Author's Note: I will get more chapters done tonight. I will I will I will I will….

Evelyn tossed and turned in her sleep, having strange nightmares all night. Bits of information, but everything was fuzzy, and some things melted into others. A large room with tall ceilings that looked like in was underground. A floor of dirt. Dalia crying. Luke's golden eyes. A sign post that said something… something that started with a K…

Meanwhile, Elizabeth was having a much clearer dream. She was sitting on dirt, but it looked like she was inside. She clutched Paco (who had somehow accompanied her into her dream) close to her chest. There were no windows. The ceilings were high and straight, impossible to climb. Elizabeth looked around her, and spotted Dalia.

"Dalia!" she squealed without thinking.

Dalia rose up, shocked. She looked around and jumped. She could obviously see Elizabeth, because she suddenly said:

"Elizabeth?"

"Oh Dalia!" Elizabeth said.

"How…? Oh nevermind. It's so good to see you? Please tell me you're coming. Please." Dalia choked with a smile.

"We are! We're coming. But where are you?" Elizabeth said, looking around.

"They call it The Asylum. It's in…" Dalia stopped, cringing and clutching her stomach.

"Dalia?!" Elizabeth said, worried.

"I'm sorry. I can't tell you where it is. Hestia cast a spell… I can't tell anyone where I am. But…" Dalia started. But then Elizabeth's form started to quiver. She was waking up.

"Dorothy!" Dalia yelled. "Think about Dorothy!"

And then Elizabeth's dream faded out.

She sat up and looked around. The others were already up, and Evelyn looked like she was trying hard to remember something.

"DOROTHY!" Elizabeth shouted, causing the others to look at her strangely. But Evelyn looked up in surprise, a look of understanding on her face.

"I don't understand but…" Elizabeth started, but Evelyn cut in.

"IT STARTED WITH A K! SHE'S IN KANSAS!" Evelyn shouted with a huge smile.

The others were smiling now too.

"How do you know?!" Mary cried.

"Well I had a weird dream with weird bits of information. And I saw a sign that said something that started with K. Well if it has something to do with Dorothy, it must be Kansas!" Evelyn smiled.

"How do we know it has something to do with Dorothy?" Louise asked.

"Dalia told me!" Elizabeth said. The others stared at her.

"You talked to her?!" Sicomba asked stunned.

"Yes! We have to hurry!"

The five Demigods quickly started rolling up bedrolls and eating granola bars.

"ONWARD!" Evelyn cried when they were done.

"Oh yes," Sicomba said, "let's WALK to Kansas."

Evelyn frowned.

"That, my friend, is a FABULOUS point."

"So how are we getting there?" Mary asked.

"Why don't we just get a car." Louise said pointing. The others followed her gaze and saw, on the side of the road, an abandoned car.

"Oh goody!" Evelyn said. They all jogged over to it. Mary peeked inside.

"No keys." She said with a frown.

"That shouldn't be an issue." Evelyn said. She looked at Sicomba. "Would it be too much?" she asked.

"Naw." Sicomba said smiling.

"Fantastic! I'll be right back!" Evelyn said, disappearing. She traveled through the water in the air to a gas station, and after buying a couple gallons of gas from a quite confused looking clerk who was probably wondering why a fifteen year old without a car was buying gas in the middle of nowhere, was back with the others. She poured in some gas, through the rest in the trunk and hopped in shotgun.

Sicomba had his finger on the ignition and was concentrating hard. Finally he sat back.

"I need a jumpstart." He said glumly.

They all sat for a moment. Suddenly Louise jumped up.

"Here!" she said, digging through her bag. I stole it from one of my brothers." She handed up a dagger, crackling with electricity.

"Perfect!" Evelyn said, sticking the dagger into the ignition. Suddenly Sicomba's hands on the steering wheel went rigid and the car started up.

"YES!" Elizabeth yelled from the back with a fist pump.

"Sicomba, get us out of here! We should make it through the state before the car gets destroyed."

The others laughed and apparently Sicomba was very excited, because the radio started up. Evelyn found a station playing good music. (NOT the worst top 40) and they started driving down the road, laughing.

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Evelyn and Sicomba sat, looking into the darkness as they drove. The radio was playing some Journey and the others were asleep in the back. Elizabeth was lying on Paco and Evelyn thought it was the funniest thing ever.

