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- Oh gods… thank you so much! That was very sweet said of you! This chapter is not Will's POV, maybe next one. Thank you, and aww… it was so nice…

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- Wow! Thanks! I would love to write some of the story in Will's POV, and I will confirm that I will soon. Like ScarletRavenwood said, 'It will spice up the romance.' And I like replying others reviews, it's like you check your mail and wow! The author replied, and that's cool! To your question, is a no. The two characters that I will choose will not be in the quest. I'm not saying where, but not in the quest. An OC that I made will be there. Thank you again and bye!

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A/N: Enjoy the chapter and do not kill Connor! (You will find out later.)

Chapter 13

I woke up remembering one thing: the kiss. It wasn't exactly a real kiss, but it still mattered. And the other ones were planned, like a bill for guitar lessons. This one was by free will, which was stupid, since I was the one who kissed him and we decided to stay friends.

But still… I couldn't control myself around him. It was like I declined the 'just friends' thing and did romantic stuff. I was weak.

After breakfast I packed my stuff. I got a backpack from Silena who had the same features as the duffel bag. I packed some extra clothes, small bottles of shampoo and conditioner and soap, ambrosia and nectar, food, drinks and other stuff that I needed.

Suddenly Silena, Katie, Kayla and Annabeth barged in wearing serious yet amused expressions. The whole gang was here except Clarisse who was probably dunking some newbie's head in the toilet (I passed that one).

"Uh, hey guys," I said.

"Uh, hey guys!" Silena yelled waving her arms. "Is that all you say?"

I walked over to her. "You okay?"

"Why didn't you tell us?" Katie asked.

"Tell you what?"

"That you kissed my brother!" Kayla said stomping her foot.

"You saw that?"

Annabeth laughed. "I saw… sorry. But I accidently blurted it out."

"What?"

"I was working with my designs and when I looked out I saw you kiss Will."

"I didn't kiss him! Well… not a real kiss."

"Every kiss matters," Silena said knowingly. "Why didn't you say it? Do you know how long I waited for Willexis?"

"Okay, what the Hades is Willexis?"

"Will + Alexis = Willexis," Katie answered simply.

I zipped up my bag pack. "There isn't any Willexis, guys. We're just friends."

"Friends that kiss?" Annabeth asked raising her eyebrows.

I shrugged. "We kiss every day. No biggie."

"Wait what!?" Silena shouted.

"Guitar lessons," I said. "I kiss his cheek every class."

All of them cooed. "That's so sweet! But kinda gross when we're talking about my brother," Kayla said wrinkling her nose.

All of us nodded. "What happens now?" Katie asked.

I slung the bag pack around my shoulders. "Nothing happens. I'm going to quest, and try not to die."

"But," Silena said looking sad. "You're so adorable!"

"I agree that you two are really cute," Annabeth said with her 'know- it- all' tone. "But it's wise to let it wait now. You have a quest; you have to focus on that, not Will."

"I guess I have to."

"Come on," Katie said. "You have a quest to go to."

We walked to the end of the border where my other friends, Chiron and my brother stood.

"Everyone ready?" Chiron asked.

All four of us nodded. "Say good- bye to your friends."

I hugged Silena first. "Take care of yourself, okay?" She said crying slightly. She is so emotional.

"I will." I said blinking away tears. Ugh, I'm hanging to much with her.

"Remember Willexis," she whispered.

"Oh shut up you lovesick idiot," I said jokingly.

She grinned and then Katie hugged me. "Be careful! Watch Travis, please?" she whispered the last part.

"Of course, Katie. Don't want something to happen to your target practice."

She laughed and Kayla attacked me in a hug. "Kill some monsters for me, will you?"

"I will kill them for you, Kayls."

"And could you watch my brother and… Connor?"

Oh gods. Kayla liked Connor. That wasn't so obvious, oh, that explains why he always seems so happy to go to the infirmary. "Uh, yeah of course."

She smiled. I hugged Annabeth. "Be careful or Percy is going to drag himself around the camp and I have to help. Be wise, okay?"

I nodded and smiled. "I will, Blondie."

She smiled back and grinned. I hugged the others and finally I hugged Percy who looked like he was going to cry every minute. "Be careful, Princess Fish. You will do awesome. Say hi to George and Martha, okay?"

I nodded. "Love you," he said with tears forming in his eyes.

"Love you too."

I looked at Chiron. "We're ready to go," I said.

