A/N: Hello fellow fanfic readers. Haven't typed in a while and thought I should stop being lazy and put the next chapter already. Well enough about this pointless A/N and just read the story. :)

~Melissa

Nico

I could hardly believe that my Father didn't kill Rose. He really surprised me and to admit (not aloud but it's a start) that he was wrong! Wow. Rose was right, though. We were in trouble. After Percy and Annabeth make sure we're safe and not injured, they're going to kill us. Ugh, it's like I can already hear them. Good thing is that we have a good excuse. I didn't know exactly where to shadow travel, I had to admit that I was pretty tired and I couldn't travel that far without being knocked out for a day or two. I kind of refused to eat anything my father gave me. What if he did something to it and I would lose my memory or something. I didn't want to risk my chances.

I did feel my energy draining so I decided to shadow travel to central park. We were what looked like near the lake. The sun was just starting to rise so there wasnt any mortals to see us pop out of nowhere. That was the good news.

"What time do you think we spent down in the underworld?" asked Rose.

"Well, I was there for about two weeks and you only one. But that's if you wanted a specific answer." I replied.

"I thought we were going to Camp. This looks like Central Park."

"Well, shadow traveling is kind of tiring, especially when I take someone else with me, so yeah. I have a dracma so we can get a taxi."

"Uh, I don't think they take dracmas"

"I don't mean-" I suddenly stopped talking. "What is it?" whispered Rose. "Shh" I told her. I don't know if it was the feeling of another presence or change in the place around me but something felt different...almost dangerous. Then we heard a growl from the trees. I didn't know what it was but I grabbed my sword. Rose twisted her ring and a second later, she had tidalwave in her hand. We heard growling again, but this time it was closer. "I don't like this" whispered Rose. We stood back-to-back as we heard laughter. And not just any kind of laughter, it sounded like a soothing female sound. I felt like I was going into a trance but I quickly shook my head. It was hard for me to concentrate. Then four figures emerged from the woods. They ambushed us."Great" I muttered as the monsters emerged. I knew they were monsters even though they looked like girls. Very cute looking girls, Ugh, snap out of it! "Nico, what are they?" I wasn't really paying attention. I felt myself falling into the trance again. I just noticed how beautiful they looked. I knew it was a trick, but I couldn't stop staring at their mesmerizing eyes...

Rose

The African-American girl laughed. She was probably the leader. "Don't you know who we are, Rose? Didn't your brother, Percy Jackson, ever mention me? To be honest, when I heard that there was another child of Poseidon, I didn't believe it. I still sent my sisters to look for you."

"Uh, who and what ARE you? What do you want?"asked Rose.

"You're only delaying your death but if you must know my name's Kelly. Me and my sisters are empousai in case you or your little friend havent figured it out yet. As to answer your last question, your brother made us looked weak and a laughing-stock. We're only here to redeem ourselves."

I didn't really know what to think. This was getting really annoying and scary to know lots of people want to kill you. I notice Nico wasn't really paying much attention. He just kept looking at the monsters. That didn't help my mood either. Sure they looked okay but they weren't that cute.

"Nico will you stay focused."

"Huh?"

"Nico, they might look like girls but they're monsters, remember?"

He didn't react. The empousai giggled. "We have that affect on men. We feed on the blood of young men. After we deal with you, we'll have a little snack and be on our way." All the empousai advanced looking very hungry. I couldn't fight them all by myself. I needed Nico to snap out of it. I didn't want to but whirled Nico to face me and slapped him. Hard.

"OW! Why did you do that for?!" Then he noticed that we had company. "Oh, right. Sorry, it's just that-"

"Look, we can talk about it later." I said as I faced an empousai to my left. They were getting closer and I didn't know if Nico would zone out again and leave me alone to fight them. "Do you really think you can take on four of us?" she sneered. Then something bizarre happened. Their skin turned as white as chalk, their eyes turned red and their teeth became fangs. Their legs were the weirdest. One was a donkey's leg and the other looked like a bronze human leg. "Well they don't look so attractive anymore" said Nico. I smirked. "What?" I lunged at the nearest monster. It was easy since I caught her off guard. I sliced straight through her body. She screamed before turning to dust.

Kelli jumped on me from behind. I hit the floor and my sword flew out of my hand and somewhere behind Kelli. She gets on top of me and pins my hands with one hand. Kelli looks at me with a smile on her face. "Did you really think you could get away from us? Especially while we outnumber you. I'm a senior empousai. If Percy Jackson couldn't beat me, what made you think you could?" I looked around to see Nico fighting the other two empousai. I see he's trying really hard to stay focused and I know he can't last much longer. Kelli catches me looking at Nico. That only makes her smile even wider.

"Look, you can do whatever you want to me. Just leave him alone. He doesn't have anything to do with this." I tell Kelli. If I don't make it out of this alive, Nico should. Then I heard him scream in pain. I looked up again only to see him being pinned down by Kelli's sisters and bleeding from what looks like a very deep wound in his hand. Only did I notice that their nails look as sharp as knives. Nico's thrashing, trying to escape which is pointless since he's overpowered and without a sword. Then one of the empousai that's pinning Nico's arms asks,"Kelly can you hurry up and kill the girl already. We're hungry." Kelly looks at me.

"Stop! Let him go!" I scream at the top of my lungs as I try to free myself from Kelli's grip. Kelli slaps me to shut me up. I can feel my skin sting. "You are getting on my last nerves you pathetic girl. You know what? Sisters change of plans. You can eat the boy first and we can just let the Child of Poseidon watch!" The empousai look at Nico hungrily. "NO!" I scream as one of them lunges at him ready to sink her teeth into him.

Is it good or not? I'm not sure. Reviews and/or PM would really help, please and thank you. Just want to make sure that it's appealing to people and if not maybe I should just stop.

~Melissa