Hi Guys! K here. This is my second fanfic, my first being a Tiger's Curse fanfic called Forget Me Not. Please read it if you like Tiger's Destiny!

The dark-haired demigod lay on the ground, on top of her sleeping bag. She didn't understand why she was so stressed. She had just found her brother, who was supposedly dead. Nothing was wrong.

But it was, she reminded herself. Because she wanted to give her friend a chance to shine, she had changed her life without looking into it. Now she couldn't go back, no matter how hard she wanted to. She probably wouldn't get to see her friends again. Their faces flashed in her mind now.

Annabeth Chase. The blonde, tan-skinned grey-eyed daughter of Athena. The girl had met her when she was thirteen. Annabeth was seven then, and had run away from home. They had met while she was traveling to camp, Camp Half-Blood in New York, with her friend Luke.

The girl smiled at the memory. They had then traveled the rest of the way to the camp together. Then the fatal incident happened. They had just reached the border, but monsters were chasing them. She pushed Luke and Annabeth ahead and continued to fight. She had won, but had been fatally injured. To save her, her stupid dad had turned her into a freaking pine tree for six years. Then there was the first person she saw when she awoke: Percy Jackson, son of the sea-god Poseidon.

Percy was the same age she was when she awoke: still thirteen. He had brown hair and sea green eyes. They argued sometimes, but Percy still made her laugh. Together they had rescued Nico and Bianca DiAngelo, children of Hades. Then, with Bianca, the satyr Grover, and a Hunter of Artemis named Zöe, they went on a quest to rescue Annabeth and the goddess Artemis. Bianca and Zöe were killed along the way. Afterwards, she gave up her ability to date and marry to become a Hunter so it would be Percy in the prophecy that was coming up. She still doesn't completely understand why she did it.

Then Luke's face flashed in her mind.

She rolled onto her side and shut her eyes tight, trying to hold on to him. When she became a Hunter, she had left behind her longtime friend Luke Castillan, son of Hermes. He had had sandy blonde hair and icy eyes. Luke was sort of a sad case, hating the gods and all, but he was funny and she had really gotten to see his soft side in the year she knew him. But when she awoke after six years, he was gone. She doesn't know where he is even now.

But she wanted him.

She had always liked Luke, but after a month or two she actually grew to love him. He made her feel like she was walking on air- excited and weightless, but then claustrophobic and terrified (her greatest shame: a daughter of Zeus, scared of heights!). Now, she realized she had to find him.

The girl's eyes flew open and she gasped as that last thought his her. Then she immediately clamped her hand over her mouth and glanced and her tent mate, Phoebe. She was still asleep. The girl stood and walked out of the tent into the openness of the woods the Hunters were camping in. She reached into her picked and pulled out a small slit of paper- her fortune from a few nights ago (hey, even Hunters like Chinese food!). She smeared white-out on the side with her lucky numbers and grabbed an orb of charcoal from the fire preparation bag. Then she scribbled out a message in little letters, not all of them truthful:

Dear Sisters,

I am sorry to have to leave you on such sort notice, but I am a demigod and my dreams are often right. They tell me my old friend Luke Castillan is in trouble. I am going out to find him, even if it may cost me my immortality as a Hunter to break my maidenhood. If you truly trust me and care for me, you will allow me to embark on this journey.

Luck to you all,

Thalia Grace

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