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I do not own the PJO characters. Also this chapter is probably going to be longer as well, we have some good ideas for this one.

We both walked into the Empire State Building side by side. I grumbled when I saw that there was someone new at the front desk. "Why is that a bad thing?" Damian asked.

"Because, the other guy knew who I was and would let me up without an explanation. Now with Zeus even more mad at me, I doubt this guy will even allow me up there," I explained. I decided to give it a shot anyway. I walked up to the front desk and nicely (kinda) asked if we could go up to the 600th floor.

The man squinted at my eyes then back at the desk. "No," was all he said.

"Oh come on," I exclaimed, "it's of great importance!"

"You're still not allowed up miss, he said specifically that young ladies in their twenties with two different colored eyes were not allowed to go up there."

"Seriously," I said as I rolled my eyes. "Come on." I grabbed Damian's hand and pulled him out of the tallest building in New York.

"What are we doing?" He asked.

"Plan B."

"And what is plan B exactly, and should I be scared?"

"I'm taking us up there." I said.

"Wait what!"

Without answering, I grabbed around Damian's waist and lifted us up in the air as fast as I could. Soon enough we neared Olympus, it took us nearly a minute to get up there since it was so far up. I took us right over to the palace and set us down outside the grand doors.

"Next time, can't you just argue with the guy at the front desk?" Damian asked.

"We don't have time to argue, now come on," I pulled Damian into the throne room, and on his throne sat Zeus while my mother sat in her throne beside him. Once the Lord of the cosmos spotted us he slammed his fist up against the arm of his throne.

"I told that man specifically not to let you up here!" He boomed.

"We didn't come up from the elevator," I said, "I brought us up here."

"Great," Zeus muttered.

"Now for one of the reasons I'm up here," I took a deep breath, "I don't want an argument about this, just do what I ask. I need you to call all the Olympian's up here… please."

Zeus raised his eyebrows at the last word. "May I ask why?"

"It's of great importance."

"How do you know you won't just make fun of me in front of everyone?" He asked. "How do I know you won't make a lot of commotion between us gods? Or even kill us?"

"I swear on the river Styx," I said, "I'm only here to discuss a major issue." To be honest, I was terrified that I had just made a promise on the river Styx, but it had to be done.

"Deal," Zeus said. He snapped his fingers and instantly the others Immortals showed up.

They were all confused which caused some chaos, but was all quieted when Zeus cleared his throat. They all stared at him. "We have a… guest," he announced, obviously annoyed.

Then all the Olympians stared at me. Which was very nerve racking, I haven't even met most of these Immortals yet.

"Hey it's the curse one," Apollo said, he hopped off his throne and shrunk down to my size. He walked up to me and I just stared at him. "Nice to meet you," He said, "Heard a bunch about you." Then he whispered, "you really seem to rial up dad."

"Back away from her little brother, you don't know why she's here, she could be here to destroy us," Artemis said as her moon-colored eyes glared at me. Apollo did what she said.

"Hello lady Artemis," I said and gave a small bow. "I am not here to destroy you, but here to make a contract and discuss some things. But first," I said, "I need all Olympian's here."

"But we are all here," Ares said as he counted all twelve.

I cleared my throat bringing his attention back to me, I simply pointed to the empty black, skull cover throne in the far corner.

"He is not allowed up here, it isn't the winter solstice," Zeus said.

"Oh I'm sure he should be up here," I said as I folded my hands in front of me.

"He is not an Olympian," Zeus growled.

"To me he is just as much of an Olympian as any of you are."

Zeus mumbled and growled some more but did what I said. Once more he snapped his fingers and Hades was now sitting in his black throne in the corner. I felt bad that he was in the corner so I simply lifted the throne with the Lord of the underworld still sitting upon it, and moved it to the end of the god's row.

"Thank you child," Hades smiled, it was nice, but also weird to see him smile. I smiled back.

"Now that that's settled," I said, "we need Mithra, or as you know him, Zoroaster. He is the god of contracts isn't he?"

So Zoroaster was summoned and brought to the throne room. "Will you now tell us why?" Athena said.

"I am willing to settle things between us so that we can all fight on the same side." I said, "I will swear on the river Styx that I will never, for any circumstances, harm a single one of you. If… you agree to leave me and Damian alone, and our love life," I said as I looked at Aphrodite and Hera, "you will stop letting Nemesis or any other Immortals come after me. You will be my ally and I yours, we will help each other in anything from redecorating a palace to wars. You can summon me anytime you need something and if it isn't something that puts my life in grave danger and I agree to what I am to be doing, then I will help. I am not allowed to summon you whenever, only when I am on my last breath. I will also keep my promise to Persephone and Hades that I will kill each and every one of the gang of giants who kidnapped me. Finally, you are not allowed to find loopholes that go against anything I just said." As I finished, Athena spoke up.

"And why should we agree to this?" She asked.

"Because of the second reason I'm up here."

"Which is?"

"Tartarus wants me to kill you all." The room began deathly silent. "I do not wish to harm you so that's why I am willing to make this contract with you, to keep you, and me, safe."

I left the throne room to let them discuss this in private. Damian and I went and sat on the stairs that led up to the palace. "That took some guts," Damian said.

"Ya think?" I laughed. I then sighed, "I'd rather it be this way, I was getting tired of arguing with Zeus."

"Yeah, I guess. But why do you have to do any favor for them, I mean they're going to treat you like a slave."

"I'm willing to make that sacrifice for my life," I simply said.

"Well then if you're happy with it, I'm happy with it."

"Thanks," I whispered.

After a few minutes of waiting, we were told to go back inside. As we stepped back up in front of the Immortals, I grabbed Damian's hand.

"She does know that he's supposed to deceive her… right?" Hermes whispered not so quietly.

"Yes we are fully aware of what Damian is going to do," I said.

Hermes went to say something else but Athena shut him up. "We will agree with your terms," she said, "only if you tell us exactly what Tartarus has told you, every single detail."

I nodded my head then continued by telling everything from the day on the battlefield to earlier that morning. After I finished explaining what happened, everyone was quiet except for Demeter who kept shaking her head and mumbling "poor child, she's too young."

"So," I said, "do we have a deal? Do you swear on the river Styx?"

Toroaster brought forth a scroll that had words written in Greek printed on it. I hadn't even seen him write anything on there. He came up to me. "Place your right hand on the contract and swear to the river Styx that you will keep this contract." He said.

I did what he said. "I swear on the river Styx."

"Good."

Then one by one, he went around and did the same with the thirteen Olympian's. (Thirteen because I say so).

After the whole thing was done, I turned to Damian. "I'm going to go talk to your father real quick, I'll be right back," I said.

"Talk about what?" He asked.

"Your least favorite person in the world." I let go of Damian's hand and walked over to Hephaestus.

He didn't see me at first so I waved and said hello. This must have startled him because he gave a little jump. "Sorry, I didn't mean to sneak up on you," I apologized.

"It's quite alright child, this whole thing has just been terrible, we'll probably all be jumpy for a little while."

I smiled. "Anyway, I came over to talk about Damian's mother."

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