Percy Jackson: CHB Again?

Chapter 25: Surprise, I'm Here!

Written by: Awesomeelsa

To be honest, the next week was uneventful. I was stuck in the Big House all day; I could only go out at night. Even then, though, it was hard to get out and I only hung around the beach. I hadn't visited Percy and my cabin yet, and I wasn't sure if I ever would. I didn't bother myself with reading, when I wasn't an Athena child it just bored me - not to mention the fact that the letters rearranged themselves when I tried to read anything that wasn't Greek.

So, I either slept, scanned the room for anything interesting (which there wasn't. I've been scanning the room for a week.), hid from campers who came in, or strategized plans with Annabeth, Percy, Clarrise, Grover, and Chiron - all the while hearing that Percy 'couldn't find him', and wanting to know who he was.

Oh, and every once and a while I'd have to call Luke up on my ring-phone-thing and tell him made up secrets that Annabeth helped me think of.

Currently, everyone but Grover and Chiron had training to do. Chiron was taking care of some campers with the help of Mr. D (whom I pleaded with Chiron to see (because last time I saw him he seemed to know all about my lives predicament) and was rejected each time), and Grover was out picking strawberries with his fellow satyrs.

So, I was alone with my thoughts. I didn't like being alone with my thoughts. I either thought of something so perfect for myself that I wanted to cry (being normal, for example. Or at least only living in one life.), or I thought of something so terrible happening because of me and I also wanted to cry (everybody at camp dying because I fed Luke some info that made him send the army right away, for example). Basically, I just wanted to cry.

"Luke, are you there?" I spoke into the ring. Although the thought of him being on the wrong side made me want to puke, I was very fond with talking with him - if only because I was bored.

It took him a few minutes, but he replied.

"Yeah? Did something happen?"

"No." I replied flatly. Wanting to keep the conversation going, I continued. "I'm alone now, they won't let me participate in some activities - like training, for example - and I'm not sure if I completely have their trust. Well, I have most everyone's trust, I'm just worried about the Ares cabin. They don't believe me."

He was quiet for a bit. "I'll think of how you can prove it to them. As of right now, I'm bored and in my room. Want to talk?"

I was glad he said that and I didn't. Coming from me it would've sounded as though I were too comfortable being a 'spy' at camp.

"Yeah, alright. How's Mark?" That was a question I asked every time we talked. Luke thought I was just caring for my boyfriend. I was really making sure he wasn't dead.

"Tera...I'm not sure I should tell you."

My breath caught. I was scared. Did something happen?

"What? Tell me. You can't keep me from anything if it involves my boyfriend."

"Don't call him your boyfriend." Luke said sternly. My stomach was doing flips. "He's loyal to camp half blood. You've been dating a spy from their side."

Before doing anything, before getting the brains to run outside and tell someone, I had to ask; I had to know.

"What did you do with him?"

"Threw him in the water. I'm sorry. He's gone."

I took the ring off my finger and threw it across the room, then I sprinted out the door to find Chiron and Mr. D.

They killed him, I thought. They actual killed them. And it's my fault.

But as I was running I still held hope. Maybe Dad saved him. Would Dad do that? Could I, if he drowned, use the water inside him to heal him? Could I find him? Could I do something?

Blinded by my thoughts I ran right into the side of a centaur, and Chiron and I went tumbling on the grass.

Horse legs are not pleasant to land on. I'm sure Chiron didn't like it, either.

"You shouldn't be out here!" Chiron said, quickly getting back to his feet as soon as I was off his legs. "The other campers--"

"They found Mark out." I said, getting to my feet. "Mark has been found out!"

"TRAITOR!" A kid from behind me shouted. "TRAITOR IN THE CAMP! SHE'S ATTACKING CHIRON! GET HER!"

I turned around to see a mob forming. Campers in armour and some not, brandishing weapons and calling for others. I resisted the urge to say "Surprise, I'm here!", and instead settled for running in the opposite direction.

I couldn't tell if Chiron or Mr. D - who I assumed was somewhere near by even though I hadn't seen him - were trying to stop the army that was trying to kill me. And I made the mistake of looking back.

I tripped over my own feet, and face planting twice within five minutes tends to give you vertigo. I couldn't get back on my feet in time.

"Knock her out, Kandy!" I recognized the name vaguely as I tried to collect my bearings. I looked up at the people around me and stopped at a girl from the Ares cabin - Kandy. She wasted no time punching me between the eyes.

I fell back against the grass, and fought to stay conscious. Ow, she could punch. Any harder, she would've broken my nose. Or maybe she did.

I didn't feel any pain, it was just the pull of sleep that was bothering me.

"She's not unconscious!" Someone said, but their voice sounded like it was behind a wall of water. I shut my eyes, but could still hear everything around me.

"She looks unconscious."
"Call Chiron. We'll take her to the big house."
"Stupid spy."
"Awe, man. Here comes Percy. He's not going to like this."
"Give me one good reason not to slit her throat, stupid traitor."
"Don't kill her! We can question her!"
"Why are we all in a circle. Who are we crowing around--TERA? WHAT DID YOU GUYS DO TO HER?!"

And then, nothing.