Hi guys (or maybe just guy or girl) lol does anyone actually read this story?

Anyway, thanks for your reviews, positive and negative. They do help. Oh and sorry if the last chapter was a little awkward for some people. So in this chapter Tamsin gets claimed and we find out why Anya didn't look Kalina in the eye… Enjoy!

Chapter 8

As I was walking up to my cabin after dinner, I saw Theo standing outside it holding an envelope in his hands. As I watched, Tamsin spotted him and hurried over. I sped up and hid behind a tree so I could here watch they were saying and watch.

"What's this?" Tamsin demanded, snatching the envelope out of Theo's hand.

"It's a letter for Kalina," Theo said quietly, "it's private."

"I'm her friend, she'd want me to see it." Rhianna said as she opened the envelope and shook the letter open.

"Actually I don't want you to see it." I muttered.

Rhianna read it in about ten seconds even though I could see it filled the whole page, top to bottom.

"The grammar in this is appalling!" she spat angrily.

"Excuse me?"

"You think that Kalina would accept this rubbish?"

"Yeah!" Theo said indignantly.

"Oh come on!" Tamsin shouted. "I know she's a bit thick but she wouldn't accept this drivel!"

"Hey, don't talk about her like that!" Theo shot back, starting to get angry now.

"Yeah!" I shouted, jumping out from behind the tree to face Tamsin, hands on hips.

"Kalina!" Theo breathed.

"SHUT UP!" Tamsin screamed, her eyes turning from their usual dark brown to blood red.

"Uh oh…" Theo said and he put his arm around my waist protectively. Under normal circumstances I would have wriggled away, for fear of being teased but I was starting to get scared.

Tamsin breathed heavily and stretched out her arms towards the ground. She let out a cry and raised her arms as if she was lifting something up. The ground behind her cracked and crumbled and a giant crevice opened up. Horrible skeletal soldiers were climbing up, causing people around to scream and run away in fear. Suddenly a woman climbed out of the crevice and the world seemed to grow cold. This woman had black, soulless eyes and seemed to emanate a sense of pure evil. She was wearing a white wedding dress that was stained with what looked like black blood and her long black hair fell in wild waves to her knees. She lifted a hand and pointed one long white and eerily beautiful finger at me and a searing pain seemed to enter my body through my head and caused me to scream in pain.

"Kalina!" Theo yelled.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Lucas do something incredibly brave and incredibly stupid. He yelled and rat at the evil woman. She held out a hand in front of him and he crumpled to the ground, clutching his arm. My vision was blurred with the pain in my head as I looked at Tamsin, her hands still raised. Suddenly she moved she pushed her hands down and screamed, "LEAVE! LEAVE THIS PLACE AND NEVER RETURN!" and the woman and all of the skeletal soldiers turned to dust and the crevice closed up to a crack in the ground. Tamsin looked over at me, her eyes turning back to brown and she burst into tears. Then all of the sound in the world seemed to magnify in my head and I screamed but it only made it worse. I covered my ears and then the world went black.

Theo's POV

I watched in horror as Kalina fell backwards. I caught her before she hit the ground and held her to me. Apollo kids rushed over with a stretcher and Kalina was pulled away from me.

"I am so sorry." Tamsin said.

I couldn't speak; I just stared as Kalina was carried away on the stretcher. Some other Apollo kids ran over to that Lucas kid and helped him up. I went to my cabin and fell asleep on my bed. I had an awful dream that there was a vampire, sucking Kalina's blood and I could only stand there and watch.

Later, I ran all the way to the healing tent to the east of the lake. I ran in and bumped into Kalina's friend Anya.

"Sorry." I muttered.

Anya blushed and let go of a guy's hand that she was holding. I raised an eyebrow as the guy reached towards the ground, and a red rose grew there instantly and he picked it and handed it to Anya. Son of Demeter, I thought to myself, only they can do that. I walked into the tent as Anya hugged the guy. Kalina was lying on a bed in the corner, her beautiful golden hair fanned out over the pillow. Her eyes were closed and she was very pale. I sat down gently on the bed and sighed. As I watched, Kalina's eyes fluttered open.

"Theo!" she exclaimed.

"Oh, Kalina." I said, leaning forward and kissing her. She went from very pale to a delicate shade of pink. "I thought I'd lost you." I breathed.

She laughed, "You know I'm not gonna go away that easily." Tamsin saw she was awake and let out a sigh of relief.

An Apollo kid came in with a grim expression.

"Guys, I have some bad news about your friend Lucas."

"Yeah?" Kalina said, sitting up.

"He's dead."
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Oooh CLIFFHANGER! Well kind of.

:) xoxoxox