A.N. I know it has been a couple weeks since I have updated and I apologize for that. I was sick for a while, and had a lot of school work to do. I also didn't know what direction I wanted to take this story, I feel like I need to develop it a bit more, not just jump from quest to quest, so I will be starting to do that in the next few chapters. Obviously after this quest is done, anyway, here's the next chapter.

I nodded, "sorry, it's just too good to pass up on sometimes" I said smirking. I then jogged ahead down the right passage to put a little distance between us. I eventually let her catch up, and we walked steadily like that for about an hour.

All of a sudden we saw two dark haired girls turn the corner and start walking towards us.

I got my pen out, but they looked fairly harmless. The one girl looked to be about my age, and I would be lying if I said she didn't take my breath away. She had piercing black eyes, and glossy black hair worn in a single braid. She had the look of a warrior and it was stunning. I shook my head of those thoughts though. Her sister looked about the same except a few years older.

I clicked my pen into sword form as Zoe brought out anaklusmos. Both girls brought out swords of their own, and we appeared to be at a stalemate.

"Who are you?" I asked suspiciously. Two demigods walking alone in the Labyrinth was very suspicious, especially as I didn't recognize them. They could be with the Titan army.

The younger one was the one to speak, "I am Reyna, and this is my older sister Hylla. Our mother led us here, and told us to find our way to California" she said putting her sword down. Her sister wasn't as quick to trust us as she kept her sword up, prepared to fight at a moments' notice.

"I'm Perseus, and this is Zoe" I said gesturing to Zoe before continuing, "Unless you have joined the titans we are not your enemy" I finished with a small smile. I clicked tidal wave back into pen form as a gesture of good faith.

Hylla stepped forward this time, "We are not, we simply are just trying to find our way." She finally put her sword away, as Zoe reluctantly did the same.

I nodded, "Well we should be getting on our way then, of course you are welcome to accompany us and we can help each other find what we are looking for" I said as Zoe shot me a glare.

I ignored it and waited for their response. They talked quietly between themselves for a few moments before turning to us and nodding. "We will travel with you, but I will be keeping my eye on the both of you" She said pointedly looking towards Zoe.

She threw her a glare and was about to retort when I said, "I swear on the river styx that as long as you don't attack us, we won't harm you" I said quickly, as thunder rumbled above.

She nodded looking relieved. "What are you guys looking for anyway?" The younger one, Reyna asked.

"We are looking for Daedalus' workshop so we can find Ariadne's string before the titan army does" I saw their looks of doubt and quickly added, "I'm not sure how, but he is in fact still alive, somewhere down in this maze" I said.

They both looked doubtful, but nodded anyway. I began to lead us down the corridor and Reyna fell into step next to me. Zoe and Hylla brought up the rear. It was clear that they still didn't trust each other yet.

Me and Reyna made small talk as we walked. I learned she was a daughter of Bellona, as well as her sister. I didn't recognize the name, so I figured she must be a minor goddess. I told her I was a son of Poseidon and she looked at me weirdly. She asked if I meant Neptune, which confused me, but I just shrugged it off. I shook my head, and she looked at me confusedly. We both decided to just ignore it for the time being.

"Hey why don't we stop for lunch real quick" I said as everyone nodded, and we sat down; me and Reyna sitting against one wall, while Hylla and Zoe occupied the other.

"Alright what does everyone want?" I asked. Reyna and Hylla looked at me weirdly while Zoe said she just wanted a turkey sandwich. I clapped and the sandwich appeared in front of Zoe making the two sisters eyes widen.

"I am the champion of Hestia" I said with a smile, "This just happens to be one of the perks."

They both told me what they wanted and I conjured it for them. I then conjured up myself a plate of pasta.

We ate in silence mostly, Reyna asking me a few questions about being Hestia's champion. Zoe glared at her everytime she opened her mouth. I didn't really understand that, but I wisely kept my mouth shut. I liked the two sisters. Zoe on the otherhand, really didn't seem to enjoy their company.

I then lit my hand on fire. Reyna and Hylla looked at me in amazement. "This was the other main power I got from Hestia. She has the power to heal as well as to harm. I got power over fire, and my sister, Thalia, who is also down here got the power to heal" I told them. They looked at me in awe.

All of a sudden we heard footsteps coming this way. I jumped to my feet quickly. I then pulled out my pen and clicked it. It immediately elongated into sword form and I lit it on fire. Three demigods turned the corner as well as a dozen monsters or so. My companions jumped to their feet, and as soon as the demigods saw us they pulled out their weapons.

