A/N: Er, sorry 'bout last week. I was kinda unable to get online and do this ... Instead I was in a lake. Chasing an evil inflatable ball ... and getting my shoulders burnt to a crisp ... if you are not a ginger, you are lucky because you will not become a cherry tomato. So yeah, sorry 'bout last week. Here's the chapter.

Cora: Captured

It was amazing. I had a memory now, an actual memory! I couldn't believe it. It was so strange, having it just trickle into my mind. But now, all this empty space where everything should be wasn't quite as empty as before. I had a memory, completely amazing.

As I had stepped into the water, I could tell the others had doubts. Down, down we rushed, further in to the freezing water. Every art of me tingled and I focused on the feel of the water, fixing the location in my mind. Slowly the water began to warm up, the notion of rushing through something quickly washing over me.. After a minute the notion began to take us upwards. . A moment later, our heads broke through the surface and we were suddenly standing in the middle of a park fountain. The warm, dry air was a shock after the frozen air of the Arctic.

We stepped out onto the grass, and I began to sway, feeling slightly dizzy. Okay, in my defence, I had never done that with three other people before. I thought the most had maybe been two, including me. I took a deep breath and looked at the others; they all were staring at me in utter shock and amazement. I couldn't help but laugh at them, feeling elated at the return of the memory and my success at getting us here.

"What – what – okay, what just happened?" Percy exclaimed. I smiled real wide at him.

"That's my memory. Water-porting, that's what I've remembered," I said. "I told you it wasn't a physical memory."

"That's incredible," Percy said. "Hang on, why can't I do that?" I rolled my eyes at him.

"How should I know?" I shrugged. "But we're in Phoenix now." I quickly repeated everything for Hunter in French. The three of them seemed to be pretty happy for me - a memory, after all these weeks!

We sat down on the edge of the fountain to discuss our plan. We had to find out what was in Phoenix. Since Phoenix is on the border of the badlands, we figured that any enemies and monsters would be attracted to there. Apparently it's like the equivalent of monster breeding grounds. I also had to explain my sadly limited knowledge of water-porting.

Taking a deep breath I launched into my miniature monologue, "Okay, so water-porting is basically moving from one body of water to another, since all water has the same basic composition. As long as the area of the water is big enough to encompass you in any sort of way, it'll work. It's like willing yourself to travel very quickly through the water. Sorta like you've become water yourself, I guess. That's it in a nutshell. And I have absolutely no idea where I learned this." I quickly earned stares. Annabeth looked like she was thinking hard, Percy look impressed and slightly jealous, Hunter looked surprised and amazed after I translated.

"If you ever remember how you learned that, you're teaching me," Percy decided.

I sighed "Please note you said if. Meaning, if I get my memory back, if something horrible doesn't happen and we all die. There can be a lot of ifs," I pointed out. Percy frowned at me, clearly annoyed.

"You put quite a damp on this excitement," after a brief paused he added. "This is kind of like Nico shadow traveling." I looked at him slightly confused.

"Shadow traveling?" That term sounded familiar, but I couldn't be certain.

"Yeah, it's this ability that children of Hades and Pluto have," Percy explained. "Nico said that since shadows are all made of the same substance he can travel through and between them. At least I think that's what he said. That was during the Titan war so I can't be sure if that's right." I nodded, having the feeling that he was correct.

"I'm surprised you even remember that. Normally you'd have forgotten the details within moments, considering it was during a war," Annabeth muttered.

"Hey!" he protested. "That's not fair! If I forgot something then, it was usually either really boring or unimportant! Shadow traveling is actually really cool! Also, Mrs O'Leary can do it so it's kind of hard to forget when she sometimes pops up in the apartment."

"Anyways, what's our plan?" Annabeth said. "Head towards the Badlands? Or stay in Phoenix and check around? What do you guys think?"

I quickly repeated everything for Hunter so he'd be able to follow us a little better. I thought about what we knew and what to do when something whizzed by my ear.

I spun around and saw an arrow embedded in the grass. Suddenly I noticed that the park was eerily deserted. There wasn't even traffic on the nearby street. The only sounds of people besides us were coming faintly from streets out of view. A shiver ran through me; I could feel something was extremely wrong. My heart pounded and I looked at the others who were looking everywhere warily.

That's when it happened.

