Author's Note: AND THE QUEST IS OVER! Downfall… I now have to think of stuff to write again. UGHHHH! I mean, I have other ideas, but I have to wait a couple chapters to let the quest settle in. And the worst part is, you know who the easiest person to write funny and fun stuff for was? BEN! I should've waited to kill him off…

Evelyn slowly opened her eyes and tried to figure out where she was. Why was she on a fluffy mattress instead of a bed of dirt? She turned and looked around, trying to figure out where she was when a familiar voice cut into her thoughts.

"You're up."

Evelyn looked up and saw Amy standing over her, looking slightly concerned but mostly relieved. (Probably because she had woken up). She suddenly realized she was in the camp infirmary. Camp. She was home! She didn't know how, but… she was home. She sat up quickly, which caused her vision to blur out for a minute. She let it pass then wrapped her arms around Amy.

Amy laughed.

"Hey sis."

Evelyn smiled and looked around. Dalia was sitting up on a bed near her, looking about as worn down as Evelyn felt. She didn't see the others anywhere. Of course, she and Dalia had been the ones closest to the blast… the blast…

Ben.

Evelyn suddenly felt sick and her head pounded. She closed her eyes and tried to push her thoughts of Ben out of her mind. It wasn't working very well. She turned back to Amy and managed to say:

"How-"

"According to Sicomba, the serpent thing disappeared in the blast and so did Kronos. He called us and we came to get you." Amy said, cutting her off.

"Oh." Evelyn said, furrowing her eyebrows. That meant Kronos was still out there, stirring up trouble. But they didn't have to worry about that now…

"Speaking of Sicomba, where is he? I need to talk to him…" Evelyn asked Amy.

"Outside." She said pointing, "With Louise. Don't exhaust yourself, okay? You're still weak."

Evelyn nodded and stood up, swaying a little. She got her bearings and headed out the door, blinking her eyes at the startling sunlight. She looked around until she saw the familiar black and brown haired heads of Sicomba and Louise. She walked over to them, slowly. They turned when they saw her coming. Louise gave her a smile, but Sicomba looked at her icily.

"Hey." Evelyn said.

Louise wrapped her up in a big hug without saying anything. Evelyn buried her head in Louise's shoulder and tried not to cry. She would wait until she was alone to cry. She needed to be alone to cry.

When Louise pulled away, Evelyn looked at Sicomba.

"Can I talk to you for a minute?"

He opened his mouth, probably to protest or say no, but Louise spoke first.

"Sure thing," she said, "I'll go see Dalia."

And without time for Sicomba to complain, she ran off, leaving Evelyn and him alone. He glared at her, and it was obvious he still blamed her for everything that had happened… or at least thought she was a dirty back-stabbing traitor.

"Look…" Evelyn said, trying to think of how to word her apology, "I know that you'll never trust me again, but please let me try to explain…"

"I don't want your excuses." Sicomba said angrily to her.

She looked up at him sadly.

"Why didn't you tell the others then?" she asked. He just looked at her, obviously trying to come up with a plausible answer.

"Because I didn't want them to feel as hurt as I did." He finally said.

"No. You had hope for me. And if they never knew… it would be easy for me to come back to you guys… they would still trust me, and you knew you could look out for them."

He looked at her.

"There's no way you can explain your way out of it… you betrayed us, and you can't change that." He said, shaking his head.

Evelyn looked down.

"I acted rashly… you know that's what I do. I'll do anything to prove a point, no matter how stupid it is. You have to know… it was only that day. I haven't been betraying you all these years, and I'd never hurt any of you…"

"You did hurt me! You're one of my best friends and you-"

"I'm sorry, okay?! I think a part of me just wanted to try and help Ben and now he's… he's…." Evelyn said, but she couldn't finish the sentence. Her voice cracked and her eyes filled up with tears. Sicomba looked at her, almost sympathetically.

