A/N: Hellooooo everyone! The hiatus is OVER! :D

This is Ice's chapter. It's the only chapter this week, because today is my birthday and tomorrow and Saturday are my party, so I'm taking the weekend off. But I'm updating Tuesday with an extra long chapter, so no worries! :)

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The large room was blurry in my vision. There was someone standing next to me.

"I'll go check the throne room," She said. Whoever that was. I couldn't pick out the voice pattern. A rock fell from the top of the roof.

This isn't Olympus, I thought.

"Wait! I-" The words weren't coming out of my mouth. It was like I was mute. The outline was dreadful but I could just make out the silhouette of a dreadful crack down the middle of the room. It widened. He span around but the crack was spreading down the room.

A ghostly person spread out of the fog coming out of the hole.

"Ronald Weasley… prepare for darkness…"

"Who are you?" I yelled, even though it was obvious. Kronos, or Luke. It looked like a young man, with a scar down the side of his face.

"Don't you know?" He laughed. "You have- a limited amount of time. I'm going to let you go because I can tell you, if I do, you might just change your mind. But I warn you: You need something you don't have if you need to conquer the maze."

He laughed out loud and the scene changed. It was two teenagers- maybe only fifteen or so- and they were crouched behind a veil. The boy said something to the girl and she looked outraged. Then, she looked around, and even though I was much further away than I should be to hear this, she whispered, "Good luck, Seaweed Brain," and kissed him.

The scene changed. "Oh, no again," I muttered.

"Ron, you should get used to it," A boy that sounded a lot like Harry said next to me. I jumped. It was Harry!

"Dude, you really scared me," I said.

"You too." He said.

"Are we sleeping?"

"I'm not sure."

The scene was snowing, falling down on us. Suddenly a girl dressed in black shot in front of us.

"Lady Artemis wants to speak to you," She said to us, through disgust, as if she would like to be anywhere but here. And she probably did.

"Lady Artemis?" Harry said.

"Oh, you know, the virgin one." I said, which earned a glare from the girl. "Who are you anyway? I mean, not to be rude, but-"

"Boys," She muttered. "I am the temporary Lieutenant of Artemis. The other one is on a quest. She is-" She paused, like she was about to give valuable information away. "On a quest, you could say. One with boys."

I shrugged.

"How come you hate boys so much?"

"We are vowed never to become… Lady Artemis will tell you. You cannot keep her waiting. Come."

She zoomed off. I started off on a jog.

"The Lieutenant of Artemis?" I said.

"Oh, some sexist all-girl club." He said. "Percy and Annabeth encountered them once."

"How did you know that?"

"Oh, you know-" He shrugged, "That voice in your head. Remember? Athena said we'd get information. This is it."

"Oh."

"I wonder what she wants with us," Harry said.

"Me too."

"Can we trust them?" I felt pretty amazed that he was asking me, of all people. I was his sidekick, really. I didn't… matter as much as him. I know this sound negative, but he did a lot of the stuff. But still, I do keep my Famous Wizard card of me in my pocket, always. It calms my nerves down.

"Gee… I don't know. Yeah… probably."

"Because…" He swallowed. This wasn't looking like Harry at all.

"Did you… see something different to me in your vision?"

"Yes…" He muttered. "I think one of the gods betrayed me."

"Pardon?" This was a strange blame. "Mate, I just…"

He obviously just wanted to blurt it out.

"I saw Zeus telling Voldemort where I was hidden. I don't know if it's a true vision or Voldemort is manipulating my mind, turning me against my parents. I'm scared. This is worse than I've ever faced before."

"Barely beat him on his own, right?"

"Exactly. And… I think Voldemort is somehow related to gods or titans. It would make sense. He's… just abnormal. It worried me before, but I wasn't concerned on where he was actually from, or anything. This is different. I'm… worried that we can't face these guys."

It is extremely rare for Harry to be negative. But one time he might be I could understand for having all his hard work- for nothing. Fighting the dark lord isn't the easiest, after all.

I could see that he really was worried.

