Yay! I finally started Driver's Ed today (actually yesterday, but still). But anyway, I finally thought of something! I hope anything in this chapter makes sense.


Then Thalia drew an arrow from her quiver, notched it, and let fly.

I'll admit, Luke was fast, but he wasn't as fast as I'd last seen him.

I'd seen Luke be able to jump over the arrow, but I figured death made him less aware, and so e was only able to duck backward onto our couch while Thalia's arrow flew over and pierce the wall.

"Thalia," Annabeth said, "Watch it."

Thalia notched another arrow, "He's a traitor. A traitor!"

Luke rolled off the couch before the next arrow could puncture the leather.

"Thalia," Luke called, "I'm not a traitor. Do you think that Percy would let me in his house if I was? Near his family?"

Thalia had the next arrow aimed directly at Luke's forehead. I figured she'd notch three or four, but she chose only one at a time. I hope that was to save us the expenses.

"And why should I believe you!" Thalia yelled, almost tearing up. "You tried to destroy Olympus!"

"That wasn't me Thalia," Luke protested, "That was Kronos."

Thalia's eyes flared, she put away her bow, which disappeared along with the arrows in our house. In place, she took out her spear.

I never thought I'd seen Luke so terrified. He knew as well as all of us that he had never been able to beat the daughter of Zeus in a fight.

"And what about when you weren't under Kronos' spell?" Thalia asked bitterly, "When you were against us on your own free will?"

"I died Thalia! I came back!" Luke said, "They wouldn't let me do that without Hades knowing that I was good. I had to appear in front of him personally to listen to him tell me it wasn't my fault! He let me go!"

I heard Thalia inhale deeply, "Hades doesn't let souls go."

"Thalia," Luke said, "I'm not going to hurt you."

Thalia frowned heatedly, "Good, because I will."

Thalia cast her spear. I knew that her sister was Athena, the goddess of war. Making her Annabeth's aunt. But her spear cast was solid: straight, strong, and electrified. Luke was too stunned to duck.

But he didn't have to. As the spear point was less than two feet from the Son of Hermes, another spear caught Thalia's by the shaft and sent it launching into our wall. Thalia's spear impaled.

I was shocked and in total disbelief. Slowly, everyone in the room, Thalia and Luke included, slowly turned our heads to see who threw the spear. Everyone turned to see Sophia standing on the second step of the stairs, looking like she just launched a baseball.

My eyes went wide. I turned to my wife, my mouth agape.

Annabeth only shrugged, "You don't think that I'd let my daughter go without learning to use a weapon, do you Seaweed Brain?"

Sophia ran over to Luke. She bent down to make sure he was alright, because by that time, Luke had fallen over in shock when the other spear had almost nailed him.

Sophia turned on Thalia; her eyes were burning with rage. "Don't EVER do that again!" she screamed.

I remembered back to what Sophia had said about Luke when we were talking in her room. I thought she hated Luke now, but I understood that she was just worried.

Thalia looked embarrassed.

Sophia stared at Luke. "You still have more explaining to do."

Luke got up, and Sophia dragged him off to her room. I'll check in on that later.

Thalia turned to look at us. "I'd better get going." She seemed ashamed.

She turned to leave, but Annabeth put her hand on Thalia's shoulder. "Wait," she said, "You don't have to leave. It was our fault, we should have explained things."

Thalia pulled Annabeth's hand off, "No, it's okay. I Swiss cheesed your house, and almost killed your guest. And your guys' daughter is mad at me. I'll leave."

Thalia . . ." I said, but she was already gone.


Now I know it's short, but I couldn't think of anything else to put in this chapter. I could barely figure out what was going into this thing period. Anyway, hope you like it. I want REVIEWS! Lots of them.