Chapter 8

POV Janice (Praetor in training, Daughter of Venus)

We make it to New York and I lead Juliana and Eboni to Camp Half-Blood. We arrive on Half-Blood Hill and enter. Instantly, tons of demi-gods swarm us and I feel as if I am going to die, being surrounded by these many people. I see Jezebelle, the head girl and Daughter of Hera hurrying toward me, trying to get rid of the crowd. "Out of my way! Out of my way!" Jezebelle says, motioning for people to make a path.

POV Flin (Head Boy of Camp Half-Blood, Son of Poseidon)

I follow Jezebelle through the path and I see a girl in ragged brown clothes, with a long brown ponytail and two others with her. "Janice?" I ask confused.

"Yes, I am here for the quest to begin," She says with a smile. "The Praetor should be here soon too,"

As if reading our minds, the Praetor in his purple cloak rides up next with a Hades looking kid with him. "What are we going to do?" He rumbles and I see Jezebelle visually pale.

"We have to hold a meeting, let's go," I say, motioning for the Romans to follow us. We head toward the hall where we meet with the romans, and there are four chairs sitting in the room. We sit down at the table, me to the left of Jezebelle and across from the Praetor.

"It's obvious that we need to access the activation points. Those should be in Washington D.C., the Kremlin, Vatican City and the Underworld," Janice says, laying out a magicked map.

"I think the Praetor should take the Underworld. He is the oldest after all, and has the most experience," Jezebelle. I now see what they are doing. Jezebelle is trying to counter Greene's power with her own and has logical reasoning to back her.

"That seems like a fair reason," I agree and Janice nods.

"Alright," The Praetor agrees, but I see him pale a little bit. He is a son of Jupiter and doesn't like the Underworld.

"I'll take the White House," I say and that leaves the girls to decide which one in Europe they will take.

"I can get the Kremlin," Jezebelle gulps and Janice nods.

"What do these activation points do exactly?" I ask Janice and she looks at the map a moment before saying.

"They will delay the Earth Mother from waking a little while longer. It will very much help us in this. But we will need demi-gods from both camps to help us," Janice tells us, pointing at the different activation points.

"I'll go find my people," Jezebelle says, getting up from her chair.

POV Jezebelle (Daughter of Hera, Head Girl of Camp Half-Blood)

I shakily get up from my chair and start for the door. I can't stand to be in the same room as Greene for too much time. Walking out of the hall, I walk towards the Apollo cabin. I know exactly who I want first. "Amber!" I call, and she comes running.

"What?" Amber asks breathlessly.

"I would like you to come with me to the Kremlin," I smile and she does too and accepts.

"Let's go find the others," I say and we start to walk the opposite way. We reach the Demeter cabin and Willow accepts too and walks with us.

"There should be a couple more," I say quietly and they both smile and nod.

Not that much distance away, we reach the Nemesis cabin where we see a giant scale in front of it. "Danielle?" Willow calls and she comes out.

Danielle quickly hears our plan and says that she would be willing to come with us to Russia. "Just one more person," I whisper and we all start to walk towards one of the bigger cabins. Asher from Athena also accompanies us.

That is our group, Amber, Willow, Danielle, Asher and me.

POV Janice (Praetor in Training, Daughter of Venus)

We already have our two Romans, Eboni and Juliana. The others, I set out to find them. I have Laurel from the Hecate cabin, and her half-sister Victoria, also from Hecate. Also from the Roman camp, I have Gareth from Trivia, which is weird because then I have three Hecate people basically. We had to also go to another Greek cabin, the Hermes cabin to pick up a laughing Joey from there. So, that is our group, Eboni, Juliana, Laurel, Victoria, Gareth, Joey and me.

POV Flin (Head Boy of Camp Half-Blood, Son of Poseidon)

I set out after Janice and Jezebelle and cannot help but go to the Phanes cabin where Blake is sitting in there alone. "Quest?" I ask, well you can't blame me for summing it up. I don't like to take too much time.

He agrees and we leave the building and set off after our next person. Marisol from the Eris cabin agrees to come with us, and I can't blame her for wanting to get out of that gloomy cabin. Also, we pick up a war-like girl from Bellona at the table in the Big House, and that is all for us. Blake, Marisol, Erica and I are heading out for the White House tomorrow.

POV Praetor Greene (Praetor of Camp Jupiter, Son of Jupiter)

Setting out to find some greeks seemed like the worst thing I wanted to do that day, but I did it anyway. Along with a couple Romans named Skylar Absodel from Bellona and Jason Lance and he is a son of Pluto. I try to find the stupid Greeks that would come with me. The only Greek that I have to find is one named Fallon who is from the Hephaestus cabin. I found out she isn't very nice. That is all for our group, Skylar, Jason, Fallon and I.

POV Jezebelle (Daughter of Hera, Head Girl of Camp Half-Blood)

After telling each of the people in my group that it was late enough that we will leave tomorrow. I start to walk back to the Hera cabin before being stopped by Praetor Greene. He grips my arm hard and I wince. "What are you doing?" I ask quietly.

"Stopping you," He replies, his stormy eyes focusing on my icy ones.

"I know what you did. I know that the others believe your lying story, but I was there and I am not easily brainwashed," I snarl, my blonde hair in a loose braid.

"Oh, that is a pity. That means that you will have to die. But that is conveniently already planned out for you," Greene says, practically pushing against me.

"How do you already know so much?" I say quietly.

"Go look up 'Hera's worst enemy Greek Mythology' and see what comes up. That's the one you'll face," he smiles brightly and thankfully Greene lets go of me and I run back to my cabin.

I arrive and get back into the cabin and I throw myself onto the computer. I quickly type in Hera's greatest enemy in Greek Mythology. I almost pass out in my chair. The name stands out so badly, I wish I could fall off and die. Heracles.

A/N:

What do you think of Jezebelle vs. Heracles?:

What do you think will happen between them?:

How will Flin react to these?: