Colin woke up at 2 A.M. to be able to sneak outside without anyone in the Hebe cabin noticing what he was doing. He'd timed it so that Paolo Montes wouldn't get up to go to the bathroom. So that the Harpies would be checking another area while he Was sneaking out. So that Zeus would be too busy impregnating women to notice him.

Don't kill me. It was a joke.

He'd taken his sword too, wrapped in a wooden sheath tied to a loose belt around his waist that could barely wrap around his thin mid-section. His orange Camp Half-Blood shirt was a few sizes too big but he didn't mind. He didn't care at all what these simple minded idiots thought of him.

It took a long time to slowly push himself out of the bed and even then, the bed groaned and creaked while he tried being silent. It seemed like ages when he finally got out of the bed.

In the dark, the door to the outside seemed so much further away, giving him ample time to rethink his situation. Unfortunately, he didn't find anything better than getting his brother back. Not getting in trouble? He'd already been in lots of trouble, especially at his old schools where the teachers would fit in with Terrorists and SWAT teams.

When he finally, Reached the door, he turned the handle down and-

Creak!

The handle made a huge noise, too noisy for someone to sleep through. The sound echoed through the cabin with its high ceilings.

Paolo Montes asked something in Brazilian, probably "Why is my half-brother trying to sneak away from camp?"

"Uh, yeah, Paolo. Everything's alright."

Collin opened the door quickly and tried running to the western woods as fast as he could and as silently as he could. He passed the strawberry fields and the Big house. The archery and stables. And when he glanced back one time, he could even see the Athena Parthenon standing gracefully at the top of Half-Blood Hill.

The sound of wings beating stopped him. Where could he hide? The Big House?

Before he could gather his thoughts, he'd jumped onto the porch to the Big House and entered it via the unlocked doors.

"Hungry. Campers!" A harpie outside muttered.

He heard a horrifying mouth noise and a tiny scream and the harpie left. He wondered who the unfortunate soul was and why that person had been trying to sneak out of camp.

Opening the door slightly, he found no harpie in his way. He took one step out and a harpie who had been standing behind the opened door grabbed his arm.

Screaming, Collin forgot his silence strategy and tried running away but the harpies' grip was so strong he might as well have been trying to escape cement.

The harpie opened her big mouth and tried eating his arm but he retaliated, running circles around her. He knew this wouldn't save him but it was all he could do.

"Stop! Dizzy!" The harpie yelled.

It fell unconscious for some reason. When Collin stopped circling, he banged his head on the fence, the walls, and the door before finally getting his bearings. He vaguely remembered a teacher telling that banging your head on hard objects could lead to severe brain damage. Actually, she had yelled at him that.

The harpie belched out a black hair kid with a nice tan and a sword that looked suspiciously like Riptide.

Percy.

Not one to worry about Percy, Collin ran as fast as possible from the scene and scrambled into the woods, sometimes falling over since he was still dazed from circling the Harpie.

The woods seemed even darker than the night. Collin felt blind, stumbling over tree roots and walking right into spider-webs face first. One time, he tried moving forward only to find that he had wandered into a cave by accident. The labyrinth? He wasn't going to fall into there. As much as he wanted to save his brother, he'd go insane just trying to enter it.

Another time, he brushed his hand on a throne made of twigs and leaves. The satyr's council thrones. He'd heard the council had headed off to California to deal with forest fires but he still made his way away from the glorified blocks of twigs.

It seemed he was halfway into the forest by the time the sun began rising. Possibly, it was 4 A.M. now and he could start running now.

"Hey dude! What're you doing up this early," someone said behind him, a satyr most likely.

Collin began running but apparently, goat legs made for great sprinters.

The satyr caught him and threw him to the ground.

"Dude. I just wanted to way hi," The satyr said while flexing his abs through his thin shirt.

"Uh huh," Collin said.

Collin got up again but the satyr pushed him to the to the grounds again. This time, he kneeled and showed off his biceps. Meanwhile, his t-shirt's arm holes were ripped apart.

"Look. I need to go," Collin said, impatiently.

He got up on one leg and the satyr pushed him to the ground again. The satyr began showing off his huge quadriceps.

Collin took out his sword. The celestial bronze weapon miffed the satyr but he continued to flex.

"Just a few more minutes dude. I haven't even got to my neck muscles yet," the satyr said.

Collin struck the satyr in the belly, the sword shoving through the creatures' internal organs. The creatures' facial expression showed disbelief, confusion, and pain.

"Wha-" the satyr said. It slowly began dissolving into gold particles that collected on the ground to form a nice little red flower. Another goat-man trotted in from another part of the forest and saw Collin standing over a flower. That goat-man fled away screaming for reinforcements.

Collin got up, finally and continued running out of the forest and thus, the camp that was supposedly the only safe spot for Demigods.

Collin found himself walking for several hours, possibly dozens of hours just to reach the far edge of Brooklyn. He'd stolen two bicycles, one motorbike, and a Red Maserati.

Oh, he was also being chased by a duo of cops trying to subdue him for "loitering" around the Neighborhoods's 7-11 when he had actually been trying to save a baby from a two legged snake.

Life was good.

Collin ran as fast as he could but even with his Demigod abilities, he was still running on par with the average 100 meter sprinter. The cops didn't even look tired which seemed unfair. He was the one with Godly blood.

As he ran, his ADHD let him analyze the town he was running through, graffiti sprayed on a wall around 20 feet away, a homeless man trying to ask him for change, a penguin jumping from the top of a factory.

Penguin?

Sure enough, a black and white bird, nearly as tall as him was laying on the ground.

"Felix. Get the penguin before the cops come!" A girl yelled from the balcony of a factory.

Collin looked up quickly, intending to see a woman with a childish voice, yelling at a grown man to get his pet.

Instead, he found a mansion and a girl with purple highlights yelling at a boy who was speaking Aegyptos. The penguin floated up from the ground and came to rest, standing up on the balcony.

"Great," the girl mumbled, "We've got a witness."

The girl said something in Egyptian but Collin jumped up to a thin ledge hanging from the side of the factory. When he looked down, he found that he'd jumped ten feet high.

The cops were talking into their phones, probably asking for an attack helicopter and a tank to come in.

Up in the mansion, the girl with the purple highlights looked shocked but a grim face came on quickly.

"Come on!" she yelled at Collin, whipping out an Egyptian curse word, "Hi-nehm!"

Collin found himself levitating towards the balcony. Whoever this girl was, if she could get him away from the cops, she was his best friend. He stepped down on the hard floor of the balcony.

"That was a close one," the purple highlights girl said. Blonde hair ran down what was her hair and she had a staff in her hands. A shoulder strapped bag was also with her.

"Thanks. Now, let's get to the fighting," Collin said, taking out his sword. This girl was definitely a monster. At the best, she was some minor deity looking for some mortals to eat.

The girl looked at his sword. Her wrists turned white from gripping her staff. "What are you doing?" She asked. She looked suspiciously confused which steeled Collin's resolve that this "girl" was a monster.

"You're obviously some monster. Now, I'll gi-" Collin started but the girl said an Egyptian word again and he fell asleep.

"Sadie! You didn't kill him, did you?"