Guys please don't pelt me with tomatoes form y long absence. I had the collage classes I wrote about and barely had time to write anything but weird essays about human rights and stuff. And now I'm in U.S. for summer school. I am writing on my teachers computer now so you may want to give her a mental thank you. I don't think another teacher would lend me their computer. Anyway on with the chapter.

Percy POV

We finally arrived Denver but we stil had to find a way to Los Angeles.

"What do we do?" Grover asked me and Annabeth.

"Well I think we should IM the camp." Annabeth said.

"Then we have to find a car wash or a fountain but fountain would be risky so let's stick with the car wash instead. Afterwords we could grab some food at a restaurant before looking for a way to g oto Los Angeles." I suggested.

We found a nearby car wash to IM. Grover turned the water on and created the rainbow. Annabeth prayed to the goddess as I watched them seeing it was my first time actually seeing an IM. The mist started to change and formed an image of the camp. I was happy to see the camp but not so happy to see the guy on the other end. Of cource it just had to be Luke. No matter Annabeth said I couldn't trust him. Something about him was … wrong. Just plain wrong. His very presence made me alert. But I spoke to him none the less.

He told us about campers starting to pick sides and Poseidon supporting Hades was revealed. Aphrodite , Ares, Apollo, Artemis were definately supporting Poseidon and Hades. Zeus had at least Hera and Athena. It was obvious. Athena always supported Zeus plus she hated Poseidon. Ares hated Athena and wanted be on the same side as Aphrodite. Aphrodite was born of the sea and didn't approve of Zeus' ways which consisted of making sure he was never dethroned and chose power over things that mattered more. Same went for Apollo. Atemis stood by him shared his beliefs and wanted him to pay for haming so many innocent girls.

When a car playing music so loud that could be mistaken as a night club entered the car wash. Annabeth went to take care of it dragging Grover with her which made him complain about girls being impossible to understand and grumpy. Let's just say he should have seen that slap coming. What really bothered me though was being alone with Luke. I'm pretty sure she did that on purpose.

I wanted to just braket he conversation and grab a bite with my team then find a way to the underworld. But no I couldn't do that. I just had to talk to that jerk. We proceeded to a tight conversation after that point. I did my best to keep it civil till the mesage came to an end.

I thanked the gods when the message ended and went to find my friends. When I found them Annabeth was engaged in a yelling with a weird guy while Grover tried to ignore the dirty looks he got from whom I guessed was the guys girlfriend.

When I interrupted the fight Annabeth looked ready to chop him into pieces and the guy looked like he was wishing he had a baseball bat with him. I soothed Annabeth in Ancient Greek as I dragged her out to a diner with Grover.

When we arrived we sat at a booth and waited for a waiter. A few minutes later a girl in her mid twenties came to take our orders. But before we could say anything a huge bike with a loud engine driven by a buff man pulled over. Everyone acknowladged him like he was an important person. Strangely he came and sat with us right next to Annabeth who wasn't exactly pleased with the arrangement.

Suddenly I recognised him. He was Ares the god of war and the father of majority of my friends.

"Hey." He greeted us.

" Hello Lord Ares, what do we owe this pleasure if you don't mind me asking?" I said to him carefully. He made a wave with his hand as if to say drop the formalities.

" I heard prayers from all my kids telling how great you were, how you taught that upstart Castellan his place and to help you on your quest. I want to help you but it would be risky for you to get help from me without doing me a favour. Luckily such a situation has showed up. And it's in Denver too. I need you to get me my shield from a water park. I forgot it there after a meeting with Aphrodite at the love ride. But be carefull there Hephaestos must have set up many traps in there. I have no idea what that old cripple is up to but I doubt it's anything good." He said the last part with some worry in his voice.

Many of the gods made life much harder and here was one who was trying to help us. I had no intention of throwing his kindness back at his face. Plus he was my friends' father so I wanted to help him. He was one of dad's allies too. His shield was important. We had the time, we could use the help and he even had the decency to warn us too. Even though he had an aura that made people angry I warmed up to him real quick.

" Yes Lord Ares we accept your task. We would be honored to help you." I said to him as Grover nodded furiously wanting to get into gods' good boks after the insident with Thalia. Ares smiled at us then ordered us A LOT OF food, paid the waitress and dissapeared as quickly as he appeared.

This chapter is over and my english teacher scolded me for not updating my stories. Honestly I think she would take it beter if I didn't do my homework. Told you guys she was cool before. For anyone who missed that note she is very cool. See you guys later and remember to review. Love you guys.