A/N: The beginning of the relationship between Mary and Luke will be soon. Mary needs to have a relationship with Luke before she can have one with Percy. And by relationship I mean an allegiance, a crush. The boyfriend/girlfriend thing will come after I put up the poll about who Mary should be with. And that will come after her relationship with both is established.

Yuki: Now time for the horrible annoying disclaimers Go on Percy!

Percy: Yuki does not own Percy Jackson. She only owns Mary and Bernard.

Yuki: Good Percy!

Percy: Now will you tell me where Riptide is?

Yuki: Nope!

After Bernard gave me such a rude answer to my question I decided to sleep. Memphis was far away, I was on a bus so the ride would take forever, and I never know when I might be attacked. My life is just great isn't it? With all the gods trying to kill me and whatnot. Sighing I rested my head against the window and soon fell asleep, my hand still clutching the gift Luke gave me. I hope I can help him and his cause. He's been hurt too and who knows how many more demigods have been hurt by the Gods? People might say the cause is horrible but they don't know until they have experienced pain at the hands of the Gods that they put their faith in.

I usually don't dream for some reason but one came to me this time. Luke stood there but something was odd about him, he looked younger. And then there was a girl who I assume was younger Annabeth. I think she was about five, maybe? She seemed distressed for some reason. Monsters, perhaps? Ah who cares anyway, I don't even like Annabeth. She's a horrible know-it-all.

Suddenly the scene changed. I assume I was on Olympus because I sure as hell wasn't in Kansas anymore. I looked around at the empty throne room. 12 chairs….What about Hades, and the minor gods? Like Nike, my mother? Or Nix, goddess of darkness? Did Zeus have such a big ego that he had to restrict access to Olympus so he could get his ego stroked? And then I realized I wasn't the only one in the room. Hearing footsteps, I whirled around sword drawn and in attack

mode.

The god who looked menacing and was wearing mostly red spoke, "Good. Always be on your guard. If you let it down for even a minute you will be killed. Even in your sleep you must be on guard. " His voice sounded commanding like he had once commanded an army.

I ran through all the Gods I knew of in my head, searching for one who's title would match the God before me. Then it came to me. I was looking at Ares, God of War. My father.

"Father." I said, staring him down. "Why did you not stop Nike from taking away my shield when I was attacked by the Hellhound and burned? You helped Carlesse before on her quest for the golden fleece, you even gave her an electric spear. Why am I the one demigod who everyone seems to hate?" I asked, glaring at him, daring him to come up with a good answer.

"Even the gods can play favorites, Mary. And we can not get involved with other gods and what they do."

"SO IF NIKE SUDDENLY DECIDES TO HAVE ME KILLED NO ONE CAN DO ANYTHING? NOTHING CAN STOP HER? AND FAVORITES MY ASS! WHAT'S SO SPECIAL ABOUT CARLESSE? I'M A GODDESS SHE'S JUST A DEMIGOD!" I screeched, pissed off by that answer.

So apparently I'm nothing to anyone. I'm a goddess and yet for some reason I just don't matter? Luke's right the gods need to be demolished, Olympus must be destroyed. If Olympus is allowed to endure, we shall all die due to the gods foolishness and selfishness.

"Ah yes, the temper all of my children have seems to be most prominent in you. And Nike can not directly kill you. To do that would be a declaration of war against me and a declaration of war against me is a declaration of war against Olympus. You do not need favoritism, Mary. You need no help. I can not help you, I can not interfere directly with my children." Ares said as she turned and strode out of the room.

Oh well that's just great. No help, which mostly likely mean that my shield will fail again. Which means I'm completely useless in battle. I have no idea where this sword I'm holding came from, I don't even have a sword.

The throne room of Olympus began spinning, chaining into something darker. An abyss, a crack in the ground. Somehow I knew what this place was. It was deep in the realm of Hades, the underworld. It was giving off a sense of darkness. I didn't like this one bit. It was pure evil this place. I turned and began to walk away when a voice came out of that horrible pit, Tartarus.

"Why do you run young goddess? You supported Luke. By supporting Luke you support me, dear one. Don't you want to see Olympus fall? Watch the gods crumble like dust?" The voice said, evil in its tone.

"I do but I don't trust you. You ate your children, and killed your father to gain power. I do want to see Olympus and the Gods destroyed, but I do not serve you. I am not Luke. I am not loyal to you, I am loyal to myself, and to Luke. But not you."

