A/N: Sorry I haven't updated in a while. Anyway, I've noticed a lot of flaws in my chapters. First of all, the whole "Taylor Lautner" thing… Well, this takes place in 2030. He's not gonna be a teen anymore then. Just had to clear that up. I also accidentally brought Nicole back in chapter six. I've explained this earlier, but I just wanted to remind you that flaw was an accident. Since I've deleted the Author's Note before this chapter was put up, I'm going to tell new people: I started this story before The Lost Hero came out (Did anyone else read it?) and I didn't know some of the characters I brought in were going to be evil, plus I don't have some of the stuff mentioned in the first chapter. It would also be nice if you checked out the poll on my profile. I need to know what to do, so check out the poll after reading this chapter! Also, I've started a new thing, where I ask a question at the end of each chapter. Anyway, here you go, chapter eleven!

Disclaimer: If I was Rick Riordan, the Lost Hero wouldn't have ruined Anthony Jackson for me.

"I thought you said it was just around the corner." said Valerie

"That's what the map said!" I yelled back at her "We just need to keep looking."

After what seemed like hopeless hours, which were really a few consecutive minutes, Valerie caught up with me.

"Look, I'm sorry," she said "It's just… We're going to get into a lot of trouble. I know it. I can almost feel it."

"Hey, no problem," I said "This quest is about finding my parents, and I just want everyone to be as friendly as possible. If we weren't friends, then this wouldn't work out very much." She smiled. I couldn't help but smile too, but Edgar decided we'd sit down and rest a little bit. Apparently, we had to all agree to this or he would release hellhounds by opening a crevice within the Earth.

I reminded him that if he actually did that, we would become part of a nationwide police chase for getting caught on cameras or something. Long ago, when I was around seven or eight years old, a Secret Government Association had been putting our family under surveillance for a couple of months. I knew why now, but back then, I hadn't known. A camera from a supermarket had picked up my dad fighting some sort of monster out back. Of course, on camera it was just a giant black blur, but it was still caught on tape. I had heard about this that one night when we figured out Valerie's middle name was Nico's sister's name, Audrey being born mentally and not physically, et cetera.

After about ten minutes, we got on the move again.

Several hours later, shock filled all of us when Alexis finally shouted "I found it! There it is!" She pointed across the street to a new looking University. I had never seen an arts and crafts university, but the lawn had flower beds, apple trees with pomegranates and fresh oranges. There were a few statues here and there, but I didn't pay much attention to them. We walked up a long pathway of stone to the front door: two giant oak doors.

"Now the problem is," I said "How do we get in?"

"I'm not sure," Aiden said "We can't just magically make ourselves look like college students." We all mumbled in agreement.

"I have an idea," said Audrey. Of course she would be the one to come up with a plan. "Notice how the sign says 'Out to lunch at Bricco in Downtown Boston?'" She pointed to a sign that read what she said on the oak doors "We just go to Bricco, find a table, and I'll work it out from there."

"How are we gonna get her to convince us to let us in, though?"

"You'll see," Audrey said. She looked a little bit expectantly at Julia, as if she expected her to help with Audrey's little plan.

So we walked all the way to Downtown Boston, and got ourselves seats at Bricco. It was an Italian restaurant, which made Edgar and Valerie slightly sad, and I knew why.

They had an Italian heritage. One of their grandmother's, Maria di Angelo, had been killed when their other grandfather, Zeus, struck a hotel, trying to kill Nico and his older sister Bianca. Both Nico and Bianca had been ten and twelve or so at the time, and Hades' love had been killed. But that wasn't the only sad part. They hated seeing their father upset. All Nico really had was his father, until he married Thalia, and Edgar and Valerie came along.

His mother was killed. His sister died fighting a prototype defunct of Talos, the robot, and Nico was left with nothing but the memory of Bianca, since his memory had been cleaned in the River Lethe, which is like giving the mind of a baby to him. He had no memory of his mother, and only got to see her one last time, during the second Olympian war, when he was in the Underworld. He'd been shown a scene of how his mother was killed and how Hades cursed the original oracle. Times had been so different back then. Now, a woman with red hair named Rachel Elizabeth Dare was the oracle. It was almost a century ever since Maria died.

