"Hey, what are you doing sitting out here?" It was Annabeth, I knew that long, beautiful, blonde hair anywhere. I jumped up and hugged her. She had been gone for almost a month and I missed her so much.

"How are you? How did it go? Any word on Percy? Where did you check? Are the gods still not helping? Are there any leads?" I took a deep breath and Annabeth laughed.

"Still the same old Terra. I'm fine, the search was uneventful and yielded no clues or anything so we still have no idea where Percy is or how to find him." She sighed and it appeared as though the light had left her eyes. I hugged her again.

"We will find him." She nodded solemnly. "Anyway, what are you at the big house for?"

"Oh I was here earlier this morning, I had to talk to Rachel but she was talking with Nico so I said I would come back. I went to find you but I didn't know where-"

"Wait what?"

"I was looking for you but I didn't-"

"No not that." My eyebrows were furrowed in concentration as I played back what she said. "You said Rachel was with Nico?"

"Yeah, she said she was busy with Nico and would be for a while." She looked confused as to why I was making a big deal out of it, Rachel and Nico were friends, just like a lot of people at camp, it shouldn't be weird for them to be hanging out. But it was when they were both lying to me.

"Do you know what they were doing?"

"Nope. She just said they had stuff to do and to come back in a couple hours. That was 2 hours ago."

"Well, apparently she is still with him."

"Is everything okay? You look really…torn." She placed her hand on my shoulder and looked kindly into my eyes and smiled. Her smile was contagious because it shone from such a beautiful face.

"I'm fine." I smiled, trying to throw her off. "I missed you though. I hope I can go next time we go searching for Percy. I had to stay behind this time to help my brother, Leo, and Piper but we didn't even get another quest while you were gone. Is Butch back too?"

"No, he is still searching, I am gonna meet up with him in a couple days. I am hoping to recruit some more campers to help out. We have a ton already but we need more." She sighed again and I could see how hard she was trying to stay strong.

"I bet Percy is trying just as hard to get back to us as we are to get to him" I said in an attempt to make her feel better and throw her off from being concerned for me. She nodded in agreement because this, if anything, was true. We all know how much Percy loves Annabeth and camp and his friends and his mom, there is no way he would get kidnapped or run away or anything without trying to get back.

"Well there was a couple years ago when he ended up on Calypso's Island after he blasted himself out of that mountain." Annabeth said, half laughing at the memory. "And we all thought he was dead…missing for 6 weeks and all." I froze, my eyes went wide and I completely blanked. "You alright? Terra!" Annabeth shook me back to reality; I saw her face come into focus. I was sitting on the steps again.

"Annabeth…" I muttered, still staring off into the distance. She asked me what I was trying to say and I continued. "The island!" I shouted, suddenly coming completely back to reality.

"What about it?" She asked, shocked by my sudden outburst. '

"Has anyone checked there?" I grabbed her shoulders, suddenly this became very urgent.

"Uh…no we don't know how to get there…Terra, do you think he could have somehow ended up there again?" She thought it over for a second. "You know, that isn't too farfetched, I mean the whole going back there in just a couple short years when most demi-gods never even go there once is farfetched, but otherwise… it makes sense." She ran a hand through her hair which was down for once. "But even if he might be there, we still have no idea how to get there, the island is constantly in different places and the gods purposefully hide it from being found."

"I think I know a god that might help."

"Who?" Annabeth asked.

"Hermes. Not only does he know where everything is, but he thinks of me as a daughter, he even told me so after Luke died, he had mentioned how he hoped me and Luke would get married…" I trailed off, trying not to get upset. "Anyway, if anyone will help us, it would be him."

"Perfect, now we just have to figure out how to get to him since your father, so conveniently closed Olympus." She said sarcastically.

"Good point…" We both sat in silence for a few minutes, pondering what we could do. "Well, why don't we ask Rachel? She might have an idea."

"Sounds good to me. But oh wait…isn't she still with Nico?" I cringed, forgetting that they were up there and I didn't know why.

"Right…how about Chiron then?" Annabeth suggested. She held out her hand, helping me to my feet. "Shall we?" I nodded and we entered into the big house. I didn't hear anything from upstairs, but Rachel and Nico could have just been being very quiet.

We walked into the main hallway right up to the doorway of the room Chiron and Dionysus were in. It appeared as though the fighting had stopped because they were now discussing how the décor of the room needed to be filled with more food. I didn't understand that fight, but whatever.

"Chiron." Annabeth said as she walked into the room. He stood up, pulling his horse parts out of the wheelchair, and smiling at Annabeth.

"Hello, my dear, how was your journey?"

"It was long, and didn't give us any new information." She hesitated. He hugged her and turned to me.

"Weren't you just here?" He asked me.

"Yep, and I am back." I smiled. Dionysus scoffed in the corner apparently not very pleased to see me again so soon.

"Well that's quite alright." He responded. "Now what is it you need to talk about?" Chiron said, encouraging us to continue on with what we were here for.

"Terra thinks that Percy might be on Calypso's island…again." Annabeth said while trying to contain her excitement at having any kind of lead to follow. Chiron didn't look completely convinced and Dionysus couldn't care less.

"Well, I suppose it is worth a try." Chiron finally said.

"Except for the small fact that no one can find it." Dionysus chimed in. He was currently rubbing his fat stomach, probably thinking about what he would eat for dinner tonight.

