POSEIDON POV

It seems I need to tell Percy about the party on Olympus, I should take him he has been striving to be a great son. I should see why he hasn't been sacrificing to me for the last few days… I sure he can explain. I also had been getting a really bad feeling, like something has gone terribly wrong. I hope I am wrong about that. I hope everything has been going smoothly, whenever I am thinking about Percy or what he may be doing, I feel really uneasy…

ZEUS POV

The preparations are almost complete, the party on Olympus should be ready to begin at the next day tomorrow. I can't wait to bring Jason, as I am sure Artemis will bring Thalia. I suppose that Percy Jackson will be coming, as well as Nico or Hazel, ha, that will put Hades on the spot! I wonder who the gods will choose for their favorite child. I imagine most of them will have been blessed by the gods one way or another. I probably should make it two children, that would ease a lot of the tension of choosing a favorite child. Aw well, the moon shall be beautiful, I believe it is a full moon. It shall provide the perfect lighting.

JASON POV

I woke up with the sheets tangled around me and me being held in a tight wrap. I fumbled for a minute before I rolled off the bed, and smacked my head on the floor. In addition to a bad sleep I am now somehow hurting myself in the morning. I began to strap my gladius on, rubbed the aching area of my head and walked out the door. Piper was there smiling, which was the last thing I felt like doing. She smiled, "Morning Jason!"

"Hey Piper." I smiled but even I could tell it was fake.

She frowned, "What's wrong."

I sighed, "Nothing! Don't worry about it."

She held my face in between her hands, "WHAT? IS? WRONG?" she said.

"Um… well…Percy has kinda hit a…rough patch in his life and...um…is kinda depressed about it."

She raised her eyebrow, but thankfully dropped the subject. I wanted to do something, but there wasn't much I could do. Percy was somewhere on the other side of the country, a werewolf, and I was here, in Camp Jupiter. I wanted to do something anything to help Percy through his predicament but I couldn't. Damn it all, I never felt so helpless and worried. If I ever found Lycaon, he would regret ever having come into existence. I am going to rip him apart.

NICO POV

I woke up in a bunk in the Hades Cabin. We had thought we heard Percy, and decided to search for him. When we didn't find him we all went back to our respective cabins. I sighed and got up. Well, it's safe to say he is somewhere in the USA. Other than that I have no freaking idea. And that pisses me off to no end I can only hope that if I travel across the US I might stumble across them. I set out. I had my bag full of things and a large wad of mortal money, drachmas and other necessities for a quest. I was going to find him, I didn't care how long it took I was going to find him.

ANNABETH POV

I sighed as I got up, ever since Percy left, the camp overall is just not right. I can't help but regret my actions I have to find him. I've got to I finished packing before I had fallen asleep, I stepped out and shouldered my pack more comfortably. As I walked out I noticed Nico walking towards the trees, he gave me another cold glare, and I flinched. I really didn't like that glare. He walked towards the Dining Pavilion and turned away from me as he disappeared from sight. I sighed.

THALIA POV

I sighed as I flopped out of my bedroll and landed on the floor. I sighed and yanked on my hunter's outfit and tiara. I flung the door open but before I could step outside, an iris message shimmered into existence in front of me. It was Phoebe.

"Thalia? Are you alright?" she questioned, looking concerned.

I winced, I must be looking like hell with dark circles under my red eyes, "No, but I guess I will press on."

She sighed, "How is the…boy?" I could hear the disdain in her tone and I got mad. Percy left, and she acted like he was an idiot who didn't care about anyone by himself.

It took a lot of control but I didn't yell at her, "I don't know." My voice sounded hollow.

"What do you-" she began.

"Look, Phoebe," I said, "It's not in my place to say and I won't say even if I did. Drop it." My voice went a trace extra firm.

And with that I whipped my hand through the iris message and headed for the Dining Pavilion.

Breakfast was grim to be cheery about it, the only one to be unaffected by it was Dionysus. He sat there in his chair sipping a diet coke, and eating some peeled grapes. I saw Chiron shifting his food around on his plate. Almost all the campers were acting like him, they were either picking at their food or just moving it around. Some campers even scraped most of their food into the bronze braziers. I looked at my food, steaming toast, cereal, and hot chocolate, comfort food. It made me vaguely sick, I scraped it all into the bronze brazier. I sighed and got up. Nico nodded grimly at me and walked out of the pavilion. I followed suit.

NICO POV

I had eaten everything on my plate, even though it was tasteless and made me feel sick. Regardless, I needed to be focused and full when I was chasing after Percy, he was strong, probably stronger than me seeing as he has only been practicing these past three years. I sighed and ran towards the trees, the shadows wrapped around me and I flew through the darkness.

I willed myself to materialize in the forests that surrounded the closest cities. I tapped my sword on the ground. Several little animals made of bones came out, some mice, birds, and snakes.

"I want you guys to find Percy when you do, tell me when and where." I motioned with my hands for them to leave.

PERCY POV

I was restless the moment I woke up, I began to pace, my entire body was urging me to move, just calm the rippling in my veins. It didn't let up at all, I began to pack, and my body protested the little movements. I longed to burst into a sprint and never stop running. I shoved the last bit of equipment into my bag and ran. It lessened the command of my blood, my urge to run was quiet, but still there. I kept dashing through the forest, it seemed to flow around me, my legs working like I had run through forests all my life. If there was a fallen tree in my way I shot over it. I smiled, despite the pull in my veins, I could appreciate the speed of this experience.

Finally my body relaxed. The pull in my blood subsided, and I was winded. I sat down heavily and wiped my face. I wasn't sweating a lot just a little, that and I was out of breath. I sat there for a minute and closed my eyes, focusing. My sensory circle expanded, almost as dim as last time, but it still worked. It seemed easier to center myself and focus on clearing what I saw. I felt something faint but the image was a little clearer than last time. There was a faint slither of power, like something that had enough power to have been made from a demigod or monster.

I got up and turned around, clicking Riptide. A small skeletal snake was slithering across the floor. I chuckled, "Very smart, Nico."

I stabbed my sword straight into the skeletal snake's skull. It flailed and disintegrated into white powder. I shifted Riptide into a pen and began running. The sensation was amazing like being able to slide through the world, the only things that seemed real was the wind on my face and the pounding of the earth beneath my feet. I don't know what made me feel like this, but at the moment I didn't care the sun bathed the forest with light, making it seem like I would be able to run forever. I slid under a fallen log and laughed out loud euphoric. I didn't know why it made me so happy but at the moment, all I wanted to do was run and shoot through the forest like a star falling from the sky.