They didn't have any grandmother's. Maria di Angelo was killed. Their other grandmother, Ms. Grace, was a TV actress, who died in a car crash two years before Thalia's resurrection from the pine tree, due to the fact Ms. Grace was a heavy drinker.

The food was good, satisfying Alexis, Audrey and I, because like I told you earlier, we had a thing for Italian food. We Jackson siblings got our usual: Chicken Parmesan for me, Lasagna for Alexis and Pasta for Audrey.

Edgar and Valerie didn't seem very hungry. It could have to do with the whole "Maria, their dead grandmother, was Italian is dead" thing, but I wasn't sure.

"Are you guys sure you aren't hungry?" I asked, just for reassurance from them. They nodded.

Our booth was right behind a woman who didn't seem very hungry. She wore sunglasses, so I guessed she had problems with the glare of the sun getting in her eyes. She wore an obvious wig, so maybe she had cancer or something and didn't like the whole "being bald" thing.

By the time the meal was finished, I looked at Audrey.

"So," I said "When exactly are you gonna put your plan into action?"

"Just about now," she replied. Audrey looked at Julia. Julia snapped her fingers under the table, because I could hear the snap, and I saw her arm move slightly.

Wind seemed to ripple out from underneath the table. Julia turned around, and began to talk to the woman. I was gonna yell at her to shut up and stop bothering the woman, but she ignored me. The woman seemed to be in some sort of trance, or maybe a fake trance.

"You're the owner of Mad Sue's University of Arts and Craft's right?" Julia asked. The woman blinked multiple times, as if trying to process the words through her head.

"Yes," the woman said. We finished our lunch and followed the woman back to the University. Apparently, the woman really did own the university, because she had keys to get in, and she was too old to be a student, or at least I assumed she was too old to be a student behind the sunglasses and the wig.

We continued to follow the woman through the corridors of the school.

She still appeared to be in the trance like state Julia put her into. I fell behind and began talking to her.

"How did you do that?" I said "I mean, hypnotize her?" She nodded understandingly, as if knowing I would ask.

"It's a trick with the mist." She told me. "Hasn't Chiron at least showed you how to do that? I was taught by my parents, but I would assume he taught you. You appear to be one of his favorite students." She continued walking, and I stayed put for a few seconds, while everyone left me behind.

When I caught up with the group again, I asked the woman about the name of the university. She laughed gently.

"My real name is Susan. But when I was your age, a lot of children, more my friends, thought I was driven mad because of my interest in Arts and Crafts. My nickname was Sue. Then, they added 'Mad' and there you go! Mad Sue!" I had never thought about that. Well, what I mean is, I wouldn't want to name my university after an embarrassing nickname like that. Maybe that name was a lucky name for her or something. Maybe that was the name that made a man she was dating propose to her or something.

Finally, she came up to her office. She sat down in one of those chairs with the wheels, and to me, this felt like all of us Mixed-Bloods were in trouble with the principal at school; considering all of us were incredibly trouble-prone.

Julia did her trick with the mist again. She asked another question

"We're going to look around the University for One of Persephone's keys, alright?" Sue nodded, and our search began. Audrey, of course, was the one who came up with the plan, though I thought it was stupid. I mean, it's always "Split up and try looking," but Persephone seemed to put the keys in places with monsters, or evil gods, as challenges to heroes. If my calculations were correct, which usually they weren't, we were going to see some monsters here.

If there were any monster's here, it couldn't have been Sue. She seemed nice, but not too nice to be suspicious, but I guess everyone's a suspect until proven innocent.

So, because there were four floors to the university, we went off in groups. Edgar searched the second floor with Austin, because since Austin wasn't the most powerful mixed-blood here, a grandson of two of the big three gods, Zeus and Hades, would be helpful to him.

Valerie and Alexis both went off to look on the first floor, and they were still sprinting down the hallway, looking in doors and walls for the key.

Audrey and Julia were both sent to search on the third floor, which left Aiden and I to look on the top floor. We did some searching for a while, looking closets and classrooms. At one point, Aiden saw a small statue of a man. He punched it, and it fell to the floor, crushed to pieces.

