A/N: So. Yeah. I'm alive! Haven't updated in forever and stuff. Sorry!
Anyway, here's a nice, cheerful chapter for you guys.
I also made some changes to the Tyson and Ella chapter.
Credits to Rick Riordan for the PJO and HoO series and part of the characters, although not in this chapter.

Dawn landed on a smooth floor covered with Ancient Greek letters carved into the stone. She didn't notice them until a second later, though. She was too busy checking to see if she had broken anything. Michelle had landed gracefully on her feet (not all Hermes kids were total klutzes) but Star..oh, no. She was lying crumpled at the foot of a marble statue. The goddess seemed to glower murderously down at her from her incredible height, but Dawn didn't care about that right then.
'Oh my gods! Star?' She scrambled to her feet, ignoring the soreness in her-well, entire body and ran to her friend's side. Michelle beat her to it. She knelt next to her, feeling for her pulse. Dawn knew it was probably stupid to think she had been killed, but she didn't stop Michelle. Better safe than sorry.
The Hermes girl nodded at her and she exhaled shakily. 'What's wrong with her?'
'I don't know,' Michelle replied, looking her over. Her voice was much steadier than Dawn's. 'She looks perfectly fine. Not a scratch. She hasn't even bumped the statue, which was what I thought had happened. She's just unconscious.'
Just then, Star stirred. Her eyes fluttered open, and, taking in the scene, she sat up with a start. The other two gasped. Her eyes looked wild as she grabbed Dawn by the shoulders.
'Star?' Dawn said, trying to suppress her worry.
'We have to-no time-go-she'll find us-'
'Whoa!' Michelle placed her hands on her arms. 'Calm down, Star. What happened?'
'I-'
She looked at them confusedly for a moment, then took a deep breath before starting to talk again.
'I had a dream,' she said. 'A woman-I don't know how, but I knew her name, Lamia-was standing in an underground room-'
'How do you know it was underground?' Dawn interjected.
Michelle grinned slightly.
'I could just tell, okay?' Star sounded frustrated. 'Maybe it was even in the Labyrinth. Now listen! She was standing muttering words under her breath, and I think they were the words of Rachel's prophecy. I definitely caught "curse", "prison" and "sought." I'm not sure about the others. Then she turned around and I saw..' She took a shaky breath. 'Her eyes were like slits, and she was scaly all over. She had claws, too, and these long, pointed vampirish fangs.'
Michelle and Dawn stared at her.
'And then she lifted her head and said,"I sense them. They are near, oh, very near. Children. Demigods." She moved her hand through the air and a vision appeared in front of her. It was a vision of us, in this room. I was lying like I was a minute ago and you were kneeling around me-Michelle checking my pulse.'
Dawn and Michelle exchanged looks. She couldn't have known that. She'd been unconscious. The dream must have been real, then.
Star took another shaky breath. 'Then she started moving out of the room. She had a serpent's tail flicking behind her. A serpent's tail.'
She visibly shuddered.
'You're scared of snakes?' Michelle asked, a little too incredulously. Dawn elbowed her.
'Sorry-you just don't seem like you're afraid of much,' she amended hurriedly.
Star glared anyway.'They've always freaked me out,' she snapped. 'Is there a problem?'
'There wasn't before but there might be now,' Michelle retorted. 'You don't have to be so touchy.'
'I'm not-' Star began.
'I don't know if you two have noticed, but we have a bigger problem right now. Some kind of slit-eyed, serpent-tailed woman, our first monster, basically, is coming for us. Let's focus on that.' She said it more harshly than she'd meant to and regretted it the moment it happened. They had barely breathed in the Labyrinth air and were already fighting.
There wasn't time to apologise, though, so she got to her feet and looked around the room. The statue had dishevelled marble hair, a ragged-looking dress and a torch in one hand, a small dagger in the other. There was an altar nearby, heaped with food, some fresh, some looking stale and gathering dust. There were four pillars securing the walls and each one had a small hollow with a burning torch in it, lighting up the room.
As she was looking around, Michelle said something. She looked around. 'What?'
'Eris,' her friend replied, nodding to the Ancient Greek letters on the floor. 'Goddess of strife, chaos and discord. This tells about her history. Must be a temple for her.'
'Oh..' Star said, as if she was just realising something. 'I guess that's why we were fighting.'
'Yeah.' Dawn looked tentatively at her friends. 'I'm sorry.'
'Me too,' Michelle said, looking at both her and Star.
