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Blood. An interesting color it has. I don't think I've noticed just how rich the red was until I've seen enough of it on my body. Especially on my wrists.

Here I am sitting next to a tree, wrists tied tightly around the trunk high above me. My only weapons are my knife (that's hanging on my belt and it's too far to reach), my charmspeak (but they put a gag in my mouth), and an almost dead Jason. This reminds me of the time when we were trapped by those Cyclops in that weird room, and Leo somehow managed to get us out. But Leo isn't with us right now.

It took a lot of straining for me to finally turn my ears towards Reyna and some other boy I don't remember the name of. "Did you do it?" The scrawny boy said.

Reyna rolled her eyes. "What does it look like? She's practically hugging the tree, isn't she?"

The boy raised his hands in surrender, "I was just saying, I mean... I'm not sure I trust your loyalty to this plan."

"Oh, because you're so good at proving your loyalty," she retorted back. The boy glared at her for a while before flipping her the bird.

Reyna, being the mature one she is, gave him another ice-cold glare before saying, "Get a fucking life, Octavian."

Octavian. So that's the stupid boy's name. A small voice in the back of my head reminds me of the memory of meeting the kid, but this memory didn't bring any sort of flash. Guess I never really considered him that important. I glanced back to my dagger then back at Jason. They still tied up Jason-even though he's somewhat unconscious- but they loosened the knots a lot more than mine. If only he was awake right now and then maybe we could have a chance at beating Khione's dang army. I kept fumbling with the suffocating rope but more blood began to draw out. How much more blood do I have? I thought, it's really only a matter of time before I pass out again.

I stopped moving immediately when Octavian and Reyna were walking towards us. I started to speak before I realized that I couldn't speak. "Little girl. Next time you decide to walk across this area of the woods, you should probably be less obnoxious and more quiet." Oh, how I wanted to spit in his face.

I probably made a really disgusting face towards him because his face scrunched up to mock mine. Then his face went back to normal and started chuckling towards Jason, "Oh, look. It's your dear boyfriend. Superman can't save the day now, can he?"

Instead of paying attention to him, I looked to Reyna with a disbelieving look. Even if I couldn't say anything, I'm pretty sure my face said it all. What happened to you? Jason trusted you! I trusted you.

That stupid speech Chiron said about not trusting any of the campers... I can't believe it. Out of all people... even bitch-like Drew was innocent. But while Octavian was still talking to Jason, not paying attention to us all, something flashed across Reyna's face. As if telling me, calm down. It's not what you think.

I rolled my eyes. I've had enough of this acting-shit drama. If Reyna really wanted to something to my face, say it out loud! Nothing could harm her now, now that we know her little secret. "Okay, that's enough, Octavian. We need to bring these two to Khione immediately. Stop fooling around and wasting time," she interrupted. Praetor Reyna was back.

With one more glare towards Jason and I, Octavian agreed and started reaching towards me to pull of the ropes. When he finally released the last one, he probably knew I was going to make a run for it because he reached for me and scooped me up. I cringed at my muffling scream in his ear (I was still wearing the gag due to my charmspeak) and my kicking him in places boys don't really want to be kicked. But he still carried on. He dropped me hastily into the back of what I assumed to be a small chariot, and he went back to retrieve Jason. That left me alone with Reyna who was in the front of the chariot. I still continued my muffled screaming when Reyna turned around, glared at me, and strangely put her index finger to her lips. "Shhh. We don't want people hearing you."

I wanted to scream, "Are you an idiot?! Have you completely forgotten that I'm clearly not on your side?! What the hell is going on?!" But since I couldn't, I continued screaming just to annoy her, and Reyna turned around, clearly defeated at making me shut up.

Some rational part of me told me to at least try to focus and in some way, this entire thing should be making sense right now... the way Reyna is acting... but I'm not rational. When Octavian came back carrying Jason, I felt a familiar bonk on my head, and (to my relief, considering I don't really want to believe this at the moment) went unconscious.

A small ice sculpture (who I can tell used to be a girl, from her body) runs up to another, long-haired girl-no, a woman. She puts something in front of the woman before slowly backing away-presumably to give the woman some space. The woman grabbed the object in her hand and threw it across the room, and it lands a few inches away (considering the object happens to be a feather and you can't really "throw" a feather). "She's still alive? How can that be?" The woman said angrily.

"I-I don't know, madam," the little girl said hastily, "All I did was talk to that girl- Reyna I think was her name- and she handed me this. She said she had became unconscious later on. "

"This?!" The woman shrieked with her hand grabbing the object again. "This was all you could get me? I thought you said she had become unconscious. If she was so, it would have been easy to bring me her body, not some lousy feather!" She throwed the feather again in the air with frustration.

"I-I'm ever s-so sorry, madam. I'll tell Reyna the news right away."

The woman put her hand up, and her face suddenly hardened. "No, no. I don't think that will be necessary. You and Reyna have done enough work for today." The little girl looked up in some type of relief, and I could see a very exhausted, small smile forming on her face.

"Th-thank you, madam, I-"

"Save it," she said, cutting her off. The little girl's smile was long gone. "Oh, you'll be thanking me soon enough. Trust me I'm only doing you and the rest of the world a favor." Before the girl could even realize what was happening, the woman's guards- who also happened to be made of ice- grabbed the girl and dragged her out of the room. The little girl left the room crying and screaming.

