Athens: Hey my fellow reader!

Max: Leave now, save your sanity.

Athens: What no don't leave. Sorry that this chapter is shorter, I just wanted to give you guys something.

Disclaimer:

Random monkey: Athens does not own any Percy Jackson characters. But he does own Ryan and Sara because they are his OC's.

Athens: Thanks *throws monkey a banana*

monkey:*eats it*

Sara's POV

Darkness and pain. That's all I felt. I looked up to see Ryan lying on the ground, with an arrow through his chest. "No!" I screamed. I may or may not like him, but that's not important, I thought. I rushed over to finds that his breath was shallow. I looked around for some other sign of life, but found none. I got to take care of him by myself, I thought.

Carefully I grabbed the arrow, and slowly pulled it out of his chest, the tip covered in blood. I looked through my pockets looking for some ambrosia. My hand closed around the bag, and I pulled it out. I tore the bag open, and broke off a piece. I had to do this two more times because hand was shacking so badly. Once I got it out, I feed it to Ryan, and the hole started to close, but his color did not.

His color should be coming back too. I thought. Then, from the closing hole I saw yellow ooze come. Poison. I screamed so load that I could not hear the birds fly away, chirping. What felt like ages latter I heard the steady pounding of hooves. I stood up as Chiron galloped over.

What is it, child? I heard your scream." asked Chiron.

"It's Ryan. He has been poisoned."

"Have you tried Ambrosia?"

"Yes Chiron. I have tried everything that I could do. But it's not working." With that I broke into tears. Chiron walked over and knelt next to Ryan, whose face was as white as snow.

"Sara put him on my back I have to get him to the infirmary fast. Quickly child." With that he stood up and I grabbed Ryan, and put him on Chiron's back. "Sara you should go there too. You look hurt."

"Yes Chiron. I will." With that he galloped back to camp. I grabbed Ryan's stuff and walked back behind them.

Ryan's POV

I woke up, startled. I looked around to see several cots without any life. As I sat up, I groaned in pain. Lighting was shooting up through my body, radiating from me chest. Then my companion came back to my sea of darkness.

Three days later

Over the past few days, I woke up several more times but then passed out again from the pain. This last day had been bliss. When I had woken up I tried to sit up and found that there was no pain. "Ευχαριστώ τους θεούς" I muttered as I sat up again, excited, since the pain was gone.

Tiredness washed over me. A few hours later I woke up to find a woman standing next to me.

"How are you my child?"

As I sat up, my muscles failed me and I fell back down. "Fine, just tired of being stuck in bed. What who are you?"

"My name is Athena."

"Mom… Why did you leave my dad?" Hatred started to build up in my chest. She started to say something but I cut her off, "You should have stayed and helped raise us, like real parents."

Her eyes flashed with anger, but yet a hint of sadness as she said, "I had no choice, Gods cannot raise their children, it is an ancient law, older than me."

"Sorry mom I am just not feeling well. So what happened before I got shot?" She looked surprised. "What mom? You thought I might not know. I studied battle wounds. I know the scar that an arrow leaves. And I have the same one. All that I remember is Sara slamming into me knocking us down the hill, and then nothing."

"Child, you are very lucky to be alive. As much as I hate my father for breaking his oath, I still have to accept it. Sara had been shot by a blunt arrow, causing her to fall. When she came back, she found you on the ground with an arrow through your chest. She pulled it out and gave you some ambrosia to heal the wound. The wound healed but you had been poisoned. Chiron came and took you to the infirmary and found out that you had been poisoned by something called, 'venena potentius' literally meaning powerful poison."

"Yes I know, it was used to assassinate powerful political figures in ancient Greece. It was created using one of two different mushrooms found only in Greece, along with imperial gold and a few other items. But the mushrooms were killed when Rome invaded Greece." Great I though, I owe Sara.

"Obviously not, continue."

"It works from the outside in, right?" She nodded and I continued, "It rots the skin of in a matter of hours, and in the last hour the organs start to liquefy. By the end you become a withering mass of agony. And it is hard to cure because there are two different cures, one for each mushroom, and if you give the wrong one, they become immune to the other antidote."

Athena looked around only to not find anyone. She turned back to me and pulled out a small piece of black cloth. "This is from the archer that shot you. He/she got away and this is all we found. We had looked through the woods to try to find anything, but did not. I'm sorry." As she said this, I started to feel dizzy. "Rest, child. I will be here when you awake again."

I woke up a few hours later to find Athens standing next to me talking with someone. The man pointed and me and left the room. On the back of his hand he had a blue eye on it.

"I'm glad to see you are better, child." She was holding something behind her, like something she was trying to hide.

"Mom?"

"Yes, Ryan?"

"What are you holding behind your back?"

She looked surprised but pulled out a bow. Nothing fancy, just a regular long bow. She looked at it and then me. "I brought you a gift, after all it is your birthday." October 14. It's October 14. My birthday and Ella's. Tears sprang out from my eyes.

With shaking hands I reached over and grabbed the bow, "Thanks mom. Why are you still here? You should go check on my siblings as well."

"Actually Ryan, that's what I am doing. I am checking up on Annabeth and the sea spawn." With that she disappeared in a cloud of gray smoke. A few seconds later I heard a startled yelp. Chuckling, I looked over the bow.

I was a plain piece of wood on it with one design on it. An owl. Right by the grip, though, there was a small knot in the wood. That should not be there, I thought. As I brushed my thumb over it, he bow sting unhooked itself and it disappeared into the bow. Then the bow straitened and a knife popped out of each end. It only took a few seconds.

"Ok, that's cool." I got up out of bed groaning, and swung the bow, but not a bow, around and hit a vase on the night stand. The same man that I saw talking with mom walked in. He just looked at the vase and me, and smiled. There were eyes all over him, but they were all blue. The one on his forehead winked at me and he turned and left.

Athens: R&R please. Love your reviews. I read all of them

Max: And that's why you have mental problems.

Athens: *shouts* I DO NOT

No seriously R&R