Percy.

I was surprised when Nemesis gave me a hug, but then I had to laugh because to make balance for the friendliness she just gave me she then punched me on the arm, and even with the armor I still felt like rubbing the pain away from my arm.

I closed my eyes when I felt that she was going to flash away. I called Penny in when I was finished, and then when she came in she raised an eyebrow at the giant weighed scale on my chest. I decided to inform her of what just happened. By the end of the explanation I knew what was going to happen.

"Percy I want to make a deal with you. It doesn't have to be for anything big but lets make a deal." Before I could even respond images flashed before my eyes. I saw Penny playing a prank on her father on live edition of Hephaestus TV.

The prank involved Hermes being trapped in a celestial bronze net for an hour while Aphrodite put a glamor curse on Hermes for a week which for that week Hermes would have clown makeup on him that couldn't be removed, or made to be hidden.

When the images stopped going through my vision I knew what to tell Penny. "Okay Penny for a small sacrifice I can make it so you will have the opportunity to play a massive prank on your father for all of Olympus to see."

Penny held out her hand, and I shook it. "I will accept the deal Percy just tell me when I need to give up in exchange."

I had to think of something that equaled the reward. I snapped my fingers and in my hands appeared a pair of tattered sneakers. I knew immediately from the look of the sneakers that they were magical. "Until you succeed in your prank, I will take in payment your silent sneakers which when worn makes any sound you would make from movement become silent."

"If you should try to retrieve the sneakers before the prank is fulfilled you will lose them for good." I closed my hands together on the sneakers like I was squeezing something but instead of the sneakers getting crushed they vanished.

I was able to put the sneakers in a basement in my home that could not be broken into. Then Penny began to speak. "When will I be able to do the prank Percy?"

The answer popped up in my head and I knew it was the right answer. "You will know when the time is right to play the prank, do not try to force it but you will know what the prank is when the time is right. You will get your shoes back when the prank is done, because this isn't a major deal. If it was anything major like needing help in a quest the price would have been higher, and you wouldn't have been able to get it back"

I saw her visibly shiver, but it was quickly replaced with a smile. "Well Penny now that is over with I do have some free time before I need to do my next job. If you would give me a tour of this home until I have to go."

Penny nodded her head, and grabbed me by the arm. However since there was mortal girls here I decided it was best if I made my armor vanish. When I was pulled out of the room I moved aside so the 2 nymphs could go back inside.

From what I could see in the hallway there were 5 doors on each side of the hallway. "There are 4 floors for the girls to sleep in. In total to how many young girls we foster here while there parents are not here on the island, or for whatever reason their mortal, or magical parents are not here we care for 76 girls in total.

The girls range from the age of 2 months old, to over 16. The girls over over 8 when not at camp stay here, while the girls who do not go to camp stay here permanently until lady Artemis deems them old enough to move out, or they can stay here to take care of the younger girls if they wish."

"If Ashley believes that the mortal girls are strong enough, and can handle learning about the Olympians then she could tell Artemis, and she would offer the mortal girls a place in the hunt if they wish. If the girls accept then they can join, if they turn down the opportunity, then Hypnos would enter their dreams to remove their memories of finding out about our world."

Penny pointed up, and I looked up only to see a normal ceiling. "We are currently on the final residential floor. On this floor lives the tree nymphs, and the regular hunters who care for the girls, and train for the hunt."

"The final floor above belongs to Ashley, and Artemis. In that floor Ashley does her reports on what goes on here, and should she need to contact Artemis, then she has a way of direct communication. The floors below us houses the other girls, and the first floor is the living, dining, and study rooms."

"We also have a basement that was magically enlarged by lady Artemis to serve as the hunters training rooms. It houses an archery range, and a mini arena for the hunters to practice 1 on 1, and 1 on multiple targets."

"If you have time to you can join us for dinner which is always served at 7:00."

"I am sorry but I do not have time I have to meet a powerful cat lady in a little bit, then have a meeting with Nyx soon after. Besides I cannot let Ashley see me here. If she see's me then I fear she might have to report seeing me to lady Artemis which she would then have to tell the other Olympians where I am at."

"Okay I understand, then if you have to leave I will send a message to Artemis saying I did the job she asked of me, but I will still be here if you need anything else. If you have to leave though you might have to do it soon. Ashley makes her rounds around the bedrooms to make sure they are clean everyday before dinner."

I didn't stick around to respond instead I melted away into a pool of water. The first thing I heard at my arrival was a chorus of roars. I barely had my feet planted on the ground when I was surrounded by over 20 regular lions, and 45 nemean lions. I could see the 3 story tall Nemean lion relaxing a distnace away, not even caring that I was here unless his owner wanted something.

"So you came back but not unchanged." I looked up to see Rhea sitting on her throne in a flowing golden dress. At her feet was a banged up looking Prometheus chained to ground by her feet. His mouth was gagged most likely so she wouldn't have to hear his complaints but when I pushed my way through the crowd of giant lions they didn't stop me.

