I’d gotten this far on my own. “Of course. "You want to know why they took him?" I felt my cheeks go pale. "I'm always alright, Thalia." It's not like I had much else to do, and it helped me keep my mind off my problems. Adding all this up, I figured I wasn't me, right now. Its easy to run back to something that is available, and known to you. My eyes stung again. "Now who's this?" They all seemed so happy to see me. She held out her hand. Specifically, the dream I’d had right before. "Tell me about it," I said, tracing the letters of Thalia's spiky black handwriting. She pulled out a hunting horn. "Something about leaving her behind? I lied still for a moment, watching. "Bianca!" This was my only option. "used to hold up the sky.". It is my time. The sun was shining. If we stopped to send out a search party for every demigod-". I rushed, "I know I was supposed to be sworn off of romantic love. “You’re familiar with this girl?” Chiron asked. I think he ended up recruiting her, though. She'd delivered that figurine to my brother, and she'd kept me updated on everything I missed while I was hiding out. "I have to go," she said, turning around and walking quickly down the street. I went after them. I held a knife - a silver one, that I’d kept from my time in the hunters - defensively in front of me. "Your old friend was the last soul needed to raise me from Tartarus," I gave a full body shiver at the voice emanating from that coffin. "No, I'm not. I had been out for more than a week. Don't leave anything out.". “I’m not following you anywhere. "You want to take up another quest? Thalia said in disbelief. "You know how to end all this. The goddess said immediately. I held her gaze for a moment, then sighed, recalling Annabeth's talk of 'counteracting' my 'umbrakinetic teleportation'. "We're so glad you're back!". I'd made it. "If you need some place to go, it's not far from here. "This is Luke's doing. But the girl already had her hands on the weight of the clouds. Life goes on for them without you, as if you never existed.". I wouldn’t have had a place to stay, or any source of news without Thalia. “We’ll be near the Angeles Forest, if you need anything.”. Was the ground-. Thalia had joined the hunters the night before her sixteenth birthday, eliminating herself from the running for child of the prophecy, and dumping the blame for the incoming apocalypse on me. Or... no, that someone didn't die. An I got no one. You've been ruled dead. I needed to control myself. I made a mental note to write that down when I woke up. Not only that, the Labyrinth itself has collapsed.". I looked back one more time, then grimaced and started walking. "She isn't with you," my dream-self whispered. I might be able to follow her to him, but even with my strength back I would be kidding myself to think I could take on whatever forces they had guarding him solo. I found you passed out on the floor looking like you were dying,” she said, “I would have been fine,” I said, standing up and brushing myself off. "It doesn't matter who your father is. It was throwing me off. This is me, I am a child of God and so are you (: My goal in English class is to be able to enjoy every type of reading. Her hunting knives were drawn, but they changed form too- claws, horns, antlers, anything strong enough to counter her opponent's javelin. I'm not like the gods. We just need you to summon the creature, Thalia, and you'll be more powerful then the gods." "There's no way. "Wait!" It looked unnecessarily ominous, wrapped in dark storm clouds. When I tried to attack her again, she pinned my arms and got on top of me. You can't- You can't just give up!" and they tell me Nico’s gone, and I start thinking about the stuff that Luke guy said in my dream, and next thing I know, the valley’s being consumed by a skeleton-earthquake and all the light’s been sucked out of the sky! I assured. The silvery fabric began to stain crimson. The ground at my feet glowed blue, and a wisp of light flew behind Luke and into the coffin. I yelled angrily at the skeletons. Time means nothing – character does. The middle of the Fields of Punishment. They put your friend in charge of that specifically. ", I rolled my eyes. "You might be just another causality to them, but you mean something to me. It seemed like she knew the girl, An-. We failed miserably! "It's probably nothing. Then emerged four of the skeleton warriors. What is grammatically correct, someone’s else or someone else’s? Both Thalia and I spent those weeks constantly on edge with worry. The blonde girl who's name I still couldn't remember asked. Instead in the center of the space stood a teenage girl who would probably look older than her patron goddess if she were here, just hours shy of sixteen. He didn't have the strength. No one really needs me. You joined the titans. ", They both seemed surprised at my sudden outburst. "What are you trying to prove? Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. When asked to pay, I dug around in my pocket and pulled out a green credit card with a lotus flower insignia. I'd spent enough time resting lately, against my will. I want to help. "Not these guys again.". The Mist is strong here, both kinds. That was it. I knew I could count on you.” Luke lead her over to one of the larger maps, and my vision faded. I was glad Thalia didn't ask why. I guessed I’d been knocked out for a while. she said. Oh gods, oh gods, oh gods...." I muttered. We had looked all night through the wreckage of the Talos statue, and found nothing. ", My dream-self's mind swam in confusion. There's no way they could have Nico. I inclined my head. I'm really not sure, Thalia. Looking back on my life in the past few months, I hadn’t really done much without help. “You don’t need that. "Yes, you should have," she replied, crossing her arms. "He's not here and he never will be again!" Her hands were bound and her mouth was gagged. I was wrong to accuse you, and I shouldn't have blown up at you like I did. I've always been pretty good at hiding. "I haven't been to Camp Half Blood in about six weeks, but last time I checked he was fine, and I'm sure he still is. Be Selfish. I had to make sure-". I raised my arms to the sky. The titan traitor. Being comfortable is not always right. People will figure it out sooner or later.". I tilted my head at her. "Great. But you need to accept the fact that they don't feel the same way. I was listening intently. She shook her head and waved towards the doorway. My eyes were shut, and I could feel my knees pressed into my eye sockets. Almost three weeks straight of walking blindly through the maze, I don't see how you could be sure of anything. "Oh, gods. Tell to someone else to take you, I don’t change diapers There’s no milk, for you I haven’t Pretty boy, you better keep playing Fortnite ‘Cause someone else is putting his card on the Nike store Tick-tock, tick-tock, I booked you a stay on Fisher Price. I didn't have a heart as a dream-specter, but I still felt it start to race. When he played them the plants around the approaching army came to life, wrapping around them and pulling them to the ground. After so much had happened in such a short amount of time, no one was in the mood to talk. It'd been six months since the Christmas I found out I was a half-blood, the daughter of the Lord of the Dead, Hades, and I hadn't been to Camp Half-Blood since then. Out now. I shook my head. I heard Thalia continue. I was gonna have more than a little explaining to do once I got to Angeles Forest. I should have known you wouldn't betray me.". She’s a child of Hades for crying out loud! I just got caught up in it. There was a large table in the center, covered in maps and assorted weapons, with a few demigods dressed similarly to Luke and the girl sitting around it. Now it was her turn to stare. I wondered what kind of ride that would call, but the question was answered when a silver chariot appeared, pulled by- I blinked- golden reindeer. Luke said, still crouched in front of dream-me. I just sobbed. Her hair fell around her shoulders, and flashed back to it’s normal blond color. "Where-", "The Chariot. The girl didn’t look intimidated. She'd spent so many weeks lost and alone and scared. A man and a woman with two young blonde sons having a nice family dinner. She stopped trying. There were at least twenty. This is very important, Annabeth.”. I walked toward the big blue house at the foot of the hill. I'm sorry that I did. You afraid I’ll figure out some titan secrets if I listen too closely?” I spat. Feared. “I’ll leave. The bronze plate shifted to a series of images - a guy with blonde hair and grey eyes at a meeting, other campers referring to him as the head of the Athena cabin. A short distance in front of me, finally, was my destination. It was time for action. The girl and half the monsters lunged for me, and I sighed with relief as the smoldering, toxic air of the room was replaced with cold, clean darkness. But thy life is only beginning.". "Oh!" Recounting my memories of right before I’d blacked out had made the rest a bit clearer. The birds were singing. I knew one place I could get some quick healing, and an energy boost after having to use my powers again when I'd already overexerted myself. “You’re a social worker?”. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. "So they all broke the pact." I definitely wasn’t trying to hurt myself. He said he was expecting her, actually, so I guess it was a trap." If you want assurance of your identity, you are recommended to login before posting.) No one's really supposed to talk about it, but.. it involves you. On the occasions I spoke to him he seemed distant - emotionally and physically, sitting high above me on his throne - but, if I was reading him right, he did seem to be at least fond of me. Dream-me stared for a moment. Thalia summoned her spear and shield and stood protectively over a still-crying Grover, Zoë drew her bow out of thin air. ", "The satyr, the cyclops, and the middle-aged mortal woman reached Camp Half-Blood safely. Non voglio farlo, chiedi a qualcun altro. "No!" "And where's Jackson?" Sure, she had her own motivations too, but this had been my idea, my plan. "Right to the point. Well someone wants you. "I know, but the titans army has been especially nasty lately. It's okay, I thought, a little quieter. "What do you mean sis-" I started to ask, but she had already disappeared into the mist ahead on the road, followed closely by Grover and Thalia. "And it won't do him any good if you walk in there only to get captured right off the bat," Thalia replied, returning my glare. I care about you. They were also the ones who'd been singing. ", She looked at me. Then I blinked. The ground around the house shook slightly. I can't." I couldn't do that to-", "I know." Artemis said. Log in. Especially to face the daughter of Hades, in her element, with her father, the all-powerful, all-feared Lord of the Dead, in screaming distance. ", "Not a quest," I clarified. Doing this was our only choice after your little escape last week, but if you pledge yourself to Kronos, we won't have to worry about you slipping away anymore," she said, her voice friendly and encouraging. HEELP THE BOYS ! Thalia Grace stared out over the ruined fields. Opening my eyes, it wasn’t hard to make out the silver glow of the tent that now surrounded me. You couldn’t see that all the grass in the valley was dead, or that most of the buildings had crumbled or been displaced by what looked like a freak earthquake. ", She nodded, then started to turn away. None of them were to be taken lightly. You should know. And tell him I'll find a way to talk to him as soon as I can. I frantically re-knocked my bow and took out the one closest to me, but half a dozen more came in as I did it. ", "'Excellent'? So was the foundation of the house, and all the cabins. One end flows down into Tartarus, so I hear, and the other end eventually converges with the other Rivers, creating a fiery, cold, oblivion-woe-and-lament inducing waterfall. "We'll never know, will we." A long River of fire glowing red and gold, that stretched across the entire field and on from there. The room seemed to be getting darker. "I- you're not angry with me?" "You're being so myopic, Nico, you're refusing to listen." I would check, though. I was so tired. There was a moment of silence, before Nico spoke again. ", Thalia's expression darkened. What if he was the one 'lost in the land without rain'? "Child of the Underworld," she said with a hard expression, "You are not welcome here. I took a deep breath, and stepped forward into the darkness. I remembered from my vague knowledge of greek mythology that these were Hera's apples of immortality. (The uniqueness of nickname is not reserved. She asked me, eyes still on the horizon. I spun around to see Lady Artemis, her expression somber. Annabeth had reached the wall by then, and as I watched I could see it slide open into a white hallway. Artist: ThalíaFeaturing: Farina & Sofia ReyesSong: TICK TOCKGenre: popReleased Date: October 29, 2020. "We are not walking in there without a game plan, Bianca," Thalia said. She had changed significantly since my last dream. "Alright. "So leave us alone!". I looked up. Her bright blue eyes were more surprised than angry when they met mine, but I was sure that would wear off soon. “You’re awake!” another one of the Hunters said when she reached me. Luke pointed to the beach far below. Thalia's voice. Odds are I would run into a monster or two (or five... that was a day) but I didn't really mind. ", I took a deep breath, and gave her a serious look. She took it, and finally looked back at me as we sunk slowly into the shadows. Thalia's jaw set. “Thalia? The