"But don't you see dear girl. Luke is mine. He's my servant, he will help me rise from this dammed pit. And by using my powers he shall destroy Olympus for good. The very thing you want. The present he gave you? The scythe is my symbol. I am the Lord of Time. You are already drawn to me. You already serve me." The voice said, laughing.

I put my hand in my pocket and drew out the scythe Luke had given me. How had I not noticed what it really was? "I am not yours to command." I shouted, stabbing the scythe with the sword that once again appeared out of nowhere. By doing so I hopped to destroy it, thereby destroying my allegiance to Kronos.

"You can not destroy it. You are tied to me, tied to Luke, tied to the cause, and tied toTartarus. It's to late young goddess." The voice chuckled. I could feel its power growing in my mind, I had to fight it. But I was weakening. The words the voice spoke were exactly what I wanted.

" By destroying Olympus you destroy Nike and Ares. The two Gods who created you but now shun you and want you dead. After they are gone, you shall take their place in the new world we shall create. You shall be more powerful than them. A fearsome goddess you shall be. The thrones they held shall be yours. You shall be recognized by the other Gods and they shall obey you. The demigods shall be your army. To maneuver wherever you wish." The voice whispered, in a caring but powerful tone.

Yes, that was exactly what I wanted. To have my existence fulfilled, to be more powerful than the gods themselves. My own army sounded nice as well. I could kill off Miss know-it-all and take the things I wanted in the world. I would be a great commander.

"Who do you serve, young goddess? What is your desire?"" The voice asked, in a commanding tone.

"I serve the Lord Kronos, Lord of Time. I wish to see Olympus crushed and the Gods destroyed. I wish to see a new era of power." I said.

"You are mine young goddess. Listen to Luke, any order he gives you, you are to obey. Do not show any sign of allegiance to me or to Luke. Gain the others trust. When you know of their plans, relay all the information to Luke. Any information on defenses or attack plans are to also be relayed."

"Yes, my Lord."

Suddenly I felt something shaking me.

"Mary!"

"What?" I said, looking around. The bus had stopped and two other ladies had gotten on.

"How long was I asleep for?"

"About 3 hours." Percy answered.

"Alright." Something didn't feel right. I felt imminent danger. The three ladies on the bus were not right.

"Percy." I whispered.

"Yea?"

"Something doesn't feel right. I'm sensing danger. And I've got a feeling the three ladies are the cause of it. They're not human."

"What do you suggest we do?"

"Draw our weapons but secretly. If they're after us they'll be bound to sense it and reveal their true forms. Then we can know what we're fighting."

Percy nodded and moved to tell Annabeth and Grover what the plan was. The only weapon I had was a shield and I wasn't even sure if the thing would work. I suppose the only thing I can do is to protect the mortals and get them off this bus and out of harms way before things get ugly. Walking across the aisle I whispered in Bernard's ear what we were going to do. He nodded and drew his sword. Annabeth had her dagger out, Percy drew Riptide and Grover pulled out some tin cans.

All three of the creepy ladies looked up at the very instant all our weapons were drawn. As soon as they looked up, I moved to tell the mortals that we were making a pit-stop and that they needed to get off the bus.

"Time to die demigods!" Cried the bus driver, turning into something that could not be mistaken. A Fury. Just great. First my band teachers a Fury, then the Hellhound, and now all three of the Furies are here.

I looked down at my arm and taped what should release my shield. In my head I made a silent prayer that it would deploy. I guess the Gods were having a good day at Olympus or something because as soon as I tapped it, my shield sprung out and attached itself to my arm. Problem was, I had no weapon. I could protect myself and the others yes, but I just couldn't leave them to do all the fighting. I mean, Bernard barley knows how to use his sword. And all Grover has are some tin cans. How are those supposed to help us?

I frantically scanned the bus to see if there was anything that could be made into a weapon. Then I realized that I could break the back seat of the bus and use the metal rod that was in the top as a weapon.

Running back I barley had any time to manufacture that weapon before the Kindly Ones attacked.

Percy would be fine, he's done this before. And so has Annabeth. It's Bernard that needs the help, I thought grabbing the metal rod.

Running into the battle I screamed something in Greek that sounded something like "EAT MY PANTS!"

