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Piper

The sun was beginning to rise. Piper hadn't got any sleep during the night, what with fighting Mimas and all, but she didn't feel tired. She wanted to find these scriptures. She wanted to win this war, and if losing a night's sleep was what she had to do, then it was a small price to pay.

She walked through the park, Annabeth next to her. Piper thought about what Jason, Percy and hazel had found out. A spy. In their camp. She almost didn't want to believe it. The taste in Piper's mouth turned bitter.

Annabeth, however, looked pleased. "Why are you smiling?"Piper asked.

"Oh, it's nothing really."Piper looked at her. "Just…Having Bob and Damasen back…and Small Bob…I'm just so glad. It was horrible to think that we had left them in Tartarus, most likely dead. I just- I never thought- I grew up hearing of tales of heroes. But leaving Bob and Damasen…it's just, that wasn't heroic,"Annabeth finished.

Piper shook her head in disbelief. "Annabeth, you and Percy are the two of the most heroic people ever. You've been on countless quests; you've journeyed through Tartarus. You had to leave Bob and Damasen behind, but still, still, you managed to rescue them from Tartarus of all places. There is nothing more heroic."

Annabeth smiled at that. "I'm not sure that's quite true, but-"

"Oh, shut up already, and accept a compliment,"Piper grinned. Annabeth laughed. It felt good to have her friend back, Piper thought.

"So, what's the plan?"Piper asked.

They were approaching the Parthenon. Every time Piper looked at it, it took her breath away. The majestic monument was not as grand as it would have been in the time of the Greek empire, but Piper could still feel its power. This place was symbolic, especially to all demigods. This had come to represent the olden day Greece, the time of demigods.

Annabeth brushed a lock of hair over her shoulder. "I'm not entirely sure. I guess we just search for the scriptures. Its magic will draw us to it. Hopefully."

"But you must have some idea of what's going to happen, yes?"Piper pushed. "I mean, you picked me to come with you. I'm guessing that's for a reason."

Annabeth sighed and nodded. "Yes. If I remember correctly, I think I've heard some stories of what might lay ahead of us, if the tales are true."

"What?"

Annabeth surged into the Parthenon, not answering the question, Piper following her. Piper felt an electric tingle down her spine as she entered. The place was grand. This was the first time she had been here. She knew Annabeth had already visited during the night, but still she explored the Parthenon, awestruck. Piper knew it was pretty cool, but they did have a mission to complete.

"Annabeth?"She waved her hand.

Annabeth blushed. "Yes, sorry. It's just there's so many fascinating things here. If there wasn't a war going on…" Annabeth's eyes turned dreamy.

Piper snapped her hands. "Shall we search for the scriptures then?"Annabeth nodded.

Piper didn't really know where to start. The temple was massive. It was open to the elements, but there were subsections, altars lining the walls.

"This used to be not only a temple, but a treasury,"Annabeth called out from where she was examining a shrine. "It has much more space than it looks, and demigods know that there's a big underground network beneath this place."

Piper focused her attention on one shrine. It was in the centre of the furthest wall, but it didn't really draw attention to itself like some of the other one's did. She stepped closer, and Piper realised it was older than most of the other shrines. It was covered with careful drawings and words. In the centre was a small space, probably where a fire would have been lit. It was just about big enough for a human to squeeze into.

She didn't know why, but she felt like this shrine was important. She could see pictures of wars, battles, and big figures, emblazoned with light. A woman featured in one, her features bland but large, her eyes opened, menacing. Only her face was seen, and it formed the ground. "Gaia,"Piper whispered. The earth mother was staring up at a figure in a tunic, standing in the sky, proud, holding a familiar looking spear. That must be Ouranos. And coming behind him was a young man, holding a scythe, the golden light bouncing off him to reveal his cruel smile. Kronos, preparing to cut up his father.

Piper realised this shrine depicted some of the earliest stories about the universe. No wonder it had seemed so old. Was this were the scriptures that apparently contained the secret of raising Ouranos were hidden? Concealed by the shrine that depicted his death?

Piper felt a shiver run down her back. "Annabeth,"she called nervously. "You might want to see this."Annabeth walked over, before examining the shrine. Her face hardened.

"This may be where they're hidden,"she muttered.

"Annabeth,"Piper asked, "you said you had an idea what waited for us if we tried to find the scriptures. What?"

Annabeth glanced at her. "Some tricksters, evil spirits,"she muttered. "Nothing we can't handle."

Suddenly there was a gust of cold air. Annabeth and Piper were sent sprawling ten feet backwards on the cold marble floor.

"Nothing you can't handle?"a high-pitched voice imitated, cackling.

"Well, clearly they haven't met us before,"another, more feminine, but equally vicious voice said.

