Okay, I'm sorry this took so long, it's just that I promised myself I'd work some more on my Harry Potter fanfiction, and this chapter was also quite difficult to space out. this is one of the last chapters, but I don't know exactly where I'm going to end it. I can say FOR SURE that there will be a book three (yay!) but I'm not sure about a book four. if you could check out the forum, and vote in the poll, that would be fantastic.

okay, I hope you enjoy this chapter (I told you there'd be a huge cliffhanger!)

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I didn't answer her, just kept staring at my brother the traitor. "Come on, brother dear, even a skull as thick as yours has to have a brain in there somewhere," I said softly, leaning over the railing slightly.

"How could you two possibly be related?" a blond vampire asked. His eyes were flicking between me and Orthaeus.

"Our father is about five thousand years old," I said. "Obviously, he had me later in life." All the Cullens were looking at me like I lost it. Nobody laughed at my joke, which was vaguely annoying.

"What are you going to do with that trident?" Orthaeus said eventually. He had lost his cheerful demeanor.

"I don't know," I said. "Hera always left the dream here. I was planning on threatening you though, I do need the 'alliance in the homeland,'" I said, rolling my eyes at the last part.

"And what makes you think you can threaten me?" he asked incredulously.

So I did what I needed to do to show off. I launched myself over the railing. I landed a few feet away from him with a dull thud. Nobody moved. I uncoiled myself and smiled. "You're weak. It's so easy to threaten weak people. And trust me, I use the world people loosely," I spat.

"And why do you say Aro is weak?" A small girl's voice asked me with a challenge. She had red eyes and couldn't have been taller than five feet, but carried herself like she was a queen. She was also very beautiful. Not like I cared.

"Let's see," I said, turning my gaze back on him. "Orthaeus let the children of Ares run wild in Athens, the city of Lady Athena, you know she doesn't like us all that much anyways, and they killed thirty four women, elders, and children," I said. "He should have never let them done that, it's easier and probably safer to kill our cousins than to stop them killing once they start it, oh and lets see, when confronted by father, he blamed everyone but himself, and would rather have been turned into a vampire than face death and what he deserves." I finished. "You have to see, it doesn't take a huge amount of character to do something like that. Well, its not like I can blame him, we all have a hamartia."

Maybe it was just my imagination, but Orthaeus looked fearful, and got a shade paler.

"Okay what is going on here?" Alice said. "Meda, where did you get that, how are you related, and why in the world are you going on about ancient Greek gods? They're myths!"

"Says the former Oracle of Delphi," I muttered.

"What did you say?" Jasper asked, taking a stance in front of Alice.

"Oh please," I said, rolling my eyes. "I'm not going to kill her. I may have to kill brother dearest, but I won't kill her."

"What do you want?" Orthaeus asked quietly. I could see why he was such a good officer in the past, he was giving me the once over that meticulously.

"That's what I was looking for," I said, smiling widely. "You'll do anything to save your skin. Such a redeeming quality in an idiot. Truthfully, I do want your head on a plate, but we all have disappointments in life, don't we? Well then, I can't tell you everything, but basically, there's been a prophecy, and we'll be going to the homeland, hopefully, to defeat Gaea and the giants."

"And you need an alliance because…?" Orthaeus asked. He cocked his head to the side, studying me like I was some undiscovered bacterium.

"If shit hits the fan, you need to help us. Granted, there'll be seven, well technically eight, powerful demigods on a flying ship, so I doubt we'll run into you. But still, if we need help, you help us. Come on, you've done very well for yourself," I said.

"And if you don't need help?" he asked.

I smiled. "Stay out of our way."

"Demigods?" Rosalie said. She looked like she was waking up in another world.

"There's no gods, Meda!" Alice said. She rushed up to me, grasping my arms and shaking me loosely.

"Of course there is, Alice. Percy and I are the children of Poseidon, after all," I said, removing myself from her grasp. "Do you agree?" I asked Orthaeus.

"And if I don't agree to an alliance?" he asked. He'd paced to the edge of the room, under the staircase. I could see him stop and stand very still as I contemplated.

I moved quickly and threw a dagger at the blond vampire. It embedded in the wall inches from his head and with a satisfying thud. He looked quite startled. Good. There was a hiss, and I saw the little girl coil as if to spring. Esme shrieked and Carlisle put himself in front of her. The Cullens looked everything between shocked and sad. Esme looked sad and afraid. Maybe she thought I lost my mind.

"No, Jane," Orthaeus said, holding up his hand. She relaxed slightly but still held her attack stance. "I had heard of you, you know. Andromeda and Perseus Jackson, the newest children of Poseidon. What you did in New York was quite remarkable. But where is Perseus?" he asked, looking around.

"That's what the quest is for," I said shortly.

He nodded. "But there is one thing wrong with your reasoning, even a basic soldier could understand."

"And what is that?" I asked, keeping my voice cool, but my mind was racing. What did I miss?

"I can kill you much faster than you can kill me," he said with a grin.

I laughed at that, a short burst of relief and humor. That's what he thought I'd missed? "Well, I guess that's what James thought too, but look how he ended up," I said, laughing. "That's the thing about vampires though," I continued, turning my attention to my trident. "You don't do celestial bronze that well."

"Are you saying that you killed James?" Jasper demanded after a pause full of silent tension.

"Of course I killed him, it wasn't too difficult either. Well, it was kinda gross, because I swear that I saw his lungs for a second before I burned him, thank goodness Lady Artemis gave me that lighter, but then again, I've had worse so…" I started.