He nodded and tossed the keys to Travis who was the closest to sixteen. Unfortunately he was going to drive. Which means crazy driving all the way to Florida.

When we walked our way to the camp van, I heard Clarisse voice call, "Watch Alexis, Solace! Got it or you will get some real butt kicking when you come back!"

Will paled. I looked at him and smiled. "Don't worry. We'll be fine."

Gods know how wrong I took. He blushed and sat down in the van. I sat next to him and the van started. We waved to our friends and I slumped back in my seat.

There was an awkward silence. Not between Travis and Connor, but Will who was glancing at me and when I catch him he would hurriedly look out.

"We're going to Florida right?" Travis asked.

"We have to try Florida first; the prophecy said the caduceus is where the sun shines most."

Connor looked at Will with his eyebrow raised. "You're the sun child right? Where does the sun shine most?"

"It must be in America," I said. "It couldn't be taken farer than that."

"It is in Florida," Will said, but his voice sounded different, more confident and masculine. "That's the best shot we got."

"Alright," Travis said. "To Florida we go!"

Connor grinned. "Florida is packed with pretty girls."

I rolled my eyes. "We are not going on girl- seeing."

"But-"

"No, Connor. Don't act like your brother, one is enough."

"You know you love me."

My face must been priceless since everyone laughed even though Will's was a little bit strained.

"Oh shut up."

Travis made a sharp swing that made me fall into Will. I didn't fall into him exactly. Will held his me steady so I wouldn't bump into him. It surprised me how concentrated he was, how he held me steady and calm. I slipped back into my seat and smiled to him as thanks.

He took out his blue Beats and turned them on. He just gazed out and I slowly began to get bored.

I decided to turn the radio on and when I was about to press the button Connor whispered, "You wanted to bump into him."

I pressed the button and Selena Gomez's - Come and Get it blasted in the speakers.

"What?" I said surprised.

"You wanted to crash at him, feel him wrap his arms-"

I smacked him. "What the Hades?"

"I love this song!" Travis said. "She can't sing, but she had surprisingly good songs."

"She does," I admitted.

"Where were we?" Connor wore his devilish smirk.

"Uh, nowhere?"

He shook his head. "Travis don't you think our little sea princess has a crush on the handsome son of-"

"Shut up!" I hissed.

I glanced at Will who were asleep. Travis laughed. "See you even watch him asleep."

"You look at Katie at the Strawberry Fields," I shot back.

Travis face reddened. Connor laughed. "She got you, bro."

"Oh," I said smiling. "You always get 'hurt' so you can get healed by Kayla."

Connors face was priceless and Travis looked at him incredulous. "Kayla? Like Kayla Matthews? That pretty Apollo girl?"

"Yup," I said.

"How?" Connor asked stunned.

"I have my sources. So don't tease me about Will."

I glanced back at him, I never saw him as the one who drooled, but it made him seem cuter and not less- manly, he is manly, I guess, but it made him not totally perfect, which many people could think with his looks.

"Don't stare," Travis chided. "He will wake up."

I would smacked him but I was afraid that he might send us into the Mc Donald's that we passed by, not the heroic way I wanted to die.

Hours passed by and I looked out, yelled at Travis because he almost fell asleep driving, had more awkward silence with Will who was acting different, had a few near death experiences during the drive (Brother fights are deathly) and something strange happened.

The van started to make weird noises like it stuck a squirrel down in the engine. If an engine could fart, I'm pretty sure this one did. It humped and made fall out of my seat. Then it died.

"What happened?" I asked.

"I'll check the engine, wake up Will, he slept like a rock," Travis said jumping out off his seat and went out.

I scooted next to him and the Beats blasted with music. This was the second time he fell asleep, I was worried for the lack of energy he had, and the dark circles around his eyes were proof of his lack of sleep.

He was drooling which I recognized it had to be an Apollo gene. "Will?" I said.

No response. Again I realized how much like his dad he was. I took the Beats out and I took notice how angel like he looked. His hair style was surfer dude stylish, but also angel like. His hair was golden blond, but it looked like a halo, I guess.

His eyes opened, he slouched up. "Why are we stopping?" he asked groggily.

"The van broke," I said and I slipped out and saw the sullen expressions to Travis and Connor.

They opened the front and steam and smoke came out of the engine. If we had a child of Hephaestus, it will be easily fixed, but I guess even a baby have more experience in engineering than we do.

"Can it be fixed?" Will asked slamming the van door close.

