Okay so this is my first fanfiction. I've been wanting to do this for a while now, but I never really had the chance. Anyway please review!

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Hazel

Even before they landed, Hazel though Greece was impressive. There were no monuments, as far as she could tell, but she didn't mind. After Rome, she had enough old stuff for both her lifetimes.

The Argo II was landing in Epirus, were Nico said the House of Hades would be. The scenery was amazing, with canyons and grassy hill as far as she could see. Her half brother on the other hand, did not look so great.

Nico was still awfully pail, and he looked like he hadn't slept since they had rescued him, which was almost a week ago. But of course she couldn't blame him. Every time she tried to fall asleep, the image of Percy and Annabeth falling into Tartarus haunted her.

She had told Leo that there was nothing he could have done about it, and she was being honest. He had been up in the Argo II, trying to get the Athena Parthenos hooked up to the ship. But she had been down with Percy and Annabeth before they fell. She should have done something, cut the web that Arachne had looped around Annabeth's foot, or gotten someone else to stay with her so that they could have grabbed on and stopped them from falling, or gotten them back to the ship faster. She knew deep down that there was absolutely nothing she could have done, that it was fate. Either that or Gaea was planning some sort of evil plan to get them of track. Probably the second.

She had been so deep in though that she hardly heard Nico walk up behind her "We're about an hour away," he said in a hoarse voice "I can sense death." Nico was great with all things that involved death, were as Hazel was excellent at finding riches under the earth. She use to think that he had got the better end of the deal, but now having seen the fractured look in his eyes due to his time in Tartarus, surrounded by death, she wasn't to sure. "Um...Hazel?"

"Yeah?"

"You're jeweling again." he said, pointing at her feet. Hazel looked down and bit back a curse. There were a dozen diamonds the size of ping-balls around her. She should have been more careful, because when ever her emotions got jumbled, precious stones usually appeared around her. That had been happening a lot lately. She bent down and picked them all up, putting them in her pockets.

"Nico," she asked "do you really think we can do this? Getting Percy and Anabeth out of Tartarus and saving the world."

"Why do you ask that?"

"Well I-I don't know if we can make it. I don't know if they can make it." His glance dropped as it did whenever somebody mentioned Percy or Annabeth. After a long pause he finally said "Hazel, we can't give up now, look how far we've gotten. I mean we're in Greece." He spread out his hands dramatically "This is the home land of the gods. The House of Hades is close by. We'll get them out, you'll see."

"I just hope you're right." she mumbled."Does Leo know exactly where were we're going?"

"I'm not sure."

"Better check on him, don't want to get of course again." It had happened twice since they left Rome: the first time they had gone the wrong direction and were half way to spain before they reversed track and the second time Leo read the map wrong and they went to the North instead of to the South, so they ended up in Austria. After multiple times trying to ask the locals directions (none of them spoke german) and lots of chocolate, they finally got to Greece. Now they all agreed that somebody else would have to give directions.

" Yeah, don't want that to happen." He went of to the steering wheel where Leo was. Hazel whent looking for somebody else to talk to.

She whent down into the lounge, where Frank, Jason and Piper were on the sofas playing cards. Frank and Piper were arguing about somebody cheating. There chaperon/vegetarian killing machine, coach Hedge was trying to nibble a few of the cards. Jason noticed. He grabbed the card out of his hand, just as coach was about to take a mega-goat bite out of it. "Hey, I was going to eat that!" yelled Hedge as he tried to get it back, but Jason stood up and held the card over his head. Coach jumped up and down trying to get it. It was pointless, as he wasn't even as tall as Hazel. Finally he sat down "fine cupcake, you win." Jason handed the card to Frank. Piper gave Frank a smug look. "See, I told you I didn't have it." Frank grunted and they went back to playing.

This was what they did now to distract themselves, to keep themselves from thinking about Percy and Annabeth, and the doors of death, and the minuscule chance of survival. Some of them played board games, Leo was almost always on deck, talking with Festus, Hedge whacked thing with his baseball bat, and Hazel cleaned the ship. Why? Because cleaning was such an wretched task that it kept her mind of things. Besides, a ship that had six teenagers and a crazed goat in it could use some cleaning. Frank looked up from his cards and saw Hazel staring at them. "Hi Hazel, do you want to play?" He asked

"What are you guys playing?" She walked over and sat down next to Frank

"Crazy eights." He replied

"Oh, I don't know how to play." Frank explained her the rules, with Piper and Jason occasionally chiming in to add things he forgot. Twenty minutes later, she had won three games and was in the lead for the fourth. "I was winning until you came." Jason complained as Hazel put down her last card. "What did you just do?"

"I won." she replied, grinning. Just then Leo burst in, gasping of breath. "Guys, we're under attack!"

Bah ha ha! Cliff hanger! I think this chapter was a bit short and not very action-ish, but next chapter will be. Who do you think is attacking? What will happen next? Review to find out! ~Toodles