AN: Hehe… I'm still alive.

Disclaimer: I don't own PJO or HoO

Percy POV

"Care to elaborate?" Will asked.

"Mount St. Helens," I replied.

"Well then, let's go!" James urged, walking to the parking lot, the others following right behind him.

I stopped him. "Um, James… you do know that we don't have any transpor-" Suddenly a RV appeared, literally from out of nowhere, two parking spaces ahead of us. "-tation… Well that problem is solved…" I finished, walking up to the RV.

I opened the door to find that it was spacious, large enough for each of us to have our own rooms plus a small dining nook, living room, and bathroom. "Dang," Leo whispered, walking around the outside of the RV a couple of times, "It's small on the outside but huge on the inside! Awesome!" We entered the RV and we looked to the left to see the living space and kitchen/dining.

Travis immediately gasped and ran over to the huge flat screen TV. "Sweet, oh, sweet flat screen, wonderful, magical, TV!" He then looked over at us. "Yeah… definitely not the right time…"

He walked out into the small hallway and looked at each of the 9 doors, scanning for his name, until he stopped at the second to last door, and walked into it, Frank, Leo, Will, and Connor following his example.

I was just about to sit down at the wheel, when James beat me to it, "Uh, James, I'm gonna drive this time…" I told him, motioning to move out of the seat.

"Nonsense! I drove us here; I can sure as Hades drive us to Mount St. Helens!" he protested, getting ready to buckle the seat belt.

"James, please let me drive, you need to get some rest." I insisted.

James paused, then sighed, "Fine Perce, but whenever you get tired just wake me up…"

"Deal," I said, as he got up from the seat and went back into his designated room.

I sighed and looked at the ignition and saw the key already in there ready to go. I turned the key, starting up the RV, and moving out of the parking lot. "Mount St. Helens here we come," I sighed.

21 hours later

Leo plopped down in the passenger seat next to me. "Percy, are we there yet?" he whined, asking the same question for the hundredth time.

I gripped the steering wheel tighter, "No, Leo, we aren't there yet! Go take a nap or something!"

Leo pondered on this for a few seconds before replying, "Nah I'll just watch TV," and with that he got up from the passenger seat and went to the back of the RV into the living room part of it and switched the TV to SpongeBob. I rolled my eyes at his childishness.

After about ten minutes of driving, my mind switched to Annabeth. Was she okay? With the way I snapped at her, she probably will never forgive me. Gods I screwed up this time…

"Yeah, you did," a godly voice replied, as if should be obvious.

"Great, now I have a god freakin annoying me!" I thought.

"You better shut your trap young man, before I obviate your sea-spawn ass!" a female voice spoke loudly in my head.

"Oh great! It's not just any Goddess, its Lady Athena…"

"I can hear your thoughts you know, but that's not the reason I am speaking to you privately, Perseus Jackson. What makes you think I'm going to let you find her?" Athena said, her voice cornering me.

My mind blanked out, only focusing on the question. She brought up the possibility that we would never find Annabeth.

"Because Lady Athena, I would never forgive myself if I didn't try to apologize to Annabeth. I wouldn't give up until I apologize for snapping at her, and I'm not going to let you stop me." I answered. This wasn't just anyone. This was Annabeth, and no god, mortal, or monster was going to stop me from finding her.

"Perseus Jackson, I will no longer stand in your way, but there are going to be many dangerous challenges you and your friends will have to overcome in order to find them."

"Then we'll overcome them," I replied confidently.

I didn't hear an answer after that, and I didn't know whether that should have worried me or not.

Finally around 30 minutes later, we made it to Mount St Helens.

"Finally!" The Stolls shouted, hopping out of the RV and onto the pavement. I almost thought that they would start to kiss the ground, but they refrained.

I lead all of the guys to up the trail inside the mountain, to the spot where Annabeth first kissed me. Thankfully, there weren't any telkhines there this time.

"Look there's the next clue!" exclaimed Travis, pointing to the glowing pink piece of paper in the distance. The problem: it was hovering in midair, right above a pot of lava.

Jason said, "I got this, guys." As he started to float towards the note, I got a sudden bad feeling in my stomach. "Holy crap!" he yelled, as a spear whizzed past him out of nowhere.

"Jason, hurry up and move!" Leo shouted.

Tumbling and twisting through the air, avoiding the various weapons being thrown at him, Jason grabbed the note and made his way back to us, rolling onto the floor of the ledge. Breathing heavily, he held it up in the air. "I got it."

"We see that. Now what does it say?" Connor asked, snatching the note from Jason's hand and reading it aloud.

Fighting with the unnatural eyed one,

This was her base until you were done.

Start of the names were double initialed,

Destroyed and turned into a ravenous jungle.

Annabeth POV

I slowly walked over to the bookcase and scanned each shelf, until I paused on a picture of Percy and me, sitting of the docks of the canoe lake. Slamming the face of the picture down, I walked over to my bed and plopped down onto it, hiding my face into its soft silky sheets.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Piper asked, quietly sitting down next to me, "You don't have to if you don't want to…"

"No," I replied softly, "It's fine, it's just that I feel that I'm a pawn in one of Aphrodite's love games, you know?"

"I know the feeling, unfortunately," Piper muttered, staring down at her feet.

"Hey, it'll be okay, you know Jason was just jealous." I said comfortingly.

"I know, it's just the idea that he would even think that I would do something like that…"

Before I could respond, there was a knock at the door. "It's open!" I called.

Skylar appeared at the door. "Hey, make yourself comfortable here, it doesn't look like we'll be leaving soon. Anyways, we're all going to meet in the living room in half an hour to decide what the Hades is happening here and what we're going to do about it."

Piper smiled. "Alright, thanks."

Skylar closed the door and I looked at Piper, who shrugged. "I'm going to take a shower. In addition to changing my outfit, my mom decided to put makeup on me… foundation, mascara, the works. I desperately need to wash it off… now." Piper sighed, before getting up and walking over to the bathroom.

I looked around. I didn't mind the outfit that much. I guess I would take a nap; I was a bit tired anyway. I snuggled up into the warm blankets and closed my eyes, dreaming of Percy and wondering how long it would be before I got to see him again.

AN: I swear, I will be updating much sooner this time. Sorry for the wait, hope you liked the chapter.

~The awesome daughters of Poseidon and Hermes