"This way!" Rachel yelled.
"Why should we follow you?" Annabeth demanded. "You led us straight into that death trap!"
"Annabeth, for the love of gods. Knock it off." Daphne grumbled. "She's our best chance at survival."
"It was the way you needed to go," Rachel said. "And so is this. Come on!"
Annabeth didn't look happy about it, but she ran along with the rest of them. Rachel seemed to know exactly where she was going. She whipped around corners and didn't even hesitate at crossroads.
Once she said, "Duck!" and they all crouched as a huge axe swung over our heads. Then they kept going as if nothing had happened.
Daphne lost track of how many turns they made. They didn't stop to rest until they came to a room the size of a gymnasium with old marble columns holding up the roof.
Daphne stood at the doorway, listening for sounds of pursuit, but she heard nothing. Apparently they had lost Luke and his minions in the maze.
Ethan collapsed on the floor. "You people are crazy." He pulled off his helmet. His face gleamed with sweat.
Annabeth gasped. "I remember you! You were one of the undetermined kids in the Hermes cabin, years ago."
He glared at her. "Yeah, and you're Annabeth. I remember."
"What -what happened to your eye?"
Daphne glared at her. "That's rude to ask, Annabeth."
"It was just a question."
"So?"
Something about betraying your friends and everything you had ever known caused you to grow closer. Perhaps that was why Daphne had grown closer to Ethan and Silena. Just perhaps.
Ethan looked away, and Daphne got the knew that was one subject he would not discuss.
"You must be the half-blood from my dream," Percy said. "The one Luke's people cornered. It wasn't Nico after all."
"Who's Nico?"
"Never mind," Annabeth said quickly. "Why were you trying to join up with the wrong side?"
Ethan sneered. "There's no right side. The gods never cared about us. Why shouldn't I-"
"Sign up with an army that makes you fight to the death for entertainment?" Annabeth said. "Gee, I wonder."
Ethan struggled to his feet. "I'm not going to argue with you. Thanks for the help, but I'm out of here."
Daphne and Ethan exchanged a look.
"We're going after Daedalus," Percy said. "Come with us. Once we get through, you'd be welcome back at camp."
"You really are crazy if you think Daedalus will help you."
"He has to," Annabeht said. "We'll make him listen."
Ethan snorted. "Yeah, well. Good luck with that."
Percy grabbed his arm. "You're just going to head off alone into the maze? That's suicide."
He looked at Percy with barely controlled anger. His eye patch was frayed around the edges and the black cloth was faded, like he'd been wearing it a long, long time. "You shouldn't have spared me, Jackson. Mercy has no place in this war."
Then he ran off into the darkness, back the way they had come.
"He was always a ray on sunshine." Commented Daphne, shrugging.
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A web of fates | Percy Jackson and the Olympians
FanfictionDaphne Evans, a thirteen year old girl. On the outside, she's just an ordinary girl but in reality that's not true. At the age of nine, she watched her mother die and then she was dragged to Camp Halfblood by a satyr. She's a demigod. That's what th...