I have a question for all you lovely readers. Do any of you think I be an actual writer, like, sell books I myself wrote? Be an Author? Like Rick? Or Black? Or Smith? Curiously awaiting your answers. Btw sorry I haven't updated in like FOREVER but my best friend Carson just died and I've been really trying to get over that in a healthy way you know? Plus I found out literally only a week or less after Carson's death that Makendra has cancer...in in the time span of the 3 months after I found out. She died. FML. So I'm sort of an emotional wreck. Normally when I'm in this state I bury myself in a false reality of words created from the tips of my fingers but….my inspiration died. However here is my attempt to re-enter myself.

Disclaimer- Nope

Kiley inspected the blue prints laid out neatly before her on a nice workbench in the Athena cabin. Her mother and her sister were both working on the last design, a weapon for Melina. They had been in here for close to an hour now breaking pencils and getting in fights over how the cross guard would weigh down the blade far to much or how the draw string has to be longer otherwise there wouldn't be enough torque to shoot a 2 foot bolt long than 10 yards. While they designed it all, Kiley double checked the blue prints to make sure there were no mistakes and could be read easily. Somewhere in the middle of all this Izzy had come into the cabin shyly and climbed into Kiley's lap to watch her work. Kiley was in the process of signing their names on the blue print for Jade's crossbow when Annabeth sounded that they had finished Melina's blueprint.

"It's perfect!" Kiley spoke to the paper instead of to the people, "Oh but…..what is that, that thing right there?" Annabeth looked over her shoulder to see what she pointing at then smiled.

"That's for her to know not you. It's an Aphrodite thing."

"Well fine…..thanks for the help mom. Your amazing!" Kiley placed a kiss on her mothers cheek. Across the room Erin cleared her throat.

"Your amazing too Erin!" Izzy yelled quickly. That at least made Erin smile.

"Thanks guys, I'll see you later at the arena when Melina gets her second lesson. I am going to run this down to the Hep kids then I think I'm going to go hang with Brennion a while and get his option on a few things. Erin if you see Melina tell her I will start training her around three." Erin glanced at her watch.

"Sis you mean three in the afternoon tomorrow right? Because its 9 o'clock at night."

"No I mean three in the morning-of course I mean in the afternoon! Okay goodnight my lovelies." Kiley started to run out of the room, blue prints tucked away safely in a book bag hanging off her shoulder, but she stopped and ran to hug her sister who had been wearing a pouty face since Kiley had given their mom a compliment but not her. She signed thanks and left.

The stop at the Hep cabin didn't take long as she had hoped it wouldn't and the campers there were overly eager to get the blue prints from her. When they did they each took it on as a personal challenge and set to work, throwing metal into hot coals and blasting Metallica (their motivational music) on their home stereo system at a decimal that would put a jet engine to shame. Kiley didn't stay long after that, she had to leave before "As the Bell Tolls" made her go deaf, but she made sure to thank them and get the round-about time as to when they would be done with everything first.

After that she found herself walking to the Zeus cabin, knocking meekly on the door. For the second time. She had already tried to enter the cabin when she had showed up without knocking but the door handle shocked her so she decided it might be polite and knock. Brennion answered soon after.

He was wearing nothing but a pair of hip hugging swim trunks, exposing his fit body that set a fire ablaze on Kiley's cheeks and made her want to desperately push him down and kiss him hard on the mouth. His black hair was disheveled in the most handsome way and his blue eyes were sparkling in the starlight. Just then, as Kiley thought that, she felt like one of the cheesiest hopeless romantics on earth.

"Hey there beautiful," He smiled sweetly, "What can I do for you?"

"Want to walk with me?" There was a silence in which Brennion bit his lip causing Kiley to bite her own to stop herself from kissing him. She needed to learn to control her urges.

"Not really but I do want to hang out with you. Want to come inside with me?" Kiley glanced over his shoulder into the room to see Nate laying on one of the Zeus beds throwing a ball in the air and catching it until he missed and it hit him in the nose. He yelped and grabbed his nose while managing to fall off the bed at the same time.

"Um…no. Besides," Kiley glanced at the zig zag red marks on her palm where the door knob had burnt her, "I think outside forces don't want me in your cabin. How about…the beach?" Brennion considered this and Kiley watched. He was cute when he was thinking and she couldn't help but smile when his face visibly brightened.

"Wear a bikini and you have yourself a deal."

"Smooth but no. It's to cold for a bikini."

"Heh I know-ouch!" Kiley very promptly punched him in the shoulder before he could even picture the image, "Okay fine then where do you want to go?"

