Author's Note: SO I just realized that a few chapters ago I said it was a month before Percy (and Evelyn's) birthday. And since the quest took two weeks, that means that the invasion is coming… like really soon. So I'm gonna get on that.

So now Elizabeth, Evelyn, Sicomba, Louise, Emerson, Amy, Mary, Jade and Sierra stood around Chiron and Mr. D (again) arguing about Dalia. Mr. D raised his hand and cut off the many voices speaking

"If this Danielle girl thinks we are saving her again then I do believe she is going to be very disappointed."

"Dalia." Louise said through gritted teeth, "and anyway-"

Evelyn, who had said nothing yet suddenly interrupted her:

"I agree."

"What?!" Elizabeth and Emerson said at once.

"Look," Evelyn said angrily, "Elizabeth, Sicomba, Louise and I just almost died trying to rescue Dalia, and Ben actually did. We went to all that trouble and she's run off again. She's honestly just being selfish now and if she thinks I'm running off to save her now she's got something coming. I don't know if she noticed, but Percy left camp, Nico left again this morning and my brother is due to be killed in…" Evelyn mimed checking a watch, "about a week and a half and there's a warcoming. She'll just have to handle herself."

The others stared at her in silence for a few moments, not knowing what to say.

"But what if she dies?" Elizabeth asked quietly.

"Then I will never forgive her." Evelyn replied, her face hard.

The others quietly left and Evelyn followed them silently. Sierra suddenly fell back and started walking next to Evelyn.

"Did Nico really leave again?" she asked.

Evelyn resisted the urge to strangle her for that being the only thing she cared about at the moment. Sierra having a crush on Nico really was getting annoying, and she wished she would get a new hobby.

"Yes." She said through slightly gritted teeth.

"Oh," she said, after after a few moments added, "how do you know?"

"He told me." She said like it was obvious.

"You mean he said goodbye?"

"Yes, he walked up to me, said he was going somewhere and left. That is how people usually say they're leaving."

"Yeah," Sierra said blushing a little, "I just wondered why he… why he only said goodbye to you."

"Because I'm his best friend possibly?"

"Right." Sierra said, running off and leaving Evelyn steaming. Sierra's crush was honestly annoying Evelyn more than the fact that Nico had probably gone off to the Underworld again. Sometimes she thought he liked talking to spirits and ghosts more than he liked talking to people…

Talking to spirits and ghosts

Evelyn stopped walking abruptly. Of course! Why hadn't she thought of it before? She could talk to Ben again. She just had to ask Nico to take her to the Underworld. Ben had to be in Elysium; he had died a hero's death. Suddenly feeling much more cheerful, she went to the beach and stared out at the water.

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It was now five days until Evelyn and Percy's birthday and she was seriously freaking out. She had been training non-stop for a week-preparing for the war. Meanwhile, Percy had set out to destroy Kronos' ship with Beckendorf and no one had any idea where they were. Suddenly, Sicomba ran up to her.

"Percy!" was all he said, but she was immediately up and running toward Half-Blood Hill. She ran up to Percy and looked around for Beckendorf.

"Beckendorf..?" she said hopefully, but Percy only shook his head. Evelyn felt like a weight had dropped into her stomach. She hadn't been super good friends with Beckendorf or anything, but it was strange to know people were dying already and she was just sitting at camp. Evelyn stepped to the back of the crowd when she saw Silena approaching. Evelyn wasn't really the best comforter. She usually said things like 'here have some sympathy' and pretended to throw an invisible ball of sympathy at them. Surprisingly, this didn't usually make people feel much better.

She ended up next to Emerson who was staring ahead stonily. Emerson was usually the always laughing girl, who never knew when to stop laughing. Well she certainly wasn't laughing now. And that's when it really hit Evelyn that this war was affecting everyone- not just her brother.

A council meeting (of war, now, Evelyn supposed) was called, but since Percy was cabin leader, she was left to sit on the porch and wonder what was going on in there. Louise stormed out much earlier than expected and Percy and the rest came out about half an hour later. She stood up and faced Percy.

"So a real war." He said.

"Yeah, but we'll get…" she trailed off. She was going to say they'd get through, but that was just it. Percy wasn't going to get through.

"Did everyone know about that prophecy but me?"

"No…" Evelyn said very unconvincingly. Percy sighed and walked off. Evelyn waited for a moment and then walked off herself, not knowing where she was going, but just walking.

Evelyn trained and walked on the beach and avoided the Ares and Apollo kids fighting and didn't do much else until the night Beckendorf's shroud was burned. She sat in between Amy and Jade. No one said much. They just watched and honored Beckendorf. Evelyn stayed for a while, watching the sparks and the smoke dance up until the disappeared in the night sky.

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Evelyn was training in the arena the next day when Sicomba walked up to her and started training as well. They didn't say anything for a while.

