No way, Percy can't be alive he's probably on wanted posters for dead or alive.
"P-Percy?" I say unloading my string.
He opens his mouth to say something but be is interrupted by a loud voice.
"Beatrice! Justine!" The voice shouts. We turn around and there are Siana, Holly, and a little girl.
They run up to us the little girl following not far behind.
"Where have you guys been?! I've been trying to contact you for almost 2 hours!" I say.
"We know we're sorry but we got held up" Siana says.
"It's fine as long as you guys are here so we can get out of this stupid dimension" Beatrice says.
We all nod at each other so I decide to ask about the little girl.
"Who's this?" I ask in a sweet voice.
"This's Georgia...the sixth child of Nadia" Holly says.
"Georgia?...It's been so long how have you been?" I ask.
"Alright actually how about you Justine?" She asks.
The looks on my friends faces are priceless they look completely dumbfounded. They probably thought I'd be freaking out about another child of Nadia.
"Oh right I forgot to tell you, I know Georgia" I say smiling at their faces.
"Yeah we kinda figured that out" Beatrice says.
"I met her when I was captured by Shadow 3 years ago" I say.
"Um yeah, speaking of Shadow-" Holly says but Percy interrupts.
"As much as we'd all like to catch up we should get back to camp as soon as possible" He says.
"Good point, Justine can you get the portal open?" Beatrice says.
"Oh sure, I can just open a portal whenever I want while draining my energy solid" I say sarcastically.
"Then how will we get home?" Siana says.
"Use the communicator. Click the clicker five times" I say.
They go over to the communicator and do exactly as I say. A blue portal opens up leading back to camp. "Everyone get in!" Holly says as she's the first to jump in.
Everyone else follows which leaves me alone.
"I swear Shadow I will defeat you, for what you did to my brother..." I say as I jump in closing the portal.
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We jump out of the portal, everyone looking tired in some sort of way. We all do different things I decide to take Georgia to Chiron, Siana goes to her cabin to sleep, Beatrice goes to unpack, Percy goes to shower (Because we couldn't stand the smell anymore), and Holly goes to the Athena cabin to study.
I walk Georgia to the Big House with some people looking at us wondering who she is. As we walk inside Chiron and Dionysos are playing their usual game of ping pong.
"Chiron I need to talk to you" I say.
"Yes Justine?" He says putting down his pattle.
"Come on, can't it wait! It's game point!" Dionysos says.
Georgia hugs my waist and hides her face like a little six year old, out of fear no doubt.
"It's okay..." I say patting her back.
"Chiron, this's Georgia" I say turning her around so he can see her face.
He looks down at her and smiles at her cuteness. "She's very cute" he says.
"Um...she's the sixth child of Nadia" I say.
Chiron's eyes widen obviously having thoughts race through his brain. Dionysos also looks shocked, he drops his pattle hard on the table with a loud "Thud!"
"Don't be afraid, I've known her forever" I say.
"Justine..." Chiron says in a worried tone.
"Don't Justine me, I know what she is but I can't just leave her to rot like the rest of her family" I say.
He looks at me with eyes of concern as he says "Just remember, anyone can betray you".
I know that firsthand. Unfortunately I've had too many betrayals in my life...
Flashback: 6 years ago
"Luke! Let go!" I say trying to get my hand out of his grip but how could I help it, he was 19 and I was 10.
"You aren't going anywhere but with me, so stop hesitating" Luke says angrily. I had been trying to get away from him for at least 10 minutes.
"Why Luke, why betray your parents?" I say tears starting to go down my face.
He kneels down so he's at my height trying to hypnotize me with his beautiful eyes.
"They've been in power too long, it's time that we show them what we can do Justine. Come and join me" Luke says slowly wrapping his fingers around my hand.
"I'm ten years old...what can I do" I say trying to look away from his gaze.
"Learn to concur your power. Let it burn inside you and let it anger you. You'll be one of the most powerful recruits" he says squeezing my fingers. He grabs my cheek and yanks it his way he carefully uses the other hand to wipe away my tears.
"I'll always be here for you Justine, if you join me we can be together, ruling at the top of Olympus together" he says.
I bite my lip. One thing about Luke is that he's one of the most persuasive people I know.
"I-I-" I stutter, I don't know what to say. That's when I did the most cowardly thing ever. I ran.
I ran as fast and hard as I could from the angry Luke screaming and threatening behind me. I quickly hide behind a tree and I lost him.
"That's fine Justine! Run! I will find you, and I will see you again if it's the last thing I do!" He shouts at me. There is one thing I learned that day and now it's back to haunt me.
Luke Castellan never goes back on his word.
I snap out of it when I hear the door slam open.
"Justine! Chiron!" Beatrice says. Siana and Holly follow close behind her.
"What is it girls?" Chiron says.
"We know where the black rose is!" Beatrice say. What?! How could she have found out so soon and how did she even find out?!
"Where is it?" I ask.
"We aren't sure what it's called but we thought you'd know what this place is" Beatrice says. She unrolls a giant piece of paper that was all crunched up that reveals a scene. As soon as I see it I know exactly where that is.
"The Garden of Eternal Dark..." I say.
It's Shadow's special garden, how could I have not known to look there.
After much time of thinking Chiron finally says "Girls looks like you're going on one more assignment".
Of course Shadow expects us to come, that's why he chose to bring Luke back to life, to make me crash and burn. The other problem with that is Luke was in love with me when I was a little girl, he knew I was too young though. He obviously didn't age during his time in the underworld, so that means once Shadow gets Beatrice and Luke gets me. They'll never let us go.
