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For almost four hours, all we did was talk about the past.

"The last thing I remember," I said, "was Nico carrying Coral and Annabeth out of the cave. Next thing I know, it's fine years in the future and Damian's trying to wake me up while trying to escape the giants."

Annabeth leaned over and grabbed Damian's hand. "That you," She said, "for saving her."

"How were you able to save her?" Percy asked, "There have got to have been at least fifty quests sent out to find her, everyone either came back with no luck or didn't come back at all. Even I went on three of those quests."

"Well finding her was the hard part. When it got really bad at camp I decided to set out. I spent almost an entire year tracking down and following the giants until I got to the top, the most powerful giant. The second part was a piece of cake," to show them what he meant, he set his palm on fire.

"So what happened when Trish woke up?" Frank asked.

"I kind of freaked out a tiny bit," I said as I sheepishly rubbed the back of my neck.

"Yeah, she destroyed the whole pack of giants with a few waves of her hand then grabbed that black sword-,"

"Stygian," I corrected.

"Stygian, from the ice and slashed down the giant who put her in the ice," Damian said.

"Stygian was still there?!" Annabeth asked, surprised.

"Yeah," I said, "I also got καλοσύνη back." I pulled my sword off the chain and held it in my hand.

Percy squinted at my necklace. "What's the other one?" He pointed.

I pulled the black pendant off and Stygian grew to its full size. "Nico already had another sword so guess who got Stygian," I said as I swung it around, smiling.

Percy's face lit up. "We definitely have to spar later."

"Definitely," I laughed.

After a moment of awkward silence, Hazel asked how long we would be staying at Camp Jupiter. "The entire week!" Leo yelled excitedly.

As Leo finished yelling, an IM message shimmered into life in front of Frank and Hazel. I won't get into detail about what they were talking about but it seemed boring.

"Well this has been fun but a preaters work is never done," Frank said as he and Hazel sadly excused themselves from the living room and out the front door.

"Yeah, Leo and I are going to grab a bite to eat, we'll see ya," Calypso said as she dragged Leo out of the house as well.

Percy turned to Annabeth. "Please wise girl," he pleaded, "Can we please spar now."

"Fine, but you're on bath duty tonight," she said, which made me laugh till my stomach hurt.

"What's so funny?" Percy asked.

"I don't know, I just don't see the Hero Of Olympus successfully bathing four kids," I laughed.

Percy just scowled at me in a childish way and stood up. "Welp lets go!"

"Wait, first we want to ask Annabeth something," I said.

"Wait we do?" Damian asked.

"Yes. Annabeth, can we see the book?"

"T-the book?"

"Yes, it's important."

Annabeth stood up and walked over to a bookshelf that was neatly organized on one wall of their living room. She stood on her tippy toes to reach a panel on the wall and pull it off, inside was the book that Annabeth's mother gave me on my first quest. She blew the dust off of it then handed it to me.

"May I ask why you need it?" Annabeth asked as she sat back down on the couch.

"Something Damian's mother told him," was all I said.

I flipped to the Greek translation and handed the book to Damian. "Read," I demanded.

"You can't read it?"

"No, my brain isn't hardwired to read Greek, yours is."

He didn't read out loud but I could tell he had gotten to the part we were looking for when his eyes lit up. "How is that possible?" He muttered.

"What?" Percy asked curiously.

"None of your business seaweed brain," I said.

Damian handed the book back to Annabeth. She rubbed the cover and then placed it in her lap. "After reading this book so many times, I still have no clue what it means. I would give it back to you but I don't think it's safe for you to have it."

"No that's fine, you can get more information out of it than I ever could." And with that Annabeth put the book back away for safekeeping.

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