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"Well whatever you say maybe I'll get a friend like that some day or just a friend that won't end up on the other side." I said tossing my sword up it turned into a bronze pocket watch and chain with a photo of me and my mother on the inside cover. The photo shows me covered in blood and bruises while my mother reels back to throw another punch my eyes were glazed over in the photo. "I just hope most of mankind isn't like my Ma she knew how to throw a punch and should've been a monster with her temper." I was talking to myself but not too quietly as I hiked Baby Nina up a bit more to help me carry her. It had been a long time since I'd thought of my mother but when ever I felt down her memory dragged me down further. "Well guys we should be approaching central park soon." I said starting to slow I cringed at the sight of a dried up blood puddle and the memory nearly dropped me.


3 Years before.

"Anthony come on we have to get out of here your dad's waiting." The girl had been a half-blood I was taking to the Roman camp but she insisted that she had important information about the gods. I was a fool to travel with her and not have armor on. I didn't have the curse of Achilles at the time but I was still hard to kill anyways something this girl Karna didn't think of before trying to stab me in the back. I was trying to fight off some monsters when the beasts gave up and I felt the blade slip between my shoulder blades and bite through my flesh. "How pathetic really and Father always held you so high on his list of demigods too." I fell to my side bleeding really bad as she walked off the monsters following like pets. "You should have told me no when I asked for a guide remember nice guys finish last it's a fact of life don't help others help yourself."


Present day

I stopped and looked at the blood stain on the stone floor and turned around as fast as possible and held my sword out. I had it pointed at May and Jace my eyes were hazy again as I looked back and forth between them. "Camp Jupiter is for assholes and Camp Half-Blood is for traitors but I don't think you two knew that." I stood ready to react as fast as possible with a block and counter. "I almost forgot rule numero uno I don't walk in front of strangers it doesn't end well for any of us." I saw movement behind them and notice a banner with Camp Jupiter's emblem on it approaching but I noticed a small sign inside the symbol hidden from most. "You two go first I'll hold them here but don't betray me I don't trust either of you enough anyways."