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Hera went to say something but I didn't let her. "Just get out!" I yelled.

With a huff, Hera disappeared. I let out a sigh and turned back to Damian. "Sorry," I said. I walked back over to the bed and we continued to eat in silence.

"So, did anything happen when I was asleep?" Damian asked, trying to break the ice.

"Well, Nico gave me Stygian… oh and Leo invited us to go on a trip to Camp Jupiter with him and Calypso."

"Nice, when?"

"In two weeks he said, we're taking a train because Cal wants to see nature, or that's at least what he said."

Those two weeks couldn't go by fast enough. In a few days Damian was back to complete health and Nico and I started our training again. Leo had made Stygian into a pendant that went on my previous necklace that also hung καλοσύνη. Ever so often, I could see Eliza from the corner of my eye, but when I would turn his direction, it was as if he wasn't even there. The weirdest part of those two weeks was that there were no monster attacks, not even a stray hellhound.

"Concentrate Trish!" Nico yelled. His new black sword clanked against my two swords. The exercise we were trying was, Nico attacks me at random while I try to use my mind to control my curse. In this case, hold a shield up in the air to block with.

"You try and do this!" I yelled. I dropped concentration which made me drop my shield, which let Nico advance in on me, knocking me to the ground and pointing his sword at my chest.

"Come on, you need to learn to use both your hands to fight, as well as use your curse." He said as he helped me off my feet.

"Well I've never tried to control my curse with just my mind before, it just gets all over the place and it's hard to control."

"I think you did pretty good," Damian said as he handed me some water.

"Thanks," I took a long sip of water, "but you always say that."

"Yeah, and aren't you supposed to be at the lava tower?" Nico asked.

"Yeah, so."

"You're going to get in trouble if you get caught." Nico said.

"I'll deal with being caught when I actually am."

"Yeah plus when have you ever cared about breaking the rules?" I asked Nico.

"I don't, I was just wondering. Anyway, let's get back to training."

Finally the day came when we had to leave for Camp Jupiter. Leo said that it would take us five days to get to Camp.

"You ready?" Leo asked me, Coral and Damian.

"Yes Leo, you already asked us at least three times already," I said.

"Okay, So Cal is going to meet us at the train station, and Argus is driving us." Leo explained.

Once we had all filled into one of the camp's vans, we were off.

Thanks for reading! Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. Stay safe!

-Lou Ellen and my mysterious friend