Alright, before I start, I would like to say that I am so, SO, SO,SO sorry about not updating in a while. I've been busy juggling high school, tech school and finals at college. I've finally finished with my finals, so I'll be able to focus a little bit more on this. My Chaos story is coming along nicely, I've gotten the first chapter typed up, but I'm not going to post it until I have 3 chapters typed up, since Chapter 1 was over 5,000 words.

Disclaimer: As always, I own nothing, Rick Riordan owns the world... of PJO and HoO.

Chapter 12

September 14, 10:30 PM, Percy's Apartment

Percy's PoV

Annabeth and I spent yesterday debating on whose apartment we would live at until this all blew over. Hers was closer to Olympus, but mine was closer to Camp and Goode.

We settled on mine, since we figured we could just Iris-Message whatever we needed to Olympus. Also, since mine was more known with all of our friends.

Annabeth was brushing her teeth in the bathroom while I was holding the vial of water that Hades had given to me. I was debating on whether I should risk keeping the Curse, or getting rid of it forever.

It should be a no-brainer, but for some reason, I can't bring myself around to getting rid of it.

The upside to the curse was being able to have unmatched sword skills, with the exception of Kairos, and the invulnerability to the monster attacks.

But the downside was for this specific fight, which could kill me otherwise...

I put the vial onto the nightstand and decided to make my decision later. Annabeth walked in at that same time wearing one of my white t-shirts and black pajama pants.

She slid into bed next to me, and I immediately wrapped my arms around her waist. I kissed her forehead and put my chin on her head. We just lay there in comfortable silence for about 10 minutes, although it felt like an hour.

"How do you play we go about getting the Divine Silver to fight Kairos with?" She asked me.

I pulled back and looked at her in the eyes. "You're asking me for a plan? Who are you and what have you done to Annabeth?" I laughed.

She smacked my head and got serious. "I'm serious, Percy. How are we going to get this stuff if the Gods won't even talk to up about it?"

"I'm not sure, but for now our job is at school, protecting the people there, as much as I hate Stacy, we need to protect her. If our parents change their minds about telling us, then we'll just have to wait until they do." I explained.

"Right, well, good night, Seaweed Brain."

"Night, Wise Girl."

That night I had a dream that I was in the Throne Room at Olympus. It was destroyed, quite similar to how it was when Kronos attacked.

In front of me, sitting on Zeus' throne was Kairos. "So you've come, Perseus Jackson! I hope you've gotten better with that new sword of yours, because this will be your only chance to fight me!" She held her arm out to the side, and her weapon materialized in her hands.

I pulled out Riptide and uncapped it. But for some reason, it felt more powerful, like it before it was missing something, but it's complete now. You could see an aura around it, much more visible than it was before.

The engraving was different too, instead of saying Anaklusmos, it said Tsunami (I don't know the Greek translation for Tsunami, so it's stuck at Tsunami, deal with it -_-). I was wondering why it was different, but I didn't have time to think about it for long, since at that moment, Kairos decided to attack.

Before her slash could slice off my head, I woke up. I looked around the room in a panic, left over from the dream.

I saw the clock and saw that it was 6:45. Annabeth wasn't in bed, so I guessed that she was in the shower.

I don't remember falling back asleep, but the next thing I knew, someone was shaking me. "Wake up! Damn it, Percy! Wake! Up!" With that, I got a poke in my Achilles Heel. I literally flew out of bed and on to the floor.

"I'm seriously tired of you doing that! Why did you do it in the first place?" I grumbled.

"Because you wouldn't wake up, and it's 7:15! School starts soon, so go take a shower so we can go." She ordered me as she walked out of the room.

I groaned and trudged to the bathroom, thinking about what a long day it was going to be.

Monday September 15, 7:45 AM, GHS

Annabeth's PoV

We got to school with about 15 minutes to spare. The second we walked in, everyone started to stare.

