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"Bianca! I thought you were gone!" Nico cried as he ran to embrace his sister. I was thinking to myself the exact same thing. Bianca looked ragged and wan, as if she had walked from the junkyard of the gods to Camp Half-Blood, fending off monsters all the while.

"The prophecy said I would be lost. Not necessarily dead." She said in a manner of explanation, to Nico. Then she noticed me. She smiled at me and continued talking to Nico. "If it weren't for Percy, the whole company of five sent to rescue Artemis would have been destroyed by a defective Talos." She said to Nico.

"Talos?" Nico's eyes went wide. "You mean Hephaestus' giant robot?"

"Yes," she said. "Percy found the weak spot."

By now I had walked up to her. "Bianca, how'd you survive? I thought you'd be crushed and/or suffocated in the rubble!"

She smiled warmly. "I was."

Huh? My mouth dropped open.

"Hades gave me a second chance, considering that I'm his daughter." Now it was Nico's mouth that fell open.

"Wh-what? We're Hades' kids?" Nico stammered.

I cut in. "Hades let you come back? I've never seen that side of him."

"Yes, I was lucky," she said impatiently. "Persephone was there, and persuaded him to give me another chance."

Hades cut her some slack! Maybe, just maybe he'll do the same for me!

"Yes, we're Hades' children." Bianca said to Nico, as if I had never interrupted. "And what's more, I have this." She held out a plastic figure that I recognized, the one I had tried to present to Nico before, but failed.

A plastic replica of Hades. Tears welled in Nico's eyes as he took it and stuffed it into his pocket. "Bianca, I'm sorry."

She raised her eyebrows. "Sorry? For what?"

"I joined Kronos," he said. "And I was this close to just killing Percy."

"Now I see my mistake," he continued. "It wasn't Percy's fault after all."

He adopted an expression of concentration, and a rift appeared in the ground. He tossed the two halves of Backbiter into the rift, and with a wave of his hand, closed the rift. Instantly the features Kronos' presence had given him vanished.

"Percy! What happened?" A voice cried out in the distance. It was Thalia. She did a double take when she saw Bianca. "Bianca! How-?"

"I'll explain," she said tiredly. She and Thalia walked off in deep conversation, leaving Nico and I alone.

"Well…" he began awkwardly.

"Don't worry about it." I said gruffly, and headed for my cabin. Once I was there, I splashed some water on my right arm. It began to knit. I lay on my bed, exhausted. As soon as I did, I slid into sleep.

I had weird dreams. As always. This time, I was dreaming of an invisible person typing. I leaned closer to see what he was writing. It was a story of Annabeth and I. Apparently she had inadvertently crawled into my bed. Aphrodite was watching us on her TV. Athena saw and beat the crap out of her. I woke with a start, missing Annabeth even more than before.

It was morning already. "Get up," Thalia snapped. She was standing over me. "Everybody's talking about how you fought Nico and that Bianca showed up. I Iris-messaged Artemis to tell her about Bianca."

I crawled out of bed, immediately stepping on my pack. Ouch. We were all ready to leave on our quest, but Bianca's arrival delayed us slightly. I walked to the pavilion and we began to eat. Nico sat at my table, since there was no Hades table.

I saw Nico eyeing Silena Beauregard with interest. She noticed.

I grimaced. This wasn't going to end well.

I tossed a bit of food into the fire, murmured "Poseidon" and resumed eating. Chiron walked up to me, saying, "You and your company will be leaving after Artemis picks up Bianca from camp. We will not be playing our customary game of capture the flag with the Hunters, because they're not coming."

A couple of halfhearted cheers rose from the people who had heard. No one could beat the Hunters. I finished my dinner hastily and went to the beach. I paced before the calm sea, thinking about the quest.

I need to save her, I thought. Life is pointless without her…

"Oh, I wouldn't go that far," A female voice said behind me. It was Artemis. "So, Bianca's back?"

"Oh yes," I said. "Hades gave her a second chance."

She nodded, and walked away. I sat at the sea for a few more minutes, and then headed back to camp.

Artemis was talking to Chiron. I couldn't hear what they were saying, but I knew that they were talking about, Bianca.

Artemis finished her conversation with Chiron and walked into the woods and disappeared. I guess she had already taken Bianca to the Hunters.

Chiron came to me. "You will be leaving on your quest today. I suggest you tell the members of your group."

I did as he said, and gathered together Thalia, Tyson, and Grover. I told them how much it meant to me that we would rescue Annabeth, and for once I didn't notice the tears running down my cheeks. They probably did, though.

Night came on quickly. I readied my pack, as did the rest of the group. I noticed that Thalia had packed her iPod. "Of all the necessary things you could've packed, you brought an iPod?" I asked her.

She retorted, "Hey, it's light. What if we get bored?"

I decided not to answer that. I had only one thing on my mind as Thalia, Tyson, Grover, and I walked up Half-Blood Hill. Annabeth was gone. But there was hope.

We took a taxi to the airport, and strode over to the clerk. "I need to get to Los Angeles, fast."

The clerk replied skeptically, "You have money to pay for it?"

I showed her the copious amount of money I held. She said, "Fastest trip to L. A. leaves in fifteen minutes. "She took the money out of my hand, measured out an amount, and handed it back to me.

We ran to the terminal to find that we were just in time. I boarded the plane with a sense of uneasiness. Zeus wouldn't blast me out of the sky, would he? I had his daughter with me!

Thalia was even worse than I was. She sat in the seat next to me, her knuckles white from clenching the armrests. "Don't worry about it. Zeus is your father. He won't let you fall from a plane!"

"Shut…up." She said. Apparently I had scared her even more. The plane took off with a jolt. The next time Thalia opened her eyes, we were cruising above the black clouds. Wait, black clouds? Lightning began to flash around us, but Thalia and me were the only ones who seemed to notice it. Grover and Tyson were asleep. The other passengers didn't notice, either.

A bolt of jagged lightning struck the left wing, the one I was sitting right next to. Thalia screamed. I didn't blame her. I closed my eyes, waiting for the crash. Nothing happened.

I couldn't help it. I opened my eyes. A hole had been blown in the plane, and the air pressure was sucking us out. Curiously, only our company was the only ones who the air pressure was sucking out.

Grover had awoken, and was yelling something I couldn't hear. Tyson was still asleep. Everyone else acted as if we were still gliding above white, peaceful clouds. Mist, I thought. This was a god's doing. I closed my eyes again. We were going to die.

I felt a falling sensation in my stomach. I opened my eyes again. Me, Thalia, Grover, and Tyson were falling from fifteen hundred feet. Tyson was still asleep. Thalia was screaming her head off. I couldn't hear what Grover was saying due to the rush of air accompanying us.

We were doomed.

Hahahahaha! I love cliffies! Reviews I appreciate. Ideas are welcome. Feel free to complain about my cliffies, because I will read your complaints. Too bad I won't particularly listen to them…By the way, the dream is a reference to my oneshot, Aphrodite's dream come true.