Hmm, this story is actually going to be coming to a close soon! But don't worry, peeps! I write other fics, so you can go read those! Luv you!

Oh, and I suppose I should do a disclaimer: I own nothing other than the Trials, Amara, Alexis, and some of Ysabel.

Amara and Bianca slept surprisingly well, for two girls sleeping on a bench in freaking Hollywood. Bianca woke up first and shook Amara awake.

"Wha-?" She mumbled.

"Come on, we're going to Chick Fil A for breakfast."

"Why there?"Asked a very sleepy Amara.

Bianca grinned. "Cause I have an aquaintance there."

They walked into the retaurant, where the only person in there was a girl with brown hair pulled up into a ponytail. She had blue eyes and looked about sixteen. She wore a yellow Chick Fil A shirt and khakis. She looked very bored, and wore a red Chik Fil A baseball cap.

"Welcome to Chick Fil A, may I take your order?" She asked with little enthusiasm.

"Ysabel," Bianca said with a smile.

The girl's eyes widened. "Bi?!" She gasped. When Bianca nodded, the girl grinned. "Holy Smiley Faces! Nico told me you were dead!" She sucked in a breath. "Unless you're a ghost!" She gasped. "I see dead people?! Coolio!" Ysabel looked down at Amara. "Whoa, Nico, did you get smaller and more girlish?!"

"I'm Amara," she said. "Nico's not here."

"Aw," said Ysabel, pouting.

"Issy, we need two chicken sandwiches and two large sodas," Bianca said like she rehearsed it.

"Sounds good," Ysabel said, going into the back and getting two snadwiches and two cups. "On the house, for my good pal Bi and her friend Amara, who I hereby nickname Amy." She took a pen and drew a smiley face on each sandwich wrapper and on their cups. "I hope you survive!"

"Um, okay..." Amara said as she and Bianca went to sit down. "She's a little..."

"Strange? Yes. She's a daughter of Hermes, but she doesn't go to camp. She's 'beating the system' by surviving on her own."

"And what's with the smiley faces?" Amara asked, examining her cup.

"Inside joke," Biannca answered, getting up and filling her drink with Sprite. Amara did the same.

"BEAR THE CURSE OF THE SMILEY FACE!" Issy screamed from the counter.

Thaluke

Thalia was up at dawn and harvested berries for breakfast. By the time she returned to the campsite, Luke was awake as well, drinking water from his canteen.

"Here, I got raspberries and blackberries," Thalia said, laying them down.

"Okay. I got water."

"No you didn't, I got that last night."

"Oh. I thought I sleep walked."

Thalia laughed and popped a berry in her mouth. "Okay, Smart-Aleck, what now?"

"I dunno. We still got five days left."

"Yeah." She though for a moment. "Want to go for a walk?"

"Got nothing better to do."

They stood and began to walk around. Eventually they grew bored.

"Has it been five days yet?" Thalia asked.

"Five hours," Luke said.

"Awww!"

Grrrrr.

"Don't growel at me, boy!" Thalia snapped.

"Um, Thal? That wasn't me," Luke gulped.

"Crap."

Thalia drew her sword and Aegius, and Luke pulled out his bow and arrow. A hydra slythered out of the woods and spat at them. Thalia blocked the venom with Aegius and Luke loaded an arrow (A/N: is that what you would say? IDK.).

"We have to burn it," Thalia said. "That's how Hercules killed it, right? We need to make a plan."

"No, just kill it!" Luke shot an arrow and it plunged into one if the hydra's eyes. That head collapsed, dead, and no other heads grew. "Like I did!"

"We ca't just improvise, Luke, that's how people die!" Thalia searched her pockets for matches, while Luke took out the remaining two heads. The hydra collapsed.

"Take that, Hydra!" He laughed.

Thalia slapped him across the face. "You idiot!" She screamed. "There's a reason I wanted to burn it! You know how when you chop off a head and two more grow? What happens when you 'chop off' the whole damn hydra?"

Sure enough, the hydra's body gurgled and three hydras popped up.

"Crap," said Luke.

"See, this is exactly why you need to listen to me!" Thalia snapped. She fumbled around with the matches and lit one. She held it out to the hydras, who immediately freaked out. One of them slashed out at the fire and hit Thalia instead. She flew across the ground and slammed into a tree, knocked out.

The match, however, fell out of her hand and the fire spread over the grass. Luke ran to her but was cut off the the wall of flames.

"Thalia!" He screamed. But he couldn't reach her without killing himself. "I'll... I'll come back for you," he whispered, and turned and ran from the flames.

Thalia

I felt the trasformation coming on before it did. My nose stretched out and my ears slid to the top of my head. Silver and white fur spring up all over my body and my hands and feet turned into paws.

I was a fox.

Luke had let me down.

We had failed the Trials.

Okay, I'm thinking maybe there will only be one more chapter or so. And to the real Ysabel: I told you I was going to use your name in one of my stories, didn't I? ;) I hope I captured your true esscence. ;D Review for me to update faster, I'm thinking that when this chapter gets at least five reviews I'll update. I really don't want it to end, but everything has to end eventually, so I'm putting up the review goals. My next couple of chapters will pretty much just be updates on the Review Goal, and then the last chapter. *sniff* I need to go cry now.

Bye, y'all!