The woman walked out of the room without a moment's hesitation. She muttered very quietly (I could hear her words very easily) and that was the thing that made the most sense out of the entire conversation.

"If you want something done, you have to do it yourself."

I woke up with a thud that I felt on my head roughly. Where was I? I most certainly was not in the Aphrodite cabin that night. I took a look around at the very small crowded space I was in. I looked to my right and found Jason's face just inches away from mine. I jumped back from surprise before I realized that he was still sleeping. Gods, was he in some type of coma or something? Is he ever going to wake up? Probably not. I was pretty sure that wherever Reyna and Octavian took us, they will make sure that Jason remains unconscious. At least, until given orders otherwise.

The door to the room creaked open a little and it was such a relief to see the sunlight again, despite our situation. That is, until I saw that it was Reyna who came in. I was about to scream- really scream this time because I realized my gag was off- but Reyna clamped my mouth shut. "Shut it, will you?"

I spit into her hand and she disgustingly wiped it off her jeans. I leaned back again and rolled my eyes. "What do you want? Haven't you already done enough?"

Reyna shook her head before replying, "You don't get it do you? I'm trying to save you!"

I looked at her with a blank expression on my face. Save me? She was trying to save me? By saving me, she was tying me up to a tree, gagging my mouth, and making me share a clamped space with Jason (although that part wasn't the worst out of all of them, but there is no way I would say it out loud). I blinked. Then I laughed. "You? Trying to save me?" i raised my wrists, which were still tied up with rope. "Yeah, you're doing one hell of a job with that."

"Oh, would you just let me explain?"

I raised my eyebrow, but I thought better than to continue (she was glaring again). I gestured for her to continue.

She breathed out. "Okay. I'm not really on Khione's side. At first I was because she was threatening me, but I know now that it's not fair to others. Especially you."

"What do you mean by that?"

Reyna winced. "It's nothing, really. It's more of a personal thing." I nodded my head (though I had no idea what she was talking about) and she continued. "But I couldn't just quit on her completely because if I did she would suspect something, but I still couldn't bring myself to kill you even on her orders. So when you got stabbed by that Pit Scorpion, I took your feather from your hair and gave to this girl to give it to Khione. I thought when Khione saw it, she would let go of trying to kill you, but I guess she had other ideas. Maybe she wanted to see it for herself because the next thing I knew, she sent me with Octavian-him of all people, really-to bring you."

"Oh," I said, feeling a little confused. But the entire thing made sense, now that I think about it. The feather, the constant accusing of the woman-who is now blatantly obvious that it is Khione... I'm reminded of something that makes me sort of happy as another memory flash hits me. "So, are you like Professor Snape from Harry Potter or something?"

Reyna raised her eyebrows. "Snape?"

"Never mind. So are you gonna take me to my doom or what?"

"No. I'm not taking you to your doom. I'm giving you a warning. Khione... she's grown stronger than the first time she was alive. She's more known now. And when people are more known..."

"They have more followers. More puppets," I said. "But the rest of the Seven are taking care of some of them around New York."

"Yeah... but even the Seven are not enough."

"Well... get more people then. Send like an Iris Message out to the camps."

"Yeah. That could be arranged."

"Where's Octavian?"

Reyna smiled. One of those creepy, unsettling smiles that makes me feel queasy inside. Must be a daughter of War thing, right? "Oh... he shouldn't be bothering us for a while now." I nodded; really it was all I could do. "Let's go," she said while helping me up. Reyna silently loosened my ropes (but it was still rather tight), and I raised my eyebrows. "Trust me. You'll need it."

Reyna put a sack over my head, and we were on our way. The ride was uneventful, but I'm not surprised. Even though I know I should be thinking about the things that could happen right now and how to avoid them, I couldn't bring myself to actually focus. I smiled as I imagined Annabeth's face when she realized that I wasn't really bothering to focus on what was ahead at task. Then it went away when I realized how pointless it would be to focus on what was ahead at task. Having to fight a goddess, all by myself, with no memories? Yeesh, I was dead for sure. The chariot creaked to a stop. All I remember was that there was a lot of jostling and a lot of cursing, especially from me as I was being dragged to what I assumed to be Khione's domain, judging by the sudden decrease in temperature.

When the people who were done carrying me finally took off my sack, I took a look around. I saw a woman, some guards, but no Jason. "We took him to the dungeon for some... frosting. He is now the least of your worries," A guard said, noticing my expression. I risked a glance at Reyna and I begged her to tell me what was going on. All I got was a very small, barely noticeable nod towards the woman.

And with that I faced the woman in my nightmares, the one who I so happened to kill in her past life, and the one who happened to get me into this fucking memory situation in the first place. I actually could feel her glare coming from the doorway, even with the sack over my head. I didn't need to even glance at her to know who the woman was.

Khione herself has come to see me off.

Finally done with that *wipes sweat off of forhead*! Okay I just wanted to get the drama part off my chest (although there will be much more next chapter, so stay tuned) and I hope you guys liked it. Reviews are much appreciated; they help me to become a better writer.

Till next time,

Penguin