Zoe pulled out her bow, and Reyna and Hylla both took out their swords. I threw a fireball into the demigods, disorienting them, before charging at the monsters.

I ducked a cyclops' club, and kicked a lunging hellhound back. I did a one eighty and sliced my sword across the cyclops throat before it could react. I turned back towards the hellhound to see an arrow lodge into its eye, immediately turning it into dust. I gave a nod of appreciation to Zoe before jumping back in.

I charged towards two dracanae, sidestepping the spear of one. I grabbed the spear wrenching it from the hands of the dracanae before turning to the other and cracking it over its head. The spear broke in half on impact and I quickly turned around stabbing the half spear into the heart of the dracanae that still looked disoriented from having its weapon taken so easy.

I turned back around and quickly brought my sword across the neck of the remaining one, effectively dislodging its head from its body.

I looked around and saw Zoe covering us, while also managing to take out a few unsuspecting monsters. I saw Hylla stab a hellhound before being locked in combat with a laistrygonian giant. I then noticed Reyna was surrounded by the three enemy demigods. She was holding her own, but I could tell she was getting tired, and would soon be overrun.

I clicked riptide into pen form, and summoned my spear. I saw the one behind her raise his sword arm ready to make the killing blow. I heard Hylla call out to her in alarm, but it was too late. I did the only thing I could think of. I threw my spear with all my might. It embedded in his hand, making him cry out in pain, and drop his sword.

Reyna turned around, startled by the cry of pain behind her. I gulped and quickly pulled on my bracelet. My shield appeared and I wasted no time disappearing in a flash of flames.

I reappeared to the left of Reyna, and threw all of my weight into her, knocking her to the floor, while simultaneously raising my shield.

A loud clang was heard, and the force of the swing brought me to the ground hard. The enemy demigod looked to be in a shocked stupor. He thought he was about to kill the girl, but instead only hit a boy's shield.

I wasn't going to relive the whole saving Zoe, and getting stabbed thing, so I was glad that worked. I quickly got to my feet, taking advantage of the few seconds I got, as the enemy demigod was still in a stupor.

I rushed forward and bashed the demigod in the face with my shield. His nose erupted in blood, and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. I turned around just in time to block a strike with my shield from the third demigod that I had forgotten about. His eyes widened as I clicked tidal wave and slashed a deep gash in his side. He retreated a few steps.

I turned back around and sliced my sword through the throat of the demigod that I just bashed in the face. He fell to the floor dead, and I heard a gasp from over in Hylla's direction.

I didn't have time to think about that as I turned around, and saw the kid I just slashed in the side approaching Reyna. She was still on the ground, clutching her right arm, which was bent at an unnatural angle.

I charged the demigod and slammed into him with my shoulder, sending him to the ground. Reyna looked over shocked to see me…again.

I kicked the demigods weapon away and brought my sword to his throat.

Hylla gave a shout of protest as she finished off the monsters, but I ignored it.

"Surrender to us, and swear eternal loyalty to Olympus" I said in a dangerous tone.

"You don't have to do this Perseus" Hylla called, hurrying over with Zoe.

I spared a glance over about to retort, but the demigod cut me off, "I'll never swear loyalty to the Olympians. I'm nobodies pawn" he said defiantly. That's all I needed to hear as I brought my sword across his neck, decapitating him instantly.

I turned to the last demigod, who lay on the ground whimpering with a spear halfway through his hand. I kicked him in the side, and pulled him to his feet. I dragged him over and threw him in front of Hylla's feet.

"What would you have us do with him then. I obviously don't like killing demigods, but it's us or them." I said angrily. I then turned to Reyna and saw her looking at me with wide eyes. I swallowed and pulled two zip ties out of my bag. I zip tied the demigod's hands behind his back as well as his feet. I then gagged him.

"There, he will be spared. I will not apologize for doing what I did though. They could've escaped and then killed us later. I can promise you that they will not show you the same mercy that you were prepared to show." I said looking Hylla in the eyes.

"Percy is right" Zoe said. "Although I don't like it, it was the smart thing to do. He gave them a chance to surrender and swear allegiance, but they refused" Zoe said agreeing with me.

I gave her a nod before walking over and kneeling by Reyna. I handed her some ambrosia. She ate it and her arm slowly realigned itself. She gave me a nod of thanks.

