Ok, so the reason I haven't updated for a little bit was becaue I would right the whole chapter, and then I wouldn't realize I wasn't connected to the internet, and it wouldn't save so much as delete what I wrote. So I'm sorry about that!

"Alright, you few, you can't stay all day today. Jackson, you can stay the night because you are direct family. The rest of you, you may visit during breaks. Now shoo!" Madame Pomfrey said to the seven demigods. They all groaned and stepped out into the hallway,must not before saying goodbye to Aria, who was awake again. She tried to respond, but would groan every time she tried to say something. "Oh gods, Bob, please get here soon," Annabeh thought, when Jason brought up a topic that was on everybody's minds, "So, you guys ready to put your names in the cup?" He asked. Everyone silently nodded, and Percy said, "I'll put in Aria's name. Professor McGonagall did say we all had to put our names in." Everyone nodded, and Reyna took out a piece of parchment, ripping it up into seven pieces, and handing them out, giving two to Percy. They all wrote their names on them, and stepped into the great hall, where a huge crowd was conjured, all wanting to see who put their names in the cup. The six walked forward and dropped the cards into the flames, causing applause to ring out among the crowd. Jason gave Reyna a confused look, who just shrugged. Then, Cedric Diggoey came up and put his name in the goblet, causing more applause. The six walked out into an empty hallway, Nico skulking in the back. When they passed a door leading to a classroom, three pairs of hands shot out, grabbing him and muffling his calls for help.

They dragged Nico into the room, and shut and locked the door. "WHAT THE STYX WAS THAT ABOUT?" Nico roared, once Ron took his hands away from the boy's mouth. "DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT I COULD HAVE KILLED YOU, YOU IDIOTS!" Then he clamped his mouth shut, surprised at what he had let slip, including the tip of his sword, which was now peaking out from under his robes. He quickly covered it up again, before the three noticed. Hermione said, "I highly doubt that. Now, we just have a few questions for you. First off, what religion are you?" Nico froze, his eyes wide. "Uh, none. I don't believe in any God, neither do my friends." The sky rumbled and Nico winced, Ron nodded his head, unconvinced, "Uh huh. Then why did we hear Percy and Leo talking about gods?" Nico winced again, "If they were, I don't know why." He replied. Suddenly, there were loud footsteps outside the door. "Where's Nico?" A male voice said. Another voice replied, "I don't know! He was right behind us! Nico! Nico, where are you?" Before Nico could reply Hermione pointed her wand at the door and said, "Muffliato! You are not leaving before we finish asking questions, Nico." Nico glared, and the three wizards shrunk back. That kid could be scary. "Now, what does Zeus have to do with this." Harry asked. Nico glared even more, "Where did you get this information, because it is all false." Harry, Ron, and Hermione all gave each other a look that said, "We're done." Ron said, "That's not important. Er, you can go now."

He stood up, and unlocked the door, pushing Nico out. Nico stumbled and ran right into Jason. "Nico! Thank the gods! What happened? Where were you? Percy went back to the dorms, Annabeth went to the teachers, Reyna is asking the other students, Leo and I were running through the hallways, basically everyone is worried sick!" He said. Nico grumbled, "Don't see why. Not like I'm anything important. I'm just the outcast son of Hades." Jason stepped forward, put one hand on Nico's shoulder, and with the other, slapped him as hard as he could across the face. "Ow! What was that for?" Nico exclaimed. Jason simply said, "Snap out of it! Can't you see that everyone here cares about you! Now where were you?" Nico looked at the ground and responded, "The golden trio. They pulled me into an abandoned classroom, and started questioning me. They somehow found out about Zeus, and asked me what religion I was. That's when they heard you guys running through the hallways, and shoved me out." Jason sighed, "Well, now we need to go find the other four. Come on."

"Well, that was a bust." Harry said, sitting down to dinner with Ron and Hermione. Hermione shook her head, "Not completely. We learned that the secret is bigger than we first thought. I assumed it was something small. I say, that tonight we wait in the common room under the invisibility cloak until Percy leaves to see his sister. We follow him, we listen in on their conversation, and then over the weekend we do research." Harry and Ron both groaned at the prospect of spending a nice, sunny weekend in the dusty library, but agreed, being as curious as they are.

