A/N: This chapter was one of the funniest to write. I hope you'll also like it.

Chapter 4: In which there are plans and scams

Since we didn't need to pay for the motel room anymore, we had more money to spend. At our new home we had running water and electricity that for some reason weren't billed. Not that I complained. It no post was carried here, less chance of mortal finding us. Kuroto decided to stay with us though. He could also turn into a motorcycle when needed which was quite cool in my opinion. We could go city and back in a matter of minutes and trusted Kuroto not to his any trees on the way.

All the while though we made plans for the immediate future. Once I got a computer for myself I made us bank accounts with enough money for Luna to go to Yancy Academy. She stated that she wanted to go there for a year, fail, and repeat the class so she'd be next year on the same class with Percy Jackson. I didn't question it. She probably just wanted to go to Chiron's Latin classes. I in the other hand was to go to Camp Half-Blood next month, keep my head down so I wouldn't be claimed. That was easy enough though… And then run away on the summer right before the summer session ended. Just to mess up with people.

We also managed to find the next stone for Luna. It was a rose quartz and named Beauty of Love. Naturally it was Aphrodite's but despite its name it only allowed to change the wearer's appearance and had nothing to with actual love. It was found from a pawn shop at relatively cheap price, not that they'd bought it. Thalassa had been so thrilled about the stone so much that she'd swiped it from the window and promptly changed into more comfortable look as soon as she'd exited the shop.

Thieving didn't stop. Oh, not at all. We broke into a museum to get a sort of a bracelet and belt for Luna to hold her stones. The bracelet had room for only three stones while the belt had places for twelve. Both were made for silver though. I also to a bracelet with places to four stones. Luna stated that she'd probably give me some useful stones.

And of course we didn't stop stealing wallets. It was fun. Weaving through the crowds and flitching the leather books left and right. Open handbags and back pockets of jeans just craved being emptied. Maybe it was the adrenaline talking. With me being a demigod and Thalassa being a clepto were explanation enough. And one night we did our stupidest and greatest gig.

It was surprisingly simple trick that Luna had seen on television years ago. It needed two people, a pair of escalators and a victim wearing his wallet in a back pocket. We found the escalators from a subway. I was at the bottom of them, leaning casually against the wall and scanning the crowd. I could see Thalassa at the top of them, reading a newspaper but still keeping an eye on me. I turned my eyes back to the people milling about and… bingo. I had my target.

The target was quite a muscular man with ragged jeans and a black leather jacket. He had that bad boy/motorcyclist look on him and on hindsight I probably should've stayed far away from him. I put my head phones over my ears and tugged my cap deeper in my head to cover the upper part of my face and walked after the man. I made sure no one went between as we boarded the escalator and I 'stumbled' to him.

"Sorry." I muttered, taking a miniature step back.

"You better be, punk." The man growled at me. I just bowed my head to hide my smile. The little collision had been just enough for me to tug the wallet halfway out of his pocket. I waited until Thalassa, who was taking the escalator down with her newspaper still open, was in the right place and with a smooth flick of a wrist I sent the wallet flying to her. She caught the thick leather wallet with the newspaper which she folded neatly then and put into her shoulder bag. The deed was done and the man in front of me had noticed nothing.

At the top of the escalators I waited until the man was out of sight before heading to the alley where Kuroto was waiting for Luna and I. Once there I didn't need to wait for long until the faintly shimmering form of my sister walked to us. She pocketed Aphrodite's Stone and we climbed the water horse.

"We probably shouldn't have taken that wallet." I told Luna. She shrugged and hugged me tighter. We had agreed that I'd ride on the front since I had more experience on horses.

"Probably not." She agreed. "But what's done is done."

"True."

"'All is fair in love and war except love in war and war in love.'" She quoted.

"Yet they date each other." I couldn't help but commenting. Luna snickered.

I let out a low whistle while counting the money from Ares' wallet. With this alone we could pay Luna's schooling for two years. And there were also several golden drachmas.

"We are you thinking about going to school?" I asked my sister who was lounging on her stomach next to me and reading a library book.

"Hmm… A bit before you are going to camp Half-Blood. I need you masquerading as my father after all." She replied and finally deigned to look up from her book. Her eyes widened at the amount of money in stacks in front of her. "Where did you get all that?"

"From the wallet." I answered. "It's almost empty now."

"Bigger on the inside?"

"Bigger on the inside."

"What's left in there?"

"Umm…" I peeked into the wallet and pulled a face. "You really don't want to know."

"C'mon, it can't be anything that bad."

