-Thalia

Fine, Luke, I'll help you. Only because you said no one will get hurt!

Thanks Thalia! I mean it. You won't regret this.

Whatever. Now, what do I have to do before I change my mind. I'm seriously on edge about this.

Thals, go think about this. If you don't want to help me, fine. If you do, that's great! But, I want you to be sure, so go think about it.

Whatever!

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I went off and hacked some dummies for a while, cooling off. At some point, I had decided that I was going to help Luke. It didn't matter if he was a traitor, it didn't matter that he was supposed to be dead, Luke was/is my friend and I couldn't leave him to wonder forever.

I'm sure Luke sensed it because when I came back my journal had a folded piece of paper in it.

Thalia, give this letter to a daughter of Hecate named Melody.

Can I at least read it?

No. I'll explain latter.

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So that's how I ended up in the Hecate cabin. To tell you the truth, I didn't even know if this Melody girl even existed. Apparently, she'd been at camp for six years now and only recently got her own cabin, instead of staying in the Hermes cabin. She had the long, dark red hair and tanned, soft-looking skin. Her eyes were a bright lime green and she was defiantly what you called beautiful. It made me wonder what Luke needed with her. Stop Thalia! You can't be jealous, you're just helping a friend.

When she read the letter, her eyes widened. "You've been in contact with him?" She asked, bewildered.

Tell her, I heard a voice in the back of my head. "Kind of," I admitted. "He's been writing to me through that journal thing Chiron gave us."

She nodded. "Well, from what I can tell, he chose you," she smiled at me. "You should feel really lucky Thalia, out of all the people at camp he picked you." She turned and headed back into cabin.

What? Was the first thought that came through my head. Why the Hades would she say I was lucky? I'm a hunter of Artemis, I gave up boys forever, why would I be lucky. Despite my instincts, I followed her.

The cabin was a new one, Annabeth designed it with the help of one of the Hecate kids, and I was surprised. It reminded me of a witches house that you saw in movies, only happier. There was a giant pot in the center with steam coming out of it. The beds, bunk beds, were pushed up against the walls, out of the way. On one wall was a book shelf, the selves were filled with jars of different colored liquids and very old books. Vines hung from the ceiling with different types of flowers and fruits.

Melody laughed. "I supposed you're surprised how much it resembles a witch's house?" She asked. I nodded. Melody laughed again. "Yes, well, I helped Annabeth design it. She thought this was a bad idea but I knew Hecate's children would like it better. We do, in fact."

"Why?" I asked. "It doesn't look very homey." I remembered how cold Zeus's cabin was. I hated staying there. Then again, I didn't help them design it.

Melody through her head back and let out a crackly, witch laugh. "It is homey!" She insisted. "We make potions and such everyday. We love working magic, since Hecate, and it's our idea of fun. So, in my opinion, it's very homey!"

I rolled my eyes. "Whatever you say," I muttered, leaning against a desk.

Melody smiled at me before turning to her bookshelf. She grabbed two small bottles, one pink another green, and tossed them to me. I barely catch them. Then she grabbed a piece of cloth from a table and went to a vine, pulling a purple flower and orange berry from it. She wrapped up the cloth and gave it to me.

"He asked for these. Also, tell Luke if he needs anything else, just to come ask me," she smiled. "And, don't touch those berries or that flower, it might kill you."

"Of course he gets me poisonous food, thanks a lot Luke," I muttered. Melody laughed reminding me of something. "Why did Luke get me to ask you for help?" I don't know why, but I had to know how she knew him.

She chuckled. "You have it bad," she muttered, almost to herself. Melody looked up at me. "When I first came here, six years ago, I was put in the Hermes cabin. Luke tried to make my life here as happy as possible, he was truly my first friend." She paused and looked out the window to her right. "That was a year before he turned to Kronos's side."

I didn't say anything, instead I just left. So she was his girlfriend or anything. That doesn't matter though, because I'm a Hunter now.

So, Luke. What am I supposed to do now?

I'm working on it. Oh, and thank you Thalia. I'll talk to you tomorrow.

-Thalia