'I'm sorry as well,' Star agreed.
Was it Dawn's imagination, or did the statue of Eris glower even more darkly?
They had a quick group hug, then started to discuss their problem.
'What did the room look like?' Michelle asked Star.
'I couldn't see much of it,' she admitted. 'It was dark. But, from what she said, it must be really near here. She's heading towards us now.'
Dawn swallowed. 'So we have no way of knowing where she is, so we can't choose the opposite direction. The only thing we can do is fight.'
Her stomach flipped. She really hadn't liked the way Star had described the monster lady saying, 'Demigods.'
She took out her bow and arrows, and unsheathed her sword. The others took out their respective weapons. Then she remembered Daedalus' laptop. Opening it, she quickly typed 'Lamia' in the search engine. A bunch of suggestions popped up. Scrolling down, she found a promising-looking article and clicked it.
'Mother of empousai...vampire legend...queen of Libya....Hera...' She muttered, reading it as fast as possible. Then she closed her eyes and sank back against the foot of the statue.
'Oh, come on.'
'What?' Star asked worriedly.
'She's a daughter of Hecate,' Dawn groaned. 'None of us know anything about magic! Me and Star are relatively new and Michelle...?'
She shook her head, staring at the opposite wall as if in deep thought.
'Apparently, she's very powerful. She's the one who made it possible for monsters to sense demigods.'
Star took this in with a dismayed expression. 'So, like my creepy dream wasn't enough to get the message across, now we know for sure that she is most definitely not our number one fan.'
'Michelle?' Dawn said. 'Any ideas?'
She didn't think the Hermes girl would, but to her surprise, her eyes were sparkling with something she recognised. It was the look that illuminated every Hermes camper's eyes when they had just thought of a scheme for a prank.
Her lips curled into a positively predatory smile. 'I guess you could say I do.'

Dawn felt like she was throwing a surprise party for someone. She had done that once, for Leo. It hadn't been much, especially since the two of them and two friends were the only people at it, but he'd appreciated it the same as if it had been a proper party with lots of guests and a birthday cake that did not have smudged icing and was not wobbly. She had tiptoed around the room, banging elbows with her friends in the dark and giggling as she lit the candles and then threw the door open. This was a lot like that, minus the giggling, candles and throwing open of doors.
Now, they were putting everything in place for the simple enough but good plan Michelle had cooked up. The corridor outside the chamber of Eris was in almost total darkness-they had decided using flashlights would just be an even bigger lead to where they were.
Finally, they all got back into the temple, only to discover it was no longer there. Michelle, who, unlike Dawn, didn't have many reservations, spouted some colorful profanity as they stared around the tiny alcove that they found themselves in.
'We're too near the door!' Michelle hissed, as if she didn't know already. 'We could get hurt in the process.'
They were all staring at each other, trying to think of a solution, when Star spoke up suddenly. 'I can hear something.'
The others listened. Yes, faint, but definitely there and steadily coming, were thumps like clumsy, heavy footsteps. 
'Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no,' Dawn said, agitatedly.
'Be quiet,'  Michelle whispered fiercely. 'We have to find a way out of here. Let's look along the walls.'
Dawn shut up. She would not have a panic attack on the spot. As Michelle turned her flashlight towards the opposite wall, she felt along the section nearest her, hoping desperately for a door. Instead, she felt a violent jolt of pain shoot through her finger, and let out a cry before she clamped a hand over her own mouth. Clenching her teeth, she looked down at her finger. The top half of it was covered in blood. She didn't know how deep the cut was and didn't want to find out either.
'What is it?' Two voices asked, half annoyed, half worried. The flashlight swung towards her, and she pulled her injured hand back.
'Nothing,' she said, as another wave of keen pain passed over her hand. 'Cut my finger a bit. Let's just-continue-'
Her vision danced with black spots-how could the cut have been this bad?-but she gritted her teeth just as Michelle said, 'I've found something!'
The next few seconds, several things happened.
Michelle, fumbling with some rusty bolts, swung open a small curved door set in the wall; Dawn tried to walk towards it, her mind swimming, but stumbled; Lamia's footsteps grew even closer, and faster; Star ran to Dawn's side; and Michelle froze next to the door, her face draining of color as she started to speak.
But they never heard what she was going to say, because at that moment, an earsplitting explosion shook the entire Labyrinth. There was a ghastly sound resembling a scream from just outside, but Dawn only had time to hear it, and see the door leading into the alcove  disappear into a huge, raging fire, before she blacked out.