It was a dream? I sit up and feel something warm run down my face, my nose fills with the familiar smell of metal. I slump off my bed and walk across my room to get a tissue. The floor was cold under my bare feet, after I get my nose to stop bleeding. I grab my phone and dial my mom's number. It rings three times before she picked up.
"Hey, Sweety what's wrong?" Her mother sounded panicked, but her voice made me relax.
"Nothing, I just wanted to call, I feel better."
"Ok? Listen, has anything happened? You'r alright?" She sounded more panicked.
"I'm alright, why? Are you alright? Why would you think something happened?" My voice must have sounded tense, because she Sighed into the phone.
"It's just a mother's sense. Are you sure nothing happened? Nothing weird?"
"Well, the only thing weird is, I'v been having nightmare's. Like this boy showed up and killed something called...a hell hound I think. Then just took off..." I think about telling her the other nightmare but decided against it.
"Mph, that is weird. Well, I'l-" She was cut off by a strange noise in the background, a shear screech of fear.
"Mom?!" I burst into the phone.
"...I'm sorry Hunny I'l be home soon, just keep the door locked and don't leave the house, just stay in your room." She sounded more panicked. I heard other sharp screech and the phone went silent. It takes me a couple minutes to realize she hung up. I put my phone down and go to open the door, I wiggled the knob, it's locked! But I didn't lock it when I came up stairs to sleep. I unlocked it and step out in to the hallway. I creep down the stairs. The front door's wide open and everything is trashed, the paintings torn to pieces, the doorway had thick wide claw marks all over it. The drapes were shredded. That was just the hallway, the living room was worse. I never got to look into the kitchen.
A deep throat-ed growl echoed of the hallway walls. There it is standing in the open doorway. Blood dripping from it's fangs. It lets out another howl, It's hind leg mussels draw back, and pounces. I don't have time to react. It's fangs sunk down deep into my shoulder. Taking me down to the ground. It releases it's grip on my shoulder, I roll onto my knees, and crawl towards the door. It pounces on me again, this time it's claws raking my back. I turn on my stomach and kicked it off me. I scramble to my feet and out the door. I slam it shut behind me. I hold the doorknob as the thing pounds against it. The air smelled of fresh rain and wet grass, and decaying leaves. The sky is a mixed color of reds,oranges, and yellows. The moon had begun to rise. The sun setting in the west. There was a slight breeze.
The pounding behind the door had stopped. I begin to start walking away from the house. My shoulder won't stop bleeding, I take off my sweater and examine it. There's a visible red stain ruining the purple sweater. I was too fixed on my sweater that I bumped into something cold and wet. I look up and I ran into a car, my mom's car! The roof was torn off, there was glass everywhere. The windows shattered and jagged. The hood of the car was cover in blood. I scan the whole car before realizing, my mother was slumped over in the drivers side. I run up too her. I put my hand on her. She wasn't breathing, no up and down motion of her chest. I couldn't hear her breath, I couldn't see it. It was defiantly cold enough to see someones breath. I hear the deep throat-ed growl again. The hell hound rows from the back seat. I didn't care. This thing killed my mom! It jumps, I brace myself. The hell hound missed. I take off in a sprint, I head for the woods. The twigs and falling leaves pokes and stabs me bare feet. they had already gone numb. My legs are getting stiff. I trip and go tumbling to the ground. As I get up, i'm slammed to the ground. I can feels it's sharp claws digging into the already made cuts, opening them to bigger deeper cuts. I can feel it teeth graze my arm. I turn to slam it off me by slamming my back into the air. It jumped off and attacked my left side. The pressure from it's teeth clamping down on my side, was like the weight of a truck.
"Hey! get off her!" Yelled a voice.
The hell hound let go of me. I grab my side, get to my feet and sprint. I stumble a couple more times before coming into a clearing. The pain in my left side and right shoulder were growing. The sick burning spreading to my chest. My legs going stiff. I limp to the middle of the clearing, and collapse. All of my emotion come pouring out. tears well in my eyes, they start pouring down my face. I scream out loud. My eye sight was blurry.
"She's dead!" I scream out."It took her from me! Come get me!"
I throw myself to the ground. I turn on to my back. I can hear it's paws dragging in the dry leaves. I know it lunged on me, It put it's teeth near my neck and I know I'm going to die. I have nothing to live for. I couldn't even protect her. I don't know my father, so he wouldn't care if I died.
The weight of it on me is crushing every last breath I inhale out. My vision blurs, The tears rolling down the side of my face. It's mouth was now almost clamped down on my neck. I close my eyes. Waiting to see my mom on the other side, at least I can die with a peaceful thought.
"Thalia! There!" It sounds off in the distance.
"Take you mark!" Screams another voice.
All in a quick instance, the weight of the hell hound diapered. Dust of some sort falls on me. I relax. My eye lids grow heavy and heaver. I blink, I can see a blurred dark shape and another dark shape.
"I think she's dead." Said one voice, sounds like a girl.
"No, see her eyes are moving." Said a sort of familiar voice.
"Lets get her to camp! Izzy! Come here!" said the girl.
"I can't go there." Said the other voice.
"I'm sure Lady Artemis will understand." Said the girl. One of the shape turned down to me. "It's ok. we'll fix you up, you just rest now." The black blur brushed a hand over my forehead. I blackout.