"Somewhere quiet." Kiley again glanced at Nathan who was now trying to burn the ball he had been throwing as revenge for hitting him in the face but instead of burning the ball he burnt his hand.

"Problem solved. Come with me." Brennion shut the door behind him, closing off the loud sound of Nate cussing at the ball, and lead Kiley by the hand to the Hades cabin.

It was quiet in there, like she had wished, but it was an unsettling quiet. A kind of quiet that was expected to be broken with the sound of someone dying. Which, as Kiley looked around, did fit the décor. There weren't many beds and all had red silk sheets with a heavy black comforter. The walls were painted black and a blue/red/green clear gloss overcoat. It made the walls look fathomless and see-through into the darkness of the Underworld. There was a class case in one corner which displayed various broken swords, a helmet made of bronze in the shape of a skull, and other various war like things. Above the glass was a plaque that read "Reminder of the Titan war that brought Hades honor" Kiley didn't know what it meant but she had a feeling it was a whole lot. And, of course, there was no one in the cabin.

"Is there no Hades campers?" Kiley questioned the wall but it was Brennion who answered.

"No there are, but they are in the Underworld with their dad right now. Its training time for them. Annual Dad said. In fact Dad left a couple hours ago to go down there. So it's going to be quiet in here until they get back. Now, come sit next to me." Kiley noticed that he was sitting in the window seal, his back against the window frame and his leg resting against the black and red glass pane. He looked like a dark prince with the moonlight shinning in through the window casting a dark red glow across his skin. He had never seemed so irresistible to her before. Which, of course, made her shake her head.

"No. I want a kiss first." He smirked.

"Pssh and I want to kiss you why?" Kiley looked around and happily sat on a bed closet to window. She didn't answer right away. Instead she took her time to take her shoes off and slip her sweat shirt off. Then she laid down comfortably in the bed and smiled sweetly at her boyfriend.

"Because I have those perfectly kissable lips," To emphasize she ran the tip of her finger across her top and bottom lip slowly, taunting him, "Just the right color am I right?" He didn't even blink.

"You think you can actually seduce me Jackson?" Kiley laughed at the ceiling, closing her eyes.

"Babe, I know I could seduce you. Easily."

"A little arrogant are we?" His voice sounded closer. She opened her eyes just in time to see him sit at the foot of the bed she was laying on. He was smiling but only softly, sweetly.

"No just sure. Ugh stop playing hard to get and lay next to me. Please?" She gave him her cutest pouty face.

"Who says I'm playing hard to get?" Even as he said it he was laying beside her, pulling her into his arms and resting his face in her hair, "I am perfectly easy to get." Kiley laughed softly.

"Awesome. I have an easy boyfriend. Just what I've always wanted."

"That's not what I meant!"

"That's the way it sounded babe."

"Ugh just be quiet and enjoy my presence."

"And I'm the arrogant one?"

"What can I say? I'm the hypocrite of hypocrites baby." Kiley didn't have the energy to laugh. All the sudden she realized how tired she was. It all came crashing down on her and it was almost to much for her to stay awake. Somewhere, amongst all this, she wondered if she was this tired how Melina must be feeling. She'd have to take it easy on Melina tomorrow so she didn't get hurt. Plus she still had to go see when the weapons were finished-

"Babe shhh, it's calm time. You can worry about all that when the time comes but right now just rest." Kiley hadn't realized she was speaking out loud. Instead of fighting what he said Kiley just snuggled up against Brennion's side and let out a held breath. He held her close, placing kisses atop her head every other second. Right here she was at her most comfortable. It was in his arms that she felt the safest. The most at ease. She felt herself drifting off into sleep. She probably would have slept too, if Brennion hadn't woken her up.

"Hey babe," His question waking her up harshly like a glass of water on the face, "do you feel like we shouldn't be here?" Kiley yawned inaudibly and moved her head into the curve of his neck, smelling the remnants of the axe he probably sprayed on himself this morning.

"No I quite like it here. It's quiet without Nate fighting a baseball-"

"That's not what I meant….I meant here, at this camp. When we first got here and Nate and Izzy and me moved into the Zeus cabin even though there were campers in there. The oldest was a boy named Zach and there were two more but they said they refused to sleep in the same room with murders and went to sleep somewhere else. It made me wonder….do you think we shouldn't be here?" This woke Kiley up enough to let her take it into consideration. She was actually going to ask him that before she got tired and started to fall asleep. She had been feeling the same way before. Like she shouldn't be here.

"I don't know babe," She answered honestly, "but I think either way I'm not going to leave unless they tell me too. We don't belong…yet. Not until we make it up to everyone."

