Happy after Holidays! Hope you had a great time! And, I think I uploaded this chapter earlier than expected...oh, well. And, to answer a few questions. It wasn't the camp half-blood forest they were at, it was just a forest at a base camp no one can know about ;] Well, mostly because it doesn't really matter. Juliet wasn't with Oliver, Carlos, and Zora at the train station or anything because she had special business to attend to, that you can't know about, she got back to the base camp before Oliver, Zora, and Carlos did. Lets just say Oliver and the others didn't know what she was up to...Oliver and Zora captured Luke, they did so by forcing already beaten up Cooper to give them Luke. And, yeah, when Luke said "I'm taking any part in this.", I meant "I'm not taking any part in this."

On to the story!

Chapter 11

The fever wasn't anything serious, it just a reaction to the build up of all the energy from the fire I was conjuring up. It helped that Zack knew about this, he had gone through it a few times. I thought kids of Apollo couldn't make fire, only set off heat. Fire would be from a child of Hephaestus or Hecate. Zack was acting suspicious when I asked him about it, so I dropped it, making sure not to mention it again because I don't want us to go back to not talking.

We've been on the train for about a day now, and there wasn't anything to do. No monsters had attacked us, which I found weird, but I enjoyed not getting attacked. We hadn't seen Juliet in a while, so I was afraid she has something big planed for us.

Right now, I was siting near the window with Hunter, away from the guys.

"So...I'm guessing back there...yesterday, there's something going on with you and the black-haired dude, that wanted to recruit you?" Hunter asked me. She was sitting across from me, with her feet on my seat, just as I was sitting, expect the opposite.

I considered telling her. We were on a quest together, I couldn't lie. "There was. He's my...ex-boyfriend, as you may call it." I said.

Her eyes widened and she leaned forward. From a few feet behind her, I could tell Trey was listening. So, I decided to keep it short. Since, thinking of Oliver made me angry. "I loved Oliver. He betrayed me, and now I hate him." I said.

I leaned back and crossed my arms, Hunter copied my movements. "I see...guess you really fell hard." she said.

I sighed and looked out the window. "I guess...but, that's all over now!" I said.

She nodded, thinking it over. Then, the train came to a sudden halt. I fell forward, and banged my head onto the seat in front of me. I groaned and stood up, looking around like everyone else. I heard a roar outside, and I was reminded that we were still pretty vulnerable.

"Attention passengers, attention passengers. Due to engine fail, you will have to wait until an engineer comes by and fixes it." I heard an old mans voice come from the PA system. He repeated it a couple times and let us know we can leave the train 'till it's fixed. We were stuck in Arkansas.

Trey, Zack, Hunter and I went straight outside. All of us heard the monster roar. We were close to the front of the train, so we could clearly see that there were three giants at the front of the train. One had stopped the train apparently, another was sitting on top of it, and another was getting ready to smash the engines.

I nodded at Zack and he took out his bow and arrow, and mine appeared in my hands. Hunter and Trey whipped out their swords and we all charged. I headed to the closest giant, and shot a few arrows to the head. It swamped it away like they were bugs and ripped a tree off it's roots and held it like a weapon.

I charged at me and brought down the tree to crush me. I flipped backwards, the tree missing me by a few inches. I jumped up on the tree and swiftly ran from the trunk to the giant's arms, and headed for it's head. Another giant turned from Zack and Trey and saw me. It grabbed me mid-jump and threw me to the ground and stepped on me. And, that hurt like I was being crushed between two wall. I cried out and Zack rushed to my side. He stabbed the foot of the giant with the dagger he took from my belt and helped me up as the giant howled in pain.

"You okay?" He asked, look for any serious injuries.

"Of course not!" I said rubbing my shoulder. "Now I know how a freaking cockroach feels." I muttered.

Zack rolled his eyes and ran to help Hunter, just after passing me my dagger. I attached my bow to my back, and slipped the dagger into my belt. I used my magic to fly onto the giants head and stuck my arrow into it. It roared and fell, bringing me down with it. I jumped off before it hit the ground. It leaned up and shook it's head dazedly.

I concentrated on the monster and stood straight up. Soon, the monster yelled out a pained cry and exploded into mucky, goo filled dust. I gagged and went to help Trey. He was getting beaten up pretty badly.

"How you doing?" I asked, while avoid a blow from the giant.

He glared at me as I smirked. He made sure to show me the large cut on his arm. "Pretty good, you?" he responded.

As if to mock me, the giant took it's large hand and flicked me, sending me flying back a few feet. "Never better" I called out to Trey.

I heard him laugh and made a mental note to push him off a cliff later. I rolled out of the way as one giant tried to step on me again. I was not going through that again. I jumped up and pressed my hand against the leg of the giant. I concentrated on it and muttered: "Σταματάω"

The giant started moving very slowly, until it was no longer moving. Trey shot a few arrows at its head and the monster exploded, sending goo flying everywhere. Yuck. I heard tons of people from the train scream. Oh, gods, I forgot all about them! Most of them jumped out of the train and started running from the scene. I don't know what they saw, but I was glad it made them run away. Unfortunately, the train driver was among those who ran.

While studying the crowds of people, I didn't realize what was going on around me. So when Trey yelled, "Terra!" My head snapped up and I was pushed to the ground.

We fell with a grunt on the ground and I winced as arrows flew above my head. "Trey, you are heavy, you know that?" I said.

His cheeks heated up as he stood up, I smile, but it vanished as I looked at my surroundings. Tons of half-bloods, I assumed they were, were standing around me and Trey with swords and bows and arrows. I froze when I saw Zack and Hunter there. They were being held by two half-bloods, with swords to their throats. I could see both of them calculating ways we could get out of here.

"Terra...where did these people come from?" Trey whispered.

"How would I-" It dawned on me then. "The train." I said as I recognized a few people. "We were surround the whole time." I gulped, hating myself for not realizing.

"One move and your friends are dead." Someone said. A girl voice. I turned slightly, and nearly gasped out loud. The girl...she was wearing all black, and a hood, making a shadow over her face. But I could see clearly who she was. Cooper. From the dream where my mother gave me the necklace.

My hand flew up to my necklace, and instantly, I felt stronger. "Trey, fight." I said.

"What?!" He asked.

I whipped out my bow and arrow and began shoot all around me. Everyone attacked at once. I was careful not to attack Cooper, she could be more powerful than I thought, if she was with my mom. My plan was simple. I noticed a black jeep coming our way. From there...I think you an guess what I was going to do. I quickly made my way to Hunter and Zack, avoiding the fight, and pushed the people holding them back with my magic. I glanced at the car then at them, and they understood.

"Trey!" I called out, he made his way towards me, and everyone started going towards us.

"I'll hold them off, try stopping the car!" I said and jumped into the middle of the crowd. "I hope this works." I muttered. I closed my eyes and called out, "Hey, idiots, over here!" They all turned and ran to me.

At that moment, I felt a warm sensation. I had burst into fire. Everyone stepped back. I resisted the urge to smile an held my arms out, concentrating. I could feel my magic weakening, so I made it quick. I took deep breaths, and in a matter of seconds, fire was circulating me beautifully. I made little spinning motions with my hands and the fire circled faster and I was getting affected by the heat, because I was losing energy. The fire wall was circling around the enemy, and me.

"Terra! Get out of there!" I heard Zack yell.

Alright, now how do I get out of here? While everyone was busy panicking, I sprinted right into the fire with my arms in front of my face. I felt non-smoke filled air and breathed it into, then hit the floor. Someone laughed, and said, "Klutz."

"Shut up, Trey" I said and got up.

They got the car, but no one was in it. I looked at Zack. "What happened to the driver?" I asked.

"There was none. It was running by itself." He said.

By itself? That doesn't make any sense! "Lets just forget about that right now, Terra's Fire thing it disappearing!" Hunter yelled.

