A/N: Okay, I'm sorry. I didn't mean for there to be this long of a gap between chapters, but with MCAS, my birthday (2nd of April), and my superhuman ability to procrastinate, I didn't write in the time I should have. So, to try and make up for, here is a chapter that is actually longer than four paragraphs. Oh, you should probably open a Spanish translation window. You'll see why. And keep giving me boys' names. I need a really good one.

REYNA

Three Days earlier

Reyna had gone back to Camp Jupiter earlier than most of the other Romans. She had returned with a small party of thirty, while the rest of the legion remained at Camp-Half Blood to help repair the damage. She sat on her bed, reading about the Spanish conquest of Latin America, when she heard a whooshing sound. Instinctively, she looked at her door and said a rushed "Ave" but saw no one was there. She turned her head and saw an image of a tall blonde boy in an orange t-shirt in a white doctor's jacket floating at the end of her bed.

The boy opened his mouth and said, "Hello, Reyna, can you see me?" she nodded, and he continued, "Hi, I'm Will. We've met a few times, I healed your legionaries' wounds after the battle. Do you remember me?"

"Yes."

"Ah. Good. We need you for a quest." Reyna sighed.

"Who or what do we have to kill or stop this time?"

"No one, actually. We need to find a demigod daughter of Peitho. I think you would know her as Suadela. Ten of us are meeting you in San Francisco, at Annabeth's dad's house. From there we'll go to Portland, and wander aimlessly until we find a fourteen-ish year old girl named Scarlett. Got that?"

"Yes. One question, who's in your group?"

Will looked at a clipboard in his hands, and read off, "Me, Nico, Piper, Jason, Annabeth, Percy, Frank, Hazel, Calypso, Leo-" Reyna cut him off.

"Leo and who? Isn't Leo dead?"

Will grinned, "Not anymore. He and Calypso crash landed on our beach yesterday. Apparently he managed to revive himself with the Physician's Cure." Reyna nodded.

"Okay. I'll pack."

TEN DAYS LATER

She arrived a few hours earlier than the others, so she asked Mr. Chase for directions to the train station they would arrive at, and decided to await them there. The station was crowded and noisy, but she was able to find the right platform without much difficulty. She had just dosed off when she heard a voice in front of her calling, "Reyna? Reeyynaaa? Are you alive? I'm pretty sure you're alive, so why aren't you moving? Hello?" she woke up with a start, and saw Nico staring intently at her, with the other nine getting their few bags off of the train.

He looks so much better. The boy who she had last seen looking like he would disintegrate if you blew on him too hard was practically nowhere to be seen. In one week, his eyes had lost most of that worryingly broken look, his face had filled in somewhat, and his skin had gained a healthy olive hue. She smiled.

"Hello." She said with a yawn.

"We better run. Frank managed to borrow some mortal woman's cell phone and order us a taxi from the train. It'll be waiting." He turned as the rest of the group came over to them, and fell in step next to Will. They stood shoulder to shoulder. Well, they would have if Nico was a little taller.

Their taxi driver was too pretty. Reyna noticed her first, standing in the corner of the station, wearing a violet shawl over a gossamer white shirt and trousers. She held a sign that read "The Demigods Who Have No Idea Where They Are Going". Reyna was walking next to Hazel, and pointed her out. Hazel stopped short. So did the rest of them. Hazel said, a look of mild astonishment on her face, "Reyna, meet the goddess Peitho."

They walked over to her, and Piper looked as if she was about to say something when Peitho gasped, dropped her sign, ran over to Calypso screaming "Sister!", and caught her in a warm embrace. "I thought I would never see you again." She continued. Suddenly, she held Calypso at arm's length and looked at her worriedly.

"You're mortal, I can feel it. And off the island. How?"

Calypso looked shocked, but pointed to Leo. "He brought me off on a giant metal dragon," she stated, "I guess my immortality stayed there."

Leo looked between them confusedly, "Umm, okay I missed something, didn't I?"

Calypso shook out of her trance, and turned to face Leo, who was standing beside her. "Sister, this Leo. Leo, meet my sister. This is going to sound really bad, but I'd nearly forgotten we were related. She went to live with Aphrodite to be her companion almost immediately after she was born. We've only met a handful of times. Plus, one or two dozen millennia on Ogygia tends to blur one's memory."

