave me. Please," I begged.

He didn't answer. I put my hand on his Achilles heel and cried. I didn't see my hands glow. I didn't see the blood go back in the wound. I didn't see it close and heal. I only heard him cough and sit up.

"Oh my gods! Nico!" I hugged him.

He laughed.

"How…what happened?" Thalia asked, looking confused.

"Amber, you just healed him," Annabeth said, her eyes wide.

I looked at her in shock.

"What?"

"It's one of your new powers," Annabeth said.

I hugged Nico and felt happy.

"Hey, not to ruin the moment, but you need to get off your butts and fight with us!" Clarisse yelled from where she was fighting a Hydra. I rolled my eyes, but got up. I went over to where Clarisse was fighting and blew up one head. It didn't grow back. I grinned. I blew up the others heads and the Hydra was dead.

"Fall back!"

I turned around. Percy was calling everybody back. I made sure everyone else was up the hill before I went up. Nico was there, but he winced every once in a while.

"Why are we falling back?" I asked Percy.

"Amber, they're dead," Percy said.

I turned and realized that the monsters were dead. Well, except for a few, who the Night Worlders were taking care of right now.

"Oh."

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I was walking back to my cabin, coming from a (SHIELD YOUR EYES CHILDREN!) lovely make-out session with Nico, when it happened.

"Hi, Amber!"

"Oh, hi Chase," I said, still walking.

He jogged to keep up with me.

"So, how're you?"

"Good," I said.

"Hey, wait. I wanted to ask you something," He said, grabbing my arm.

I stopped walking and turned to face him.

"What?"

"Can I show you something I found in the woods the other day?" He asked.

"Like what?" I asked suspiciously.

"It's a waterfall type thing."

I hesitated.

"Trust me, it's perfectly safe," He said, smiling.

"Okay," I sighed.

He led me into the woods and we walked for about five minutes before he stopped. I looked around.

"There isn't a waterfall here."

"No, but we're away from camp," He grinned.

"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked, taking a step back.

"It means we are alone."

"Look, I really have to go. There's battle plans I have to help Alex and Annabeth with, and I have to train with Perc-"

He interrupted me with his lips and I shoved him away.

"Hey! Back off! I have a boyfriend!" I growled.

"You want to go out with me?"

"No, my boyfriend is Nico di Angelo, son of Hades. And he can kick your butt," I said.

"I don't believe that," Chase said smugly.

"You're just some undetermined ki-"

"Wrong. I'm not undetermined. I know who my father is," He said.

He held up a hand and water seemed to come out of his hand.

"Oh, ew! You tried to kiss me and you're my brother?"

"No, I'm not a son of Poseidon. I'm the son of someone more powerful! Someone who is the rightful King of the Oceans!"

Oceans…

"You're the son of Oceanus?" I asked incredulously.

"Smart girl," He smirked.

"What do you want?" I asked.

"I want to show the children of the useless Gods how powerful the Titans are!"

"The Titans aren't powerful! They're losers!" I said.

Wow, Amber, nice comeback… I thought to myself.

"You want to see some Titan power? Fine. I'll use your own element against you!" He shouted.

Out of nowhere came a small wave of water. It pushed me into a tree and held me there. I commanded it to get off, but it didn't work. The water was all around my body except for my head. My hair was wet and it wouldn't dry.

"Now do you see? Huh? The Gods are not powerful enough to stand against the Titans!" Chase said.

"Stop this right now!" I yelled.

Chase came over to where we were so we were standing face-to-face. I still couldn't move, thanks to the stupid water. He leaned in so we were kissing. I used my witchly and godly powers to get free of the water and kneed him. He bent over, groaning, and I side-kicked him so he fell over. I ran towards camp at full speed. Then, I felt something wrap against my ankles. I tripped and fell over.

"You're more mischievous than you look, you know that?" Chase asked from behind me.

"Leave me alone!" I growled.

"Why should I?" He asked.

"Otherwise I will use my powers and you will die," I threatened.

"I dare you to try and kill me," Chase said.

I felt a sharp pain in my leg. I turned around and held my leg. I tried to crawl, but he kicked me over.

I made a hand gesture towards Chase that should have blown him up. He was wearing an amulet with a red ruby on it. When I used my power on him, the ruby lit bright red and died down.

"Protective amulet against witches," He grinned at me.

I glared at him.

"I can do anything to you, and you can't do a thing about it," Chase said.

"Over my dead body."

I had never felt so relieved in my life. Nico was standing behind me, Alex, Percy, and Thalia next to him.

"Get away from her," Nico hissed.

Chase took out a sword of his own and pointed it at me.

"One move and she's dead."

Ooooh! Scary ending, huh? Well, I have made this chapter exceptionally long just to make it up to you, my wonderful readers. I am so very sorry for not updating lately. To HappyDawn47, thanks for your concern. I unfortunately did have a case of Writer's Block, but guess what? I'm back to my awesome self which means I can continue my beautifully wonderful, exciting story! I thank you all so much for reading this story and it really means a lot to me when any of you review or add the story to your favorites. Thanks for everything you guys have down for me! You, the readers of my stories, are my inspiration! Thanks! (P.S: The next chapter will be up next weekend)

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