Calculatingly Wise

51

(Once again, because this chapter is so short, I'll also be posting the finale. Epilogue soon to come!)

Tessa was sitting on her bed on her laptop working on an essay for college. She'd tried sleeping, but had seen dreams of people being turned to stone. She couldn't breathe, but knew it wasn't a panic attack. Tessa heard voices and snuck downstairs.

Tessa swept her hair over her shoulder and asked, "Why are you two here?"

"Where's Malia?" Peter asked.

"And Scott," Lydia added.

Tessa shook her head. "I'm not sure. I was busy working on an essay. Why?"

"They're not answering. We know that the hunters have taken out some cell phone towers."

Peter frowned. "They're cutting us off from the outside. And from each other. Which likely means that they've already started amassing troops on their side.

Lydia pursed her lips. "Then we better find ours."

Tessa sighed. "Let's go."

They made their way to the Animal Clinic and after looking around, Lydia sighed. "They haven't been here. Maybe we should go to the school."

Peter frowned. "Lydia, you never said why you were waiting for Scott."

"Are you sure you wanna know?"

"I think we need to," Tessa said.

Lydia met her eyes. "Last night, I woke up saying two words that might just be from a dream, or it might be from something else."

"Lydia, what two words?"

""Where's Jackson?""

The demigoddess sighed. "I had a dream about people being turned to stone and I couldn't breathe, but it wasn't a panic attack."

Peter glanced at Tessa and Lydia. "That is disturbing on multiple levels. What else?" Lydia didn't answer. "Lydia, don't hold back on me. I never held back on you."

"I saw you... Turned to stone. I was in a storage container. It was steel. There was a blue wall. I saw everyone, even Derek and Ethan. All of you turned to stone," Lydia said.

Peter let out an exasperated sigh. "Do you ever see anything remotely optimistic?"

Tessa shook her head seriously. "No. Demigod dreams are never fun."

Lydia frowned, looking at Tessa. "He was talking to me."

"Don't care. I answered anyway."

Peter sighed and paused. "Storage con... Do you mean shipping container?"

Lydia nodded. "Yeah! I was surrounded by them."

Tessa looked at Peter. "Then you know where they are."

They ran off to find Scott and found Malia with him.

"Scott! Scott! Scott!" Lydia yelled, catching his attention. "None of us are going to survive this."

Tessa shook her head, trying to shake the dreams from her mind.

Scott turned to them. "What... Why? What are you doing here?"

"They're coming, Monroe and more," Peter warned. "And they have heavy firepower."

Machine guns began to fire. Deucalion was hit and fell to the ground. Tessa yanked Lydia behind a box as they ducked. The rest of the pack ducked, hiding from the firing machine guns.

Tessa glanced up and asked, "Could this get any worse?" The others glanced at her. "That was rhetorical."

[Scott and Malia are fighting with Deucalion.]