More arrows flew through the air in hordes, as if it was some deadly rain. Quickly I tapped my bracelet three times, morphing it into my shield. I noticed Percy did that same with his watch - since when did he have that? I raised my shield and pulled Hunter underneath it with me not a moment to soon. Shocks ran through me as arrows plinked off my shield.

As suddenly as it had began, it suddenly dropped off to almost nothing and warriors stepped out of concealment into view. There were at least fifty or more. All of them were dressed in full ancient Greek Battle armour, which I couldn't decide if it was comical or threatening. Some of them carried swords others spears. Basically it was an entire army that had suddenly appeared in a park in downtown Phoenix. A few dozen archers stepped to the edge of the nearby buildings.

We had been ambushed.

All of us pulled out our weapons as fast as we could and moved into a ring back-to-back. The warriors regarded us with cold indifference, readying their weapons. I knew if we waited, we'd lose. They had the advantage of numbers and size, we'd have to get the advantage fast.

"Now," Percy whispered.

Then we charged.

Sprinting forward I crashed into the front line of the warriors with my shield. Only a couple actually fell, a few stumble, most took no notice. They were too heavy and tall and balanced for someone of my size in comparison to knock over. If we were going to win this battle, we would need to use speed and agility. Which was something I happen to have had plenty of.

The warriors began the strike and attack me. I blocked with my shield and parried and attacked. I dodged and wove in between the men. I managed to get in some blows of my own, but they didn't too much damage. There were too many of them for me to have a chance, and when I did it would usually hit armour. There were to many for me to strike in the weak spots.

But the odd times I did hit flesh, they sadly didn't turn to dust. They were mortal. This was a very very very very (just pretend I kept doing that) bad sign if you wereever in a battle with a magical sword and a strong conscious.

I found myself running underneath blows towards the fountain. I had a clear view of the park entrance, and I noticed more warriors were coming in. They had been staked out everywhere, no doubt just waiting for us to show up. I glanced at the fountain, thinking this was a good time to use something else.

I felt a gentle tug in the pit of my gut and the water in the fountain rose up behind me. It circled around me like a whip, knocking anything within five metres of me. The only bad part – Percy was in the way and had the same idea as me. The warriors flew backwards as I slapped them with water and part of it detached, slapping me. Well it would have if my shield hadn't been raised. The same thing happened to Percy in reverse.

"Cora!" Percy exclaimed, looking at me a little annoyed.

"Sorry! I didn't know you were there! I can't see through people," I said half apologizing half pointing out the obvious.

Before anything else could happen, the warriors swarmed us again. With a sickening jolt I realized the majority were surrounding me.

It was madness.

I fought like a wildcat, blocking, attacking, even disarming the odd warrior. But they were too well defended and there were too many for me to do much. Then the arrows started again.

An endless rain, almost all aimed for me. I raised my shield against them. The arrows clattered harmlessly to the ground. I felt I was nearly overwhelmed when suddenly the warriors parted before me. A wide circle of calm.

Like an idiot, I froze there looking around confused. Then I saw it a second too late. A net. It hurled through the air towards me. I didn't have time to defend. The net caught me in the face and chest and I went flying backwards.

My sword flew and out of my hand and I thumped against a sideways tree trunk. My shield bent my arm at an awkward angle.

I groaned in pain. I blinked to clear my vision and noticed I was unable to get up. The net was on top of me and the corners embedded into the tree trunk by arrows. I strained against the metal net. It bit deep into my flesh, causing me to bleed and bruise; but no matter how hard I wiggled and fought it wouldn't give.

Something flashed on the top of building across the park from me. It was a hooded archer knocking an arrow – aimed directly at me. He loosened it and it sped towards me. In desperation I tried to raise my arm to block with my shield. It hurt too much; the net was caught on my arm and I couldn't move.

"Percy! Annabeth! Hunter!" I screamed as loud as I possibly could. I couldn't see where they were. I struggled harder against the net; heedless of the pain is caused as it scratched me deeper. If that arrow hit me, I was a dead girl.

A moment later after I screamed the arrow was at me. It thumped me solidly on the side of my head. The world around me span and I was engulfed in utter darkness.

A/N: Oh no. That's not good is it ... DON'T KILL ME. This will make things get very tricky, now won't it? So let you know your thought vie review or fav or alert! I want to know what you think!