Luke
Luke walked out of the house, tears stinging his eyes for the second time that day. He was angry at himself or making all of those mistakes during his life. That all of his mistakes had cost his closest friends their lives. He had so many regrets. The most one being how his anger had made him follow Kronos blindly. And Silena. Clarisse had just confirmed his worst suspicion. Silena had died. He didn't know how but she had. Luke was relieved that the demigods seemed to think of Silena as a hero instead of a traitor.
But the way that Annabeth had looked at him. That was what broke Luke's heart the most. Even if she acted as if she had forgiven him, Luke could tell that she hadn't. Annabeth was still mad at him for manipulating Silena. He couldn't blame her. Luke was still mad at himself for manipulating Silena. It was obvious that Percy was still holding a grudge. Maybe he didn't know it, but he was. Luke didn't expect them to forgive him or even pretend to forgive him. They didn't need to. Luke might as well of stayed dead. No one wanted him back. He was still confused as to why the Fates were so convinced that he was so important. Luke was just a son of Hermes. He didn't have any special powers. Not even his mind, like Annabeth. Luke guessed his sword fighting was good but even that was being outshined by Percy and Jason.
Luke was pulled out of his thoughts as he sensed something coming towards him at lightning speed. He knew that it would kill him, hit him straight in the chest if he didn't do something. But what could he do? Nothing. He deserved to be sent to the Fields of Punishment anyway.
"All this effort to be brought back to life and I'm killed by a measly arrow," Luke thought as the sharp point was inches away from his chest. Luke closed his eyes and accepted his fate. But it never came. Luke listened but everything was deathly quiet. He couldn't hear the birds chirping or car engines. The only sound was Luke's breathing. He opened his eyes to see a silver arrow, floating just in front of him. Luke looked around and saw that nothing was moving. It was as if someone had hit pause on the entire world. Everything was frozen in time, except Luke.
Luke didn't give himself time to think about how it could happen. Instead, he traced the arrow back to a girl in a silver parka with a circlet adorning her spiky black hair. There were at least a dozen other girls around her, all wearing the same silver parkas and had bows on their backs.
"Thalia," Luke said to himself. She was the one he'd missed the most. When she had been turned into her pine tree, Luke had thought she was gone for good. But Kronos had brought her back, hoping she would join them and be the downfall of Olympus. At the time, Luke had wanted nothing more than to be reunited with her. But she stuck with Olympus. They had even fought on Mount Tamalpais. Seeing her again filled a whole in Luke's heart that had been missing for a while. The only thing that got him was that she was trying to kill him. Why?
Luke walked back over to the arrow, tried his best to stand in the same position, and grabbed hold of the arrow.
"Now for the hard part," he said aloud. Luke concentrated as hard as he could and surprisingly, it worked. The arrow pulled on his grip as time started again. Luke looked over to Thalia, who was smiling big.
"I was afraid you were getting rusty," Thalia taunted as she walked towards her.
"Good thing I'm not," Luke said in angst.
Thalia rolled her eyes. "A little ambrosia and nectar and you'd be fine." Thalia hugged him, which got him some weary looks from the other Hunters. "How is this possible?"
"Prophecy," Luke said in dismay. "The Fates brought me back because I'm needed for this new prophecy. If I stay on the side of the gods I can go to Elysium."
Thalia knit her eyebrows. "I thought you were already…"
Luke cut her off, "They said my sacrifice balanced out my evil deeds. So they put me in Asphodel." Thalia looked like she wanted to punch something.
"They don't know anything!" Thalia shouted. Realization dawned on her face. "Silena?"
Luke shook his head in dismay. "I don't know. But I got Minos as a judge. Maybe she didn't? She might have gotten lucky." Thalia nodded her head in hope.
"So why are you in Australia?" Thalia asked.
"Percy, Annabeth, Piper, and Jason were on vacation but got bombarded with another quest. Antaeus is leading an army of monsters here in two months," Luke explained.
Thalia frowned. "Well, the Hunters will help as much as we can. IM me when the army gets close. But I should get going. We're tracking down a monster for Artemis. Don't want to lose its scent." Then she and the rest of the Hunters ran off to kill a monster.
I am so sorry! I finished this chapter three days ago and forgot to publish it...