Why can't anyone mind their own business? Why do they have to pay so much attention to us? I thought as we walked through the halls. I heard whispers from the other students, saying things like, "Where have those two been? It's been like two weeks." And, "Did you hear what happened at Percy's house? I heard it blew up."

I chuckled to myself, I wish it was an explosion...

At 7:50, we got to our lockers and got our stuff ready for History. There was still 10 minutes left, so Percy and I were just talking about the plan for what we need to do in school. After a few minutes, someone called us.

"Percy! Annabeth!" Someone yelled from across the hall. I thought it was Emily until I saw who it really was.

My eyes were as wide as dinner plates when I saw Thalia running up to us from across the hall. "T-Thalia? What are you doing here?" Percy asked, clearly as confused as I was.

"No time to explain, come on, class is about to start!" She pulled us along as the warning bell rang.

We got to class when we saw that there was a substitute teacher for today, Thalia pulled us to the back of class where there were a few empty desks.

When we sat down, another person entered the room, and I swear I could see the shadows coming off of him like smoke, and if I didn't know any better, I'd say they were.

Nico walked into the classroom, he had a dark expression on his face, the expression that said don't-mess-with-me-or-I'll-torture-your-soul-for-eternity, which was more than possible.

He walked to us as the crowd of students separated for him, clearly not wanting to be around him. He walked up to us, and his expression changed into a happy expression of a kid that had no care in the world.

"Hey there, Death Breath, is everything set up?" Thalia asked him.

"Yeah, it's set up, we'll be able to talk during the period." He replied as he sat down.

I wonder what he means by that?

The bell rang, and the substitute teacher wrote her name on the board, Mrs. Dodds. I felt Percy visibly tense up beside me.

It took me a second, but I remembered what he told me about the first monster he killed. A Kindly One that went by the name of Mrs. Dodds in his school. It was Alecto!

Nico saw this too and leaned over to Percy. "Don't worry, she's here under my orders, she's not going to attack anyone." Percy relaxed, but not much.

"Okay class, your teacher is out sick today, he didn't leave any instructions, so you can just talk quietly for the rest of the period." She instructed.

The class quickly went into their groups and began talking. Meanwhile, I turned to Thalia and Nico.

"Okay, what are you two doing here?" I asked in a frantic whisper.

"Well, after Lady Artemis was attacked, she said her attacker told her it was revenge against the Gods. She said the girl was avenging Kronos, so naturally, we suspected Percy was involved. And since Artemis is incapacitated for the time being, I'm working under Zeus' orders right now." She explained.

"Okay, you're in the clear. What about you, Nico?" Percy asked this time.

He shrugged. "Dad hasn't been attacked yet, but he thinks that since he's a target that I'd be in danger if I stayed in the Underworld. He wanted to send me to camp, but I convinced him to let me stay around you guys."

"So does Chiron know about you guys being out here? Because you're still a target for Kairos, she attacked me and stole a portion of my powers, she attacked Annabeth and stole some of her smarts, she could steal your guys' powers and get minor control over what your parents have." Percy explained to them.

"We know about how she attacked you, and how she can steal powers, we came here knowing the risks, Kelp Head. As for Chiron, he knows we're here, he's staying at camp and reinforcing defences, the Hunters are there as well to help." Thalia said.

I looked at Percy, and he had an approving look on his face, I turned to Nico, and he just had a blank expression, like he was lost in thought. I wonder if I look like that when I'm thinking that hard?

He suddenly exclaimed so loud that he jumped out of the seat and caused everyone to look at him. He sank down into his chair and waited for everyone to go back to their conversations.

"What was that all about?" I asked him.

He started to rummage through his backpack. "I almost forgot, Hephaestus wanted me to give these to you. When I came up from the Underworld, my dad contacted me, saying that Hephaestus wanted me to grab something from him." He pulled out two phones, one gray, and one blue. He tossed the blue one to Percy, and the gray one to me.

"These phones are monster-proof. You can call, text, go on the internet, whatever, and not worry about attracting monsters. Plus it's got IM-ing, you can do Iris-Messages for free to anywhere you need. They'll return to your pockets if you lose them, and they only respond to the owner of the phone, and those who have permission." He explained to us.

