Okay, so since this was an OC and most of these hopefully aren't going to be OC's, i realized i didn't want this as chapter 1, so it's now chapter 2.
For those of you reading, who have no clue who she is, you can learn more about her in my other story Helping New Campers. It will hopefully have a sequel with her as the main character, other than the Seven and Nico and Thalia and you get the idea. She'll basically be the new camper in my sequel.
If you like this story so far, be looking forward to Ch. 4, Silena Beauregard (Did i spell it right?). Ch.3 is Michael Yew. I was going to do Silena next, but if i did, i was going to drown in my own tears...
Anyways, Enjoy this chapter if you haven't read it yet, and if you have, be looking forward to my next update, and my new story, The Demigod Alphabet.
There was a fierce light in her eyes, telling them all the grim determination and fear and hope she was feeling in that one moment. The moment she made her final decision.
She'd joked about death enough.
"Okay, okay. When I die, you HAVE to go on all my social media accounts and be like 'huh, I didn't know Erebos had wifi' and then I'll laugh while I sit in Elysium," she had said once.
Looking back now, it wasn't funny.
"You can't do this. We'll find another way." Percy said, staring at her with his own look of determination, but behind it was grief. He already knew that this was their only option.
"Percy-", she said softly, "-you know we don't have another option. Annabeth has no weapon. Piper is barely able to move. Frank is unconscious. Hazel is limping and can't run. Leo lost his tool belt." She had already done the math. "Jason can carry Frank with Annabeth, and Leo can help Hazel, while you carry Piper. That has the best chance if you get separated, so that at least one of you can use your powers to attack the monsters." She gestured to the mob surrounding the plateau they stood on. "If I don't distract the most of them, none of you will reach the exit." She stared away in the distance, not towards the exit, but the farthest corner of the cave, where the boss stood, and the pit opened up behind them, leading to another cave, tens of thousands of feet down.
Annabeth shook her head, not in response, but in submission. "You can go, I can-"
"Annabeth." She said fiercely, allowing no further arguments from the daughter of Athena.
"But what if-"
"Hazel," she whispered in pain, "I appreciate you always being there for me, for being a caring mother when I was hurt, and a best friend when I needed one, but it's time for me to return the favor, okay?"
Hazel started tearing up, but nodded her head.
"Hey Sunshine."
"Yeah Repair Boy."
"Don't let those monsters kill you, or I'll bring you back from the dead and annoy you to death myself."
"You could never manage to annoy me more than when you said stupid stuff like that." She said smiling, tears glinting in her eyes, her word catching as she said them. "I'm not stupid enough to let the monsters get me, that's only you, and maybe Seaweed Brain."
"Hey!" Seaweed Brain said, but not really meaning it.
"Go on. Those monsters aren't gonna wait forever, and I can only buy you so much time."
"You can do so much more than that." I whisper, and go to help Hazel.
As we run towards the exit, I turn back and get one last glimpse of Alexa, glowing with golden light as she runs in the opposite direction. I see her kneel before the giant, as if in submission, but even from here I can see her slender frame being racked with sobs, before she hurtles forwards, using her momentum to force the giant, and herself, into the pit.