A/N: Sorry, I've been playing Divinity II and I am a procrastinator. At first this wasn't getting reviews so I just figure no one was interested. Needlessly I was shocked to see some more added since logging back into this account. I use another to reviews only because I don't want people think that if I review their work they must review mine. I over think things sometimes. I appreciate the reviews this has gotten, all were wonderful and motivating that I took time to write up something right away...well right away for me is now...you know, procrastinator here. Nico will be joining the party but not in this chapter. Since I'm writing blindly, I cannot say that if he will be in the next one either BUT he will be in the story. Something is starting to unfold in my mind as I speak so yes, I think he shall appear in the next or two chapters from now. When will that be posted? Well I do not know...I still got a few goblins to kill in Divinity and I am so caught up in reading a James Potter fanfiction...but yea. Okay so on with the story. Oh and for some odd reason I kept typing 'Annabether' so if you see that, yep I done it.


Still at Camp (much to the displeasure of Thalia)

Thalia wanted to start off on the quest at that very moment. It is her nature to just go for it. Get it done and over with. Be quick and alert and all would be fine.

Percy is more like water, just going with the flow of things. If they started off now, he was okay with that. If they started out tomorrow, well that was okay as well. Sleep was always a good thing at any rate.

Tyson held the same opinion as his brother and that was sleep being good. Being a very caring Cyclopes though, he sympathized very easily with Thalia and hurried off to pack his necessaries of a jar of peanut butter, water, nectar and bandages for his brother. Percy was always getting wounded and as his brother, Tyson felt he should pack prepared.

Annabeth however was the one that dug her feet in the ground, holding the rest back from going out there and then. She wanted to do a bit more digging into their quest and that would be best done in the morning. Though Thalia did not want the Aphrodite lot to know about her 'condition', Annabeth was sure they could get useful information out of the family without anyone being the wiser. Then there was speaking to the nymphs in the woods, it probably would be a better time in the morning when the sun was just starting to lift then at night as it being their preference.

So it was in the brightness of the damp morning that the little band of noble campers started off on their great adventure. The mood was a mixture of anger for not starting out right away; to pleasure of having waited in order for information, tiredness because someone's brother talked a lot in his sleep and hunger on the smell of waffles being served.

'I can smell the blueberries from here!' Percy took a deep breath, breathing in the aroma of breakfast. Tyson gave his brother a very tired eye and nodded a bit shy of being cheerful. He turned to the girl he thought to be the most wises person he ever knew. 'Thalia?'

'Yes, Tyson?' Thalia took in a deep breath before speaking. It took patience on speaking to boys, great patients but Tyson was easier than most.

'Can we go on another quest after this one?' Tyson gave his brother another glare. 'A good-night quest? Finding magic to make him not talk so much when he sleeps?'

'Talks a lot does he?' Thalia leaned forward in order to get a look at Percy who was standing on the other side of Tyson. 'Bet that's interesting.'

'No.' Tyson yawned widely. 'Scary sometimes but not interesting.'

'Hey!' Percy mocked a hurt expression. 'My dreams are very interesting.'

'I highly doubt that.' Thalia muttered.

'Hey, there is Marcie!' Annabeth waved to a young girl about twelve with thick, luscious honey blonde hair and warm caramel eyes. 'She's in Aphrodite's house.'

'She's pretty.' Tyson commented. It wasn't the kind of 'oh she's hot' but more of a statement of a fact. She was a lovely young girl and once older, will probably cause a lot of boys in camp to stumble around like apes.

'All of the girls in Aphrodite's cabin are pretty.' Percy added with an absent mind. His remark earned a glare from Annabeth and a promise of death from Thalia. 'Not that I noticed or anything just t-that you know, being Aphrodite's kids and all they are just naturally beautiful…not that you're not, Annabeth. And you too Thalia. Not that I'm like looking at you in that way. You're a knock out…I mean Annabeth, not Thalia but you are too Thalia…What I mean to say is it's not the reason that I am in love with you but like a bonus…I mean not a bonus b-but a um…' Percy looked back and forth at the girls before throwing his hands in the air and stalked off. 'I'm getting breakfast.'