Not even Rhea stopped me when I pulled his gag out, and made him drink the liquid Styx gave me. "The only oath you may break is telling Rhea why you told the lie that the Olympians would overthrow Kronos. This will be the only oath you can break, and if you leave any details out I will leave you with her for an extra amount of time."

Prometheus didn't look like he was going to say anything at first but then he started to speak. "It wasn't only me who came up with the lie. I may not have been innocent in the lie, but it was actually Atlas who decided it would be in the titans best interest to claim that the Olympians would overthrow us."

"Atlas felt that when the Olympians would be born then we would have to share our powers with them. We all knew Kronos would do anything to protect his power, so Atlas, and Hyperion told me their plan. They suggested that I would tell Kronos that I learned from the fates that 1 of his children would overthrow him."

"Kronos wasted no time in coming up with a plan to keep his power, and he decided eating them was the best way to go about it. Kronos had an inherent fear that he would be overthrown like he did to his father. None of us actually realized that telling Kronos about his kids would overthrow him would actually start the chain of events that would then lead to the 10 year war. Your husband only needed the slightest push to do something with the Olympians, because he was already wanting them gone"

"You may not like what I did Rhea, but I was not the original creator of the plan. If you want the real being to blame then you must find Atlas. I have taken my punishment for my part of the plan. I have been forced to give up my most prized creation, made to swear fealty to the Olympians, and spent 3 days being tortured non stop by you, and your minions."

He turned to look at me. "I have done my part in telling the truth, you promised to make sure I didn't get left behind, now Percy keep your word, and get me out of these chains." I looked at Rhea who looked at Prometheus with disgust but she stomped her foot against the chains, and they snapped in half.

Prometheus was about to stand but Rhea rose quicker and before any of us knew what happened Rhea snapped something on his left wrist. On his wrist was a single solid gold bracelet. "Did what you just tell me the complete truth Prometheus?"

I didn't know what the point of what she just did was but when he said yes she was apparently satisfied because she looked at me and nodded her head. "I placed on his wrist a device that would have put him on his stomach flopping around in pain if he lied to me."

"I will allow you to leave with him I am still not happy you promised him that you would make sure that he would leave with you but I got my answers, and I know who to set my sight on next. Now to fulfill my end of the bargain."

"After you get Prometheus out of my sight, you can return and get what you need. I request that you get him out of here now before I decide to send him on another trip to my dungeons." I snapped my fingers, and shadows started to melt out of my body.

I had the surprise of seeing even Rhea fall out of her throne in shock. The lions sprang into the air to attack me until the shadows took physical bodies and stopped 4 of the nemean lions before they could get anywhere near me.

The nemean lions fell to the ground like boulders, and when they tried to rise I saw the shadow creatures get ready for the killing blows, until I ordered them to stop. The shadows took the forms of clones that looked exactly like me.

All 12 of the clones formed a line behind me. Rhea stopped her nemean lions before they could try to attack again, and she stood up again. Rhea glared at the clones of me but she calmed down slightly when I ordered them to escort Prometheus back to my island and keep him secured until I got back.

Prometheus tried to object but they formed a circle around him, and then had his arms tied behind his back. I told them to wait before they left and I made them take the form 12 average looking teenagers. The shadow creatures pulled Prometheus into the ground leaving me unhindered.

To stop any questions by Rhea, and shrugged my shoulders. "They were gifts from a friend just like this." A 10 foot long scorpions tail blew out of my body and got in a position ready to strike. A drop of poison leaked from the tail and splashed on the ground.

The hissing sound drew Rhea's attention and she had a look of being impressed on her face. "Well if show and tell is over Percy, then we can get to business. Believe it or not she has been looking forward to what is about to happen."

"Over the years she has gotten sad about being immortal, and she would have preferred to die earlier but she is 1 of the few good monsters she didn't want her hearts power to fall into the wrong hands." Rhea snapped her fingers a glass jar started to float in the air above my face and I grabbed it.

When I looked back to Rhea I saw that she was no longer alone. Standing next to Rhea was what looked like a woman in her early 30's with flowing red hair. She was different from all other Empousa. She did not look to be part animal, nor did she have a metal leg.

She had fangs that you could see if you looked close enough, and she had a slight silver aura around her. It was the empousa who started to speak. "Are you sure you wish to go through with this it is a lot of responsibility to have the power to control all empousa in the world?"

"I have no other choice I need your heart to do what I need to do." She nodded her head and she placed her hand on Rhea's shoulder, they seemed to have a silent conversation and then the empousa nodded to me.

"As long as you keep my heart in a sealed jar it will stay viable for a week. If it has not been used by then in a painful way I will be brought back to life. Your power to control Empousa will be strong, not as strong as I can as I can control all empousa withing a 3000 mile radius, but it will be strong.

"You should be able to control all empousa in a 100 mile radius. I would appreciate it if you can get this over with as soon possible and as painless as possible. I looked at Rhea who actually had a single tear going down her face, but she told me to go ahead.

