Okay, hi. I apologise for the extremely long wait... I have no reason or excuse... don't hate me! (please excuse me while I go re-read the previous chapters...). Okay, let's see if I can sum up what's happened so you don't need to go back and re-read all the old chapters (like I just did).

So... Sadie kidnapped Lacy because she believes she descended from the Pharaohs, Zia is the daughter of Apollo and has run away from Brooklyn with Carter hot on her tail, Zoe Nightshade has returned as a shade, I can't edit, Lacy seems to resist Egyptian magic, and Zia is at camp Half-Blood where we have discovered that Jason knows her. Also Zia had a boyfriend before Carter. So on with the story... I've been contemplating things... (also it's past 11 o'clock at night here...)

Disclaimer: I own nothing! It all belongs to Rick! (Oh, and Perry, giving me back my copy of MoA and stealing my copy of HoH instead was not what I meant)

Carter waited anxiously by the pyramid at the BAG academy for the next conspicuous moment so he could attempt to follow Zia, he had no idea where she had gone but hoped that by going through the portal with no specified destination it would just take him to the last place the portal had gone, which was where Zia was... hopefully. He looked at his watch in anticipation, 2 minutes, 1 minute, 30 seconds, Carter panicked as he had a mental blank and forgot the spell, 10 seconds, Carter remembered the spell and started to initiate it. The portal appeared and Carter heaved a sigh of relief. He had been worried that he wouldn't be able to create the portal, something would go wrong, he would need to specify a location, but none of that had happened and so now, without telling anyone where he was going, Carter Kane jumped through a portal on the slight hope that he would be following Zia, the one girl he had truly loved, the girl he had given up saving the world for, so he could save her instead, the girl he had been warned if he followed her he would cause the destruction of the world. Can't be worse than Apophis he thought ...can it?

When Zia woke up, she half hoped it had all been a dream and that nothing had happened but she didn't recognise the bed she was in which meant that it must have been real and she was in the camp Half-Blood infirmary (or she was in a mental asylum but she doubted that). Zia opened her eyes and sat up. Yep, camp Half-blood infirmary all right, it may look different but there was no where else that had the same feel about it – it was good to be hurt, it showed you were still fighting – except maybe camp Jupiter infirmary but Zia could think of no logical explanation as to how she would end up there. As soon as Zia had registered where she was, a girl came over. She had long blonde hair and grey eyes – suggesting that she was a daughter of Athena – and Zia would have said it was Annabeth if it wasn't for the way she carried herself. To someone not as observant she might have seemed a little tired, but to Zia she was worried and nervous, with an air that seemed to be slightly lost. Sure Zia hadn't seen Annabeth for years but she still remembered her confidence and the air of curiosity.

"Zia?" the girl said timidly – making Zia all the more certain it wasn't Annabeth, – "you probably don't remember me but I'm Annabeth, your friend from when you were here before." Zia started – so it was Annabeth? – and said the first thing that came to her mind

"You've changed." Annabeth laughed,

"I've changed? What about you? Where have you been? What's happened to you? How did you survive? Sorry I shouldn't be asking you these questions, they're none of my business, but the one thing I really want to know is – why did you come back?" Annabeth stopped took a deep breath (She had done it all in one breath? There was the Annabeth Zia remembered) and looked as if she was about to start again when Zia interrupted her,

"You first, what's happened to you? I'm not talking till you tell me."

"Wow, still got the stubborn streak there I see," Annabeth frowned in concentration "Okay, let's see... after you left, nothing happened until I was twelve-" Zia cut her off,

"What happened in that time? Did you leave camp? Beat up Clarisse? Get a boyfriend? Become councillor? Tell me everything!"

"Well in order no, no -but I will-, no and yes. Now if you're done interrupting, not much else happened till the summer when I was twelve – actually no, before that, during the school year, Chiron got a call from Grover saying he thought he'd found a demigod, but there was something different about them and he needed help, so Chiron left to go to that school and-"

"That was Jason? That doesn't make any sense, Jason wouldn't have left-"

"STOP INTERUPTING ME! No that wasn't Jason, he's only just arrived here, but that's later, let me tell the story in chronological order. The boy was named Percy, Percy Jackson" Annabeth got a far off look in her eye, it was a mix between someone who was extremely important to her, or someone who she hadn't seen in a long time.

"Can I interrupt once more? I'm sure you'll explain but, what happened to Luke?"

"Well, hello stranger!" a new voice said. Annabeth turned around to look at the girl behind her,

"Her or me?"

"You, sorry but I don't know her, care to introduce?" Annabeth sighed

"Thalia, meet Zia, daughter of Apollo, Zia meet Thalia, Daughter of Zeus, Hunter of Artemis,"

Sadie still hadn't returned with Lacy's bag fifteen minuets later and the green tint – Lacy had said it was a sign of poison – was getting stronger. Jaz kept offering to heal it but Lacy kept refusing, saying that it was just going to do more damage in the long run.

"What mythology are you from?" Jaz inquired, then went on to say "I'm sorry, I know it's none of my business but I'm just so..."

"Curious?" Lacy finished, "That's completely understandable, I would be in your position, it was silly to think that I could prevent anyone from finding out... but then again if Sadie hadn't …" Jaz wasn't sure if Lacy was talking to herself or to Jaz "it doesn't matter now," She gave Jaz a smile, "No way to change what's happened, I'll tell you when Sadie gets back, she'll want to know too and … there's power in names." she cringed as the green tint spread again, it was now covering most of her leg.

"You sure you don't want me to..." Jaz offered

"No, thank you but it will just hurt me," Lacy replied, "Should it take Sadie this long to..."

"Sorry, the ankle biters were wreaking havoc and I literally couldn't get through the third floor corridor for ten minutes." Sadie said as she burst in the door. She shoved a well-worn school bag at Lacy and then bent over panting, Lacy meanwhile was rummaging through the bag, pulling out school books and a pencil case. She found a lunch box and opened it then gagged and shut it,

"Ugh old banana peel!" she shoved the box back in the bag then pulled out an identical box opened it and pulled out a ziplock bag of fudgey looking stuff that was cut into little squares. She pulled out a square and ate it, the green tinge started to recede she watched it and when it stopped having only receded half way she ate another piece. After the green tinge vanished almost entirely she put the bag back in the box and then pulled out a small bottle, she poured some of the liquid from the bottle into the cut being extremely careful and even stingy to a point from Sadie's view. Suddenly Lacy's leg started steaming, she immediately stopped pouring liquid into her cut and put the bottle back into the box then put the box (and everything else) back into her bag.

I apologise again for lack of uploading. :( I think I have established the reason though: I have an idea for the end but not sure how I'm going to get there, I need suggestions so review me some. Here are some questions to get you started:

Would you like Percy (and by extension camp Jupiter because Percy is there at the moment) to appear in this story because I have a slightly weird idea that includes Percy and still (mainly) links with MoA.

do you think Egyptians should be able to see and/or get into Camp Half-Blood?

What monster should appear next? Greek or Egyptian? Where?

Who do you want to show up in this story?

I'm probably not going to be regular in my updates but if you review with responses to my questions or even better with your own suggestions then I'll have more ideas to inspire updates. I'm not promising that I will use your ideas although if I do I will credit you. Let's say five reviews with suggestions or responses to update again? There are currently 28 follows and 9 favourites on this story so I don't think 5 reviews is to much to ask? :)

- NCdPA