I looked through my phone, and saw that all the information from my current phone was duplicated. Past texts, contacts, calls, voicemails, everything. From the look on Percy's face, the same went for him.

He eventually looked up from his phone. "So how long are you guys staying for?"

Nico shrugged again, "I can stay for as long as I want, I'm not too eager to go back to Persephone and be turned into a dandelion."

"Thalia?"

"Just until all this blows over, then I'm headed back to the hunt." She said plainly.

"Well then, we're going to need to keep our eyes open, since 8 demigods will attract a lot of attention." I pointed out.

Nico's eyes went wide. "Wait, 8 demigods?

"No one explained to you? Well with us four here, there are 4 other demigods at this school, three of them are students, and the last is an adult who's an Ares kid. She's been teaching the other three, with permission from Chiron." I told them.

"So who are they, and do they know who their parents are?" Thalia asked.

"All of them are girls and on the volleyball team with me. The first is a girl named Emily, she's a daughter of Hermes, second is Jessica, daughter of Nemesis, and the last is Stacy Langdon, daughter of Apollo." I subtly pointed at Stacy in the classroom who was texting in the corner while her friends around her talked. "That's Stacy."

Nico finally came out of his shock. "Wait, you're on the volleyball team? Why? You didn't get enough back at camp?" He laughed.

Of course that's the only thing he heard from my entire explanation. I thought. I turned to Thalia and motioned for her to 'do her thing.'

She charged up some electricity and slapped Nico in the back of the head. He went unconscious for a moment then regained his wits, but he was still in a daze. "Not the point right now, Death Breath. And, Annabeth, are you sure that's all the demigods at school?"

I was about to answer, but got cut off by Percy. "That's all we know about, for all we know, half the school could be demigods, but for now we only know about those four."

The bell rang, and everyone started to shuffle out of class, we found out that Thalia and Nico had the same classes as us, so the day was pretty interesting.

School went by pretty quickly, aside from a few boys trying to hit on Thalia, which caused her to wail on them. I had volleyball practice, while Percy had to go to swim practice.

Nico and Thalia tried to come with me to volleyball, but Thalia stopped Nico. "Why don't you go with Percy? Then you won't look like the pervert in the back who's stalking the girls that are jumping around while sweaty." Thalia smirked.

"I'd rather have a reputation for being a pervert and girl stalker than a boy stalker who has a fetish for watching guys swim in Speedos." Nico pointed out, after a second of rethought, he changed his mind. "Never mind, with Artemis, she could turn me into a rabbit and start hunting me for even saying the words 'girl stalker.'" He ran off to the pool.

Thalia and I laughed all the way to the gym, it was 3:36 when we got in, but for some reason, the only people there were the demigods.

"Coach, what's going on? Where's the rest of the team?" I asked.

"Hold that thought, Chase." At that moment, Percy walked into the gym with a confused look on his face, his hair was dripping.

Nico followed in right after, and for some reason, he was soaked.

"Jackson! Dry yourself and the emo boy off, I don't want my gym soaked again because you love the water!" She barked.

Percy just shrugged and used his powers to dry Nico and himself. Nico send a death glare at Percy that looked like all the shadows in the gym were going to swallow him if he didn't run.

Percy ran.

After 10 minutes of silence, Nico finally spoke up. "Who are we waiting for? And why were we called in?"

After another minute, the gym doors burst open, through them, leading the line was Clarisse la Rue, followed by Leo Valdez, who was pulling a wagon of weapons behind him, he was followed by Will Solace, and the last person to come in was... Henry.

Dunn dunn dunnnnnnnn. What could Henry's arrival mean? What will Percy's choice be for his Curse of Achilles? Why does the strange sword known as Tsunami come out of Riptide's ped? Why the hell am I asking you all these questions? I'm the one that's got the story written out on paper!

Review please, I can take into consideration any suggestions you guys may have for the story.