Poseidon POV

The gods and I walked into the subway, getting ready for school. We had decided to go to Goode, which I had nominated. My choice had been selected.

'Okay,' Athena said, as we stepped on to the train. 'We need incognito names. Think and say, because they will remain our names for a (maybe) long time.'

We fell into thought, as Athena declared her name to be Hermione. Artemis and Aphrodite followed, declaring themselves to be Luna and Angelina at the same time, then looking at each other in surprise. Ares then grunted out his name as Tom, followed by Hephaestus who named himself as Charles. We all smiled at each other sadly, knowing the exact reason why he had named himself that. Then I declared my name. Harry, I had decided. The others looked surprised.

'What?' I asked them. They turned away, and we continued.

Hestia quietly said Lily, and Demeter proclaimed Rose. Hera said Victorie, and Zeus immediately followed with Victor. Hades mumbled Adam, and Hermes and Apollo paraded around, saying Fred and George. Dionysus was the last to name himself. He chose Dakota.

'Hey!' I exclaimed. 'Most of us are named after Harry Potter characters!'

'Take me for example. Harry, after Harry Potter. Zeus was after Victor Krum. Ares, after Voldemort's original name. You know, Tom Riddle. Apollo and Hermes, who are named after Fred and George Weasley. Hera and Demeter, after the two future generations, Victorie and Rose Weasley. Hestia chose herself to be Lily Potter. Athena took after Hermione Granger. Artemis took after Luna Lovegood. And last, Aphrodite went with Angelina Johnson.'

By the time I finished, everyone stared at me in amazement, as if they just realized that particular fact. Athena snapped out of it first.

'Poseidon's right,' she said. 'I didn't realize it. Anyways, we have to decide how old we are. According to Grandmother Rhea, we can choose how old we want to be at High School. So, do you want to be Freshmen? Sophomores? Juniors? Seniors?'

'I think we should go for Juniors. I mean, we look that age,' Zeus suggested. It was the best thing he suggested since he decided to save us from Father (which was around three millennium ago). After all, my son and Athena's – I mean, Hermione's – daughter study as Juniors at Goode, though Ath - Hermione remains unknown about her daughter.

When we reached the school, a girl in a pink dress and pink high heels greeted us.

Annabeth POV

'Argh! This is just not happening!' I plopped onto my bed, groaning. I was surrounded with clothes, as I had emptied my side of the closet.

I wanted a good outfit which I could wear to school on the first day, and I just couldn't find the perfect one.

Thalia waded in through my sea of clothes, and comforted me. Big deal! She looked amazing!

She had on a black skirt with silver stars which she had decided on (she wanted Nico to be surprised), and an electric blue spaghetti top which also had silver glitter on it. She wore a pair of blue flats. Her hair, which she had grown a bit, hung around her face as she wrestled with the knots using a hair brush. Her eyes had her normal black eyeliner, with a bit of blue eye shadow. She had decided on wearing a pair of blue flats All in all, she did not look like normal Thalia, but she looked pretty. Very pretty.

She waded back to the sea which resided on the floor, and might probably engulf any person brave enough to open my bedroom door like a tidal wave. Oh, gods. Now I sound like Percy when he was on a lecture cum rant about water.

Back to the present. Thalia yelled 'Aha!', and emerged, holding something pink and black in her hands. She lay them on the bed and I stared in wonder. She had managed to spot something which I didn't. I swear she has become a daughter of Aphrodite in disguise. I guess it has something to do with dating.

It was a black skirt which was the twin of hers, with a pink spaghetti top with yellow, blue and green glitter on it. Silena had gifted it to me on my sixteenth birthday, saying she knew Percy will start going out with me. My birthday was just a month before Percy's. She also put up a pair of pink flats. (AN – Sorry if they look a bit too girly. They are only dressing up for the first day.)

I gaped at the outfit.

Thalia smirked. She threw the outfit at me and ordered me to change. After I came out, she seemed to be done with her hair. A lock of hair from the left side (for her) was taken to the back and pinned. The rest hung loose.

She turned to my hair and makeup. I had to keep my eyes closed through the whole ordeal, and when she was done, I opened my eyes and gasped. I do put on makeup and wear skirts, but only on dates with Percy.

Thalia had pulled my hair into a high ponytail, and had put on some eyeliner and pink eye shadow for me. I looked almost exactly like Thalia in the outfit and makeup, except her blue was exchanged for my pink.

'Thalia?' I asked her as we were eating breakfast. Susan (my stepmom) had put it on the table, then went to get Bobby and Matthew ready for school. She trusted Thalia and me to be ready and at school on time. 'Isn't Nico just twelve?'

'Oh, that!' She exclaimed and then explained. 'Hades said that he was too young, and changed his age to sixteen. Should have done that before the battle if he wanted Nico to be the Hero, but then again, he found the spell only a week ago, the day before he asked me out.'

'Oh,' I said, turning back to my waffles. As I ate, I wondered how that particular incident went about. Thalia was very secretive about five minutes, I said, 'I think it's time for us to leave. We'll otherwise be late.'

We walked down to Goode, as it was on East 42nd Street, just two blocks away from our home (AN – I made up the place where Goode stands. No need to go to New York and start hunting for it. It says in the book that Goode overlooks the East river, and so does this street).

I had finished my Sophomore year last year (10th Grade for dunderheads who don't know) and we were going to start our Junior year (if you don't know what that is, you seriously need to go to a hospital to check if you have a brain).

'Here we go!' I sighed as we walked into the school and towards two girls, one of them who wore a blue dress, and one who wore red one, both with matching heels.

Edited: 3/4/13