hunter said cheerfully, announcing our presence. I jolted awake. The entire roof was gone, and almost nothing remained of the upper levels. It was a girl who looked no more than three years older than me. My father is Zeus, and I don't think I could have done any better than you can." "Thalia-" Phoebe started, looking honored and objecting all at once. "So you're coming back to camp?". If you have to-". Quests have prophecies, and rules, and expectations, and all kinds of other bull. Even though I'd only met her once, I recognized the figure laboring under the weight of the swirling clouds. We wouldn't have to do this-" Annabeth motions around at the white room, "If you hadn't been so keen on slipping away with those powers of yours. The Olympians have tried to kill people to stop the prophecy, and the titans could try and capture you and turn you to their side.". The rest of the dream was still clear in my mind, but I couldn't recall the girl's name. And so was Percy, and so was every other demigod who's died on one of their meaningless quests. To trust anyone.". "We're at the west coast?" I seemed to be looking through the eyes of someone else. "Bianca. Luke quickly interrupted, "I know that you think of Camp Half-Blood as your home. Anything out of the ordinary?" We walked blindly until the mist cleared, revealing our twilit surroundings. I was still sitting in the same place I'd been when I talked to Zoë, except now the only people here, as far as I could see, were Thalia and I. Forget about Olympus, I thought, seething with cold rage. "We can't let this go on for much longer.". "If I am wrong, it will not matter. But eventually you're powers will start to surface. It could have been Grover, but why would he blab to the titans? "Just listen, Thalia. We will be too late." "Yes. Zoë said, confirming my thoughts. I crossed my arms too, and looked away. "My lady!" "Look at me," the girl said, no hostility in voice, but that made me even more scared. I recognized a couple of the girls busying around what seemed to be the medical tent, from my brief weeks as a Hunter. "She mentioned your name.". I watched the light the fire cast on the wall around me. "Of course.". “They let Nico get kidnapped by a monster army! There are plenty of more useful demigods here." I was looking through someone else's eyes." We need to go. His voice broke, and my frozen heart shattered. "Good luck, you two," said a Hunter named Phoebe who'd driven us most of the way there. We don't know for sure he's dead, I told myself. “We need to get them both back here.” Another agreed. "It's worth the risk.". I sobbed harder. I would die or be captured, without a doubt. Chiron did, too. ", "You want to rescue them together?" You are not logged in. I want to do something,". I turned the corner on the way to the Underworld, still not seeing any monsters, when something else caught my eye. "You're telling me someone just watched a twelve year old boy walk out into the world completely alone!?". I was in the fetal position, hugging my legs with my face pressed into my knees, and I had just enough time to wonder what my dream-self was trying so hard to block out when I heard her. But just because you're the half-blood of the prophecy doesn't mean you're going to destroy the world. If you succeed, you receive the target of the person you killed. What we found behind the dense wall of clouds were ruins. "Fight with us. Luke turned to her. Thalia took the figure, then looked at me. Thalia had acted like she knew the girl from my dream. I stepped out of the chariot. I could probably give you the relative location. A large man in a brown silken suit had spoken. I came up to the smell of ash. "Luckily for you, I am feeling sympathetic. "Tell me everything," Thalia said, pulling me back over to her table by the arm. I asked as soon as she was in hearing distance. I sat up slowly. My dream-self, however, seemed to have more mixed feelings. A bunch of clips of people who I didn't recognize, but dream-me certainly did, being happy and having fun. Either way, it made me painfully nostalgic for those short days before the Quest, when Zoë was alive and my brother was safe and my life as a half blood wasn't that scary at all. I sat with Zoë in the front, and Thalia sat in the back with Grover, who still hadn't stopped crying. "Understandable. ", "Of course." "I've told you Luke isn't my friend anymore. Un matin de 1er janvier, la mère d'Electra, Nora, appelle Murphy pour lui demander s'il a des nouvelles de la jeune femme… "Tell me.". My heart froze in my chest. I went to my father, the only one I could think to ask for help, and he had his Furies take me here. “This is someone else’s purse” would be an example. Bianca?" The girl replied. Soft-looking lips. “And I wasn’t trying to take it that far. “You have a good memory. And now I was back. He's not dead, he can't be!". Your rating on Epic of Thalia. Then he showed her something, and she started crying. 