"Please forgive me… I don't know what I'd do without my guitar buddy… or an X-box…" Evelyn said, trying to keep her joking mood while trying not to cry.

He shrugged.

"I don't know…"

Then he walked away, leaving her by herself.

"… dead." She muttered, finishing the statement. She looked around, but all she saw was him. There's where he sang the Goofy Goober song in his underwear, there's where he fell off the sand dune that one time, there's where she trapped him in the water sphere…

She closed her eyes and tried to block it all out. She ran to her cabin and shut the door. She went and sat on her bunk, tears rolling down her face. She thought about the prophecy, and the quest.

A favored Daughter of the Goddess Demeter

Shall be captured by one who earnestly seeks her,

That's about Dalia obviously. She was captured by Kronos who wanted her power.

And she shall be forced to sow

The Celestial Seeds that when they grow

Will grant the power of a thousand armies

A power to defeat the gods

And win the war against all odds

Still Dalia. She had to plant the Celestial seeds, and they would've defeated the gods had they grown, but they hadn't. They had stopped it.

And the price that the power will pay

The ending of one who has no say

Suddenly, Evelyn was confused. Dalia hadn't died, she was fine! But then she got to thinking… and her heart felt crushed with her sudden realization.

It wasn't about Dalia… it was about Ben.

Of course… the power of the seeds had to be stopped, and it was Ben that did it. But he did have a say… Of course prophecies were always worded strangely…

It's not that he didn't have a say, it's that he didn't say.

"Oh Ben…" Evelyn muttered. When he had told her to go save Mary and Elizabeth… he had known what he was going to do since that moment. He could've told her, but he didn't say…

Evelyn wiped away her falling tears

"I was so stupid… I should've thought… the prophecy said the end of someone… I should've known if we saved Dalia one of my other friends would die…"

Evelyn certainly didn't regret saving Dalia. If she hadn't, the world would probably have ended. She just felt like she could've done more… she felt that maybe she could've saved Ben. But she couldn't have. No one could have.

A knock came at the door. Evelyn quickly wiped away her tears to make sure it didn't look like she'd been crying. She opened the door and saw two familiar faces there.

"Ev!" they cried together, and suddenly she was pulled into a bone-crushing hug by both of them at once.

"Jade… Sierra… choking…" she managed to get out. They quickly let go and smiled.

"You're back!" they cried.

Evelyn smiled and nodded.

"Yep."

Suddenly, they both punched her, one punch for each arm.

"Ow!" she said, rubbing her arms, "what was that for?!"

"Leaving in the first place!" Jade said, putting her hands on her hips.

"Well I'm sorry I went to go save Dalia! Would you rather I wouldn't have?!"

"Of course not!" Sierra said, "But you could've left a note or something."

"Well next time I'll leave a note." Evelyn said, "Happy?"

"Exceedingly." Jade said with a smile. Evelyn rolled her eyes.

"So what did I miss?" Evelyn asked, looking at them.

"Nico came back for a bit!" Sierra said immediately, causing Evelyn to smile a bit. It was so obvious Sierra liked him… she hoped it wouldn't get annoying. Jade caught her eye and gave her a look that said 'it already is annoying.' Evelyn smiled at her.

"He left yesterday, though." Jade said.

"Well how inconsiderate." Evelyn said jokingly.

"Let's see what else… not much really." Sierra said, looking deep in thought as if trying to remember if anything more interesting than pizza for dinner had happened.

"Oh! Ben disappeared…" Jade said with an 'I wonder where he went' look. Evelyn coughed a bit.

"I know…"

"How?!" Jade and Sierra asked at once.

"I… I saw him."

"Where is he?" Sierra asked.

Evelyn took a deep breath.

"He's dead." She managed to say. Sierra and Jade stared at her in dis-belief. "I'll explain everything to Chiron and he'll decide how to tell everyone…" Evelyn said. They nodded.

"Hey, I'm sorry." Jade said, looking at her. Evelyn nodded.

