So tad belated chapter. I got lazy and didn't post until today. Actually I had Spanish? Or was it AP Euro? Oh well. So osnapitsara made me sad. It's okay. I'll uh, "talk" with her later.

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ONLY ONE MORE MONTH AND A COUPLE DAYS UNTILL HOUSE OF HADES COMES OUT! WHOO! My friend and I are having a squealfest the day after it does come out.


Percy POV

We all stood there for a moment, absorbing this news. How could Jerome and Drew just disappear? Thankfully, Chiron voiced my question.

"Does anyone know about this?" He glanced at the gods. "Have you sensed anything?"

Zeus shook his head. "No. Even I can't detect them, though they are really minor gods."

Chiron sighed heavily. "Well, I suppose we better start organizing search parties."

A small Aphrodite girl stood up and pointed at us. "No need. Just ask them."

Poseidon turned to the little girl and knelt. "What makes you think they know where Jerome and Drew are?"

"I heard Drew telling some of my sisters that the Chaos people were bad news and that they were spies." She crossed her arms and glared at us. "And now it's proven!" She stormed over to James and yelled, "Give me back my sister, you meanie!"

James groaned and snapped his fingers, summoning a piece of fabric. He looped it around her head and tied the knot tightly. "I can only take one person yelling at me." He said, glancing at Henry.

Henry crossed his arms and pouted. "You're so mean to me!"

Hera cleared her throat. "Anyways, back to the serious matter. Chaos people, where are Jerome and Drew?"

"We don't have them. Why would we?" retorted Sam.

"To torture them and get information out of them," replied Hera.

Sam rolled her eyes. "Please, if we had to capture someone, it would not be anyone who whines if they break a nail."

Zeus rolled his eyes. "Oh, please. You've been looking for a way to bring us down, and grabbing Jerome and Drew to get Intel is the perfect way."

A small Athena girl with blond curls and intelligent grey eyes stepped forward. "Excuse me, Lord Zeus?"

Zeus turned to the little girl and looked down. "What is it half-blood?"

The girl frowned. "I have a name. It's Amanda Hunter, Lord. Daughter of Athena" She placed her hands on her hips and continued, "Anyways, it doesn't make sense that they would try and bring us down now. They've had the past week and a half to do it, why now. Also, what motivation would they have? If Chaos thought it important enough to send his best people down here, why would he send the here instead of having him do other missions? And have them teach them stuff they know? We could turn around and use their teachings on them? Yet they teach it to us. I'm just saying your reasoning is flawed."

Zeus glared daggers at Amanda. He summoned his master bolt and started to charge it up. Athena stepped forward and shielded her daughter. "Father. Though there could've been a better way to phrase that last part, I do agree with my daughter. There still are some things that need to be explained, like how the girl knows that the Chaos children have kidnapped Jerome and Drew." She turned her head to the Aphrodite girl and looked at her questioningly. "Well child? Where's the evidence?"

The girl nodded at the boy who had delivered the news and he produced a red and black cape. Just like the ones we were wearing. "This was on a shrub right before the camp borders." He handed it to Athena. "I think one of them accidently left it there when they kidnapped my brother and Drew."

Athena took the cape and examined it. "This looks identical to the ones they are wearing." She looked up at us, confused. "Is this cape yours?"

Rebekah walked over to Athena, took the cape and brought it back to us. Together, we leaned in and examined it closely.

"It looks identical." Rebekah announced. "But that's impossible. I don't see how…" she trailed off.

"Well that settles it." Hera said. "These warriors must be killed."

"Wait!" I cried. "There's another answer!"

I whispered something into Annabeth's ear, and she smiled. "Nice work."

I turned back to the rest of the campers and continued. "There's a simple way to find out if this cape is ours."

Zeus sighed impatiently. "Well, get on with it."

I rolled my eyes. "Anyways. Under a black light," I motioned at Sam. She snapped her fingers and the light dimmed a little. "A chaos logo appears in the middle of the cape." I took off my own cape and held it up, "Keep your eyes on the middle of the cape." Sam snapped her fingers and the light dimmed until the room was a couple shades darker than black. Sure enough, there was a glowing red symbol of a star with two swords crossed in the middle of the cape. I snapped my fingers and the lights returned to normal.

Clearing my throat, I spoke, "This one was made by Chaos, and is a real cape." I took the cape from Rebekah and held it up. "Okay. Now turn your attention to this one, particularly the middle."

I repeated the process with the next cape, and of course I was right. There was no glowing symbol in the middle. When the lights came on, the whole room was silent.

Hera's coughing broke the silence. "Okay, so the cape was a fake. What's your point?"

Sam stood up and looked at Hera, annoyed. "His point and he does have one, is that, because this cape is a fake, it proves none of us," she motioned to all of us, "kidnapped Jerome and Drew."

Apollo looked thoughtful. "I suppose they couldn't have. The cape was a fake. Or was it… Hm. Now let's see 2 plus 2 is… is…"

Artemis groaned and slapped him on the back of the head. "Just forget it." She turned to me and asked, "Zeta. How do we know that you didn't come up with the glowing symbol last night?"

"Because that kind of paint is not replicable by anyone except Chaos. Even I can't do it, and I'm his apprentice. Also, it appears under a certain light. The black light we used was a special one."

Just then, a smoke screen appeared and solidified in the shape of a rectangle. Chaos' face appeared on the smoke. "He's right you know. If you tried to replicate it, even if the paint was mixed correctly, which you can't, the light used is unique only to my planet. And Amanda speaks the truth. The facts, Hera, don't add up."

"I suppose they speak the truth." Zeus said.

"Of course they do. Now, I've gotta go stop a planet from blowing up. Ta- ta now!" Chaos and the screen disappeared.

Chiron cleared his throat. "Well, now that that's settled, we still don't know one thing. Who kidnapped Jerome and Drew?"

Third Person POV (inside the god's heads)

Zeus: I still don't trust them. That Sam girl should've tasted my bolt. Heck they all should've tasted my bolt. Why didn't I blast them?

Hera: Jason would've stood by me. He always was my favorite mortal. I still don't trust those Chaos warriors.

Poseidon: I believe them. Heck, one of them smells like the sea. GO OCEANS!

Demeter: They look to skinny. They should add more cereal to their diets.

Dionysus: Though they seem innocent, I still believe they are a bunch of upstarts. Now let's see, red wine or white wine?

Apollo: Man I'm very cool. Those warriors seem so cool. I am so awesome. So, two plus two is… is…

Artemis: I hope those girls are maidens still. My brother is such an idiot.

Hermes: Those Chaos dudes seem cool. We should chill sometime. We could invite Apollo and really get the party started!

Athena: We better not anger Chaos. He seems like our only chance to actually win this war.

Ares: I wonder what kind of fight we would have if it was us versus Chaos. I bet we would win. We have me after all.

Aphrodite: I wonder if I can mess with their love lives… Oh being me is so fun! *internal squeal*

Hephaestus: As long as they don't enter my workshops, I'm okay with them. Now, where's that wrench?


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