I walked up to her, and when I was 2 feet away from her I shoved my right arm forward. I heard the sickening sound of bones breaking and I pulled when I felt a beating. When I pulled my arm out I felt like I was in the Indiana Jones movie. The only thing that was missing was someone saying Kalima over and over.

When she saw her own heart being pulled out, she looked to Rhea and smiled 1 last time. "Finally". Her body slowly dissolved in a shower of sparkling mist. I put the heart in the glass jar, and it sealed itself.

The gross part was 2 minutes later it was still beating at full speed. "Like she said if you do not do what is needed with her heart in a week, because if you don't, and she comes back you will answer to me for getting her hopes up, and failing her last wish. Her heart being destroyed is the only way to permantly make her die"

"But I will make you an offer if you can find me Atlas then I will reward you beyond your wildest dreams. If you want I will make you richer than Midas, more powerful than you already are, or anything else you want that I can give you that's in my power."

"Lady Rhea if I can find you Atlas when this is all over I promise you if I can do it I will bring him to you, and I will not promise him any form of safety from you."

"Well then you best get to work I do not want Shira's sacrifice to be in vain." I bowed to lady Rhea before I pulled the shadows around me and shadow traveled away. I arrived in a small cave that my island created for me.

The cave was like an ultra man cave in the woods. There was a 50 inch plasma TV against 1 wall. A large overstuffed couch facing the TV, and a dozen arcade games scattered throughout the room. I even had a magical mini fridge summoned.

When everything was in place I called upon my shadow creatures. The shadow creatures melted out of the wall dragging Prometheus along with him when he was all the way through the shadow creatures dropped him on the couch, and stood next to me.

"Prometheus this will be your home for the part of the foreseeable future. You have a TV that can get any channel or show from around the world, and it will play any movie or video game you could want to have fun."

"You have a couch that will transform into a king sized four poster bed, and a mini fridge that will summon any food, or drink you could want. You have anything you could want here but escape until I can have the Olympian council set up a meeting to decide your new role to serve."

"The cave has been placed with a seal on it to prevent any form of magical escape, or regular escape. I have sent the location of this cave to Argus so should I not come back then he will come for you. I know this is not what you would have wanted but think of it like this if you had free run of my island you would be under the constant eye of the Olympians."

"By the way just so you know that water I gave you to break an oath was a 1 time only deal, should you try to break any other oath you will be fully punished like any other immortal would, and any attempt to escape will immediately alert Argus, which he will then report to the Olympians."

"Is there anything you need before I leave?" The only answer I got was the couch transforming into a bed, and silence."I sent a silent order to 1 of the shadow creatures to stay hidden in cave and keep watch over Prometheus to make sure he didn't try anything.

1 of the shadow creatures merged with the shadows in the room, and the others merged back inside of me. I shadow traveled into a new hidden room that my home silently created. The new room in the basement was an almost exact copy of my master bedroom without the great little reminders of Aphrodite.

The only things I could do now was wait. I had to talk with Nyx, and hope that the mysterious man who would tell me how to make the potion would appear. It was then that I noticed how hungry I actually was.

Even though it was than 2 hours from my battle with Uzaton I had done a lot. So to give myself a treat I ordered the exact same type of ramen noodles I had on my date with Aphrodite. But after the second mouthful I noticed that it wasn't the same without her.

It had been less than 4 days since I last saw her but I just started to notice how much of an affect our time together had an effect on me. I didn't know what would have happened to me if I stayed on Ogygia with Calypso when she made the offer, or if Rachel didn't become the oracle, and our small summer romance become more than what happened.

I couldn't even say what would have happened if Annabeth was still alive because I knew from our friendship over our teenage years, and even the kiss we shared during the battle of the labyrinth. I may not have known what would have happened with the other girls but I am more than happy with the time I had with Aphrodite."

Since the ramen wasn't doing anything for me I replaced it with blue chocolate chip cookies, and blue coke. At least they still had their desired effect. If I had any other choice to be somewhere it would be in the ocean next to the island so I could hang out with the sea creatures that guarded my island but my presence would then be alerted to my father.

I fell asleep halfway through my 3rd cookie when I was woken up by a buzzing in my pocket. The name on the cell phone was Nyx so I clicked yes, and moments later a swirling mass of shadows formed in my line of sight.

Nyx arrived in an elegant pitch black dress, and she had a pit scorpion relaxing on her shoulder. "Hello lady Nyx did Nemesis make it safely into Tartarus?" Nyx nodded her head while petting her scorpion. "Yes, and she is currently at her son's bedside giving him blood transfusions. Thankfully a godly parent can make any type of blood to match their child's."

"It will take another half a day to fully replace his body's supply of blood because while a god, or goddess can make blood for their children it still has godly power in it, and too much at a single time can harm the child."

