I would like to thank everyone who has already reviewed my story. We will see more of the relationship between Bella and Themis in a couple chapters.

Chapter 2: Plans

Bpov

After saying my goodbyes to my wife and daughter, I immediately flashed to Olympus to meet with the council as they had requested my presence almost as soon as I had returned from pretending to be a mortal.

I felt quite sad looking at Olympus now, as the war with my youngest brother had certainly damaged the city beyond anything I had seen since the city was built.

I marched up the mountain nodding to the various beings I passed and taking in the destruction and wondering how the daughter of Athena, Annabeth I believe her name was, would rebuild the ancient monuments, and thinking that she was going to have a hard time dealing with all the opinionated gods that would try to tell her how things should look.

As I walked into the throne room, I could not help but chuckle at seeing ancient beings arguing like little kids.

It took a few minutes for all the gods in the room to notice me, as the arguments were quite aggressive, such as Zeus and Poseidon with their storms, or my grandchildren Apollo and Artemis arguing about who is older.

"Quiet" Zeus thundered.

When all of the council was paying attention to the matter at hand Zeus continued,"Lady Isabella Titaness of Night, Snow, Bravery, Strength, Loyalty, Honour, and Combat, you have been called before the council for matters most grave."

"Recently Athena pointed out that after the first titanacomy, Gaea gave birth to your younger siblings, the giants." Zeus started.

"I am aware of the actions of my mother after the defeat of my siblings, and I assume that you believe that history is repeating itself." "That since the titans have been bested for the second time, that Gaea will once again send the giants to try to get revenge." I stated.

"That is our belief indeed, and considering how quickly you figured that out, that you have had the thought yourself." Athena started to explain about how a new great prophecy had been issued by the oracle.

"The prophecy says."

Seven half-bloods shall answer the call.

To storm or fire, the world must fall.

An oath to keep with a final breath,

And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death.

"This has of course has had us start making plans immediately so that we are the ones to come out on top of this new prophecy if it is indeed about the giants."

"The titan war has severely hurt the amount of demigods we have to combat this threat, and as you know the giants can only be killed by a god and demigod working together." stated Poseiden.

"So you are worried that the giants may kill all the demigods before you can kill them." "I understand that, considering that was the original tactic of the giants during the first war, but what is it that you want with me?" I asked.

It was finally back to Zues as he said "we will get to that part in a minute, but first you must know that until the giants have finally made their move we will be closing olympus to the demigods and anyone we are not sure are on our side to try and hide our preparations."

"During this time we will be gathering as many allies as we can, from the minor gods, and here is where your part of the plan comes in." Athena continued.

"When you were playing the part of the mortal Isabella Swan, you ran into both vampires and shifters, correct?"

"Yes, I even dated one of the vampires as I was interested in seeing how they were able to resist human blood so well." "It would have been better if one of the other vampires was available as Edward was the epitome of someone raised in the Victorian era." Isabella said.

"Yes, well we are going to need you to return to the mortals, and bring the vampires and shifters here to olympus." "We would like them to help the demigods deal with the army of monsters the giants will most likely use."

As Zeus spoke I was thinking about everything I had been told so far in this meeting. I had to admit that the gods cut as imposing a figure in their thrones as the titans once had even if they were not as tall as we were. Zeus who had his blond hair and suit groomed as if he was working on wall street looked very different from his two brothers. Hades who had been allowed up to Olympus for the time being with his dark clothes and long hair, and Poseidon who had a beachcomber look. The only looks they had in common at this time was the grim looks on their faces as they all thought about the upcoming war.

I was also thinking about how I was going to approach the Cullens who were very insular, and were not likely to be very trusting if the supposed human they had left behind just suddenly appeared on the doorstep of a house she should not have been able to find.

Just as I thought the meeting was about to close, Zeus spoke up one last time.

"The council knows about your opinion of the Cullens and have decided that to avoid you killing the Cullens when they undoubtedly anger you defending Edward, we will be sending Apollo with you to meet with them and the shifters just in case."

I looked up at the gods wondering if they had lost their minds as I knew that the laid back and flirting nature of Apollo was just as likely to cause problems with the Cullens and pack.

"My lords, not to be offensive, but shouldn't one of the more diplomatic gods such as Lord Hermes or Lady Athena come with me to a meeting about gaining allies." I asked

"Do you not believe that I can be diplomatic, my dear?" Asked the ever flirtatious Apollo with his infamous grin that had many women swooning.

"Shrink that ego grandson, lest it get you into something that you can't finish."

Athena interrupted at this point telling me that Apollo was the only one that was both not too busy and could be spared from the war planning for a short time.

Many thoughts were going through my mind as Zeus finally closed the meeting. As it was a rather sunny day I decided to head straight to the Cullens house as it was the most likely place for them to be, since I knew they had moved back to Forks the moment they realized that Alice could not see me in any visions anymore.

"Come Apollo let us get this over with so that I can have a proper homecoming with Themis when I get back." "We should appear at the end of the driveway so that they will hear us coming and make sure everyone is there." With that comment Apollo laughed and then I grabbed onto Apollo and we disappeared in a swirl of snow heading to the Cullens driveway.

Line Break: Carlisle pov

It was approaching morning and I had finally gotten off my shift at the hospital I was working at and had just arrived back home. After looking around the house I knew that this family was not going to recover from leaving Bella behind in Forks, and that she had made more of an impact on this family than I had thought.

Even though it had only been a few days since we had left Bella, one could already see the effects it was having on my family.

None of us had wanted to leave Forks, but Edward had told us that it was what Bella wanted and that the attack at her birthday party had frightened her too much. So we moved to Ithaca, New York.

The effects on everyone were pretty obvious, no one had really done anything in the days since we had left Forks, none of the "kids" had started going to school yet even though Rosalie kept telling everyone they should just move on.

I believed this to be just a mask though because she was reacting angrily to some very simple things, and almost always took her anger out on Edward. Alice on the other hand seems to have stopped being the bubbly little pixie that we were used to and Jasper spent his time trying to cheer her up while trying the hide the guilt he felt for attacking Bella even though we have all told him it wasn't his fault

Except for Edward who had barely spoken to the rest of the family and constantly hid in his room.

Emmett and Esme and myself were all trying to hold together for the rest of the family, but you could still see the effects if you knew where to look.

Emmett was just not as playful as he was before, only cracking jokes when the strain became too much, and spending his time with Rosalie in their room rather than playing games and challenging his siblings to wrestle.

Esme and myself were both half-heartedly trying to snap the others out of their funk, but both of us sorely miss the girl we had looked at like a daughter and had hoped as Edwards mate that that dream might come true.

I had just gone to greet Esme who was working in her office on designs for the new house, when I heard something that scared me to death.

Just downstairs came a scream that I recognized as Alice's before she started sobbing and saying NO! NO! NO!

With that everyone used vampire speed to get to the living room where we knew Alice was, only to see her huddled on the couch, holding onto Jasper as if her life depended on it, and crying her eyes out.

"Alice" I continued calling Alice's name for a couple seconds before she finally looked up at me.

"What happened?" "What did you see?" "Is something bad going to happen to us or one of our friends?" I asked these questions as fast as I could in case we needed to rush out and help someone.

"Bella she." And that is as far as Alice got before Edward came rushing by us and out of the house.

I would like to apologize to my readers for the long wait on the second chapter, I have been working very long hours recently and lost my muse because of it. Hopefully I will be able to get the third chapter out much faster.