'Good idea. Stuff your mouth so your brain can stop thinking!' Thalia yelled after him.

'Tyson, you better go join him. Try to keep him out of trouble.' Annabeth patted Tyson on the arm.

'Kay.' Tyson agreed and with an air of importance, as much as a Cyclopes can muster up, he walked down towards his brother who was piling blue-berry waffles on his plate.

'I am going to track down this nymph while you speak to the air heads.' Thalia nodded in the approaching girl's direction.

'Marcie is sweet.' Annabeth frowned at her friend for passing judgment but Thalia was bullheaded and open mind wasn't something she practiced. Instead her friend gave her a 'whatever' shrug before turning down a worn path into the woods of the nymphs.

'Hi Annabeth.' Marcie ignored Annabeth's greeting as she looked pass the senior camper shoulder to the retreating figure. 'Was that Thalia? I didn't know the Hunters' were camping with us.'

'Oh. She's not.' Annabeth waved off the question. 'She was just delivering a message.'

'Why didn't she just IM the message? It would have been so much faster, don't you think?' Marcie asked.

'Oh you know how the Hunters are, always doing things the hard way to improve their endurance.' Annabeth smiled sweetly at the young girl. 'You know how I am always learning and studying.'

'Yeah, everyone notices that about you. It's a bit odd but we just figure it's the house you were born in. Can't see how we can fault you for that.' Marcie gave Annabeth a sincere sympathy look and if it wasn't so innocent, Annabeth would had been insulted.

'Yeah, thanks.' Annabeth forced. 'But moving on, I am taking an interest in one of your brothers.'

'Oh?' Marcie's eyes grew large with shock then lite up. 'You mean you and Percy aren't together anymore?'

'Oh no not that 'interested' kind of way.' Annabeth calculated the girl's reaction and felt the need to add a clear message of hands-are-is-still-off-limit statement. 'Percy and I are still very, very much together.'

'Oh.' Marcie looked a bit downhearted, which delighted Annabeth.

'I was thinking about your other brother, Eros.' Annabeth explained.

Marcie took a step back and quickly glanced around as if expecting someone to zap her with electric beam. 'We have to be careful not to insult him.' Marcie explained. 'He is very…um…' Clearly the girl was trying to find the right word that no one, not even a winged god could find insulting but instead she kept doing a rolling movement with her hands.

'What I wanted to know if you or any of your sisters or brothers ever encountered him?' Annabeth cut the girl off, which she seemed thankful for.

'Not personally but a few have felt the sting of his darts.' Marcie eyes took in a deep sadness. 'Fell in love with someone normal.' She shook her head, clearly not understanding how anyone could date a non-demigod. It was bad to date someone of the 'lesser' cabins such as Hermes or Aries cabin but to date a mortal, well that was downright shameful.

'Your mother has taking an interest in mortal men.' Annabeth reminded the girl.

'Yes she has but not for permanently!' Marcie added quickly, a sure sign that this case has been argued once too many already. 'Anyways, Cupid doesn't really pop in to chat or anything. He doesn't seem very social when it comes to family. His gift isn't like Mother's at all. Its more…madden.'

'Madden? I thought it was love.' Annabeth looked at the girl skeptical.

'Nope. I mean, yes it is love but it hit suddenly and your unprepared for it and its usually with someone that you really wouldn't be matched up with, that's how Cupid works. Like you and Percy. Who would have thought you two would hook up? Besides seeing all the love sign, we knew it would happen but only cupid would pair two unlike people together. He's evi…er mysterious like that.'

'I don't think that your brother had any part in our 'hooking up' relationship.' Annabeth gave the girl a small smile.

'With Cupid, you just never know.' Marcie shrugged.

'Oh, I think I see Percy waving. Thanks for speaking with me Marcie.' Annabeth quickly excused herself from the girl. Aphrodite's cabin was famous for throwing insults at people without being aware they were even doing it. She was nearer the other breakfast campers when someone suddenly slammed into her shoulder. She quickly looked up at the smiling face of Clarisse. That was a typical sign of greetings from the Aries cabin. 'Oh, hi Clarisse.'

'Saw you speaking with Marcie.' Clarisse cut to the chase. 'Saw Thalia was here too, without the hunters.'

