Hello I'm back! Alright so sadly, school starts on Monday, so I won't be able to update so often, maybe once a week, every Friday night. Anyways, you guys asked for a fast update, so here it is!

Disclaimer: I do not own PJO/HoO. If I did, Thalia would make a few appearances, come on Rick! She's so badass I need her in BoO.


"Is it true?" Artemis asked in a hushed tone. He couldn't lie, not to Artemis. Here she was demanding for the truth, hoping that Aphrodite was lying. But Apollo knew better. Aphrodite was telling the truth and was enjoying the pain on Artemis's face.

"Yes" Apollo answered quietly. There was a long pause. One minute, two minutes of nothing but complete utter silence. Aphrodite was smirking, Thalia and Hera looked shocked and weren't sure how to react. Then there was Artemis. Apollo couldn't even tell how she felt. She looked angry, pained, and heartbroken all at once.

"I don't even know what to do at this point." Artemis choked out. "First Orion, now this!"

"Orion?" Thalia asked, confused.

"Yeah, some guy I met a few years back. Drew also ruined that!" Artemis explained quickly.

"Look I just didn't want you to get hurt." Apollo tried explaining.

"So you did this? And with Scarlette, of all people!" Artemis cried.

"What's going on here?" Zeus asked as he entered the room.

"Apollo is a backstabbing, lying, BASTARD!" Artemis snapped angrily. "I am so done with this entire family!"

Artemis pushed Hera and Thalia out of her way and ran out of the condo, to nobody knows where.

"Luna!" Apollo called desperately at her sister, but it was too late. She was already gone.

"You helped Scarlette? And Scarlette, why would you do something so cruel?" Thalia finally managed to ask.

"She was getting in the way of a perfectly good relationship!" Aphrodite complained for the millionth time.

"Which is...?" Thalia asked

"YOU AND NICO!" Aphrodite squealed excitedly.

"Okay, well couldn't you just have- Wait what?" Thalia stopped in mid sentence.

"Oh, you guys would be the cutest couple! I ship it so hard!" Aphrodite giggled. Hera and Zeus buried their faces into their hands.

"Um, no. Sorry, but not gonna happen." Thalia said.

"Oh why NOT?!" Aphrodite wailed.

"Because he hates me." Thalia answered.

"But do you hate him?" Aphrodite asked, inching forward.

"Oh, um..." Thalia turned into a deep color of crimson. "Yeah, yeah I do, he's so annoying." Thalia lied.

"Let's just get going to school, hopefully Luna will be there." Zeus said, and the Olympians plus Thalia agreed

-Troubled Olympians-

Artemis was actually not at the school, which made Apollo worry even more and made Athena give her brother a smack behind his head. Thalia however stayed with the Olympians, avoiding her friends. They weren't freaking out over the whole self-harm thing, unlike Annabeth, who left her about 70 messages and 56 missed calls. All Thalia wanted to was forget about the pain and all off her problems. For a little while anyways. However Thalia couldn't avoid her friends forever. They had gym right before lunch, and they were currently doing Thalia's least favourite unit. Dance. This class, was partner dancing, which meant the girls had to dance with the boys.

Apollo got paired up with Aphrodite, much to his distaste. Zeus and Hera were paired up. Posiedon and Athena were partners, despite Athena's groans and complaints. Hades was paired up with Demeter, and Ares was paired up with some random mortal girl named Clary.

With the demigods, Percy and Annabeth were paired up (Surprise, surprise), Katie and Travis ("I am going to throw cereal at him!" Demeter cried), and Nico and Thalia (Guess who was squealing in joy... -.-)

Thalia felt terrible for constantly stepping on Nico's toes. Nico was a skilled dancer, and his movements were smooth and swift. Percy and Annabeth moved in sync (Not the first time they danced together) Travis and Katie weren't entirely terrible...they just kept on tripping...that's all...

"Why didn't you tell us?" Nico asked as they practically glided around the gym floor.

"I don't want to be your charity case, Nico. I can handle it on my own." Thalia muttered.

"You're not our charity case, you're our friend." Nico insisted. "We care about you...I care about you."

"That's nice to know, but I can handle this on my own." Thalia insisted again.

"But don't you see! You can't! You need help Thalia, and you need it right now." Nico said. Thalia tripped (on her own feet, may I add), crashed onto Nico, who managed to catch her just in time.