Travis shook his head. "No, it can't. The model is ancient. It barely had any fuel left, and the engine was weak. It would never last all the way to Florida."

"What are we gonna do?" Connor asked rubbing his head.

They all looked at me for an answer. I was the leader of course, which I felt pressured about, and now they relied on me. I took notice of the place we were in. It seemed abandoned and there wasn't any cars driving here. The left side was just plain grass while the right side was a jungle- forest. I didn't know it was any places like this near New York.

I took a deep breath and said, "We'll stay for the night," I gestured to the sun who was slowly going down and it became darker. "We set up a fire in the forest, and hopefully get some sleep."

"That place looks weird," Will remarked.

"It does, Pretty Boy. We're near Virginia; it's a train station there. We take the train to Florida."

"We'll go for that," Travis said yawning. "Let's go in the exotic forest."

Travis and Connor were a few meters ahead of me and Will. We didn't say much, we just walked silently. I looked back at the van that was steaming with smoke. I felt bad for just letting it go, but I'm sure we haven't time hauling a van all the way to Florida.

"You were staring at me," Will said suddenly.

"What?" I said stunned.

"In the van, you were staring at me."

"I wasn't."

"Yes, you were."

"You know, whatever, Will. Maybe I stared at you; you were drooling for god's sake."

"I don't drool."

"Yes, you do. You aren't perfect, William."

I caught up with the others, leaving him behind. Just when I was about to go in, it was something that held me back.

"What's wrong?" Travis asked confused.

"I- I don't know," I said. "Wait." I willed on one of my throwing knifes. I threw them on the nearest tree, I don't know why I did, but it was something here that made me nervous.

"There aren't any monsters here, we'll be fine," Connor reassured.

I stepped in to the exotic forest and I suddenly got the weird feeling that I went into some force, like the border of camp. "Did you feel that?"

All of nodded even though Will looked irritated. "There's some sort of shield, why?"

"I dunno," Travis said putting his hand through the shield. "Let's hope it protects us from monsters."

"But isn't it weird?" I insisted. "Some sort of jungle- forest suddenly pops up and now it will protect us from monsters?"

"We can't sleep in the car," Will said. "It filled with smoke, the jungle thing is the best place we got for now."

We all made an agreement. "Maybe we should check the forest," I suggested. "So it's safe and stuff."

"All of us?" Travis said. "That will take a long time, we should split."

"Split?" Will said frowning. "That's not good, we need to be together."

I considered it. "It won't do any harm. If we have problems we just shout out a word."

"Fluffy," Connor offered.

"What?"

"If we got in trouble, we'll shout Fluffy."

I looked at Travis like is he serious? He just shrugged back."Fine," I sighed. "We are shouting Fluffy."

I took Connors arm and said, "Connor and I take the right side while you and Will take the left."

"Why do I go with Travis?" Will asked looking at a little bit sad and red in the face.

"Because you are annoying," I answered biting back the guilt.

I dragged Connor deeper into the forest- jungle. The woody scent of forest was scenting around, but also the smell of exotic and jungle mixed with it. It was truly beautiful with the different flowers that I never seen before and the water ponds that was glittering in the sun.

There was a few monkeys hanging around the trees, fortunately it wasn't any animals that lived in normal jungles.

There were lianas hanging around the tropic trees while the forest trees had fresh colors of green in the leaves. I was afraid that Connor was going to turn into Tarzan and go all monkey- man.

"Wow…" Connor whispered. "This place is great."

I nodded in agreement. "This place is so… magical. It doesn't seem real." In a sort of way I didn't want to leave. But the thought of me living in the jungle- forest with them in the rest of my life and only eating fruits made me also wanting to leave a little bit.

"Hey," he said nudging me. "Look over there." He pointed on two huge flowers that were absolutely beautiful and there were fireflies that glowed over them while colorful butterflies flied over them.

"That's so pretty," I said smiling. He nodded picked up a white flower that had blue strokes on it. He tucked it in my hair and smiled. "It looks nice on you," he said.

I blushed. "Thanks Connor."

We smiled at each other and I saw how nice eyes he had. His cheeks were slightly red and suddenly I heard a loud girlish scream. "FLUFFY! FLUFFY, DO YOU HEAR ME? FLUFFY!" More girly screaming came. It must be Travis, no one can scream like that.

"Oh gods," Connor said looking around wildly. "We have to find them."

He took my hand and we ran towards the girly scream.

As we ran the wind whipped against me and the leaves and branches scratched against my face.

