Chapter 18 [my chapter headings are confusing me so let's call this chp 18 from now on even though it's not]:

Annabeth didn't know what to do. She was all alone in the middle of Mt. Olympus in a foreign country where crazy monsters and demons were roaming. Her boyfriend and friends had just been kidnapped by some crazy guy with black eyes, and to top things off, her leg was broken.

She didn't know where to go and it was hard for her to concentrate without wanting to scream in misery. She had reunited with Percy only a few months before and now he was gone. She had dreamed of them spending the rest of their lives together and that dream was starting to fade. After thinking of a million ways where she wouldn't end up dead, the only thing she could think of was to stay where she was at and hope the others got to her soon. And that wasn't a very happy thought because if any monster were to attack her she'd be unable to put up much of a fight.

"Mom please help me," Annabeth's eyes were squeezed shut as she prayed with all her might that her mother would hear her and send help.

Nothing happened. Annabeth could feel a tear running down her face and she quickly rubbed it away. There was no time for her to cry, she had to keep thinking of a plan. However the best plan at that point was simply hope.

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Sadie woke early the next day in a foreign room and with a very bad headache.

"Hey you're awake."

Sadie felt a soft hand on her forehead and suddenly the pain was gone. She opened her eyes and saw Jazz, a blond girl from Tennessee. Jazz was one of those people that made Sadie realize she couldn't judge a book by its cover. She was a cheerleader and at first Sadie thought she was a typical dumb cheerleader. However, after spending a few months with her in pursuit of an amulet of Ra's, Sadie had come to seriously respect her. Jazz was an amazing healer and a loyal friend.

Sadie smiled at seeing her again. "Wow, my headache is gone. Thanks Jazz," Sadie said sitting up to get a better look at her friend who looked to be in her normal cheery state.

"I'm so glad you're all right Sadie!" Jazz said giving her a hug. "You're friend Nico and Chris had found you in the forest bleeding under a tree. What happened?"

"A nasty Greek root monster sprung out from the ground and tripped me. I'm lucky to have gotten away with just a bruised head." Jazz laughed at her lie.

"Well you seem to be just fine now. A lot has happened since you've been asleep. You should probably talk to Carter."

"Carter's here?"

"Yup, he arrived early this morning. I think him and the others are talking to Chiron on Half-Blood Hill. They'll catch you up on things."

Sadie nodded and quickly scooted off the bed. She looked around and noticed a few more magicians and campers on other beds in the tiny room. Some of them were completely bandaged, she guessed the no stabbing rule had been forgotten completely the night before.

Sadie said her goodbyes to Jazz and set off to find Chiron and her brother. She didn't have to look too long because she found them on Half-Blood hill. She smiled as she recognized Zia, she hadn't changed much. As she got closer she realized they weren't alone, with them were a group of girls.

They all looked no older than 16, but at the same time they all had a strange aura to them. As if they were actually more mature than they looked. At the front of the group was a beautiful auburn haired girl who looked like she was 12-years old. Sadie felt envious of her eye color - they were the color of a full moon on a dark night.

The beautiful girl and others watched her as she joined the others. She could tell that there was tension amongst all of them. Especially since a few of the girls seemed to be glaring at Chiron and her friends. Nico seemed to dislike the auburn haired girl the most – his angry gaze was fixated on her.

"I heard you got back this morning, how was the trip?" Sadie asked Carter.

Carter smiled and Sadie knew he was probably jumping for joy inside at having Zia back with him. "It was fine. We were going to go to Egypt after picking you and AJ up but after what happened yesterday we kind of have to go to Greece."

Sadie was going to question him more but Chiron cleared his throat, "This is Sadie Kane, Lady Artemis. She is-"

"The blood of Ramses and Narmer," Artemis said interrupting Chiron's introduction, "It's nice to meet you Sadie Kane." The other girls nodded at her politely.

