"The prophecy." Chiron announced. Great. I most definitely had not been looking forward to this. I scowled as Chiron continued.

"Rachel, would you mind coming up here and reciting the prophecy."

"Sure." A voice piped up from the middle of the crowd. Rachel stood up and made her way to the front. She cleared her throat and spoke.

"Gone is the veil that covers the eyes,

Four must go to the mountain of lies,

Darkness, Light, son of thieves and the One,

Shall unleash Magic from bonds hot as the sun,

A traitor within, known by many and more,

Will free the father of the second war."

"Thank you. Rachel. You may sit." Chiron told her. She went back to her spot and sat. "Now, Nala, you said that you understand the prophecy? Can you come explain it to us?"

"Of course Chiron." Nala got up from her seat next to me and walked over next to Chiron, in front of everyone.

"The first line, gone is the veil that covers the eyes, is about the Mist. Most likely about it dissolving or something. Anyway, I'm not sure about the mountain of lies, but Darkness, Light, son of thieves and the One, that's pretty obvious. Will, Nico, Aris and I will go on the que-"

"Hold on!" We all turned to the back row. Rev had gotten over the shock of Will's song and interrupted her. "How do you know that Nico is going." He said my name like it was poison. I sent a scowl his way. "I can be pretty dark. I should go." He continued. Nala then spoke, her voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Ha ha ha, no. You're wearing a bright orange camp shirt with neon green jeans and bright white high tops." It was true. I hadn't noticed that before. "Could you be any more bright... or Aphrodite for that matter? You are the opposite of dark, so just zip up your mouth and let me talk!" Nala practically hissed the last part.

"OH SNAP!" Travis yelled out. Everyone laughed. Nala looked pleased with herself. I was just kind of zoning out. My eyes were half closed. Chiron was stomping his hoof to try and restore order when I was snapped out of my 'la la' land by Will's head landing on my shoulder. My eyes snapped open. I kept my head still and looked at Will with my eyes. His eyes were half closed.

"Do... do you mind?" He asked sounding tired. My face was flaming. He was basically asking to sleep on me.

"Why don't we go to my cabin?" I suggested.

"Kay." He yawned. We quietly got up and walked to my cabin. I would just have Nala fill me in later.

On our way there, when we were just at the edge of the crowd surrounding the campfire, I heard some girls giggle. I looked back to see a group of Aphrodite girls. They were giggling and looking in our direction. Will, completely oblivious to me stopping, had kept on going, but their eyes weren't following him.

They were looking straight at me.

They finally seemed to notice me looking at them because they just giggled some more and waved at me. I remembered what Nala told me, about me being popular and all. I decided to turn and jog back up to Will, thoroughly creeped out.

When we got to the cabin Will plopped down onto a spare bed. I stood at the door.

"Do you mind if I stay the night?" Will asked.

"S-sure" I replied, cursing myself for stuttering.

"Good night." He said. He kicked off his shoes and got under the covers. I watched him as his breathing evened out. A tell tale sign that he was asleep.

I sighed and sat on my bed. My mind drifted back to the day when Nala blackmailed me into singing.

Nala walked through the door. She had just come back from getting her stuff from the Hermes cabin. She still lookedannoyed from the Aphrodite 'blessing'.

"Hey," She started, "you wanna try something?"

"What?" I asked.

"Shadow Traveling. I'll help of course. I just want to get my books and some other... personal things."

"Um.. sure."

We ended up going to her house. She helped me as promised. She even left a note explaining everything for her mom and sister. When we got back, we had a serious talk.

"Nico," Nala began, "I'm going to blackmail you, but think of it like, constructive blackmailing."

I stared at her, my mouth agape. I finally spoke.

"What the fu-"

"Language!"

"-dge... I was going to say fudge."

"No you weren't."

"No I wasn't." I agree. "Anyway, what's constructive blackmailing? There is no such thing.

"Sure there is. I tell you to do something and if you don't then I blackmail you. The thing is, the thing I make you do will help you. See? Constructive."

"What are you going to make me so?"

"Well, Nico my dear, you will sing in frontof the whole camp." She then explained the spell on Will. She had a feeling Will and Rev weren't right together and did a little digging with the Aphrodite cabin. She told me her findings.

"There is no way I'm going to sing in frontof everyone." I said when she was done

"Well... I could just tell the camp you have a crush on Will."

"I-I don't... how do you...?"

"I know everything. Now you gonna sing?"

I gave in.

"What do I have to do?"

"Well..." She told me what I had to do. We finally went to bed about half an hour later.

I sighed at the memory and walked to my dresser. I changed into some night cloths. I then walked over to Will's bed. I moved some hair out of his forehead and put it behind his ear. He had told me good night before I slipped down memory lane.

"Good night Will." I leaned down and placed a soft kiss on his forehead. I walked to my bed and fell into a peaceful sleep.

~Nala~

I spotted Nico and Will get up and leave as Chiron continued to try to restore order. I smirked to myself. That's fine. I'll just fill them in later. Chiron seemed to be having a hard time. I decided to help him.

"HEY EVERYONE! NEXT PERSON TO TALK WASHES DISHES FOR A MONTH! SO UNLESS YOU WANT TO DO THAT, I SUGGEST YOU SHUT UP!" I shouted. It went dead quiet. "Thank you." I said, laughing in my head about how gullible they were.

"Now," I continued, "as I was saying, Nico, Will, Aris and I will go on the quest. The other lines we can figure out during the quest. We need to figure out where to go first."

"Perhaps I can help with that." A female voice said behind me. Everyone gasped. I slowly turned around. I took in the goddess before me. I spoke.

"Um... I'm gonna take a wild guess and say your... Per... no... aha! Demeter!" By the look on her face, I'd say I got it right.

Oh great. I thought. The Queen of Wheat is here to help.

Luckily, I didn't say that out loud. Demeter spoke,

"That is correct. A fellow goddess has been captured. I believe it has something to do with your quest. I really shouldn't be telling you this, you know Zeus, but I owe her a great debt. She helped me find something precious to me. The first place you need to go, is in an almost inescapable place. The son of Hades will not like this place. I hope that helped a little. One more thing. You must be wondering who the traitor is. All I can tell you that they are the child of-" The sky rumbled. "Zeus has noticed my absence. I must be going now. Good night, and tell Mico, I mean, Nico to eat more cereal."

"Wait!" I cried. "Why are you helping us? Aren't you not aloud to interfere with quests and stuff?"

"As I said before. I owe the goddess a great debt." She started glowing and we all averted our eyes. When I looked up again, she was gone.

"Well," Chiron said, "you should leave in the morning after talking with Nico and Will, but first, Aris, son of Hermes, do you accept this quest?"

I looked at Aris with pleading eyes.

"Y-yes sir. I-I do." Aris said. I rolled my eyes at the word 'sir'.

"Good." Chiron announced. "You leave in the morning. Everyone should now get to their cabins for a good night's sleep. Good night." With that, we left for our cabins. It was going to be a big day tomorrow.