"So you lied to us!" Emmett said, sounding wounded beyond belief.

"Of course I lied, everyone lies!" I said. "The sooner you realize that the better! Although it was funny. He thought I was human," I finished, smiling at the memory.

I turned my attention back on Orthaeus, mentally kicking myself for letting him distract me. "So, do you agree to the alliance?"

"I agree," he said, looking half afraid. Good.

"Swear it on the River Styx," I shot back.

"I swear on the River Styx to help you and your quest members to fulfill the prophecy if you ask for my help," he said without hesitation.

"That wasn't so hard, was it?" I said.

"WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT IS GOING ON?" Alice shrieked at the top of her lungs.

"The Greek gods are real, Percy and I are the children of Poseidon, and Orthaeus was the son of Poseidon until he messed up so now he's a vampire and I got the alliance so I can help prevent the rise of the giants. I got it, Hera!" I shouted to the ceiling. "You can quit sending the weird dreams now! Thank you!"

Orthaeus was silent. "Well now," he said, smiling widely but fakely. "Now we have that cleared up. But we did come here to discuss the dreadful business of young Edward. He wished to end his life, you know," he told me.

"Yeah, I know," I said. I glanced at him now. He looked shell shocked, his eyes flitting between me, Orthaeus, and his family.

"Is that still your wish?" Orthaeus asked him, turning his back on me.

"No," Edward croaked.

I walked over to the blond vampire and pulled my knife out of the wall. He moved away from me quickly, making me laugh. It took a little bit of wiggling, but the knife eventually came loose and I put it back in my pocket.

"Are you sure?" Orthaeus asked.

"Yes, I am," he replied.

I looked at the hole in the wall. It was quite deep, and I was really happy with myself. I was good at throwing knives, but that was because I practiced a lot. My double knives were what I was naturally good at.

"What changed your mind?" Orthaeus persisted.

There was a pause. I didn't turn my head away from the hole in the wall.

"I thought she was dead, and she isn't," Edward said quietly.

"Obviously not," I replied, turning away from the wall. "I can't drown." The announcement didn't go over too well, as they were all staring at me with wide eyes.

There was a frustrated sigh, and Orthaeus turned to look at me. "May we please conduct this business in private?" he asked. "You have your alliance, what more do you want?"

I wanted to stay a bit longer, if only to annoy and threaten him, but decided against it. I was quite a bit later than I expected, and Charlie would probably be worried.

"Okay," I said, shrugging my shoulders and going back up the stairs. I had a feeling I left a knife in the bathroom. I could hear them talking, probably pleading the Volturi to not kill Edward even though he did want to die before he came back. I hummed tonelessly to myself, starting to collapse my trident when a movement caught my eye. I froze, automatically locking up, and then started to extend the trident back. I walked slowly into the bedroom, the noises from downstairs fading into the background, and I saw the huge arm of a Laistrygonian slip back into the trees. How did they get here? I mean, there was that one time a few days ago….

Then it hit me.

"Orthaeus!" I said loudly, practically shaking with anger. I stomped to the stairway and flung myself over the railing again.

Orthaeus had gotten close to Edward but I forced him to the wall, the sharp tip of my trident under his chin.

"What are you doing?" he asked incredulously.

"Did you use a cell phone?" I demanded.

"What?" he asked.

"It's not a really hard question, dumbass, did you use a cell phone?" I asked.

"He did, once, when we were in Idaho, he called Gianna in Italy," Alice said.

That fucking idiot.

I pulled my trident back and turned around but changed my mind at the last minute. Pivoting on my heel, I slapped his face, the metallic clang echoing through the room. He looked shocked, his head turned to the side and his hands covering his cheek.

"Get out," I snarled at him.

"You swam in the-!" he started, his mouth hanging open.

"GET OUT NOW!" I yelled. "ALL OF YOU, GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE. HIDE IN A BEDROOM OR SOMETHING. Don't go into the forest, they're everywhere. You're really dumb, you know that. real dumb. And here I am, cleaning up your goddamn mess again!" I said the last part to Orthaeus.

They all looked at me, gaping. There was the sudden crash of glass breaking and a roar as the Laistrygonian barreled forward and over the railing, holding its huge club. Everyone screamed except for me and Orthaeus. I pressed the button on my watch so it spiraled out into the shield and ducked under the swinging club of the giant, then struck, burying the blade on its side. It roared and flung me across the wall before it died, and the air was whooshed out of my lungs as I landed on the floor on two feet.

"Alice, catch!" I said, reaching in my pocket and throwing out my car keys. There was silence and she caught them as I waited for the next monster. "There's a sword in the back, under the passenger seat. Get it."

She immediately went out the front door and came back gingerly holding a sword. She had a funny look on her face. "it feels weird," she said, giving it to me.

"Give it to him, he's going to help," I said. Then a thought struck me. "But I swear to the gods, if you use that to hurt anyone I will personally take your eyes out," I said.

"Is that a threat?" he asked.

"That's a promise," I said. "Hide," I told the Cullens as I braced myself for the next wave that was coming, based on the shouts and roars I heard all around me.

There was a clatter on the floor as he dropped the sword, rubbing his hands. "I can't," he said.

"Then go hide with the Cullens, you worthless piece of shit, and tell Esme I'll probably break her plumbing," I said. He was gone the next second, and almost immediately I was surrounded by monsters.