Percy Jackson and the Dark Elites

XIX

Hazel

Saving the camp was clearly a lost cause. After the ground broke open, a cold wind rushed out, and anyone close got yanked in by some unknown force.

When the dark material flowing out hit Frank, he collapsed on the ground. Hazel reached her arms out and used all her strength to force Frank out with a rope of precious metals. His eyes were closed and he was barely breathing.

Hazel put her fingers to her lips and whistled for Aaron. The horse was anxious getting so close to the dark wisps that now surrounded hazel and Frank. She quickly Lifted his body onto the horse, climbed on and ordered Aaron to break for the hills.

She looked over the camp to see it was mostly in shambles. The strange metal boxes that she had been feeling around the camp clung desperately to the broken dirt.

The ground below her feet started to crack. Aaron pushed his head against her arm and nickered a warning. Still in shock, Hazel kicked her leg over Aaron's body and ordered him to run away from the camp again.

Hazel gripped Frank's shirt and steered towards Camp Half Blood.

What was happening? Were she and Frank the only ones to make in out? What were the other Roman's going to do without Aaron? Could she even go back?

As a daughter of Pluto Hazel knew that the ground wouldn't hold. Whatever force just exploded the camp was so strong Hazel used up all her energy trying to rescue Frank. Those people in those suits...

Hazel had barely finished her nightly duties and decided to go to sleep when the army of people in tan suits showed up. Then the Dark Elites showed up. For a brief moment Hazel remembered all of the confusing stories Annabeth and Chiron had told her, and she wondered if they were here to attack too.

A total of six minutes before that explosion of light went off, the Dark Elites had started running back to a black and red ship. Three minutes before the explosion, the jets took off, leaving them on the ground.

Hazel spent the next two hours to Camp half Blood wiping off her tears and praying to stay awake. When Aaron trotted up to the camp Borders, A line of armed Greek demigods stood waiting for her.

"Hold!" Someone shouted. "It's Frank and Hazel!"

Aaron trotted right up to them and dumped Frank an Hazel on the ground.

"Aaron?" Hazel asked as he laid his head down to sleep.

She had to admit. Sleep sounded good. She put her head on Frank's chest for just a moment to close her eyes an exhaustion took her under.

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She woke up on the cots in camp half bloods infirmary.

Hazel pulled herself up an inch off the cot and her vision tunneled out. She laid back down and waited dizzily for the black static to recede.

When her sight returned again, she saw Will Solace beckoning someone from the hallway into the room.

Piper entered hurriedly through the door. Her hair was a mess and her eyes were lined with bags not suited for a daughter of Aphrodite.

She kneeled on the floor by Hazel's bedside. Her hunting boots squirmed on the wood.

Hazel smacked her lips. "Is your shirt inside out?"

Piper looked down. The sleeves of her shirt peeked out of the corners of her bronze armor.

"I dressed quickly." Piper responded without humor.