Percy walked into the hospital wing and took his usual seat next to his sister. She was awake, but as pale as a sheet. Not the sheets that covered her bed, though. Those were bloodstained. "Do you think anyone is coming to help?" Aria asked her brother. He took a deep intake and said, "Yeah, sure. Why not?" Aria shook her head, "Percy I know what Keres poison does. What if I actually do die?" Percy glared. "Don't you dare think like that Arianna Olympia Jackson!" Aria winced as her brother used her full name, "I know for a fact that you wouldn't do that to mom. Or Dad. Or your other moms and dads." Aria shrugged, and before she could respond, the doors flew open and a man with silver Einstein hair strode in. "Bob!" Percy exclaimed, "Oh gods, Bob! How, what, when, where, how did you get out?" Bob held up a hand to silence Percy, and said, "Bob will tell you in a moment." He walked over to Aria and said, "Owie." He bent down and touched her stomach, muttering something Percy didn't catch, but when he stepped back color was already returning to Aria's face. "Bob has left it bleeding so wizards don't get suspicious, but Bob has stopped the poison." Aria smiled, but then said, "Alright Percy, I'm going to tell you something that you have to swear on the River Styx not to tell anyone else." Percy said, "I swear on the River Styx." Aria then said, "I, I haven't been to Tartarus just once. I've been there twice." Percy gaped at her. "What?" He exclaimed, and Aria quickly shushed him, "The second time was when you and Annabeth fell. Word got to Olympus fast, and I was so worried, that I ran to the underworld and before I could really think, I jumped into the pit. I was immediately surrounded, so many Giants and Titans. They, they tortured me so much..." Bob picked up from there, "Bob had just finished pressing the button, and Bob and Damasen had fought our way out of the monsters, when I heard a scream. My first thought was Annabeth hadn't made it out, so Bob movd in the direction in the scream. What I found was a brown haired girl chained to a wall, caked in her own blood. Monsters were in a line, and when one got to the front, it would get a chance to cause more pain to the girl, then it would go to the back to wait for it's next turn. Bob and Damasen saved it, and us three searched for the doors of death for a very long time. It took us many months to finally track it down, and when we did Damasen held the button. He told us to go, so I ran to Olympus, supporting Aria, and then went to work in the underworld again. I have been there ever since, well until I was needed here." Percy's mouth hung open, and Bob said, "Bob must go now. Goodbye, and do not tell the others I was here." With that, Bob stood up and departed.

Hermione looked down at her notebook, and at the words scrawled in it, "Okay, so I have the River Styx, Tartarus, Olympus, when Percy and Annabeth fell, Giants, Titans, who is Bob, monsters, Damasen, the doors of death, and the underworld. Did I miss anything?" Ron and Harry shook their heads, and the re set off for the library.

October came, and Hogwarts declaimed that this Halloween, everyone should dress up for their classes, and for a dance they were going to have to celebrate the names coming out of the cup, and the beginning of the tournament. Every student was given a catalog to order their costume out of, and Percy was very excited.

"Come on guys!" He said, holding up his catalog, "We need to get our costumes." Aria looked up from re bandaging her stomach, "Uh, I'm just going to ask Dad to send me one of my sets of armor." Nico nodded, "I'm with her, only I only have one set of armor, Stygian iron." Reyna said, "I am going to wear my Praetor uniform." Jason said, "I'll be superman." Annabeth said, "I don't know yet, what are you going to be, Percy?" Percy smiled, "The best superhero ever, Aqua Lad."

Ron was equally excited, "I hear a new costume shop open up down in Hogsmeade. God thing a trip is this weekend. What are you going to be, Harry?" Harry shrugged his shoulders, "I don't know." Hermione rolled her eyes, "Actually, I have an idea as to what we should all be. I discovered that everything they were talking about was from Greek mythology, so maybe we can get them to spill their secrets by dressing up like greek gods." Harry and Ron gaped at her, and Ron said, "Er, actually, I was going to be a Quidditch player." Hermione sighed, and Harry said, "You can Hermione, it's just this is the one time we can dress up crazy at Hogwarts and not have everyone think we're mad." Hermione sighed again.