"How do we do that? By doing what Hecate tells us too?"

"I think so. And help save Aphrodite." There was a silence, "You never gave me my kiss Brennion."

"That's because you aren't getting one."

"Hell I'm not!" Brennion laughed and kissed Kiley lightly. Once on the forehead, once on the neck, then once on the lips. Satisfied she wrapped her arms around his waist and laid her head on his chest. And like last time just as her eyes began to shut…

"Kiles what would you do if I died?" Kiley's eyes flew open and she smacked him hard in the middle of his stomach.

"Why would you ever say something like that!" He shrugged, gave her an apologetic smile, and rubbed the spot she had hit him. It was red. Good, she thought, he deserves it. Why would he say something so stupid! If he died she herself would die with him, maybe not in body but most definitely in spirit. No, an angry voice in her head said, that's it. End of conversation. Even in my head. Thoughts be gone!

"Sorry b-"

"Shhh. Your not allowed to talk to anymore. Just be quiet." He smiled but obeyed. This time as she started to fall asleep he fell with her. Though there were complications. Kiley couldn't find herself falling asleep. Her mind was restless. Brennion, of course, had fallen asleep hours ago. She herself had been laying there staring at the ceiling trying to tell if there was something on the ceiling or if it was just the darkness playing tricks on her eyes. She had come to the conclusion that it was in fact something and she was making a spear out of a pencil when there came a very faint knock at the door. Kiley slipped out from under Brennion, careful not to wake him (he seemed to be having a good dream because he kept saying "More please mommy? I love pancakes!") and opened the door.

Airabella was standing there windblown. She looked…different. Well different from the way she normally looked at school. At school she was prompt and perfect with expensive clothes and the most bitchy attitude there was on earth. But here, at camp, she wasn't that at all. Her long black hair was blowing in the wind, messed up but in a glorious mess and her normal lonely and angry silver-blue eyes seemed to twinkle with merriment. She wasn't wearing anything designer, just a pair of silk short shorts and a tank top two sizes to big for her. And, oddly enough, she had a pot that looked like it was normally used to steam cook crab in, cradled in her arms.

"Want to watch some movies with me?" It was an odd thing to ask. And she asked it so eagerly. Didn't she have any friends?

"Um…what?"

"Ugh your deaf too…do you want to watch movies with me? I'm going to make popcorn," She tapped her fingernails on the pot she held in her arms, "So you want to watch movies with me?"

"What time is it?" Airabella looked peeved but she glanced up at the moon.

"Around 11. My question still stands."

"Eh sure why not. I'll help you make the popcorn." Kiley smiled and took the pot from Bella. They started walking towards one of the cabins no one really stayed in and once they got inside Kiley realized it was a rec. room not a cabin. There were a few pool tables, a TV with a gaming system or two under it and a DVD player. In one corner there was a popcorn machine on a table beside a microwave and a small fridge. In the other corner there was a bathroom and then a shelf with a bunch of home videos and other various movies. Airabella started popping the popcorn while she inspected the various movies. Let's see, Troy. 300. Hercules. War of the Titans. Get him to the Greek. Kiley wondered if they only got that one because it said Greek. They had other Walt Disney movies but a good portion of what was there was home videos. She ran her finger over a line of them. One said "How to maim a killer mime by Ronco Bronson."

"That one is terribly boring and not even real," Airabella purred from her left, "Ronco was a son of Hermes. He obviously didn't get out much. Lucky for you that's not the one we are going to watch."

"Which one? Bambi or Hydra Explosion by Phillip Dean?"

"Just go check on the popcorn while I put the movie in. You'll see what it is once it starts." Kiley didn't argue. She stood there and watched the popcorn slowly fill up the pot, occasionally pouring melted butter on it. As she did she wondered if all the salt and butter would stop her heart. She decided that she would be fine, she had the heart of a cow. She could handle a lot before she had a massive heart attack from popcorn overdose.

"Done yet?" Bella called from the couch. The movie was at the play menu, nothing real fancy just a blue screen playing some catchy song Kiley had never heard before. Airabella held the remote while patting the seat beside her. Kiley filled that spot and offered death-by-butter popcorn to Bells who took a handful.

"Kay I'm ready. You gonna tell me what we are watching now?" Airabella shook her head.

"Nope but I will tell you that after that movie, the one called…oh…what was it…Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief came out everyone at camp was freaking out. People made fun of Percy for weeks because of it. By making home video's. They all said they wanted to be like the brown haired Annabeth and the beautiful and witty Percy on screen. Your parents and Grover didn't find it funny at all so they started making their own home videos as protest against the other peoples videos and it became a contest. They video taped all their adventures. We are going to watch some."

