Chapter Thirteen: My Love Returns

''' Chapter 13 '''

''' My Love Returns '''

I ran over to her body. She was wearing a thin white dress. I remembered what Hades had said about how she would not awaken until she reached Camp Half-Blood. I wasn’t out of the woods yet. I picked her up, she was cold as ice. I placed her into my arms and began to walk to camp. My shoes were worn out from the tough journey to the Earth, but I didn’t matter, I had succeeded, Madison was back. As I got closer to Camp, she started to get warmer in my arms.

At last, I reached the camp. I walked inside the borders and sat down by Thalia’s Pine Tree. Peleus the Dragon wasn’t there. Madison began to stir.

“Connor?” she whispered weakly.

“Shh, don’t strain yourself, yes it’s me.” I said.

“You came for me,” She said, “You rescued me.”

My eyes started to water with tears of joy as I told her, “Yes Madison, I did.”

<p style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Tahoma', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 20pt">Joe, Zack and the rest of Camp saw us and walked our way.

<p style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Tahoma', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 20pt">“It’s Connor!” yelled a girl whose name was Lydia I think; she was a daughter of Nemesis, “But who is he with?”

<p style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Tahoma', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 20pt">“Oh my gods!” screamed Abbi; a daughter of Aphrodite and one of Madison’s sisters, “Its Madison! He rescued her from the Underworld! How cute!”

<p style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Tahoma', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 20pt">For the first time in my life, I didn’t try to deny it, I just wanted to live in the moment of my greatest success.

Chapter Fourteen: Life Goes On And Girls Confuse Boys