Alexander ~

Nico and I returned to our respective sides of the cabin. I dumped in a bunch of my black robes and weapons into the duffel bag that I got as a gift from dad. The bag was magical, you could put all the things you have in it, and it would still fit. After about ten minutes of packing or more like stuffing clothes, I zipped the bag shut and jumped on my bed, falling into a deep slumber. But of course being a demigod, my mind was intruded upon with more disturbing dreams.

It was completely dark, and gloomy. The underworld, but as I looked around, I saw that there was a figure lying on a black alter. As I walked closer, I saw that the figure was a woman, but the odd thing was that there was golden blood splattered all over the place.

"Come." She said. "This is your destiny."

I jolted up immediately. I knew that voice. It was the same voice that told me go on this quest.

"Woah bro. Thanks a lot for waking me up this early. Breakfast is in twenty minutes."

"Nico!" I yelled, pulling him off the bed. "I had another dream. It's worse than we thought it would be. I think I saw the 'lost one', except she was bleeding all over. She's a goddess."

"Ok, that's not cool at all. We need to find Thalia, but don't expect the hunters to have great hospitality."

"Got it Nico, just give me a sec."

I quickly changed into a Metallica shirt; leather pants, and my black army combat boots. I looked around for my robe, which was nowhere in sight.

"Where's my robe Nico? I know you have it!"

"Awwww," my half-brother whined. "The Stoll brothers taught me some tricks of theirs and I thought I could put them into use."

Ugh, he acted like a five year old!

"Come on! There's no time for games. We need to find Thalia. Let's go to the Artemis cabin."

"Alex! Are you insane? That's like suicide! We are not walking near Cabin Eight especially if Lady Artemis is here; that is unless you want to be turned into a jackalope. We should try the archery range. The hunters are up early anyways."

Nico was right, the hunters were all lined up in a perfectly straight line, all of them standing at least fifty yards away from the target. Each one of them would fire their arrows with deadly accuracy, piercing the center of the bulls-eye, arrow after arrow. Once walked closer, they all turned; holding aiming their bows and arrows at us, all of them giving us death glares. Gosh, what were they taught to think about boys? They all looked to Artemis for her orders. The goddess merely gestured at me to speak.

"Lady Artemis, I apologize for interrupting you and your hunters. I'm merely here to talk to Thalia."

"Talk to Thalia?" the goddess inquired.

"Uh … Yesterday I had a dream again. I'm here to inform Thalia of the details."

"Ah I see. Go on then. Thalia, you are excused. Do well my lieutenant."

"Yes my lady."

Thalia turned towards me. Her electric blue eyes burrowing into my midnight black ones. I was lost for words. The spiky black hair, those eyes. No! I mentally screamed to myself. You are not falling for a hunter; especially not their lieutenant and the daughter of Zeus. We're supposed to be sworn enemies like our fathers.

So what do you think? Alex likes Thalia! Well at first I considered having a Nico X Thalia but I thought it would be more interesting if it was like this instead. Remember to R&R!