We ran and ran until we found Travis fighting with a monkey. "Get off me!" he yelled. "Go away stupid monkey!"

I looked at Will, he wasn't screaming or fighting another monkey, he was laughing his butt off.

We didn't make an attempt to help him; instead I sat on a rock with Connor watching the fight with amusement. "Film it," I said.

Connor took out the camera and started to film the whole thing. I was absolutely sure that Travis fighting a monkey was going to be a big hit at camp.

Travis fished up a banana from his bag pack and swung it around the monkey's face like it was supposed to tempt him. "Nice monkey, tasty banana. Take it and go."

Leroy (I decided to call him that) looked at the banana hungrily and he quickly snatched it from Travis' hand and disappeared in the forest- jungle.

"Stupid hairy monkey," Travis muttered angrily.

"You called on us just because a monkey attacked you?" I asked.

Travis smiled sheepishly. "I thought it was monster, and I panicked."

Connor looked at Will whose face was red. "And you didn't help him?"

Will shrugged carelessly. "He could handle it. Don't be angry, it wasn't like you did something special."

I looked at Connor, he smiled and winked. I tried to not blush. "Did you check the left side?"

Will and Travis nodded. I studied Will's expression; he seemed to be watching me and Connor closely with a steely expression.

It was dark out and it started to get cold. "We should make a fire," Will said quietly.

"I'll get some wood," I said and sat up from the rock and started to walk deeper in the woods.

"I'll go too," Will said quickly and caught up with me.

When Travis and Connor were out of sight I said, "You didn't have to come."

He looked at me, then at the flower in my hair. "It may be dangerous; I don't want you to get hurt."

"I think I can handle just going to find some wood."

"Or you just don't want to talk to me."

I started to pick up some branches that seem to be fine to start a fire. "Of course I want to talk to you," I said.

"You don't seem to be so talkative to me, since you're flirting with Connor," he said with a slightly strained voice.

I dropped my wood. "I didn't flirt with him."

Will snorted. "Yeah right. It's easy to see that you were doing something special with him on the right side."

I picked up the wood that fell out of my hands. I stood up facing him. He had his hands full of branches. "We weren't doing anything, William," I said calmly.

He dropped his wood with a thud! "Why are you calling me that?" he said angrily. "You know very well that I don't like it."

"Listen," I said, not angrily, but calm so I wouldn't start yelling at him. That only made things worse. "I don't have anything going with Connor. And why do you care?"

He stepped closer, forgetting about the wood. "So you don't remember anything that happened yesterday?"

"Of course I do," I whispered looking down at the fallen branches.

"You don't seem to be," he said not angry anymore. More softly and quiet.

"Neither do you." I said so quietly that he almost couldn't hear it. I picked up another branch and headed towards the others.

Connor and Travis started on the fire and Will came out with the other branches. He put them down and sat on a rock watching me with a depressed look.

I wasn't any better. I felt tired and I was sad. I didn't like fighting with him. So many pointless arguments that I got sick.

Travis took out some matches and the wood started to burn. After a few minutes the fire was burning brightly.

We took out our food and started to eat solemnly. Well I did eat solemnly; Travis and Connor were hauling in the food like it was the last thing they ever would eat. Will didn't seem to eat much; he was sitting on his rock quietly while picking on his food.

"So what do we do now?" Travis asked after eating.

"We go to the train station," I said putting my food back. I didn't eat so much. "And try not die."

"Well, we haven't run by any monster," Connor said, "and that's a pretty good start for me."

"We didn't even follow the plan," I muttered. "The stupid van broke and now we're in a jungle- forest that we never seen before."

"At least we're together," Connor said to brighten up the mood.

I nodded, and said, "At least one good thing happened."

Travis yawned. "I don't know about you guys, but I'm tired. I'll go to sleep now." He slumped down in the ground and when he closed his eyes, he immediately fell asleep.

"Lex, I think you need some sleep too," Connor said lying down. "You look tired."

"I will, just go to sleep Connor."

He nodded and he fell asleep next to Travis. Will glanced at me. "I'll take the shift, you can and sleep. You need the most energy."

I shook my head. "We don't need to watch out for monsters. I found out that this is some kind of shield. We haven't had any monster attacks. We probably don't need to watch."

"Really?" he asked hopefully.

"A 50/50 chance."

"We'll go with that," he said yawning and he lied on the ground.

