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To be honest, life couldn't get any better. I was dating Travis Stoll and he loved me. I still wasn't sure if I loved him, but I knew that I definitely liked him. Actually, scratch that. I really, really, really, really liked him. For the past three months, he had acted like a complete gentleman, unlike what he used to be... well, only sometimeswas he the obnoxious son of Hermes that I had grown up with for over half my life.

When my step-mother and step-sister found out that we were dating, they spazzed out. Stacy, my step-sister said, "Oh my gosh, are you serious? You hated him! Hated him! He was like, your mortal enemy! And now you two are dating? The Katie Gardner, daughter of Demeter and the Travis Stoll, son of Hermes... that's ridiculous, yet so cute and amazing!"

Meanwhile, my step-mother, Dani was speechless. She had actually dropped her glass of lemonade, allowing the glass to shatter and scatter all over the tiles in the kitchen, and allowed the lemonade to spill freely. She had stared at me, with wide eyes like an owl and a dropped jaw, which might as well have touched the ground. Then, she squealed, like Aphrodite would have. Even through the Iris-Message we were communicating over, I winced, not liking the shrill and how high pitched it was. It could've broken a glass.

Unlike those fairytales or many other demigod families, my parents didn't ignore me. They were much like Sally Jackson, Percy's mother and Mr Blofis, his step-father. They cared for me and loved me, the way I loved them.

Right now, I was tending to the flowers and pulling out nasty weeds, enjoying the fresh air. I was humming and bouncing slightly to the rhythm. I tucked a strand of hair behind my hair, as I stood up, admiring my work. No weeds anymore, but there sure were going to be more later. I heard heavy footsteps running towards me and I looked up. Travis was sprinting towards me, and he looked like he had just gotten up from sleep. Well, it was the morning, so he did just get up. His hair was disheveled and unruly. It was clear that he didn't bother to brush his hair or change his clothes. He was shirtless, revealing his toned chest and stomach, and he was wearing his jeans and shoes. I knew he had just put them on hastily before running out.

I raised an eyebrow at him as he gasped out, "We need to talk to Chiron." Well, at least he brushed his teeth.

"Why?" I frowned, thinking of why we would need to. Was it about the fact that the gods might be wiped out... again?

"I got a dream. I am not quite sure but... I think it might be about that thing our parents told us." His eyebrows furrowed. I couldn't help but trail my eyes down his body. I found myself staring at his toned six pack, which was nearly an extremely hot eight pack. When I finally came back to my senses, I averted my gaze and pretended to look around, like it was suddenly much more interesting.

I could literally see the smirk plastered on his face as he asked, "Enjoy the view?" I could feel the blood rushing up to my face as I looked around and replied, "Yeh, it's a beautiful view. The environment and all that."

He chuckled, "You know I'm not talking about that?"

I decided to play the dumb card and said, "Then what are you talking about?"

He rolled his eyes and gestured to his body. "This."

This time, I was the one who rolled my eyes. "Come on. Let's go to Chiron."

I took my gloves off, giving them a wash in the bathroom, before grabbing my boyfriend's hand.

The first thing Chiron said when he saw us was, "Travis, is it too much for you to put a shirt on?"

He smirked, "Yup."

Chiron rolled his eyes and asked, "Why are you two here so early? Especially you?" The last question was directed to Travis, considering that he never woke up unless someone dragged him up.

"Um.. well I had this dream." Chiron raised his eyebrows and lead us inside the White House. We sat down at the ping pong table and I listened intently to what Travis had to say.

"So, there was this war in camp, right here. I'm not sure what or who we were against but there were definitely demigods fighting us. I don't think the Golden Fleece was still there and I think the camp's borders were weakening because there were a few monsters in the camp."

I frowned, thinking hard. Was this what was going to happen? This didn't sound that bad, considering the Titan War and Giant War.

Chiron seemed to be deep in concentration as he said, "We need to train more. Travis, by any chance, did you recognise anyone's faces of the other side?"

Travis shook his head no. Chiron knew we were hiding something, so I decided to spill everything.

"Not good," he stated. "I think this might be happening now or very soon."