We all scrambled in the car and I ended up in the driver's seat. "I can't drive! I'm only fourteen!" I screeched.

"Just drive! Hit the pedal thing!" Trey yelled from shot-gun.

"Oh, yeah, that clears it up!" I yelled back.

"Just move!" He yelled and sat in the drivers seat and motioned my to sit in the seat he was sitting.

I heard lots of shouting, the fire wall had disappeared. "Just go!" Hunter yelled.

Without warning, Trey hit the 'Pedal thing' and I was slammed back to the drivers seat. He ended up siting on me while I yelled for him get off.

"Why don't you just move!?" He yelled.

"I can't you're sitting on me!" I screamed.

He yelled in frustration. Zack pulled me from the drivers seat and put me to Trey's former seat.

"Happy?!" Trey yelled.

"Yes, I am!" I yelled back and scrambled to put on my seat belt.

A few bad turns, awful accelerating, and screaming later, we were around a town. Trey tried driving slow, since we were around pedestrians, but didn't really succeed. He drover over a bridge, which was over a large river. I started getting nervous and noticed something weird. Black vans surrounded us.

"I think we're being followed." I said.

Trey was aware of that. He hit one of the cars on the side, and tried zooming forward. But, the van in front of us backed up and hit us, I heard Hunter scream as another van hit us from the side. Trey tried moving to the other side, but then one of the vans hit us a little too hard. Too hard meaning, we went sailing off the bridge. Hunter and I screamed our girlie screams, while Zack and Trey just yelled, "Oh, my gods!"

I tried making the car stop, but my magic was drained from the fire, and I only managed to slow it down. As we hit the surface of the water, the front glass broke and salt water slammed onto our faces. I closed my mouth, not wanting to drink the foul water.

The car slowed down in the water, but the car started filling up with water fast. I couldn't get my seat belt off, slid out of it from under and went to Trey, who had passed out form the impacted. I helped him out of the seat belt and looked at the back seat. Zack was helping Hunter out of her seat belt. With passed out Trey in one arm, I took Zack's hand and he took Hunter's. I pulled us out of the car, and swam up to the surface. Once above the water, I took a deep breath, so did Zack and Hunter.

"You okay?" Zack asked us. Hunter nodded.

"I am, but Trey's not. He's knocked out." I said and looked at Trey's body worriedly. I hope he isn't dead.

We swam to shore, me being a little slow from carrying Trey. Once there, I checked Trey's heart and ignored my shivering. I preformed mouth-to-mouth, and hoped Trey wasn't faking all this. A few breaths later, Trey's eyes snapped open. He turned to the side and spit our some water.

I sighed, relieved. He leaned up and winced, I noticed a bruise on his face. "That didn't go as I hoped" He muttered.

I rolled my eyes. "I'm not so thrilled either. I had to give you mouth-to-mouth." I said.

He gave me a sly look and smirked. "So...you kissed me?" He asked.

I punched him in the shoulder and stood up. "It just had to be you" I said.

"Hey, love birds, we have a problem." Hunter said.

I ignored the love birds comment and noticed we did have a problem. Half-bloods were racing towards us. In a minute, we were surrounded again. I pushed my wet hair out of my face and shivered, hating that I lost my coat in the water. My bow and arrow appeared in my hands, and I shot at the first person. But, that first person happened to be evil Cooper.

Her hand faced me and the arrow stopped midair air and burned to the ground. With a flick of her hand, we all went flying back. I groaned as I hit the ground. She clenched her hands, and suddenly, I felt a very strong pain in my stomach. Like...someone had filled it with needles and it was trying to digest. Zack, Trey and Hunter was feeling the pain, too.

I heard myself scream, the pain was becoming unbearable. Tears spilled down my cheeks as I realized this is what I did to Oliver. Now, felt guilty. I started coughing and gagging, not being able to breath. Cooper held four darts in her hand, and shot one at Zack, and he instantly went down, next was Trey, then Hunter, then me. She smirked before hitting me with the dart. I dropped to the ground, thinking this was better that the awful pain I just experienced.

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