Sadie recognized that Artemis was a Greek goddess and she raced her memory trying to figure out who exactly she was. Artemis must've known she was having trouble remembering because she smiled at her, making Sadie fidget, she was really pretty and kind of scary at the same time.

"I'm Artemis, Greek goddess of the hunt and the moon," Artemis said to her and motioned to the girls behind her, "These are my hunters."

Sadie could see Carter roll his eyes at her. She glared at him. It wasn't her fault there were so many Greek gods and goddesses to remember. She barely knew the Egyptian gods!

The girls with Artemis glared back at Carter making him hide behind Zia.

"We were just discussing travel plans Sadie," Chiron told her, "Lady Artemis believes her brother, Lord Apollo, will help us with transporting some people along with our camp vans."

"We have a stolen car," CJ looked bored as usual.

"Wait. What happened yesterday? We're leaving today? Is Clarisse coming too?" Sadie felt weird being so out of the loop after a night of being in a concussion.

"Apparently the demigods who we were going to save have been kidnapped by Egyptians," AJ explained, "It wasn't one of us personally, but we're still being blamed."

"And we have three days to find them or else," Carter added.

"Or else what?"

Carter's expression fell, "I guess we'll be locked up for the remainder of our lives."

"How is that fair at all?" Sadie asked angrily to Artemis. Her hunter's tensed and they looked like they wanted to hit her.

"It's okay," Artemis said to her angry hunters, "Life isn't fair Sadie Kane. I don't agree with my father's decision, that's why I'm here sending my hunters to help." Sadie nodded and felt bad for blaming her so suddenly.

Artemis continued, "I will continue to try and persuade my father that the gods need to help more, but I'm afraid it'll fall on useless ears unless you magicians succeed in finding the missing demigods."

Chiron interrupted their brooding at hearing such grim news, "Well until Apollo arrives I feel we should all get ready. Tell the others to also get ready, we will leave in about 20 minutes."

They nodded and left Chiron and Artemis talking about something on the top of the hill.

"How are you Nico? It's been a while since I've last seen you," asked a girl with black hair, blue eyes, and a kind of hawkish face. She had the same weird glow as the other girls.

"I'm good," Nico said giving her a small smile.

The girl smiled and patted him on his back, making Sadie's heart beat faster and she felt annoyed at the girl acting so familiar with him.

"I heard your dad is making you go to school."

"Yea, it was bad at first but I've made some new friends. Oh yea, Thalia this is Sadie, Carter, CJ, AJ, and Zia," Nico said pointing to each of them. Thalia smiled politely at them. Sadie noticed the other girls were distancing themselves away from Carter and AJ and were kind of standing near her, Zia, and CJ.

"This is Thalia, she's one of my old friends," Nico said. Everyone but Sadie smiled at her, resulting in Thalia giving her a weird look. Sadie didn't care if she was begin rude though, well she knew she was acting a bit immature but she couldn't help it.

"Why is Artemis so young looking? I didn't know what to expect of her, but-"

"But what?" the hunters asked interrupting Carter. Sadie was right, they were definitely scary, especially with the way they were all glaring at him.

Carter gave them a sheepish smile, "Nothing you know, I just thought she'd be a lot older looking since she's like thousands of years old. Nothing wrong with looking 9 though."

"She didn't look 9 Carter," Sadie said scoffing at him.

"Fine I thought she would look older than 11," Carter said rolling his eyes at her, "Why does she look like that? Did she stop growing?"

Thalia raised her eyebrows at him, "She chooses to look that way."

"Have you all ever faced Egyptian monsters?" Sadie tried to change the conversation after Carter's accidental insult to their goddess.

"A few," Thalia said quietly, the other girls suddenly looked sad. Sadie guessed they had lost someone important. "Lady Artemis has given us more help in knowing how to destroy them. We won't be as hopeless as before."

"She didn't seem pleased at seeing us," AJ said suddenly.

Thalia smirked at him, "The last thing any of the Greek gods want is help from magicians. We are from different world basically. They've coexisted before but it's not like they've ever been friendly with one another."