Piper looked up, her eyes focusing. Standing in front of the shrine were two human forms. On the left was a tall woman, with messy dark hair and cherry red lips. She had a semi-circular glittering red stone hanging down on her neck. She was pretty, but she had a crazy glint in her eyes, as did the man next to her. The man had the same messy dark hair and pale skin, and he too looked mad, his eyes sparkling. On his neck lay the other half of the same stone the woman had. They were both moving, their hands tapping, their heads shaking, their mouths laughing, and their forms were flickering, like it was hard for them to stay in one place. Winds rushed around them, becoming more hectic just by the two people, who looked so similar that Piper figured they must be twins, atmosphere. They definitely did not look sane.

The woman pouted. "Evil spirits,"she said. "That's not very nice."

The man nodded. "We're not evil. Sure we can do some 'harsh'"the man used air quotes "things, but we're not evil. It's all just a bit of fun."His grin grew wider.

"Who are you?"Piper asked as she got to her feet.

"I am Apate,"the woman giggled.

"And I am Dolos,"the man added. "We are the trickster twins,"they both said in unison, before bursting into a fit of laughter.

"The what?"

"The trickster twins,"Annabeth responded. "Apate and Dolos, gods of trickery, deceit, fraud and pranks. They're minor spirits,"Annabeth said scathingly.

Dolos placed a hand on his heart in mock hurt. "I'm offended,"he said. "But I forgive you Annabeth Chase. The amount of amusement you could give me and my sister,"Dolos took a deep inhale through his nose, before breathing out slowly. "It would be very, very fun."

"What do you mean?"Annabeth asked. Dolos just tapped his nose.

"Well where would be the fun in telling you?"Apate mock frowned, as if she was disappointed.

"I thought Hermes was the trickster god?"Piper frowned. Apate and Dolos exchanged looks.

"Oh dear,"Apate sighed. "So silly. Almost as silly as your boyfriend. But I'm sure he will have to pay for his mistakes far more."Piper looked at Apate.

"What…what do you know about Jason?" she quizzed. Apate just winked.

"The point is, Hermes is nothing like us. We are completely different,"Dolos explained, his hands flapping like he was dancing. His movement was extremely disorientating.

Apate nodded. "Hermes is the god of pranks and such, yes, but he is more interested with the process, the actual planning of the prank or the mischief, not the end result. He wants something elaborate, something magnificent!"

"Whereas we care more about the chaos afterwards,"Dolos smirked. "If that's what you want, we're you're gods. We're a little bit more…ah, serious, when it comes to such matters."

"Hermes is childish,"Apate nodded. "We will go to any lengths for chaos!"

The wild glint in the two twins'eyes was enough to make Piper shudder. Though they at first glance seemed to be spirits of fun things, Piper suspected they were a lot more sinister than she had originally thought.

Annabeth cleared her throat. "That's great, and all, but we came her for the scriptures. So if we can just get the scriptures and go, that would be good."

"There's no need for trouble,"Piper agreed, pouring a little charmspeak into her words.

It didn't seem to work.

"The scriptures?"Apate asked in fake innocence. "What are they?"

Dolos nodded, stroking his chin as if thinking. "Plus, even if we did know what they were, we wouldn't let you look at them."

Piper scowled. "Not an option."

Suddenly the wind tore, rushing about in a frenzy, circling Piper and Annabeth. Dolos flickered and appeared opposite Apate, behind the two demigods. Together, Apate and Dolos walked forward slowly, trapping them in their small circle.

"Not an option,"Apate mimicked. "What do you want with the scriptures anyway?"

"Yeah, wouldn't you rather talk to us?"Dolos pouted.

Annabeth drew her sword. "Not really."

"But we have so many things to tell you!"Dolos said cheekily.

"Don't you want Gaia to be defeated?"Piper asked.

"Gaia?"Apate responded. "Why, she's our mother. Of course we're on her side."

Piper didn't like the situation. The two gods were unpredictable. She couldn't be sure what they would do next. She felt Annabeth tense next to her. They were going to attack. Piper drew Katoptris and charged towards Dolos, Annabeth whirling towards Apate.

Dolos'eyes widened in amusement. As Piper raised her dagger, his form became transparent, and the weapon passed through him.

"Piper!"Dolos cried. "Behind you!"Without thinking, Piper turned around, only to be pushed forward, crashing into the cool marble floor. Cursing, she realised she had been tricked. She struggled up to her feet, her nose bleeding; Piper suspected it might be broken. The pain was almost unbearable. She lashed out at Dolos. Dolos flickered and teleported to the other side of her. Piper swung again, but once more Dolos reappeared elsewhere. This continued, Piper getting dizzy from the loss of blood and her whirling around. She gasped for breath. Dolos was cackling with laughter.

Piper stumbled backwards to where Annabeth had been pushed backwards by a gust of wind. Apate started giggling.

"You silly heroes, always trying to fight us." Apate snarled. Blushing, Piper's mind whirled with thoughts.

'I'm not useless!' Piper thought, anger clouding her mind. She interpreted one of Apates' movements, seeing where get body would end up. She swirled round, carrying momentum, and jumped. She jumped head first into Annabeth, who was trying to ward off Dolos.

"Useless demigods, aren't they?" Dolos laughed. Apate sniggered, watching as Piper stumbled into the shrine, dizzy. Finally she slumped to the ground.