I pulled her to her feet and gestured for them to follow me. I led them through the maze once more.

We walked for about an hour, mostly in an uncomfortable silence, before I heard something rumble next to me. I looked around expecting something to attack, but then realized it was just Reyna's stomach growling.

"Alright, let's stop and get something to eat. We can make camp for the night as well" I said setting my pack down. They all nodded and followed suit, setting up a little area. I took out an old shirt and put it in the center. I then threw a fire ball into it setting it ablaze, creating a campfire to keep us warm for the night.

I looked over at Hylla to see her limping. I noticed a deep gash in her leg. I immediately felt bad about rushing us off so quick.

I walked over to her and took a knee. "Sorry about rushing us off so quick, that looks pretty deep" I said gesturing to her cut. She shrugged so I asked, "Do you mind if I heal it?"

She looked over curiously, "I thought your sister was the one who could heal?" she asked. I nodded and clapped, conjuring about ten cups of water, "yes, she is, and it is much more effective than what I can do. I can heal you with water though, being the son of Poseidon" I said. She just gave me a small nod as I got to work.

I willed all the water out of the cups, and had it hover in the air, before putting one hand to her leg, and the other in the water that was hovering in the air. Slowly it traveled from my arm over to her leg and began to heal her.

"Look I'm sorry about earlier. I don't ever want to kill demigods, and I really respect that you were against it, but this is war. They made their choice. I could not have them coming back later on, and killing one of us. I would never forgive myself" I said as her leg was finally healed. The only thing left behind being a small scar on her thigh.

She nodded and sighed, "No, I understand Perseus, it's just hard to see you take someone else's life" she said sadly.

I nodded in understanding. I got up to leave, but she grabbed my wrist. I looked at her questioningly, but she just gave me a small smile, "thanks for healing me, and thanks for saving my sister. I thought I was about to lose her and she is all I have in the world" she said with gratitude shining in her eyes.

"It was nothing, and I would do it again. I don't let my friends get hurt if I can do something about it. Besides, ask Zoe about our last quest, this one ended a lot better than the last one" I said giving her one last smile before walking over towards Zoe.

I knelt by her, asking her if she had any injuries. She shook her head no, so I let her get back to setting up her little tent.

I went over to my area and started setting up. I laid down a blanket, and put my pack at the end of it, as I would be using that as a pillow. I then clapped and conjured a little buffet for us all to eat.

I got a plate and took a seat on my blanket.

I heard someone sit down and expected to see Zoe, but was surprised to see Reyna. The first thing she did was crawl over and pull me into a hug, shocking me. She pulled away after a minute blushing. "Um sorry about that, I just wanted to say thanks. You know, for saving me twice" she said with a small smile.

I nodded, "It was nothing, were friends now, and I don't let my friends get hurt" I said making her smile even more.

"And thanks for healing me too. You're different than I expected you to be, being a child of the big three and everything" she said looking over at me seriously, "and you know, you're the only friend I've ever had, it's always just been me and Hylla, so thank you" she said blushing again.

I gave her a smile, "You're one of the only friends I've ever had too. I don't know how much I'll see you after this, since you're going to California. I promise though, that eventually, be it soon, or in ten years, we will meet again" I said seriously.

She nodded, and we finished our food in a comfortable silence. When we finished I volunteered to take first watch. They agreed, and Zoe shot me a glare, probably warning me that I better wake her up this time.

I nodded, and they all drifted off to sleep.

After a few hours I shook Zoe, and she took over watch. I laid down and fell asleep as soon as my head hit my makeshift pillow.

After a few hours, we were shaken awake by Zoe. We packed all of our supplies up and began back down the corridor.

We walked for a few hours, and only came across a few monsters. We took care of them easily enough though. We eventually came to a fork in the path. I looked down the right path, then looked down the left and noticed an eerie orange glow.

"Left it is" I said heading down there. They didn't look as sure.

"How can you be sure?" Hylla asked. I shrugged, "I am getting this feeling from this path, like we are meant to take it" I said continuing on down. They had no choice but to follow me.

After walking for about twenty minutes we came to a doorway. All I could hear was the hammering of metal on the other side. I looked at my companions and shrugged, pushing the door open.

The girls all dropped down into a bow, while I just smirked, "Cousin, it's been awhile."

