We ran out of the buildings. There was a screech off in the distance. I stopped in my tracks and covered my ears. I think I heard Adam mumble, "Gods help us."

When I uncovered my ears we were surrounded by a whole bunch of shadows. They were small orbs no bigger than my foot. They had small arms and hands sticking out their sides. I think they had fur, or maybe it was black fire.

Adam took my hand again and said, "Don't let go," then he whistled and it was like a storm of bees came alive. They came from everywhere swarming toward Adam and me. The hordes attacked the shadows around us, some ran away in fear, but others weren't affected. Eventually the ones that did run away just came back. Adam whistled again and the horde of bees dropped to the ground. The shadows still gathered around us. Adam squeezed my hand as another screech went off in the distance.

"Why aren't they attacking?" I asked. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Rose and Culton run up to us with shadows in tow. Culton had his sword and Rose had her recorder.

"I don't know," Adam replied, "Culton! Come here!"

Culton and Rose saw us and ran toward us. They stopped beside us and their shadows stopped chasing them. They just sat there, I think what you could call, hissing at us.

Culton was out of breath, "Why won't they attack us?"

"I think it's because of my sword," everyone looked at it and their faces grew white. The jewel on the end of my sword was pulsing steadily, letting out a purple light. There was another screech in the distance, louder this time, and, in response, all the shadows attacked us at once.

We had no chance. There was too many no matter how hard I hacked and smashed. I felt there hands wrap and my body and pinning me immobile. They started to carry the four of us toward the very back of the treasury. They carried us through a small building and set us down. The shadows took our weapons and carried them from view, except for mine. The shadow that took my sword carried it to the back of the building and handed it to a larger shadow. I stood and looked around to see if everyone was okay. They were standing up and looking quite bewildered. It only made me wonder where David and Saul were.

"It's quite a weapon," a female voice came from the large shadow, "Suits a person such as you."

I narrowed my eyes, "Who are you?"

She laughed a smooth and easy laugh, "Many things; a prisoner, a witch, a woman, a child of Hecate," The woman turned slowly and anonymously as she spoke

I cleared my throat, "No, I didn't ask what you are I just asked who you are."

"Oh," the woman the shrugged and snorted, "Oops. That's what I get for trying to be dramatic. My name is Cami. I'm not very good at being evil as you can see."

I let out a short laugh and let my guard down. This girl wasn't to worry about. She was beautiful even though she was very pale. Her hair was raven black and her eyes were so dark they almost looked black. Her features were soft and kind. Her smile was welcoming. Not to mention her snorting laugh was childish and easy to laugh with.

Culton came to stand next to me and he whispered in my ear, "I don't think we have to worry about her." I nodded but then I took a look around. Her shadows riled around us; maybe we didn't have to worry about her, but her shadows weren't too friendly looking.

"So if you're not evil then you'll let us go?" I asked.

Cami sighed, "Afraid not," She ran her hand along my sword, "You see, Digger trapped me here when he captured me long ago." She walked toward us and chains that were attached around her ankles jingled as she did. "I told him that instead of killing and eating me I would offer up my services with magic. He agreed and took me down here. He said that if anyone other than him came in and took something that I would have to stop them. He said that if I ever failed at my job that he would kill me. I prefer to keep my life than to be eaten."

"How long have you been down here?" Rose asked quietly from the back of the group.

"Oh, twenty or so years. All that time I've been down here, building my magic and protecting Digger's treasure."

"And all that time you never thought to use your magic to escape?"

Cami cocked her head as if she had never thought of that before. She said so very slowly, "Nooooo. I didn't think of that."

Adam chuckled, "A smart one, she is."

I elbowed him in the ribs, "We are leaving this place. You can come with us; we'll help you out."

Cami's eyes darted from person to person. She took another step forward but her chain was at the end of it length. She sighed and pointed her sword at my neck. She was just close enough that I could feel the cold metal against my skin. "How do I know I can trust you?"

"We're demigods as well. You can trust us because were born and bred to help and to fight the bad. Right?"

