I am so sorry that this took so long to post, I'm in Naples Florida at a hotel on vacation w/my family and the wifi is iffy. I don't know if I will be able to post again until after new years.

Thank you to the people that submitted OCs!

Wow, over twenty reviews! Thank you thank you (::)

And over 1000 hits! Yay!

Until I get it as a Chanukah present, I won't own PJO and since there's only two (including tonight) nights left, my chances are slim

I put their outfits on polyvore if anybody cares, it's the last link (The link is broken though, so it's not really a link.)

FYI: Katie is 17, Kia is 17(her b-day today), Faith is 16, Megan is 16, Connor is 16, Travis is 18, and Jackson is 14.

"We can explain, I promise." I told a panicked Jackson. He always looked so sure of himself, so, cocky. I'd never seen him like this before. He looked as if you'd just told someone that his entire life was a lie, which honestly, in this case, it kind of was. "Jackson, we all went through this too."

"This is a dream. This is a dream. Please tell me this is a dream," he said so quietly I could barely hear him. It worried me to see him so broken. He might have been one of the most annoying adolescents that I've ever known, but seeming him like this…

"You know the Greek gods?" I asked him. He nodded. "Well they're alive and well. I am the daughter of Demeter, goddess of the harvest, and the Stolls here are sons of Hermes. We think that you're a demigod, half mortal, half god, like us. But we should talk about this more later, right now we have a birthday party to attend."

We walked in silence to the restaurant. It was snowing and it just looked so peaceful. If I didn't know any better I would have thought that this was Olympus. The mountains looked so majestic with their snow covered trees and trails winding down the side. I was so busy looking at the view that I almost walked into a pole.

"Katie!" Travis called out at the last minute, jolting me out of my thoughts. I took this opportunity to notice the pole in front of me and blushed.

"Thanks."

"It's what I'm here for," he replied with a smirk.

"Shouldn't there be more people here?" Jackson asked once we entered the restaurant. I looked around. He was right. Aside from Megan, Faith and Kia who were sitting at a table, it was completely empty. That was the first clue that this wasn't just a normal everyday occurance. We joined them at the table.

"Travis, does this feel off to you?" I asked him, abandoning all pretenses of being independent. We were all stuck in this mess together; I might as well use their help. Suddenly I heard I rumbling noise. I looked outside, the light flurries from about ten minutes ago had turned into a full-on snowstorm. Connor must have seen it to because he ran and tried the door.

"It's frozen shut," he said when he couldn't open the door.

I looked at Travis. "This is not good," I said, then an idea occurred to me. "Maybe I can open the door."

"Katie, if Connor couldn't open the door, why do you think that you can?" Megan asked, but I ignored her. I wasn't planning on using strength. I walked over to the door of the restaurant and opened my palm. Luckily, for decoration purposes there were two medium-sized hydrangea plants. I moved my hands up and concentrated all of my will power; I could feel everybody's eyes on me. I pushed my hands forward and the Hydrangeas followed my lead. They rose up and grew to about three times their length, vines sprouting off the stems. They pushed up against the door and immediately turned to ice. That was the second clue that something was up. I walked back to the rest of them.

"The Hydrangeas turned to ice as soon as they touched the door…don't touch the door." My friends were all staring at me with expressions of horror. Seeing their shocked faces I added. "Guys, I haven't been completely honest with you."

"You, you can move plants with your mind," Kia said. "There's nothing strange about that."

"Remember how I told you my mom left my dad and I when I was little and was never seen again? Well, that's only half of the truth. My mom did leave my dad, but I have seen her since then. My mother was, is, Demeter. Yeah, that Demeter." I knew that they all knew whom I was talking about considering we'd just finished our school's Greek unit. "The Stolls here are sons of Hermes, and Megan, I think Jackson might be one too." Megan looked as if we'd hit her in the head with a bowling ball, and Kia and Faith didn't look much better.

"Now," I said, going back into practical Katie mode. "If were going to survive…"

"Going to survive?" Faith asked. Oh yeah. Being in life or death situation was new for them.

"Would you rather the alternative?" I asked her, the three of them were quiet after that. "Kia and Connor, go check in the back. See if you can find food and water, we need water so we can Iris message camp. Jackson, go with Megan and Faith and see if there's anywhere that we can sleep. Travis and I will scout the place and look for any other monsters. If you need anything, yell." We went our separate ways until I heard Connor shout. We ran over towards the source of the noise. The entire kitchen was covered in a sheet of ice, similar to what was covering the door. I unclasped my necklace and poked the ice with my sword, it immediately melted into a pool of water. I took one of my emergency drachmas out of my wallet, thank goodness I was prepared, I thought to myself. I threw the coin into the water and said the words.

"O Iris, goddess of the rainbow, accept my offering. Show me Annabeth Chase" Immediately a picture of Annabeth and Percy Jackson making out filled the air. I cleared my throat and they sprung apart. Wow, the same awkward situation twice on the same vacation with two different couples, I was on a roll.

"Gods, Katie. Give us a warning next time you do that," Annabeth said irritably.

"We need help, we're trapped in a fondue restaurant in Colorado and we've already fought a manticore. I'm with three of my mortal friends and I think that my friend Megan's little brother might be a demigod." Annabeth's eyes seemed to darken dramatically.

"Katie. Things at camp aren't great either. The gods have gone silent."

Like my little cliffhanger? I will not update until this story has 50 reviews. with over 2,500 hits, that's not too much to ask for is it?