Amelia Loves Anime: History is partly my favorite subject because I find in kind of interesting, but mostly my favorite teacher is my History teacher, because he is just plain awesome. And I like English and Science too, but our current units are really boring.

And now, the owner of the Scream that has been torturing all of my readers is...

GOING TO BE ANNOUNCED IN THE CHAPTER, SO READ ON!

After the scream, Frank and I locked eyes, silently agreeing to go to the aid of the screamer, as I'm sure our fellow demigods will be doing too.

We started running towards the doors, but instead found ourselves in front of our common room.

Harry said, "The front's this way...", but trailed off as I went inside. Why? I don't know. I do random things at random times. But for some reason, I ran straight up to the boys' room, and stood in front of the 'emergency door', as Annabeth had dubbed it.

Dubbed? Am I suddenly from the Middle Ages?

Anyways, as Frank and Harry came up the stairs, I threw open the door. Instead of the passageway to the girls' room, like I had expected, or the wall, as it had been in times of non-emergencies, there was a swirling grey fog. For reasons unbeknownst to me, I jumped inside.

Yeah, that's it. Annabeth has turned my brain into a mini dictionary. Next thing you know, I'll be sprouting couplets and synonyms and all things complicated and wordy.

Suddenly, I found myself on my hands and knees in the wet grass. I quickly stood up, and just in time, too, because Frank suddenly appeared where I was, Harry popping out on top of him.

I looked around, and saw we were at the entrance of what looked like... a forest.

"The Forbidden Forest," Harry whispered.

Before anyone could say anything else, a second scream pierced the cool air. It was coming from in the forest.

"Is that...?" Harry started, but trailed off as Annabeth and Piper came up behind us with a girl I didn't know.

"Hermoine Granger," she said, grabbing my hand and shaking it, then doing the same to Frank.

Harry greeted Annabeth and Piper, then we heard a third scream, followed by the sound of footprints coming from behind us. Turning around, we found Neville, Jason, and Leo running towards us, Leo on fire. Hermoine screamed, Harry said, "Water! Someone!", and the rest of us ran into the forest.

There we found a redhead boy screaming at the top of his lungs. Wow, that was not what I was expecting.

"Ron!" Harry said, having joined us after realizing that Leo wasn't hurt by the flames. He went over to Ron, who was still shaking.

"Sp-sp-ah!" was all he managed to say, before collapsing on the ground.

We ran in the direction that Ron was looking, and found Thalia loading her bow wildly, and firing at something that was stumbling blindly in the distance. With all the chaos going on, I wasn't able to see it properly.

Hazel was standing behind Thalia, both arms outstretched and a look of pure concentration on her face. She must have been manipulating the Mist to make the creature unable to see us.

Hazel didn't notice us, but Thalia did, and she said, "Big creature scary thing firing arrows only slows Hazel blinding with Mist help now."

Luckily, us demigods got what she was saying, so I took out Riptide, and ran towards the creature, Annabeth next to me and the rest behind.

Thalia kept shooting her arrows, bending them at impossible angles so they wouldn't hit us. I guess it was a special Huntress thing.

In the split second I took to look back at her, I collided into Annabeth, almost knocking both of us to the ground. I was about to say something when she started screaming full-on, and sobbing so much I could almost hear my heart breaking in two. Quickly, I dragged her to Thalia, making sure the others were still pursuing the monster. Thalia sent me a questioning glance, to which I replied, "Annabeth saw, started crying, dragged back, I didn't see, must have been bad."

I whispered some comforting words to Annabeth and drew her into a hug, but as soon as the others started yelling, I knew that I needed to go help them.

I was about to start running back, when I heard a scream. Turning around, I saw Luna running towards us. Wait, Luna? WHAT?

"Go, I got her!" she yelled, her eyes darting around frantically. She threw herself next to Annabeth, tears streaming down her face.

Realizing that I had too many thoughts to sort out now, I ran with Thalia to the others. What I found there was my worst nightmares come to life.

Facing off against us was none other then the Spider Queen herself, Arachne.

Annabeth falling, down, down...

No! I will not go into a flashback, not now!

Questions flowed through my mind. What? How? Isn't she dead? Oh, good! Nico's here. Wait, isn't that Will? What? WHAT? Ah, monster! Focus, Percy!

Most of the arrows bounced off of Arachne's back, and all of us were stuck trying to defend ourselves as she shot webs and spindly legs at us. Several times, I nearly got impaled.

Finally, I saw an opening. Jason was distracting her from above, and in the split second she faced up, I went in for the kill. Except, all of us got the same idea, so there were a lot of weapons just clanging against each other. We only managed to slice off two of her front legs before she stabbed Frank in the leg.

Will immediately rushed over to Frank, checking to make sure he was okay.

Arachne stepped back, out of the range of our weapons. I really wanted to finish her now, but I knew that if I did, she would hurt my friends, and I would not allow that. Instead, I listened closely to what she was saying while she hobbled away from us.

"The dark lord has brought me up from my death...together, we will be unstoppable! No demigod or wizard scum will be able to defeat us! Foolish mortals, thinking they can win against the dark lord."

As soon as she was gone, I wanted to collapse, but I reminded myself that Annabeth was still stuck in her nightmare. I ran back to her as fast as I could, and found Ron, Harry, Hermoine and Hazel all crowded around her. Hermoine had her wand out, and was waving it every which way. I pushed past them, pulling Annabeth into my arms.

"Don't worry, Annabeth. She's gone. She can't hurt us. It will be all right," I repeated to her. I hated saying things that may not have been true, but if the alternative was leaving her stuck in her nightmares-I just couldn't do that.

Eventually, Annabeth looked up at me, her grey eyes red-rimmed from crying.

"Wha-?" she asked, but I shook my head.

"We'll talk about it when we get back to the castle," I said.

"Oh my gods, Annabeth!" I heard someone say behind me.

Turning around, I saw Luna Lovegood, one of Annabeth's sisters. Wait, why was she here? And why did she look so different?

Then it hit me. Of course! She was on the quest with Neville. But why hadn't she revealed herself earlier?

As I opened my mouth to ask her the question, she held up her hand, saying, "Back at the castle. I want to get back as soon as possible. We have a lot to talk about."

Oh my gods, Chapter 10 already! I wrote like three chapters today, so I hope you're happy. With this, I'm going to bed.

QOTD: How many pairs of shoes do you own? (My sister said that all girls need shoes for every occasion. I'm trying to prove her wrong.)

My answer: 2 (A pair of sneakers, and Vans. Also, I have flip-flops, but those don't really count)