"It isn't something to put into a wallet." I told her. Luna sat up and extended her hand towards me, silently telling to hand over the leather book. "You really, really, don't want to know."

My sister just silently stared at me. I sighed and tossed over the wallet. What else could I've done? She took a look inside and let out a string of curses before dumping the item out and atop of the money. We stared in together and with matching disgusted looks at the pink lacy string. TMI-warning.

"Why the hell does he have his girlfriend's underwear in his wallet?" Luna spoke, gingerly picking the garment (if you could actually call it one) with a pen and going to dump it in the dumpster.

"Who says it's-…" I began with a grin even though the idea itself repulsed me.

"Don't you dare finish that thought!" Luna yelled. "Keep your guttermind away from me." She growled once emerging from the kitchen.

"Okay, I'm in dire need of brain bleach myself now…" I muttered. "Or a stiff drink."

"We are underage. We can't drink. And brain bleach doesn't exist. At least not in mortal stores."

"Pity."

"And you better clean that wallet properly before using it to store anything else."

"Yeah, yeah…" Why my sister had to be so bossy?

That night I dreamt. I think it was a demigod dream. Those that are warnings of actually happening at the same moment. I think this was the latter type.

I dreamt falling through clouds. My eyes were just barely open to see the blue sky above me and the white puffs skidding past. And then my fall stopped. I found myself lying on marble floor. It was bright around me so I just let my eyes rest. The stop itself hadn't hurt me at all.

So I just laid there, listening what was going on around me. Or rather next to me. All the voices were coming from only one direction.

"I'm telling you, I did not lose my wallet!" A male voice growled. That one sentence told me clearly who was talking and where I was. This would be interesting to hear.

"Are you certain? You have been losing some other things lately too." A woman's voice drawled before scoffing, "Men…" Well, that cleared her identity.

"Basically Ares is saying that his wallet got stolen then? Maybe it was one of your kids Hermes." Another woman spoke. I threw in a vague guess that she was Athena. She spoke quite strictly though with faint amusement towards the war god's situation.

"Nah, I doubt it. What little I've been keeping an eye on them, they are either at the Camp or then at school. Or alternatively too young to walk alone." The messenger replied with a clear grin heard from his voice.

"Hey, Ares, do you know any situation where it could been stolen? You said you noticed it missing once here and the last time you needed it was hours ago." Another male voice, relatively young, spoke. This one seemed to be closest to me. I was quite sure he was Apollo since the other people in the room seemed to be Olympians but of the younger generation.

"The idiot could probably lose his own head if it weren't attached to his shoulders…" Three guesses who that was… One guess what will be the insult coming next…

"Shut up, cripple!" Bingo. "There was a bunch of mortals around as always. I don't get how they can use those cave trains daily…"

"So you used a subway then." Hermes concluded. "Those places are quite ideal for pickpockets…"

"You would know…" Athena sighed.

"Did someone bump into you there? That's quite a common tactic." Artemis asked then. Maybe she and her hunters had been using the subway once or twice. Or not. The amount of people and drunks and men would lead several people injured or dead. It was one's own choice which one of the two was worse. I'd peg for the former one.

"…" Silence reigned the room as Ares thought. Actually thought. Which was quite surprising itself. "That little punk…" He growled then.

"Oh, so someone did steal your wallet. Without you noticing it that is." Apollo grinned. Now I decided to open my eyes and sit up. The six Olympians were sitting in a loose circle. The order was Apollo, Hermes, Hephaestus, Athena, Ares, and Artemis with Apollo sitting his back towards me. I was practically hiding behind the music god's chair. Apparently my currently smaller size of thirteen year old was quite handy. They all were human sized thankfully and wearing more or less ancient Greek influence clothing with some differences naturally. The five of them were trading amused looks between themselves while Ares was fuming. Which meant the explosion was a-coming.

That is if I hadn't chosen that moment to peek around Mr. Sunshine and get Athena notice me.

"And who are you?" The wisdom goddess asked me sternly. Everyone's attention was on me. And Mr. Short-fuse was at the end of that fuse.

"You…"

"Oh, hello to you too." I waved cheerily. "I gotta say… This is quite interesting of a dream."

"You took my wallet…" Ares growled while I got on my feet and dug my hands into the pockets of my sweatpants.

"I might've." I grinned. "But the money is going to good use."

"You said this is a dream for you…" Artemis was frowning at me. I glanced at her, keeping the smile on my face before shrugging.

