Brightpath: Hello! No reviews unfortunately, but an update still needs to happen occasionally. :)

Thank you to Percabthforever2511, Firestrike22, and of course, my co-writer Alya Starbright for allowing me to use their characters :)

although it may seem like I'm always the one posting, Alya does read over chapters, and edit them. In a couple of chapters you will really see her hand and a big change in the way things go.

From now on as a disclaimer: Same as the first chapter. I personally only own Riann, Miley, Cam, Leilani, and Drake. I think that's it. Yep. Everything else either belongs to the above people as previously stated, or to the amazing Rick Riordan.

Jordan

There was a heavy silence in his bunk house when Jordan stepped in. He was the only one in the quest group to be in this particular bunk house, probably because most of the Fifth Cohort had their own bunk houses, one for girls and one for guys.

When Jordan had joined, there was no room in the Fifth Cohorts bunks, so he'd been basically exiled to the only remaining spot. Unfortunately for him that just happened to be with the Second Cohort, most of whom hated the members of the Fifth Cohort.

He was lucky he hadn't been put with the First, because they would have bullied him, beat him up, and done everything in their power to make his life miserable. As it was, he was pretty much ignored in his bunk, which suited him much better than being beat up, but still wasn't really all that pleasant. Jordan ignored the stares as he began to pack up his things. He didn't have a lot of stuff, because through his four years of being alone and fighting monsters he'd learned that the less stuff you had, the less things you needed to worry about when leaving a place at the last minute.

He only had a few spare changes of clothes, his letter from his mom's old friend in the legion, some scraps that he used to build things, and his mom's necklace, which he aways wore around his neck anyways.

As he finished packing and slung his pack onto his shoulder, one of the guys stepped forward, looking awkward. He was one of Jordan's half brothers, and probably the nicest guy in the whole Second cohort. He was holding a wrapped package, and he held it out to Jordan. "A gift from all of us at the forges. You don't have a weapon Jordan, and if that prophecy was anything to go by, you'll need one."

The guy nodded to Jordan as he took the package from him, and smiled. "Thanks." Jordan said softly, then looked around at everyone. Most of them were avoiding his eyes, and he knew they were feeling just as awkward as he was. Neither group really liked each other, but here Jordan was, going off to his possible death while trying to save the camp.

He shrugged. "Bye guys." He said, and then walked out the door, headed to where Evan had suggested they would meet.

He held the package in his hands and smiled. Jordan didn't even know his half brother's name, but whoever he was, he'd just made Jordan's life a whole lot better. Jordan hoped that the guy'd gotten him some good quality metal, but even if he'd just gotten impure imperial gold it would work. He could make myself a sword.

Jordan was happy enough to be almost completely oblivious to the looks he was getting while passing the other campers who were out and about. Because of the rather public appearance of Lord Mercury, and the prophecy he'd given, everyone knew that he was one of the people going on this quest.

They'd all agreed to meet at the edge of the river. Thinking back, Jordan couldn't remember what kind of help they'd been granted. It had been sort of hard to concentrate and listen after it was announced that Bobby was going to be the Fifth's new Centurion. Jordan'd been too busy being happy for Cam and his brother to pay attention to something silly like whether or not they'd have a way to get to the Underworld.

He wasn't even entirely sure that they would be going the right direction if they went to the Underworld. Wasn't the point of their quest to find the worst monsters that had escaped and send them back to Tartarus the hard way?

If Jordan was a monster, and he'd escaped Tartarus, he was pretty sure he wouldn't want to be anywhere near it, and from what he'd heard from Miley and Cam, the Underworld was just above Tartarus.

Then again, the prophecy did mention the Underworld -maybe not in a good light, but hey, Jordan wasn't sure the Underworld was a nice place anyways. It sounded pretty nasty, and even Elysium sounded like it could be bittersweet sometimes.

There was no point in dwelling on it now. Jordan could see the others waiting for him near the river, Terminus looking so impatient that Jordan was sure the statue would have been tapping his foot if he had one. But he didn't, so instead he just looked furious. "Jordan Benjamin! You're making me wait boy!" He yelled. "And straighten your shirt!"

Jordan rolled his eyes but did as the god asked. He figured it was better to humor him then to be stuck for hours making sure everything looked just right in the entire camp. Just because Terminus didn't usually make him do crazy stuff like that, didn't mean he wouldn't if pushed. "Sorry for making you wait, I had to get my stuff from the bunks, and one of my brothers stopped me to give me something." Jordan said, looking at Evan, who had fallen easily into the roll of the leader.

He nodded. "No problem. We all just got here anyways, so you aren't late."

Jordan nodded, unsurprised, and looked at Terminus. The statue was surprisingly calm as he looked them all over and sniffed. "Looks like you lot have to save this camp, although I must say I think we're doomed. You should probably go now and get started."

"You mean we leave? Just like that?" Miley sounded uncertain, and Jordan wondered why. A quest didn't seem like it was something that needed to be pointed out, since it was a big deal anyways. Besides, it wasn't like any of them were popular enough for anyone to miss them, or really care that they were gone.

"Just like that." Jordan noticed that Terminus's tone of voice softened as he spoke to Miley. Apparently not even the grouchy god could dislike her.

Evan sighed and straightened his shoulders. "Alright then, let's go guys." He said seriously. And just like that they left, crossing the river carefully, heading out through the tunnel, and walking along the road towards the Underworld.

Jordan grinned as he walked. They might be heading towards certain death, but this was the best day he'd had since learning he was a demigod.

Jordan is both optimistic, and pessimistic at the same time XD

oh well.

I really hope for some reviews! :)