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Thalia and Luke have been running around with each other for two years now. During those years, they have been stabbed, shot at, and burned. They avoided going to jail over ten times. Both almost died too many times to count. Good did come out of their trip though. Thalia received a new shield, Aegis from a man prisoner to monsters roaming his house.

The best thing they got out of it was a new member to their team. A little girl named Annabeth - barely seven years old and the two demigods could already tell she was a daughter of Athena. They found her in the basement of a warehouse holding a hammer for her dear life, almost slugging Luke in the process.

It has been two weeks since Annabeth became part of their family. Some monsters burned down one of the safe houses they made in the woods and burned Thalia. They had no choice but to go to Luke's old house. Thalia knew Luke could always steal some medicine and antibiotics from a local Shoppers Drug Mart, but she saw in his eyes that he secretly wanted to go back to his old house. Not for his mother, no, but to have a chance to see his father Hermes.

They arrived at the Castellan household, but almost immediately the three were blinded by a bright light followed by the words "You should not have come home."

Inside, Annabeth and Thalia were in the kitchen with Luke's mother May. She was treating Thalia's burn while Annabeth played with a toy Medusa bean bag toy. The daughter of Zeus' eyes scanned the house. The walls in the living room and hall were covered with mirrors. The kitchen sink hsd stacks of empty pitchers and cookie trays, and the walls were plastered with photos of a man in FedEx pictures, or photographs of a man with U-Haul. It was the same guy, so she figured they were all pictures of Hermes. Man, Thalia thought. She is obsessed.

Meanwhile in the living room, Luke was talking with Hermes himself. She heard their voices slowly get louder and louder. May kept talking about how when Luke was a baby he splashed around in the tub a lot, or how one time he put his shirt on backwards before school. Something smelt like it was burning and the young demigod figured more cookies were on the way.

"Then you don't care!"

Everything got so quiet you could hear a pin drip. May stood up. "Luke? Is that you? Is my boy alright?"

Thalia looked into the living room where Luke and his father were. "I'm fine. I have a new family. I don't need either of you."

"I am your father." Hermes insisted.

Luke turned to glare at him. "A father is supposed to be around! I haven't even met you! Thalia, Annabeth come on! We're leaving!"

Ms. Castellan tried to persuade Luke with mouldy sandwiches, cookies and Kool-Aid, but it was a failed attempt. The two demigoddesses scrambled after Luke and out the door. "Luke!" Thalia called. "What's going to happen now?"

He was silent. After trudging a good distance away from the house he stopped. "Wherever." He said. "Let's just go west."

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Weeks later a satyr found them. He said his name was Grover and his job was to get Thalia to camp since she was the daughter of Zeus. After five minutes of complaining Grover agreed to take Annabeth and Luke too. So they headed towards Camp Half-Blood, as the satyr called it. A summer camp for demigods; the only safe place on earth for them.

"We're close!" Grover yelled. "Just a bit farther!"

They had been running for so long. Hades must have sent his worst after Thalia because there were a huge pack of monsters on their tail. She could hear them around the corner.

They got to a large hill and started to hike up it. Considering how tired they were, they were running pretty slowly. They were half way up the hill when Annabeth cried out in pain.

"Annabeth!" Luke yelled. He squatted down beside the daughter of Athena and checked her ankle. He cursed and picked her up. Thalia got a look at it and she could tell it was sprained. She could see her ankle already starting to swell in the dim lighting. With Luke carrying her she knew he would run considerably slower. She cursed.

She stopped running and turned around. "Luke, get Annabeth out of here!"

He stopped a few feet ahead. "What?! No! Not without you!"

Thalia closed her eyes for a brief second. They didn't have time for this. She ran up to him. "Luke! Just go i'll hold them off! Once you guys are close enough I will catch up."

She smiled, but even she knew that she wouldn't make it.

Luke looked at her like she was insane. "I'm not leaving you!"

Thalia sighed. She have him a sad smile and stood on her tippy toes. She pressed her lips onto his, staying frozen like then for a few seconds. Thalia pulled away and gently pushed him up the hill. "Get going!"

Thalia then pulled out her knife and charged at the monsters down the hill.

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There were more than she thought there were. Dozens of monsters flooded towards her. In her path first was a hellhound. It came barreling towards her. Thalia rolled out of the way, sticking out her knife to stab the beast. It disintegrated. Next, she thought.

She had no thought during her battle. All she could do was rely on instinct and duck when they said so. She stabbed some monsters in the gut. The stashed at limbs. And plunged her knife into the back of another. There didn't seem to be much more, and the ones that were there were a bit farther off. She turned and ran up the hill.

Sadly she didn't make it too far. Thalia felt claws sink into her leg and she was forced to fall face-first into the grass. Groaning, she lifted her head off the ground and looked up to see a huge... thing in front of her. Thalia had no idea what it was. It lunged forward and she quickly moved to the side, so instead of it biting her head off it sank its teeth into her shoulder. She cried out in pain. Fumbling for her knife and stabbed it and it vaporized. She got up almost to fall back down. Her leg hurt so much. She look down to see her pant leg after her knee in shreds. Thalia started to limp forwards when she felt something hot coil around her waist and lift her in the air, then throw her farther up the hill and slamming her into a tree. "Ouch..." She grumbled.

The demigoddess heard a cackling above her. Her head shot up and saw three old hags with leathery wings flying above her. They shot their blazing whips at her and caught her wrists and the third rushed forwards and clawed at her chest. It was hard not to scream in pain. She saw so much blood. The whips were making her wrists burn. They felt like they were on fire. The third hag grabbed her shoulders with her talons and lifted her high up, sinking the claws into her flesh.

"Thalia!"

She turned her head to see Luke at the boarder. He started running towards her. "NO!"

He stopped. "But-"

"Go Luke! I'll be fi-"

She was cut off when the monster holding her up slammed her head into the tree behind her then threw her farther. The whips let go of her wrists and she goes flying. She lands on the ground with a thud and the three ladies are about to follow, but they stop. Thalia looked up and saw a bolt of lightning strike the earth with force. The monsters are thrown back.

Thalia was bleeding out. She was probably going to die any second now. Why did I do this, she wondered. Faces flashed in her mind. Oh yeah. Annabeth, and...and Luke. To think, I never got to say a proper good-bye.

The daughter of Zeus' eyes started to close. The last thought she had before she fell unconscious...

Luke.

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Hi! Finished this chapter. Took an hour and a half. Damn. Well poop. Anyway, i decided to continue since i saw all the story followers. But really guys. Review. I would love the helpful criticism or something to boost my self-esteem about the story.

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