Edit August 24th 2019 made the chapter more readable

Chapter 2: All directions lead one way

"Well, nowhere in particular, recently we had been running from that hellhound you had taken care of." said Thalia still cautious of the relatively unknown older boy, not knowing what to do, she told the truth. They really hadn't thought the whole plan through, it was barely a plan when they left, the main goal had just been getting away. Now that they were away they didn't know what to do next. Thalia had enough of wandering around and decided that her best bet was sticking around with Percy. At the very least he seemed to have a slight plan.

"Hey Percy, where you headed to?" asked Luke reading Thalia's face as if they shared a brain. Luke, who had been the real leader of the group, had always been willing to take a little risk now in exchange for an easy future. If Percy had a place that they could stay and be safe, it would be a dream come true for the boy.

Percy frowned, he knew he wanted to take them to camp halfblood, and he wanted to protect them the entire way, but he was already breaking one of the few rules set by the fates on the first day, he didn't want to make it two. None of them had a plan, then again if he helped Luke, now he may never start hating the gods for letting Thalia die, but if he knew one thing, it was that prophecies didn't care your reasoning, or intentions. A prophecies would always be completed, no matter how hard you fought it. Percy didn't know what to say so he said nothing and just kind of stood there. Which lead to Luke repeating his question. To which Percy let out a heavy sigh, and said "Luke I don't really know, I don't know how I got here, I don't know where here is, and I don't know where I would go once I got away from here."

Annabeth, who had remained silently following the conversation, didn't know what to do, which was a rare event, much like one of Luke's 'plans' working perfectly. She had always trusted her answer bank of a brain, and now with it drawing blanks and that left her not knowing what to do. However she didn't have to think of a plan as Luke just said "If you want to tag along, we are just heading east," with that Luke started walking away, Annabeth running after him.

Thalia hoping that Percy, who she had a feeling could be a good resource would come along, said, "Hope we see each other again, I have to catch up to them before they get to far," just in time for Luke and Annabeth to walk back through the opening, heading in the opposite direction from where they had just been headed, with Annabeth muttering something about Luke traveling the wrong way. Thalia followed her two companions as they walked into the treeline, Percy watching them, unsure what to do. He didn't stand there for long as he started to follow them at a distance, he had a plan. If he couldn't have contact with them, he could at the very least, he could help keep some monsters off of them, try to save Thalia.

Time skip

After a few weeks of killing all the monsters that came after the group of demigods, and subtly leading them towards the Camp Halfblood, I was at the point of exhaustion, it had gotten to the point where I wasn't even rejuvenated by water. That scared me as did the feeling that I didn't know if I had enough left in me to fight the untold waves of monsters that would almost certainly attack the group when they reached the Camp. I knew that I had to at least try to save Thalia, but as the days dragged on I had less hope that I would succeed. As I meandered after the group I got lost in my thoughts and decided to sit down for a while.

Thalia had found it a little weird that they hadn't been attacked by, let alone seen a monster since encountering Percy in the woods. She didn't know if the monsters were about to ambush them, or they had taken a holiday, or they were all going after Percy, which she hoped they weren't, She just knew that she had to be ready for the moment their luck failed them. Her thoughts were broken up as Luke crested the hill, and started shouting about some sort of camp in the distance. With that Annabeth took off like a rocket up the hill, wanting to see if this was another one of Luke's pranks or if there really was a camp. Thalia watched as half up the hill Annabeth started to be chased by a hellhound, then another ran out of the woods, then another, suddenly a pack separated Thalia from the young daughter of Athena. Thalia started to run up the hill, but this was reduced to nothing as some of the hellhounds turned started coming after her.

Luke up to this point was busy talking to his brand new friend, Grover, that was until Grover started to panic and Luke finally noticed the hounds and took off down the hill, trying to reach Annabeth, who at this point had been caught by the hellhounds, and was fighting a desperate losing battle trying to fight off a Hound that had tackled her to the ground. Luke was in a state of pure panic when another one of the hounds jumped on Annabeth top of the demigod and pinned her to the group, which made the little girl scream. Luke was wrestling with some of the dogs that were started to come after him, preventing Luke from helping her. The hellhounds seemed to be guarding the hounds on Annabeth. He was desperate to get to Annabeth, but Hound after Hound kept getting into the way. Meanwhile Thalia was in a desperate fight of her own as more hounds started to pour out of the woods all around her, surrounding her by a group of almost 12 dogs all ready to feast on the girl.

Annabeth's screams broke me out of my trance like thoughts, and in an instant I was ready to fight, the exhaustion was gone, replaced with white hot rage, as I realized I would be fighting against fate now. I disappeared into a fine mist of water and reappeared in the opening where the hounds were surrounding Thalia. I didn't wait for the monsters to even realize I had appeared, before I started to massacre them into golden dust.

I threw myself instantly into the group punching and kicking, making a few more into golden dust and making most following me up the hill, where I started to take the water from the grass and use it murder the dogs in my way all the way to dogs on top of the young girl. By now who was barely clinging to life and almost all the hounds were coming after me. I paused for a second and healed her wounds, which took most of my energy to perform and making the very tiring fight that much harder. I was still cutting them down, but after a minute of use my powers were failing me.

Luke stopped fighting and started watching in amazement, that's when they heard a scream and a thud, the scream was from Thalia, the thud was from a club a cyclops was wielding, which had just come out of the woods, making contact with Thalia and sending her flying to the top of the hill, which hit the ground with a sickening thud. I watched in horror as a bolt of Lightning coursed through the sky, and struck the girl and killing all the monsters in the area. I knew what it meant and I let out a bloodcurdling "Nooo", as I watched a tree grow where she lied.

I took off into the woods, leaving the area, almost instantly being followed by a taxi. I made it a good 300 feet into the woods before I was smacked by that Taxi. I recovered this time experiencing more pain than the previous time and watched the Taxi's door fly open. I reluctantly entered the taxi and slammed the door shut.

"You know Percy, we knew you were stupid," said the Fate behind the wheel,

"But not that stupid!" said another Fate,

"And before you ask, they won't remember you," said the third fate

"The mist is a wonderful and powerful thing," said the second fate

"What are you going to do with me?" I asked, unsure of the Fate's intentions.

"We can't trust you anymore, we set a few basic ground rules and you broke most within a month. You failed that test, you were supposed to leave them alone, you were doing so well too." said the driver

"We are here to prevent that from happening again, you see the past doesn't like to be changed, you change events that you know and well, it won't end well for you. The past will fight you and it will win." said the third event in a voice that sounded very condescending.

"You have a few options, the first option being, go stay in Canada until, you have caught back up, to time." said the driver.

"The second option is we kill you and send you to the underworld," said the second fate with a giggle.

"I heard it is nice down there this time of the year," Said the driver, "Or we can make you young again and send you to a different camp, you will keep your memories, but you will keep nothing else." said the third fate smiling.

"I think I will take the third option," I said thinking at least I could help another camp..

AN I think I should cut this chapter here, I am pretty happy with it. Took a bit longer than I would have liked, next chapter will be up in a more responsible time frame. I would love to here some feedback, I want to know if you love it or hate it, but please say why you feel the way you do. I have a lot of options to branch out from here and would love some ideas. Thanks for your time! Have good one! -Kate