HEY PEEPS! Thanks for reviewing! I was happy that I got tons of reviews! I also want to let you know this. It is not over. They are not even halfway across the country, and I wrote 22 chapters. And I am thinking of doing a sequel. Or a trilogy. Not sure. But I have some ideas planned out. And I might edit this and submit it to the Young Author's contest at my school in April, I probably will be done with this story by then, it's 10 months away. What do you think?

-SAVE THE NARGLES

I breathed in the air. The city of the Alamo was breath taking. It had the normal skyscrapers like all the other major cities iun the world. But there was a winding river going around the center of the city. There was buildings that seemed that they were from the time when the Spanish were in the area, or at leasst inspired by it. There were little shops and cafes, and lots of greenery, and there were leaves floating in the river, since it was fall. Boats were on the river, It was paradise.

I pulled out a large floppy hat and placed on my head. I think my mom did something to the bag. Now I can pull anything out of my bag. I pulled out some lip balm. The hot air made my skin rough. But I don't care. I felt free. More like the Piper I want to see in the mirror. The Piper I saw with my friends. The Piper with Leo. The happy Piper.

We both realized that we had to do something fun, since, Houston is less than 250 miles way now. I wanted go on the river tour, but Leo wanted to go to an amusment park.

"Let's go to Six Flags!" Leo exclaimed.

By now, I was getting tired of hiis whining, so I finally gave in.

"Fine. But we will have dinner by the river. Deal?"

"Mmhmm." Leo answered, while flipping though the radio stations.

We pulled into the parking lot and bought tickets. I got the bag that I brought with me and went into the changing room. I pulled out a bathing suit. Bikini. I did it again. Bikini. Again. Tankini. Again. Bikini.

Finally, after many tries, I pulled out a black one piece with small polka dots, and a skirt to go over it. It was a squareneck, so it did not show off my boobs. I put a t-shirt over it an strapped my knive to my thigh and put the skirt on. I pulled my hair into a messy bun, and slipped into some sports sandels. I looked at myself in thee mirror. I looked different. I had the same skin tone and hair color as before, but I stood out more. No more choppy hair. I did not hide like I used to.

I walked out of the bathroom, and Leo was wearing some swim trunks, with a t-shirt over it. He was wearing sandels, and he had a clip-on pocket. I knew that it was one of the pockets of his toolbelt. I remember him saying he made it movable and waterproof, freezeproof and Stollproof. Basicly indestrucable in anyway.

Leo saw me and waved. "So, what are going to do first?"

5 hours later...

"OH MY GODS! THAT WAS SO FUN!" I yelled. We just went on one of the rollercoasters.

"I KNOW! Let's go and get some ice cream." Leo told me.

I was about to follow him when I saw something out of the corner of my eye. Two of the janitors were looking at us weirdly. They looked away from us. I felt that something was off. But now I knew. They were monsters.

"Leo." I grabbed his hand and he looked at me. "Monsters. They are disquised as janitors."

His eyes widened. He nodded.

"Let's go and eat some ice cream, then we will leave. We can go down to the river like you wanted." He sai. I confirmed it with a nod.

We got soft serve ice cream in cones, then we walked away, still causious. But as we walked though the water park portion. We saw that some of the rides were closed, so people were leaving and there was a thick crow of people. We weaved our way though the crowd. But soon we were alone.

I felt nervous. We continued walking. We learned the number one lesson to staying alive during a monster attack, or when you are in a monster-infested area is to keep moving.

I knew something was following us. I could sense it. Then we heard foot steps. All around us. I got out my knife, and Lo got out a large bronze hammer. But it was the kind for hammering nails, with the sharp end and the flat end. Good for stabbing and for breaking skulls.

We stood back to back as 10 of the janitors were coming out of the shadows. My knife was out in front of me, and Leo held his hammer high.

The janitors were mumbling in a strange language. They were growling and I caught clippets of words. But it was not Greek or Latin. My blood went cold. It was the language of Gaea. A language that radiates terror. That speaks in my dreams.

The words grew louder, making my heart beat faster. THe clothing melted off of them. They grew taller, now about 8 feet each. They grew snouts and sharp teeth. They turned black, with stubby hands and feet, but with long razor sharp claws. I knew what they were now. Telkines. (Its spelled Telekines on Camp Half-Blood Wiki, but I like this spelling better.)

"Even after the fall of our First Mistress, we still find joy in the deaths of the children of the gods." One of them growled.

"Especially the ones who are fearful because of her. The deaths of the ones who defied her will avenge her defeat greatly." A different one growled.

"The gods will mourn tonight. They will have good reason. A blow to their rule."

Then they all lunged. I sliced the head of one. Leo killed two at the same time, one by bashing the hammer into it's skull, the other by throwing a fireball at it. We fought, but more came. I start to slow down, my energy draining. But they did not come back to life, but I felt tears stream down my face, as bad memories came and flooded my mind. But I continued to fight. I was not a stupid daughter of Aprodite.

I turned around and kicked one back. I turned around, the telkine was their with the it knocked my knife out of my hands. It clawed my face, leaving long narrow, but deep cuts from my cheekbone down to the base of my ear. It was about to sink it's claws into my chest But then it was tackled to the ground by Leo, knocking me over. He set his hand on fire and grasped on to the telekine's snout, but it gave him a deep cut in his side. It started gushing blood.

"LEO!" I yelled. He fell to the ground, liquid crimson spilling on the pavement. I stabbed the last one, but I did not watch it crumble to dust. I knelt down next to Leo . I forced some ambroia and nectar into his mouth, but it only made the wound start to clot. I would need to get a bandage later.

"Hey," I looked down. Leo was looking at me with consern. "You're bleeding." He touched my cuts. Fresh blood was on his fingers.

"I'll be fine. You look terrible." It was true. He was paler, and had other bruises and cuts. And the gash in his side.

We got up. Then I flinched. I must of twisted my ankle. But Leo suppoted me. He held out his hand. But I was hesitent.

"I might topple over." He said. "You look like it too."

"Yeah, I fell like it." I took his hand, thankul for his friendship, even this tense. I thought about the telkines. I thought about the past. But it haunted me. But it sent me into a more hopeful future.

So, tell me how you liked the chapter. Please read my other story. I got the idea from a review in Chapter 15. Thanks Yellow Submarine. Leo is awesome. I was wathcing a new music video, 50 ways to say goodbye by Train. The song is really funny. He can't get over his girlfriend, so he's telling everyone that she died. Danced to death in an East side night club, eaten by a lion, got ran over by 'a crappy purple scion'. Just do it for me. Review. I would like 162 reviews. BYE!

-SAVE THE NARGLES