AN: Sorry this took so long I was sick for a bit. Five more reviews.

I anxiously felt my hair, Alex had insisted on us changing our looks. I now had coal-black hair and Alex was a blonde. Our Camp Half-Blood t-shirts were gone, replaced by new clothing that made us fit in with preps. I felt like someone other than me and I was not liking it.

"Did you really have to make me a prep?" I asked Alex, annoyed at my new clothing.

"It was the most affordable clothing and I have to be a prep too, so shut up," she replied, angrily.

We walked towards the center of town in silence. This town wasn't as small as the last one and the people were used to visitors, but there seemed to be something under the surface. No one was smiling and a few people were even crying openly and no one thought that this was weird. We walked over to a man to ask him about the deaths, but he just stared at us strangely, so we went to ask a police officer.

"Excuse me, sir? Can you tell us where the mysterious deaths have been occurring?" Alex inquired and the police officer and he gave her a strange look, probably because it was a very strange inquiry, "we're thrill seekers and we need to know where it's happening so we can try and survive."

He pointed us towards the forest that was thriving on the edges of the town and near the water. We thanked him and set off to our destiny, thinking about how we would kill a snake that kills by touching you. We did not talk at all and when we reached the border between the town and forest we paused for a second and then plunged in.

"Alex, do you know where we're going?" I asked, after we had been hiking for a while.

"We'll figure it out eventually," she replied, not reassuring me in the least bit.

"How long is eventually?" I asked and she said nothing, "Like the gods eventually or a young kid's eventually?"

She still didn't reply, but stopped suddenly and I followed her example. Soon, I heard the reason; someone was breaking sticks and crunching leaves. Someone was following us. Alex pointed up to a tree above us and she made a motion like climbing. I, quietly, walked over and hoisted her up onto the lowest branch and she pulled herself onto it. She put her hand down and I grabbed onto it, pulling myself up.

We, anxiously, waited for our stalker to find us. The sounds began to come closer and closer, until we could see the stalker's jet black hair. She wore a, somehow familiar, silver dress with a bow on her back. When she walked right below us, I pounced onto her and she let out a scream of distress.

"Get off of me!" She yelled angrily and I realized that I had heard the voice from somewhere before. I let go and I recognized the face, it was Thalia.

"What are you doing here?" I asked, confused, yet again.

"Your mother sent me here to protect you, she thinks that you will need help with the Basilisci," she explained and I felt my face get red. It was like my mom had come up to me at school and called me "Cuddlekins" in front of all my friends (scratch that friend).

"Ok, no offense, but I don't need someone to walk along with me and hold my hand the whole way," I exclaimed, angrily, and she was taken aback.

"You need me because only I know where the horn that you need is," Thalia retorted and then swept her feet under mine, knocking me over and aimed her bow at my heart, "Plus I'm a better fighter than both of you."

"Whatever," I retorted, grudgingly and I began to walk off.

"You're going the wrong way," Thalia shouted after me and I turned bright red as I walked back towards her. As she led the way Alex and I followed her, out of earshot.

"We don't need her," Alex explained, pissed off.

"No shit, Sherlock!" I exclaimed and she grinned at me.

"Ok," Alex began, "when we rest for tonight we are leaving her the minute she falls asleep. I do not want some Hunter to travel with us."

"What's wrong with Hunters?" I asked, she had said Hunter as if she had poison on her tongue.

"Camp Half-Blood and the Hunters have had a feud going on for years now, they burned down a few of our cabins and we put meat on the top of their cabin and the whole night they spent listening to their wolves bark at it," Alex replied, laughing.

"Quiet, there are monsters afoot," Thalia ordered, grim faced.

"That's fine, they can come to us," Alex answered and she began shouting and clapping her hands.

"You idiot!" Thalia screamed, "I was talking about the Basilisci!"

Immediately, Alex stopped making noise and she turned pale. She probably thought it would have been an easily defeated monster.

"We can't kill it yet!" Thalia exclaimed, "Jon needs to get the horn from Artemis's sacred deer! We're going to die if it catches us!"

"Oh."

Thalia motioned at us and we began to run through the forest. We could hear large trees snapping and a strange sound that sounded like something rubbing against bark. We dove into the river that was at the end of King's Ferry and we all began to swim as if our lives depended on it, well they did, but that's not the point.

AN: Sorry this was a shorter chapter, but I wanted to make a cliffie! Sorry and another five reviews before the next chapter.