"They'd prefer it if we were always separate. I can understand that too. No offense to you guys but I don't believe there will ever be times when our gods will be best friends," AJ said. Sadie didn't like his pessimism – it was possible for them to get along if they tried. She and Nico were friends.

"Where are the Egyptian gods?" asked one of the hunters.

"I just came back from spending some time in the Land of the Dead. Horus said he would send help if we really need it, though I don't know what that means though. We could use some right now," Zia sounded peeved.

The group of them reached the other magicians and campers and announced the news that they would be leaving soon. Sadie split up from the group and looked around for Clarisse, apparently the magicians had won the previous day's game meaning Clarisse had promised she and her brothers and sisters would also come to Greece and help.

"Clarisse!" Sadie yelled out as she knocked on the bloody looking Ares cabin. The door opened and Sadie was greeted by a familiar face.

"You!" Sadie glared at the guy who had attacked her last night. He was even scarier looking in the daylight.

The guy smirked, "Clarisse, that girl is here for you." He moved out of the way when Clarisse barged past him. She was dressed in full gear, with a Spartan helmet and body armor.

"So, are you guys coming with us to Greece today? We're leaving in 20 minutes or so. We did win-"

"I know you won," Clarisse glared at her, "Won't happen again though. We know how to deal with your magic now. Attack first and talk after you're bloodied on the ground." Sadie cringed at her dark smirk.

"Does that mean you're coming then?"

Clarisse sighed, "We promised we would didn't we? Besides with those seven half-bloods so easily captured it's a chance for the Ares kids to show that one of us should've gone in the first place. We just have to get finished packing in preparation for some monster butt kicking."

After leaving Clarisse alone Sadie went to the big house and packed her own belongings before making her way to Half-Blood Hill. She found Zia and Carter. She laughed as she overheard her brother flirting with Zia - he was so awkward when he tried.

She took pity on him though and decided to help him build some of his reputation points. "Hey Zia, did you know that after Carter and I defeated Set, Carter managed to defeat four demons by himself?"

Carter gave her a wide grin and Sadie walked away to give them some privacy. She just hoped he wouldn't screw up the opening she gave him.

"Sadie, I'm really glad you're okay," AJ approached her and enveloped her in a hug. Sadie smiled as he kissed her gently.

"I'm fine. It's just a slight concussion, nothing too bad."

AJ held her at arm's length and looked her over, "What happened? Was it Nico?"

"No, I ran into a tree. Nico wouldn't do something like that," Sadie frowned at him.

AJ shrugged, "You can never be so sure. I've been talking to others about him, did you know he is half brothers with Adolf Hitler?"

Sadie glared at AJ, she didn't like what he was insinuating. "That's not Nico. Besides, he can't help who his family is."

"I just want you to be careful around him. You don't know him very well."

Sadie glared and pulled herself away from him, "And I obviously don't know you very well. Nico's my friend, he would never hurt me. You as my boyfriend should have faith that I can pick out my own friends."

Sadie walked away from him angrily and joined Felix and some other younger magicians. After listening to them talk about trying some Greek food a bright light shone in the sky.

"Look away everyone!" Artemis yelled out to them, "Unless you want to permanently lose your vision."

Sadie quickly followed her advice and stared at the ground. Though she could still feel the heat of whatever was approaching. The already hot and humid summer's morning was quickly becoming close to unbearable.

"You can look now," Artemis said after a few minutes. The heat had died down, but it was still hotter than normal.

Sadie looked up and saw the hot guy – god she had seen when she visited Olympus. He looked even hotter than the last time she had seen him in Olympus. His blue eyes were amazingly bright and seemed to shine along with his pearly white teeth - Sadie didn't know teeth could be so attractive. He was wearing a white t-shirt that showed off his muscles.

"You're drooling," Felix whispered to her as he stifled his laughs. Sadie glared at him and continued to stare at Apollo – she could see AJ glaring at her from afar too.

