A/N: I'm back! Yay! Thanks to those who reviewed. I will try to leave less cliffies, but it will be hard for me ;). And I'll try to make longer chapters. On to the next chapter!

POV: (in order) Renesmee, Unknown, Jason

Disclaimer: I own neither Twilight nor PJO/HoO. *starts crying*

Chapter 16: Followed

The smell was awful, like a shoe that belonged to someone who sweated too much had been filled with vegetables and trash and left to bake in the sun for a couple of weeks. I instinctively wrinkled my nose, trying to get away from the unpleasant odor. Percy and Jason both stood up, Percy leaving some cash on the table, and told me to follow them. We practically ran out of the restaurant, but our attempts to get away were futile. Right in front of us was a twisting, enormous scaly green woman-snake-thing, something I had never seen before.

"Dracaenae," whispered Percy, pulling a pen out of his pocket. A pen? Really? How was that supposed to help us? But then he clicked the pen and it transformed into a bronze sword. He made a quick shot at the monster, and it dissolved into sandy dust, exploding with a wail as the dust floated into my open mouth. But that wasn't the only one. A herd of the snake-women were all crowding around us.

"How did they find us so fast?" Percy asked Jason, who shrugged in response and pulled out his own weapon - a golden one instead of bronze like Percy's.

"Do you have a weapon, Nessie?" I didn't respond, instead attacking the monster that was about to slice him in half. I slashed away at its disgusting green scales, and before I knew it, the monster was gone. Jason and Percy both looked at me in admiration and fear, but it wasn't long before we were overwhelmed by the snake-women - Dracaenae - and were forced to fight.

I was doing well, using my teeth like fangs and fingers like claws to defend myself against the monsters, tearing them to shreds before Percy or Jason stabbed them with their swords and caused another explosion of dust. But then, just as I was lunging at yet another dracaenae, one of them turned up behind me, pulling a silver scythe out of nowhere, and attacked my undefended backside. The sharp scythe hit my skin, but I barely felt it. Thankfully, I had been born with skin almost as thick as a regular vampire's - the scythe couldn't harm me. But I turned around and snarled at the woman-snake, who backed away instantly even though I didn't have a weapon. She became dust seconds later as Percy stuck his sword in her back.

The last dracaenae came for me, sneering and growling in a completely unhuman way. But I didn't even get the chance to face her off when Jason swooped in, apparently flying, landed on the monster's back, and dug his golden sword deep into her back. My mouth dropped open. "Did you just fly?" I asked him.

He shrugged it off. "I'm a son of Zeus, so I can control air, not really actually fly. You should see Percy controlling water. It's scary." I realized my mouth was still hanging open and shut it immediately.

"We should get out of here before we get attacked by any more monsters," Percy said, worry coloring his face. We all ran to Festus and hopped on his back, but as I was getting on, I turned around, a strange chill creeping up my spine. No one was there, but it definitely felt like I was being watched, or worse, followed. I didn't mention this to either of the boys as we flew away, but I could sense that they were uneasy as well.

After a while of silence, Jason spoke up. "How did you do that, Renesmee? The blade seemed to just bounce off of your skin!"

"I'm half vampire," I reminded him, shrugging as he had when he explained how he could fly because he was a son of Zeus. "We have skin as hard as stone."

"I think what we really need to figure out is how the monsters found us so fast. We were in the restaurant for what, five minutes?" Percy ran his hands through his hair, exasperated.

"I'm not sure. But I think we should probably start to settle for the night." I was right; the sun was already setting. How had time passed so quickly? I could feel my thirst worsening; I'd have to hunt before we slept or I might unconsciously kill Percy or Jason. They were starting to smell a little too good.

Percy steered Festus to the ground, and we landed in the forest. Darkness was approaching rapidly, and we had to hurry up if we wanted to avoid it. "We need to make a fire, and quick," Percy said, getting off of Festus.

"Actually, I was wondering if I could hunt. It's been a while and I don't want to get too thirsty," I explained quickly, and both of them nodded. I sped off into the woods at full speed, trying to make the hunt as short as possible. Even though they probably wouldn't want to admit it, I was an important asset to the team. I quickly found a female deer that was wandering around the forest aimlessly. I took her down, using the element of surprise and stealth to reach her, and sucked her dry of blood. I could already feel the faint burning in the back of my throat disappearing - that would be enough for one night. I turned to head back to camp, but heard a rustle in the trees behind me. My eyesight was sharp enough to see a pair of onyx eyes staring right into mine, but then the person - or thing - disappeared all of a sudden, and I was left staring into darkness.

I watched the group as they set up camp and eventually drifted off to sleep. Percy used his power to call in a little bit of the ocean and extinguish the fire with water. Honestly, they were a little too easy to follow. Renesmee, though, I knew, could already sense my presence. When she'd been hunting in the forest, she'd found my eyes, but I had disappeared into the shadows far too fast for her to see anything else. She must have figured it was a figment of her imagination, but she was aware of my presence even in her sleep. Her figure was turned slightly in my direction, her face a bit crinkled, sleeping under the moonlight, but I knew that she knew I was there.

I slumped down next to the tree, watching the threesome rest. It was really foolish of them to camp out here in the forest, where many things could take advantage of them while they slept, but it was the best place near them. The large, bronze metal robot of a dragon had curled himself around all of them protectively while they rested, but didn't rest himself. He was lonely for his owner, Leo. But then I started how a robot could feel lonely.

It wasn't important. This was my task. I looked up at the moon, sighing at its beauty. If only everything in life could be so beautiful.

I woke up a bit past dawn, only to see that Percy had fallen asleep on his night watch. We all had! Thankfully, though, we were fine, with Festus curled around us on night watch himself. And none of our belongings had been taken. Though I did have the faintest feeling that something was watching me from behind. I whirled around, but there was nothing there. It must have been my imagination.

I turned my attention to Renesmee as I stretched, and was startled to see the sudden change in her appearance. She no longer looked thirteen - now, she looked fifteen or sixteen. How strange. And then I remembered that she was half-vampire, and that she grew really fast because of it. But she seemed to have aged three years in only one night.

Finally, Percy and Nessie woke up. "Oh my Hades, I must have fallen asleep. Crap," Percy said to himself before seeing Renesmee. "Whoa, Nessie, what happened to you?"

Nessie looked down at herself, then muttered, "Another growth spurt. I should have known. I haven't had one in a couple of months now."

"But - but- you look like you aged three years!"

"I know. It's normal for me. I just might need some new, better-fitting clothes. Oh, and Percy, if you're too tired to take night watches, I can. I don't need as much sleep as you do." He nodded, still shocked. I didn't blame him.

"So, what's on today's agenda?"