A/N: Thank you to my lovely Harry Potter nerd, Toilet/Klug, and all the other non-PJO-readers that have stuck with me through twenty chapters. (This means you, Freddy.) Of course, thank you to my other readers and faithful reviewers: your support is the only reason this story ever continued.

Oh yeah haha, I was on the site I use for checking what names mean, and I was on "Most Popular Names of 1997." Jack and Chase are consecutive, #76 and 77, respectively.

Also very sorry for the delay, I had a snow day Wednesday but my power was out.

Katy POV

"I swear I'm forgetting something," Gina mumbled. She'd recently acquired a shiny, brand-new bow-and-arrow ensemble, so she had no need for her Gemini. Bunny had never gotten around to giving back my bow, but in her defense, it was hers and Persephone allowed me to use it, not Bunny.

"Your swords?"

"Already got them." She jiggled the hilt attached to her belt loop. "I figure they'll come in handy."

Bunny burst into the Aphrodite cabin. "Katy, I've got you a new bow. Is that okay? Adrianna's sister Devon had one made for her and it just finished last night, so I bought it off her. And trust me, those Apollo kids won't stand for a less-than-perfect bow." She handed me a pale bow and a dark leather quiver with more bronze arrows than I would need.

"How do you even know this will escalate to fighting?" I asked, taking the weapon. "Thank you."

"You actually might offend the gods by bringing weapons," Gina added.

"Oh, I figure this is all like the Volturi, 'cause I'm an analogy person like that. Poseidon is Marcus, Hades is Aro, and Zeus is Caius." Bunny smiled in a prim way that made me know she knew she was in trouble if Zeus understood what she'd just said. (Allow me to explain: Caius is, like… sadistic doesn't even begin to describe it. Like, pointlessly sadistic. Aro and Marcus are okay, but Caius is just way out there.)

"Risky, risky girl," Ker murmured.

"C'mon, guys, what am I forgetting?" Gina wailed. "I will never be comfortable enough to meet my mom unless I figure this out."

"Oh, you're just panicking, Gina," Bunny scoffed.

"Where are you guys going?" Maia's voice asked softly. She, Anthony, Aiko, and Myrtle had managed to creep up on us while we were talking.

"I don't care where you're going," Aiko interjected. "But if the lovebirds are involved in some sort of life-threatening situation, we have to be there."

"They are," Adrianna replied, at the risk of having Gina shoot her a look.

"Well then we four are coming," Myrtle said, folding her arms.

"Are you kidding?" Gina laughed. "You Aphrodite kids cry at the break of a nail. This, as you said, is a life-threatening situation. What would you do if we left Olympus with one of you in a shroud?"

"We'll be fine, and we'll stay out of the way," Maia retorted.

"Let them go," Bunny agreed, staring at the four. "I've met a few very heroic Aphrodite children, and anyway, Katy's going, isn't she?" She looked Anthony and Aiko over again, and muttered, "Full-blood demigod siblings are becoming increasingly common, aren't they?"

"Well there's me and Bonnie, the Lucks, the Masens, Felix and Troy, is that it?" Myrtle glanced at Maia for assistance.

"Don't look at me, I don't know."

"Let's go already!" Anthony said impatiently.

"I am forgetting something!" Gina shrieked, frustrated. She started to check her pockets.

"Your mother!" Bunny screamed back, throwing up her hands.

"My mother is a goddess!"

"You're not supposed to take it literally! Everyone knows that expression! Did you grow up in a stable?"

"YES!"

"It's true," Anthony said with his trademark smirk. "When she was little, she found camp on her own. She hid out in the stables for a week, until Jack found her."

"How romantic," Gina muttered bitterly. She grabbed her little green duffel bag. "Let's roll."

xxx

"I like Olympus," Adrianna said happily. There were tall, Greek (obviously) columns leading up to the ceiling, which was covered with constellations. It was pretty, and as a daughter of Aphrodite, I was feeling pretty comfortable among all this beauty. Who would've known? You get used to things like this.

"Oh, kid, this is only the throne room," Bunny chuckled. "Wait 'till you see the city."

Adrianna's eyes sparkled. I remembered when we were kids and Lucy would take us out for walks around the city, and her eyes would glitter like that. Adrianna was completely at home in big, intimidating places.

Twelve thrones were arranged in a U-ish-shape, except we were inside the U. The pretty fire in the center roared happily, and a little girl with brown hair tended it carefully.