'One shall be lost in the land without rain'. It was the same garb the girl- Annabeth, Thalia had reminded me today, but I decided I was going to keep 'forgetting' it out of spite- wore, as she stood over me. I came out the other side in the shadow of a huge pine tree on a hill. They killed his best friend. Chiron asked. I stood in the same spot I'd shadow-traveled out of earlier that day, but there was no remnant of the living room's old shag carpeting. You think Thalia’s with us?” She shook her head. I sighed and started walking. the girl sighed, and approached me. "What happened? Maybe I'd made a big mistake. No sign of Percy. "You- You don't actually think I did that, do you?". She was frowning, and I waited for her to keep arguing, but instead she pulled a crumpled piece of paper out of her pocket and handed it to me. He had his sword at the throat of that girl who'd helped Percy and Thalia rescue us from Westover - Annabelle? "The witnesses were wood nymphs, they tend not to get involved in such things." “Oh, of course! and suddenly Artemis was beside me. I took off my parka and folded it into a vaguely pillow-ish shape, then put it under her head. You're nothing but a pawn to them. Luke approached and tried to help me up, but I slapped his hand away, and stood myself. My dream self remembered, too- I got flashes, indirect memories of exhaustion and fear and blinding whiteness, all accompanied by a friendly-toned and almost chastising voice. You have resources and intel, and I'm sure I could use your fighting skills too." She's a novice, it's too much for her." The one standing before me was the River Phlegethon. But I swear, everything I did was for the good of other half-bloods, to stop the gods from killing us off for the sake of their own petty issues. I said sarcastically. The sky was bright blue. And I don't think either of us are going to be able to rescue them without each other. Alice has been dreaming of a cottage by a lake and a field of wildflowers for longer than she can remember. "You can't-" my voice broke. Do you not remember our previous conversation? I wasn't hurt as bad this time, so I probably wouldn't need as much. Thalia started walking too, keeping pace with me. But someone knows Elizabeth is a Magician, and that someone knows something else too - that Elizabeth once had a sister named Alice. That won’t bring anyone I’ve lost back to me. They really are a beautiful blue, I thought, then subtly pinched myself. The general said. I'm Bianca di Angelo. He's brainwashed her, manipulated her. Thalia sent 'spies'- birds that could hide themselves from the titan army, wolves that could disguise themselves as monsters- to stake out the Princess Andromeda, and we got some pretty decent layouts back. Original Lyrics were taken from genius.com and we translated the Lyrics of this song from Spanish to English. Wanna more English Translations?You can find more English Translations of these artists coming back at “About This Song” section and clicking in the artist name, music genre or (in some cases) even in the album name. Not me. A few more weeks. A jolt went through both me and my dream-host at the sound of the next voice. Help me. I stayed where I was, with my hand resting anxiously on my belt of knives. I opened it and saw an address scrawled in spiky cursive. Thalia Shirley | Now may be your last chance to do something lifechanging for someone else. When I didn't find one, I collapsed against the wall in anguish and exhaustion. Zoë began to shoot at the General, and Grover played something on a set of... well, I wasn't exactly sure- one of those pipe things Peter Pan used. I wasn’t trying to do it, it just happened!” I realized I was probably yelling. Grover said. Thalia said, though she seemed glad to be off the path. When she didn't get one, she continued, "It's good in a way, though. The Goddess of the Hunt took a deep breathe, and I could tell she was trying to keep calm. He wasn't vengeful. Why tell me. "I really am sorry, Thalia. "Where is he?" My back hit the wall. No, I would not get very far on my own. I felt sick. “You don’t want to do this. A teenage girl, turned away from me, in gray camo pants and a dark t shirt.