"Hmm…?" He said and rubbed his chin, like he was asking himself, did I see him fly? Or is everyone trying to mess with me? "Well whatever, I can't fly you and whoever's going, everywhere." I told him.

"The flying chariot's broken," The girl with the red bandana said, "And the pegasi, we're using them to search for Percy. But maybe Hephaestus cabin can help figure out something else to help. With Jake incapacitated, I'm senior camper. I can volunteer for the quest."

She didn't sound enthusiastic.

Well now…It makes sense that a child of Hephaestus would go along. But it would make even more sense for me to go along…But I have my own problems at the moment. A scrawny curly haired kid stood up next to the girl, Leo. "It's me," he said.

His cabin mates stirred. Several tried to pull him back to his seat, but Leo resisted.

"No, it's me. I know it is. I've got an idea for the transportation problem. Let me try. I can fix this!"

Jason studied him for a moment. A brave kid. Then Jason smiled. "We started this together, Leo. Seems only right you come along. You find us a ride, you're in."

"Yes!" Leo pumped his fist.

"It'll be dangerous," The girl with the red bandana warned him. "Hardship, monsters, terrible suffering. Possibly none of you will come back alive."

"Oh." Suddenly Leo didn't look so excited. Then he remembered everyone was watching. "I mean … Oh, cool! Suffering? I love suffering! Let's do this."

Man when people just say suffering is a good thing and they like it, it makes me want to show them how it feels to suffer…Leo, how long will that mask last?

Annabeth nodded. "Then, Jason, you only need to choose the third quest member. The dove—"

"Oh, absolutely!" Drew was on her feet and flashing Jason a smile. "The dove is Aphrodite. Everybody knows that. I am totally yours."

"Blah!" I yelled, everyone looked at me, "Oops…Didn't mean to say that out loud…Listen Drew, I'm pretty sure for a long time you've noticed I just don't like you. But, this is for the sake of the camp, you aren't going on this quest, what can you offer them? I mean you'll just slow them down, seeing as you're miss 'perfect' and can't get your nails dirty. Plus when you're not in the air, you'll be walking, does that really sound like a good time to you?"

Drew hesitated, "W-Well I never liked you either! And I…" She tried to think of something else to say to me, did I go too far? I meant to just call her out, I mean she's been a stuck up…While I was here training, she kept bugging me and then I told her to leave me alone, and that she's…Not pretty and I called her some other stuff, and then she started to call me names and just annoy the hell outta me, man was she annoying.

Drew tried to regain her cool. "Who cares if I don't want to get my hands dirty, I'm still the best one for this quest." Everyone nodded like she just gave a speech to become president. "Please," I snorted, "Give me a better explanation, and then maybe I won't think you're just this helpless little girl."

"Well for one thing…" She bit her bottom lip, "I can fight. And…" She slowly smirked, "I've got charm, meaning, I can be very persuasive. That can help just about anyone out, a lot."

The way she said it made me say, "Alrigh-

What the hell was that? "What did you just do?" I demanded, no one answered, and it was like they didn't even notice. Piper stepped up, "I don't think she's the one who should do this either." Drew looked at Piper angrily. "Oh, please, Dumpster girl. Back off."

"I had the vision of Hera; not you. I have to do this." Piper snapped.

"Anyone can have a vision," Drew said. "You were just at the right place at the right time." The campers started murmuring about how Drew was pretty persuasive. This is really strange and hearing her talk is hurting my head, what is she doing that makes people want to do stuff for her? Even Chiron was scratching his beard, like Drew's participation suddenly made sense to him.

"Well …" Annabeth said. "Given the wording of the prophecy—"

"No!" Piper screamed, which startled me. "I'm supposed to go." She insisted. Again the campers nodded, like this was some debate or something, and both sides were so good that everyone just started to agree with them. "Get over it!" Drew snapped at the crowd. "What can Piper do?"

I really wanted to help her out…But, what can she do? I looked at Piper, apparently she did know either.

"Well," Drew said smugly, "I guess that settles it."

"At least she's not a- I stopped and watched Piper transform from a regular girl to some princess. I wasn't the only one who noticed her sudden change in appearance. The campers gasped, "What?" Piper demanded. She looked above her, but there was no burning symbol like the one that appeared over Leo. Then she looked down and yelped.

What she was wearing was a bit…Revealing, she was wearing a beautiful white sleeveless gown that went down to her ankles, with a V-neck that was a bit low. Delicate gold armbands circled her biceps. An intricate necklace of amber, coral, and gold flowers glittered on her chest, and her hair was perfect: lush and long and chocolate brown, braided with gold ribbons down one side so it fell across her shoulder. She even wore makeup,

"Oh, god," she said. "What's happened?"

A stunned Annabeth pointed at Piper's dagger, which was now oiled and gleaming, hanging at her side on a golden cord. Piper looked like she didn't want to grabbed it, but she had to do it. She unsheathed her knife and stared at her reflection. Her eyes widened, like she was trying to figure out who she was looking at.

"Beautiful," Jason exclaimed. "Piper, you … you're a knockout."

Drew's face was full of horror and revulsion. "No!" she cried. "Not possible!" I was too stunned to feel happy about her not going on the quest. "This isn't me," Piper protested. "I—don't understand."

Chiron folded his front legs and bowed to her, and all the campers followed his example. I did the same, I've never seen a child of Aphrodite, get claimed before. It was amazing.

"Hail, Piper McLean," Chiron announced gravely, as if he were speaking at her funeral. "Daughter of Aphrodite, lady of the doves, goddess of love."

I went over to Piper, "Hey." I said and put us in a black ball. "What are you…"

She looked at everyone, they all looked confused, they were talking, but their voices couldn't reach us, "What is this?" She asked. "My power. I can do many things, I'm sorry for doing this, but I'm pretty sure you don't want everyone to see you like this. Right?"

She blushed, "Yeah...Thanks..." She said shyly.

Just a short chapter today, I might have another one up. This time I'm sure I didn't get anything wrong...Probably, I doubt myself too much :P

Anyway! Thanks for reading! Have a wondeeeful day all!

Rilurz~