"The demi's are also settling in quite nicely they still are slightly on edge in case of an attack, but they are finally learning how to relax for the first time since their incarceration. I can only be here for 10 minutes so as to not worry them but I came to give you my thanks, and Aether's gift for rescuing him."

Nyx reached into a hidden pocket, and pulled out a golden crown. Each of the spikes on the crown had an illustrious sapphire on 1 side, while on the other sides the spikes on the crown had jewels so black they seemed to absorb the light.

Nyx then proceeded to place the crown on my head, and I felt a tremendous rush of power flow through me unlike any other. On the right side of the room the air glowed with fresh air, and sunlight. While on the left the room grew pitch black in moments.

The light, and darkness on each side then moved towards me, and then grew on me forming a protective barrier on me. But it wasn't a barrier on me but instead intricate armor. The armor was like the light, and darkness from earlier.

The right side of the armor was an illustrious blue, while the left was pitch black, but that's not where the differences ended. On the right side of the body I could see mini thunder clouds appearing, while on the left was angry globs of shadows toiling in quick madness.

In Nyx's hand appeared a giant great sword. The great sword like the armor was 2 colors. She placed the great sword in my arms, and it felt like my arms would fall off from the weight but just as quick as the heaviness came the swords weight grew featherlight.

"With the crown you will be able to invoke a portion of Aether's powers, and my own. We have created these 2 items for you for your duty to us. The power you gain from Aether's power when using the crown create a blinding light in your enemies eyesight, and will create lighting minions."

"The power you gain from me when using the crown will make you automatically blend in with the shadows as to confuse your enemies, and will create mini shadow minions to aid you in battle. These minions are unlike your shadow creatures as they will swarm your enemies. The final power you will gain from it while in use will allow you to create shadows, and multiply shadows. The thicker the shadows the stronger your shadow minions, and the shadow creatures I gave you earlier will be."

The great sword will only be able to be used while wearing the crown because it's power is like the great ax you wielded that was created by Gaea. If used by someone who is not a god, or goddess then it's power will burn away the wielder within time."

"However while wearing the crown and invoking our powers will cancel out that negative draw back, and will allow you to wield it as long as the crowns power is in effect. But the great sword has 2 powers we thought you would find most useful. Firstly it has a magical power we drained from the great ax that Aether brought me."

"The power that we drained from the ax, and placed into the great sword is that when it comes into contact with an enemies weapon or armor it will double the enemies weight of whatever the great sword comes into contact with, every time it does so."

"The second I will demonstrate if you bring out riptide." The great swords weight was so light that I could hold it in my left hand without it even drooping. Nyx must have heard my thoughts because she nodded. "Yes the great swords weight will be featherlight to you for now on it has no merged with your essence if you compare the 2 weights I am sure you will find it just like riptide."

I clicked riptide to its full 4 foot form, and Nyx held out her hand for the 2 weapons. She held the great sword in her left hand, and riptide in her right. She then proceeded to place the tip of riptide into the handle of the great sword, and riptide began to go through the great sword.

In moments riptide was absorbed into the great sword. When riptide was fully absorbed the great sword began to change. It's handle gained riptides colors, and red button, while the blade grew multiple metals.

"While you are using the power of the crown you can temporarily merge the 2 weapons together whether they take the physical look of riptide or the great sword. They will both have the others abilities along with their own."

"The weapons will separate when you are finished with the crowns powers. Now the crown has the a limit limit of use for a total of an hour at a time. But you should also know the crown has 1 last power I have given it."

Nyx ran her hand along the blade and immediately dark matter covered the blade. "While the crown is in use you can cover any weapon you are using in dark matter. The dark matter will cause no harm to your weapons, or armor, and any dark matter you summon will be strengthened, at no more extra cost to your stamina that you would have used before the crowns activation."

"When you are no longer in need of it just wish it away, and your weapons will separate, and your new great sword will vanish until the crown is summoned again." I made the crown vanish just like I would with aegis, and just like Nyx said everything returned to normal.

Riptide appeared in my hands, and I returned it to pen form, and placed it in my pocket. "I must go now Percy but with your permission when Ethan is returned to normal will you allow him a place to live on your island until Nemesis can get him immunity for his part in the battle of Olympus."

I nodded my head in approval. "Then when he it is safe for him to make the journey I will give him to Nemesis, and she can bring him to your island." Nyx melted back into the shadows leaving me by myself again.

It was just after 12:15 so I decided to try and go to sleep again. My first dream was of a frail man sitting on a throne. The man appeared to look over 200 years old, and I saw him cough into a rag. Golden ichor spotted the rag, and he looked up to me.

"You have gathered the materials faster than I expected. You now have 2 and a half weeks until their plan is put into motion, and it will take 15 days for the potion to be brewed correctly. To brew the potion you must travel to an ancient forge created by Hemera the primordial goddess of the day."

"Hemera was an avid potion maker, and the primordial's relied on her for potions. When Hecate came into existence Hemera's works were no longer needed because Hecate's skills were innately better. 1 thing that made Hemera so great in her creations was because of her legendary potion pot."

