"Stop this nonsense!" cried a voice. At first, I was sure it was Chiron; but I was not quite sure if I was excited or upset by it. He would stop the fight and stop Matt from taking a final blow on me. In addition, the two of us would be in more trouble than we ever were in the first place.

However, the voice was from someone different. Everybody looked at the entrance to see a brown-haired boy, flanked by two younger children. Matt stood up, pulling his weight from me when we were all astonished at the one who was in the doorway. The two children ran in. Roy grabbed me, pulling me away from Matt; and Zariah grabbed Matt, dragging him off me.

Nico di Angelo stepped into the arena and looked between the two of us, looking at us as if we had just been fighting to the death ─ even though we were just fighting to the death. His leg was still bandaged, the bright white bandage had turned red from the seeping blood, and it barely looked like he could lean on the foot. He wobbled when he neared us, until I realized he had a cane in his hand. It somehow made him look older, in a more mature type of way.

I could barely see Nico's eyes under the darkness, but he stared between the two of us, "What in Hades did you two think you could do by fighting? I am sure it sounds weird coming from the Son of Hades, but killing each other will solve nothing. Percy ─ if you stab Matt in the chest, he could never give you any information on Annabeth." Silently, I was thinking to myself about how I already knew enough about her; "Matt ─ if you somehow with a one in a million chance kill Percy, it's not gonna make your ex love you any more."

I looked up at the stands where Jane, Rachel and Grover were all standing up, looking down at us. The scene was silent, an eerie edge to it as Nico backed up and looked at the ground as he leaned upon his cane. He almost reminded me of the pictures of my grandfather that I had seen. He seemed so strong, as if he could make the world tremble under his fingers (in the case of Nico, he probably could if he tried hard enough) but seemed so fragile at the same time, like a glass vase on the tip of a pin, just willing to break soon enough.

"You two are lucky I don't plan on telling this to Chiron," Nico sputtered. However, I was more amazed than feeling lucky at all. I was amazed Nico was not half way there by now, screaming out Chiron's name. Nevertheless, I had learned much about Nico in the past couple years that I had known him. After Bianca died, he changed a lot. Nevertheless, everyone changes, right?

Matt seemed to be the one who thought it would be so much fun to break the silence, "So what do you plan on doing?" he scoffed at Nico. The Hades child turned around hastily to Matt and gave him a hard glare, and suddenly, Matt stopped. I was looking between Nico and Matt, wondering what was going on.

Finally, I realized that maybe I should be doing something right now. I wrenched my arms free of Roy, and gave him a warning glare not to grab me again. He backed off and I walked towards Nico, he grabbed my elbow and I pulled it from him immediately. "Where are you going?" he demanded.

I blinked, "I'm going to China," I said sarcastically before moving out of the arena.

I threw my head back and moaned that when I stepped out of the grounds, looking back a single time before moving forwards, my arms crossed. I stood at the top of a small hill, overlooking the lake, my eyes searching the uneven surface. I sat upon the blades of grass and laid my head on my knees. So much was going on it made me feel like I would burst. First, I got a crazy prophecy. Second, I got a book that told my entire life. Third, I meet this random little Thalia. Fourth, Annabeth just disappears. Fifth, my new girlfriend and her ex-boyfriend turn out to be the ones in my prophecy that I do not even know the meaning of yet!

I settled onto my back, and tried to figure out a bit of the prophecy now that I knew more of it. Blue and green combined make teal. I got the blue and green, but the teal part confused me. Forces combined keep secrets sealed. I was still a little dazed on that thought. A couple every monster fears, runs top speeds and comes very near. That was probably a warning that a couple dangerous like Matt and Jane would show up without warning. Pages touch and tell one more, into a land no one should explore. That was obviously a warning that maybe no one should read my book, but a lot did read it. A shield of green keeps loved ones away, into a time of disarray. The shield was obviously Matt when he did not even attempt to bring Annabeth back, keeping loved ones away.

A time of disarray, was that maybe the fact that Matt and I would not stop fighting? That every night we would draw a crowd and duel each other to the death? Nevertheless, this could not be the end of it, there had to be more. The prophecy was just a bunch of warnings that no one understood.

I fell onto my back and looked up at the sky. This was not the end of the prophecy, there had to be more to it. I sat up once more, grabbing onto my knees and looking towards the Big House, remembering slowly that Rachel was in the arena. However, the stage seemed to close down slowly, people were heading back. Nevertheless, I needed answers as soon as possible.

"Not now." I turned around in shock and saw the little blonde girl I had been seeing in front of me. I looked up at Half-Blood Hill, which seemed over a mile away. She had claimed her spirit was still in the tree, but here she was.

I blinked at her, trying to bring my breathing to a steady motion. "What are you doing here?" I demanded, staying in my sitting position. Thalia rested down beside me, crossing her legs and looking up at the sky.

Her recognizable electric blue eyes stared up at the sky, "Just waiting. You know you are right. There is more to it, but you will not find out until later. Much, much later." A smile stretched across her face, and my mouth dropped.

"I found out I only have another year and a half to live!" I cried out, standing up and throwing my head back, my hands against my forehead in rage. My hand slipped through my hair and it hit my side. It was hard to believe I would only make it to eighteen. Life was hard enough in the first place. I looked down to Thalia, but she had already disappeared. Great help she was.

I'm sorry for making you guys wait so long for such a short chapter! But it is pretty major when you think about it. I've just been super busy during the summer, and I'll also be going camping next Friday, and during this week I'm in hockey camp (during the morning and I come home around 2:30pm EST…well, please R&R!

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