"Are you worried?"

Evelyn pondered this. Was she really worried? She was apprehensive, anxious, and yet she wasn't worried.

"I'm never worried about Percy." She said, stabbing a dummy through the heart.

"But-"

"I'm never worried about Percy."

He nodded and continued training.

"Are you worried?" she asked.

"About what?"

"Lousie… yourself… me stabbing you all in the back…"

Sicomba cracked a smile.

"As for the latter two- not in the slightest. As for the former…"

"She'll be fine." Evelyn assured him. He looked at her.

"How could you know that?"

She stared at him.

"I don't."

They both sighed and kept training until their arms burned.

When Evelyn walked out of the training area, Amy ran up to her.

"Have you seen Percy?" Amy asked her.

"No, I was just going to look for him. Why?"

"No one can find him anywhere."

"Ah, relax. He's probably just off saving the world." Evelyn said with a shrug.

"Aren't you worried?"

"No. Percy can handle himself." Evelyn said. She tried to convince herself that she was saying this because it was true- not because she wanted to hear it.

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A couple days later Louise and Sicomba were sitting on either side of Elizabeth and leaning in to look at a book that was in her lap.

"Wait, we have to fight that?!" Louise exclaimed, pointing at a picture of Typhon.

"Of course not." Elizabeth said, "the gods will be trying to take care of Typhon. We'll have to deal with everyone else. Kronos and all the other gods and titans on his side."

"Oh fabulous." Louise said sarcastically.

"Wait," Sicomba said, "what do you mean trying to take care of Typhon? They beat him last time… didn't they?"

"Well… they dropped a mountain on him. Unfortunately, scientists today would probably notice if a whole mountain moved." Elizabeth said.

"Great." Sicomba muttered, looking down at the picture of Typhon.

Suddenly Evelyn ran up in full armor and wielding two swords.

"Suit up! Full armor, best weapons and be on the hill in 15 minutes. We got a message from Percy. It's on."

The three looked at each other worriedly and then jumped off and ran toward their cabins. Evelyn ran off (as fast as she could in the armor) to Half-Blood Hill. She was about to get into one of the camp vans when Dalia walked out of the woods. Evelyn stared at her.

"Decided to show up have you?" she said, raising an eyebrow.

"Yes." She said simply.

Evelyn looked behind her and saw a creature with slightly green-tinged skin resembling a fairy- only darker. Evelyn knew what is was.

"What's with the sprite?"

"I saved her life."

"Ah. Eternal debt thing?"

"Yes."

"Well try not to get her killed." Evelyn said. She then climbed into the van and sitting down. She closed her eyes and tried to calm her nerves. All her friends would make it out of this alive.

A couple minutes later Sicomba, Louise, Elizabeth and loads of other campers filled into the bus and they set off toward New York. Evelyn didn't know what they would find there, but she hoped it wouldn't be bad. Too bad, anyway.

Finally the buses slowed down. Evelyn looked at Louise.

"Thanks for coming." She said.

"I would never betray you guys. My cabin is being stupid. Of course I came." Louise replied.

Evelyn smiled as someone pulled the doors open and they all poured out of the van and onto the sidewalk outside the Empire State Building. Evelyn ran up and hugged Percy. It wasn't very comfortable with all the armor, but she was still happy to see him.

"Okay, now go away, I'm leading an army." He said quietly. She chuckled and backed away to stand next to the others.

Percy told them they needed to convince Zeus to help them.

"Tough chance." Sicomba muttered.

"I know." Evelyn whispered back.

Then they all went into the Empire State Building lobby and after a few minutes and about half of them all shoved themselves into an elevator. Evelyn hummed along to the elevator music: "Stayin' Alive". Moriarty from Sherlock kept popping into her head.

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So, after seeing Olympus, meeting Hestia, Percy having a secret meeting with Hermes, a sweep of the city (Evelyn may or may not have stopped for pizza) and finding out that everyone in Manhattan was asleep, everyone was running off toward all the tunnels in the city to try and stop Kronos. Evelyn wanted to help Percy, but he told her to help wherever needed. She sighed and started running off with Sicomba- who was also on 'wherever help is needed duty'.

Evelyn slowed down when she saw the mass of enemies headed toward them on all sides. She turned and looked at Sicomba.

"This is going to be the worst thing we've ever faced isn't it."

Sicomba hefted his hammer.

"Yep. And Evelyn Jackson, I'm glad to be fighting next to you."

She smiled and together they ran off toward the approaching army.

Author's Note: Sorry it's short… and there's like no content except HOLY CRAP A WAR WE KNEW WAS COMING, WHAT A SHOCK! But I'm trying to make up for being absent so long. I know it's short, but I have to follow the book plot at least a little. I'll try to get through it all in the next chapter so we can get back to the REAL STORY! And get to Leo. Everyone loves Leo.