The day before Halloween, October 30th arrived, and parcels dropped in front of all the students front and left. Three of the American's parcels landed with a sound of metal hitting metal, and Harry wondered what it could be. Aria peeked in her's and smiled, "Yes! Dad sent the right set!" Leo tried to peek inside, but Aria slapped him away, "No." She said, and Harry saw Percy nod at Leo. Leo took a deep breath and said, "Aria, I was wondering if maybe you want to go to the dance with the hottest guy in school, literally." Aria giggled, and said, "Yes, but your pants are on fire." Leo looked down, and quickly patted his pants. Harry could have sworn he saw smoke rising up from his legs. He turned back to Ron and Hermione and said, "We don't have to have a date for this one, right?" Hermione shook her head, "No, only for the Yule Ball." Harry sighed and went back to eating his cereal. Dumbledore stood up, and said, "Now everyone, I know that you all got your costumes, so after breakfast, is a free period for everyone! This period is to be used to try on your costumes, make alterations, anything you'll need to do to get ready for the ball tomorrow. Now, let's go! No use being lazy."

Aria, Annabeth, and Reyna all ran into the room to look at Aria's armor. Annabeth had settled on a Grecian dress that her mom sent. Aria smiled and said, "Okay,money sent me my absolute favorite set of armor." With that, she lifted a light blue breast plate out of her bag, embedded with sea green jewels and emeralds, and, right on the front, engraved with two sea horses, and the words, "γεννηθηκαν στη θαλασα, τιρωταθλητης των θεων, κόρη του Ολμπου". Reyna ran her fingers over it, "It's beautiful," she said, just as the rest of the dorm came in. Aria quickly stowed it away in her bag, and murmured in Reyna's ear, "Growing up on Olympus has it's perks," and went to re bandage her stomach, again.

Aria woke up the next morning and noticed something, it was dark outside, but light was coming from somewhere. She looked around and couldn't find a source anywhere, until she looked at her stomach. To her disbelief a bright, golden glow was emitting from her bandages. She unwrapped them, and noticed something was heeling her cuts. She stared in wonder as the skin knitted itself back together, and left only faint white scars, which blended in with all of the others. Aria had seen many strange things, but never cuts lingering for so long and then just healing. She did the only logical thing, she passed out.

Annabeth shook her friends shoulders, then muttered to Reyna, "She's as bad as her brother," Reyna looked at her and said, "Should we wake her up by giving her a scare? It is Halloween." Annabeth nodded her head, leaned over, and said in Aria's ear, "Aria, we fell into Tartarus again." Aria sat up, wide eyed, then glared at the two girls, "You guys, that almost gave me a heart attack! Why would you do that?" Annabeth shook her head, "It's Halloween! Come on, put on your armor! I want to see it on you! We'll braid your hair, and then you can have your sword out all day! No one will freak! Oo, should we paint some scars on your face?" Aria shook her head, "There's no need to paint on scars," she said, wiping away the concealer that covered her many cuts and scars that littered her face. Annabeth and Reyna gasped, but Aria said, "Now, let's get ready for Halloween!" She put on a smile, and the three girls got ready. When Aria finished putting on every piece of metal, she looked more regal than ever, with her shins, forearms, torsos, and feet covered in the light blue material, and wearing just jeans and a camp T-shirt underneath. An obsidian colored cape draped from her shoulders onto the floor, ripped in many places and the bottom was tattered and frayed. The armor itself had quite a few dents and scratches.

