Here is chapter 10! I got a review or two saying that I wrote cliffhangers almost as bad as Rick Riordan's, so I'll try to tone it down a bit. But at least I don't make you wait a year for new material every time!

Piper

Piper wasn't exactly sure that she liked this new girl Zoe. And she was starting to think that the feeling was mutual.

After lunch, she went to go tell Hazel that it was her time to do the dishes, and found her friend talking to Zoe in Annabeth's room. Apparently someone had lent it out to her as a place to sleep. It wasn't even definite that she was staying with them! Zoe and Hazel had been chatting and laughing together like they had known each other forever. And then, about an hour later, Piper had gone to go talk to Leo, only to find their mysterious new crew member happily playing Mario Kart with the son of Hephaestus. Zoe seemed to get along with everyone, and everyone seemed to get along with her. Was Piper really the only one who was having doubts about their new companion?

Jason

"So the empousai, they were the disturbance you sensed, right?" Percy asked Nico. Percy had dark circles under his eyes and his hair was disheveled a lot more than usual. Jason could tell how this whole Annabeth situation was hurting him, and he was impressed with how his friend kept it together.

Nico nodded absentmindedly in response to Percy's question.

"But we have a bigger question," Piper said. "What are we going to do with Zoe? We can't just take her away from her family like that."

Jason looked around the room. Everybody was there, excluding Annabeth and Zoe.

"The mist might hide it," Hazel pointed out. "Or I could manipulate it for you guys."

"We don't know how long that would last," Leo argued.

"And anyway," added Piper, "are we even sure we want her along on this quest?"

Jason looked at his friends' faces. Hazel looked like she wanted to defend her new friend, Leo seemed disappointed, and Frank was sporting his 'confused' face. Percy looked bored, Piper had a challenge in her eyes, and Nico was staring at a grape that he was rolling around on the table with his index finger. The son of Hades was clearly invested in this conversation.

"What do you mean?" Hazel asked. We can't just leave her down there, with all those monsters!"

"But what if she gets in the way?" Piper shot back. "We can't endanger this quest just because one little girl might get hurt," she spat

Jason was appalled. "Piper, what's going on? You're not usually like this, are you okay?"

"I'm fine! I think something's wrong with all of you!" She snapped. "You are trusting her too easily! Even if she is a half-blood, it doesn't mean she's on our side!"

A crash came from the kitchen.

"I'll go…" Nico signaled at the door. Without a second word, Nico left the room and hurried down the hall. After a glare at Piper that lasted a full count of 3, Hazel stormed out, followed by Frank, who cast a sheepish look at his friends. Percy gave the daughter of Aphrodite a mildly irritated look and trudged out of the room, while Leo wouldn't look at his friend as he followed Percy.

"I don't know what's gotten into you, Piper," Jason said. He left his girlfriend with a distrustful glance And followed his friends out of the room.

Something was happening with all of his friends. They were all falling apart. And this time, Annabeth wasn't there to put them back together.

Zoe

"What's wrong?" Nico asked as he crashed through the doorway.

Zoe was standing in the kitchen, on the floor among a couple pots and pans.

"I'm fine," she murmured, "just tripped. Why do you guys even have these things? Doesn't your food just appear?" she asked as she held up a frying pan.

"Leo thinks they add a more… homestyle effect. Also, our old satyr chaperone liked to use them as weapons." Nico told her.

Zoe had to admit, she didn't think that talking with this Nico guy would be very easy. Frizzy had said that he didn't commune with people very much, and Flame Boy had told her that he was weird and scary and hated pretty much everyone on the ship excluding his sister. Also, some part of her felt like she shouldn't talk to him…

Nico helped her put the pots and pans back where they came from, and they carried out a conversation, mostly about the quest and the prophecy of the seven.

"So you're not technically part of their quest," she realized. He nodded. "Then why are you here?"

"Same reason as you. I've got nowhere else to go, and I want to help out." But something told her this wasn't quite the truth.

Suddenly, she felt a sharp pain in her gut. Memories flashed in front of her eyes. She remembered who she was, and what she was meant to do here.

She looked down at her arm, and her skin was surrounded in a golden aura, streaked with silver. Nico was staring at her, appalled.

"Take me to her. Your friend." Her words came out in airy breaths. "Take me to Annabeth."

Percy

Percy rushed down to the sick bay. Nico had told them that Zoe was glowing gold and silver and wanted to see Annabeth.

He understood what Nico meant when he saw Zoe. She was, in fact, glowing gold and silver. She was facing Annabeth.

Once Piper, Jason, Nico, Leo, Percy, Hazel, and Frank had gathered in the sickbay, she turned around, her eyes closed.

"I am Zoí." She breathed. "I am Life." She opened her eyes, and they were blazing metallic like the rest of her body. "And I have come to help your friend."

Yeah, I'm sorry. But at least it's not a bad cliffhanger. No tartarus here :) Thanks for the follows, favorites, and reviews! Please, if you have any suggestions, let me know. I need some ideas for what happens next (After I finish with this whole Zoi fiasco.)