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Percy POV

"Well, there's really only one thing we can do," said Jason, looking at all of us.

"Hide?" asked Leo.

"Go find Frank? And Piper?" asked Hazel.

"Track down our idiot children?" asked Annabeth.

Jason, Annabeth, Leo, Hazel, and I were sitting in the house alone, trying to figure out what to do. So far we hadn't made much progress.

"No," said Jason. "Send someone we trust after our children to help them."

"Help them? With what?" demanded Hazel.

"With . . . whatever they're doing."

"Who are we supposed to send, Great Leader Jason Grace?" I asked. "And who died and made you in charge?"

He glared at me. "That's not funny. You're welcome to say something."

I didn't have anything to say to that. To be honest, I had no idea who we should send. And yes, though I didn't want to admit it, Jason's idea was a good one.

Clarisse was too violent and frightening, Travis couldn't be trusted, Reyna was steamed at all of us for no reason, and Octavian was just a creep who had gone missing. Who on earth could do this?

And then the answer came to me. It was so obvious, I felt like a complete idiot.

"Nico di Angelo."

Everyone whipped their head towards me.

"My brother?" asked Hazel incredulously. "Does anyone even know where he is?"

"And can he be trusted?" added Leo, who apparently still had a slight grudge with the son of Hades.

"It doesn't matter. Do you have any better ideas?"

Silence.

"That's what I thought."

Sammy POV

"Um, Sammy - ?"

I kept my mouth shut for fear of saying something absolutely horrible to my sister.

The two of us were storming through camp, passing tens of hundreds of demigods and legacies. No one gave me a second look, but they did glance at Emily Marie a little weirdly.

I heard the voice I never wanted to hear again coming from the distance. It was faint, but I could tell what it was saying.

"Sammy! Sammy! Sammy!"

Calling my name a thousand times wouldn't make me turn around.

Don't ask why I was so ticked at Collin. In fact, I wasn't quite sure either. He didn't really do anything. I think I was just scared of what to say to my best friend in the entire world who was no longer related to me like I thought he was.

The real person I was mad at was Leo. Leo Valdez was officially the cruelest person to walk this earth. How could he possibly think it was okay to not tell anyone about this? It just seemed plain cowardly to me. He was embarrassed, and his embarrassment was slowly killing everyone around him.

"Oh, gods," I muttered. They had caught up to me.

"Sammy, what are you - "

"Shut up!" I yelled. "I don't want to hear a single thing you have to say! I'm leaving, and there's nothing you can do about it."

"But we're leaving too!" said Helena. I stopped and Emily Marie heeled like a dog.

Turning around, I asked, "What did you say?"

"That's right," scowled Collin. "I don't know why you're so pissed at me, but the rest of us are going to go find Frank and Piper and kill Ouranos."

I snorted. "Please. I can't believe you think you can do that on your own."

"But we can't," said Jessica. "Not without you."

Looking into Jessica's blue eyes, I caved in. There was something mysterious and captivating about that girl, and looking back on it, I'm pretty sure she charmspeaked me without realizing it. She must have gotten that from her mother.

Her mother, who was missing. And so was my dad. Gods, why was I even debating this? I should have jumped at the chance to get my father back.

"All right," I said. "I'll do it."

Emily Marie started jumping up and down. "Can I come too? Please please please please please?"

"I don't know, Em. It sounds kind of dangerous," I told her.

"I love dangerous things! Please please please please please please please please please?"

"Does she ever shut up?" asked Ethan.

"No," muttered Collin.

"All right!" yelled Helena. "We'll take her with us. But does she have to be so freaking obnoxious?"

Jessica laughed. "Yeah, who knows? With that kind of annoyablilty, maybe she's Leo's kid too."

Collin glared at her. His golden eyes seemed to ignite with fire as he stared daggers at Jessica Grace. Jess turned bright red and stared at her feet. "I mean, um - yeah. Never mind."

"Hang on a sec," said Ethan. "Why would Emily be Leo's son? And why is Collin so - whoa. Does that mean . . . ?"

Helena shoved him and he fell into a huge mud puddle, covering him in brown sludge. The girl named Lexie laughed so hard, she nearly started to cry. And then soon everyone was cracking up for no reason, and we completely forgot about the mission at hand.

I don't know. Maybe traveling with these guys wouldn't be so horrible after all.

Nico POV

I was running through the woods, trying not to trip over anything, when it came. Something I never thought someone like me would receive.

For the first time in twenty years, I had recieved an Iris Message.

Really, though, I couldn't have gotten it at a worse time. I had just shadow traveled out of the Underworld after angering a couple hellhounds, and they were on my tail.

"Who are you?" I yelled at the shimmering rainbow. Luckily, it followed me as I tore through the dense undergrowth.

"Hey, Nico! It's your old pal Percy! May I ask, what exactly are you doing?"

"No way," I muttered. Why was Percy Jackson messaging me?

"Long story!" I told him. "What do you want?"

I couldn't turn my head to look at him for fear I would get distracted and then eaten, but I could hear his voice.

"Where are you?" he asked. "I was wondering if you could do us a favor."

"I'm in a forest not far out from Los Angeles. What do you need?"

"Well, it's kind of a really long story . . . "