A/N: Hello you lovely people!
I would like to thank all those lovely people who reviewed people, so:

annabeth lopez, 100percenthorseMAD, THANK YOU!

And to meguravi: Thank you for your review. I'm sorry but I'm not going to add Poseidon. When he would be "claimed", it would bring too much confusion that I couldn't explain. So I'm sorry, but no.

nequam-tenshi: Thank you for reminding me about Demeter. I've decided that I... Well, you'll see in the chapter. I realized that I can't write well about Demeter, and that chapters from her POV would be boring when written by me. And about your other question... I'm sorry, I don't understand it. "I am sure Hermes thought too soon". Could you explain it? Thank you for making me realize what wasn't so good in my story.

AND to all those people who favorited/followed/reviewed/read this story, THANK YOU! May Hermes bless you with good internet connection!


Aphrodite's POV

Aphrodite was really excited. She was finally able to meet her lovely, beautiful children. I bet they're the nicest and sweetest people there.

After walking for an hour, a cold wind started to blow. Aphrodite was shivering from cold in her top and skirt. The park didn't seem to have an end. Suddenly they stopped.

They had gotten away from the park safely, and were standing at the street. She asked: "Now where? Could we go somewhere warm?"

Athena pointed to left and said:
"That way."

But Hermes pointed to right and argued:
"No, that's the right way. We need to get to the Long Island, and this is the shortest route."

Everybody stared at Hermes. He rolled his eyes and said:

"Hey, god of travelers speaking here."

Of course, Aphrodite thought, with Hermes's help we get there with no time.

Now Hermes took the lead and started to walkat the direction he pointed out. Athena walked last, looking a bit mad. Aphrodite knew she hated being wrong. But she was normal soon, and said:

"I think we should create ourselves fake names. I mean, if go there and tell our real names, they just assume that we're there in the forms of teenagers."

Everybody stopped and thought about.

Aphrodite started to think:
What would be a good fake name? Maybe something on French, since I can speak it. What was that surname I once heard? Belle? Bemlay? No, it was Bellamy. Yeah, that it was. And then first name... Names that sound like Aphrodite; Amphitrite, Adalaine, Adeline! Adeline Bellamy, now there's a cute name!

She felt proud of herself, and said:

"Adeline Bellamy."

She got surprised looks, but she didn't care. The other immortals might not know it, but when she wanted to, she could be smart.

They continued to walk, agreeing to think while they walked, but Aphrodite was still shivering from cold. Hephaestus looked at her, and took away his hoodie. Aphrodite looked surprised and took it. It was a little big, but it kept her warm. Aphrodite smiled at Hephaestus and gave him a kiss on the cheek. Hephaestus blushed, but Aphrodite didn't notice this, and was swallowed again by her thoughts.

Hephaestus is actually really kind. Maybe I should be nicer to him…

After another hour of walking, they already got away from Manhattan. Hermes was leading the way through the streets muttering:

"Right, left, right, straight…"

But the night was coming fast, and they needed a place to stay overnight. She was just about to voice her concern, when Ares said:
"I will take us a week to get to the cursed place if we keep this speed. We need a vehicle."

Everyone turned to Ares, and Athena asked:
"And where are you going to get this vehicle, mind I ask?"

"Oh, I'll take care of that", Hermes said grinning like a maniac. Athena looked at Hermes disapprovingly.

"We shouldn't steal, it's…" Athena started but was interrupted by Apollo who cried out: "Oh come on Athena!"

They're right,
Aphrodite thought, and voiced her thoughts:
"I'm sorry Athena, but they're right. And if it starts to rain, I don't want to my clothes to be ruined. So a quicker way to the camp would be good."

She turned to Hermes:
"Can you get us the faster way?"

Hermes nodded and then suggested to Apollo:
"Hey, you wanna come with me? I could use your driving skills."

Apollo smirked and replied:
"Sure, bro. Show me the way."

Hermes then said to us others:
"We'll be back in 20 minutes. Meanwhile you could… Um…"

He turned to Apollo for help. He shaked his head and Athena sighed:
"Think about our fake names, perhaps?"

Hermes snapped his fingers and smiled gratefully at Athena. Then Apollo and Hermes started to run to north.

Aphrodite chuckled. Trust those two to take care of the transportation, Aphrodite thought, if I know them at all, they'll probably bring a luxury BMW or something…

They walked to the edge of the road, and sat down on the grass. Everyone but Demeter was sitting on a ring. Demeter looked really deep at thought, her eyes closed, and her lips pursed together.

Wonder what she's doing, Aphrodite thought.

Everyone else also looked curious what Demeter was doing. This continued for ten minutes.
But after ten minutes, her eyes opened and she smiled a satisfied smile. She stood up and a bright flash of light flashed.

What the Hades? Aphrodite thought when she was blinded for a second. When she could see again, a tall, black haired woman in an orange/yellow/green dress stood on Demeter's place. Then Aphrodite realized this was Demeter. She stuttered:

"Demeter- how-you-what?!"

