HI PEOPLE! Sorry I haven't updated any of my stories. My computer crashed :( and I had finals. Hopefully I will be abel to update more often. I still don't know if I like this story or not. This chapter isn't that great but I need to get the info about the mission out so I can get to the next chapter. OMG I can't wait to release the next chapter, it is the reason why I wrote this story. LOL I can't wait. Anyways please review and tell me what you think. Thanks.


They made it to Central Park with two minutes to spare.

"Now what?" Percy asked Thalia.

"I'm not sure. Artemis didn't say where in Central Park," she answered.

They wandered around for a few minutes and finally reached the middle of the park where a giant fountain stood.

"Great, we missed the message just because we didn't know where to go," Nico yawed.

Thalia looked at Percy, "Let's take break. We're doing no good just wandering mindlessly around the park at midnight."

She did have a point. The summer was hot and sticky making it very uncomfortable. We sat down next to each other on the fountain's edge. Surrounding us was a garden of sleeping flowers. The fountain was off so the only sound was our own breathing.

Thalia was lost in thought and Nico looked half asleep. I tried to forget out what we should do next. There was nothing we could do if didn't know where to go. Beside you think if an all powerful God wanted us to do something for him, he would at lease be able to find them.

"Percy, stop doing that. It's annoying," Thalia growled.

"What?"

"That water thing." She point to my hand that I now realized was making circling motion while I was thinking. The motion had cause the still water to left from the fountain and form shapes in the air. Nico watched on somewhat amused.

"Sorry," I said embarrassedly. I lowered my hand too quickly causing the water to fall and splash Thalia. She was about to shock me when Nico saved my life.

"Hey look!" He pointed towards the flower bed that began to grow. The flower sprung to life. Behind us the fountain began to flow.

"Percy!" Thalia looked angrily at me.

"Hey, it wasn't me." I raise my hands in defense.

A warm glow started to fill the area and I closed my eyes hoping the other would do the same. I think we found our God.

The glow shown brightly even through my closed eye lids and suddenly died off.

"You can open your eyes now children," A gentile female voice talk to us.

Standing before us was teenage looking girl, around the age of twenty. Head to foot she was covered in flowers of all different colors, braided into her red hair and tied to her clothes. She wore a flower print skirt and pink top.

"Persephone!" Nico gasped.

I had heard of Persephone. She was the goddess of springtime and wife of Hades, though not by choice. She was kidnapped by Hades one day and dragged to the Underworld where she unfortunately ate some of its food. Once you eat the food of the Underworld you can never leave but her mother, Demeter, fought back. In the end Hades made a deal with Demeter stating that Persephone would spend spring and summer with her mother and fall and winter with Hades. It was her visits that cause the seasons.

"Are you the god looking for us," Thalia asked her.

"Yes. I asked Artemis to send you all hear because I need you help." She a beautiful, calming voice that would make me agree to jump off a cliff she ask me too.

"Our help?" Thalia asked.

"Yea, well not just me, but Hades too. Really this could affect all Olympus."

"My dad needs our help?" Nico asked.

"You see, after the Titains were defeated and the gods were settling down in their place, Hades made a request. My husband didn't think his symbol of power was powerful enough. What good is a helm of darkness when you fighting the power of lighting and the ocean. He thought it was unfair that his weapon was a defensive one when his brothers' weapons were offensive. So he made a request to be made a new one."

"And how did that go?" I asked.

"Oh not good at all, the council rejected and Hades got angry and well Pompeii really wasn't that important," Peresphone mumbled.

The three of us looked at each other.

"That wasn't the end of it, was it?" Thalia asked.

"No, after things cooled down, Hades…," she looked at us, "I can trust you three, can't I?"

"Um yea, I guess," I answered unconfidently.

"I would never betray my father," Nico stated.

Thalia rolled her eyes, "It's not like we talk our dads very often.

Peresphone seemed convinced. "Very well, Hades had another weapon of power made, a sword."

"What can it do?" I asked.

The ground shook below us.

"I rather not say," Persephone said nervously, "I few months ago it was stolen from the Underworld."

"By who?" I asked.

"We don't know who, but the Furies were able to track the thief down to Philadelphia."

"Philadelphia?" Thalia retorted.

"Yea, but with all those tourists the Furies lost the scent and with some many people it make it hard from them to blend in. That's why we need your help. We need you to go to Philadelphia, find the thief and return the Sword of Hades back to the Underworld before the other gods discover it." She smiled as if she just asked us to open a pickle jar.

"Or what?" Thalia questioned.

"Or the gods will start World War III," she said sadly.

"You're in luck. Preventing World War III is my specialty," I agreed.

"I'm in too!" Nico shouted.

"I guess I don't have a choice," Thalia remarked.

"Oh good!" Peresphone seemed pleased with herself, "You must hurry. Thank you heroes." She glowed brightly again and disappeared when we had open our eyes again.


Yea sorry for the random Philadelphia. I need a place for them to go and Philadelphia is the only place on the east coast I have visited. I know it's random but at lease it will be real! Percy, Thalia and Nico are visiting the Liberty Bell LOL. Anyways like I said the next chapter OMG so review so I can put it up SQUEE!