"Hey everyone. Hey kids! Hey sweetheart," Apollo winked at one of the hunters who looked back at him murderously. "Little Sis!" Apollo smiled brightly at Artemis.

Artemis rolled her eyes at him, "Don't call me that and can they all fit in to get a ride to Central Park?" Artemis asked Apollo. Sadie thought it was odd seeing the two of them together, they looked and acted like complete opposites.

Apollo looked over them all critically. Sadie shifted nervously as he rested his eyes on her for second.

"Sure no proplemo, though I don't think father is going to like having so many magicians in the sky," Apollo frowned before smiling again, "No worries though. I'll compose an awesome haiku for father so he'll forgive me:

Oh my great father,

My awesome, dearest father,

Don't kill them too fast."

He looked at the crowd of people expectantly who looked back in horror and shock. Sadie pinched Felix before he started to laugh out loud. Finally a few people - mainly his own children - started cheering.

"Awesome poem dad!" Will shouted out giving him a thumbs up.

Apollo seemed to like the compliment. He took out his keys and clicked them and suddenly the bus transformed into a giant school bus.

"Aww, this is my least favorite ride," Apollo pouted as he entered the school bus, "But it'll do. All aboard!"

Everyone eagerly boarded the bus. Sadie stepped on with Bast in front of her.

"If it isn't Bast the Egyptian cat goddess," Apollo stared at Bast intently – his brow furrowed.

Sadie could feel a sort of spark going between them and it wasn't the romantic kind.

"Still going around seducing teenagers I see – Isn't that a bit immature for a 5000-year old god?" Bast asked referring to his youthful appearance.

Apollo glared and Sadie could tell that behind his extremely handsome and rugged façade that he was still a quite powerful god. Sadie hoped Bast wouldn't upset him too much, they still needed to work with the Greeks.

"And I see you're still wearing that outfit. It makes your bum look big," Sadie raised an eyebrow to his immature jab and tried to pull Bast onto the bus.

"There's no way I'm riding with him – I'm taking the car."

Sadie sighed – why were the gods so immature? Didn't they realize some others somewhere were on the brink of death – even she a person who acted rashly understood that. But Sadie could see no amount of reasoning would make Bast lighten up.

"Fine, let's take the stolen car. It's not as if we could get stopped by the police or anything." Sadie walked with Bast to the car and drove off in the direction of the flying bus. Bast drove the craziest she'd ever driven. In an attempt to annoy the sun god Bast decided that it was her new goal to beat him to their destination – which was outrageous since they were competing with a magical flying car!

"Slow down," Sadie managed to squeak as she gritted her teeth and held on for her life.

Bast looked at her crazily and grinned, "No way. That stupid sun god thinks the world revolves around him – which in the mortal world it does… but there's no way he's going to win."

Sadie would've questioned Bast more on why she seemed to dislike Apollo so much but didn't want to distract her anymore.

After a horrifying 30 minute drive to central park – which normally took 2 hours – they finally came to a screeching stop. Bast jumped out of the car and smiled triumphantly at the sky, "I won!"

"Not so fast," came a voice from in front of them. Sadie saw Apollo and the group of campers sitting around on the grass. They looked like they'd just gotten off a roller coaster.

"Looks like you've lost again Bastet," Apollo was smiling brightly and if it weren't for her feeling like she'd puke up all of her breakfast she would've admired the sight more.

Bast looked like she was going to tackle him but luckily Carter appeared out of nowhere – with Zia by his side – and held her back.

"We have to go now," Carter said in an authoritarian tone.

Bast glared at Apollo one more time before nodding. Sadie looked at the group of people waiting by Cleopatra's needle and took a deep breath. She didn't know what they'd meet on the other side but it was about time they found out.

AN:/

Sorry it took so long. But I'm not abandoning, I read Throne of Fire so there are going to be some spoilers for that book from now on b/c I think I can fit in some of that plot into this story.

So I'm still going to finish! – lol, even if I did lose all of my readers. :P