Something gold shimmered from behind him and we looked over his shoulder to find the Olympian gods, Hades and Hestia there. Travis and I automatically bowed our heads, seeing as we weren't standing and Chiron did as well.

"Good morning. Is everything okay up in Olympus?" Chiron asked.

"Well, we weren't expecting the two demigods there, but I guess they can listen, considering they are extremely important for this," Zeus stated, matter-of-factly. "We have each lost an important possession - one of our most important possessions. No god or goddess could have stolen it, but we have no idea who did. He or she has not let a single trace of their fingerprints or evidence."

Chiron nodded and said, "Is this connected with what Katie and Travis told me?"

"Maybe," Apollo replied. "I just saw a vision of demigods fighting monsters and other demigods, us somehow getting weaker, the possibility of being overpowered and thirteen demigods meeting somewhere... My visions don't tell that much anymore."

"Okay..."

"I think we need a quest," many of the Olympians chorused. I had to agree with that. Chiron nodded at them, before Zeus ended the message.

"Well, he's right. Go to Rachel's cave and see if she has painting anything or if she spills a prophecy."

We obliged and walked our way to Rachel's creepy cave. We held hands, swaying them back and forth, enjoying the silence. "Why do you think we're important for this?" Travis asked me, "I mean, we're just a son of Hermes and a daughter of Demeter. We aren't that important. Why couldn't it be Percy and Annabeth again?"

"I don't know," I replied, honestly.

"Hey guys," Rachel greeted when we entered her cave. She didn't look up at us. She continued painting whatever artwork in front of her. There were two other canvases laid out in front of her. One of them was a picture of a eight people trying to retrieve an object, but were blocked by some invisible force. Another depicted the scene of Thalia's tree without the Golden Fleece. The one she was working on was like a map, but I wasn't quite sure what it was of.

Suddenly she doubled over, as green smoke came pouring out of her mouth and she spoke in what sounded like three voices.

'Daughter of harvest and son of trickery

Shall lead a quest for victory.

You must seek for each god's possession

Through love, success and passion.

The dove, the wise and the sky

With the fire, the sea and the dead,

Must help the two to retrieve the cure

For family and friends they shall proceed

To the land down under, to find what they seek.

One side will prevail, the other will succeed.'

We managed to catch her, before she collapsed onto the ground. Rachel groaned and rubbed her eyes, "I am never going to get used to that feeling... ever! What did I say?"

"You spilled a prophecy," Travis stated out the obvious. I rolled my eyes and repeated the prophecy.

"This isn't good. We need a counsellor's meeting," she stated and marched out the door, carrying her paintings, with us following her.

"Chiron!" she called him, "We need a counsellor's meeting for the prophecy."

He nodded shortly and said, "After breakfast, when everyone is awake."

Percy groaned and slumped into his chair. "Not another quest for me."

I had just repeated the prophecy Travis and I had received to our fellow counsellors. The children of the minor gods looked like they didn't care about it at all. Butch was shoving pencils up a sleeping Clovis' nose like usual, and the others were fiddling with their fingers or something they had picked up. Rachel was painting away again in the corner, so nobody could see her artwork.

"Well, I guess it's Katie and Travis again," Annabeth stated.

"Yeh," I muttered, "Unfortunately."

"And because there is no other possibility, the sea is definitely Percy, the fire is Leo and the dead is Nico. The sky is most likely Thalia, since Jason isn't here, the wise is either me or my other siblings, and the dove is Piper or her siblings," the blonde daughter of Athena said, wasting no time to cut straight to the chase.

"You are right, my child," Chiron said to her and then turned to face us, "You two get to choose which wise child and dove accompanies you."

"Piper and Annabeth," we chorused, without hesitation. The two girls nodded in acceptance.

"What's the cure?" Leo asked, frowning.

"I don't know," everyone chorused.

"The land down under," Piper piped up, "Australia. I had to go there with my dad once, but why would we have to go there?"

"Umm..." Annabeth stammered, "I don't know..."

"But," she added, "I'm pretty sure this is a war, right, Chiron?"

He nodded and replied, "I'm pretty sure it is, considering the line, 'One side will prevail, the other will succeed'. That should be something like a war. Something that the gods half told us. I know what that is. Travis, Katie. Explain." He gestured for us to elaborate.