"Well… we'll see you later." Sierra said, waving as they walked away. Evelyn smiled as they walked off and waited until they were out of sight to shut the door. She headed over to her bunk and lay down, falling asleep almost immediately.

OoOoOoOoO

Elizabeth, Sicomba, Louise, Emerson, Sam, Jade, Amy and Sierra all sat outside the cabins in a circle. Louise and Sicomba were sitting together, but they still looked a little awkward. They weren't really used to the 'relationship' thing yet. Elizabeth sat by Sam looking extremely happy to see him, and Emerson sat on her other side, obviously pleased to see her sister alright. They had all been talking and laughing when suddenly Jade said:

"Hey… is Evey alright? She seemed…"

"Guilty?" Sicomba said, at the same time as Elizabeth said:

"Depressed?"

They looked at each other, and then looked back at Jade.

"Yeah… both. When we were talking she seemed a little more withdrawn… I guess it must be Ben that's bothering her right?" Jade said.

Elizabeth nodded.

"She's crushed about it… I think she feels responsible." She said.

"For good reason…" Sicomba muttered, but no one heard him.

"Mary hasn't come out of her cabin since we got back. I can't imagine… I mean he was her brother." Louise said sadly. The others looked sad and mourned the loss of their friend.

"Dalia seems different too…" Elizabeth said, furrowing her brows a bit.

"Yeah, I thought that as well." Louise remarked.

"Really?" Sicomba asked, "I haven't talked to her since but… she wasn't really good friends with Ben, so I doubt that's the reason."

"She doesn't seem sad, just more… withdrawn I guess? She seems…" Elizabeth said, trying to come up with a fitting word for how Dalia had been acting lately.

"Like Nico?" Jade asked.

"Yes!" Elizabeth exclaimed. "She's been acting like Nico."

"Well that's strange…" Sicomba said. "I guess all that time with Kronos really got to her, huh?"

"I guess…" Louise said. She then looked around. "Do you think she'll start leaving camp and stuff like Nico does?"

The others looked at each other, unsure of what the answer was.

"That would suck; she wouldn't be able to make us pancakes for breakfast anymore." Sierra said with a slight smile, trying to keep the mood up. The others chuckled a bit.

"That would certainly be a tragedy." Sicomba remarked.

"I just feel bad about my sister… I always thought she really liked Ben." Amy said sadly.

"Well she'll get over it… eventually." Jade said.

It didn't take long for the conversation to move to other (and much more cheerful) topics, but the sadness and worry was still there in the back of everyone's minds.

OoOoOoOoO

"Where are we going?" Elizabeth asked Sam as he dragged her away from the center of camp. After the group had dispersed, he had just told her to follow and run off.

"You'll see." He replied with a grin.

Elizabeth sighed once again, given up on asking where they were going or why they were going there. They were now walking through the woods, when something blue came into view in the distance. Elizabeth gasped.

"Ta-da!" Sam exclaimed, motioning toward a giant, life-sized TARDIS standing in the middle of the woods.

"But… how…" Elizabeth said, lost for words. Sam then snapped his fingers, and the doors popped open, revealing what lay within.

"Oh my gods!" Elizabeth yelled, running inside, then out, around it, then back in. "It's actually bigger on the inside!"

"Yep. Amazing what some Hephaestus kids and a Hestia kid can too if you put them together." Sam said with a happy smile.

Elizabeth was looking around, when she glanced at the monitor. On it in text were the words:

'Hey, Elizabeth, will you be my companion?'

"Sam!" she said, turning to him, "you asked me out with a DOCTOR WHO DISPLAY?! That is like the BEST THING EVER!" she yelled, jumping into his arms.

"So… I take it that's a yes?" he asked with a chuckle.

"Duh!" she yelled, and they ran into the TARDIS again, and stayed for hours into the night.

Author's Note: Dear Elizabeth,
You're welcome.
Sincerely,

Me