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Thalia POV.

"Damn it! Where the hell are they?" I asked aloud.

Nico A.K.A. death breath, Rachel the oracle, Grover the goat boy and I were all standing around in the desert without knowing how we had got here.

Unfortunately without Percy or Annabeth.

We had lost them in the chaos of the cornucopia.

Now, we were all standing in the middle of nowhere, trying to find out what to do.

"I saw Prissy running to Annabeth when I first got to the cornucopia. I didn't see the both of them after that," Clarisse's gruff voice said.

"Did anyone else see them?" I asked.

No one answered.

"Damn!" I spat.

We had all ran as soon as we got our weapons and some supplies. We all had assumed (including me) that Percy and Annabeth would follow us when they got their weapons, but it didn't happen like that. We had left without them.

I took a deep breath in and said "Ok…" I tried to recollect myself by going over all the things that we already had with us.

I had my pack of hunter bow and arrows with me, as well as my spear. Clarisse had her spear, maimer, or as I like to call it, lamer. Death Breath over there had his stygian iron sword, and Grover obviously had his reed pipes with him. Rachel, since she didn't have a weapon of choice had grabbed a gun and a knife.

For supplies, we didn't get much. I had only gotten one water bottle because I had been too busy getting both of my weapons. Clarisse had gotten a backpack with two water bottles and two blankets in it. Nico had one Ziploc bag of what looked like some type of dried meat. Grover had gotten one more water bottle and a plastic bag filled with some sort of strange fruit. Unfortunately, for us it would probably go bad in a day or two. Finally, Rachel had gotten a tiny satchel full of dried fruits and nuts. The water would last us maybe three or four days. The food? Even less.

Like I said, not much.

"So what should we do now?" Grover voiced what everyone else was probably thinking.

I didn't have to think hard about my answer. Of course there was not much we could do, so I said, "We should keep walking." I pointed in the direction in front of me. "Let's walk that way. I don't think there's much else to do now, is there?" I laughed bitterly as I gathered all of my things. The others didn't argue with my logic, so they followed my lead gathering their own things.

After five minutes, we had all of our things ready and we started walking in the direction I had pointed in.

It didn't seem like there was anything at all in this desert. I hadn't seen any animals or plants at all since we had started walking. That, I thought was pretty strange. I was pretty sure that these gamekeeper people, whoever they were didn't want us all to be dying so quickly. They probably wanted a show with us. I doubted that they wanted us to be dying from lack of food or water.

That was why I thought that if we walked far enough away, we would eventually get to someplace that had the food and water we needed. With that in mind, our little band of half bloods walked into the desert with me leading the way.

A few minutes later, a thought hit me. To get water, I could very well try to form a thunderstorm. That could maybe provide us with the water we needed! I almost jumped with joy. How did I not think of this earlier? It was so obviously simple. I had realized a long time ago that if I summoned a powerful enough thunderstorm, rain would come down as well. I tried to do it as rarely as possible, as not to anger Poseidon, but right now I thought that it was emergency enough to risk it.

I turned around and stopped the others. I told them my plan and they replied by saying that I should try it.

So I stood a few ways away, held out my arms and closed my eyes. I concentrated on the lightning first. The sky steadily got darker as the lightning formed in the clouds. A flash of lightning came down not too far from where I was standing. Next, I concentrated on the thunder. A few moments later, the thunder boomed in the sky. The sound grew steadily louder by the second, until it was so loud I felt my own bones shaking.

Finally, I concentrated on the rain. I thought of rivers and downfalls, and simply anything that had to do with water, just like I thought Percy would do when he needed to summon water. Though, unlike the thunder and lightning, the rain never came.

I scrunched my eyes shut so hard that I could see white spots in the darkness behind my eyes. My hands slowly started shaking as I concentrated even more, but for some reason, the rain didn't come. I finally gave up as I opened my eyes and lowered my shaking arms.

"Its no use," I said, breathing heavily. "The water won't come."

I felt a hand on my shoulder as someone walked over to me. It was Nico. He silently smiled a sad smile and started to walk ahead of me. That was enough to get me walking too. Sometimes, Nico's actions spoke a lot louder than his words.

I gave into the sweltering heat of the desert as the sun cam back to mock us. We had to keep walking, because really, there wasn't much else we could do.

That thought alone would be enough for me to give up, but I kept going, thinking that I had to do this for the rest of the Half Bloods and to try and find Percy and Annabeth.

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It was an hour later and we were still walking. We hadn't found anything at all. Not one single thing. By now I was getting really worried (not that I wasn't worried before, but you get the deal).

In fact, I was damn near close to a full panic now. The only reason I didn't actually panic, was because I didn't want to show weakness in front of the others. What leader would I be then? So I willed myself to stay strong, for the sake of everyone else.

In the past hour, Clarisse, and Grover both had taken one sip of water. We were all trying to drink as less water as we could without becoming dehydrated. Though, I could still feel myself getting dehydrated slowly, I restrained myself from taking a sip of water. We had to make this water last. I would drink when I was on the floor, dying of thirst. Then, and only them would I drink from the bottle. The others might think it was a little harsh, but it was something I had to do.

A few minutes later, Nico came up from behind me. He was wearing a midnight black jumpsuit, which I had no idea how he could stand being in, in the harsh sun on the desert. He must've been burning hot, but he sure didn't show it. I bet his hands were still cool to the touch. Probably another thing that came with being the son of Hades.

"Hey," He said.

"Hey."

"You all right?" he asked with genuine concern laced into his voice

I huffed, annoyed. Was it really his business to know? "Why wouldn't I be fine?" I snapped.

Nico looked down and we continued walking in silence. I could tell he was hurt.

I sighed. "Hey, I'm sorry…I just can't believe this is all happening. Why does it always happen to us?" I questioned.

Nico looked back up at me with that sad smile on his face that showed he had seen too much for his young age.

"I guess that was the way things were meant to be," he said in a quiet, sad tone.

I sighed and walked in silence once again.

The silence was interrupted not long after with a voice.

"Guys, it almost sunset." It was Rachel.

I looked up at the sky and noticed that it had gotten to be a beautiful orange and red colour.

"It's beautiful," I muttered.

A few minutes later, it started to get dark as night fell upon us.

"I don't think we should be wandering around in the dark," Grover said worriedly.

"I think we should," said Nico in an attempt to make a joke.

I glared at him even though it was too dark for anyone to tell.

"He's right," I agreed "We should set up camp with whatever we have."

Clarisse and Rachel muttered signs of agreement.

Once we had set up "camp", we decided to take a sip of water each and a few bites of the fruit that we had gotten. It turned out that the fruit tasted a lot like watermelon, and thankfully had a lot of water in it.

It was good.

Once we had all ate, we had to settle underneath the blankets because it had actually gotten really colder as night fell. Rachel and I shared one blanket while Clarisse and Grover had the other. The blankets were pretty big, so we fit underneath them easily. Nico didn't say anything and just lied down on the cold ground, blending into the darkness of the night. I had gotten used to his strange antics a long time ago.

Once we had settled down, and I had put my weapons down beside me, I was calm enough to close my eyes.

A little while later, I drifted into a restless sleep.

Well, there you have it. Yes, this is also a short chapter, but I promise the next one will be longer!

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-Detective DG