Sorry for not updating quicker! This is Reyna's last chapter. It goes; Annabeth, Reyna, ? (you'll have to wait to find out! Mwahaha!)

As much as I would like to, I do not own PJO or HoO. I don't own the title, or characters. The geius Rick Riordan does. :(

"What did Annabeth do?" An angry sounding Thalia Grace demanded.

Once again, Reyna explained her choice.

Thalia took a deep, shaky breath. "Okay, maybe she'll try and buy us some time. This has happened before. She may even pretend to co-operate. She's a daughter of Athena, goddess of Wisdom and Battle Strategy. She's the smartest person - who can die; without a bit of immortality - that I know, and most probably the smartest alive in the world."

Reyna nodded. "We need to get to New York - your camp."

"But the Argo II exploded, broke, burnt. How else are we going to travel?" Piper pointed out.

In the corner, Leo grinned. "That's where the Leo comes in."

Everyone except him frowned.

He sighed, sounding annoyed. "I mean, it's automatically programmed to build itself back together, starting from the head. Annabeth managed to get it off, and I saw it land in the woods," he nodded pointingly out of the window. "It takes two days, so it should be ready by now."

Percy grinned. "Wow. So, all we have to do, is find it?"

"Well, yeah, it shouldn't be hard to find. It's huge. How many massive flying-ships do you see around these days?" Leo replied, challengingly.

Reyna felt uneasy. "I know it's big-"

"Big?" Leo raised an eyebrow.

"Fine! Huge, then. I know it's huge, but, the forest is teeming with monsters. It would take a whole army, of about, I dunno', few thousand, to be able to travel safely in there. The only thing stopping them from coming out is a magical boundary, making it so that we can go in and out,, but they can't. "

Jason nodded. "One time, when I was a kid, about eight or nine, I think, someone went in there, as a dare, and he hasn't been seen since. What's worse, is that he was fully armed, one of the best fighters in the whole legion. Not once, since then, have I been anywhere near them."

The group were quiet for a while, until Thalia gasped. "Hazel, you're a daughter of Pluto, aren't you?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Well, Nico could summon skeletons from the ground, and make them work, fight anything. Have you ever tried?"

Hazel shook her head. "Out of Pluto's spheres of control, I represent the riches. My brother is the Underworld part. But, I guess I could try…"

Half an hour later, the demigods had some skeleton warriors to guard them, as they tread carefully through the forest. The skeleton warriors had been given orders to defend, and not attack any monsters they came across.

Piper and Hazel both looked like they disagreed about this. "Guys, are you sure we shouldn't just tell the skeletons to go get it?" Piper pleaded.

"Yeah, I can direct them. I think," Hazel added, in a small voice.

"No, we have to stay like this now we've entered. It's a Roman thing. Pride. If we back out now, we'll look like fools, look weak. We must carry on," Reyna spoke firmly.

Up in front with Thalia and Percy, Leo gasped. "I think I see it!" He ran on ahead, leaving the others behind.

Piper groaned. "Leo, wait!" They followed him, just keeping up. When they caught up with him, he was staring at the ship; now fully re-built, looking like new.

"Wow, nice workmanship. Did Tyson-" Percy was interrupted by a giant - not a giant from Gaia, but a giant as in huge - came running towards them, his arms out, and his eye - yeah, eye - was sparkling with joy.

"Percy! You are saying nice things about the boat," Tyson exhaled, and a hellhound leapt into the new clearing that the Argo II had made, due to its crash-landing/exploding.

"Hey, girl," Percy took a step towards 'her', but 'she' jumped on him, pushing him to the floor, licking Percy to death.

"Ahh! Mrs O'Leary! Get-Off-Me…Ahh!" Reyna was trying not to laugh at this; watching the Hero of Olympus, Percy Jackson, get taken down and licked to death by the worlds only-friendly hellhound?

After a minute or two, Mrs O'Leary took her paws off his shoulders, obviously satisfied.

Percy, however, was drenched in hellhound drool - it seemed his ability to stay dry did not work with hellhound drool.

"So, how are we gunna' lug this back?" Leo drew her attention back to the Argo II. Hazel and Thalia looked mystified. Leo and Piper were stumped. Percy was still trying to get the drool off his face, and Tyson was playing with her. Only Frank seemed to know an answer.

"Do we have any rope?" He asked.

"Argh!" Reyna cursed in Latin. "Of all the things to forget, rope has to be…one…of…them…" she slowed down, and stopped. Leo was rummaging in his tool belt - different from the other Greeks' ones, Reyna noticed. Maybe his was magic, while their's were normal.

"Ah-ha! How much rope do ya' need?" He questioned mischievously.

Three minutes later, the half-bloods stared at Frank. "Well?" Thalia demanded. "Why do we need so much rope?" Her question was answered, as he transformed into an elephant. "Wow, wow, wow! Holy Zeus, how?" Thalia cried for the rest of the Greeks.

"Yeah, about that. Frank is a shape-shifter." Hazel then went on to explain their quest, and how he'd discovered his gift.

Piper nodded, still shell-shocked. "Cool. Very cool. So I guess we all have our own powers, then. I can charmspeak, Thalia and Jason can make lightning, Leo can make fire, Percy can make a small hurricane, Tyson is great at mechanics, Annabeth is smart, Hazel can summon skeletons and gems and stuff, Nico can summon the dead and skeletons and stuff, Frank can shape-shift, and Reyna, you're, a great fighter, from what I've heard," Piper summed up.

"Pretty much," Hazel agreed.

"C'mon. Let's get this to camp, before any monsters show up." Reyna helped the others harness Frank, who then dragged the Argo II to camp.

By the time they got there, it was starting to get dark. "Just in time," Piper breathed.

"Yep, let's tell them we can leave, then leave tomorrow," Reyna said.

"'Let's leave tomorrow' again?" Frank complained.

Everyone laughed. "Sorry!" Thalia apologized.

They marched into the pavilion. "Heroes! We shall leave for Camp Half-Blood tomorrow! Only selected Romans may go, due to room!" Reyna announced. There were some cheers, and some moans. "Only the best fighters, strategists, and healers may come. The rest of you must prepare for war. Vitellius and Terminus will be in charge of the camp, because I don't trust someone," she looked pointedly at Octavian, "to do it. We will come to tell you if you are chosen. Remember, only a quarter of you will come. So don't be disappointed." With that, she turned, and walked towards the principia.

"Well, at least that's sorted," Hazel tried to lighten up the mood.

OOH! Someone else's turn at having a chapter next! I wonder who! Well, I've actually already started it, and I know who. Most people can work it out, though. Which, is a shame, really. No suprises. Only for the people who can't guess it. Hope you enjoyed the chapter! If you are confused about the updating with my 3 stories, check my profile!