Reyna gave her a waterfall braid, going into a larger braid that hung over her shoulder, while Annabeth braided Reyna'shair, and Aria braided Annabeth's. Then, Reyna slipped into her toga, her golden armor, and her purple cape. Aria clapped, and Annabeth slipped into her dress. "It's a hand-me down from Mom," she said. Reyna shrugged, "It pays to be a hero of Olympus." The three girls laughed, but Aria winced as they hurt her scars. The make up she'd worn had been from Apollo, not Aphrodite. It wasn't just to hide the scars, but to keep them from hurting too much. Annabeth asked how she had gotten a particularly long one that crossed her nose. "Well, this one was from my first time," she responded, "A particularly nasty wild centaur caught his horns across the bridge of my nose. I couldn't kill him, because, you know, Chiron, so I just kinda knocked him out and then ran like Tartarus himself was chasing me. Which, later on, he very well was, but today is Halloween, so let's go down and show off our outfits! The rest of the house is already gone." The other two nodded, and the red of them departed for the common room, hoping to catch up with the rest of the demigods.

Nico sulked in the common room, reliving the night before. He had snuck out of the common room because his head was so full of thoughts of his last encounter with his dad. Nico had walked out of the portrait hole, and down the staircase, only to be met with a ghost. Nico was already infuriated by what his dad had told him, that when the ghost said, "Now see here, boy, you have no reason to be out this late. You listen to me and go back to your common room," he had snapped. He shouted at the ghost, "No! I am the Ghost King, Son of Hades, you listen to me!" The shadows had started dancing, and Nico had his sword in hand. The ghost had gasped, right before Nico had put his hand forward, and an army of skeletons burst out of a crevis in the ground, dragged the protesting spirit back into the underworld, "I hope to see you in the fields of punishment," Nico had said, before the gap closed, forever.

Nico noticed the first years hurrying past him on their way to class. He noticed how the wizards gasped when they saw him. He saw them whispering, and he heard the rumors. Nico noticed it all. He heard footsteps and turned to see Percy, in his blue suit, with his hair greased back, and Jason, with his red cape trailing behind him.

"Hey, Nico, have you seen Leo?" Jason asked. Nico shook his head. Just then, there was a loud clanking sound outside the corridor, and a voice that sounded like Leo's said, "Exit, Americans, if you dare." Jason rolled his eyes, "Oh gods," he said. The three stepped out of the portrait hole, and we're looking at the stomach of a giant bronze man with the head of a Leo. "Wow, that is something else," Jason said. Leo smiled, "I know, right? Ooo, Oo, check this out!"

Suddenly, there was a flaming bronze man standing in front of them. When the flames subsided, the only hing different was Leo had singed his hair a little bit. "I found fireproof metal! Hey Nico, your armor looks sick."

Then, portrait hole swung open again, and Annabeth and Reyna stepped out, along with a girl covered in scars... "Holy Hephaestus! Oh my gods! Aria you did a wicked job with your makeup! Gods of Olympus!" Upon closer examination, Nico realized that it was, in fact, Aria. Aria nervously said, "Yeah, makeup, that's what it is." Percy gave her a concerned look, "It's not makeup, is it?" Aria said, "Hey, let's go to breakfast," and strode off at high speed down the corridor. The other demigods had no choice but to follow her.

Harry thought his costume looked amazing. The American transfers were incredible! Aria stepped into the great hall, and everyone went silent. The emeralds glinted in the candlelight, and the plume of her helmet looked exactly like horsehair. Her cape had holes and the end was tattered, and the whole armor set looked like it had seen war. She also held a very real looking bronze sword at her side, gripping it like it was her lifeline. Her face wa covered in scars, and for a moment Harry believed they were real.

The next person to come in was Reyna, wearing a golden breastplate, purple cape and roman toga. She held a spear like thing, and gave off an aura of leadership that seemed to have been enhanced ten times from her usual.

Percy came in next, and he truly looked like a super hero, with his muscles being brought out more by the tight suit, along with Jason, who Harry could have sworn was hovering.

Annabeth was holding Percy's hand, and looking like a true Grecian goddess, falling off of her in layers, and slightly shimmering in the light, almost like the inside of a seashell. She had bracelets circling her arms, and a small petite crown resting on her head.

Leo entered next, and Harry was pretty sure he was his dragon turned human. Leo had gown at least two feet, for he was now taller than Jason, and seemed to be made entirely of metal.

