I'm really really sorry. I left you on a cliffhanger, and I didn't update for more than two weeks! I was going to update this chapter with chapter seven during spring break, but my computer crashed, and when I got it working again, I reread the chapter, and it was so short and boring that I spent three days trying to edit it. I gave up and started again, and finally I finished it.

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Thalia's POV

I jumped up and felt around on the ground franticly for my mace can. Once I found it, I tapped Aegis, and turned sharply as Luke ran up to me, his sword already in his hands. Annabeth ran up behind me, with the dagger that Luke gave her already in her hand.

"Let's get out of here!" Luke yelled.

"How?" I asked. "We're surrounded!"

Before he could answer, a hellhound the size of an army tank leapt right through the wall. It was followed by five more half its size.

I yelled, and a lightning bolt disintegrated three of them. Luke slashed his sword at two, but they retreated outside.

"Go!" Luke yelled, at the same time that I yelled, "Run!"

I pushed Annabeth in between us and ran, following closely behind Luke. We ran through the hole in the wall and were immediately met by more monsters. I called down a lightning bolt and the electricity that hit one of hellhounds spread to the others, and they blew up into yellow vapor.

A few feet in front of me, Luke had taken on a hoard of dracaena. He didn't notice that a hellhound was running up behind him.

"Luke!" I screamed.

He reacted too late. Before he could fully defend himself, the hellhound raked his side and Luke dropped to the ground in pain. 'Oh no,'I thought franticly. Before the hellhound could attack again, Annabeth came behind the hellhound and sliced its back.

I didn't realize that I wasn't paying attention until something hit my back so hard that I stumbled forward a few feet to regain my balance. My spear got tangled in a net and was yanked out of my hands.

I spun around and raised Aegis as a dracaena charged me. The sight of the shield made her scream in terror and drop her net. My spear clattered to the ground a few feet in front of me. She stumbled backwards into the other dracaena and knocked about a dozen down, who then tripped over their own nets and got tangled.

I bent down and picked up my spear quickly. I summoned electricity and swung the spear at the nearest pile of dracaena. The electricity spread to the other nearby monsters, and they exploded, showering me in dust. The monsters further away that didn't disintegrate came at me.

I raised Aegis and started to charge them, but I stopped in my tracks when I heard Annabeth cry out, "Thalia, help!"

I spun around and what I saw made my breath catch in my throat. Luke was lying in a pool of his own blood, and Annabeth was kneeling next to him, holding his head up.

Oh, no.

I made a spilt second decision. I turned back towards the monsters as a hellhound leapt towards me. I slammed it away with my spear.

I closed my eyes, imagining electricity coursing through my skin. I put all my worry for Luke into energy, and I felt tingling all over my body, like pins and needles being pressed into my skin.

When I opened my eyes, I brought down my spear at my feet with all my energy. Electricity surged outward, hitting every one of the monsters.

I had never done that before. But I wasn't worried about that.

I spun around, and ran towards Luke and Annabeth.

"What happened?" I asked once I reached them, even though I already knew the answer.

"h-hellhound," Annabeth asked answered in a shaky voice.

I knelt next to Luke. His eyes were half closed and his face was pale.

"Try to stay awake, ok Luke?" I asked him. He weakly nodded his head.

I forced myself to look down at Luke. His shirt was shredded on his left side, and beneath it, so was he. I couldn't tell exactly how deep the cut was, but by the loss of blood, it was very deep.

I took off my backpack and opened it. I grabbed one of my shirts and handed it to Annabeth. "Put that on Luke's wound and put pressure on it," I told her, and she nodded, showing me that she understood.

I then grabbed his backpack, which was lying next to him. I opened it, hoping that he had kept the nectar that he had found. He did.

"Thalia, the bleeding won't stop!" Annabeth said shakily, still pressing the shirt to Luke's wound. The blood had completely soaked through the shirt and into her hands, and it wasn't slowing down either.

I unscrewed the thermos and set it down next to Luke.

"Try not to move," I told Luke.

I quickly trickled nectar onto the cut. Luke flinched and grabbed my hand. I felt my face heat up.

The bleeding stopped, the blood started to disappear, and the cut started to close up.

Luke's grip on my hand loosened, but he still hadn't let go of my hand. By then, Luke's face was as red as mine felt. He let go of my hand quickly. I glanced over at Annabeth. She was looking between us with a confused expression. We stared at each other in silence.

Luke coughed, breaking the silence. "Well, should we get out of here?" He asked.

I snorted. "You're kidding, right? You still have an open hole in your side, so we need to bandage you first, and then we can go," I told him, rolling my eyes.

"Ok, ok it was just a suggestion!" Luke defended himself.

