The smell of the ocean was refreshing, it wasn't really the ocean but it was relaxing, well except the part about my strength being fire. We were getting closer, I could hear the waves and Percy was getting giddy.

"Come on, it's only like a mile away!" Percy says with too much enthusiasm.

"Can't I just build an Argo III or something so that we don't have to walk anymore?" I say without really thinking.

"What do you mean?" Maverick asks, he looked genuinely confused, like the faces on Ma Gasket, Sump, and Torque whenever I killed them.

"Oh, just you know, mythology, Jason and the argonauts." I say hesitantly.

"What about me and the Argo-whats?" I have to give it to Jason, he was good at playing dumb... like he was better than all the girls pretending that I wasn't irresistible.

"It's from Greek mythology, you know the gods, Zeus, Poseidon, Athena, Hades, Hera." Annabeth puts all possible disgust in her voice at the mention of Hera.

"Yeah, and they couldn't let their children have one day off since they were 12..." Percy had lost all the happiness in his voice.

"You act like they're real, and you know them." Will says, obviously trying to hint that we couldn't say anymore about this.

"Look we are here, Percy, Annabeth, can you get us some food?" Piper asks, she obviously didn't mean to but charm into her words but did, even I wants to go over and fish. They left the group, every now and then I felt like I had to look back at them to make sure they weren't making out.

"Hey, you 5, how about you guys set up camp?" Maverick pointed to Will, Frank, Hazel, Nico, and Bee. He pointed over to a small cave a few yards away, but definitely out of earshot from us. They walked off with most of our supplies minus a few weapons. "So, how long before we ditch those losers?" He asked nodding towards the others.

"Well they are part of our team, we should keep them as long as possible, strength in numbers you know." Reyna grabbed her gladius and eyed at it as if she was seeing how long it would take to sever off someone's head.

"Yeah, but I mean, they aren't careers. Let's get Percy and Annabeth over here, I'm sure they'll agree." He stood up and started to walk over to the couple. Annabeth was standing about thigh stomach deep in the water but Percy was nowhere to be found. Maverick had apparently seen that too so because he said something to Annabeth and so she submerged underwater for a few seconds and when she came up Percy did too.

"You know Percy would never turn on any of us." Piper said out of the blue. I must have said something really intelligent like, huh, because everyone was staring at me. "His fatal flaw is loyalty, that means he would rather die than betray his friends."

"Yeah I know that."

"You know what?" Maverick's voice said from behind me.

"Oh, just that we have over half the tributes right here and we could easily eliminate a lot of them." Piper intervened.

"Oh yeah, so you two, I was asking these guys when we should ditch those losers over there?" Suddenly a scream came from outside the cave, I saw a thing straight out of my nightmares, and I get those a lot. It looked like an alien at first with long tentacles for arms. Each tentacle had razor sharp barbs on them.

I realize the beast was standing over someone, a girl with dark curly hair and dark skin. "Hazel..." I mutter. I run over as fast as I can and Frank hops out of the tunnel with an arrow notched and ready to be fired. He shot the mutt and rolled it's corpse down the sloping beach into the ocean.

"Hazel, you're going to be fine, just calm down. You won't die again!" Frank held her form, she had a slash mark on her mid drift.

"Frank, it's fine, you have to let me go." Frank wiped away a tear and I felt one fall slowly down my cheek.

"No, I can't let you go."

"Frank, just don-" she fell limp in his arms. She looked tiny compared to him yet he looked like he just lost everything.

Sammy, I never knew you but please, take care of her.