Finally, Nico came in. He looked both impressive and creepy. Excess on the creepy. His black armor seemed to occasionally have a screaming face float onto it, his black horse hair plume swayed as he walked, and his sword looked as real as Aria's. He didn't look like he had slept that night, and most of the kids around him backed away a few feet.

Suddenly, there was a loud barking from down the hall, and all the demigods ran out. Ron, Hermione, and Harry all shared a look before running out as well. Hermione's costume wasn't nearly as impressive as Annabeth's, with its plain white color, and lumpy shape it looked more like a sheet. Ron looked like a professional chudley canons player, and Harry looked like, well, like a traditional ninja, with plastic nunchucks and throwing stars.

When the three stepped into the hallway, they couldn't believe their eyes. Ten huge black dogs stood, facing the Americans, and the seven Americans all had weapons out. Percy had a long, bronze sword fairly like Aria's, Annabeth had a dagger, Jason had a golden sword, and Leo had hopped out of his suit of armor and was holding a hammer that was on fire. The few all nodded, and charged. Jason was suddenly circled in electricity, Nico had a field of shadows, and there were skeletons everywhere, dressed in armor and holding swords. Percy was surrounded by water, and Aria had an electric hurricane surrounding her. Suddenly, Leo was thrown past Harry. He stood up and said, "Alright, now you made the McSchizzle mad!" He rubbed his hands together, and had a ball of fire floating in his palm. He threw it like a baseball, and the flames hit one of the monsters right between the eyes, causing it to explode into dust.

Percy knelt down, allowing Annabeth to spring off of his back and onto the back of one of the beasts. She stabbed her dagger deep into the monster's hide, and more dust littered the floor.

Jason electrocuted three of them, the skeleton warriors took one down, Aria cleaning slashed two of the heads off, Percy threw his sword and it hit the beast in it's side, and Reyna got her spear straight into the belly of the last one. The group high fived each other, before Ron said, "What the- how did you- It just- it just went poof!" The group spun around, and Reyna said, "Well, that's our cover blown." Aria rolled her eyes and walked up to them. "You will walk into the great hall and take your seats at the table. Then, you will completely forget any of this ever happened." She said, and snapped her fingers. The three walked in a daze back to the hall.

Jason and Aria blew all of the dust out of the hall, and Percy made the lake swallow it up. Nico caused the shadows to absorb any of the remaining dust that hadn't been caught in the wind. "Okay, I'm hungry now." Percy said, and the others agreed with him. Halloween had begun.

Jason decided that he probably should IM Piper. He hadn't in like, it was the end of October so, two months. Wow. That afternoon he asked Percy to make a small mist of water, and he threw in a drachma. "Oh Iris, Goddess of the Rainbow, show me Piper McLean."

Piper was, to say the least startled, to say the most completely freaked out when her boyfriend appeared in front of her during dinner. She was looking down at her spaghetti when she heard a familiar voice say, "Pipes!" She looked up and was face to face with Jason Grace. It scared her so much that she fell out of her chair. What scared her more was that he was wearing an actual superman costume. "Happy Halloween!" He said, laughing, when she sat back up again. Piper sighed a breath of relief, "Oh, right, it's halloween. Gods, Jason, for a moment I thought you were prancing around a school in tights." She heard a laugh come from outside the IM, and Piper said, "Alright, who else is there?" A fish came flying across the view, and Piper immediately knew who it was. Deciding to play a little prank, she said,

"Boy, I sure am glad Sally made all of these blue cookies for the camp, and told us not to give any to Percy." Immediately, a black haired boy was in vision, searching everywhere he could see for the treats, "Cookies?" He said, "Where are you, cookies? Come out come out wherever you are." Piper broke down laughing, and now the whole table saw who she was talking to. "Piper! How could you be so mean! Dinner isn't for another good five hours. I am so hungry! Did you know they don't call cookies cookies here? I mean, what the Hades is a biscuit? And why don't they make any blue ones?" Piper shook her head, when footsteps were heard from the other side. Jason looked at something out of sight frantically, and said, "I'll talk to you later. Bye Piper!" And he slashed his hand through the mist, breaking the connection.