"Of my parents!"

"Yep. Figured you might want to see them in their hay day." Kiley grinned wickedly and threw her arms around Airabella.

"Thanks. Your awesome."

"Your welcome…please stop touching me?"

"Right. Sorry." Bella shrugged and pressed play. A title came up. "Monsters in the Mall by Grover Underwood. Co-staring Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase." Kiley wanted to question the title but thought better of it. From there it began to show her parents sitting on a bench in the mall. They were just sitting. Not doing much. Percy, a young looking man with floppy dark hair and sea green eyes, had his arm around a young Annabeth had was laughing at something. Kiley didn't know what. The movie went on for an hour how they were shopping for a prom dress with Annabeth and Percy had been forced along and Grover came with a video camera to poke fun at Percy but they had got attacked in the dress store by…something. Kiley didn't know what. It was some kind of monster. Probably Greek. Very gross. Kiley watched as they preformed the perfect team kill and still got out of the store with moms dress intact which, Kiley had to say, was breath taking.

Next they watched a movie on the quest her mom had told her about. The one with all the dragons. Kiley noticed that for each one they had to come up with an entirely new tactic for attack. Her mother, Kiley again took into notice, was the one who came up with these tactics 99% of the time. The other 1% was Dads rush assault battle plan. Watching it Kiley couldn't help but get this feeling that she was the child of stars. Greater than any Greek hero ever born. People could protest all they want but there was no denying the facts. Her parents kick ass.

"Next movie," Airabella yawned, it was clear past midnight and Kiley had this feeling she wasn't going to get any sleep tonight and neither was Bella. Kiley watched Airabella get on her tippy toes to reach for the next movie and Kiley realized something. She wasn't fighting with Bella. She didn't have the urge to kill her. They were actually getting along. And they were becoming friends. The thought made Kiley feel so disoriented she had to set the popcorn down and start tapping at her thighs. Friends. They were friends. Part of her said this was as wrong as killing those innocent people had been but another part of her was glad all the drama had ended and in a pleasant way. Okay so maybe it's not so bad, she thought as Bella put the DVD in and handed the case to her, maybe being friends with Bella won't be bad but fun. She is nice when she wants to be. Just scared and….lonely. So very lonely. Bella didn't show it but she was. She had no friends because she played the evil prep card everywhere she went and her brother was always off doing something else. She had no father and her mother was a goddess so that meant no alone time. A jolt went down Kiley's spine, trickling like cold water. Kiley was Bella's only friend. Wow.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Bella chuckled as she said it.

"Um…no reason. What is this movie called?" Kiley looked down at the jewel case. It had the word "Surprise by Annabeth Jackson" wrote across the front in permanent marker.

"What the heck is it about?"

"Your mom finding out she's pregnant with you and Erin. Very interesting." This movie wasn't long. It was of Nico and Thalia video taping Annabeth as she told Percy they were expecting then of them telling Athena and Poseidon on Olympus. It was all very interesting as Bella has said. Pretty funny too. Kiley would have to ask her Dad if he had a scar form where Athena hit him with a golf club. Zeus's golf club. A small smile lit up Kiley's face when she watched it. She had never known her grandmother to be so violent in her life.

"Thanks for showing me that Bells. It was funny. Hahaha my Dad got knocked out cold." Silence.

"Bells?" Silence. Kiley looked down and saw that Bella had fallen asleep on Kiley's shoulder sometime during the movie. Kiley felt no need to wake her but she had no intention of sleeping so she looked around the room for something to do without moving. Nothing really unless she wanted to stay up all night eating popcorn but then she saw a stack of books on the table in front of the couch they were sitting on.

"The Lighting Thief.." She whispered to herself, "The Sea of Monsters…these are books about mom and dad…must read." It should be an Olympic sport, Kiley thought, to try and grab a book of the table a foot in front of you without moving. Her fingers just brushed the cover while she was straining at her most. She sat back and glared at the table then lighting struck her brain. Duh, why didn't she think of it before? Kiley hooked the bottom of the table with her foot and pulled the table to her, grabbing the first book off the table without trouble.

The first book, she concluded, was very interesting. Dad didn't know until it almost killed him that he was a half-blood. And now she knew where the bull horn in the chest had come form. It wasn't actually a bull horn, it was a minotaur horn. She finished the book in 15 minutes.

The second book made her cry. Her mother had almost died and no one told her! This Luke person, no one talked about him, she never knew Mom use to be in love with him! And what the heck! Dad got turned into a guinea pig! All those Pine tree jokes directed at Thalia made sense now, before it had really confused Kiley why they kept calling her a tree.