I turned to Culton to confirm this and he nodded, "You're more than right."

Cami lowered my sword. She took a step back, "Fine but tell me one thing. Why are you here?"

"I can tell you later, Digger might be coming any minute now."

Cami let out a puff. She went around in a circle thinking it over. She was nodding her head and mumbling to herself. Her back was to us when she spoke up, "Alright, I will go with you."

I let out a sigh I walked over to where her chain attached to the wall. I crouched and looked at the construction. "Adam," I called, "Can we just yank this off? Or is there and easier way?"

Adam laughed, "Yeah, the easier way would be lock picking the clasps around her ankles.'

I grinned, "And you can do that?"

Adam shrugged, "I can, probably." He walked up to Cami, "Do you have a nail or something small and thin I can use?"

Cami started to shrug, but then she pointed up her finger like a light bulb had gone off, "somewhere around here there's a sowing pin."

Adam nodded and looked around for it. All of the sudden Cami screamed bloody murder and collapsed on the floor. A bunch of the shadows hustled out of the building.

I rushed to Cami, "What's wrong? What happened?"

Cami was shivering as she stood, "Do you have other friends other than the ones here?"

"Yes, David and Saul. Why? What's wrong?"

"Whenever someone picks something up my magic automatically responds and sends my shades after them. It hurts because it is so unexpected and moving so many shades at once takes a lot of energy."

"That screaming was you?" Adam questioned, "Why don't you just make your shades disappear?"

"It's not as easy as that."

I shook my head, "let's just focus on getting you out of here."

She nodded and pointed to the corner of the room, "the pin is there."

Adam rushed to it and rushed back. He started working on her clasps. I asked "Cami can I get my sword back?" Cami shot a look at the sword in her hand and an almost glare back at me. "Please?" I begged.

She slowly let go of my sword and it dropped to the ground. I picked it up and ran out of the building. There was a mass of shadows off in the distance and flashes of light which I could only guess was David's bow. I ran toward them and rushed through the crowd of Shadows to the center, "David! Saul!"

"Haley?" David called as a flash of light whizzed past my arm, "Where are you?"

I caught up with them and I touched David's arm, "Follow me!"

"Where is everyone?" Saul asked as David and he chased after me with the shadows behind them.

"We heard the screaming and ran around to find you but no one was around!"

I didn't answer them because I was just focused on getting back to the rest of the group and try to not get scratched up by the monsters chasing us. I ran into Cami's building and David and Saul came in after me.

Cami was right in front of the door way. As soon as we were all in, she shot her hand up and called out a foreign word. I guessed it was some kind of magical word, because all the shadows stopped moving and they melted into the ground. Cami waved her hands around for a while until all the shadows were gone. She collapsed and started to shiver. Sweat had gathered on her skin and her clothes were drenched.

"Cami? What did you do?"

She gasped for air as she spoke, "Dispelling that many at once takes a lot of energy out of me."

At that moment, somewhere in the distance a yell came from the tunnels. I cursed, "I know that voice anywhere."

"Diggers out and probably heading for us fast with his brothers in tow," Saul heaved breathes.

"We can take him now that we have our weapons back," Culton pointed out.

I gritted my teeth. It's true the Digger and his brothers are outnumbered two to one, but that doesn't mean much. They are much bigger and stronger than us.

I stood, "I would rather avoid a fight if I can. Someone will need to carry Cami."

"I will," Saul volunteered. He went up to Cami and gathered her in his arms, "If we do get in a fight I'm not much help that way anyway."

I nodded and looked at everyone else, "Have we got all we need?"

"One more thing," Cami whispered, "If you go out and to the right a little far off is a bag. It can carry unlimited items and not gain any weight. Gather a bunch of drachmas, we might need them."

I nodded and ran out. I found the bag and gathered drachmas, "C'mon!" I yelled after I was all finished. Everyone followed me out until we reached the treasury door. We all stopped and heard footsteps in the distance. I gulped, "Get ready to run."