Shattered

Run

Percy relished the feeling of the wind rushing past his face.

He had no idea how he managed to survive in the past, when he wasn't even a fraction of how fast he was. Admittedly, Percy couldn't exactly see where he was going, his vision only revealed to him a blur of green and brown, but all he cared about was going faster.

If his estimations were correct, then it would take him a week to make the one thousand eight hundred and forty mile run to Keystone, Colorado. And already, he was near four days into his long cross country venture.

He pretty much only ran the entire day. His routine was rather simple; seven hours of rest, an hour for all his meals, and an hour's worth of rest, separated into four intervals of fifteen minutes. He kept his weights on, so he probably would have already reached If he had removed them, but he wasn't too keen on arriving too soon.

Percy didn't know exactly how, but he seemed to be able to tell the time, even when he had no vision of a clock, watch, or even the sun. He just knew the time. He suspected that Artemis' blessing might have had something to do about that.

Percy began to slow down, readying for rest. He had been running for already a few hours. It was time for some rest.

Grinding to a halt, he took a look around him, looking for a good place to make camp. He finally noticed a clearing in the forest that seemed to be perfect for a short stop.

The son of Poseidon heaped onto the grassy floor and lied down spread eagle after he plopped his bag on the ground. Honestly, he was getting quite bored of just running for the past four days. At least he was already over half way through. He'd just have to keep up the monotony for two more days, after the day was over.

The boy pulled out a bottle of water from his pack and sighed in relief when he realized that he still had some water. He would have to refill the next stream he would come across.

Percy heard a noise. First, the snapping of a branch, and then the sound of something falling off a tree and hitting the forest ground.

He was alert at once, he jumped to his feet and had his pen blade uncapped.

"Who's there?"

He realized that it was probably a stupid thing to ask a potential monster, but he paid that no mind.

Percy made his way out towards the outgrowth he had heard the disturbance from and pushed the foliage aside to stop it from obscuring his vision.

"Bianca?"

The girl was on the floor, probably, as he guessed, she had fallen off the tree as evidenced be the broken tree branch beside her.

"Ow..."

The daughter of Hades got off the ground rubbing her backside.

"Dammit Bianca!"

Zoe landed beside her without a noise.

"I knew she would give us away."

Thalia landed behind him.

"You owe me ten drachmas each Sparky, Angelo."

And then dropped Phoebe.

Percy stared blankly at the four girls before him.

"Let me guess, Artemis sent you four after me to make sure I don't get myself killed?"

Zoe laughed before nodding. Her dark hair bounced as she nodded and her volcanic eyes shone with mirth.

"I bet that Bianca would give us away." Phoebe seemed to be proud of that claim, while the daughter of Hades glared at her. "Oh, nothing personal, you just have the least experience."