The third and fourth books Kiley got through rather easily though she got out of it that her parents had the worst luck ever and that if the grim reaper did exist he must have something against her parents because he really wanted them dead. Thalia had been a hunter of Artemis which meant no guys but somehow she ended up married to Nico with three kids? How does that work? And Nico was soooooo much younger or, rather, older if she thought about it but they are only a year apart now. And Nico had an older sister! She really needed to stop reading these books. They were going to drive her crazy but she still found herself reading the last one and she was finished with it just as the sun came up.

"My family is crazy. I hope Mrs. Woods ask us to compile a family tree on Monday. That would be so awesome." She laughed and threw the book on the table which woke Airabella up with a jump. Interesting, she didn't like loud noises. She stretched and yawned, unfurling on the couch like a kitten stirred from its sleep. In fact, now that she focused on it, everything about Bella reminded Kiley of a cat. A panther with her long black hair and animal hungry eyes. Her sleek figure and voice that seemed to purr when she was happy. How strange.

"Good morning," The panther purred pleasantly, "why did you break the table?"

"I didn't. I just threw a book on the table."

"Oh. It was loud. I don't like loud noises."

"I noticed." Airabella got up and went into one of the side rooms for a while then came back out with two steaming cups of coffee from Starbucks.

"How?"

"I'm a daughter of Hecate. Magic is my thing. In other words, don't ask. It's good though, you like caramel cappuccinos? That's what I got you. Here. Drink. You look like you didn't sleep at all," She sat on the couch and glanced at the books laying on the floor and table, "and you had yourself a little reading time. Fun."

Kiley sipped at her coffee. It was good. She didn't really like coffee, well honestly, she had never had it before. It was good. She liked caramel. Num, "No I didn't sleep. But-oh crap!"

"Yeah," Bella laughed lightly, purring into her coffee as she drank, "You didn't rest and you have to train Melina later today. Mistake who? Mistake Kiley."

"Crap! Double crap! I have to go to the Hephaestus cabin too like…right now!" Kiley found herself downing the coffee in a hurry.

"Relax. You can have people fill in for you to teach Melina so you can sleep and I'll walk with you to the quail peoples cabin. Come on. More coffee?"

They walked in the morning sunshine together drinking their Starbucks which got them weird looks from everyone but the Hecate campers, who just winked and kept walking. Bella was surprisingly pleasant to be around in the morning…if she had coffee. Which Kiley guessed she always did considering she knew a magic trick for it. When they got to the Hephaestus cabin Bella even got everyone a coffee and donuts from the Dutch Bros which had a cute little blue windmill on the cup. When Kiley asked her why not Starbucks for them Bella just shrugged and said she felt like going to Oregon.

"So did you guys finish up everything?" Kiley had asked while they drank which got her a round of smiles.

"Sure we did." Someone said.

"Of course we did." Another said.

"I burnt my finger." A random kid answered. They growled at him and called him a newbie. Still on the learning curve. Whatever that meant. But Kiley felt herself thrilled that everything had gone without trouble. They laid a blanket on the floor in front of Kiley and Bella and began to lay out the weapons on them.

They were extraordinary if not a bit extravagant. Jade's crossbow looked like braches interwoven together to form such a weapon but in the veins of the wood was celestial bronze and the butt of the weapon was made of solid bronze. A Greek omega imprinted deep into the metal on one side and scales for her mothers symbol of power on the other side. They had even crafted a small quiver of bolts that would strap to her thigh. Each bolt was made of the same dark twig like wood material with bronze veins and what looked like glass tips filled with green liquid. Greek fire. The quiver, as the cabin leader explained, refilled itself once it got down to just one arrow. The metal provided had allowed magical capacity, otherwise that would not have been possible. Ambers staff was made of a Chinese green wood, living wood, with celestial bronze ends. As it was explained the tips, round metal knobs for beating, slid off the stick to expose 6 inch spear heads on both ends. It was an ingenious invention really, one that Erin had come up with all on her own. Melina's weapon, in the form that it was in this moment, was a pair of black latex gloves. It wouldn't turn into the weapon it was until Melina put the gloves on. However when she did put the gloves on they would turn into hook swords. They looked like classic hook swords, the only difference being a small Greek symbol engraved on the blade. Kiley didn't recognize it and neither did any of the workers but she had a feeling Melina would.

"This is perfect. Thanks guys."

And thus ends this incredibly tedious and prolonged chapter. As I said above I'm sorry I haven't updated but please have the heart to understand why and forgive me?