Piper realised that Apate and Dolos were just too fast for them, and she couldn't use charmspeak either. The gods seemed to be resistant to it.

"Just as silly as their friends,"Dolos added. "Oh but Percy Jackson, Jason Grace, Leo Valdez, Hazel Levesque and Frank Zhang…They're going to have a nasty shock aren't they? Kidnapped by him, or her…"Dolos shuddered.

Apate nodded. "I almost feel sorry for them…if it wasn't going to be so fun to see how it will play out!"

Piper's blood turned cold. "What are you talking about?"Neither god answered.

"Don't listen to them Piper, they're lying,"Annabeth growled.

"You know, Annabeth Chase, I thought we already told you,"Apate tilted her head. "We don't always lie. Sometimes we don't have to, not to get chaos. And so moments when we simply have to tell the truth to result in madness, usually when it comes to demigods…"

"They're the most satisfying,"Dolos finished. For once, neither of them were smiling, but simply breathing in, looking pleased.

Piper felt a wave of desperation come over her. She needed to get out of here. She didn't want to talk to these two horrible…things anymore. But how could she beat them?

Slowly, an idea came to her. She couldn't use charmspeak, but that wasn't Aphrodite's true power. Charmspeak was pouring magic to trick people, but these gods were the rulers of trickery, it would be futile. But she didn't need charmspeak on them. Aphrodite was about emotions, and these two had basically just told them what their biggest desires were.

So Piper started laughing. Annabeth, thank god for her brain, started joining in. "Why are you laughing?"Dolos demanded.

"Because you think we don't know!"Piper grinned. "You honestly think we didn't know about everything you've said? Pfft."Piper waved her hand. "It's all part of the plan. Isn't that right Annabeth?"

"Oh yes. But I guess you would be too junior to know top secret plans."

"Junior?"Apate frowned.

"Yup. Please, go ahead, don't let us have the scriptures. Your mother will be very pleased,"Piper said sarcastically. "And you say you want chaos."

"But we do,"Dolos muttered.

"Then you should probably let us have the scriptures, silly. Every time you trick us isn't going to help. You're becoming like Hermes,"Annabeth sighed, "trying to plan something, but not getting chaos at the end, surely maybe you can see the path with the most chaos?" Annabeth rolled her eyes.

Apate and Dolos stood there, confused. This is what Piper had wanted. She had used their own emotions against them, stripping them bare, leaving them vulnerable.

Slowly, Piper and Annabeth walked towards them consolingly.

"Well?"Piper asked.

Apate nodded slowly. "We do want chaos."They both reached toward the glimmering red stones hanging on their necks, and pulled them off, handing them too the demigods. Piper grinned. But so did Dolos.

"You fools,"He smiled. "You honestly think we fell for that?"

"Look how happy they are, thinking they have succeeded. It will be so fun when we take the stones back!"Apate said scornfully. She lunged towards Piper. Piper drew her dagger. But this time she was prepared. Apate and Dolos may have thought they had been the ones tricking the demigods, but Piper could see that they really had been confused, by their own emotions. It was disarming for them, and Piper had to use it to her advantage.

She spun round and cleaved her dagger in a wide arc, disintegrating Apate. Dolos screeched, but Annabeth stabbed him, and he too turned into a pile of dust.

Piper sighed in relief.

"That was amazing Piper!"Annabeth exclaimed. "How did you know we would be able to beat them?"

"They knew we were tricking them, that Gaia didn't actually want us to have the scriptures, but we still played with their emotions, their desires. Once we broke free from their trickery, it was simple. That's why we were able to beat them so easily second time round."

"Come on,"Annabeth said. "We need to find the scriptures."

Piper hurried towards the shrine she had originally been examining. At the top was a small hole, just about big enough to fit a stone…She held out her half of the red stone, before piecing it together with Annabeth's. There was a red glow, and Piper could see that the two stones had moulded into one. Annabeth carefully fitted it into the hole.

The line that ran down the shrine, like a crack, started to glow. The shrine drew back into two halves to reveal a small, lit room, with walls of stone but no windows. In the centre was a wooden table, and lying on top of that were three ornate scrolls.

Annabeth rushed forward and carefully started to unfold one. Piper came up behind her. The scrolls had lots of writing, and sometimes pictures, all in ancient Greek. Annabeth quickly scanned them.

"What does it say?"Piper asked. Annabeth was the best at reading ancient Greek.

"I'm not entirely sure, it'll take some time to decipher it. We should take them back to camp."Suddenly Annabeth's eyes darkened, her mouth tightened. Piper could tell something was wrong. "No. This can't be right…"Annabeth muttered. For once, she actually looked scared. "We need to get back to camp. Now."

Read on, next chapter updated in one weeks' time. Find out what happened at the end of Chapter 18, and read on to find out Annabeth's fears of the future. I have some good plans. Now REVIEW! In response to Crie13's review, I think that Luke and the curse of the Achilles' heel have been used already, but don't worry, I have some tricks up my sleeve. Im sure Frank will play a big role soon ;) Thank you! :)