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"You don't have to protect me against our fans, they won't hurt me!" -Niall Horan

Wake up, we both need to wake up Maybe if we face up to this We can make it through this Closer, maybe we'll be closer Stronger than we were before, yeah Make this something more, yeah...

Lukas gasped like a fish. His mouth hit the ground. "T-Tally? Tally! What are you doing here?"

"Following you, duh," Tally rolled her eyes. "I thought you were smarter than that."

"Who are you and why would you follow us?" Peris asked suspiciously.

"Who do you think I am and why do you think I'd follow you?" Tally raised an eyebrow.

"Tally! Why are you following us?" Lukas asked.

"To make sure that you don't do something stupid on your way to camp," Tally shrugged.

"Hey! Don't you talk to him like that!" Jessie snapped her fingers in Tally's face.

"Excuse me?" Tally raised an eyebrow.

"He's my boyfriend and you have no right to call him stupid," snarled Jessie.

Tally didn't say anything but she glanced from Lukas to Jessie and back to Lukas.

"Wait you said 'on our way to camp', but we're not going to camp. We're coming from camp." Jessie frowned.

"No, I meant on your way to Camp Jupiter. I don't care about that filthy pigsty you call camp," Tally glared at Jessie. Then she said under her breath, "Guess that Lukas isn't the only dumb one here."

"Well!" Jessie huffed.

"So, now what?" Lukas asked.

"Now we…AHH!" Peris shouted, his eyes growing as huge as golf balls. A huge roar sounded behind them and Jessie screamed. Lukas assumed her should have helped his girlfriend, but with Tally present, he felt awkward even thinking about it.

Jessie tried to run away, but Peris held her back. Peris, Tally, and Lukas each unsheathed their swords and turned towards the monster.

A huge snake as thick as a couch hissed at them. This was no ordinary snake though. At each end of the serpent was a snakehead with poisonous fangs and glittering eyes. One of the heads had dark green eyes and the other had blood-red eyes.

"Lukas, keep the red-eyed head busy and Peris, you do the same with the green-eyed head," Tally directed. "I'll chop it in half while its busy."

Lukas nodded and slashed at the evil red eyes. The snake lunged at him. Its poisonous fangs scraped at his side. Lukas didn't feel anything, which didn't bother him, but it should have. He should have known that no pain was worse than horrible pain. Lukas dodged the fangs and slammed the flat of his blade down onto the snake's head.

Lukas assumed that Peris and Tally had both done their jobs because the next thing he saw were the gooey slimy poison-filled guts of the midsection of the snake.

Jessie gagged as Lukas sheathed his sword. Peris and Tally rolled their eyes at Jessie, but their faces changed in surprise as the serpent pieces pulled themselves together and the snake completely reformed.

Before he could react, the red-eyed head lunged at Lukas. Tally's eyes widened and she threw herself in the path of the snake. Time seemed to slow down. Lukas tried to shout "NO!" to Tally but before he could gets the word out, the snake plunged its fangs into Tally's body.

"Tally!" Lukas shouted and dashed to her side. "Oh, no, no, no, no, no! Tally? Please don't die. Please don't die on me. Don't leave me."

"Lukas," Tally gasped. Then she was silent, leaving the three others to wonder if she was going to live.