"What was that for?" I asked

"Persephone's keys could be hidden anywhere," he told me "Don't worry, I'm not angry. I'm only looking for the key." I smiled. At least he wasn't angry. I still would find it a little bit weird if Persephone hid one of her keys in some of the very small amount of statues in this place.

Few minutes later, we all returned to the bottom floor, seeing if the others had any luck. None of us had. We were all incredibly frustrated.

"Well," Sue's voice said in the distance. She was still wearing her wig and oversized sunglasses. "Did you find what you were looking for?" Mad Sue began to approach.

"No," Julia said, walking up to her. "But I─" Sue cut her off

"Good, I was hoping you wouldn't."

"Huh?" All of us, besides Julia, said in unison.

"Have I not already made it obvious enough, young mixed-bloods? I am your enemy." Thoughts were whirling around my head. I had sort of suspected her, but not really. I didn't think a monster would do a business store like an arts and crafts university, seeing that most monsters' lured kids into their traps by stores, as Nico told me. Aunt Katie told me to remember one thing: If it's too good to be true, it probably is.

"Who are you?" Alexis demanded

"Have you not guessed? I figured you would have with the wig, the oversized sunglasses, and the statues around here." Sue walked over to a wall. She aggressively pulled off a bulletin board, revealing words, written in Ancient Greek. It said: MAD SUE. Then, Sue waved her hand. The words began rearranging themselves on the wall, and finally made themselves into one word. The name I saw on the wall could've turned my heart to stone, literally.

It was only then that I realized "Mad Sue" was an anagram. It was an anagram for one of the scariest female monsters, or at least one of them, in all of Greek mythology. Medusa.

Just seeing those words, made all of us mixed bloods bolt for the door. We ran outside, but Medusa followed. Two nights ago, when our quest first started, when we were at the bed and breakfast, I heard a voice speaking in my head. Not one, but two voices. It was my two Olympian grandparents, Poseidon and Athena. I didn't know what it meant at the time, but I sure did now. They told me: You cannot be killed by what's on camera.

"Edgar!" I shouted.

"I'm not here." He said, somewhere in the distance, possibly hiding in a tree. I rolled my eyes.

"Give me your video camera!" Obviously, he didn't want this.

"Get your own camera!" I found him hiding behind a tree, and snatched the camera from his pocket. I flipped it open. It was one of those cameras, that just to be sure your filming yourself, had one of those flip recorders, in which you can see yourself, well, taping yourself. I had forgotten what they were called.

I turned it on, and saw my reflection. Of course, not only did I see mine. I saw some other people: Valerie, Austin, Audrey… and of course, her.

She was taking off her wig. Under the wig, was golden, silky, shiny hair pinned down so slightly as if she were afraid it would turn, run and escape. She took the pin out of her hair, which began flaking. The golden hair changed into black hair, which began to squirm and hiss. I found myself staring at the snake-head herself. Her skin began turning over, as if her someone was taking a million tiny shovels and rolling her skin over to the other side, revealing green scales, like those of a snake. She looked over at a birdbath. She opened the head of it, like it was a secret agent type thing, and pulled out a bronze bow. On the other side of the entrance, was another birdbath, just like the other one. Opening that one, there was a full quiver. She sighed

"Ever since demigods began living long enough to have kids," she told us, in a new voice, sounding more reptilian. "I've learned to change some things. I figured demigods would be telling their kids about their adventures, and plenty of them have escaped my wrath. Therefore, I've changed my business, and name. Alas, I liked my old 'Aunty Em' name. Mad Sue is a horrible name, but it was the best I could come up with. I've also learned to make things less conspicuous, so I don't have many statues around here."

Before I could ask about the whole "Aunty Em," name, she began shooting arrows. Several hit the tree, one knocked down a statue, and that's when all of us began to run. At one point, she got angry and threw her bow to the ground. Suddenly, her legs began stretching, and stretching and stretching, into a long tail. Her skin did the same effect as before, when it looked like her skin was turning over. The long tail she had just made was covered in green scales. But now that she had grown a tail, I had expected her to be much faster or something. Turns out I was wrong. She didn't really have much strength to move the snake tail, but she was still pretty fast, and was good at dodging statues. Now with me, I had to look into the camera, dodge status, not run into trees, and "Be Careful" with Edgar's video camera. Medusa started chasing after Aiden when Alexis snuck up on me, using mom's cap of invisibility.