I looked at the fire, I wasn't sure if I wanted to sleep. Even though I was dead tired, the nightmares were terrifying. I wouldn't get any sleep anyway.

Will looked at me with his eyebrows raised and sleepy eyes. "Aren't you going to sleep?"

"Probably."

"What do you mean with 'probably'? You need to sleep."

"Maybe I don't want to."

"You look tired. Just sleep, okay?"

I didn't say anything; I just stared at the fire that was burning brightly that sent me warmth.

Will stood up and sat on the ground next to me. "Don't worry about me, Will," I said still staring at the fire. "Go back to sleep."

"I'm not sleeping if you aren't. Why won't you sleep? You love to sleep."

"You wouldn't understand."

"Yes, I will."

"It's the same reason why I woke up yesterday."

He was quiet until he said, "Nightmares."

I nodded slowly. "Oh," Will said. "That's why."

"Now you know. You can go and sleep. I'll be fine."

He looked at me curiously. I imagined that I looked horrible with dirty and messed hair and the tired look. "What are them about?" he asked.

I told him the nightmares slowly to him. The way I told them probably sounded silly, but I didn't care.

He lied down with a weird expression. "That was an odd nightmare."

"Laugh if you want. I don't care."

"I'm not laughing, Alexis. They sound bad, and they will probably get worse."

I looked at him. "Thanks, I didn't know," I said sarcastically.

He looked up and I noticed the dark circles around his eyes again. I scooped next to him and cupped my hands around his face so he faced my tired face. I wasn't angry at him, I never was, maybe a little bit miffed, but that doesn't matter.

"You look tired, Will. What are you not telling me?"

"Nothing," he said quickly and looked away. He didn't take my hands away, and he definitely didn't convince me.

"You're lying."

"It's nothing. Let's go to sleep."

"But-"

He lied down on his back and held his arms up. "What are you doing?" I whispered.

Will wrapped his arms around me and pulled me down. "I'm protecting a friend," he said tightening his grip around me.

"But I will wake you up and I will probably sc-"

"You won't," he said determined. "Go to sleep please. Do it for me."

I pressed myself closer to his chest and then everything went black. He still smelled honey and sunshine, but also dirt and sweat, but I didn't mind at all.

I didn't remember anything about what I dreamt. No knife voice or exotic voice guys. No hissing snakes that was right in my face. And no pitch dark room.

Just nothing and I never had that before. It was a nice feeling actually.

I blinked my eyes open and I noticed that I was really close to someone. My face was pressed to Will's and he held his arms around me tightly.

His opened his eyes sleepily and when he saw me, he smiled widely. "No nightmares?"

I shook my head smiling, and said, "No, not at all. You?"

He shook his head and I pressed my face in his warm shoulder.

Until I realized that someone was watching us. We both looked up and it wasn't Travis and Connor, they were still asleep. It was a girl, an extremely gorgeous girl with curly orange colored hair that looked just like the color of oranges mixed with red roses.

A strange hair color and this was natural, no doubt. She was beautiful with caramel colored skin and green eyes with purple specks, no, the purple specks changed colors. It looked like a kaleidoscope with one regular color and the other color changed. Her face was stunningly beautiful, and she wore a peach colored dress in the jungle- forest. She looked to be around fourteen or fifteen, but she looked older with her pretty features.

She seemed nice, but also… mysterious. Will looked at her with a shocked face and a drooling mouth. It was something about that made me irritated and made me hold him closer until I tried to ignore the nagging feeling.

"Who are you?" I asked groggily and I sat up and Will untangled him from me while having the same expression at the girl.

She giggled. "I'm Penny," she said holding out her hand. I shook it and when I touched her, I felt like I was holding something powerful and it was about to blow.

"Oh look at you!" she said looking at Will (To flirty for my taste) and me, then at Travis and Connor. "You must be exhausted. Come with me! Wake up your friends and follow me!"

She skipped deeper in the jungle forest with Will following her like a lost puppy. I frowned and started to wake up my other friends.

I glanced back at the skipping Penny. She was… different. Not like different, but strangely different like she wasn't exactly the person she said she was.

A/N: This is not a Connor/Alexis story, just so you know. I hope you like this chapter! I don't have so much to say. Sorry if you thought this was in Will's POV, but I already started on this chapter in Alexis' POV before I got in answers. Maybe there will be in Will's POV in the next chapter, if it fits. Say your thought about the quest, this is the beginning, it will be more epic! What do you think about Penny, is she who she tells she is? Thank you and REVIEW!