Peitho's smile returned, "Well, let's get your bags out to my taxi. No time to dawdle!" Frank looked skeptical. "You are actually going to drive us around in a taxi?" he said. Peitho laughed. "Of course not," she said, "the taxi is going to drive you!"

Well, stranger things have happened to demigods. Peitho had loaded them into the van, made a hand gesture, and the van had started itself. So, they were being driven by a driverless van. Because that was so normal. Reyna let out a sigh of relief when they arrived, in one piece, at, the Chase residence. Mrs. Chase was out when they arrived, and the little children were being, well, difficult. Groceries were needed, so Reyna went out to a corner store while the rest decompressed from their journey. She was just about exit the house when she heard rapid feet coming down the stairs.

She turned and saw the overwhelmed face of Leo Valdez hurtling down from the second floor. He paused when he got to the foot of the stairs, and said something like, "Thekidsaretryingtodestroyearthineedtoescapebeforeisettheworldwartwomodelsonfirecanicomewithyou?" Reyna blinked. Leo took a deep breath and repeated, "The kids are trying to destroy the earth. I need to escape before I set the World War II models on fire. Can I come with you?" Reyna's first instinct was to give a firm NO. It's okay. He didn't mean to blow up my home. That wasn't his fault. She reconsidered. "Okay." She turned on her heel and was out the door.

Something both she and Leo should have remembered. They should have been armed to the teeth. This was San Francisco, land of the heavy, heavy, heavy mist. It shouldn't have surprised them that the giggling gaggle of 13-ish year old girls were in fact a single ravenous monster, with nine heads, toxic blood, and fire breath. They were strolling along quietly when they were knocked sideways off of their feet into a big abandoned building. The troop of little girls walked calmly in after them, stood together, and morphed into one, giant, angry, hydra.

Reyna woke up with blood all down her back and shoulders, feeling stunned, and wondered where exactly she was. Most of her body felt limp, but she managed to prop herself up on a metal pillar behind her which she probably hit her head on. She saw a hydra streak by a few meters in front of her. She didn't question it. Some of her recent memory trickled back into her consciousness, and she frantically bobbed her head around in search of Leo. He wasn't there.

She called out, "Leo! Leo, ¿está vivo? Awake? Hola? Puedes oírme?" Oh, that's just great. I've been hit so hard, I've forgotten English. That just makes this whole situation so much better. Okay let's try that again. "Umm, Leo, no me refiero a que te avisen de cualquier manera, pero no puedo hablar Inglés, y hay una hidra. Por favor, sólo decir algo. El silencio es preocupante." Why? Just why? She heard a groan from somewhere nearby. A weak voice across the giant room said, "What? Say that again?" Reyna had to think for a second, but to her relief, she still understood him.

"Leo, hay una hidra, que no puedo hablar Inglés, y tengo una herida en la cabeza sangrante. ¿Estás herido?" Reyna called out. She could see Leo moving beside an old metal work desk. He looked perplexed for a second, then his eyes focused and he shouted back, "Umm, okay? Do understand me?" Reyna paused for a second, and replied, "Con dificultad, sí." Leo murmured "Let's just make this easier," and then shouted, "Oh, ah, estoy bien. ¿Qué has dicho acerca de la hi- oh, ahí está." The hydra was barreling straight towards them, screaming and fire breathing like a giant monster. Well, it was a giant monster. She was about to scream to get the hydra's attention, but she remembered some vital statistics. Leo was fireproof. And she always kept an imperial gold dagger in her boot. She felt a familiar rush of adrenalin, and shakily got to her feet.

"Corriendo alrededor y molestar a ella," she broke into a run, "Cuando escuche mi señal, fuego, literalmente." Leo got a crazy grin, and bolted out of his shadowy nook to face the oncoming hydra. It pulled up short, which gave Reyna about five seconds to pull her dagger out, and to leap onto the raging beast's back. Needless to say, it hurt, and the hydra ceaselessly tried to throw her off. She pulled through the hot pain and climbed toward the nearest head's neck. She held her dagger aloft, and sliced down. She ducked and screamed, "¡Ya ahora!" and felt a hot plume of fire narrowly miss her. Once the heat was gone, she peered over to where the neck had been, and saw a steaming charred hunk of flesh. No new heads would growing from there anytime soon.

They followed their slash-and-burn method for the rest of the monster, and were caught off guard when it suddenly disintegrated. Reyna fell from her perch on its back and fell hard onto the concrete floor. She felt her head and spine crack against the ground, heard a crunch, and her heart stopped beating.