Others were also amazed. Athena looked puzzled, and Demeter looked smug.

She sighed and said:
"Finally, it was torture being in the same form. How dares he do this to his own sister!"

"How could you change your form! Tell us!" Ares yelled.

Demeter scoffed and said:
"Dear nephew, I'm one of the Kronos's six children. Zeus has power, but so do I. You're Zeus's children; of course he has more control over you."

Aphrodite felt furious, and almost screamed:
"What about me!? I'm even older than you, Demeter! My father was Uranus, and he was Kronos's father!"

Demeter calmly said:
"I don't know, Aphrodite. Maybe you haven't tried, or love isn't as powerful force as everyone thinks. I'm going to Olympus and say few chosen words to Zeus, excuse me."

What!? How dares she, love is the most powerful on earth, Aphrodite fumed in her thoughts. She was about to open her mouth to shriek to Demeter, when she was interrupted.

"Wait, what about your kids, Demeter?" To everyone's surprise, it was Ares who said this. Demeter now looked uneasy, and answered:

"Well, as much as I would want see my lovely kids; I don't think I would survive there for two weeks. Besides, its summer and Persephone is at Olympus."

Hephaestus frowned and asked:
"What do you mean 'wouldn't survive'? They're just kids."

Demeter chuckled and said:

"Oh, trust me, if you would have to listen to Dionysus complain about what 'the brats' do there, you would go to Olympus too. Also, what if I hear something from my kids that I don't want to? I most certainly don't want hear them curse me to the deepest depths of Tartarus. Now, I'll go. Say hello to Hermes and Apollo from me."

Then she flashed away with a bright light. Silence echoed for a second, and then Athena cleared her throat and said:

Aileen Wright. That's my fake name."

Oh right, the fake names, Aphrodite realized.
She had already forgotten the deal about fake names because of Demeter. But Demeter had said something that put Aphrodite to think:

What if my kids don't like me? What do they think about me? Do I really want to know?

Suddenly they saw a car stopping to the edge of the road. Inside the car were two grinning faces. Hermes had his arm hanging outside the car, and had sunglasses on. He yelled to them:

"Hop in; we don't have the whole day!"

Everyone stood up and stared at the car. It was a white BMW. The roof was solid, and it had five seats.
Aphrodite chuckled and thought; didn't I just know that they would take a BMW…

Hermes said:
"One of you have to go to the trunk, so decide quickly. Don't worry, the trunk is quite roomy. Apollo and I already put out backpacks there. So maybe Athena should go to the trunk, do you think, since she has the third backpack?"

Aphrodite took a glance at Athena, whose eyes were as big as one of her pocket mirrors. Ares and Hephaestus looked at her, waiting, and then she growled and muttered something about ungrateful siblings while she walked to the back of the car.
Hephaestus helped her to get the trunk door closed, and then they got in the car.
The car smelled and looked really clean, which was weir considering that the front and back of the car we're really dusty and covered in mud at the outside.

"Why is the car so messy outside?" Aphrodite asked.

Hermes turned around and looked at the backseat. Aphrodite was sitting in the center, Hephaestus and Ares at both of her sides. He explained:

"If the cops decide to chase us, they won't see our registration number. Clever, eh?"

Aphrodite wouldn't admit it, but it was clever. Then a yell was heard from the trunk:

"Is this car moving anywhere during this century? If I remember right we have a camp to go to!"

Hermes smirked and turned the right way. Aphrodite could imagine Hermes's evil smirk grow when he said to Apollo:

"You heard our half-sis, Apollo. Let's get going!"

Hermes turned on the radio when Apollo turned the key and switched the gear. It was their luck that they were on a small road, so there weren't almost any cars on the road. Apollo curled the car around in speed and started to drive towards Montauk to the beat of Michael Jackson singing on the radio.
Aphrodite couldn't stand it. Apollo drove so fast she was almost glued to her seat and Hermes had his window open so the air that came in came with such a force it messed up Aphrodite's hair badly.
Aphrodite would probably think about multiple ways to kill Hermes and Apollo, if her only thought wouldn't be a long;

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeep!

It seemed that she had also whined out loud because Ares's nervous voice next to her told her to "shut up". Any other time Aphrodite would have slapped him, but at the moment, she was too scared for her life to do such a thing, and too panicked to remember she was immortal.

Hermes and Apollo didn't make her feel any easier when they laughed out loud. In the curves Aphrodite could hear Athena shriek in the trunk. Ares seemed really nervous and cursed at curves.
The only quiet one was Hephaestus, who probably thought what the car was made from. When they had driven for a couple of minutes (no cops behind yet), Hermes turned to the backseat frowning and asked over the noise of radio:

"Where's Demeter?"

Oh right, they don't know, Aphrodite remembered. She said:
"Demeter got her powers back and went to Olympus. She's Zeus's sister, so obviously she could broke the enchantment over her, she has enough power to do so."

Hermes took his sunglasses off and yelled:
"What?! She didn't want to see her kids?"

