BY Lucy and Kate (this account belongs to 2 people-Lucy and Kate-and at the top of each story it will say whether its written by Lucy, Kate or both)

Status: demigod Name: Annabeth Parent: Athena Main power: amazing intelligence

I stumble (half blinded, parched and stuttering) towards the pyramid. I desperately wish I hadn't come here but, you know, I was told to come here by an all-powerful being with so much intellect she's cleverer than Sherlock Holmes, who sits on a throne on mount Olympus and could blast me to smithereens if I said no. In other words, my mum!

Glancing over at Sadie, I see how different she looks after the long journey. Her caramel coloured hair hangs limp and lanky over her shoulders, her blue eyes look washed out and her lips are as dry as sand paper. However, she still has found some way to redye her highlights which are now indigo blue. She never ceases to surprise me.

"Where is that stupid temple?!" Sadie yells with sudden ferocity, "I swear we're supposed to have found it by now... Ooh."

Looming above us is a miraculous mirage of colour. All around are fertile rich green trees sprouting out of burning red sand. The ridiculous impossibility of the oasis makes a harsh laugh tear from my throat. Pyramids, according to Sadie, are supposed to be sunbeams from the heavens. The pyramid before me takes that to the extreme...

Made from, it gleam suggests, repeatedly polished limestone and crystal, light sparkles, bounces, reflects off it, the light through the heat haze creating the rainbow effect that dances with light fluttering feet across it. But the most startling thing of all is not the immense size of the temple, the curious colours crawling across it, or even the shimmering doorway perched on the topmost point. The most startling thing is the powerful tug of a force so strong, ancient and wise I feel like bowing down to it.

"I'm that's it." I say.

"should we go in and see what we find?" asks Sadie, a slight tremor in her voice.

"You first." I say and gesture towards the temple with my left hand. Head held high she marches towards the pyramid...

Suddenly she screams. Blue electricity ricochets around a now visible shell of power. Her screech is blood curdling. I sprint towards her but stop dead in my tracks when I see her hand...

"We can't get in!" Sadie cradles her damaged hand(if it can still be called a hand). The skin is covered in boils and blackened, charred skin, something like bile coloured pus seeps out from between the curls on her dead, burned flesh. I throw up in my mouth.

"Who cares about that! Look at your hand!"

I bend down and begin to soak it in a potion of very watered down nectar and healing leaves, then I begin to bandage it. All the while Sadie's talking, trying to pretend it doesn't hurt that much but I now it does because every time I touch it, she winces slightly.

"We need to get in though. We could try to lure them out?"

"But if their magic like us then they'll know to be careful Sadie."

"Well we could still try?"

Magicians and demigods alike have been fighting against some unknown force which is releasing terrible monsters like Greek or Egyptian ones but different on innocent mortals and it's getting out of hand. whenever the villains been spotted he was wearing a mask of a terrible face covered in black tattoos and what I can only presume to be war markings. Then Athena came and told us to find some magical allies in a special temple. Now me and Sadie have been searching for one such temple for 8 months and now we've found it we just can't let it go. the boys are also searching so we need to contact them as soon as possible.

"Excuse me, I'd hate to intrude but you seem to have trouble with a little injury. would you like some help?"

a girl stands behind me. Her voice is calm, her face kind and her hair blond the colour of corn.

"Who are you?" I ask my voice more cold and stern than I expected.

"My name is Marina. Now if you need my help let me help otherwise I think I'll go back inside."

She makes it sound like a choice but it's not. Sadie is in immense pain, way more than she lets on and I am powerless to help her.

"fine!" I snap before stepping back and sitting heavily on the sand with a humph.

Status:Loric Name:Marina Parents:unknown Main power:Healing

The poor girl lies at my feet. She's about my age with caramel coloured hair matted with dirt and weirdly bright emerald highlights. she obviously didn't know about the force field otherwise she wouldn't have touched it. A few feet away her friend sits fiddling with the sand. Her hair is to blonde like mine, her eyes grey and thoughtful but I could imagine them stormy. she seems very intelligent.

The prickling , ice cold sensation starts at my fingertips and works its way up my arm and through my body. At first the casualty rithes in agony, then lies still-shaking all over and breathing heavily-as the wound finally disappears.

Healing always took vast amounts of energy out of me, Having cured that horrible stump of a hand I can Hardly walk.

"thank you!" the girl cries with a note of awe in her voice as she gazes in wonder at her miraculously perfect hand.

"You're Welcome, What's your name?"

"Sadie, and this serious person is Annabeth."

Annabeth glances up at me, her grey eyes piercing. I feel as if she can see right through me and knows what I'm thinking. then the moment is gone and looks back down at the sand.

"Nice to meet you." she mutters.

"you to."

"oh don't worry about her," Sadie says "She just misses Percy."

"Who's Percy?"

"Her boyfriend."

"I can sympathize with her."

"You got a boyfriend?"

A wave of sadness and misery engulfs me as I remember Eight's face. I try to control my emotions.

"No." I sniff.

"I see." Sadie says, obviously slightly confused.