Luke starred out the car's window. His car parked next to a field of sunflowers, which should had been a damn good view, but he felt more annoyed by the hot summer air and the buzzing insects circling around. It had officially been 15 minutes since his new company - claimed to be Thalia Something - disappeared behind those flowers. He would had the urged to start the car and turn on the AC if his car was not running out of gas. He refused to look at his watch again, knowing only a minute went by. Instead, he got off, head off the direction where the girl had disappeared.

He could see clearly her path, a tiny space where the sunflowers weren't grown on. He tried his best not to wreck down any branches on his way, accepted getting dirt on his newly stolen sneakers. It was a little weird, he admitted, when Thalia asked him to stop in the middle of nowhere. She didn't say what she was doing, but he thought it was not his business. He still thought he deserve to know.

After a few steps, the path opened up into a little pond, and he ducked away behind the bushes. He was shocked to see Thalia, who looked not-so-relaxed, was using an Iris message. Something he thought only he could do.

Questions started swirl around his head. He hated to admit that he couldn't escape his demigod's life.

What was she? A spy for some hideous monster? He could easily take her down, but that wouldn't tell him who she was working for. Slowly, he backed down in attempt to return to his car and pretend nothing ever happened. But he underestimated her. The dagger stopped him. It flew next to the corner of his right ear, following a pinch of pain. Thalia quickly faced him, looking not so sixteenth year-old anymore. He never thought she looked like one, even if she said she was.

"I knew there was something suspicious about you." said the girl. Her face was emotionless.

Luke froze, not in a scared holy-crap way, but he couldn't tell what her next move was.

"Okay." He raised his hand in defend. "I'm not just an ordinary guy."

"What are you and who sent you?" He spotted another knife plucked on her left boots and a set of bow and arrows behind her back. Not to mention the girl pointed a spear at him. They weren't there before.

She showed impatient but he denied to answer.

"Listen, I'm not the bad guy here. Drop that spear of yours and no one will get hurt." Luke smiled.

A smirk came out, and Thalia's eyes looked sharper and deadlier then the point of the spear.

"Fine." He sighed. "What do you need from the son of Hermes?"

There was a flinch in the girl, and she loosens her weapon a little.

"You're a demigod?" She asked.

"Is it hard to tell? I thought monsters were supposed to have a good nose."

"Idiot." She rolled her eyes. "I'm not a monster. In fact, you're lucky you met me. I'm a demigod too."

"I doubted that." He smirked back. "Can you lower the weapon down so we can talk? I'm still your ride."

"Or I can steal your car." She shrugged.

"Try to steal from a thief? You're so not a daughter of Athena. I'm guessing not Aphrodite, too." He was lying, for the record. Despite her short spiky hair which would make you think she looked tomboy-ish, her features were as beautiful as princess Helene of Troy. Who wouldn't be attracted to those pretty blue eyes and freckles?

Thalia looked like she was about to throw the spear through his eyes, so his face got serious and he straightened up. "Look, we are both demigod, which means we should be working together." He swallowed. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean all of that."

"Well, you're not the first douche-bag I've met, but probably the worst." She lowered her weapon. "But I will accept your apologize, if you let me drive."

"What?" He thought of his poor car which had already been through a lot. Now it had to be driven by this little hot-tempered high school punk. "Fine. I don't want any trouble."

Thalia nodded, she walked to the car without a word, Luke behind her.

"Where are we going, then?"

"Camp Half-blood." said Thalia as she started the car.

He was not going to argue back, even though he hated the Camp. Later on, he found out she was -the- daughter of Zeus.