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Clarisse pulls me forward. "Does that mean the dead are leaving the underworld?" She asks her face inches from mine. Her dark brown eyes are wide with worry.

I sigh and look down at the ground, "Yes," I say rubbing my feet into the ground.

"Do they know where he is? Like is he just refusing to work. or do they truly have any idea?" Mark says stepping forward. His eyes latch onto mine.

It's amazing, after learning a few things about someone that they don't tell anyone, how much you can read them. Now that I can read Mark, he's started trying to read me. Could I tell him? I could maybe.

"We've got to go back to camp half blood and tell Chiron. Clair, go to the airport and get back to new York." Clarisse says and she starts rummaging in her bag. She starts pulling out money.

"Wait…" Mark says stepping forward to set his hand on the money in Clarisse's hand. "Where are we going?"

"Back to your mothers. We'll Iris message Chiron. Then father." She says. I look at her astonished. I'm one of the few who know about Ares and Clarisse's.. Relationship. Its improved since the war, but he still scares the heck out of her.

"OK… but Chiron is going to be confused maybe even angry that Clair came back alone." Mark says looking at me with wide eyes.

"We need to get her back to camp where she's safe fast and I don't think you'll come back if you go alone." Clarisse says glancing around. "Let's make our way out. We'll make final decisions when we get out of here.

So we start making our way back. Past the long fence with good smelling food and laughter. Elysium, that was its name. And in the middle was the Isles of the best.

"Who do you think is in there?" Mark says asking me pointing into Elysium in the direction The Isles might be.

"Romulus, Remus, some random demigods I don't know the name of." I say.

"Romulus lived three lives?" Mark says looking at me weirdly.

"Not necessarily but I think If you build a major city and are the first ruler the gods probably demand that you're there. " I say shrugging. Mark smiles down at me then wraps around an arm around the middle of my back.

Soon enough we're back at the river. Charon he looked at us quizzically, then started to open his mouth. "No, I don't know any more than you do about my father. Now take us to the other side please." I say sternly. He quickly initiated that.

A few minutes later, we're on the other side. Clarisse tosses him three drachma. We walk back up the stair in silence. Clarisse and Mark are probably just anxious to get out from down here. I can't get over the way Hades looks at me.

His cold eyes staring straight into me. Searching me, as if I had the answer to something. He blamed me for my father's disappearance. Am I at fault?

Then we see then bright light of the sun. The bright blue sky with its white fluffy cotton candy clouds. Clarisse and Mark visibly relax.

"Why would you contact your father?" I ask.

"He's the one that found him after Sisyphus captured him. He may be able to help us." Clarisse says, then she shoves about forty dollars in American money at me. Which I take and put into a small purse I have. Then she hands me five drachmas.

"I at least should be back to camp within a month. Get back to camp half-blood as fast as you can. No detours, go straight there. You understand?" She says. I nod.

"We'll message Chiron and our father, you just get back." Mark says. I quickly hug Clarisse.

"I'll meet you around the corner, Mark" She calls as she walks away.

I smile at him before quickly pecking his cheek. "You sure you'll be alright? Clarisse can go with you and.." He starts rambling.

I smile and hug him again. "I'll be fine."

"Okay…" He says looking down at me before pulling me back up and giving me a small kiss. We walk out to a Clarisse together. She smiles slightly at us.

"Here's the map," Clarisse says while handing me the map. "We'll hopefully see you in a few weeks."

Then I hug her again before I go flag down a taxi.

I step in lightly and look at the driver through his mirror. "The airport please," I say. Throughout the whole ride I watch him carefully. Ready to open the door and run. Nothing happens. I pay him and walk inside.

…

I quickly called the grey sisters when I reached New York. Yes silly thing to do but at least I got to camp half-blood without a few run ins with monsters.

Combined with the drachmas Clarisse gave me and my own I had just enough to pay them. Although being a hundred yards from camp might be a little dangerous.

I walked quickly and as quietly as possible. I could have flown but although safer would cause more attention. Will solace and a few other Apollo kids were guarding.

I quickly said something before shooting. "Will, Its Clare!" I yell.

