Percy cleared his throat and then looked up at the gods, "Does anyone have a glass of water? I've done a lot of talking and my throat is getting dry."

Hestia gave him a glass and then told the room, "How about we take a ten minute break?" A few looked like they wanted to protest, but it was Hestia so they listened.

Percy looked at Annabeth and grabbed her hand, "There are some people I want you to meet."

He had to drag Annabeth to the Roman side of the room where he came upon Frank and Hazel, "Frank, Hazel!"

"Percy!" They replied in unison.

"I'd like you to meet Annabeth, my girlfriend," Giving Annabeth a beaming smile, then looked up at Hazel and Frank. "Annabeth this is Hazel and Frank, they are my fellow questers. Hazel is also a daughter of Pluto so my Roman cousin."

Annabeth gave an inward sigh of relief, when she had seen Percy hug Hazel earlier she had been worried that there was something going on between the two of them, she should have known not to be worried, "So what is your quest?"

The three looked at each other and it was Percy that hesitantly replied, "I don't think I'm allowed to tell you Annabeth," the girl in question looked insulted, the two never kept secrets from each other. "Not because I don't want to but because of the nature of the quest and Frank is leading and it's his choice who we tell."

Annabeth sighed, that made sense she supposed, then she looked up at Percy, "Do you want to introduce me to the other Romans?"

Percy grinned and led her towards Reyna, who looked coolly at Annabeth, "Annabeth, this is Reyna, she's the praetor of Camp Jupiter," He gave Reyna a smile and said to Reyna. "Reyna, this is my girlfriend, Annabeth."

"Ah, yes, Percy has mentioned you," Reyna replied.

"Jason has mentioned you as well, sorry do I know you? You look really familiar," Annabeth said.

Reyna gave a wry smile, while Percy flinched, "We met once about four years ago."

"But that was when we were in the Sea of Monsters-," Annabeth's eyes went wide. "Oh my gods! C.C. Spa! You brushed my hair!" Reyna nodded. "I'm so sorry about your home."

Inwardly Reyna sighed, she knew that Percy and Annabeth didn't mean to destroy her home, "I've somewhat gotten over it ever since Percy came to Camp Jupiter and explained but the same cannot be said of my sister, Hylla."

Percy and Annabeth nodded before Hestia called everyone to attention and turned to the Romans, "Do you mind if Annabeth and I sit here?"

Hazel gave Percy a smile, "You know you're always welcome Percy."

Octavian rolled his eyes and mumbled under his breath, but everyone decided to ignore him, "Okay, let me grab some water and I'll get started."

Percy sat down with the Romans in between Hazel and Annabeth, this confused and slightly upset the Greeks but the gods were happy that the Greeks and Romans were mixing together.

Everyone turned their attention back to Percy as he cleared his throat, "Right, where were we?"

"Just when we were leaving for the quest," Annabeth replied.

"Right," Percy replied. "I packed just a few things, not that it mattered in the end."

"Why wouldn't it have mattered?" Frank asked.

Percy winked, "You'll find out soon enough."

"When I got to the top of Half-Blood Hill to meet with my fellow questers and Chiron, Chiron gave me Riptide," He pulled the pen/sword out of his pocket. "I was confused at first because it looked like a regular pen, but then I remembered it was the sword I used at the museum. Then I got nervous I would lose it, but there's like a charm on it so that it always returns to my pocket."

Leo leaned over to talk to Jason, "Kinda like your coin only it doesn't return to you if you lose it."

Jason nodded

"That was nice because I couldn't count the number of pens I had lost in school." Everyone laughed at that. "Argus drove us to the nearest bus station in New York, the only problem is that when we got on the bus so did three Furies."

Percy's dad leaned over and glared at Hades, "Seriously?"

"It will all make sense in time," Hades said.

"Dad, I understand now why he sent Furies after me, I may not like it, but I understand," Percy sighed. "Anyways, the three of us ended up killing all of the Furies."

Everyone looked at the three of them in awe until Grover put in his input, "He didn't tell you how we did it though," He looked around at the curious faces and then elaborated. "Annabeth had given Percy her Invisibility hat to sneak around the Furies, but we all know Percy, he would never leave a friend behind, so he decided to hit the Emergency break and swerve the bus."

Percy interrupted Grover, "Then Grover started throwing tin cans at them, I ended up slicing one and Annabeth, while piggybacking a Fury, stabbed it in the back."

Everyone looked at the trio with wide eyes, then Annabeth continued, "For some reason we knew that we had to get off the bus quickly and it was a good thing too because not even 30 seconds later the bus exploded because it had been hit by lightning."

The room turned towards Zeus and gave him really? Expressions.

"We walked in a nearby forest for a while, but we had lost all of our supplies because our backpacks had been on the bus," their fellow half-bloods winced. "We were hungry when we suddenly came across a restaurant."

"The smell that the restaurant was emitting seemed to draw Annabeth and Percy in, I told them that I could smell monsters, but did they listen to me, no!" Grover said.

"We were already under the spell," Annabeth tried to explain.

"'You're nose is probably still clogged from the Furies.' She told me," Grover said and then pointed to Percy. "He said that we were orphans that were living with a circus caravan!"

Annabeth and Percy blushed bright red while the rest of the room laughed.

