Raindrop's Baaaaack! So, the last chapter was in Michaela's POV, and now it's time for you to meet ERIN! This chapter kind of overlaps with the last one. And forget about what Hart said, no Connor, or NICO for any of you.

Hart: B-b-but I promised…

Me: Oh fine, just one hug for each reviewer. *gives pointed looks to Connor and Nico*

Connor: One hug per reviewer. Got it.

Nico: Yep, got it.

Me: Ok then… it's time to face the cold hard truth.

Hart: Stop being so dramatic! We don't own PJO. Big whoop!

Ok, so here I was standing in the middle of the dining pavilion at a camp, I didn't even know existed yesterday, with all the campers staring at me. How? You may ask did I end up in this predicament. Well, yesterday I was kidnapped by three book characters, I was "claimed" by a god, who's supposedly my father, and I and my two good friends played a prank on some people. Needless to say, I do think we did a good job. The Aphrodite kids were running around like crazed birds, the Ares bullies were so angry I could see smoke coming out of their ears, and Percy was trying to clean off Nico, who we'd doused in honey and chocolate. Chiron had just asked who was guilty, and blamed the Stolls, they're apparently world class pranksters. But they said

"For once, we actually didn't do it," Michaela, Tana and I met eyes, and I could tell they felt as guilty as I did, no matter how proud we were, so, like we'd rehearsed it we all stood up.

"We did it," we sighed simultaneously. That's when everyone's head whipped towards us, and Nico, still sticky with honey and chocolate looked flabbergasted at us. Then a super, duper, bright light appeared, flashing behind us. When it died down, we all looked towards where it had come from. Standing there was the most beautiful woman, I'd ever seen, a huge, terrifying biker, a teenager that looked like a Hollister model, a man wearing a mailman uniform, but his shoes had wings, and a man with dark hair and eyes that looked like a lawyer, but his suit was stitched with faces of tortured souls… Santana gasped, and dropped to her knees.

"Lords Ares, Apollo, Hermes, and Hades, Lady Aphrodite, hi," she said looking up and giving a small guilty wave.

"What right do you even think you have to cover my kids in chocolate and feathers?" Lady Aphrodite and the biker god screamed at her. She cowered back so far, that I thought she wanted to just melt into the ground.

"Hey, she didn't do it by herself!" Michaela yelled, defending her. Then the man in the suit turned to her.

"Yes, we know, but she is the one who knows everything. And, she is a child that should have never been had in the first place, and I could just smite her on the spot!" he exclaimed/explained. Santana's eyes got watery, and her bottom lip trembled. She turned to me.

"Erin, my books are in my bunk, if you can, please put them into a shadowbox for me," she requested before facing Michaela.

"Mac, read The Mark of Athena for me, tell everyone about the second series," she told her, a tear running down her cheek.

"You are wise, child," Hades said, pointing a single finger at her. She bit her lip, expecting the worst, when a still sticky Nico stepped up.

"Father! Don't," he snapped.

"You dare order me boy?" the man, now I knew he was Hades exploded.

"You can't kill her! She's a good, innocent person! She needs to live, Rachel foretold it!" Nico yelled at his father. Hades got a thoughtful look on his face, when the Hollister model god stepped up.

"Your son is correct, my oracle foretold Santana's destiny in your son's prophecy," he said, and with a start, I realized that this teenage looking guy, was my… dad.

"Yes, Erin I am your dad," he said, addressing my unspoken thought. Well, way to make me feel awkward.

"You know the smartass is right Hades, we can't touch her, because of her mother," Ares, I assumed, grumbled.

"You can't, but I can," Aphrodite said, and then she vanished in a puff of pink rose scented smoke, with a strangely wicked laugh. Tana's eyes widened and she face palmed.

"Smite me now," she begged.

"Silly girl, your mother won't allow that!" the mailman, Hermes I guess, laughed.

"But, good job with that prank! It was amazing, it was worthy of my children," he added, and my dad laughed, nodding. Soon, all the gods vanished, leaving us wondering whether or not we should be afraid, Tana was obviously terrified.

"What's wrong?" I asked her, once everyone got back to their own business. She looked at me, wide eyed and scared.

"Aphrodite shouldn't be underestimated, if you knew her power, and were in my place, you'd be wishing you were smote too," she whispered frantically, then we went along the entire day, I didn't see her once, neither did Michaela, but I knew there was one person who would know where she was. I walked over too the creepy cabin that seemed like a polar opposite from my own cabin. I could hear voices inside…

"… not healthy for you to stay up there all day!" Nico said, almost yelling, but not quite.

"And it wasn't healthy for you to try to bring Bianca back!" Tana, definitely Tana, countered. Then, I assumed that his facial expression changed drastically.

"No! I- I didn't mean it, its just that, I'm paranoid! As if it's not hard enough just living with you, now I know that she'll be messing with my emotions too, I just… can't," she tried to explain herself. I backed away from the cabin and went to go find Michaela. Michaela had known her longer than me, she knew her better, I could confirm with her to make sure. I saw her in the strawberry field trying to make them grow.

"Michaela, why is Tana freaked out about living with Nico?" I asked her.

"She's been basically in love with him since his first appearance in the books," she answered, nonchalantly, then her eyes widened.

"Oh gods bless her soul," she muttered under her breath, but I caught it.

"Why?" I asked her, scared.

"Aphrodite's meddling isn't starting now. It's been going on for years!" she exclaimed. The goddess of love, Tana had told me about her heart crushing love life. She'd fall head over heels for every guy, but they never give her a single chance. It made me feel bad for her, now she had met the only boy she ever felt she would even have a hope of getting, and Aphrodite's meddling had only just begun.

"Did it ever get extremely bad?" I asked her, Tana, well, didn't let her past be known in the open. Whenever some of it slipped out, she would explain. But not much.

"She tried to kill herself in the sixth grade," she said, looking down, given her mood, the strawberries at her feet shriveled. I choked on the air.

"She- she did what?" I managed to make out.

"I don't know how, but I know she tried, I caught her tear a poem in half. She never tears her work, so, I pulled both halves out of the trash… it was called "Suicide" it was haunting, and all of her most haunting works are true," she explained. I don't know what I thought was weirder, the fact that my dad looked nineteen, or that one of the happiest people I knew had tried to kill herself…

Well, that's all for now, expect Tana's POV next… Review!

~Raindrop