"You sure you don't want to sleep for a while?" Evelyn asked Sicomba. He had been driving for over twelve hours straight. She couldn't believe he was still sitting in the same position.

"No. I just want to get as far as we can in one time block. I mean, you've been on quests. Most of the bad stuff happens either when you're sleeping or exploring creepy godly places right? Not on the open road."

"True." Evelyn remarked. "Except the time the Furies blew up a Greyhound…"

Sicomba laughed. They kept driving. Evelyn stared out the window. She realized that she'd been to so many big cities and states on quests, and hadn't DONE anything. Someday, she was going to travel… as a real tourist.

"We still good on gas?" Evelyn asked. They had already filled up again.

"Yeah." Sicomba said, not even glancing at the meter. After all this time, he could feel the car so well, he almost WAS the car.

"Okay." Evelyn said. She didn't sleep, she wasn't tired. Suddenly, instead of the road ahead, she saw a familiar brown haired boy.

"Percy!" she cried, and the car swerved as Sicomba caught sight of Evelyn's brother in the car. Then he realized it was just an Iris-Message and kept driving.

"Are you crazy?!" he asked her.

"I'm sorry, this coming from the boy who followed Zoe and them on their quest ALONE? At least I have helpers."

"Excuse me?" Sicomba said. "Parters."

"Whatever." Evelyn said waving him off.

Percy looked at them.

"Dude, are you driving a car?"

"Yes."

"Did you steal it?"

"No. We found it."

"You found a car?"

"Yes."

Percy just shook his head with a hint of a smile.

"Don't get yourself killed, okay?

"Okay bro."

Percy almost laughed.

Evelyn waved her hand and he disappeared.

"That was quick." Sicomba remarked.

"Percy knows I can handle myself."

"Obviously."

"I wonder how the others are." Evelyn said sadly.

Sicomba looked over. He understood. He missed the easiness of their little group. Amy and Jade drawing. Ben teasing everyone. Nico rolling his eyes, but smiling nonetheless. Sicomba had gone to sleep that night, thinking he would see them in the morning, and quick as lightning it had been taken. He could've stayed, of course, but he knew he had to do what was right.

"They're fine. Better than us, probably."

"This is fairly easy for a quest, you know."

"Yeah. We only got attacked like once!"

"And we still have a working vehicle."

"Don't jinx it!"

"Oops."

Sicomba glanced back at the three girls in the back. His eyes lingered on Louise a second longer. Evelyn noticed. She raised an eyebrow but said nothing.

"So I just realized, you're the only guy."

"Yep."

"How's that."

He just laughed.

The two sat in silence the rest of the night, listening to hard rock and watching the lights roll by until finally the sun rose in front of them.

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Dalia sat once more with her hands in the dirt, leaking power into it. The boy, Luke… or Kronos or whatever was watching her. Dalia was becoming worried. The dirt was starting to take on the power itself. It would be ready soon. And it would take the others a long time to get to Kansas from New York. She winced as her stomach lurched again. They had been giving her plant poisoning. It made her do her work, she hated the stuff. She looked up at the boy Luke, as all her power was put into the soil. He bent down and put a hand to the dirt, feeling it. He soon felt the humming of power and nodded.

Dalia was relieved. He sometimes made her keep putting in power, once she was drained. This made her extremely sick.

The only thing keeping her from despair was the hope of her friends coming.

"Sir!" Dalia heard a male voice say. It sounded familiar, but he had probably heard whoever it was before in her restless sleep. She was too drained and exhausted to look up, so she law curled up in the dirt.

The boy whispered something to Luke and Dalia heard a sound of rage.

"WHAT?!" he yelled.

"It's true." She heard the other voice say. It really did sound familiar, but she couldn't place it. She dismissed it. Multiple people came in to give her poison.

"Well, girl." Luke/Kronos said down at Dalia. "You have a rescue squad, eh? Well, I guess we'll have to send a little detour."

Dalia's heart froze. He knew about Evelyn and Elizabeth and whoever was with them. He was going to send something after them. And there was no way that could be good.

She only hoped they made it through.

Please. To any god who is listening, I've never asked anything of you before. Even for Lydia. But please, just PLEASE let them live. Let them find me. Please.

Author's Note: yay! Does doing another chapter the same night make up for weeks of wait? I hope so. Well we know where Dalia is now. WE HAVE A GOAL! But we also have a something that will attack us on our hands. Oh dear. Well. Review! Give me ideas! I love ideas! Thanks! BYE!