Since they now were on a mission to see their kids, they didn't care about losing their powers at the moment, it actually helped. They wouldn't get the temptation to use their powers in front of their kids.

Aphrodite shaked her head and then asked:

"Could you tell Apollo to slow down?"

Hermes quickly yelled something to Apollo, who frowning slowed down, thinking about Demeter. From the driver seat Apollo called out:

"Did you figure out fake names yet?"

Athena yelled from the trunk. Her voice sounded like she would throw up soon:
"Aileen Wright!"

Hermes grinned and exclaimed:
"Henry Bullard. Bullard is an old English word for letter."

Aphrodite raised her eyebrows. Now that Hermes talked about it, I remember what my surname means. Bellamy, beautiful friend… Aphrodite thought.

"Hector Smith", Hephaestus quietly said. Hermes smiled at him, and turned back to forth.
"Aron Battle", Ares said, obviously not wanting to be seconded by Hephaestus.

Aphrodite mentally rolled her eyes and thought: Gosh, I wish they would stop fighting. I mean, I know I'm gorgeous, sexy and beautiful and all, but couldn't they stop?

Apollo said:

"I was feeling creative, so I made up a haiku of our adventure."

Oh gods no, Aphrodite muttered inside her brain, not another one of Apollo's haikus!

Apollo cleared his throat and solemnly exclaimed:
"Car's going fast
Olympus away
immortals undercover!"

There was silence and a painful groan from Athena. Aphrodite wasn't sure was it because of the haiku or did she hit something in the trunk. Then Hermes asked:

"What do you mean undercover?"

"And they say you're the god of thieves, Hermes… The kids at the camp don't know who we really are, and we're going to befriend them, getting more information about them. So, we're going to the camp undercover, in fake names and everything", Apollo said like he was explaining something to a little kid.

Hermes blushed and there was silence, expect for snickering from Ares.

Apollo broke the awkward silence:
"Um… Yeah, I think we're almost there. Oh, and my fake name is Anthony Harper, by the way. "

News about getting closer to the camp light up Aphrodite's mood. I get to know my kids! She almost shrieked out of excitement.

It was five p.m. when they saw a huge pine tree on top of a hill. Apollo muttered something about girls turning into trees, and then Hermes yelled:

"Stop!"

He shouted so sudden that Apollo hit the brakes and the car almost spun around. Athena cursed from the trunk and everyone stared at Hermes, waiting to explain why he almost got them all killed. He started to explain:

"We can't go to the camp with the car, right?"

There were murmurs of "no", and he continued:

"So we must leave the car now, and walk rest of the way to the camp. Maybe we can hide it in a nearby bush."

That sounds like a good plan, Aphrodite agreed. Then Athena yelled:

"What about fingerprints Hermes?"

Hermes huffed and said:
"The cops don't have our fingerprints, and we're never going to appear in these forms again anyway, so it doesn't matter. Besides, we're safe at the camp."

"Makes sense to me. Now, let's go, shall we?" Aphrodite mused.

"Yeah, and let me out of the trunk, will you?" Athena suggested.

"Hephaestus?" Hermes asked "Will you let Athena out of the trunk?"

Hephaestus chuckled and opened the car door. He opened the trunk few seconds later, and Aphrodite could hear Athena growl: "Finally, the torture's over!"

When the trunk was shut, Apollo started to park the car into the woods.

When they were out of the car and it was covered with sticks, leafs and other stuff, Ares said:

"Let's go to the camp. And Athena, if you could think of a backup plan, it would be good."

Ares got weird looks that he just shrugged off. Aphrodite smiled and walked next to him. He cares about his kids, isn't that just cute! Aphrodite cooed mentally.

Apollo walked first, Hermes just a little after him, and Hephaestus talking with Athena. Ares walked holding hands with Aphrodite. She felt like that step by step, closer to the camp, her heart swell.

Just a hundred feet, nothing more, she thought.

She started to run, but then a shriek cut her dreamy thoughts, and something huge jumped in front of her. It made a movement towards her, but Ares yanked her out of the way just in time. Aphrodite screamed, and cling to Ares, who looked mad, and closed her eyes.

There was a couple of screams, and when Aphrodite next opened her eyes, she saw a black – haired boy with sea-green eyes and a blond girl with stormy gray eyes over a pile of golden dust. They then noticed Aphrodite and Ares, and friendly said:

"Come, you'll be safe inside camp borders."

Apollo, Hermes, Athena and Hephaestus stood behind them, and signaled them to come. Hephaestus looked a bit worried, but shakes it off quickly. The girl and boy lead Ares and Aphrodite to the top of the hill, under a gate, and Aphrodite sees one of the most beautiful views she's ever seen.

The girl grins and says:

"Welcome to Camp Half-Blood."


A/N: Thank you for reading! I'll try to get inspiration for the next chapter soon. For those that think what kind of pairings will be in this story, I can say that I'll stay in canon as much as I can. I'll try to keep the romance in minimum, since I'm not that big fan of romance anyway. I think it kinda takes away action.