Jola Happy readers of the internet! I'm a little bummed, cuz this chapter is a wee bit shorter than I would have liked it to be, but I kinda wanted to end it where I did, so, oh well. Anyhoo, On with the reading!!!

~ArtemisFrimm

Needless to say that I forgot to tell Artemis about my dreams as soon as I saw the doughnuts; the breakfast of champions. As soon as I got up, Artemis hopped out from one of the overhanging trees.

"Well, good morning sleeping beauty." Artemis mocked.

I shrugged, "Sorry. What time is it?"

Artemis sighed, "Three in the afternoon."

"Oh." I said, trying to remember the events of the night before, "Sorry, I don't usually sleep that long." I said, stuffing a glazed doughnut into my mouth.

"Yea, that would probably be the after-effect of the liquid fire." Artemis said, grinning mischievously, "Hurry up and finish eating, our train leaves in two hours." Pretty soon, I was on a train, on our way to Colorado.

Our train ride would consist of two stops, so with the ride, plus the stops between stations, it would take us about 38 hours to reach Colorado. Our first stop would be in Nashville. The ride there took about 14 hours. Yea, for a demigod, that's not fun.

Our car had two long couch-like seats, one for Artemis, and one for me. Artemis pulled out her iPod, and pretty soon, she had fallen asleep. I was still pretty tired from the night before, and I fell asleep also. Thankfully, no dreams.

"Wake up. We're here." Artemis said, shaking me awake.

"IDOWANNAGERRUP." I mumbled groggily.

Artemis sighed, obviously frustrated, and suddenly I felt my backpack thrown at me.

"Okay, okay, yeash, I'm up." I said yawning, "What time is it anyway?" I asked.

"Eight in the morning. We've arrived in Nashville. C'mon let's get something to eat." Artemis said, sounding annoyed.

I nodded and followed her.

Due to our beginning to lack in money, our breakfast was basically and egg McMuffin from McDonald's. We had an hour before our next train left for Colorado, so we decided to walk around Nashville, which, by the way, was a pretty cool looking city.

"So how's your head feel?" Artemis asked, as we passed by some neat looking buildings.

"Fine." I answered.

"That's good." She said, stopping in front of a strange looking building. It had a small dome attached to it, and the wall was designed to look like a giant piano keyboard. Artemis laughed softly, "Apollo would love to take a tour of that place." She smiled.

"What is it?" I asked, struggling to read the sign.

"The Country Music Hall-of-Fame Museum," Artemis said, "This place is full of Apollo's kids."

I nodded, "Cool. When do you think we should head back to the train station?" I asked.

"I'd say, right now." She said, looking anxiously over my shoulder.

"What's wrong?" I asked turning around.

There, a few yards away from us was Thorn, the manticore. Seeing me and Artemis, Thorn winked at us, and pulled out a walkie-talkie, and began talking into it.

"Yea, we need to go now." Artemis hissed in my ear.

I nodded, Why wasn't Thorn attacking us? Why was he letting us go? I think the fact that he didn't attack us, made me more nervous, then I would have been, had he attacked us.

We made it to the train station safely (to somewhat of a surprise) and pretty soon, we were back on a train on our way to Colorado Springs.

On the train, Artemis fell asleep almost instantly, which kind of surprised me. But I guess she hadn't been sleeping much the past few nights because she was on guard-duty.

Oddly enough, I fell asleep pretty quickly also. I didn't even feel all that tired, yet…

In my dream, the girl, who I still swear that I recognized from somewhere, was speaking to Kronos.

"They're on their way my lord." She said in an almost bored tone.

"Good, and I heard you managed to collect not only Apollo's essence, but Hermes's as well." Kronos said.

"Yup, only one left I suppose." The girl said, still sounding bored.

"Yes, than you will be more powerful then the gods!" Kronos said, "You'll be able to send them back to Tartarus where they belong."

The girl sighed, "Couldn't I like, I don't know, defeat the gods without her essence. She's too annoying."

"No, you wouldn't be strong enough." Kronos hissed.

"But, I'm already stronger then the gods now!" the girl argued.

"No, you'd maybe be able to take out one or two of the gods, but the others would over power you. You would die. You are not fully immortal yet."

The girl growled, "Just let me take a swim in the River of Styx, and then I'd-"

"You bathe in the Styx, you may not be killed, but you'd still die, eventually. And once you die, the gods would become powerful enough to come back. You need the last essence to become immortal. You'll be my most powerful weapon. You'd be more powerful than Zeus's silly little master bolt, or Poseidon's trident. You'll be invincible!"

"Whatever."

I woke up sweating. Kronos was becoming more and more powerful. His 'secret weapon' or whoever she was was driving me insane. I started going through lists in my head, trying to figure out who she was. I was so intent on finding out who the girl from my nightmares was, that I almost didn't notice Artemis writhing, and crying, still asleep in the seat next to me. Almost.

I glanced over at Artemis, and when I saw her thrashing around in the seat across from mine. My mind went into panic-overload. What in Hades was wrong with Artemis?

"Artemis!" I asked her, trying to shake her awake, "Lady Artemis wake up! Wake up!"

Finally she woke up. She sat up so quickly, that she almost whacked me in the head. Her silver eyes were wide with fear, and she was trembling.

"Artemis, are you okay?" I asked her, still extremely worried.

"Hermes!" she gasped…

Duh Duh Duh! Yup, that's where it's gonna end for this chapter. What happened to Artemis? Whose the girl from Percy's nighmare? Where's the master bolt? Stay tuned to find out!

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~ArtemisFrimm

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