"The pot is said to have the power to strengthen any potion made in it by 5 times however the potions take twice as long to make. In order to make sure the potion is strong enough to get you where you need to be you must use it."

"You will find the forge in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Seek out a daughter of Hemera by the name of Jane. You will find her at a solar energy plant. If you tell you rescued her mother's brother Aether she will take you to her mother, and they will help you."

"When she tells you she will help you, then hand over the ingredients to her and she will create the potion. At your current skill level in potion making you would not be able to make it at full strength, and you cannot have Hecate make it without alerting the council to what you might be up to, and the river from the spring of the gods would get you into trouble."

The man coughed 1 last time, and he spoke again with strain in his voice. "I must go now, this will be the last time we get to speak again till you drink the potion, and appear next to me. When you do arrive I will be able to give you more information on what you must do, but if I do not leave now I will not have enough strength to meet you when you are ready."

The dream quickly melted away, and I woke up to the sound of an alarm going off, and being shaken. I jumped awake to Baylee standing above me. "Percy are you hungry?"

"How did you know I was down here Baylee? This room was supposed to be a secret." Baylee just shrugged her shoulders. "I was feeding your fish when they began to speak to Alphie, he told me that you had returned and would be hungry soon, and when I came to look for you this door just opened for me"

Baylee pointed to a plate of chocolate chip pancakes, and freshly squeezed orange juice. "Now that you mention it I am hungry Baylee but I must ask you to not tell anyone you saw me here if any of the Olympians know where I am then they will have to take me to Olympus."

"Well you can come upstairs Percy. Aphrodite, and Trina left late last night to visit Aphrodite's kids at Camp Half-Blood she said she will not be back to 6 pm today." Baylee must have just noticed the still beating heart because she screamed and jumped backwards.

"Why do you have a beating heart in a jar Percy?"

"I have to make a potion, and I needed the heart of the eldest empousa, along with some other things that aren't as gross." Baylee didn't want to be in the same room as the heart a moment longer so I placed my arm in hers, and after grabbing the breakfast tray I led us out of the room, and into the living room.

Allistor, and Alphie were the only other beings in the room so knowing that I didn't need to hide from them I sat in a recliner and started to eat my breakfast. I decided to play with Alphie a bit while I was eating I made 3 of the shadow creatures appear.

All 3 of them mirrored Alphie's looks, and he looked at them in wonder. Alphie leaned in to inspect them and the clone directly in front of him mirrored his movements. Until it started to look like he was in front of a mirror.

The other 2 shadow beings transformed into floating fishes that were constantly changing colors. Alphie had a good time playing while I ate, and Allistor seemed to be in the worlds best sleep while he was eating away at a pillow.

When I was finished eating I made the shadow creatures turn into bubbles and they popped away leaving Alphie squealing in joy. When Baylee returned I asked her to do some research for me. "Hey Baylee if you would look up any solar energy companies in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and see if you can find out if any of them have an employee named Jane."

"Who is this Jane so I will know who is who if there is more than 1?"

"Jane is the daughter of the immortal being Hemera. I need to find Jane to get her mothers help in making the potion. I do not know what this Jane looks like, nor do I know where the company is, and it will help me out tremendously if I know where to began my search."

"Sure thing Percy I will get to it right away, I do not know if I will be able to find your Jane right away since I will be on the internet but I can find the companies address and search their employee directory so if there is more than 1 Jane I can tell you where to began, if you will watch Alphie will I do your search."

"That will be fine I will be happy to watch your little tyke."

"Why didn't you just ask lord Hermes to find this girl, Percy Jackson." If I didn't see Allistor speak I would have thought there was an invisible person speaking.

"I cannot ask lord Hermes to do it because, I am not exactly on the best terms with the Olympians right now. You may not have heard but I was just recently in Tartarus, and the Olympians were about to send a search party in after me."

"Oh yes I heard that pretty girlfriend of yours has been in a very sad mood recently, she said something about cursing you with pink hair for making her worry.."

"Yes, and I will be willing to take that curse with eagerness compared to what I faced down there." Allistor gave a sagely nod but it turns out it wasn't a nod to my statement because seconds after the nod Allistor let out a loud snore.

I continued to play with Alphie by summoning brightly colored bubbles, and he happily started trying to pop each 1. I only had to catch him a single time because he nearly fell, but it didn't phase him. I was about to have to come up with another game but I heard something behind me, and when I turned around I got slapped in the face.

Standing before me was a very mad looking Silena. She was about to try and slap me again before shadows melted out of my body and pinned her hands against the closest wall. I didn't even summon them on their own, and it made me understand that they would come out anytime they thought I was in danger.

I sent them a silent order to return to me before they tried to do anything that would seriously harm her. She fell to her knees in a mix of anger from earlier, and fear of what just happened. I walked up to her and placed a hand on her shoulder, and tried to calm her down.

"Silena I am sorry about what just happened to you, but why did you hit me?" She gave me a blood curdling glare. That was impressive for a daughter of Aphrodite.