'You see a lot.' Annabeth carefully stated.

'Collecting information is all.' Clarissa clarified. 'I knew something was up on seeing Thalia at the camp without the pack of hunters. I'm not blind. I can see the formation of a Quest.'

'Oh, I don't think you would be interested in this one.' Annabeth had difficult time in swallowing a laugh rising in her throat. The thought of Clarissa on a Quest for Love was beyond imaginable.

Clarissa put an arm around Annabeth's shoulder, practically giving her a one arm chokehold. 'Let us come up with a solution to this problem.'

'What problem?' Annabeth asked wearily.

'Of you avoiding a beating and me coming on this quest.' Clarissa explained.

'You know I can hold my own against you, Clarissa.' Annabeth warned.

'I remember that we both came out of the arena in a bloody mess and what I am saying is that we can avoid that by letting me come along.' Clarissa debated.

'This quest belongs to Thalia, not me and besides, Percy will be coming along as well as Tyson.' Annabeth stated.

'I can stand Tyson, he isn't so bad. It's true that I rather step on rusty nails then spend a minute with Percy but a quest is a quest. It builds up skills for the next quest so dealing with your boyfriend is just part of the endurance that I have to face. It's the challenge.'

'I don't think this would be a good idea, Clarissa.' Annabeth took the girl's arm from her shoulder, rubbing her neck as she did so.

'I came to you with reasoning and it didn't work. I threatened you and still, this did not work. I have only one option left and that's blackmail.' Clarissa declared.

'You don't have anything to blackmail on.' Annabeth reminded the other.

'No. This is true. But doesn't mean I can't make one up.' Clarissa smiled broadly.

'This quest has something to do with Cupid's arrow.' Annabeth smirked this time.

'Eros?' Clarissa suddenly frowned. 'You plan on going up against my brother, Eros? Are you mad?'

'I heard rumors that he was Aries' son but…' Annabeth started but was quickly cut off.

'Eros is not just Aphrodite's son but also Aries son and what you didn't know is that I have met him once before.'

'You have met Cupid?' Annabeth stopped, clearly shocked.

'The one and thank the gods, the only.' Clarissa smirked. 'I don't plan on doing it again. I withdraw my request for the quest and you should think of doing the same. You won't find a more spoiled god in the whole worldly universe. He's tricky because he loves like Aphrodite but he hunts like Aries. It's nerving and he has no fear. He doesn't fight fair and he finds happiness with pain and love with despair. Warfare with love can be sickly sweet that brings you to the cliff of madness. I swear I think having Love and War hooking up causes Eros to be off balance!'

'Aren't you afraid that he will hear you?' Annabeth questioned curiously.

'Me afraid? Now I am offended. It's not that I fear him. What's to fear from Love? Just the hassle of the mess he can make, that's all I want to avoid.' Clarissa puffed up her chest and walked away but didn't fool Annabeth. The daughter of Aries avoiding a quest was serious.

Eros' Love Nest

Stories of Eros did not lie. Out of all the gods, it was clear Eros was the finest. He wasn't overly built like his father but he was no way near as being delicate as his mother's form. His eyes were pure golden honey with sparkle of mischievous deeds forming in his mind. His hair was thick, short of blonde sun streaks against darker shades. His smile, ever was it presence upon his face as if he had a secret the whole world crave to know. Perhaps he did.

He was focused on the arrow in his hand, its sister was already absorbed in the heart of Thalia and he was not about to let a good arrow go to waste. True, the arrow wasn't intended for the girl but for the Mistress instead but in the end, it all will work out. This means is that he angered Auntie Artemis, which he always found delighting and the chase for her heart would continue. She was his greatest hunt after all and if he would ever catch her, well what then?

For now he had her lieutenant's heart captured and now what to do with it.

'I think I should make her fall for a three headed beast.' Eros spoke out loud to his dearly loved wife that came out of the joining room.

'Why?' Psychic asked, sitting across from her husband on a golden weaved chair.

'Why not?' Eros asked, lifting an eyebrow at his wife. His seductive voice carried an edge to it that Psychic grew to recognized and carefully chosen her words.

