"Parker, get out of bed! Our flight leaves in three hours!" I yelled into Poseidon's cabin.

"Nnnggg" Parker groaned.

"Selena and Luke are expecting us. We can't miss this flight." I said.

"Alright, alright. I'm up." Parker said, rolling out of bed. He walked over to the open door.

"Good, 'cause you're the last one." I teased.

"I get it. I'll be out in five," Parker said. He swung the door shut.

"I'll hold you to that!" I called through the closed door. I laughed as I walked over to the Zeus cabin to bring my bags to Aunt Thalia's tree. Today was an important day. We were flying to Colorado Springs to look for Parker's twin sister, Pearl. She vanished on their eighth birthday and we couldn't find a trace. Until now. Parker had been brainstorming places that she might be based on the skills that would be enhanced by her powers.

"The Olympic Swim Team!" Parker exclaimed.

"What?" I asked.

"Where else would she be! She was always an amazing swimmer. I wouldn't be surprised if she's the top in the nation." Parker said.

"How would we know which girl she is, though? They don't release the list until the end of the school year and it just started." I said.

"That's easy," Parker explained. "Selena and Luke live in Colorado Springs. That's where the Olympic Swim Team practices. Most of them go to the same school too."

"So the nine of us will travel to Colorado Springs and stay with Selena while we try to figure out which member of the Olympic Swim Team is most likely to be Pearl?" I clarified.

"Exactly!" Parker stated.

Here they were, two weeks later. They had cleared everything with Chiron, their parents, and Selena. Luke had somehow predicted that their house would be a possible pit stop for the nine of them, so he'd convinced Selena to design them a house with two sections. One having three bedrooms and two baths, and the other having six bedrooms and three bathrooms. Both had fully equipped kitchens, backyard access, and separate entrances. It was the perfect setup.

"Jared," My older brother Jaden called. "Are you ready to go?"

"Yeah, let's go," I said. I stood and grabbed my bags. We piled into Argus' van and headed to the Long Island Airport. It took roughly twenty minutes, but it felt like hours. We were so close to finding her, I could just feel it.
"I hope your quest is successful," Argus said as we piled out of the van.
"We do too," May said. We said our goodbyes and headed to check-in. Once checked in we waited at the gate until our flight was called.

"How are you feeling?" I asked Parker while we were waiting.

"It's hard to describe. I'm so excited that this could be where Pearl is, but there is also fear. I'm afraid that this isn't it. That I was wrong and I'll never find her. I don't want to get my hopes up, but I also feel like this could be it." He explained.
"I know exactly what you mean," I said, placing a hand on his shoulder.

"Flight 272 is now boarding. Flight 272." We heard over the intercom.

"Let's go," Parker said standing. We grabbed our things and headed over to the gate.

Once we were seated I grabbed out my headphones and started one of the movies I'd downloaded onto my Phone for the Monster Prone, more commonly known as the DemiPhoneâ„¢. Leo Valdez, Carter and Esperanza's dad, had perfected his invention of a Cell Phone that wouldn't attract monsters when used by Demigod's. Don't even ask how he tested it. Believe me. You don't want to know. While the movie was playing my eyelids felt heavier and heavier. Next thing I knew, I was asleep

"Lexi, Bree, we need to go." A girl called. She pried the locker room door open with her foot, hands occupied with pulling her blonde curls back. An ocean patterned gym bag was hanging off her shoulder.

"We're ready." A brunette said, fingering the pink highlights in her hair. The blonde practically sprinted out of the locker rooms.

"Peyton, calm down. Even if we are late, we're excused." Another girl said. She had red hair. Probably a troublemaker.

"Lexi, you know she has a perfect record." The brunette said. From what I've seen, I assumed that she was Bree, the redhead was Lexi, and the blonde was Peyton.

"An excused absence doesn't sully your perfect record. All our teachers know we're on the Olympic Swim Team. It's not our fault we have to come late." Lexi said.

"Yeah, I know." Peyton pouted. "That doesn't mean I like it."

"Hahaha, well as students of The Academy for the Gifted and Talented, we live by the motto, 'Lux In Tenebris Lucet'" Bree said.

"Bree, that isn't even relevant to what we were talking about." Peyton laughed.

"Jared, wake up," Jaden said, shaking my shoulder. "We're landing."

"Okay, thanks," I said, slightly disappointed. Why did I dream about three girls that are going to AGT?

"Fasten your seatbelts, we are now beginning our descent." The intercom rang.