Noticing again that feeling of déjà vu, I race quickly to the mob, Marcus running closely at my heels.
"What's wrong?" he asks.
"Shh!" I camp my hand over his mouth.
I sneak in behind the mob and my worst fears are confirmed. A whole mob of monsters.
They seem to notice my presence and they turn to me. These are nothing like the simpleminded mutants I've faced the past few days. These are full out freaks of nature. Creatures that shouldn't exist. The worst of monsters.
They scare me out of my wits and I can feel my knees buckles, yet I am unresponsive. I feel myself black out as muscular arms reach out towards me. Arms belonging not to a monster, but to a human.
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Malcolm's P.O.V
The girl wasn't heavy, maybe the same weight as one of my younger siblings. I run with her in my arms, heading to the big house, as Clarisse and the older campers take care of the monsters.
I stumble through the woods, almost stumbling at some points, but managing to keep my balance throughout. I rearrange the girl into a more comfortable position for both of us. I race, holding her bridal-style, until I bump into my sister Annabeth.
"What's going on out there?" she asks worriedly. "Where's Percy?"
"M-mob," I say, panting as I attempt to swallow the air. I continue once I've caught my breath. "A gaint mob of monsters, out of nowhere! They just kind of appeared. Percy's helping fight them off. They're at Thalia's pine."
"I should help them," she says before noticing the girl in my arms. "New camper?"
"Yeah," I answer. "We think. She got through the barriers, though, so she's probably one of us."
"Take her to the infirmary," Annabeth says before running off in the direction of the mob.
I continue to race, reaching the big house at a record setting speed. I run into the infirmary, laying the girl gently in one of the beds. I begin to tend to her yet I notice that she doesn't have many wounds. How is it that she's survived on her own without getting hurt?
I sit at her bedside, knowing that I should be fighting. Still, I can't seem to leave her here alone. What if she were to awaken and nobody were to be here?
I spoon some nectar into her mouth as an Will Solace walks in, a young boy in his arms.
"Who's that?" I ask him.
"I might ask the same about your friend there," he answers, nodding towards the girl as he lays the boy in a bed beside her.
"Found her near the mob. She's taking the nectar so I'm guessing she's one of us," I answer, continuing to feed her while doing so.
"Found this kid in the mob, too. Pretty badly beaten. How 'bout yours?"
"Not a scratch."
"Really? Let me see."
He walks over and looks the girl up and down. Noticing just as I did, that she was completely fine, he walks back to tend to the boy.
"Miraculous. To think that she's found us, somehow, and not earned herself a single scratch," he says as he removes the old bandages from the boy's body and replaces them with new ones. "Take a damp cloth and pat her forehead with it, should wake her faster."
I do as he tells me, dampening a small towel and patting her forehead.
"Does anybody know where they came from?" I ask Will.
"Not by what I can tell. Appeared out of nowhere, just like the monsters. We didn't find any cars or bikes or anything, and it's not likely that they walked the whole way here," he answers.
"What do we do now?" I ask. "It doesn't look like the girl is getting up any time soon."
"One of us should still stay. She could wake up at any moment and she'll probably freak out the moment she does," the son of Apollo answers, chuckling slightly. "You should stay, I've got to tend to those on the front lines for now. See ya."
Will grabs a medical kit and runs off in the direction of Thalia's pine.
I know I said in the last chapter that this was going to be short... It was but I extended it to some level... It used to be just that first part (without Malcolm's P.O.V) which was WAAAAY too short looking to me so I added some to it... :) Remember to review!
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