A/N: Okay so, this story is my friend, Kayla's and mine. She's totally awesome so most of the deas are hers. Please read and review! Give feedback!

I Come Back From the Dead

I opened my eyes, and for a second I didn't remember anything, but then it all came crushing back. Percy, the Huntresses, my death, Nico... where am I? I was in some kind of control room. The light barely came in through the tiny window on the top of the machine. I tried to move but the effort nearly killed me…again. I groaned in pain. Somehow I managed to get myself out of the robot. Wait, I should probably explain that. In my life, I died in an automaton from the Gods' junkyard when he came after my friends and I because I had stolen a mythomagic figurine for my brother. I dragged myself to the closest shelter I could find and passed out.

My dream was like this: I saw Annabeth, the girl who had sacrificed herself, and Percy with three other people I didn't know. They where whispering urgently to each other. I could only make out a few words huntresses…Nico…Gaea. It confused me, but I woke up anyway. There was a dude standing over me, poking my ribs with a stick. I groaned again. The guy raised his eyebrows and showed a toothy grin. Hmmm…he's kind of cute. Where the Hades did that come from? The boy looked Mexican with elfish features and wore a tool belt, orange t-shirt, and jeans. "Who are you?" I mumbled.

"Name's Leo. Leo Valdez." Replied the boy with a smirk. "And who are you?" the words came curtly out of his mouth.

"My name is Bianca Di Angelo, daughter of Hades. Why are you in the middle of the desert? And mostly, why were you poking me with a stick?"

Leo gaped at me " Bianca Di Angelo is dead!" He exclaimed.

I nodded. "Yep, that's me. The dead girl currently alive… " I started before I was interrupted by my friend Percy.

"Bianca! What the Hades is going on? You died! How can…Nico…. What's going on?" I shrugged. I tried to stand up but failed miserably. Before Percy could say anything, Leo leaned down and peaked me up. My stomach flipped over (in a good way if you know what I mean. (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge)). Percy elbowed him playfully and Leo just rolled his chocolate brown eyes, but I saw he was blushing. I realized that heat was rushing to my face as well. Percy trailed behind Leo as he carried me to a big ship with the head of a dragon- made of metal. I tensed.

"We're not going into that thing, are we?" I asked in a quavering voice. Leo snickered.

"That thing?" Leo said in a mockingly voice. For the first time I looked back at the other two people. Leo noticed my wondering gaze and said, "Oh, yeah, the blond dude is Jason, but we call him Sparky. He's a son of Zeus. The pretty girl with the scary knife is Piper, a daughter of Aphrodite." I suddenly felt jealous of this Piper girl, but to keep my thought focused I looked at Leo and got lost in his deep, dark eyes. Instantly I started to feel self conscious about my looks. My brown hair was a matted mess; my clothes were tattered and burned with small holes here and there.

I noticed Leo staring back. "What?" I asked sharply. He shook his head and turned away. I did as well and called, "Hey, Sparky!" to the blond guy. Leo chuckled and Jason shot him a look. Leo just shrugged with a mischievous look on his face.

"Why did you call him Sparky? That's not his name?" Leo said to me.

I rolled my eyes. "What's your problem?" I asked him. He faked a genuinely hurt expression.

"What do you mean? I didn't do anything!" I would have punched the guy if it weren't for my injured state.

"Whatever…" I muttered and closed my eyes to meet sleep and dreams once again.

I hate demigod dreams. They are often more than just dreams, trying to tell us something that's going to happen in the future or is happening at the moment in some other place. Either way, they are important. This time, I was in the middle of a valley. So, I heard, it worked… The singsong voice made me shiver. "What do you want from me?" I shouted into the air at the voice. The odd thing was that I knew who it was. Gaea. I heard a low chuckle and everything faded.

I am Considered a Threat

I woke in a metal room, and for a panicking moment, I thought that I was still in the robot. But then I realized I had my head on something soft and warm. I looked up to see Leo who was asleep with his mouth half open. I bit my lip to stop a laugh from escaping my mouth. We were alone in some kind of self-steering pilot room. I found that I could move my arms and legs but I realized I didn't want to. I looked up again and saw Leo looking at me. I was probably blushing, but I didn't care.

"Hey," he whispered. I grinned and waved. Then I thought, Stupid! You don't wave at people when they're right next to you! "Come on," he said, standing up. "We need to check in with the others back at camp." I followed him out of the control room as the ship lurched downward.

