ATALANTA:

I had entered the battle in the nick of time...The seven demigods really needed all the help they could.

Nobody expected the Sun Army to fight in the fact, nobody even knew about the sun all, it hasn't been done in ages...but still..I did it.

I won the championship. I was their leader now. I brought the sun army here to Earth to fight Gaea.

Nico Di Angelo was there with the seven... All of them were worn out and tired until I came..

Anyhow, now the battle was over and Gaea was defeated. I went over to my commander in chief, Eucaly. He was from another planet like most other people in the Sun Army. He gave me a rough account of our status. We had lost quite a few great warriors, they would have to be honored.. I didn't really catch the rest of what he said, but there was time for that..

Right now,I could just see Nico mouth my name and my heart just burst with joy.. I couldn't really help what I did next..I ran to him shouting," Nico! You're alive!" and I embraced him in a tight hug, kissing him on his cheek. He hugged me back," Atalanta, I thought you would die..If you hadn't come back in time..We all would probably be dead."

I told him not to mention it..I really didn't want to remember everything that had happened...

Then I heard someone else call my name..I turned around to see Percy walking towards me with his arms outstretched.

I started walking towards him,"Percy..Percy Jackson..out of all people..I should have known..." I would have hugged him too..after all, even he was my friend..even if he didn't spend as much time with me in the last two years. It was great fun hanging out with him..until he started following Annabeth around..

Speak of the devil and the devil arrives...Annabeth popped up between us,"Not now, honey.. So Atalanta, great to see you again.." A girl with chopped up hair giggled at the way Annabeth prevented me from giving Percy a hug...I am guessing that's Piper..Piper McLean, the new head of the Aphrodite cabin. Everyone was really happy. Relieved actually..I was introduced to the rest of the seven..really interesting people..

We went back to the Argo II after I sent the Sun Army back. We were chatting on the deck and preparing for the journey home, that is to Camp Half Blood where we may hopefully meet Camp Jupiter. Nico had already told them of the current state of affairs. The Greeks and the Romans made temporary peace to defeat the giants that were marching towards camp.

Jason spoke up,"We don't know if the battle is over at Camp yet. What if they are still fighting the giants.."

Annabeth cleared all doubt," There are a lot of people there. I am sure they have already defeated all the giants. The gods are on our side and besides, we have already defeated Gaea."

The conversation went on to more cheerful topics. I noticed that nobody really liked talking to Nico. It was like they were scared of him. He never seemed that scary to me. Nico would still talk whenever he felt it necessary. His sister Hazel was encouraging him. It was very obvious that most of the crew were already couples and stuff..

There was Frank and Hazel, Percy and Annabeth, Piper and Jason. It seemed like there was only me, Nico and Leo left.

Leo was quite a funny guy though more often annoying. I was thinking of my new friend and my old ones when I heard the noise. A soft tapping on the wood. My grandfather was in the navy and he taught me Morse code when I was a little girl. I started decoding the tapping as I was so used to doing. I slowly processed everything and then I raised my eyebrows and widened my eyes, out of surprise..

The code said- I love you.

I looked around the room quickly and saw Leo Valdez tapping his fingers on the railing apparently lost in thought. There was no doubt that he sent the message but why? and was it even for me?

I asked him," Umm Leo, Is that you?"

"What?", he asked clearly not having any idea what I was talking about.

"Are you doing the tapping?", I repeated.

Jason answered for him,"Yeah..he does that a lot..He is quite restless and hyperactive.."

"Oh..Because the morse code wasn't making sense."

Everyone turned towards me as Leo said,"WHAT! You know morse code!". His face had turned a dark shade of red..

Piper asked me,"Why? what was the code?"

I looked up at Leo. The guy was seriously confusing me. He tilted his head sideways as to say Go on...It's okay, you can tell them.

I looked around at all the faces staring at me as I said," He said..- I love you."