"Anthony." She said. I jumped.

"Don't do that again. Ever." I told her.

"Sorry," she told me "Anyway, I've got a plan."

"When did you suddenly become Audrey?" She rolled her eyes. She told me her plan, which I figured was a eighty five percent chance of getting me killed, a fourteen percent chance of getting everyone else killed, and one percent chance or saving us. She had this crazy idea that somehow I would be able to kill Medusa. I would think this would be more of Edgar, or Valerie, or Aiden's job. They were the most powerful here.

No, a man's voice inside my head told me You are the son of the saviors of Olympus. You are just as powerful as anyone here.

I wanted to tell it Shut up, this is none of your business, but I could also agree with the voice. If my parents both saved Olympus, I was pretty powerful, right?

Though Medusa was still chasing Aiden, I was advancing from behind her. Austin was smart, and knocked a statue onto her tail, followed by Valerie and Julia. She couldn't move. That's when she outsmarted us. Her tail began to shrink, changing back into human legs. Quickly, she squirmed out from underneath the statues knocked onto her, and grew her tail back again. What a total fail, I wanted to tell them.

Medusa, whose senses seemed to be working terribly bad, kept on chasing Aiden. I already had my trusty pen, Riptide, in sword form. This is it, I thought. Either I'm going to save everyone, kill everyone, or become another victim to Medusa's horrible powers. I let my ADHD take over. I swung the sword, heard a yelp, and a sickening Shra-hock!

Golden dust rained above us. I felt something roll up against my foot. Gross, I thought. I was about to ask why her head hasn't disappeared when I remembered, that if anything from the monster stayed behind, it was a spoil of war, which is two good things: One, a future aid to battle, and two, when the monster explodes into dust, it really helps with the cleanup. Suddenly, I felt a cold type of metal on my leg. Carefully, without looking at Medusa's head, I picked up the piece of metal. When I was standing up straight again, I found myself holding a replica of the first key of Persephone we found. The key had been hidden in Medusa's hair of snakes.

"Good job." Someone said. I turned around. Renee Aberdale, Carmen Thomas, and a new girl were standing with us in the front lawn of the University. The new one had dark, brown hair, with streaks of black and light brown. She had Caucasian skin, like my dad's, and had a lanky build. Her eyes were sort of hazel-ish, since her eyes changed color from green to blue, and sometimes grey.

"When did you guys get here?" I demanded. They told me that they watched the entire thing, and then I asked them how the quest was going.

"We're already done," Carmen told us "The quest was only to find a special box. It was a special assignment from Chiron." I had learned the new girl's name was Sam Ramos, the girl Renee was telling me about on the tour of camp. She seemed kind of shy, but as soon as all of them left, she seemed to get louder. I assumed she was quiet and shy around strangers, but loud and random when around friends. As they left the University, Sam grabbed Carmen and Renee, and they soared through the air… if you consider two or three feet off the ground, up in the air.

"What are you doing?" Valerie asked

"I've been trying to get higher with flying all of these years," Sam told us "But it seems like it's not working." She, Renee and Carmen all floated to the ground gently, and continued walking in the same direction they were flying.

"Well," Edgar said "At least Anthony got the key for us. What was it like killing your first monster?" I was stunned. It hadn't occurred to me, but he was right. Medusa was my first monster. I mean, the Minotaur and the Empousa don't count, since I didn't actually kill them. Hecate's a monster herself, but she's a goddess, and can't be killed. Medusa was the first official monster I had ever killed.

"Found you," a new voice said.

I turned around to the angry faces of my eight aunts and uncles.

Anthony: Are you kidding me? You made us get caught?

Audrey: Don't worry, I'm working on a plan to murder the author right now.

Disclaimer: Murdering me is like committing suicide, Audrey. Without me, there's no Anthony Jackson.

Valerie: :O

Disclaimer: That's right.

QUESTION FOR CHAPTER ELEVEN: Did you know Mad Sue's identity before she was revealed? If so, what clues gave her away?