I looked down quickly.

Why were they starting at me? I thought to myself.

Percy walked back to his desk and sat down. His face and eyes had relaxed and he just looked like Percy again.

Except for the fact that Percy didn't talk to me for the rest of the day, I guess my last day of school was pretty good.

All we did was watch movies and eat food the other kids brought in. I had brought my sketch pad and I started to draw random sketches. What had just been a simple few lines of nothingness had turned into a face. Percy's face. His eyes were worried again and Mr. Brunner was in the background standing next to a horse.

What the heck is this? I thought to myself.

I jumped out of my seat and knocked my head a on a low-lying Saturn that was hanging from the ceiling.

"Oww!" I screeched as I rubbed my head.

The stupid Saturn felt like it was made of cement and definitely left an indent in my head.

I realized I must have been sleeping. Curious eyes were staring at me like I was crazy. I sat back in my seat quickly as I wiped away the drool I had apparently left on the wooden desk. Staring at the picture I had just drawn, comforted my mind. It was just random scribbles.

The day finally ended and I packed up all of the things that were left in my locker. I shut it for the last time and trudged off to the bus ramp.

Percy wasn't there.

I tried to let this slide past my mind, but I knew something was wrong. Percy was my best friend. He told me everything! And he never missed the bus…

I grabbed my backpack and ran back into the school I had thought I had just left for good.

The wind whistled past me as I ran through the school. My feet hit the hard cement and I felt like I was getting heavier every step. I paused and bent down, breathing hard.

I must be insane. I thought to my self. Percy's not in trouble, your just being ridiculous.

I looked up suddenly because I thought something had come into my peripheral view.

And what I saw definitely surprised me.

There was a horse running down the hallway. A horse in Walter Middle?

Something in my mind told me to follow it. And I did the stupidest thing I've ever done in my life. I ran after it.

My backpack was on the ground ten feet behind me as I raced to catch up with the horse. I wasn't paying much attention to anything at the moment; and that's when I ran into Percy.

We both went flying backwards with the force of the crash. Percy was the first one up. He was holding a long… sword? I put my hands on the cold cement floor and hoisted my self up, still sitting; still stunned.

"What… the heck… is going on… Percy?"

I finally managed to say the words that had been trapped in my mind though the seconds of stunned silence.

"Look, Luna, I don't have time to explain… WATCH OUT!"

He pushed me out of the way and I came tumbling down the hard, cement steps. With each step, I could hear another rib breaking, another arm breaking, another leg breaking…

I hit the blue railing with a *thud* in a crumpled, broken mess.

Everything was blurry, every part of me was in severe pain, but I fought to keep consciousness. I couldn't slip away into the darkness of sleep. Not when Percy needed my help. But what help was I? I was broken; seriously and completely broken. Not one of my muscles would move. I was drowning into the darkness. It was trying to swallow me whole. But I wouldn't let it. I couldn't let it. I grabbed the blue bar of the railing and somehow managed to prop my back against the railing. Even that slight movement caused me more pain than I could handle.

I yelped in pain. I screamed for someone; anyone. Someone who could make the darkness go away. I waited. I waited for what seemed like hours, even though it was probably only minutes. I looked down trying to breathe in and out slowly. I saw my pants and shirt covered in blood. My arms were blue and purple and my leg was in an angle that wasn't normal for a leg to be in.

I couldn't hang on any longer. The pain was eating me alive. But then I heard it: A voice of an angel. No. It wasn't an angel, it was Percy.

"Luna!" He yelled jumping to my side.

I couldn't make out the expression on his face through the blur in my eyes.

"Percy…?" I managed to say.

"Chiron!" Yelled Percy as he put his arm around my waist.

"Ahh...!" My voice was pained and barely audible.

"CHIRON!" Yelled Percy again more frantically.

"Luna, everything is going to be okay, I promise!"

Just then I heard horse hooves hitting the floor and a familiar voice.

"Percy, what…"

He stopped talking abruptly when he saw my crumpled body against the railing.

"Holy Zeus! Percy, what happened!?"

"Mr. Brunner?" I managed.

"Hush, hush, Child." Said Mr. Brunner with his deep, serious voice.

I heard horse hooves coming down the stairs and there was no a shadow above me.

My vision was getting cloudier. I could hardly make out a face from a tree now.

"My Gods…!" Said Percy as, from what I could see, he ran his fingers through his dark hair in a worried motion.

"She'll be fine if I can just find the… Oh, where in the Hades did I put it?"

"You can't find it! You don't even have pockets! Chiron! Hurry!"

"Ah-hah!" Said Mr. Brunner.

"Now, Luna, can you still here me?"

I managed to croak out some sort of "Ehhheehhh."

"Good, okay, I need you to open your mouth; I'm going to give you some medicine."

I obeyed his command and he fed me what tasted like the funnel cakes my dad and I used to buy at the fair.

I felt immensely better, but the darkness still crept inside of me. My eyes went black. My ears went blank.

The darkness had engulfed me and I was lost forever in a sea of black waves; never to resurface again.

Or so I thought.