"I know, but if you think that you're going anywhere with that," I pointed at his side, "think again," I said, crossing my arms over my chest.

"I didn't say anything though!" Luke weakly defended himself.

"It was just a suggestion," I mocked.

Luke's mouth dropped opened. When it looked like he was going to defend himself, his mouth closed, and then opened again. Annabeth erupted into a fit of giggles. Luke and I turned to look at her.

"Sorry," she said in between giggles, "it's just- you look- like- a fish."

I snorted, and Luke huffed, "Not you too!"

"Come on; let me wrap your side now so more monsters don't find us," I told Luke impatiently.

"Ok, but what are you going to use?" Luke asked as he laid down so I could easily wrap his side wound.

"I… don't know," I said, shrugging my shoulders. I hadn't thought of that.

"Use one of my extra shirts," Luke said, "I got it in the warehouse."

I opened up his backpack and brought out two shirts. I wrapped one around his middle tightly and knotted it. I stood up and tossed the other shirt to him.

"Here, put this on," I told him. He looked at me, and then at the shirt around his waist. "What?" I asked him.

"Nothing," he said as he made his way back in the warehouse to change.

Once he was gone, I looked over at Annabeth. Her hands were still covered in blood.

"Let's get you cleaned up," I told her, pulling my water out of my backpack. I poured it on her hands. I noticed that she had a cut on her right arm. I poured some nectar on it and it closed up. "There. Are you ok now?" I asked.

"Uh, huh," She said.

From behind me, Luke asked, "What's the point of this being this loose?" He was pointing at his shirt around his waist.

I turned around to face him. "So we can find a safer place to stay and then I can wrap it right," I told, an annoyed tone leaking into my voice.

"Ok, where are going to go next?" Luke questioned.

"Somewhere not close to here; the monsters may come back to here," I told Luke and Annabeth. They nodded their heads, agreeing with me.

"Well, let's go then," Luke said, picking up his backpack.

He stumbled and I put a hand on his shoulder to steady him. "Whoa, we can wait a while before we go if you're still not feeling-" I started warily.

"I'm fine." He told me before stumbling again.

"No you're not, Luke. We need to wait," I told him firmly. He looked like he would pass out any second now, and I didn't want that to happen.

"Thalia's right, you need to rest, or you're going to fall down," Annabeth agreed.

"We can't wait! We have to get to a safer place!" He argued.

I thought about it. Luke was just as stubborn as me, so it would probably take all night to agree on something. Also, he had a point. We couldn't stay here, we had to keep moving. I sucked in a breath. I couldn't believe I was going to agree to this.

"Fine, but lean on my shoulder so I can support you," I muttered reluctantly. I couldn't believe I was saying this.

"Wow, you didn't argue," Luke smirked, impressed.

"Shut up or I'll change my mind," I growled.

Luke didn't say anything and leaned against me. I shifted my weight so I could support him better. I picked up the tent and my backpack.

"I can carry your backpack if you want me to," Annabeth offered.

"Are you sure?" I asked. Annabeth nodded her head. "Thank you," I said as I handed her my backpack.

She smiled at me. "No problem," She told me.

"Come on let's go," Luke said impatiently.

We all walked awkwardly into the forest. After what seemed like a whole hour, we finally reached a clearing.

"Well, this seems good." I said aloud. "Maybe later I'll look around, see how far we are away from the city."

"Yeah," Luke agreed as he sat on the ground.

"I'll have to set up the tent first," I said to both of them.

"I'll help," Luke offered.

"No, you won't," I growled. I crossed my arms over my chest again. "You need to stay sitting down."

"But I-" Luke protested.

"No," I said firmly.

"I don't need to-" Luke protested, louder this time.

"Luke" I said, annoyed, "You need to rest. You have a cut on your side, and you act like it's nothing. You almost passed out, Luke! Just stay where you are, please!" My voice rose to a shout.

"Fine! I'll stay here!" Luke growled angrily.

I turned away. He didn't know how worried I was when he was attacked.

I picked the tent up and Annabeth and I started to put it together. Once it was together, I put our backpacks into the tent and rolled out our sleeping bags.

"You can come in now," I said to Luke's back.

He didn't say anything as he came in the tent. He didn't even look at me as he crawled into his sleeping bag.

I crawled into my sleeping with Annabeth. She fell asleep quickly, but I was wide awake.

Luke was mad at me. He wasn't even talking to me anymore. I didn't even want to think about all the times today that I had yelled at him or argued with him. I didn't want us to be this distant, and if we were, it was all my fault.

This is kind of a boring chapter, hopefully not too boring. Anyway, state testing Monday! Woo hoo! (Note the sarcasm?) Ok, off topic. I'm working on the next chapter, so I will try to update sooner, but I'm not promising anything!

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