'For one it would anger Zeus. What if he would clip your wings like last time you upset him?' Psychic reminded him. 'I did miss you dreadfully for those mortal years you had to stay on earth.'

'He wouldn't.' Eros waved it off. 'The mortal sixties are still ringing in his ears. Make Love Not War. It was one of my greatest movements.' Eros smiled broadly. 'I think Grandfather learned his lesson about clipping my wings and should not be doing so for a very, very long time.'

'It's still a sore spot for your father as well.' Physic sighed. 'He was trying to create his warfare while his son was doing the opposite.'

'They'll get over it and I don't get threats of my wings clipped anymore.' Eros marveled at his perception of looking at the better part of any situation.

'Still why make her fall in love with a beast?' Physic asked. 'It's what your mother wanted you to do with me.'

'Oh, sweetheart I am a beast!' Eros winked suggestively at her just before leaning over to nibble on a spot of her neck.

'You know what I mean.' After all these many, many decades Physic was still able to blush at her husband's playfulness. She pushed her husband away but his look promised that he wasn't done with his wife yet. 'Why not let her alone?'

'Because that wouldn't be very fun, babe.' Eros frowned at the suggestion before leaning back. 'What's the point of having these,' he held up his arrow. 'If I can't play with them?'

'If you shot that arrow in someone's heart, Artemis will kill the boy and turn Thalia into a creature for her Huntress to hunt down and kill.' Physic reminded him, her eyes feeling with sadness with the idea of two young souls being lost because of cruel intentions. There was a time when she was a mortal was well and for that, she always sympathized with the lesser creatures.

'She won't change Thalia, that's Zeus' child.' Eros waved the arrow in front of his wife. 'Another Aunt of mine I suppose.' He tapped the point of the arrow against his the floor as he thought what to do with it. The light in his eyes sparkled dangerously. 'However for you I shall choice the next targeted heart carefully. Down below there is a match for her but for now, I think there is a very important goddess in need of my attention.'

Physic raised her eyebrows before bolting out of her chair, her long dark hair flying behind her and her laughter filling the air as her husband gave chase. Living with Love had movements of tension but there was always time for play as well.

Aries Home

'I want a new statue of me holding her son's head plastered on every part of humanity!' Artemis barged into Aries bachelor pad.

'Sounds promising, which son would that be?' Aries asked his sister, not bothering to get up from his leather sofa where before him on a table, freshly polish swords laid before him.

'Eros. ' Artemis sat down on a leather, black chair while Aries continue to clean his weapons.

'Well you know that's not going to happen so brotherly advice, think of something else.' Aries chuckled.

'You think this is funny?' Artemis glared at her older brother.

'Eros always chases you and you escape him every time. He gets that from his mother. If it was my blood that causes him to chase then you would be wounded by his arrows a long time ago.' Aries sighed with shame.

'It delights him to chase me.' Artemis frowned. 'He finds it to be a game.'

'Then end the game and stop running.' Aries shrugged not seeing what the point of the discussion.

'And be shackled to some undeserving soul! I will not!' Artemis spatted.

'Then keep running. Those are your only options because no matter what I say he will always do what he wants.' Aries stated.

'What's this? Aries cannot control his own offspring?' Artemis mocked.

'Perhaps it is because he is of my own that his will is so strong and cannot be controlled.' Aries quickly added. 'What is it that you want me to do?'

'Forbid him to continue to chase me and give me the sister to the arrow he shot at my lieutenant.' Artemis demanded.

'He won't stop chasing you and you know very well that we cannot take other gods weapons from them.' Aries reminded his young sister.

'He is not but a minor god!' Artemis argued.

'A very powerful one.' Aries slammed his sword down. 'You know that. We all have been influenced by his nature more often than not. Even you! You think that you really escaped him? What drives you to chase down creatures of your forests! It's not the thrill of the chase! It is love of the hunt that makes you do so with such passion! Without Eros what would be the point to anything?'

Artemis stood up quickly and headed for the door, before stomping out she turned to face her brother once more. 'This is not over! I will see that your son's little…game is cancelled! It is time that little imp grew up!'

'I wish you luck for I doubt you'll find anything else to help you along on this fruitless journey.' Aries gave her mock salute before she slammed his door shut.