So, yeah, another update wooohhooooo. So I want to a give a shout out to Guest (even tho there are a lot of em) for answering what I wanted the answer to be. I write more longer paragraphs than I do dialogue.

Do you like the change? Should I just stick with more dialogue than with paragraphs?


Nico's POV

Annabeth, Thalia, and I were walking to a café. After staring at 'The Poke Player' (made by Percy's mom) for what felt like hours, we decided to take a quick picture (with Thalia's camera) and look at it somewhere else. We left the museum and walked around randomly. We haven't really found a café we wanted so we've been walking around randomly for about an hour. I just looked around and listened to what Thalia and Annabeth were saying. I only talked when a question was directed at me and I walked behind them at all times.

"I got one question." I said.

The girls turned to look at me with a raised eyebrow and I got the hint that they wanted me to ask the question.

"Why are we headed towards Second Cemetery of Congregation?"

Thalia rolled her eyes and turned around. She shrugged and said, "We've been walking around randomly for an hour, did you expect to end up at the end of a rainbow?"

I shrugged and kept looking around. I looked ahead and a green Ferrari Spyder caught my attention. I poked Annabeth shoulders and when she turned her head to look at me, I pointed at the car.

"Hey, isn't that Percy's?"

Annabeth looked at the car and frowned. She walked towards it and looked inside the car through the windows. She looked at me and nodded. All of a sudden I heard two male voices. I looked towards the entrance of the cemetery and saw two figures walk out and walk towards us. One guy had his head vowed and the other had a hand on the other guy's shoulder. The guy that had a hand on the other guy's shoulder was Percy. What was he doing in a cemetery? And who was the other guy? Percy turned his head away from the other guy and looked ahead. He stopped in his tracks when he saw us and the guy lifted his head up and followed his line of sight.

He asked him something and Percy shook his head and told him something. They kept walking and stopped in front of us. Percy gave us a small smile and put his hands in his pocket.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" He asked.

"We were just walking around," Annabeth said. "What are you doing here?"

"Well, obviously visiting someone's grave." Percy sighed and rubbed his eyes. "Sorry wise girl, I'm just stressed."

The other guy smirked. He punched Percy in the shoulder and looked at Annabeth.

"So this is the 'oh so famous Annabeth Chase. The wise girl, the goddess with hair like the sun, the- ow." The guy rubbed his shoulder and glared at Percy.

Annabeth was blushing but Percy just had a small smirk. I frowned. There is something up with him more than just visiting a grave. His eyes are darker than they should be. If this was a newly buried person then I would give him a break but I could tell that the grave they had visited was from a year ago or maybe a little less. Maybe he was having more dreams or something along the lines.

"You know what?" The guy asked Percy. "If Jen- if she was still alive you would owe her like so much food. You did end up going out with the glorious Annabeth after all."

Percy rolled his eyes softly. "If she was still alive her doctors wouldn't have let me sneak so much food into the hospital, Chase."

"Wait, what?"

The guy turned to Annabeth and stuck his hand out. She took it and they both shook hands. He smiled kindly at her but not in way like saying, 'you're going to be mine'.

"Chase Jonah at your service." He said. "Sorry I have your last name as my first, but I-we-can't exactly control the names when we're new born, now can we?"

"I like the way this guy talks." Annabeth nodded approvingly. "Looks like a good friend as well."

"He is," Percy agreed. "Well, I talk with you guys later, we gotta be somewhere and it's getting passed time to be there."

Annabeth nodded and Percy kissed Annabeth's cheek. He gave me and Thalia a quick hug and walked to his car. Chase shook hands with al l three of us and took the passenger seat of Percy's car. Percy drove in reverse out of the parking spot and before he went forward he shook us a 'bye' wave. We watched his car speed off into the distance. I turned to look at Annabeth and Thalia and they looked at me.

"Noticed anything unusual?"

They both nodded and Thalia said, "He was out of it."

"He looks a little too tired as well," Annabeth added. "And he kissed my cheek, that's weird, he normally kisses my lips."

Thalia and I nodded in agreement. Every time I see her and Percy together they are always tied by the waist and their mouths are connected. I knew that there was one question in each of our minds. Who was Jen? Hesitantly we kept walking until we reached the entrance of the cemetery. I turned to look at it and noticed a small piece of paper at the side. I walked towards it and grabbed it.

"Nico," I heard Thalia say but I ignored her.

I grabbed the paper and looked at it. It had part of a shoe's dirty print on it but it was a picture. I dusted it off and tried to take the print off. I looked at the picture again. It was a picture of three kids with their heads shaved off. Two guys were kissing each cheek on who seemed to be a girl. She had her hands over her mouth and her eyes were wide as if she was surprised. All of a sudden I felt two presences behind me, and I knew that Annabeth and Thalia were looking at the picture over my shoulder.

I ignored them and kept looking at the picture. The guy to the right had light brown eyes like Chase. The girl in the middle had soft blue eyes and the guy at the left had sea green eyes like Percy. That's when I realized that it was Percy. When had he shaved his head? This looked as if it was taken last year. I turned the photo around and read the sticky note that was taped onto the back. It had today's date. I lifted the note a bit and tried to read what was under it. After a couple of minutes, I managed to read what it said.

