JULIET

I watched as Fisher and Maverick returned to the rec room. All of the seven took their seats around the table and Fisher took a seat next to me in the back of the room.

"So, these are the famous seven?" Fisher whispered to me. I nodded. "Then who are they?" I looked in the direction that Fisher was pointing and saw two girls wearing silver enter the room. One of them was the girl we saw leading the group earlier and the other had spiky black hair. The girl with spiky hair walked over and hugged Jason and the others in the room bowed to the other girl in silver.

"Who's the silver girl?" Taylor called out to the room. Everyone in the room gave Taylor a worried look. The girl with spiky hair stormed over to Taylor.

"This is Lady Artemis and I would ask that you show her some respect." The girl warned.

"Who's Artemis?"

"You cannot possibly be a demigod." Taylor stood up and got in the girl's face.

"I've been hunted by monsters as long as I can remember. I'm just as much of a demigod as anyone else in this room."

"You are inexperienced and will get killed on this quest."

"You're Jason's sister right?"

"Yes, I'm Thalia, lieutenant of the Hunters of Artemis."

"Well, from what I've heard, you're an expert in the whole dying thing right? I mean you were a tree at one point." Thalia started laughing.

"I'm going to kill you."

"Don't you need me for your little quest or something?"

"Ladies stop, you're both beautiful." Percy said. Annabeth punched him in the stomach.

"Now, if everyone is ready, we have a prophecy to read." Chiron stated. "But foremost, we must introduce our new friends. This is Fisher, Maverick, Juliet, Taylor, and Patrick."

"Claimed?" An Asian guy asked.

"Yes, Fisher is my brother, son of Poseidon." Percy announced proudly.

"Maverick here is a son of Apollo." Fisher said trying to divert some of the stares.

"The rest have yet to be claimed." Annabeth told the room. Piper was staring at me for some reason.

"Oh, sorry, your necklace is just so beautiful." Piper told me. "Where did you get it?"

"Fisher bought it for me." I looked over at Fisher who was gazing at the floor.

"That's a really expensive necklace. Where did you get that kind of money?"

"Patrick is unnaturally lucky. It comes in handy some times."

"What do you mean by that?" Jason asked.

"I'm a pretty good gambler." Patrick said.

"He finally speaks." Leo said.

"We've hit the casinos a few times. Patrick doesn't lose." There was suddenly a glowing light above Patrick and the image of a Cornucopia.

"Well, this was certainly unexpected." Chiron said. "All hail Patrick, the first son of Tyche, goddess of luck and fortune."

"Hey, how come I didn't get a cool introduction?" Maverick asked.

"Because you were flirting when you got claimed." Fisher responded.

"I was not flirting."

"Come on, who's the lucky lady?" Jason asked. Fisher started choking.

"Uh, no one important. We have a prophecy to read, right?" Maverick changed the subject.

"That is correct. This prophecy has been with me since we first moved to America." Chiron said. "Annabeth, would you do the honors?"

"Of course, I will." Annabeth said as she unrolled the scroll containing the prophecy.

"Seven shall embark to the islands in the west.

The brothers of the sea shall lead the quest."

"You heard the prophecy. We're going to Hawaii!" Percy said and high fived Fisher.

"Who are the other five going to be?" Jason asked.

"Cousins of the sun and moon assist.

Daughter of wisdom cannot resist."

"Well, obviously Annabeth is the daughter of wisdom." Piper said.

"Everyone here is considered cousins because of their godly heritage, so that could be anyone." Annabeth said.

"What if it's referring to real cousins like Taylor and I?" Maverick asked.

"The sun part would make sense for Maverick, but what could the moon be? I mean, Artemis doesn't have any children. Right, my Lady?" Thalia asked. Artemis said nothing.

"Is there something that you're not sharing with us Lady Artemis?" Leo asked mischievously. Artemis looked at the floor and then at Taylor.

"It has only happened once. I fell in love with a man named Arthur Fields." Artemis said. "Taylor, you are my daughter." On command a silver moon appeared over Taylor's head.

"Oh my gods, how can you have a daughter?" Thalia shrieked.

"Oh my gods, how can I be your daughter?" Taylor mimicked.

"This has taken a rather sharp turn. It would appear that so far we have Percy and Fisher leading the group of Annabeth, Maverick, and Taylor." Chiron said.

"Which means, we still need two more quest members." Annabeth finished.

"Two daughters of love will be in need.

Son of thunder has a different deed."

"Fairly simple. We need two daughters of Aphrodite and Jason has a different quest, so I would guess one of the daughters is Piper." Chiron said.

"So far, everyone on the quest has been in this room." Fisher said. "My guess is that Jules is a daughter of Aphrodite and the seventh member."

"Why do you assume that I'm a daughter of Aphrodite?" I asked.

"Firstly because you look like the daughter of the love goddess and secondly you've just been claimed." Sure enough the symbol for Aphrodite was flashing over my head.

"The team for the quest is settled, Percy, Fisher, Maverick, Taylor, Annabeth, Piper, and Juliet. Annabeth, can you finish the prophecy for us?" Chiron said.

"One can control the phoenix's fire,

Children of lightning's final retire,

Nature calls for the son of the king,

Misery, the son of luck shall bring,

The phoenix determines who prevails,

Army of fortune succeeds or fails."

Everyone looked towards the son of Tyche. Patrick stood of from his seat and addressed the room.

"We have been on the run for so long and it's all the gods' fault. They have to be punished for what they have done."

"We all have hard lives Patrick. What is the prophecy talking about, an army?" Percy asked. Patrick laughed.

"Yes, an army. My army will find the phoenix and destroy it and then we will storm Olympus and destroy it."

"Patrick, what the Hades man?" Fisher said. "When did you become so evil?"

"The gods are the evil ones with everything that they have done."

"Yea, well listen closely Patrick. This whole switching to the dark side is a huge surprise but there is no way that you have an army that will storm Olympus." Percy said.

"That is where you're wrong. I've gathered some of the most fearsome and legendary creatures from history to battle alongside me. The gods cannot interfere. We will take Olympus in one night exactly a week from now. Your only chance is capturing the phoenix and somehow training to fight for you and even then you don't stand much of a chance. Goodbye, my former friends." With that, Patrick vanished into thin air.

"I can't believe Patrick would do something like this." I said.

"Well, believe it because it's happening." Leo said.

"We need to get the phoenix and apparently Artemis needs Jason for something." Annabeth said.

"Are we just going to skip over the part where it says that Jason and I are going to die?" Thalia said. Piper and Taylor had tears in their eyes but for different reasons.

"Lady Artemis, what do you need me for?" Jason asked.

"Lycaon and the rest of the werewolves are working for Patrick. They have been sent to kill the phoenix while the rest of the army assembles. That is not the worst part, however." Artemis said. "The Vrykolakas have also joined them in the pursuit. Jason will accompany my hunt it tracking down the groups and we will meet up with the quest members in Hawaii."

"What are Vrykolakas?" Fisher asked.

"They're like werewolves and vampires mixed together. Not fun." Annabeth said.

"The quest members will depart immediately. Jason will accompany the hunt in their mission. Frank and Hazel shall return to Camp Jupiter and inform them of the impending battle. Leo can just keep doing whatever Leo does." Chiron announced. "Good luck and Thalia and Jason, please do be careful. You're under good protection with the hunt." Percy stood up.

"Alright, let's go capture a phoenix."