I'm sooo sorry. It's been more than a month since I updated this story. I guess…life just got in the way a bit. This chapter is a LOT longer than the first one. Enjoy!

Thanks to my first review from StalkerInTraining! And thanks to Holly Chase. I'll try to fix the grammar, but the website keeps changing the punctuation. I have no idea why.

Thalia's POV

As soon as I fell asleep, I had a dream.

It started with Luke and I running up a hill, knee deep in the grass. Between us was a small girl that I had never seen before. She was around seven years old, with cut up knees and scrapes on her dirty cheeks. She was struggling through the grass. Before I could call out to Luke, I heard an angry cry behind us, and I turned my head to see who was following. It was a thing-I could tell it wasn't human- with bat wings and an old lady's withered face.

I gasped and Luke turned around. "Oh gods, they found us! They found us! Grover, hurry up!"

"Wait!" A voice screamed somewhere behind us. A boy about my age came trotting though the grass. Wait, trotting? Yes. He was a boy from the waist up, and had furry legs.

Before I could ask what he was, I heard a shrill cry, "Let me kill you now, Honey! You'll never make it to the border, let me kill you, let me rip you, you daughter of Zeus, you demigod scum, I will—" The rest of her rant was drowned out by a louder roar that sounded like a whole army coming after us.

The small girl cried out and she disappeared in the grass. Luke ran and grabbed her. "Annabeth, are you ok!" he tried to yell over the monsters.

I stopped and looked at the monsters coming towards us. I had to give them time; I had to fight the monsters. Wait, what are you doing? This is just a dream! I screamed in my head. But for some reason, part of me felt like this was not just going to be a dream forever. I felt my pocket and smiled as I felt a familiar mace can. I touched the nozzle, and it turned into the familiar ten-foot spear. I tapped my bracelet and it transformed into Aegis.

"Thalia, what are you doing?" I looked up to see the boy that Luke called Grover running towards me.

He was panting, but he ran through the grass like a mountain goat. A goat. I thought back to the few Greek Myths I had read. That's what he was. He was a satyr, half man, half goat.

"What are you doing, trying to get killed?" he said, but it sounded more like a bleat.

"I'm trying to save my friends." I told him.

"I'm supposed to protect all of you! I'm not supposed to leave any of you behind, you could get killed if I don't bring you back safely!" He bleated at me. His eyed were wide with fear and worry, and he looked close to tears. "You're all my friends! I'm not just going to leave you here to die!"

I looked up to Luke and the little girl, Annabeth, who was almost up the hill. I had a feeling that if they made it up that hill, they would be safe. I have to give them time.

"Keep them safe, and get them to safety."

The words left my lips as though I knew what was going on. I didn't feel scared at all, even though I had feeling that this was not just going to be dream—that it was going to come true someday.

"I'm not leaving you here!" he crossed his arms stubbornly, but I could tell that he just putting on a show. I could tell he would cave in if I was harsh enough.

I stole another glance at Luke and Annabeth. They were struggling though the tall grass. The bat lady flew to a tree ten yards away from them. She a fury! "Save them! GO NOW!" I screamed at Grover.

He jumped about a foot in the air. He stared at me in fear, and I didn't blame him. My skin was tingling with electricity, and I was glaring at him. I took a deep breath. Wow, Thalia, get ahold of yourself. Calm down.

"Grover, you have to save them. I'm going to stay here and—"

"I can't leave you!"

"You will!" Before he could say another word, I clamped my hands down on his shoulders and shook him. I didn't mean to, but I shook him so hard that his head bobbed back and forth, but I was desperate for him to listen to me.

I took a deep breath and looked up at Luke and Annabeth. Luke was trying to get Annabeth to run, but it was pretty hard, considering that the grass was taller than her.

I turned back to Grover. He was looking at me desperately. I clamped my hands on his wrists. "Look, just keep them safe! Don't let them die!"

"You'll die though!" he protested.

"Do I have another choice?" He was silent. "Exactly, now go!"

This time he didn't protest. He ran as fast as he could to Luke and Annabeth. I saw him say something to Luke, but I forced myself to turn around. I readied my spear and raised Aegis. I heard Luke yell something to me, but it was lost in the wind. I cleared my mind as the first monster came through the grass, followed by hundreds more.

Then I woke up, screaming.

See, a lot longer than the first chapter! I will try to update every few weeks, but I'm not promising anything! Please let me know what you think, if you have time.