"Sup Jen, how's death treating ya? You know I miss you, right? You know who else misses you? Chase, your sister, your mom, and your dad. I would continue the list but I have limited space so let me get to the chase. (No not him) I miss you a lot, okay? And I'm not happy that you just left me with Chase. How can I deal with him, he's impossible? I don't know how he even fit in your 'date' category but oh well. I hope you remember the day we took this picture at the photo booth in the mall. Oh and, yeah, I love you sis. –With a lot of Percy-love."

"Don't listen to that doofus Jennifer, he doesn't know how special you are to me and how I caught your attention (and he shall never know) but he is right about everyone missing you, especially me. I wish I could have taken you out on one last date before you died but damn those doctors. I loved you a lot and believe it or not, I still do. You were my sunshine and now that you're gone everything feels cloudy and black-and-white. I've been trying to get over you but it's-or at least I feel-impossible. I try, I promise, but you were the best thing that happened to me. How can I get over that? Huh? How, Jenny? –With a lot of Chase-love."

Did Percy have a sister we don't know about? Or is she just a friend he calls sister? I'm thinking this Jennifer was Chase's girlfriend. How many Jennifer ghosts do I know? Maybe a lot. I was not going to ask a bazillion ghosts if they knew my friend. I looked at Thalia and Annabeth to see if they knew who this Jennifer girl was but their expressions showed zero recognition. Maybe Percy's mom would know. Hmm…

Annabeth took the picture from me and stared at it longer. Without a single warning I grabbed Annabeth's and Thalia's wrist and shadow traveled to Percy Jackson's apartment. I knocked on the door and waited for Sally to open the door. After a few moments of silence and quiet, the door flew open with Sally behind it. She smiled at us and rushed us inside. For some reason, the smell of chocolate chip cookies seems so natural in this house. I wonder if it's just stuck here or is she making more? I really want some-COOKIES! I grab three and resist the urge to put them back. (They are really hot.)

"Careful, Nico," Sally said. "They're fresh out the oven."

I smile sheepishly and thank her for the cookies.

"So what brings you here?"

I gave her the photo that I found at the cemetery and let Annabeth ask.

"Do you know who the girl in the middle is?"

Sally took the picture from me and frowned. "Where did you get this from?"

"The cemetery-"

"You took something from the cemetery?"

"No," I shook my head. "I found it at the corner of the entrance to the cemetery. Someone must have stepped on it and it fell off the shoe at the entrance."

Sally nodded her head. She sighed and looked at us with apologetic eyes.

"If Percy hasn't told you about this, then I think it's better I don't say anything." She said. "We have a promise where if either one of us haven't told someone one something, the other doesn't have a right to tell anyone anything."

That was a bit confusing, but I think I know what she was trying to say. Annabeth, Thalia, and I nodded our heads in understanding. We thanked her for the cookies, let her keep the picture so she can give it to Percy, and we left. I shadow traveled us to Star's Café. We sat down on a booth and started discussing about the statue that Sally 'made' as well as the photo we found. (Thalia took a picture of it as well without Sally knowing.)

The statue had to do something with Percy's dream, I was convinced of it. Why else would Poseidon give us that hint? What happened to Percy while he was living with Gabe?

"Nico, maybe you could go to the Underworld and talk with his ghost." Annabeth suggested.

I shook my head. "Can't. My dad won't let me go into the Fields of Punishment." I sighed. "Besides, the ghosts don't remember what they did. It's what makes their punishment worse. They are being punished for something they don't know they did."

"Maybe Hades will tell us about his memories."

I shook my head again. "Memories of the ghost in the FP have different categories."

Annabeth and Thalia raised an eyebrow. Oh great, here I go. Explain everything about the Field of Punishment and risk getting in trouble. I groaned at the thought.

"They're like papers in a file, okay?" I asked. "You have the 'Bad' file, the 'Extremely bad' file, the 'Horribly bad' file, and the 'Unforgivably Bad' file."

"If it's that organized what's the problem?" Annabeth asked.

"The papers don't have names, oh and if you open the file, and take a memory out, the memory returns to the ghost."

It looked like now they understood what the problem was. If you couldn't find the paper/memory that you wanted, then you could give the wrong ghost their memory back and the Underworld would be chaos. My dad knows exactly which memory belonged to which ghost (practice) but I doubt he would help us.

"Maybe we could get your dad to help us." Thalia suggested.

"I highly doubt that will work, but we can give it a try if you want."

Annabeth and Thalia nodded. I grabbed their hands and Thalia pocketed the pictures in her jacket with the other, I closed my eyes and allowed the shadows to engulf us.


So yeah. I feel so evil. Do you not see what I'm doing here? The end of this story is almost coming (even though they are still in October) and I'm just raising more questions like:

Who's Jennifer?

What's with Percy and Chase?

What bet did Jennifer and Percy do?

Will Thalia, Annabeth, and Nico find out what's going on with Percy?

Will Kevin and his step-dad ever get along?

Who's a demigod?

Will Percy's dreams ever come to an end?

Will John ever accept Percy as Annabeth's boyfriend (Spoiler Alert: or future husband?

Why am I being so melodramatic? –Cause I just am.

When will I answer all these questions? –These questions and more will be answered in the Sequel MWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.

I bet you all hate me now. I feel EVIL!

(If you have a question that is not listed above and you want it answered please leave it in the comments cause I may have forgotten a few.)