He gestures to his siblings that its okay. I quickly get beyond the border. "You're not supposed to be back for a good three weeks yet. What are you doing back?"

"I'm sure you'll hear of it later. Right now I need to go see Chiron." I say. he nods and I take off running.

I find him at the big house. "Clair? What are you doing back?" He's either pretending not to know or he doesn't know.

"Hades sent me back. My father is missing. Clarisse and Mark are visiting his mother. Have they talked to you yet?"

"They said they took you to the underworld and you would tell me the rest. However we must contact Ares in the meantime.

"They said they would do that. Would it go through with Olympus closed?" I ask looking up at him.

"Maybe if he sensed something was wrong. I would guess he's going to try and contact me, and maybe you to see if you know anything." He says looking around.

Some other campers were mingling around. Hearing bits and pieces of our conversation. "We'll continue this conversation inside," He says putting a hand on my upper back and leading me inside.

We sits me down in a chair. "Listen to me Clair. Whatever took your father. It's causing trouble. Its probably linked to this new prophecy. Whatever it is. It probably wants to cause him pain. Being the god of death he probably doesn't have much that will hurt him. In this case saying that you're his only child . you're in a lot of danger. Stay out of the forest. Don't go out of camp borders. Don't go anywhere alone."

I nod my head. "How do we even know if he cares?" I say.

"He might not, but they probably wouldn't know or care." he says. I nod again.

"That'll be all. I recommend staying with Lacey for a while." He says gesturing to the door.

"Can she come stay in my cabin?" I ask hopefully.

He shrugs, "Why not."

I smile and open the door to go find her. Its about three so she should be in her cabin. I quickly walk to the cabins. I wave to numerous people.

Then I see Annabeth. She's one of the few that know about me going to the underworld other than Lacey and the Ares cabin. When we make eye contact her eyes loss a little bit of hope. Then it's replaced with worry.

She runs up to me. "Why are you back? Where is Clarisse and Mark? Was there trouble." She says quickly looking wide eyed at me.

"Slow down. First off Clarisse and Mark are at his mother's house. Yes there is trouble and then I have to get into the reason. I pause to look at her. She stares at me looking for answers. "My father is missing."

She gasps and her eyes get even wider. "Chiron thinks he's been captured. And that I'm in danger. I wasn't able to find out if Percy was there or not." I finish with sigh.

Annabeth's face falls but she picks herself back up. "Hades would have said something if Percy was dead. This means he probably isn't dead. Yet, it could mean he's with your father." She starts talking nonsense to me at least.

"Well I'll see you around." I say before starting to walk towards the Aphrodite cabin.

"Stay safe." She calls back.

I knock on the door of the cabin. The door opens letting the scent of too much perfume out into the air. Michelle stands there. "Lacey?" He asks and I nod.

He calls into the cabin for her. She appears almost instantly when she hears my name.

"You're not supposed to be back yet." She says.

"We'll talk about it in my cabin." I say smiling and grabbing her arm. Its nice to be back in a place I can call home.

I quickly lead her to my cabin. I open the door and find that its different but the same also. Chiron finally got the three other beds for the room. My bed is the same along with the dresser.

I sit down on my bed and Lacey sits down on the bed across from mine a few feet away. I explain to her everything. She freaks out. An hour before dinner she leaves to get her stuff.

I explain to the whole camp at camp fire the situation. And by that time, I'm tired of telling this story. So by the time Lacey allows me to go to sleep. With hair in braids, I'm exhausted.

I quickly fall asleep but then the dreams start. Just like they annually do every year. Terrifying dreams that have me shivering.

Every Phobia is connected to death. The fear of falling is the fear of falling to your death or getting hurt because of falling. I realize it now that death itself I'm not afraid of. It's death himself I'm afraid of. My phobias include being left completely alone. Which has happened. Family disappearing and all. That and betrayal are the big two. Which both have happened to me.

On the subject of dreams though. They're awful and you can guess how randomly related they are.

Hope you liked it. Don't forget to review. Still open to suggestions. See you soon.- Tyme