"Sorry..." Thalia muttered and got back up, she and Nico went back into their positions. Her hand on his shoulder, and his hands around her waist, his touch made her tingle (Not like Thalia would ever admit it...). He pulled her in closer, much to Thalia's surprise.

"It's okay, just follow my lead." He gave her a shy smile, and they danced across the floor.

Poseidon and Athena were both terrible dancers, to begin with.

They moved in different directions, and both tripped over each others feet. It was terrible, and that was the first time Athena got below a ninety.

"Must you be so clumsy?" Athena snapped angrily and Poseidon tripped over Athenas feet for the hundredth time.

"My apologies, I wasn't expecting to dance with an uptight goddess!" Poseidon snapped back.

"How can Annaberh even like your son? And take a bath you smell like seaweed!" Athena cried.

"You smell like old textbooks from the first century! If anyone needs a bath it's you. Percy is just too awesome for your daughter to resist." Poseidon said, stepping on Athenas toes.

"Books are better than smelling like dirty water! And for the record, Percy is NOT awesome!" Athena insisted

"He saved Olympus AND the world, yes he's awesome. I suggest to bathe in Aphrodites perfumes next time" Poseidon suggested.

"If I wanted to die of suffocation, then I'd bathe in Aphrodite's perfume" Athena snapped back. Poseidon sighed, this was going too be a long class.

Hera and Zeus were doing much better than Poseidon and Athena, although Hera wasn't the happiest with him.

"That girl that Ares is dancing with, Clary, looks a lot like Thalia." Hera observed. Zeus gulped, he knew Thalia went here, but wasn't expecting Clary to be at Goode.

"That's odd..." Zeus mused nonchalantly.

"Most definitely is." Hera agreed, staring daggers at Clary.

Apollo and Artemis simply weren't talking, which didn't bother Aphrodite at all. Hades however, was listening to Demeter about some plan that involved opening up Travis's head and placing in a baseball (Hades made a silent note to warn Hermes).

-Troubled Olympians-

Artemis didn't care about school, or her family. She was tired, and she was done. She was walking along a large forest which helped her clear her head. How she missed her hunters dearly. She wondered what they'd be doing right now. Maybe they've gone to dip their toes in the water, perhaps they're playing s good game of tag. Oh, Artemis would give anything to join them, to feel the smooth surface of her bow across her hand, to strike out an opponent with just one, silver arrow. But she wouldn't be able to do that until the year was over. And so far, everyday was like a living hell. Artemis sighed and continued to admire the grass under her feet, and forest hair, the trees around her. What a wonderful, wonderful getaway. After so many weeks, she finally felt alive.

"Artemis!" a voice interrupted her thoughts, Artemis sighed.

"Leave me alone." She called back.

"Artemis," the voice called again, but closer this time. "It's me, Hermes."

Artemis turned around, and there was Hermes, grinning down at her. Artemis grinned back and threw her arms around him. Hermes. The only god that she wasn't annoyed of.

"Aren't you not supposed to do that?" Hermes laughed as Artemis let go of him.

"Who cares? You're the only one I can stand." Artemis shrugged.

"Yeah, sorry about Apollo and Aphrodite, you didn't deserve that." Hermes said.

"Who cares about them? They can go rot in hell for all I care." Artemis said.

"Wow, angry one, aren't you?" Hermes laughed, Artemis grinned, this is what she liked about Hermes, he could turn anything into a light hearted joke.

" I don't plan on coming back for a very long time," Artemis warned him "I could use some company"

"Sure, why not? Ares is pissing me off anyways, and Demeter is clawing my back about Travis." Hermes agreed. "But what you said yesterday...about father..."

"I know, it was rude of me." Artemis confessed.

"No, that's not what I was going to say. We all agree with you. Can't say the same for Thalia, but I'm sure she thinks the same way." Hermes said.

"Oh wow...guess I'm not the only one who feels that way." Artemis said.

"Yeah, um, one thing though." Hermes muttered.

"What?" Artemis asked, concerned.

"Zeus...had another demigod...a daughter."


Another cliffhanger! Whoops! xD. I hope you guys won't kill me for creating this new demigod daughter of Zeus. The idea came to me last week, so I had to use it. Give me your thoughts about this new demigod in the reviews, I am eager to know your thoughts.

-TheGreekGoddessHestia