Sob sob sob! It's been forever and I feel sooo bad! Truth is I'm finding my story to be extremely long so ya I guess I'm hurrying it along a bit too fast... Well, anyway here it is :) 3

No, it's not like I have feelings for that Shadow character. He's cocky arrogant and thinks he can do a better job of protecting me than I can. It was the girls like this who went missing in my foster home. Not that he was girly or anything, with those abs, and his face...

But I didn't like him. 100% impossible. So when Chaos came to visit me the next morning, I wasn't shy to give him a piece of my mind.

"What, the foresworn Hades, Chaos?" I exclaimed when he came and sat across from me at the dining room. "Pardon my Greek."

Thalia, or mom, had already finished eating and she was in the gardens, which instead of being full of colour was all black, in a beautiful way. And Shadow, I had no idea where in Hades he was, but I say patiently and waited for Chaos. Why did he have to stick me with Shadow, like, what did I ever do to deserve this?

When I brought this concept up with mom, she simply said "he's kinda cute, be glad you didn't get stuck with Brian." And in a way I guess she was right. Brian was a tree nymph who exceeded in advanced classes of racing. He also just so happened to enrol in every. One. Of my classes.

But it still kind of pissed me off that my mom was right.

"Brenna, dear, what kind of language is that? Surely not of the princess of Olympus."

"You can bet Hades robes it is! Do you know what you did? That boy is a nightmare! He thinks that he's all this and that cause he can wield a sword! Well, haha, jokes on him cause I can too!" I crossed my arms, catching my breath from my short explosion. But Chaos simply shook his head and smiled.

"My dear, dear child. Look in a mirror." And with that burst of spunk, he disappeared. Leaving me and my open mouth catching flies.

~Line Break~

If you ever get the chance to visit Olympus for some strange reason, for example, just hypothetically, a key to the 600th floor appears in your mail and there are directions, do not follow them. Especially if your a scientist... Because I tend to get a little angry and it turns out you can randomly combust.

Just hypothetically, of course.

So lately I've been trying to find other ways to control my anger, and it turns out pacing Olympus is just that. Anger management.

Even though its been two hundred years, nothing up here on Olympus has really changed. Other than the punk water naïds who suddenly think the oil spills are a good excuse to go goth. Even down on earth, things are slow to advance. The little advancements they made, floating cars, floating (actually all advancements are floating, so not too advanced I guess) they look at it like a miracle. Every one of those ideas that led to something actually originated on my birthday.

What can I say... I'm generous. But I still don't exist to them. In fact, because of that, I could go down in my (mandatory) flowing Greek princess gown and my olive reef crown and no one would compare me to a goddess.

So that's what I did. The sun was shining, Greek explanation for that, and the winds were calm, another easily explainable reason for that, so I pretended I was going to be a student at NYC live statue art that they do almost every weekend.

I first stumbled upon it, when mom told me about a childhood friend of my dad's. Her name was Rachel, an she ended up becoming the Oracle, ending any romance there, Thalia would always say. But before any of our crazy world entered hers, she was crazy about art. In fact, one day, when dad and... A girl everyone on Olympus refuses to talk about or mention her name, needed Rachel's help on a quest, she was posing to raise money. When mom told me, I was a bit overwhelmed and I teleported the first place I thought of. City central.

They were holding the same sort of thing and they always have, so every weekend I would go and participate... And today was no different.

There was something nice about just standing there and having people watch you with interest, shock, and admiration. Kids would run up dump money in a can and then wave their hands in front of your face to distract you. Occasionally, I would break focus and do something silly just to make them laugh. And I always felt better after, even though they say the higher you are the fresher the air. I'm not sure that's true, because it seemed pretty damn clear to me.

It had been almost four hours when I saw him standing in the crowds. I guess it was then that I realized just how accurate his name was.

"Shadow." I whispered, my mouth letting it out like a breath. All of a sudden he was beside me, time was frozen.

"Chaos has called us to Olympus, Brenna. It's time."

"Time for what?" I asked confused.

He looked solemn, like he didn't want whatever news he had to shatter the world.

"War."

I guess what he wanted didn't matter.

me: well, might not be my finest work but, you know, YOLO, right?

Thalia: please, please for all things mercifully Hera, tell me you did not just say that...

me: like, for tots! :) I mean I only live once so I can say it... You can't :P

Thalia: I'm glad you only live once. I couldn't imagine putting up with you twice.

me: you? You can't put up with me? I have to put up with you and your daughter. Talk about nightmare... Did you know i actually wrote YOLO on my inhaler so I would remember to always bring it with me or I would die? People still laugh at me cause of it but you know,

Thalia: no, no please don't say it!

me: YOLO!

*Thalia storms off cursing*

me: what got into her chastity belt?

*thunder rumbles*

Thalia: I HEARD THAT!

me: haha ~innocent~ review?