Wow this chapter was a tough one to write! As always hope you guys like the story so far and find that this chapter has quite a few hints at what will come later in the story. Let's do this!

The shadow woman laid out a small red and white checkered cloth on the floor for Thalia and her to sit upon. She motioned for Thalia to sit down and while Thalia did as she was told. The woman reached her hand into the ancient mirror and pulled out a picnic basket. She laid the basket down on the floor and spoke.

"I know you must be hungry after your long journey Thalia." She spoke in a faintly sweet motherly voice. It gave Thalia the chills all the wat up her spine. She wasn't used to motherly love.

"How did you know my name? And what journey are you talking about?" Thalia had asked but she wasn't only asking the Woman but herself as well. Her mind felt like it was going to explode as she was trying to soak up all this new information and keep from all these questions about to burst through her mouth. And just like a prayer heard from heaven, The woman answered one of many questions in her head.

"Millions of questions flow through your mind child but for now all that you can know is my name for the time is not yet correct to tell you of all you have bot yet learnt. You will know many answers to these questions that flow freely in your head in time."

Thalia was about to ask the woman how she knew what she was thinking but the woman had lifted a finger to her lips. A signal to be quiet. A signal Thalia only knew too well.

The woman reached her hand over and opened the wooden picnic basket and pulled out a number of food before saying, "My name is Macy,young protector, you would be wise to remember it as it will pop up in history later on."

"Protector?" Was all Thalia could get out, she was so confused but the way that the woman, Macy,had said made it seem like she knew Thalia long before she was born.

"You do not know what the word means?" Macy sighed, " I had feared that this would happen."

"what do you mean?" Thalia cried out.

Macy looked at her with long stricken eyes full of empathy, she opened her mouth to speak, "Young Thalia I envy you for being so ignorant in all this. Like the kids said in my day, 'ignorance is bliss in all of this'." and in that moment it was crystal clear that Thalia's out burst had shaken the woman.

"Only in time will you learn young Thalia, of the horrible truth about your past and of your people."

A large uproar had shaken the school. Classes were cancelled for the rest of the day after second period when the teachers realized that two of their students had gone missing the headmistress had called a meeting in her office.

"Are you sure she wasn't there Ophelia?" Professor Avalon asked.

"I'm positive professor, I had no one come to me for anything yesterday."Ophelia, the school nurse, answered back sharply.

Professor Avalon side, he had given up trying to figure this whole mess out. The only reason they were all here was because two students had disappeared. The last person to see the students were Wizgiz and himself. In fact Avalon had talked to Crystal only moments before she disappeared.

*Flashback*

"professor Avalon?" Crystal asked raising her hand in the middle of his lecture and calling out when he looked past her.

"Yes Crystal?"

"May I be excused I'm not feeling all that well."

"Of course Crystal."

Slowly Crystal got up from her desk and walked out of the classroom and down the hall presumably to the infirmary.

As soon as she was out the door, Professor Avalon continued his lesson when out of nowhere an ear-piercing shriek sounded from the hall way. This had caused a malicious up roar as all the teachers ran out to see what happened. When they looked around nothing was there.

Over the rest of the day the staff had been informed to be on their guard for anyone who seemed suspicious.

That was why they were here. Sometime during the night a note was slipped underneath Mrs. Fargondas door. THe letter read, "and so it begins again." The ink that was used to write the letter was a terrifying red. It was the blood of a missing student, Crystal's blood.

"Now that you are all here I wold like to begin with the statement that Alfea is going into total chaos." Mrs. Griselda said woefully

"Now, now, Griselda we don't want to worry them any more than we should. As many of you already know or have heard rumors, yesterday two of our best students disappeared from their classes. From what we know whoever is responsible for this gained one of their trusts as they lewered them away from the hallways." Mrs. Faragonda spoke her voice wavering a little as she went on.

"Young Thalia went willingly as we found her belongings in her room that she had yesterday after professor Wizgiz instructed her to go to the infirmary. whereas Crystal had screamed when she when she had been taken."

"How do we know that Thalia wasn't kidnapped. Maybe she didn't have time to scream." Professor Palladium said standing a little taller after stating the prideful remark.

"True we do not know this Palladium but I am making it an inference because she had in fact not stopped at the infirmary when he had instructed her to do so."

This caused a major uproar as teachers began shouting their replies. The sound a door closing with a sharp thud. This caused the teachers to look up in alarm. A freshman walked through the door. She looked around at all the teachers nervously before speaking," I-I found this by the west wing." She held up a small backpack that all the teachers knew to well, it was Thalia's back pack.

Macy sat by Thalia on the blanket brushing a couple of Thalia's loose hairs to the side.

"I think that I should probably be getting back to my room now." Thalia remarked, all the questions and no answers that were swarming her brain for what had been hours were giving her a major headache.

"Of course Thalia I understand that but I must tell you that I cannot allow such a remark to unpunished."

"W-what do you mean?" Thalia whispered, her eyes growing wide.

"Your a protector, and a protector must know her place."

"Protector?"

"Yes Thalia, you are a protector and the last one left alive I'm afraid, but that doesn't make you any less special or unimportant in my plan."

"P-plan?"

"To escape my prison, I need You, Thalia, as my little puppet."

Hope you enjoyed this chapter!

-Laylacat11