"You hurt my mother by going away Percy. She was already in a depressed state after what happened with Ares, did you even think what it would do to her after you leave her for 4 days without even telling her where you were going?"

"Silena I am sorry that I hurt Aphrodite's feelings by having to go away but you do not understand what I am working on, and if she even knew where I had to go she would have tried to stop me, and if that happened it would have been much worse then you could imagine."

I knew just from the look on her face that she either didn't believe me, or she didn't care but I didn't have time to say anything else because I felt a sword grave my shoulder. My shirt was ripped apart from the blade and I could feel blood running down my arm."

I knew without looking that it was Clarisse because of the dangerous aura that was radiating off of her. "Get your hands off of her right now Prissy or else." Although she didn't give me time to get my hand off of Silena's shoulder because she punched me in the face with enough force that I felt a tooth loosen.

"I was not doing anything to hurt Silena. I was just trying to calm her down."

"Do not lie to me Prissy, now that I am a goddess I can know if Silena is in danger, I felt her in danger just a moment ago, and I came to see what it was. But now that I know she isn't in any danger, I will now have to take you to Hestia, to speak to the Olympian council."

"You must get out of there Percy, if she informs the Olympians of where you are they will keep you for questioning for a length of time that could stop you from making the potion." The voice came from the person who saved my life yesterday, and I knew to heed his device, so when I saw Bailey coming back in the wrong with a small folder, I water traveled next to her."

"Here you go Percy I found all 3 solar energy companies in New Mexico."

"Thank you Bailey I must go. Take the rest of the day off." I shadow traveled away just as I saw Clarisse going to try to grab me. I didn't have time to look for any of the 3 locations in New Mexico, so I shadow traveled to the first place that came into my mind.

I arrived in the dark dusty front room that used to be my mothers, and Paul's home. Since my parents got a new home on my island they no longer needed this home, so it was void of any furniture. I decided it was best for my sore jaw to drink some nectar to fix my tooth.

So I summoned myself a chilled glass of nectar, and quickly chugged it down. In under a minute I could feel my tooth fix itself, and the inevitable swelling I would have gotten disappear. To pass the time to see if my movements would have been tracked, I opened the folder, and looked up the companies locations, and employee files.

There was in fact many people named Jane who worked for the solar energy companies. In 1 location there was over 2 women working in various departments, in the second was 2, and in the final was 3.

I decided to jump right into the search so I water traveled to the first location. The building was a giant warehouse/factory. Based on Bailey's research the company was founded by an older man born in the 60's who never grew out of the hippie phase.

"The man in question won a 100 million dollar lottery in the early 90's and 1 of the first few things he done was start up the company in hopes to make the environment better. The second company was a company that was the preferred repair company on all types of solar energy products.

The final company, was a call center that people could call to get information on the pro's of switching from fossil fuel to solar energy. I recognized the name of the second company because it was a business created by Apollo.

I knew it was his company because while I was staying at his Temple during my recovery I saw him in a picture in front of the company building for it's grand opening. I didn't know if Hemera was on good terms with Apollo so it seemed like a good place to start.

It was just after 3 in the afternoon when I arrived at the building. I waited a minute hidden in the shadows to try and sense if there were any gods, but I didn't sense any. I did however get the tingling in my nose from the monster blood inside of me that let me know that demigods were close by.

I also knew there was an Olympian's power at work because I saw a dracaena sniffing around but when it got too close beams of light shot out of higher floor winds, and the monster exploded in a shower of golden dust.

"If you keep the shadows around you until you enter the building then you will remain undetected by the monster barrier."

"Can you tell if she is here?" I could almost feel the guy shaking his head in my mind.

"No Percy Hemera gifts all her children with the gift of invisibility to other immortal's, unless she wants to be found. I do not know even if Apollo would know if she was here if she works for him. Most of the primordial beings who are still existence never had a problem with the Olympians, but they do like to stay hidden, the same also goes for their children."

"A primordial will only alert an Olympian, or another divine being of their presence if they trust them fully, if the Jane you are looking for works here then she may be working for her mother to see if Apollo is trustworthy."

"Be careful though Percy, while Apollo is not here at the moment I can tell that he visits here often, and if he arrives then his security will automatically strengthen, and your power of staying hidden in the shadows is not unlimited."

"You were not spotted the last times you stayed hidden in the underworld because your enhanced powers over the shadows were stronger than the other Olympian's there, and because Hades was not trying very hard to find you."

"You were also hidden on your island from Hestia, and Clarisse because your island was helping you. If you tried to go to Olympus during the day then Zeus would be able to find you, the same can be said here because Apollo would notice if there was more shadows then normal in his company."

After that he went silent, so I know the conversation was over. I heeded his advice by staying in the shadows, and I shadow traveled to every shadowy corner of the building that I could see. I had to do this because besides the demigods, a mortal could see a shadow moving on it's own.

