Darkness(Percy Jackson/Throne of Glass crossover)

Cab Ride

Thalia

As soon as we walked out of Camp I knew something was wrong. I felt my skin flake, my blood boil, my bones grind. I didn't hurt, I just felt like I was slowly deteriorating away like I was a speck of dirt. It will pass, I am sure it will. It is probably just my nerves.

"I say we catch a cab." Annabeth says.

"Yeah, it will be a long drive, so we will need to do a stopover." Aelin says.

"It's an 18-and-a-half-hour drive." Everyone looks at me weirdly, "what? Being a huntress makes you know these things. "They drop their glares and continue walking. We reached the road and started to walk along it.

"Ok, so we are going to walk along this road until we find a cab that can fit all of us, when we do we ask to be taken to Washington, then we will have something to eat, take a rest and catch a different cab, in case anyone is following us this makes it harder for them to." Aelin says, already taking the lead.

"Ok, that sounds good." Annabeth says, probably already making a backup plan just in case, and a backup plan for the backup.

A van/cab comes past us five minutes later. Percy sticks out his hand to stop it. I get into the cab after him. It is a relatively new cab, with that fresh car smell radiating throughout it. The driver is a Mexican looking man with a beard.

"Washington." Percy tells the driver. He puts the accelerator on and starts to drive.

"I know nothing about you guys, other than your names. So, we are going to do this game thing that me and my huntresses always do when a new person joins the hunt." I say. "Also, it is a 3-hour and 50 minutes' drive and we need to kill time." The others nod their heads. "Ok, the game goes like this. We create 10 questions as a group that we have to answer on a piece of paper, the pieces of paper are folded up and placed in a hat or something. Then we each take out a paper and guess who wrote it. Everyone get it?" I heard some muffled yes's, that's good enough for me.

"10 questions people, what will they be?" After some serious discussion we come up with ten.

1. What is your favourite colour?

2. Do you have any sibling/parents?

3. What's your favourite leisure activity?

4. The thing you dislike most.

5. The thing you like most.

6. Person you love most

7. Person you hate most

8. Do you like dog's or cat's

9. Favourite animal

10. Favourite element

I get out a piece of paper and tare it up, then a few pencils and hand it out to people. It is always important to carry stationary with you, because one day it might save your life.

Question 1: moonlight blue

Question 2: A brother

Question 3: Campfire with my huntresses

Question 4: Crowded areas

Question 5: Friends

Question 6: Jason

Question 7: Octavian

Question 8: Cat's, they are so much more agile and quiet, amazing predators.

Question 9: leopard

Question 10: wind

I fold my paper and place it into Annabeth's hat.

"Is everyone done?" I ask, and pick up the hat.

"Yes"

"Ok" I reach into the hat and close my eyes, shuffling the before finally picking one up. I open it and read what it says.

1: sapphire blue

2: No

3: Watching the stars

4: Not getting credit for something I did.

5: Playing with Fleetfoot

6:

7: Maeve

8: Dog

9: Stag

10: wind/fire

"I have no idea who this is." I pause to think before choosing, "Lysandra? I will read it out loud." I go through this person's answers.

"Nope," Lysandra says, dam it.

"It's mine." Aelin says.

"Oh, I would never have guessed. You don't love anyone?" She had nothing there which surprised me.

"Once, not anymore." Aelin's voice came out like she had a broken heart, splattered into pieces that could never be prepared. I felt sorry for her. We went through the others and it went like this.

Aedion got Manon.

Dorian got Annabeth.

Annabeth got Lysandra.

Percy got Aedion.

Lysandra got Me.

Manon got Dorian.

Aelin got Percy.

I glance at the clock in the cab and mentally groan. "Good on us. We officially killed 30 minutes of our 228-minute drive!" I yell sarcastically. Everyone inside the van/cab groaned, including the driver, which I must say is a little bit weird.

At 145 minutes into the journey is when I felt it.

I screamed.