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Chapter Quote:
"You're not getting away from me. Never again."
~Percy Jackson, Mark of Athena
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Chapter 25: Then the Fire Nation Attacked

Luke

Shiloh and I had been eating ice cream when Reyna approached us. She alerted us that an army was approaching New Rome. We had a choice: fight or flight. The choice was simple. Shiloh and I chose to fight. The battle was big and chaotic. At some point I'm pretty sure there was an elephant charging around. I swear I briefly saw Percy but I didn't have time to dwell on that. I was having trouble keeping up with Shiloh. She was just like her brother, a hurricane, a force not to be reckoned with. And like her brother, she was causing chaos amongst enemy ranks.

When the battle was over, Shiloh made a beeline to find Percy who had no idea his half-sister was about to tackle him in a massive hug. The poor guy never saw it coming. All he saw before the hug was a flash of blonde hair.

"Oh gods!" Percy grunted as he was nearly knocked back from the force of my girlfriend. "What the-"

"Percy! You're all right!" Shiloh exclaimed.

"Shiloh! What are you- how did you-"

"We've been searching for you! I've been so worried! Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, I'm fine," he said. Shiloh hit him on the arm. "Why in Hades' name did you not call?!"

"I lost my memory. I only just got it back a few hours before I got here. I planned on calling you and everyone else the moment I had chance."

"Oh, the same thing happened to Jason. Who did that to you?"

"Hera."

"I really don't like her," Shiloh remarked with a grimace.

"What are you doing in New Rome?"

"The Romans took us captive when we were in San Francisco looking for you."

"First off, what were you doing in San Francisco and second, who's we?"

"Luke and I were searching for you. We went to San Francisco and were tracked by the Romans. They wanted Luke because-"

"Because I was the one who brought Kronos back," I finished. Percy finally turned around to look at me. "Good to see you, Percy."

"Last time I saw you, you were going after my-"

"We're dating, Perce. We... worked it out." Shiloh leaned in and whispered something to her brother. According to my lip reading skills, she was telling him the Romans didn't know that she was daughter of Poseidon and that she'd like to keep that on the down low. Percy agreed. He smiled at me, and said, "I'm glad you're okay."

"He is now," Shiloh remarked, giving me a loving smile. "I'm going to go help with the injured. Damage is going to be bad."

"Luke, why don't we help with the dead?" Percy suggested. "Shi, we'll meet up with you later okay?"

My girlfriend hesitated but listened to her brother. She left after giving me a kiss. Once she was out of earshot, Percy turned to me and said, "What happened?"

"What do you mean?"

"I had weird dreams about a blond guy and blonde girl who I didn't recognize at first because I had no memory but now I realize that was you and Shiloh. Something happened to you Luke. On the yacht."

"Yeah... monsters attacked. They got in my head."

"How did you escape?"

"I distracted the monsters, Shiloh hit the emergency button on the ship which blew it up after a certain amount of time. I wasn't awake when that happened. From what I was told, Shiloh dragged me overboard. We ended up in Atlantis before Shiloh found out you were missing. We left right after she heard."

"You weren't speaking. Shiloh was trying to get you to talk and you wouldn't. Why?"

"I went to a bad place, Percy... it's hard to explain."

"Um, what do you mean a bad place? I mean did you-"

"You're wanting to ask if I wanted to kill anyone."

Percy hesitated. "Did you?"

"Only one. I think I'm going to go help Shiloh. I'll see you soon. And Percy? It's good to have you back."
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Helping the injured had really taken it out of me considering so many people had been injured. I was woken up by Shiloh who was in an excited state. At first I thought something was wrong. Then she explained a Greek warship was flying towards Camp Jupiter. The Romans were arming themselves but she told me that they had nothing to worry about. I leapt out of bed. We dashed down to meet with Percy who was with his new friends Hazel and Frank. They smiled at me and Shiloh.

When the passengers disembarked off the warship, Annabeth charged towards her boyfriend. In the blink of an eye, she'd judo-flipped him onto his back. Shiloh snickered.

Once Annabeth had forgiven Percy for worrying her, the Roman praetors met the Greek demigods. It was certainly tense, but Reyna and Annabeth seemed like they would get along okay. The celebrations began though and it was in full swing. I took Shiloh out on the dance floor for a bit but then we got hot and went to get something drink. For once, our lives seemed to be normal. Here we were, two twenty year olds, having a drink, at a party. All was well.

I could make a joke starting with 'but then the fire nation attacked' here because technically, Leo Valdez, son of Hephaestus with fire powers, attacked New Rome with Argo II. Since no weapons were allowed behind this thing called the Pomerian Line (it took me a while to stop calling it the Pomeranian Line), the Romans started throwing plates and rocks and anything else that could hit a Greek. Shiloh tried to prevent people from attacking us but when a ceramic plate hit her in the head, I punched the guy square in the nose. That really set them off. Romans tried to grab me by my arms and legs. Shiloh was kicking them off of me but sooner or later, we were overrun, being pushed to our knees, hands held behind our backs.

Percy looked over at us and I could see the anger in his face. He looked like he was about to come try and save us but Shiloh shouted at him to run. Her brother hesitated but when Shiloh shouted at Annabeth to get Percy out of there, he finally listened. The commotion didn't die down for hours, and Shiloh and I were officially branded traitors to New Rome. Octavian made sure we were thrown into dungeons in different cells. That didn't settle well with either me or Shiloh. She was yelling a lot of profanities at the Romans who seemed more amused than anything else.

"Shiloh, are you okay?" I asked once I'd calmed down.

"I'm fine. Why the hell are they doing this?" she demanded in a huff. I couldn't see her but I could hear her plop down on the ground.

"I think it has something to do with the Argo II blowing up part of New Rome."

I heard her smile in her voice. "Probably has something to do with it. They were all too happy to turn on us. Real fair too. Five or six Greek demigods versus an entire camp."

"How long do you think we'll be in here?"

"Reyna I trust to keep us safe. Octavian probably wants to behead us so as long Reyna is here, I think we'll live for a while."

"We don't have plans on killing you," Reyna said.

"Maybe you don't. I think your comrades do," Shiloh remarked. "We didn't attack New Rome so why imprison us?"

"Because your comrade did and while you may have been here a while and I believe you are trustworthy, I do not trust the Romans not to take justice into their own hands."

"Then let us go back to Camp Half Blood," I said. "Then we're even safer."

"You two know too much about our battle strategies and techniques. You're liabilities if we let you go. Until this war is over, you're our POWs. I'll try to make your stay as comfortable as possible. Is there anything I can get for you?"

"Move me into Luke's cell," Shiloh requested. To my surprise, Reyna agreed. Shiloh ran towards me. I ran my fingers over a cut on her forehead from where the plate hit her.

"Can we get some ambrosia and nectar? I don't want this cut getting infected," I said.

"I'll get some down for you in a moment. You will be released when it's safe. I suggest you get comfortable though. You'll probably be here a while."

"At least you're being honest with us. Thank you for that," Shiloh said. Reyna nodded her head and left.

"How's your head?" I asked.

"Headache but it's better than being impaled or being fish food."

I chuckled. Giving her a kiss on the forehead, I told her, "We'll get out of this. Together. I promise."
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