Theo
After the hunters crashed into the kitchen the battle was pretty much over. It didn’t take long for Alex and his companions to realise the best thing for them to do was retreat. I figured in the end they would run away, however I didn’t expect them to grab Bailey on the way out.

All it took was a weak groan from my injured friend to distract me, without even thinking I turned my attention towards Bailey. Unfortunately Alex took the opening and sliced into my side with his sword.

Everything happened so fast after that, Alex scoping Bailey into his arms and me telling Emma to use her coin. Next thing I remembered was waking up on my kitchen floor covered in blood with three teenage girls looking on at me.

“Where’s Bailey?” I asked when I sat up and saw Emma was on her own. “Didn’t the coin work?”

“No it did,” Emma replied her voice filled with sadness.

“So where is Bailey then?” I questioned. I leant against the table for balance as I stood up.

“Theo, the coin didn’t save Bailey, it save you.” Emma was looking at the ground, I could tell she was close to tears.

I didn’t know what to say. Why had I been the one that was save and not Bailey, he was the one who was in danger not me.

Emma looked up at me, tears slowly falling down her cheeks. She was trying to hold it in but it wasn’t working. She had no idea what was going on and after the warning Mr D had given us about what would happen if any harm came to his son, I didn’t blame her for crying.

To be honest I didn’t have a clue as to what was going on myself. The more I thought about it, the more I was definite that they were the same people who had killed my mom and brother eight years ago. But it still didn’t explain why they were after me, or why they had taken Bailey.

After a few minutes of silence Thalia was the first to speak. “Georgia can you and the girls keep look out.” A dark haired girl nodded and left the room with the two other hunters.

Once the hunters were outside Thalia turned to Emma and I. “So why are you even here?” she asked crossing her arms.

“We’re looking for some missing campers, they went on a quest three months back and no one has heard from them. We came to Alabama because one of the lines in the prophecy lead us here." Emma replied, still trying to hold back tears.

“Which line?” Thalia questioned.

“With lost friends found at burning rocks.” Emma obviously had memorised the prophecy. “Although I couldn’t find the rocks.” Emma looked at me questioningly, silently asking why she didn’t find them. She looked kind off intimidating, her light brown hair was messy and falling out of the pony tail but her stormy grey eyes were intense.

“The thing about the burning rocks was a lie,” I confessed, “they are real but are about two miles away and are probably not what the prophecy is talking about.”

“Then why did you bring us here?” Emma asked, there was a slight tone of anger in her voice.

“I needed to get something,” I replied.

“What?” The anger I had heard a second ago was gone, Emma now just sounded curious.

I knew I had to show them the sketch book, even if I didn’t particularly want Thalia to see it. Slowly I walked over to my bag which was lying on the floor with my bow and arrows and Bailey's sword. “This,” I said as I pulled out the sketch book.

“Are you serious?!” it was Thalia who yelled, she was furious. “You came here so you could find a scrappy old book. If you hadn’t have come here those guys wouldn’t have taken Bailey!”

That’s when the guilt hit me. She was right, if we hadn’t come to my old home then Bailey might not have been taken. If we hadn’t have split up then he definitely wouldn’t have. It was my fault, I was the one who burnt Bailey so bad it made him too weak to fight, and I was the one that got distracted which meant Alex had the opening to take him.

However I wasn’t going to let Thalia see how bad I felt about it. I got the sense she didn’t like me and it wasn’t just because I had let Bailey get kidnapped.

“I didn’t have a choice!” I yelled back at Thalia.

“What do you mean? Why is that book so important?” Thalia seem to calm down a little, but only slightly.

“I don’t know,” it wasn’t a lie, “but my father told me to come here and get it. I can’t defy a god.”

“And who is your dad?” Thalia asked, still sounding annoyed.

“Apollo.”

Thalia didn’t say anything after that but I’m pretty sure I saw her blushing when I mentioned my father’s name, I didn’t understand why.

Again we stood in silence for a while, the three of us all caught up in our thoughts.

“So how are we going to get Bailey back then?” Emma asked obviously having had enough of the silence.

It was a good question. How were we going to get him back? They had flown off in a chariot so there was no way to track them. Demigods didn't have cell phones meaning we couldn’t track them like mortals would either. The situation seemed hopeless.

Not knowing what to do I opened the sketch book in my hand, maybe mom had drawn something that would help us figure out where Bailey was.

As I flipped through the pages I saw many events that I recognised. Riley and I fighting a Cyclopes when we were on the run together. Various ones of Paige, Riley and I at camp and on the quest we went on together when I was twelve. Seeing the sketches of the three of us made me sad. Paige and Riley were my best friends, I missed them so much. Life at camp wasn’t the same without them. Holding back my tears for my two best friends I continued to look through the pages.

I was starting to think that looking through the book was pointless as I came to the end of it. But when I turned to the last page I found what I was looking for. Or at least what I thought I was looking for.

It was of Bailey, who thankfully was alive. He was walking past what looked like an abandoned hotel with the five demigods that took him. All of them were looking in different directions, with their weapons drawn, like they had just heard something. Bailey was looking out of the picture, like he was staring straight at me, asking for us to save him. He also had a sword, but it wasn't his, his was laying on the floor in my kitchen.

The picture was very detailed. I could see that they were in a sandy street, and that it was windy. I could also see the sign on the Hotel, Sandy Lane Hotel and Restaurant.

I touched the page, hoping maybe I would get another vision that would help us even more. I didn't but it didn't matter, all I had to do was find out where this hotel was and we could find Bailey.

“Thank you mom,” I whispered to myself.

I closed the book and put it back into my bag for safe keeping. I looked up to see Emma and Thalia in quiet conversation with each other.

“Hey,” I said, trying get their attention. It worked, both girls turned to look at me. “I know where Bailey is.”

“You do?” Emma asked curious.

“Well sort of, I don't suppose either of you know where the Sandy Lane Hotel and Restaurant is do you?”

“I do,” Thalia replied, “it's in a small abandoned town in Utah. The hunters and I passed through it one time, it gave us all the creeps. It felt like someone was watching us the whole time, yet nothing attacked.”

“Well that's where we need to go,” I said a smile creeping on to my face. Maybe Emma's coin hadn't just saved me, it was definitely luckily that Thalia knew where to go.

“How do you know where he is?” Emma quizzed.

“I'll explain later,” I said, “right now we need to get moving, the quicker we get there the better.”
With that we didn't waste any more time, after grabbing by bow and arrows the three of us sprinted out of the house. I was definitely recovered from my wound.

As we ran past the other three hunters the one called Georgia called after us. “Thalia where are you going?”

“To save Bailey,” Thalia yelled back, she didn't stop running. “You three go back to the others and continue with the mission lady Artemis set, I'll catch up once we've found Bailey.”

With Thalia leading the the three of us sprinted down the street. We were going to find him, I knew it. The sketch of Bailey, the darker haired boy Scott and I hadn't happened yet. That meant we must find him.

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