Friday Update. I'd love it if you could excuse the fact that this chapter might be a bit depressing, I have had a rough week of testing -shiver-. Oh well, life goes on. Review if you'd like to.

Disclaimer: I don't own PJO.

Clovis POV

It was a dumb idea. It was ludicrous. It was all we had. I was surprised that Chiron had let Shelly away with it. I was more surprised by the turn out. There was the whole Ares cabin, led by Clarisse. A large portion of the Apollo cabin, and Piper McClean. It would be enough to find him, but if things went sour it wouldn't be enough to win against a whole camp. Then again, the quest kind of relies on things not sour, so if we died it didn't really matter. What a grim thought.

It didn't take long for us all to have cell phones, to be ready. We broke into groups of three. My group was Clarisse, Shelly and I. At first it seemed reassuring to have a child of Ares with us again. That nice feeling lasted all of two seconds.

"I'm Clarisse, listen weaklings I don't time for your hesitations. I say it. You. Do. It." She commanded.

"Well, nice to meet you to" Shelly muttered.

"What was that?" Clarisse demanded. Clarisse and Shelly locked eyes, I was proud of Shelly for standing her ground considering Clarisse was almost two feet taller.

"Enough, whats your name?" Clarisse turned to me. I froze up, she still had some anger left over.

"His name is Clovery" Shelly pouted.

"Actually, it's Clov-" I started.

"No one wants to hear your stupid nick names Clovicle" Clarisse shouted quietly, seems impossible but she done it.

I just shut up and let another person call me the wrong name. Shelly and Clarisse kept arguing for twenty minutes while I slept. I used lucid dreaming to study the map while I was sleeping. I figured out the best route and chose to wake up.

"Lets get going" I announced. Surprisingly they both agreed.

"Where to?" Clarisse still sounded angry, but in a submissive way.

"We'll start here and call and walk our way from here to here, using this route" I showed them the way I'd worked out. They nodded. We began walking.

The place was a collection of plain fields, that is where a camp is likely to be. In the distant was some forest. Other than that, just a large patch of grass as far as the eye can see.

Upon arrival we dialed our first random number. "Hello, this is East Gore Takeaways. Can I take your order?" the voice on the other line said. Didn't hear much of the rest of the conversation, the phone worked too well.

"Duck!" Clarisse yelled. I did. Good reason as well, I saved myself from getting crushed by a cyclops haymaker. I saw the flash of skin. Then a long dark object hit the beast heart and lightning sparked. Dust. Clarisse stood over the dust, smiling. Somehow, that made her even scarier. I forced sleep on the ashes and explained to Clarisse what I was doing. She looked annoyed that she couldn't recycle her kill faster.

We walked 1mile closer to the forest, we would try every mile. That is usually how close monsters ever got to camp.

We called another random number "Hello, this is Suicide Hotline. Can I take your burdens?". If they seen what came next, they would offer to help.

Around twenty dracaena came slithing out into the open. I drew my sword. I could see Shelly and Clarisse charging. I casually walked to the enemies I'd locked onto. I could hear the snake like screams to my left and right, I knew I didn't have to worry about them two. One dracaena lunged a spear at me, I placed my foot on it and stabbed at the face. One down. I threw my sword at another, it struck the chest. Two down. I ran to get my sword, I was intercepted by both sides. They both stabbed for me at the same time. I stepped back and watch as the two stabbed each other in the neck. Four Down. I got to my sword and felt a presence behind me, without hesitation I spun around. Decapitating another. I walked to help Shelly and managed to silently take out another three as they weren't focused. Shelly handled the last one with a swift slash across the chest. I forced sleep on them all, I could feel myself tiring.

"Twenty three?" Shelly yelled "Okay, we definitely do not have the place"

"Agreed" I said. I waited for Clarisse to agree, then noticed she couldn't reply if she wasn't around. In the distance, she was clashing with more dracaena in the distance.

"We should probably help" I said, though my heart wasn't in it.

"Or you know, we could let her die?" Shelly suggested hopefully, that my heart was in.

We arrived just in time to watch her stab the last one. Clarisse didn't seem tired, she seemed to gain energy from battle. I'd noticed the same thing in Tim, they seemed lathargic when doing nothing. They looked alive from almost dying. Without saying a word Clarisse made a phonecall and continued. This time we went with her.

This time even Clarisse didn't look excited by the idea of fighting. Multitudes of monsters had surrounded us. "Fifteen cyclops, thirty four dracaena, two full grown manticores, and three hellhounds" Clarisse said. Odd, I never took her for the mathematical type.

The circle of monsters kept edging closer. They were getting closer. They were almost within combat distance when an arrow landed in a cyclops eye. Then flashes of purple found their way through the crowd. Wherever the purple went, dust followed. We joined in, slaughtering the confused enemies. After we no longer heard clashes of combat, we looked around. We weren't alone. Through the dust stood a large crowd of teenagers all wearing orange shirts. Two figures pushed threw the crowd, one was kind of athletic looking, the other was rather lean and slender. I started breathing heavily. I tripped. I felt a soft hand on my shoulder, I grabbed and it pulled me to my feet. In front of me, smiling coldy, was Tim.

"Hey Clovicus, you okay?"

Well, that wasn't that depressing was it? That was actually rather fun to write, except the freaking out of wondering whether or not I'd spelt 'dracaena' right. Other than that, yeah. Anyway, review if you want to or want your favorite monster thrown in or something. Ciao.