A/N: HAHAHAHAH! I have finished the full chapter seven! Now, everyone who reads this feel sorry for the people who read my other story "The Revenge of Uncle Vinnie" because I have major writers' block for that story and it likely won't be updated for a long time.

-Cynder2013

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Chapter 7

Sapphire POV

The next morning she headed to the Athena cabin, again.

People steered clear of her like she was a plague. Being a child of Hades was something they could get acclimated to; having two godly parents evidentially warranted mass avoidance.

Sapphire heard two distinct voices as she reached Cabin Six. She knocked on the door and they halted. There was a tapping of footsteps and the door was opened by Annabeth. Percy was behind her. Neither of them looked surprised to see her.

"Come in." Annabeth said, opening the door wider.

"Why do I feel like you were just talking about me?" Sapphire joked as she entered.

Annabeth and Percy looked at each other warily.

"I'm joking." Sapphire said.

'Yeash, two wars against formally mythical monsters and they take everything seriously.' Sapphire thought, but then she berated herself. 'Being claimed twice has messed with my head.'

"I guess you know why I'm here." She began pacing. Intense battle reflexes, ADHD, sucked at times like this.

Annabeth began to pull books from the selves without a word. Percy sat down in the chair Sapphire had occupied the day before. As Sapphire turned around her sword hit the chairs' leg, causing Percy to jump.

"Can't you put that away?" He asked.

For a moment Sapphire was confused. Then she realized that he meant for her to put away her sword. Then she was confused again.

"How?" I wasn't like she had a pen cap to put on the end of it.

"I don't know. Didn't Nico teach you anything?"

Ouch. Percy had a bad few years but still. Ouch.

Sapphire bent her head to examine the hilt of her sword. And to avoid spitting out a retort that she'd regret later.

There wasn't anything that seemed able to help except the silver skull on the end. Seeing as there really wasn't anything else to do (since Annabeth was still running around collecting books) she started to fiddle with the adornment.

Pushing it gave no results as did pulling it. When she attempted to twist it to the right it wouldn't budge. Finally she tried a counter clockwise turn. The skull moved easily with a small clicking sound. Her entire sword then seemed to be absorbed into the shrinking silver skull. Swift Deaths' scabbard also shrunk until Sapphire was left holding a silver skull ring and a very particular necklace.

The silver chain was choker length and thick for a girl. There were three charms hanging from it, two claw-shaped black stones either side of an arrowhead shaped clear stone. As she spent plenty of time working in her parents' shop, a combination jewelry and flower store, Sapphire could easily identify the stones as onyx and diamond. Upon closer inspection she saw that the onyx was carved with a pattern of vines on one and a crowned skull on the other.

"Wow." Percy said flatly, since really nothing could surprise him anymore. "That's what you get if your dad's the god of riches I guess."

"Riptide is cooler." Sapphire said, "Though that might be because it's the first magic sword I ever heard of."

"Nice of you to say."

"I aim to please."

Annabeth had finally collected all of the scrolls, books, and albums that she wanted. As she placed them on the table there was a knock at the door.

"I'll get it." Sapphire put on her new jewelry and walked to open the door.

Standing outside was a satyr that was not wielding a club and wearing a 'Got Hooves?' t-shirt so Sapphire assumed that it was Grover.

"Hi." She smiled.

"Hello." The satyr replied.

Percy stood up when he saw who was at the door. "Hey, G-man. What's up?"

The satyr, Grover, chewed nervously on his shirt.

"Oh, nothing much. I have to go for a meeting on Olympus and Z…your uncle wants me to bring the new camper with."

Sapphire waved. "Hi, new camper here. Do you know what's wrong?"

"They probably want to vote on if you should be allowed to live or something." Percy said woodenly.

"It's not even the Solstice yet!"

"I doubt they brought out the entire counsel." Annabeth had dumped her armful of books on the table and was standing behind Percy with a frown on her face. "It's still a bit odd though."

Sapphire rolled her eyes.

"I can think of at least three gods that probably want me dead."

She had decided (in the minute that Grover had made his announcement) that Zeus, Demeter and Athena were the most likely to want to kill her.

Zeus, for obvious reasons; Demeter, because Sapphire was a product of the marriage that she richly disapproved; and Athena, because she'd probably decided that Sapphire was 'unpredictable' or something like that.

Percy, Annabeth and Grover stared at her. She should probably sound a bit more worried than she did.

"Let's get going." She insisted. "It's no good us just standing around."

She turned to Annabeth.

"I'll look at your research when I get back?" She hadn't meant for that to become a question.

Annabeth sighed.

"Fine, it's not good to keep the gods waiting."

Sapphire nodded. Grover coughed and was met with questioning looks from the three demigods (ok, two demigods and one possible godling).

"About that, you might want to take ten minutes to grab a coat. A warm coat."

Annabeth and Percy looked concerned while Sapphire showed confusion.

"Is it as bad as that?" Annabeth asked. Grover nodded.

Sapphire looked back and forth between them.

"I have no clue what you're talking about." She stated walking towards the door, "But, tell you what, I'll meet you on Half-blood Hill in ten. OK?"

Grover nodded. Then he bit his lip.

"You might want a winter hat to."

Sapphire sighed.

"Anything else?"

"Not that I can think of at the moment." Grover replied, nibbling his shirt.

"Fine. Fifteen minutes. And you get to explain what the heck you're talking about on the way to Olympus. Deal?" She extended her gloved hand to shake on it.

Grover looked nervously at Percy and Annabeth, who both nodded. He gulped and shook her hand.

"Deal."

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A/N: Well, that wasn't too bad…Now I have to write the next chapter. Wish me luck!

-Cynder2013