The first floor of the building was the reception area to the business. The reception area looked almost exactly like every other in the world. There was couches placed along the walls for guests to sit at while they waited, but instead of year old golf magazines, there were rows, and rows of music magazines.

Another thing I knew was it was neither demigod, or mortal sitting at the phones, instead it was cloud nymphs. These cloud nymphs seemed to be very into their work, but they didn't have the same intense look that Fleecy had.

Their hair was pulled back into pony tails, and their eyes were a stormy gray color, but if you got close enough you could get shocked with a little static electricity. I decided to test my luck, about how to find where the women named Jane where so I invaded the mind of 1 of the cloud nymphs.

After getting into her mind, I planted the suggestion into her mind to print up, a list of where the women named Jane where at. The moment I heard the printer going off I escaped her mind, and I could see her looking confused about what just happened.

I slipped my way into the secretaries area, and slipped the paper into the shadows. Based on the paper I found out that 1 of the women was on maternity leave, and the final woman named Jane who worked here was on the top floor

Getting to the final floor was simple. When I found the elevator I waited till there was another person inside, because the camera's would have noticed if no one entered the elevators, pushed a button, and rode up to any floor.

As soon as the 2 of us were inside I entered the man's mind, and made him send the elevator to the top floor. The man was the head of the janitorial department so it wasn't odd for him to be going to the top floor.

The building had a total of 5 floors so it wasn't a long trip. The moment the doors opened I rushed out because there was 5 people on the other side of the door waiting to come in, and while I was hidden it didn't mean they could bump into a heavy body, when it didn't look like there was 1 there.

What was going to be hard about finding the woman was that her desk was located inside Apollo's personnel office. The Jane in question worked as the vice president of the company, and when he was not in the office she was in charge.

A large pair of solid oak doors barred my way into Apollo's office, and I couldn't water travel, or shadow travel beyond the doors because the office was practically a mini domain if I did water travel, or shadow travel inside, it would alert Apollo that I was there.

The only way inside was to come out of hiding, but before I did I placed shadows on the camera's in the corner of the rooms, and only then did I step out of the shadows. The next step to get inside the office was knocking on the doors, and when I heard a buzzing sound the doors slowly opened on their own.

There were 3 women inside the office. 1 was sitting behind the desk, and the other 2 were sitting in the guests chairs. All 3 women ignored me while they went on with their conversation, and it was only after 5 minutes did I get visibly noticed.

The woman behind the desk waved me forward just a the 2 women who were in fact demigods stood up. The 2 female demigods stared at me for a moment but they looked at me like I was toe fungus. They both shoved past me nearly knocking me over, but the woman behind the desk just gave me a friendly smile.

"Hello Perseus Jackson, how are you today?" I raised an eyebrow at the statement, because normally it was not a good thing when your a demigod when a stranger names you by your real name.

Jane only smiled at my expression, and she rang a bell. I reached a hand towards my pocket getting ready to pull riptide out, but she only smiled. "Would you like some tea?" A woman in her 40's came into the room holding a silver tea tray, and pristine porcelain cups.

The older woman set the tea tray on the table and proceeded to pour a cup of tea for Jane, and then another for myself, and she brought it to me. When the cup was in my hands she left the room closing the door behind her.

"I am sure you are wondering how I know it is you, and that is an easy answer. You see even though you have looked different for the past few months, no one can quite forget the face of the 16 old demigod who did the impossible and stopped Kronos."

She then pointed to the left side of the room and on the wall was dozens of photographs. Most of the photographs were just of pretty women famous women, but scattered in the mix were of kids at Camp Half-Blood.

Nearly all of the kids had the features that were normal for a child of Apollo, but there was a few pictures of 2 kids who were without a doubt not his kids. The photo was of me, and Rachel just after she became the oracle. I had the sad smile on my face. I was sad because I had just lost my best friend, but I was happy because my other friend Rachel had just become the first ever mortal oracle.

If this woman was the daughter of Hemera I didn't want to offend her by not drinking her tea so I took a sip, not at all afraid of being poisoned because my gloves would negate any poison from harming me. There was not any poison in the tea instead it was camomile.

"I also want to apologize for my associates. Amazons like men, but they don't like to be interrupted. I too do not like to interrupt meetings but it's not everyday that a girl gets to meet the savior of Olympus, but let's get past formalities, would you like to have a seat?"

I nodded my head, and making sure I did not spill the tea I took the seat on her right side. "So Percy I would have thought you would have went to Apollo directly if you needed something from him, but I can pass a message to him for you if you wish."

"I am not here to see Apollo, I am looking for someone else." The woman just shrugged her shoulders.

"I do not know how much I can help you with anything else. You see I work exclusively for Apollo, you may not know this but I am just a regular mortal, with the gift of sight." I didn't know if I believed her because the voice told me that if Hemera's daughter worked her then she would be hidden but to say she was only a mortal was far fetched.

