Sorry this chapter is so short, I'm having a bit of writer's block, I'll try to update as fast as I can.

CARTER

As I showed Annabeth and Percy around I heard a crash coming from the Great Room and a voice that was definatly Thalia's screamed, 'NICO! ZIA TOLD US NOT TO TOUCH ANYTHING!'

I turned to Percy and Annabeth who just rolled their eyes. 'Nico is so accident prone.' Annabeth muttered and we then ran towards the Great Room. Once we got there the scene was horrible, the statue of Thoth was headless, scrolls were scattered all over the floor and Nico was lying on the floor, his clothes smoking.

'Nico, I said go and open the box of magic tools, not the box of magicaly posessed sharp objects!' Thalia yelled.

Nico groaned and sat up. 'Well how was I supposed to read the label if I'm dyslexic?'

'IT DIDN'T HAVE ANY WORDS!' Thalia bellowed. 'The pictures clearly said, 'Do not touch, contains posessed sharp objects'!'

'Then why did you electrocute me?' He asked.

'BECAUSE YOU WERE BEING AN IDIOT!'

'GUYS!' Annabeth yelled. The two stopped arguing. 'Shut it! Gods, you're worst than my Mom and Poseidon, I swear...'

Then Zia came in and when she saw what had happened she dropped her staff and wand. 'Can I not leave you two alone for five minutes without destroying aything?' She yelled. 'It's bad enough having five Demigods in the House of Life but when two of those Demigods come into the Great Room and destroy the statue of Thoth? You're worst than Sadie and Carter!'

'Hey, we're not that bad!' Nico protested.

'Really?' Percy asked. 'What about that time when you and Thalia had a staring contest and you got so annoyed that Thalia was winning you sent skeletons after her?'

'But she cheated!' He yelled.

Then Jaz and Walt came in. 'Hey Carter, have you seen - Whoa...' Walt exclaimed, looking around the now destroyed Great Room.

'What happened?' Jaz asked, looking around, having the same expression as Walt.

'Ask those two.' Zia grumbled, gesturing towards Nico and Thalia.

'You know you haven't indroduced them to us?' Walt pointed out.

Zia rolled her eyes. 'Walt, Jaz, this is Thalia, Nico, Annabeth and Percy. Annabeth, Percy, Thalia, Nico, this is Jaz and Walt.'

'So are you going to answer our question?' Walt asked.

'Well, I saw a box that had a picture of a staff and a wand on it,' Thalia explained. 'I asked Nico to open it, but he thought I said to open the box with the pictures of flying swords and one of the swords kinda chopped the head off the falcon guy.'

'So she got mad at me for disobeying Zia and she shocked me.' Nico finished.

I sighed. 'So it's just an accident?' The pair nodded. 'Okay, Zia, you can continue the tour, I'll get the cleaning team.'

I was just about to leave when Walt stopped me. 'Hey, have you seen Sadie?' He asked.

'Yeah, I saw her outside the training arena.'

RYAN

Sadie led me upstairs where the rooms were, I didn't talk to her because I was still mad at her for calling me stupid and I got the feeling she didn't wanted to talk to me either. After passing a couple of rooms which were occupied by bored magicians, we stopped in front of the open door of an unoccupied room. When I went inside it was bigger than any of the rooms in my foster appartment.

I sat down on my bed, all I had was an extra pair of clothes an Slashbolt in my pocket. I looked at Sadie, she had a vacent look on her face like she was thinking about something. There was an awkward silence until I said, 'What was your Mom like?'

She glared at me and then sighed. 'Look, I'm sorry about calling you stupid, I just didn't know that you had dyslexia.'

I stared at her, being around her all day, I was surprised she would even say sorry. 'It's okay, I get called stupid a lot, so what was your Mom like?'

She sat next to me. 'I didn't really know her, she died when I was 6, but people who have met her said I look like her.'

'People say I look like my Dad,' I said, trying to sound conforting. 'Percy, Annabeth and Nico say that I have his hair and eyes.'

Sadie looked at me. 'What about your Mum, what was she like?'

I sighed. 'My Mom wasn't exactly stable, she drank and pulled stunts, she and Thalia didn't get along, whenever they argued I was the one who was hiding under the table covering my ears. She got better when my Dad was around, she knew he was Zeus, she liked it when he made the sky rumble or him giving her presents. Our family was dyfunctional, when monsters attacked, she and Thalia argued but when my little brother dissapeared -' I stopped, I hated talking about my family, much less about Jason.

Sadie nodded as if she understood what I had gone through and she shifted unconfortably. 'Do you have a picture?' She asked. I nodded, took out a picture of when me, Thalia, Jason and Mom were messing around with the camera. Thalia was ruffling my hair, while Mom was holding Jason who was trying to grab Thalia's hair. I smiled and gave Sadie the photo.

She looked at it and the expression on her face showed she was trying not to laugh. 'This is what you call a dysfunctional family? You should of seen the court session between my Dad and Grandparents! It involved Dad beating up Gramps and a spatula.'

I raised an eyebrow. 'A spatula?'

'It's a long story...' She grumbled, getting up. She walked towards the door and opened the door and I realized I hadn't told her how my Mom died.

'Sadie.' I called, she turned. 'About my Mom, she died when I was twelve, there was a car crash, I was the only one that survived and the window broke, putting the scar on my face.' Sadie stared at me, her expression was a mixture of surprise and guilt but then she shook her head and walked out.

I groaned, combed my fingers through my hair and put my head in my hands. I then saw something that I could of sworn wasn't there a minute ago, a acoustic guitar was on a stand and written in Greek on a label said, 'Ryan, thought this might cheer you up, Apollo.'

I smiled. 'Thanks bro.'