i got bored so to those who love this(and me) your in luck. this chapter is semi-important it more sets up for the next chapter which is more important but it really only talks about Mia's past and the past of others but right now you get this semi boring chapter-really its only important in the beginning.

Chapter 9

Alice pov

I thought back to the table and the cards started shuffling again. The person who took my brothers body started losing his balance as a card was flipped while he was standing. "one question," I say to the stranger as he loses his balance over and over again. "do you like water?" in an instant he was being crushed by waves and once he came up for air another wave came. After a couple more waves and him almost drowning he lands on the small island I was standing on.

I bend down to him and as he coughed up water and whizzed in breathe. "let me tell you one thing. Leave my brother alone or I will kill you."

He started laughing and looked up with humorous yellow eyes. "you really are an idiot, aren't you?" he started chuckling when my face fell. "I'm a titan-you impulsive little girl."

I was getting really angry now so I grabbed him by the throat and lifted him off the ground. "I don't care-one way or another I will kill you!" just then I woke up to the screaming of a little voice.

"Wake up!" a snaky voice told me, "wake up!" I could feel it slithering around me and I could feel it hissing. I woke up to that little girl who ran off with Emily during the tour-except her eyes were glowing green and green smoke was curling around the floor, climbing up the bed and slithering towards me like a snake.

That was when she started talking,

"Find the child of hopeless return,
Return to the endless burn,
Seek keys to the seeds,
In endless nights death bleeds,
Hope stays or flies away,
Tears will stay."

She then took a sharp in take of breath, sounding more like she was dying and her eyes looked frightened as her childish screams pierced the air. I grabbed her wrist and looked into her eyes-sending calm waves to her. The screaming stopped and she started to calm down. By the time I let go she was curled up on my bed falling a sleep next to me and my mom kicked the door down.

She looked really panicked and when she saw me she exhaled but she still had that edgy look on her. "thank gods!" she came and hugged me but I pushed her away.

"shh, she's sleeping," I whispered and pointed outside. When we were outside with the door closed she attacked me with tears and a tight hug.

"I love you so much," she let go and looked at me with the most saddest eyes ever. It was new to me to see my mother cry-she had this armor on her all the time. "don't ever do that to me again!" she then hugged me tight, suffocating me in her princess blonde, curly hair.

"Annabeth let Ali, go, your suffocating her," my father said as he hugged my mother way from me.

She took one more look at me and her grey stormy eyes filled with sorrow and turned to cry into my fathers shoulder. My father tried to not cry, he only got as far as being teary eyed.

"dad…..mom…." I breathed, but then my smile fell as I realized what I've been seeing. "what's wrong.

"Alice, where's Chase?" he asked.

"what are you talking about? He should be at home." I asked as I rubbed my eyes-damn I'm tried. "Jovanna said that after she made out with him that he went home….at least I think she did?"

"who's Jovanna, Alice?" my dad asked.

"she's my new friend, a daughter of Aphrodite-though by the sound of it she Athena is more her mother," I say as I look at Chiron. "can you get her, please-she was the last one to see Chase?"

"Liam is already looking for her but she isn't in her cabin," he answered.

"why would my mother love a daughter of Aphrodite like her own?" my mother asked.

"wait Athena's your mother?" everyone just blinked like they didn't know how to answer. "that means that she's my…..grandmother? Who's your parent, then Dad!" I was getting angry now-no one would answer me and so many secrets!

it took my father awhile to answer but he said, "my father is Poseidon…we never told you about our parents because we were never really close to them and when your mother got pregnant with you and your brother we didn't want you to be dragged into our other world so we told our parents they could only be apart of your lives without being gods-so they became your grandparents, Parker and Abby."

I was so angry I ran out of the room and ran into the dark forest. The voices, echoes, whispers, whimpers, and silent screams welcomed me as I entered the forest. I ran with tears in my eyes and my heart beat in my ears. I stopped when I felt the familiar pull of water. I turned my head to the left I saw a hot spring, bubbling and oozing with power. I stripped down to my bra and underwear and hoped into the hot spring.

When ever I'm angry or sad it feels nice to be in water-it melts away my worries and fear. I breath in a little and closed my eyes. Then I went under.

When I came up I heard a voice I didn't think I would in a while. "so you found my secret hole, huh?"

I smile at her and close my eyes as I lean back, "you can join me if you want, Mia."

she thought for a moment then said, "hell, why not."