Chapter 3
So Thalia left me in charge as she went to wake Percy to meet his visitors. There were no attacks going on, but I had the hunters form a perimeter around the hotel just in case. As soon a Thalia got back she pulled Percy aside and I couldn't help but listen. "Percy," She said, "You can't start feeling sorry for Luke. We all have tough things to deal with. All demigods do. Our parents are hardly ever around. But Luke made bad choices. Nobody ever forced him to do that. In fact…" She glanced down the hall and I quickly scooted out of sight. I missed a lot of the conversation after that. In fact all I heard was, "Do me a favor. Lock this in the hotel vault, will you? I think I'm allergic to pithos." "You've got it." As soon as Percy walked away Thalia turned the corner to find me sitting there, "Okay Lila I'm going to go check on Annabeth, and while I do I need you to do something." "Why?" I asked pointing to the vase, "You allergic too?" She laughed, "Very funny just lock it up." "Okay," I said, "Oh and Thalia?" "Yes?" she said. "Don't die on me." She handed me the vase and went upstairs. I found the hotel vault no problem and locked the vase in. Just then Phoebe burst through the door, "Do you know where Thalia is?" I nodded, "Upstairs with Annabeth." "Okay," She said, "Can you tell her that the army has crossed the Harlem River?" I nodded and ran upstairs. I found Thalia helping Annabeth put on her armor. "What's wrong?" Thalia asked seeing the look on my face. I took a deep breath, "Phoebe's back she wanted me to report that the army has crossed the Harlem River." Thalia nodded, "Annabeth are you okay with the armor?" she asked. Annabeth nodded and Thalia and I ran downstairs, and outside. "Lila," she told me, "I may be in charge, but you have more experience than any of us. We need your experience to win this war." I smiled, "Thanks Thalia, good luck." I watched as Thalia conversed with the head counselors, but all I heard was Percy say, "Then let's do it. Good hunting everybody." I smiled. Then I heard the army. The Athena kids went to positions. We sent volley after volley of arrows into the monsters, but they kept coming. I watched as Thalia summoned a bolt of lightning and turned a Laistrygonian into ashes. We kept shooting and when I turned around Percy was fighting a titan. Not Kronos I told myself, but that was all I registered before I fell unconscious from a hit to the head. I woke still in the wood with Phoebe feeding me nectar. "What happened?" I asked. She smiled to see me awake, "A demigod on the other side hit you in the head, but Thalia got rid of him before he could do any real harm. Besides that Jackson defeated Hyperion and the Clazmonian Sow." She sounded miffed at the last part. I jumped up and we ran through the ranks of monsters and demigods. We found Thalia at the entrance of the empire state building. "Your awake," She smiled, "I was worried you were a goner." I shook my head, "Can't get rid of me that easily." There was talk of retreat inside when a hunting horn blared. Percy looked at Thalia who frowned, "Not the Hunters. We're all here." He frowned too, "Then who?" That's when the centaurs came. I stood at the entrance with a few others guarding it while they drove off the monsters. Phoebe and I stood there for hours until Thalia pulled us inside and made us lay on some bunks. "Okay okay," I said, "we'll sleep" I slept and luckily has no dreams. I woke up with Phoebe sitting on the bunk next to me. "Oh good your awake" She said, "You need to see this." I walked outside to see a drakon. A real life drakon. Percy was staring at the monster. He tried to yell something, but it came out to quiet to hear, "I'll take the drakon!" he yelled. Everyone else hold the line against the army. I looked for Thalia and found her near Percy. I ran to her, "Thalia!" she turned around quickly. "Oh Lila, What's wrong?" I raised an eyebrow, "Oh it's a little humid. No it's that threes a drakon here!" she winced and I realized she'd never seen me angry. The last time it happened was a hundred years ago. Everything happened so fast. The drakon killed a girl, another girl killed it, and we began to drive back the army. Eventually we all were back in the lobby and Thalia was saying, "-to set up the final defense." Percy walked around for a few minutes then went up to Olympus. Then one of our scouts ran in and yelled at the top of her lungs, "The army is advancing. Kronos is leading them."
(A/N I am so, so, so, so, so sorry I didn't update for this long. This story gave me a severe case of writer's block. Pretty please review I haven't got a single one. Also please try my new story The Daughter of Death: The Underworld's Weakness, and my completed story Luke's secret.)