"Everything is so big!" Maia gasped. She and my other siblings looked like six-year-olds who had just been set free in a toy store.

"Including the people," Aiko said, sounding a little bit uneasy.

She was right. The twelve Olympian gods sat primly on their respective thrones. I was able to figure out who some of them were. Apollo, for instance. He shared a lot of facial features with Adrianna, and Demeter was the same with Gina. I could even see a little bit of Jack in Athena, which I'm sure he would find hilarious.

The goddess who stood out most was, well… gorgeous. Gina spotted her and poked Myrtle. Myrtle then poked Maia, who poked Aiko, who jabbed Anthony (take note in the change of verbs there.) She had chocolate-brown hair like the Lucks and the same blue eyes as… me.

She immediately squealed like a little girl when she saw our group. "Aw, Bun-bun, you didn't have to bring all of them! Where are Bonnie and Rose?"

"Oh, you'll see," Gina muttered, through gritted teeth. She was ignored.

"Oh, Aphrodite, how old is little Bonnie now? Eight or nine? Like you'd ever let it off my conscience if she died."

Aphrodite smiled and nodded. She was even more beautiful when she smiled.

"Mom," Maia breathed. Even Anthony's usual coolness was broken, and he looked pleasantly stunned. The rest of us grinned, and I felt happiness blossom in my chest (wow, that sounded sappy, but… I'll go with it) only slightly tainted by anger.

"Maia! I haven't seen you in person since you were two months old. You've grown up to be so beautiful! Anthony, Aiko, you two have got your father's looks. He always was a good-looking one. Myrtle, dear, you're so pretty. Kind of, like, in a different way. You're an excellent example of my theory that there are many kinds of beauty." Her beaming smile faded when she turned to me. "Katy, Don's girl, aren't you? You're so pretty, love. I just wish your dad had stuck around to see you grow up."

"Yeah, but he didn't," Adrianna spat. I'd always been a little bit surprised by her rage at my dad leaving. I felt sort of… indifferent. I had Lucy, and that was enough, and anyway, I was pretty cool, so his loss.

"Oh, Adrianna, it's nice to see you again… GINA!" Oddly, the goddess seemed most animated by Gina's appearance. She clapped her hands excitedly. "Oh, it was so romantic when you quit the Hunters!"

"Speak for yourself," Artemis muttered. "I found it rather unpleasant."

"It actually was rather romantic," Demeter admitted. Gina looked like she wanted to reply, but held her tongue. Instead she shot Aphrodite a mutinous look.

"And don't even get me started on…"

"Aphrodite, enough," a black-haired woman interrupted, exasperated. Gina's eyes fixed on her, and stayed there. There was a murderous glimmer in them, and that's how I determined that the black-haired woman between Demeter and Artemis was the goddess of wisdom, Athena.

"Can we get this show on the road?" Bunny called to the general public.

"Sure, but please allow me to introduce our special guests," the guy sitting next to Apollo sneered. He had scars covering his cheeks, and greasy black hair.

Ares, I thought.

"Oh, Ares," Bunny said uneasily. "It's, ah, nice to see you again." Her tone made it obvious that Ares wasn't her favorite god.

"Stop ruining my moment, Bunny," an all-too familiar voice rang out.

"Oh Zeus," Ker whispered.

"What is she doing here?" Bunny hissed. Adrianna shrugged, her eyes fixed on Persephone. The gods looked everything from uncaring to cheerful to guilty, and Apollo's eyes were very conveniently refusing to meet his eldest daughter's.

Persephone and her little gang stepped out from behind Zeus's throne.

"Eric stayed home, to keep an eye on things," Persephone admitted, the threat in her words thinly veiled. The rest of her group followed her, and she gestured to the third member. "So, I found a replacement." Rose looked panicked, and Bellatrix gave a sour wave.

"Oh, son of a…," Gina muttered.

Am I the only one getting really, really sick of having to give Jack all the dramatic scenes?

A/N: Okay, no, seriously, Jack, you're stealing Katy's thunder…

Anyway. This is most likely the second or third to last chapter, and then I can start on book two, whee!

We might just be saying goodbye to Adrianna. The rest of the story will be mostly or even all Katy POV, since she's supposed to be the main character, and Jack, Gina, Adrianna, Bunny, etc. have been stealing all the heroic parts. And anyway, Adrianna figured out some time ago what I did with my craving for romance, while Katy remains blissfully ignorant, and we're getting to the part where that romance matters…

Are you as excited as I am?