I saw Annabeth hand Leo something as we came together in the corridor- maybe a hat? A door opened and I saw the amazing Camp Half Blood. Leo snapped me out of my stare. "Here," he said and gave me a Yankees baseball cap. I frowned.

"What do I do with this?" I asked. He placed it on my head. I looked down, and found that I couldn't see my body. I felt Leo slip his hand into mine.

"So I won't lose you. Oh, and by the way, I liked it better when I could actually see you." I felt myself blush and was glad for my invisibility.

"Hey guys, could you stop flirting for a second and come on! Chiron is waiting," Percy cut in and my glorious moment vanished.

We started walking to the big building that I had seen on my brief visit here. As we approached, campers started murmuring and gathered around the group. Leo pulled me closer to him. My heart leaped. Percy held the door open for us, and as I stepped in lights flipped on. "Bianca, Chiron is in that room," he whispered, gesturing to a door.

"You're not coming with me- err- I mean- not any of you?" I asked in a panicked voice. Leo shook his head and prodded me on the back, signifying that I should go. I took an uneasy step away from him and glanced back at Leo. Then I walked the rest of the way to the door, and opened it. I removed the hat.

"Bianca?" I heard. It was a man's voice, but I nodded into the room. "Sit down, child," the voice commanded softly. I pulled out a chair and sat, still unwilling to meet the man's eyes. "Why are you here?" he asked, losing his clam tone.

I shrugged. "Beats me…" was all I could get out of my mouth. I hesitantly looked up. It was the centaur that had watched the game of capture the flag. "Where's Nico?" I asked, trying desperately to change the subject. Chiron waved the question away as if it was a stupid thing to ask.

"Bianca, I don't know why you're here, but I think you need to lead a quest. It's the only way to find out." He said in a serious manner. I raised an eyebrow.

"What?" I answered smartly. "Another one?" Chiron's eyes met mine for a second, and I saw that they were full of sadness and guilt. He reached into a file and handed me a slip of paper.

"This will guide you. Now, pick two people to accompany you, but they can only be one of the people in that room," he explained, gesturing to yet another door. "Go." He commanded, and I did.

When I walked into the room, it was in chaos. Percy and Jason were trying to shout over each other, while Piper and Leo were arm-wrestling. Annabeth was just sitting back in her seat, watching the whole thing go down. When Percy and Jason saw me, they stopped. Piper forced Leo's arm onto the table and shouted, "HA! IN YOUR FACE!" Then they all turned their attention to me.

"Uh, hi guys… I'm supposed to lead a quest now…" I said. Nobody moved a muscle. With that I cleared my throat. The room erupted into bursts of shouts and whatnot. The only person who didn't do so was Annabeth who shook her head. "SHUT UP!" I screamed into the room. Silence fell over like a blanket on a cold winter day. I turned my attention to the slip of paper that Chiron had given to me.

Bianca,

I don't have much time so I'll make this quick. You need to find the doors of death where Gaea has imprisoned me. You'll know what to do when the time comes.

Nico

I glanced from the note to the silent crowd around me. "Can someone explain this to me?" I asked. Annabeth came up and snatched the paper from my hand. She skimmed it.

"Ummm… Bianca there's nothing written here." She looked at me with genuine concern in her gray eyes.

"What do you mean?" I asked. I looked down at the paper, but my brother's scrawled message wasn't there anymore. "Uh- never mind. It's- uh- nothing."

Annabeth shook her head and sat back down. "OK, so now you need to choose two people," she told me. I looked around the room. To me the choice seemed obvious.

"Percy and Leo, do you guys want to come with me?" I asked, trying to act like it was no big deal.

Leo nodded as soon as I said his name. Percy on the other hand glanced at Annabeth. She nodded her consent. "OK. I'm in," he said. I smiled and looked around the room. Then a sudden thought came to me.

"Why did I need to come here invisible?" I asked, completely confused. Percy glanced at Jason. "What?"

He cleared his throat. "You're supposed to be dead, Bianca. We've put you on the camp's threat list, even if I don't know why," he explained in a dull voice. I grabbed a chair for support. I suddenly felt light-headed.

Then Leo was steadying me. "Come on. You need a place to sleep for the night." I nodded in my daze and followed him, not caring when the cap was placed on my head again. The odd thing was that I wasn't feeling out-of-sorts because I was a threat. I was feeling this way because I knew why I was on the threat list.

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