The one on the left was overwhelming Bernard and was about to slash his abdomen when I slid in-between and thrust my shield between him and the monster. Clasping the metal rod I jabbed it into the things eye socket, blinding it in one eye.

While it was howling in pain I pulled Bernard up.

"What are you doing? You can't just lay here on the floor. If you do you're gonna die." I said, while at the same time taking out the monsters other eye.

"You have a sword. All you need to do is jab the sharp pointy end somewhere in its body and pull it back out. Then stab it again. It's just that easy."

He nodded, stood, and drew his sword. The monster still had its sense of smell and hearing so it could find us. It flew quickly towards us, talons out, ready to slice us to bits.

Bernard drew his sword arm back and jabbed blindly. The creature just laughed and somehow his sword flew out of his hand. It knocked me aside and slashed. Bernard howled in pain and lay unconscious on the ground.

Well, I thought, guess I get to defeat big ugly by myself.

Standing I shouted, "HEY BIG UGLY! OVER HERE!"

The monster turned to me, "Your death shall be quite quick."

And then it lunged. I blocked with my shield, a satisfying clang ringing out, knowing that I had saved myself. My shield arm withdrew to my side and I took a careful am for it's neck. Just as I was about to stab, the talons came out of nowhere and made quite the mark in my chest. I screamed in pain but knew that I still had to fight.

The monster paused flying back, preparing for a dive attack. As soon as it dived, I let it get as close to me as possible without dying. And when the target was in range, I stabbed. The Fury exploded into green dust that collected all over my body.

"Eww...Monster bogies…"

I was weakened from the deep cash in my chest but Bernard was still unconscious. I slowly walked over to him and tired to rouse him. It was completely useless, he was out cold. I dragged my wounded comrade to the back of the bus and left him there. Running back to the front, I joined Percy in his fight.

Percy was doing quite well. The monster had multiple wounds on its body and Percy didn't seem to be hurt that badly. There were a couple of small wounds on his body that probably came from a crazing when he was dodging the monster.

I let Percy continue his assault on the front of the creature as I snuck around to its left flank. As soon as Percy's sword slashed again I moved in perfect sync, slashing at the left of the thing.

The Fury crumpled but was not yet defeated. I knew that Percy deserved the right to defeat it since he had been the one to wound it the most. His sword came down and the monster exploded. This time gold dust flew in the air.

Annabeth and Grover had defeated the third one soon after Percy and I had defeated ours.

"Thanks for the help, Mary."

"No problem. We are here to protect one another and to help one another. That's what friends do." I said, blushing a little.

I had no idea why I was blushing. I didn't like Percy like that! He was a friend. Besides, I was allied with Luke and Kronos. I could not fall for the enemy.

Annabeth and Grover walked over to us.

"Injuries?" Annabeth asked.

"Well, Bernard has a deep gash in his abdomen and is out cold. All I've got is this scratch here on my chest. Otherwise, I 'm completely fine." I answered, pointing to the gash in my chest.

"I'm fine, Annabeth." Percy answered.

"Percy you've got wounds everywhere. They may just be small but they still need to be treated." Annabeth said, worry evident in her voice.

I didn't want to interrupt their lovey-dovey moment so I walked to the back of the bus to retrieve Bernard who was finally coming to.

"...Ow...wha..What happened?" He asked, holding his stomach.

"Oh the monster put a deep gash in your abdomen and then you passed out. Percy, Grover, and me defeated the other monsters." I answered, steadying him as he tried to stand.

I put Bernard's arm around my shoulders and walked towards the others.

"We need to find someplace to hide. We don't know what else may be after us. And we need to figure out a plan and treat our wounds." Miss Know-It-All said.

Like all that stuff wasn't obvious.

"Percy do you always get attacked when you leave camp?"

"Yep. If I set one foot across the boundary line monsters immodestly come after me." Percy joked, smiling.

He had a great smile. It reassured me that we would be alright.

We all walked out of the bus and looked around.

"I suggest we go that way. There's a forest over there that we can make camp in and hide for a while. It's dense so we'll be harder to spot and if we are attacked there wont be any damage to buildings or to mortals." I pointed to a forest to the west that wasn't to far away.

"I like that idea," whispered Grover.

"Its a good plan, and a good place to hide," said Percy.