She didn't wait for me to respond because she continued talking. "Now I bet you are wondering how even a mortal with sight could know about the savior of Olympus, and the gods. The reason why is because when I was 8 years old I was nearly killed by a cyclopes."

"A daughter of Apollo saved my life, and when she realized that I was not a normal mortal she called her father. Apollo decided to test my powers of sight by over the course of a month appearing in front of me at random times, in different forms."

"Some of the tests he gave me was taking the form of my father, and I had to guess who was who. Apollo decided that my gift was much stronger than any other mortal's than he had ever seen. He then decided that he would mold me into becoming the next oracle."

"I spent the next 30 years training with him honing my powers to such a degree that Apollo even now Apollo is trying to convince the council to make me a goddess."

"Has a mortal ever become a god, or goddess before?" She smiled at me, and shook her head.

"No when your friend became the oracle, that was when he started trying to make me a goddess, and if he succeeds then I will be the first ever mortal without any divine ancestry to become immortal, let alone a goddess."

"If you want to know how strong my power is, then I can tell you that I knew you was coming here before you arrived, I didn't know when you would actually get here, or why you were coming but I saw you in a vision."

"My current powers are great but even now I do not get the whole picture, Apollo thinks that if I become a goddess then those drawbacks to my powers will wash away. From what Apollo has told me the Olympian's are not so sure that my power is as strong as he says it is, so he set up a meeting between me, and the goddess Athena in the near future."

"Until such time the meeting takes place I have been given work here. But now that you know about me, if you would tell me why you have come to see me, then I will see if I can help you."

"I have come here in search of someone who shares your name. She has the power to help me on a quest I am on. I was also going to search for an another employee named Jane who works here today, but I have seen that she is on maternity leave."

Jane nodded her head, and she started typing on her laptop. After less than a minute she nodded again. "Yes from my compute I can see she is indeed on maternity leave. I can also tell you she is a demigod child of Hermes. Is that who you are looking for?"

"No I am not looking for a child of an Olympian. It is clear she does not work here, but if you wish to help me on my job I need to ask you a favor. If you would wait an hour before you let Apollo know that I was here."

Jane leaned back in her chair, and intertwined her fingers in thought. "I will consider your offer if you let me do something first. While I do work solely for Apollo. The main lesson he has taught me is that above all I must do what is right."

"If I see that you are here under truthful, and good reasons, I will not even inform Apollo or the other Olympian's of your arrival, or your reasons for being here. If I see that you have lied to me, or are here under false pretenses I can promise you that Apollo will immediately know of your presence, here and the building will be locked down preventing your escape."

"If I agree to this you will promise that you will keep everything you learn from me a secret?" She nodded her head.

"I swear on the river Styx that if you are here under honest, and good reasons I will not tell another soul unless you want me to, and if I can help you I will." Thunder crackled above our heads, and then I asked her what I needed to do.

"All I require of you is to hold out your right hand, and keep your eyes on me. Do not blink or look away or this will not work. Also I will know if you are hiding anything from me on why you are here today I will know."

I held out my right hand to her, and then she wrapped both her hands in mine. Her eyes locked with mine, and the look in her eyes gave off a serious stare like Hephaestus looking to see if there was any flaws in a shield.

After what seemed like an eternity, but was only 10 seconds she dropped my hands, and she gave an amused smile.

"Well it looks like I will be silent." She then took a notepad from her desk, and began to scribble on it. When she handed me the paper, I saw a woman's face. The detail's in the picture was so great I could have thought the picture was alive.

The woman in the drawing was in her early 20's. She had light brown hair, and yellow eyes, just like liquid sunlight. I also saw a tiny beauty mark at the corner of her mouth. "Now I had a hard time seeing the girl, because she had a shroud over her face, but when I knew her name, and parentage it was almost simple."

"Now from what I could see about the girl is she has a great degree in shape shifting powers. The face on the picture is what she really looks like, however she will look different to you face to face."

"Wouldn't I just be able to find her by her name?"

Jane just shrugged her shoulders. "Think about it like this Percy, if I could know who you are, do you think a daughter of a primordial would be less observant? She has the power to change her looks, and if she finds out someone is looking her she will undoubtedly change her looks."

"You may know her name, but you don't know what she looks like undercover. When you go to your other destinations keep the paper with you, and it will grow warm in her presence. I cannot tell you which location she is at because as I told you before my powers do you have their blind spots."

Jane picked up her cellphone, and she gave me a sad sigh. "As much as I would love to stay, and have more tea with the savior of Olympus, Apollo just told me that he forgot his favorite guitar pick here, so I would say you have about 30 seconds to get out of here before he arrives."

I decided it was in my best interest to go since I jumped up from my seat, and water traveled back to my mothers old home. I just got into the house when I felt someone's presence nearby, and it wasn't someone I wanted to see.

The current results to the interactive poll are as such.

Rhea. 10

Nobody. 6

Nemesis. 1

Aether. 1.

The poll is still open till Friday night at 9 pm central standard time. Keep up the votes for your favorite for everyone who has not voted.