Annabeth POV

I never once thought that Olympus is above the Empire State Building but given I have seen so many weird things these days, this doesn't really faze me, heck nothing can faze me anymore.

Anyways, back here in the throne room with 12 gods looking down at us.

Hermes spoke first "You guys know that you are forbidden from going back to camp right?"

We nodded our heads then Zeus continued "We have come to a conclusion that you six are the best fighters at camp, thus we choose you for a special job."

Poseidon looked up "You six have been chosen as the six members of the Sanctuary"

Athena continued "The sanctuary is basically a strong force who works directly under us, the Gods. You will be trained by the best and carry out jobs for us."

Thalia spoke up "Why us?"

Ares spoke "With the children of the big three and a great strategist at your side, you six are inevitably the best team ever formed."

Zeus continued "You have a choice to make, you can join Sanctuary or live out in the wild"

We looked at each other and nodded. In unison we spoke "We will join the Sanctuary"

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We adjourned to our headquarters, which is situated near the Empire State Building. The building looks a bit shabby from the outside but inside, it's totally hi-tech.

Fully furnished with six rooms and a living room. There are computers everywhere and a few weapons hanging around here and there.

We each entered our rooms and in the wardrobe hangs a few white jacket with a hood, that must be our uniform.

After we settled in, the gods called us in for our first training. We ran, jumped, swam, slashed, cut, stabbed and even learnt martial arts. We basically did everything that could've been done.

After 2 weeks of training, the gods gave us our first quest. A few demigods are stranded in the jungles near California and another group of demigods captured by a few monsters in a mountain.

We decided to split into 2 groups. So, I went with Percy and Bianca whereas, Jason, Nico and Thalia teamed up.

The gods decided that Jason's group was to go to the mountains because children of Zeus tends to work better in greater heights.

We decided to reach California using water travel but Jason, Nico and Thalia traveled by air at the nearest airport.

The water ride was smooth maybe because it was Percy controlling the boat for the entire time.

By the time we arrived in California, he just fell back and fell asleep. I caught him just in time as Bianca was tying the ropes.

We left Percy at a motel and went out to explore the place a little.

That was when Bianca decided to pop out with a question "So….you like Percy don't you?"

I was startled and looked away, "Yeah sure….as a friend"

"Don't lie, Annabeth. I can notice how you act around him."

I blushed a bit and was about to tell her otherwise when I saw a shadow moving at the back.

Nico POV

How great, I get to work with the electric siblings, haha get it because they are Zeus's children. Better not let them hear that or they'll smite me.

We're boarding a plane to Washington, where Mount Rainier is. We could have totally travelled there by road but since there are two children of Zeus, I'm overruled.

Besides having a chance of them smiting me or the fact that we have to travel by air, the siblings are cool to be with.

It was a small plane with a three seats on each side of the aisle. Jason took the window seat with Thalia taking the centre and me at the aisle seat.

We wanted to sleep through the whole journey because there weren't anything else better to do. Though I noticed a suspicious man at the opposite side two rows back in the aisle seat.

He seems to be spying on us so I wanted to talk to him a bit but the seat belt sign came on and I missed my chance.

I forgot about him by the time the plane was starting to take off, I was busy clutching my seat and Thalia beside me laughing. Jason wasn't doing to good in keeping in his laughter either.

As the plane stabilized, I shot them murderous glares and they became quiet. We talked for a bit, discussing strategies, talking about the time when we escaped those monsters. We kept our voices to the minimum because we didn't want to rise the suspicions of these mortals.

After around 10 minutes of talking, we all fell asleep. When I woke up, we were ready to land and I clutched to my seat again.

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When we walked out of the airport, a sudden gush of wind blows at us. We decided to visit the White House for a bit since none of us has seen it yet.

It was magnificent, with secret service everywhere, the place was totally protected. They all looked at us warily as we walked past, probably thinking 'Could these kids bring harm to the President?'

We laughed and waved, and those guards tried their best not to feel intimidated, but one of them shot us a glare. We quickly scampered away, not wanting to cause anymore ruckus.

We stayed at a cheap hotel near the mountains. It was already really late by the time we settled in so we decided to start the hike early tomorrow morning.

When I finished my bath, Jason called me out for a drink. We talked a bit about the gods, about school and pretty much every random thing you can think of.

When we were walking back to the lift, talking and laughing, I saw someone at the front door of the hotel, looking into it like it wanted to get in but couldn't.

I walked closer and looked again and it shocked me that I jumped back a few steps and almost fell down, I hear Jason's footsteps behind, but my eyes was on the man outside, he was looking straight at me now.

It was the man on the airplane.

I'm sorry for the shitty chapter, I focused this chapter mostly on relaxation before their mission. There was really less serious content in this chapter except for the last part of both POVs, as I said this chapter was to be more comedical.