Epilogue

We waited around for another few hours before eating our dinner. We carefully cleaned our weapons, and waited for mom and Zillah to come back. They needed to find something to mail our swords and daggers back to the Met. Luckily they found a flat screen TV box a couple of blocks up.

Apparently they had discussed what Zillah was planning to do once we got to our house. Mom found out that Zillah had been in a couple of messed up foster homes after her mom died, and promised to try to arrange for her to live with us.

After packaging the weapons, mom had Skylar and Lyra carry the box to the post office, a few blocks over. They wore the gloves from the first aid kit in order to protect their finger prints. Mom hacked into the computer to pay for the delivery. Apparently her Benjamin Franklin glasses helped her to know how to do that type of stuff.

I'm really not sure how long they were gone. Trent was snoring in the back compartment of our SUV while Zillah sat up front listening to my I-pod.

After a while, I laid down on the back seat and fell asleep. In my dreams I saw a ring of monsters circling the Empire State Building. Its defenders were very few, but they were holding their ground. A crazed girl shimmered with a red aura as she dared the monsters to attack her. I wondered what had angered her so badly to try to get the entire army to attack her.

My dream shifted and out of nowhere the scariest looking chariot I could ever imagine appeared. It had to be Hades, no question about it. He was followed by an army of skeleton warriors. They attacked the monsters and sent them into a panic.

Behind Hades, Demeter and Persephone were waving their hands changing monsters into wheat and flowers. I thought that was pretty cool. I'd love to just wave my hand and turn monsters into something cute and fuzzy. They were very beautiful. Demeter looked older, but there was no questioning the amount of grace and wisdom that vibrated off of her. Persephone came to light as she soaked up the sun. She went from being white and pasty to vivid and radiant. They didn't even have to break a sweat to get the job done.

A boy about my age was with them. I wish I had gotten a good look at him, but was unable to do so.

I opened my eyes as Trent was shaking my shoulders. His bright green eyes scanned my face. He was giddy with excitement, "Mermaid! Everyone's back to normal!" Trent laughed. "We're going home!"


End Notes: Thank you for reading (or rereading) the first installment of this series. Most of the changes that were made were grammatical and I broke down the chapters into smaller pieces. However, there were other slight changes that were made, which will help me take Meredith and her crew in a new direction. Why the new direction? Recently I read both Lost Hero and Son of Neptune and they made me miss vicariously writing as Meredith. So, I've decided to incorporate characters from both books, and plot line clues. So, yeah new direction? My original Camp Half Blood series took place the summer after TLO, and well SN takes place the summer after TLO. So, I'm pushing Meredith's incorporation into Camp Half Blood up a year. This way the current prophesy will already be resolved. (Hopefully all our favorite characters won't get killed in the process! AKA Percy, Annabeth, Nico, Travis, Thalia, etc.) So, the plot lines for the rest of the stories will be very different. Yes, I'll pull some scenes from those stories and incorporate them into the new ones, but they'll likely have minor changes too.