We took turns telling everyone about our Iris-Message and Travis' dream, leaving all of us utterly confused.

"Well, I guess we have to figure this out as we go along with it. When do we need to leave?" I asked.

"I guess tomorrow?" Thalia said. We nodded in agreement and made a few more arrangements, before we were dismissed.

"The golden fleece is gone!" I heard someone scream. Many people scrambled up, abandoning their dinner to go outside to see what was happening. People were crowded around Thalia's pine tree, staring at the spot where the golden fleece used to be. Nothing was shimmering anymore. Without it, the camp's borders would weaken, which would soon allow monsters to come in and attack.

The majority of the children of the minor gods didn't seem to care much. I was starting to grow more suspicious by the minute. Were they planning something behind or backs? Or were they just so ignorant and didn't care for our camp at all? I couldn't decided which one it was, but I was going to find out.

"Those going on the quest and Rachel! Meeting at the Big House, now!" Chiron ordered. The eight of us rushed to the Big House and sat by the Ping Pong table in a silence. We waited for someone to speak up, daring each other silently.

The Oracle spoke up, hesitantly, "I received a vision."

"What was it?" Nico asked curiously.

Rachel pursed her lips before placing a canvas in the middle of the table and said, "A few gods have betrayed the Olympians, Hades and Hestia, but I'm not entirely sure. The Oracle of Delphi sent me a vision of the camp fighting like in Travis' dream, a-and I right now, I only know two gods who have betrayed them. Janus and Nike."

"Not good," Thalia muttered.

"And there are so many more minor gods and I'm not sure how many more of them are like Janus and Nike. The gods who have turned their backs on the Olympians, have their children against Olympian children too, so I think that's what the war is for."

"Well, I guess that explains why they haven't really cared about this and why some of them were smirking at the meeting this morning," Thalia said. Huh, so I wasn't the only one who noticed that.

"Well, I know the locations of where the items are," Rachel stated, pointing at the painting in the middle of the table. It was a map of the continent Australia with the borders of each state included. There were seventeen red dots scattered across the diagram.

"Isn't that Africa?" Percy asked, dumbly. All of us rolled our eyes at his lack of knowledge.

"Dude, that's Australia, not Africa," Travis replied.

"Oh..."

"Anyways," Rachel continued, "These red spots are where each item is. There are sixteen objects you need to retrieve, and I know for a fact that these sixteen objects belong to the gods who aren't against the Olympians. So, obviously the Olympians themselves, Hades, Hestia and two others who we still don't know. And obviously, someone has stolen the Golden Fleece and it's in one of these spots."

"Well, this is really different from usual," Annabeth said.

Chiron nodded in agreement and said, "Through all my years of training demigods, I have never come across something quite like this. They were usually the Twelve Tasks, the normal quests you all know about and the Titan and Giant wars. This definitely isn't a good thing, but it doesn't seem as bad as the previous wars, because they have no Titan or Giant we know of, but we'll have to see. I suggest you all set off tomorrow morning. Meanwhile, the others will train and I am sure more will be revealed along the way."

- The morning of the next day -

A cold, chilly breeze whipped through the air as winter was coming soon. We were walking to Argus' van for a ride to the airport. Now, you're probably thinking, wouldn't Zeus blast us off because Percy and Nico were going to be on his turf? Well, considering his own daughter was with them, he wouldn't. Most likely because he didn't want to kill her, or because he didn't want his daughter to try killing him for blasting her boyfriend and friends off the sky, allowing them to plummet down to their deaths.

We had agreed that Annabeth and Piper would figure out where we were going, considering Annabeth knew so much and Piper had been down under before. I was actually extremely excited to go to Australia. From what I had heard, it's amazing there and many people wanted to go there. Leo was literally on fire. He was bouncing up and down, looking like he was hyped up on drugs.

Because we didn't know what we were going to had to go through, we had to bring more objects and equipment with us. Hermes had actually visited us last night, telling us that even though we were a group of eight who would attract a lot of monsters, we couldn't split up. We had to stay together. When we asked why, he said for no reason. It would just be better if we stuck together.

We had all decided that we would start from Perth, the capital of Western Australia first and then move our way across the country.