"The thing is," He continued, "Voldemort won't be beaten as easily this time. He'll have new tricks."

"But so will we," I replied. "I think we're here."

A tent loomed above us. I mean seriously, it was HUGE. A girl who was about twelve stepped out to meet us.

"Hello." She said.

"Where's Lady Artemis?" I asked.

The "Lieutenant of Artemis" moved forward as if insulted.

"Hey, what did I do?" I saked.

The younger girl sighed.

"I am Artemis." She said.

-0-

Once we were inside, and with cups of hot cocoa (LoA protested at this but come on! With only a vest and some long legged pajamas [Long story] it's pretty damn cold!), she was ready to talk to us.

"Now I am not that well known for helping heroes," She said, "But I made an exception for this time. After all, I have been watching you."

"You've been watching us?" Harry said.

"Indeed," She told us, "There is often a great deal of hunter style girls in Hogwarts, and they are very special, as they are more magical than most demigods, with an exception for the Hecate ones."

LoA looked angry with this, as if the reason she wasn't getting as much attention as the Hogwarts girls was my entire fault.

And it partly was.

"You see, I discovered a bit of the time in, that you were just as good, if not better, than Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon. And I, by the way, stopped Ronald here from splinching worse after the Ministry."

"Thanks," I said. What had Hermione said? You're lucky, it could have been much worse. Come to mention it, the position you were in, it should have been worse…

"Don't mention it," She replied. "For once, I actually favored a boy hero. Bu don't go talking about Orion, or I might have to kill you."

We promised we wouldn't talk about Orion.

"Now, I came to give you my blessing. The hunters will be around Britain finding Hogwarts so-" The room was fading. I didn't catch the last few words, but I just knew they must have been important.

-0-

We woke to a sunny day. Good omen. I stretched and looked around. There was no one in the cabin. Good. I needed a little time to think over the events of… last night. The goddess Artemis supports us. Great. What else is new?

I looked at my watch. 09:00. One hour till Labyrinth. I was still wondering how Harry was going to pull off how not to get murdered by Ginny when she discovered we were going into the Labyrinth without her. I pulled a shirt on and some jeans. Would it be cold in the Labyrinth? I took a jacket in case.

The light now blinked 09:25. I went over to Harry's tent for clarification.

"So we're just going to go somewhere random?" Harry asked.

"Exactly!" I replied.

"And we're not planning out at all?"

"Nope!"

"Well, I don't know about you guys but I packed a bagful or four of books. Just in case."

"So if we get caught by monsters, you're going to hit them with a book. Right." I said.

"Guys, we've been through this a million times, for crying out loud. Hermione's books saved us last time. Sort of." Harry cut in.

"Sort of."

"OK. Maybe a bit OTT. But shouldn't we be going anyway? It's 9:55."

I had no idea time could fly by so fast.

We were about to go in. Only Chiron was left there. Hermione was already in the maze. Then Ginny raced behind me.

"Hey, what's going on?"

"Um…"

I mouthed, Good luck, and pushed him towards her.

"Are you already on the quest? Why didn't you tell me? I'll come with you."

"Um…"

"Only three people are allowed on the quest." I said matter-of-factly.

"What?"

"Harry was going to tell you but he… ran out of time."

"Very funny, Ron." Ginny said. She stepped between Harry and me. "Why didn't you pick me to come?"

"I… just wanted to protect you. I didn't want you to get hurt. I couldn't bear to lose you. I… I just… I've already lost Sirius and Dumbledore. I don't want you to die as well."

Ginny looked like she was either about to smack him or kiss him. So she kissed him.

"Come back alive," She whispered.

"Ahem."

Ginny glared at me.

"I suppose you have to go now," She said.

"Y… yeah…" Harry said.

She ran back off into the woods.

Chiron sighed.

"I never really understand the point." He stated.

"Couldn't bear to lose you," I mimicked, pushing Harry.

"Shut up," he said.

"Don't I get a kiss too?" I asked.

Then we entered the Labyrinth.

Hahaha. Hinny stole Percabeth's epic BoTL moment. Sorry, Annabeth.

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