"I don't like it!" Annabeth nearly screamed.

"Why not?"

"We could get lost, there are probably wild animals in there that we would have to fend off, and its too dark!" She all but screeched.

Of course, she just didn't like the plan because I came up with it. What a bitch.

"We can use the wild animals as food if we have to, along with the berries and mushrooms that are in there. And we won't get lost because it's not that big of a forest and with this city here we'll be sure to see the lights. That way we can follow them back if we do get lost. As for the darkness, it's a forest. What do you expect? Carnival lights with people selling cotton candy?" I answered sarcastically.

"But...but...but.." Annabeth strutted, unable to think of any smart retaliation.

"Well then, since no one objects that's where we're going!" I said, beginning to lead everyone to the forest.

It didn't take long to get to the forest and when we found a clearing that had a good bit of light we began to set up camp.

Apparently the great daughter of Athena, who was the one in charge of packing medical supplies had forgotten to pack them in her rage that she had to travel with me. So I had to venture deeper into the forest to see if I could find any medical plants or herbs that we could use.

Looking down I saw a small white flower that I knew to be a type of herb that could be put on a wound to keep the wound from infection. I picked the whole bunch of them and put them in my pack.

Meanwhile back at the camp Annabeth was complaining to Percy.

"I don't trust her. I mean she's the daughter of Ares. Since when have one of his kids been nice? Then there's the fact that she's been attacked so much. Those monsters were after her. She endangers us just by being close to us. And when she woke up in the infirmary she was shouting stuff that sounded like she hated the Gods. The kind of stuff that Luke thinks."

"Annabeth. You just don't like having another girl travel with us. You're just jealous that you're not the only female anymore. She's not a full daughter of Ares, she's only half. All half-bloods get attacked, so that's not unusual. And you didn't have a problem when you kept getting attacked because I was around. And of course she was shouting stuff like that. They took away her shield and then Apollo's best healer couldn't help her at all. The gods treated her like she was a horrible mistake. I was a mistake, but they didn't try to kill me." Percy sighed, tired of Annabeth's constant bitching.

On the other hand, I had found a sort of tree that the bark could be used as a makeshift bandage. Putting different sized pieces into my bag I turned around and walked back to the camp. Once I was back to the clearing, Annabeth got up glared at me and went to her tent. I was taken aback by that but there were more important things to do.

Kneeling down, I pulled Bernard's shirt up to reveal the wound.

"It's really deep. It needs to be closed by some kind of stitches but we don't have any of those and we don't have any nectar or ambrosia. The best we can do now is dab these herbs on it to make sure it doesn't get infected."

"Will I be able to fight if we get attacked again?"

"No. Fighting will just make the gashes worse, they could be made even deeper. And then the trouble you would be in would be critical." I said, dabbing a bit of the white flower onto the wound.

When I had put enough of the herb on to keep infection off for the night, I wrapped the wound in the bark I had found.

"Sorry. It's going to be a bit uncomfortable to move. It would be a lot better if we actually had some bandages for you…" I sighed, wishing I could do more for him.

"You should get some sleep. It will help the wound to heal faster."

"Alright.." Bernard got up and entered his own tent.

I sat next to Percy, staring at the fire.

"I'll take watch tonight."

"You're still injured though."

"It's alright. You have more wounds than I do. You need to rest so they can heal. You're the most experienced with fighting here. You need to conserve your strength and heal."

"If you're sure, Mary." Percy said standing and entering the tent he shared with Grover and Bernard.

Sighing again, I stared into the dancing red hot flames of the fire. I shared a tent with Annabeth but if I tried to go in there Annabeth would probably bite my head off.

Besides I needed time to think. Did I really want to destroy Olympus completely? I mean, I want to destroy Ares and Nike but I don't want to harm the demigods who will fight against me. Alright, maybe I wanted to kill Annabeth but I couldn't fight against Percy. He was to kind and he trusted me. He stands up for me when Annabeth's being a bitch. And I cared about him. I didn't want to see him hurt. As for Bernard, I couldn't imagine harming him. I mean, I can't even say 'you're stupid' to the guy.

Holding my head in my hands I realized that this was going to be much harder than I thought.

And there's Chapter 7! The budding romance between Mary and Percy begins! But what about Luke? What about Bernard? Find out in the next episode of New God and Goddess. Coming soon to a computer near you!