"Well, yeah… I went to sleep, then fall through clouds, land on the floor without any pain and see all of you. What else could this be?" I stated and brought my hand in front of my face. "Not to mention that I'm still in my night wear (sweatpants and t-shirt) and quite see-through to boot… Interesting concept though, being see-through that is. I can vaguely see what is on the other side of my hand but I can't see what's inside my hand even though it's not consisted of one piece but skin and muscles and bones… But I look quite pasty anyways." I tugged a strand of my hair in front my eyes. It was about the same color than Luna's, not the saturation upped version anymore but toned down. It was quite a relief.

"You're a demigod then." Athena stated while keeping me under scrutiny.

"That's what my sister tells me." I answered easily. Hmm, I wonder what all I could do in this dream of mine. Dreams are figments of imagination after all. "I'm not at the Camp yet though."

"But you are going." The goddess continued.

"Yeah. In a few weeks I guess. It's not like I'm going to school at the moment." I flicked my fingers and a golden drachma plopped on my left palm. It was like me, not quite there and dimmer of color. I let the coin roll across my fingers before flicking back up. I let it fall and disappear right before hitting the floor.

"Hey, you said you are going to use Ares' money for something good, what is it?" Hermes asked eagerly then.

"It's for my sister and her school. We've been collecting for a while and that wallet was such a jackpot. Bigger on the inside even. Though the last surprise in there was quite nasty." I shuddered.

"Do I want to know?" This time – surprisingly – it was Hephaestus who spoke.

"You really don't. Though I think you can make a valid guess about the matter." The face I made was probably enough of an answer to him. I wonder if they could read my thoughts even though I wasn't physically there with them.

"You little punk… I swear I'll track you down and make you suffer…" Ares growled.

"You are welcome to try." I challenged. Stupid move, yeah, but it was just so fun to see him so riled up. "I'm pretty well hidden." And with those words of goodbye I woke up.

A day before we were to enroll Luna to Yancy Academy was relaxing. Sort of. Luna had strewn her things all around our second living room which was of western style. And those things were clothes and other personal stuff like that. No, she'd packed those ages ago. These stuff in the other hand were papers and maps and books. Lots of scientific text. She had a project. She wanted to prove that at least some of the science she'd learn at school applied and not everything revolved around gods. I wished her luck, she'd need it. Especially since she was practically tearing herself apart to hold onto what she'd believed in her whole life. She'd studied biology, geography and history. And about everything about them could be countered with the actions of gods and goddesses.

"I met the girl scouts today." Luna stated suddenly from where she was reading an astrology book. One of the few that didn't cause her a headache. "I was around New Jersey with Kuroto."

"Did you piss them off?" I asked back while glancing at the music notes in front of me. It was some Disney song Luna had copied for me. The movie was Pocahontas if I remembered correctly.

"Yeah. I told them a fact."

"Science fact?"

"Yes…" There was hesitation in her voice.

"What fact was it?"

"Moon doesn't shine but reflects sunlight. Without the sun we wouldn't be able to see the moon."

"Ouch."

"Indeed."

"But I guess we don't need to expect them to appear on our doorstep to sell cookies."

"Definitely not. Especially after I told them they act like their physical age and are discriminating androphobics."

"Androphobic? Doesn't that mean to have fear of men?" I asked curiously.

"Yeah. That't what they are basically, right? Their mental state is frozen to what it was when they took the oath, probably quite soon after some man wronged them somehow. Intense fear turned into intense hatred but otherwise during those centuries they have been alive they have never been actually get over from whatever happened to them. Pity them. To protect their own minds they are living in the delusion that women are better than men. I understand it now." Luna shifted on her seat and gazed out of the window. "They haven't had a chance to actually talk about what happened to them. It's good that they have each other to hold on to but in the end they just fuel each other's hatred when they hear what men have done. They see only the negative side of things. What they all need is a good example of male species and maybe a couple of dozen sessions with a good psychiatrist. That is if they are still salvageable."

"You are right. But I think they all are too far lost and blinded to see anything outside what they've experienced and hear. They won't believe that not everyone is the same." I told my sister while studying her expression. "You want to help them."

"In a way yes. At first I thought they'd just be something I could laugh at and think to never become… But now I know they are just lost little girl's flocking around their savior who shields them from further truth. I still stand on what I said earlier about them but now I see the other side of them too."

"How do you think you can help them if you made them hate you?"

"I don't know. Just like I can't accept the way the existence of gods are twisting the fact of life."

We fell into silence which was surprisingly comfortable. That was how we spent the last day together.

A/N: And done. Here wasn't much to explain... At least I didn't find anything. You are welcome to ask me though if you find something. And pairings are still open btw... I do have some ideas of my own but I'd like to hear you suggestions too. And reviews otherwise are welcome too. Just saying...