We climbed into the van and I happened to be seated right behind Argus. Throughout the entire ride to the airport, a few of his eyes at the back of his head and neck were staring at me and the others, creeping me out. He probably sensed that, because his eyes seemed to flicker from left to right a lot.

As we hopped out, we muttered our thanks to him, and he remained silent, giving us a simple nod in response.

I hated waiting in the queue to get on the plane. I just hated it. It was so long and tedious, that Nico and Travis had actually fallen asleep. Due to my ADHD, I couldn't help but to either tap my nails on some surface or fiddle with something. The same thing was with the other girls. Thalia was pacing around while Percy was playing with the water in the cup he was holding, creating different shapes. Meanwhile, Leo was tinkering with objects he had pulled out from his tool belt.

When we were finally seated after what seemed like forever, the captain ordered for all electronic devices to be turned off and for everyone to have their seatbelts on, before taking off.

Percy wasn't looking out the window and his face was scrunched up, like he was in pain or something. Nico was clutching onto the arm rests like his life depended on it. His fists were clenched around them so tight, his knuckles were turning white. Thalia, on the other hand, was green in the face. Literally. Her eyes were shut tightly and she looked like she was on the brink of hyperventilating. It was quite ironic, how Thalia was the daughter of Zeus, but was afraid of heights.

When the so called 'torture' was finally over, Travis asked, "Hey, Nico. Couldn't you have shadow travelled us there?"

Nico gave my boyfriend a blank look, "If I did, I would be passed out for who knows how long."

"Oh... right... you have your limits." I snuggled up closer to Travis, soon falling asleep, hopefully for a dreamless sleep, but no, that did not happen. Some time during my slumber, my mother appeared to me for a short amount of time.

I found myself standing in a bare room, that only had one dim light in the corner. It illuminated a reflection of an elegant woman standing right next to it. Where was I? I looked around, finding nothing much. The woman was my mother, Demeter.

I instantly bowed down, showing my respect and stood back up when she told me too.

"Mother, why am I here?" I asked, curiously.

"Katie, I'm here to tell you something," she said. I looked at her, telling her with my eyes to continue on.

"As you have probably figure out, the minor gods are in fact against us. We have figured that they are doing this because their children still don't receive enough recognition, even though they are being claimed and given a home at Camp Half-Blood. However, they say that the spotlight is all on the children of major gods, not their own children. Only two of the minor gods are with us, and we still haven't figured out who, but you will, with your friends."

"So, basically, they are just jealous of us because they never get to do anything when we do?" I asked.

"Exactly. Also, those gods and goddesses also want a higher and much more important rank than they have right now. The only other thing we know of right now, is that they plan to rule Olympus, by killing us. Gods may never completely die, but they can fade away. Their spirits will still be alive and they will be much weaker. That is all I can tell you as of right now, but I wish you luck for this important quest."

"Come on, babe," Travis said, shaking me slightly, "Wake up. We're here."

I rubbed my eyes, trying to get rid of the drowsiness to find him staring at me. The others had already gone and Travis said that they had gone out early to find a good spot to eat.

We found them in front of McDonalds, with the guys eating away like there was no tomorrow, not that it surprised me much. They could eat a lot, especially Travis. During the meal, I told them about what my mother had told me through my dream and discussed it.

"Okay. That explains a whole lot more now and a lot of puzzle pieces are coming together," Annabeth said. "Come on. We can't waste any time. We know for sure there will be a war in camp but we don't know when. We need to get started now."

"YEH, BABY! Let's hit the beaches!" Percy exclaimed.

Song For The Chapter: Um... I'm obsessed with Take Me Home so... ROCK ME BY ONE DIRECTION! :D

Guys, I'm so sorry for the slowness of this. I have stupid school and will have it for another three weeks. Then it's six weeks holidays, but my mum said she might pull the internet plug out because I'm always on the computer... o.O

GAAAHHHH! THAT STUPID PROPHECY TOOK SO LONG TO MAKE UP! IT WAS SO HARD! :(

Haha, Piper piped... get it? You probably don't, just ignore me...

I am going to have to do a lot of research for this ._.

Is this going a little too fast paced? :/

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