Chapter 11

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Percy's POV:

I stand over Thalia, barely even comprehending what in Hades is happening! Thalia looks up, her eyes completely red. Oh shit.

"THALIA STOP!" I hear, and somebody tackles her to the ground. She immediately grabs him and bites his neck. He cries out in pain, but then takes the butt of his sword and knocks her out, grabbing his neck after. He stands up, and I think it's Jason, but wait. That sword...half bronze, half steel. He turns around, the scar across his face unmistakable...

"Percy...we need to talk..." says Luke Castellan. I drop to my knees. I recap Riptide and then I feel somebody's arms around me. I look up to see Annabeth. She's always there isn't she. Her red eyes look angry, worried, and then shocked as she registers who's standing in front of us.

"Let's get back to camp," she says through gritted teeth, eyeing Luke suspiciously. I can't say I blame her. He used to be Kronos, and he supposed to be, what's the word...DEAD! What happened? How is he here now? We make it back to camp in record time with Annabeth leading the way. Even though Thalia had dragged me really far away, Annabeth carried us back using her speed.

Luke's POV:

I wander around the field, just sort of floating. I suppose I should explain myself first. Well I used to be a puppet to Kronos and was mad at the Gods so I decided to start a war. That's me in a nutshell...leaving out some important things. I was sent here after I took my own life...errr well I got the choice of going to either Asphodel or Elysium. My decisions during my life were awful decisions, and even though I sacrificed myself to the gods, I didn't deserve Elysium. No way I deserved this. I sit down by a tree that has no leaves and looks dead, because it is. It's hideous, but I've been wandering for how long now?

"Luke! Luke! LUKE!" I hear somebody yell. I look over to see a skinny, boy and a girl with curly hazel hair. Who are they? The boy comes into view. Nico? I don't know how I know, but he seems familiar. The girl however doesn't. I see a skull on his black shirt and a sword strapped to his waist. The girl has a camp half-blood t-shirt. What's going on?

"Luke, come with us. It's Thalia." As soon as Nico says her name I'm up and ready to go. Oh Gods, Thalia. I deceived her, and I broke her heart. But if she's in danger, I have to do something.

"What happened?" I ask, and we head on our way.

"You've missed quite a bit. I can't explain everything, but Thalia is in trouble, and Percy said some stuff while we talked about her liking you," he says while we run, and I kind of float or whatever, hover? Yeah I did like Thalia, a lot. She was kind of like my girlfriend, scratch that, we were boyfriend and girlfriend.

"Ok, we are going to bring you back to the world, and it took a lot of convincing of the fates and my father to get you out," the girl tells me. I still don't know her name. I see something, bu then everything fades to black.

"Unnghhh..." I groan, sitting up, in pain. Wait...in pain? I open my eyes and see the sky. What? I look around to see trees and the boy and the girl.

"Before you go asking questions, we need to explain to you why we brought you back. The main point being that Tartarus is rising, and we need all the help we can get, dead or alive, and I remember you being ok with a blade. 'Course you don't remember me. I was spying on you and that was in the maze..." he shifts around uneasily when he talks of the labyrinth. I don't like to be reminded of that but yeah. I remember the labyrinth...

"also, Thalia is in danger. Me and Hazel were walking around and we say Thalia get grabbed and taken by something; it was too quick for us but we knew we had to figure something out. We wen to Hades my father and he spoke of you, and I remembered. Also, Thalia needs somebody who can keep her steady. Annabeth, who has also been taken, she has Percy, but Thalia needs you," he says. His words start to sink in. But what happened to her?

"Ok so what happened to Annabeth and Thalia?" I ask. The two people I cared about most in the world...taken...what happened to them?

"Ok, well I don't really know how to put this, but I think you'll get the gist. Pale skin, fangs, red eyes, what do you think?" the girl, I think Hazel, asks dryly. I look at her. She's pretty, but young. She gives off a vibe of what is that...death? Nico does too, but I know he's a son of Hades. I guess both of them are. I hear Hazel and I can't believe what I'm hearing.

"They're vampires?" I ask, shocked. I believe in gods, nymphs, cyclops, many things, but vampires? Not even Kronos really had true vampires. There were those weird monsters with like combination fangs, metal, and like donkey legs or something, but not real vampires. Nico must've seen my expression.

"Look Tartarus created vampires to get back at camp half-blood, and he's been targeting specific people. But anyways you have no idea what I'm talking about. Ok in a nutshell, Gaea the earth was trying to take over with monsters and giants roaming free, and well, demigods and Gods stopped them, so Tartarus is a bit mad that his and Gaea's plan didn't work," he says. I think remember when I was wandering one day, basically the whole place shook, and it was terrifying, and that was coming from an already dead person. It was like the whole entire place was screaming out in fury, and everybody, I mean everybody froze and just cowered. But I needed to know about Thalia and where she was.

"Where is Thalia right now?" I ask them

"Ok well we are in the forest right now, but really deep, and I remember Thalia was last seen somewhere over there, but she disappeared as soon as the sun came up, so I don't know," Hazel tells me.

"Then how am I supposed to find her?" I ask panicked. They look at each other.

"We can sense a persons aura if they're dead, or in her case, undead," they tell me matter of factly.

"so what does that mean?" I ask her, losing my patience.

"It means follow us and we will be able to find her before she sucks the life out of somebody!" Nico says matching my impatient tone of voice. We get up and start walking, Nico and Hazel sort of taking everything in before running away. I run after them, wait, I run. I haven't run in like forever! I like it, the feel, the freedom. I start sprinting for what seems like forever, and it's amazing to feel the pain in my legs, the huffing of breathe. I can breathe! It feels so amazing to be alive. Then out of the corner of my eye I think I see some black hair, when I realize that it's Percy and Thalia. I see her crouch down, clutching her head. Then she leaps toward Percy.

"THALIA STOP!" I leap and tack her to the ground. She struggles but when she sees me a look of absolute terror crosses her face before her eyes turn red once more and then she closes the gap between me and her. She licks my neck, then I feel a sort of falling sensation, and everything gets hazy. Oh crap! She's drinking my blood. I take back biter and hit her in the head. She crumbles to the ground, and I look at my sword again. I completely forgot about it, but it feels so amazing to have it back in my hand. I turn to Percy.

"Percy...we need to talk..." I tell him. I have so much I want to say. I need to apologize; I need to ask for Annabeth's forgiveness, but mostly, I just need to have Thalia again. I feel a brush of wind and Annabeth is crouching above Percy and hugging him. I don't want to say it but it makes me jealous. Gods. She looks up at me and she registers that I'm actually there, in front of her. Her expression goes from shock, to fear, to anger.

"Let's get back to camp," says Annabeth, still eyeing me suspiciously, and I see some hurt in her eyes. She has every right to think that...

We get back to camp.

Ok guys so the 10th and 11 chapter were written pretty late in the evening and I just around now to posting them. I'm not too pleased with the way they turned out but it was the best I could do, so yeah. Also Hope you liked the surprise character. I felt the story needed some spice to it and decided to toss in Luke because he is an all out amazing character, and I hope to be exploiting Thalia and Luke's relationship, mwahaha. But anyway so yeah. I couldn't really think of a good way of saying why Luke needed to be in the story so I did my best. As always constructive criticism and and ideas are welcome. So yeah. Thanks.