"Right," Percy continued. "Like Annabeth said, the smell that the restaurant emitted put us under a spell to draw us in," He looked around at everyone. "The restaurant was filled with statues, the woman who owned the restaurant said it was a hobby of hers before she offered us dinner."

"We were starving, but it seemed the more we ate the more under a trance we were put. It wasn't until she mentioned that she had two sisters and Grover heard hissing that we realized which monster we were dealing with," Annabeth said.

Everyone was on the edge of their seats as Grover, Annabeth, and Percy said at once, "Medusa."

"What?!" "Seriously?!" "Dude you get the worst monsters."

"Right, so she asked if she could take a photo and that was when we made our move. Grover had a pair of Hermes flying shoes that Luke had given him, so he tried to knock her down, but I had the longest range weapon as all Annabeth had was a dagger. So I let Medusa approach me, since she seemed to like me, wonder why," Percy said sarcastically. "And when she got close enough I chopped her head off."

"Wow!" Most of the half-bloods said.

"What did you do with the head?" Reyna asked. Many gave her curious looks, so she elaborated. "Well the spoil would most likely be the head, wouldn't it?"

Grover, Annabeth, and Percy shared mischievous smiles and then looked up at the gods, some who looked angry and others who were grinning.

"We sent it to Olympus," The trio said in sync.

Dead silence before all the half-bloods said in sync, "You did what!?"

"You seriously have a death wish, don't you?" Hazel asked.

Percy shrugged, "It seemed like the right thing to do at the time, don't think I would do it now or if I did it would be to a specific god."

Everyone rolled their eyes.

"Anyways, we camped outside that night and Grover told me about Pan," Percy turned to Grover. "Dude you freaked me out so badly when you told me that, like I admired that you were determined to look for Pan, but when you said no one had returned, well I didn't want to lose one of my best friends."

He got a smile back, "Sorry."

"It's okay, anyways I had another dream," At this nearly everyone groaned. "I know, anyways this time I was by a dark cliff and a voice from within that was goading me, in the dream I had started moving towards the pit and at first I thought the voice in the pit was pulling me in, but instead the voice in the pit was trying to pull itself out, but then ghosts or something were chanting around me trying to wake me up."

Everyone looked at him for a second before Nico spoke up, "Even I have to say that's a creepy dream and that's saying something."

"Right, well thankfully Annabeth saved the day and woke me up and I was greeted by the oddest sight: a pink poodle."

He looked at his fellow questers as they said at the same time, "Gladiola."

"Poor thing," They looked at him. "The dog was male, pink with the name Gladiola, but was willing to go back to his owners so that we could have the reward money for train tickets west."

"Such a brave soul," Grover said.

"Anyways we caught a train, but we had a stop in St. Louis," Percy smiled at Annabeth. "Annabeth being the architecture genius that she is couldn't be stopped from visiting it even if there was the chance of running into monsters," Percy said.

Percy looked seriously at his audience, "I have been through many experiences, but this one makes my top ten of scariest moments."

Annabeth and Grover scrunched their eyebrows together and everyone else looked shocked, "Why?"

"Because I'm claustrophobic," Percy said to Annabeth who replied, "Ah."

"The elevators were tiny and I just had the urge and need to escape and it didn't help that we were going up so high, because while I'm not totally afraid of heights the air is Zeus' domain and I had already almost been struck by lightning twice," Percy said. "Now can you see why I was freaked out and how it makes my top ten."

Everyone sent him nods and his dad definitely agreed. "So we did the whole tourism thing when the people there tell us they were closing up, the only problem is when we were going to take the elevator down there wasn't room for me," groans could be heard all around the room. "Yeah so I was stuck in the observation deck with a small family, an attendant, and a large woman with her dog."

He looked around to see if anyone noticed anything off about the woman and dog before continuing, "It was then that I noticed that the dog had a forked tongue."

"Forked?" The room echoed.

"The Chihuahua was a Chimaera, while the large woman was Echidna," Percy said. Everyone looked at him shocked, like how-are-you-still-alive shocked until Leo spoke up, "Isn't that a kind of ant-eater?" Everyone laughed at that. "It is, but don't tell her that, she hates it. I did horribly and I made a fatal mistake; when I was slashing the Chimaera's neck it was able to sting me with poison."

Everyone's eyes went wide before Apollo, "no offense meant, but how are you alive?"

"None taken, if I hadn't been a child of Poseidon I would have been," Percy said. "I knew that water healed me, so I jumped off the Arch and into the Mississippi."

The room was quiet for a moment before Athena said, "You do realize that is 630 ft."

"Yes and I almost expecting to hit the water like concrete like I had learned in science, but since I am a son of Poseidon I landed in the water safely," He gave his dad a smile who return in slight because he was slightly freaking out. "When I was in the Mississippi I was visited by a nymph and told that my dad wanted me to go to Santa Monica before I went to the Underworld. Then I met up with Annabeth and Grover to catch our train."

Will looked at Percy, "So you blow torched a national monument?"

"Wasn't the last," Thalia said, hoping no one would, but the whole room did.

"Dam Thalia I had thought you'd forgotten about that," Percy said with a smile.

"Not after how good those dam fries were," Thalia replied.

"Lucky all I had time for was the dam restroom and the dam water fountain," Percy replied before the two cousins looked at each other and cracked up.

The rest of the room besides Grover looked at them like they belonged in an asylum before Grover said, "You'll find out why it's so funny when Percy goes on his third quest."