"I already thought of that." I retorted. The god of wine flashed me the hairy eyeball and I ignored him, continuing on with what I was saying. "I think Hermes would be willing to help us. If anyone besides my father knows where her island is it would be him. And he doesn't seem to like me quite a bit"

"The question is whether or not he likes you enough to disobey the big guy, Zeus…your father." Dionysus added, fiddling with an empty grape vine. It was slowly growing new grapes and he was slowly pulling them off and eating them at various stages of their growth. I, once again, ignored his comment.

"We were wondering if you know a way to get into contact with Hermes since my father closed off Olympus." I asked Chiron.

"Well…there is a place where he often visits, it is said that if you go there and speak into a fountain there that Hermes will hear you and respond, if not come there. It is his birthplace on Mount Cylene in Arcadia. I don't know the exact location on the mountain but it is said that it is guarded by a giant serpent. It is a basilisk…I don't know if that deters you from wanting to go."

"Not really, any lead to Percy will help. I can Iris Butch and he can come with us." Annabeth said. "At least that's one more person to help us out."

"And I am sure Nico would want to come too." I added. 'If he ever gets out of Rachel's room' I thought to myself.

"Well, if you insist on going I won't be able to stop you." Chiron sighed. "You can leave tomorrow morning. Take the night to rest up and prepare. I am certain the journey to Calypso's Island will not be an easy one."

"We have probably had worse." I said, giving a lighthearted smirk. Everyone nodded solemnly, even Dionysus.

"So should we see Rachel and get a prophecy?" Annabeth asked.

"I suppose you should." Chiron put himself back into his wheelchair and turned back to the table where a game of checkers was set up. "You can head up to her room if you wish." And with that the two immortals set about a heated game of checkers.

Annabeth and I made our way up the stairs, against my better judgment. I could only imagine what they were doing in that room…I didn't want to know. Well that's a lie, I really wanted to know but I had a feeling I would wish I hadn't known afterwards. I tend to make little to no sense most of the time…

Annabeth knocked on the door. "Rachel? I know you said to come back later, but I need a prophecy from you." She turned to me. "Did that sound rude?" I shrugged, and then nodded. We both laughed. "Oops," she said.

The door opened, fully this time and Rachel gestured for us to come in, seemingly a bit shocked to see me with Annabeth. "Sorry about earlier, I was just busy with something, I hope I didn't upset you or anything, Terra because I really didn't mean to." She was apologizing a little too profusely, which didn't help with the fact that I already thought she was up to something. But I shrugged.

"Its fine, it gave me and Annabeth an opportunity to talk and figure out a lead to find Percy. Not saying it will work, but it is something new to try." I moved to sit on Rachel's disgustingly pink and fluffy bed.

"So what it is?" Rachel asked, taking a seat on the window sill. Annabeth stayed standing.

"We think Percy might have ended up on Calypso's island again."

"Annabeth…come on now. The likely-hood of that happening twice to someone…" Rachel stopped talking once she saw the look on both of our faces. We did not want to be told it was stupid to search for our friend. "Okay okay. So you need a prophecy for your mission, is that it?"

"Yep, that sums it up good." I answered.

"Okay, well give me a second." Rachel pulled a pillow off her bed and threw it on the floor. She then sat, Indian style, on top of it. Annabeth and I knew the drill: stay completely quiet until the Oracle was done speaking and then try not to let Rachel hurt herself when she fell unconscious. Green smoke began billowing around Rachel in a clockwise motion while strange noises started omitting themselves from Rachel's throat. And then her eyes flew open, glowing green:

"Trust the liar to find the truth

Amidst the dark you will find the lost youth

Beware the eyes and beak

The imitations of what voices speak

Lost and found and lost again

Untold sorrow and pain" And then she collapsed sideways into Annabeth's waiting arms. Rachel was out cold so I got up and helped Annabeth move her to the bed.

"So…this mission sounds super fun." I joked as we pulled the covers over the redheaded Oracle.

"Yeah, I don't get most of it though." The blonde headed daughter of Athena stated. I scoffed at her.

"The fact that you even get a bit of it confounds me."

"Well the 'amidst the dark you will find the lost youth' is, hopefully, referring to Percy. When she said 'Beware the eyes' she was probably talking about the Basilisk that guards Hermes' fountain. And the 'lost and found and lost again' probably means Percy too….which sucks." She collapsed onto the side of the bed, obviously frustrated.

"Hey, don't worry about it. You never understand these things until the moment that they are even remotely relevant, or afterwards…usually after." I cracked a smile and Annabeth let a small smile creep into the corner of her mouth.

"You're right; I shouldn't sit here trying to figure it out. What I should be doing is Irising Butch so he will come back to camp for tomorrow. You should go find Nico and see if he is willing to help us."

"Yeah…" I turned away from her and headed towards the door. "I'll go see if he is here yet, it's almost 3 anyway." I closed the door to Rachel's room behind me and headed down the staircase. 'Yeah, I totally want Nico on this mission with me' I said to myself sarcastically. "What could be more helpful or fun than someone who lies to you about who he is with?"

"I don't know what?" Nico was right in front of me at the bottom of the steps. It appeared as though he had just come out of the room that Chiron and Dionysus were in, but somehow I feel like that's just a ruse.

"Did I say that out loud? Silly me…" I said, playing it like nothing was wrong. "So, while I have you here, I have something to ask." He looked nervous, or what that just an illusion? Now he looked perfectly normal. I hate not being able to read him all the time.

"What do you need?" He said, completely calm and normal, even with a hint of a smile.

"How would you like to go on a quest with me, Annabeth, and Butch to try to find Calypso's island and face certain death and what not? Like the good old days?"

"I was hoping I would be asked to go on one soon." He smiled and we headed outside so I could explain the mission to him.