Line Break (Thalia's POV)

Being separated from Percy and Zoe sucked. First, it was so awkward with just Nico. Then we found this demigod with an eyepatch wandering around and defeated him. Only he wasn't alone apparently. There was a group of demigods, and monsters that brought us to this big arena. There was bones littering the stands everywhere, as well as monsters of every kind. I had just seen a centaur get destroyed, and now Nico is being forced to fight. I am completely useless to help though because Luke locked me up in cage. He wants to impress Antaeus to gain passage. Over my dead body, I thought.

Nico killed the cyclops quickly, but this just enraged Antaeus. He said it had to be slower.

So out came the demigod with the eyepatch that we defeated earlier. They went back and forth for a while, before Nico had him on the ground with his sword to his throat. He looked over to Antaeus, who had a thumbs down. Nico turned to me and winked. He then flipped his sword around and swung it into the demigod's head. He crumbled to the floor unconscious, enraging Antaeus.

Antaeus was just yelling shouts at Nico before being interrupted, "how about you come down here and fight me yourself then" Nico shouted to the giant son of Gaia and Poseidon.

He laughed, "It is beneath me to fight a puny mortal like you, maybe I will have Luke kill you instead" he said confidently.

Nico just laughed making everyone think he had gone insane, "hahaha figures. I knew you wouldn't fight me yourself. You're just going to sit up there on your fat ass, because you know you can never lose if you never fight" Nico said taunting the giant.

This enraged the giant, "fine, if you win you can have passage out of here, but if I win, I get to kill you and your companion" he said with a sadistic grin.

Nico charged at him and they went back and forth for a few minutes. Eventually Nico got behind Antaeus and stabbed him hilt deep in the calf. Sand leaked out of the cut, and almost instantly the Earth came up and covered the cut. It receded back down and the cut was gone, as if it had never been there.

"Now don't you see why I never lose. Foolish demigod, I am the son of Gaia, the Earth will always heal me" he bolstered. I saw Nico gulp.

It continued on like that; Nico would get a good stab, or slash, and Antaeus would just get healed.

I saw shadows begin to form and smiled as I realized what Nico was doing. Eventually the shadows wrapped around the giant's hands and feet suspending him in the air.

"What is this!" Antaeus shouted, "Put me down!"

"Get him down, he is our host" Luke shouted indignantly. Nico ran over, and cut the celestial bronze chains on my cage. I ran out and pulled on my necklace. My bow appeared in my hand, and I told Nico to finish Antaeus.

He nodded and grabbed a chain from the ceiling and swung over to Antaeus. He dodged the giant's attempts to grab him and slit his throat. Nico jumped to the ground and watched as Antaeus neck let out sand, except this time the Earth didn't come to heal him. He eventually disintegrated.

The arena was in absolute chaos now. Monsters running around everywhere. Nico called to me to follow him, and get out of here. I nodded, but turned to Luke. He seemed to still be in shock. I notched a lightning arrow and fired it.

I was shocked at what I saw. It should've gone into Luke's heart and killed him, instead it connected and just bounced off his chest harmlessly. The lightning blast at least threw him backwards into the wall, but I didn't have too much time to think about what I just saw. I caught up to Nico and we booked it out of there.

We ran for a solid hour before taking a break. Right as we sat down a huge explosion was heard and it felt like an earthquake. It felt like the whole Labyrinth was about to come down, and I had a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.

Line Break (Percy POV)

The man looked over and smiled, "Ahh Perseus, I was wondering when you would show up" he said smiling and walked over. Well more like limped over since he was crippled and had a leg brace on.

I shook Hephaestus' hand and they all looked at me shocked. "yeah, I grew up on Olympus, so I have trained with all of the Olympians" I said sheepishly.

Reyna and Hylla looked at me shocked, as if they expected me to start laughing like it was a joke. When I didn't, they looked at me jealously.

"Perseus, your father has asked that I make a little modification to your weapons. Let me see your bracelet, necklace, and pen" he said. I looked shocked at this, but handed them over anyway.

"It was actually Zeus' idea, he wanted me do it for Thalia's as well, but it appears she isn't here. I guess you guys split up. Anyway, it will take a little while to complete this, so I have something for you all to do until it is finished" he said cautiously.

He told us how he thinks Kronos' minions are using his forge and how they always smell him coming, but they wouldn't smell us. I nodded in understanding, and I told him we would check it out and report back.

"I believe you are both heading to California right?" he asked, turning to Reyna and Hylla. When they nodded he continued, "I will transport you both there now, as a favor to Perseus" he said shocking them.

Reyna looked like she was about to argue so I interrupted her, "Thank you cousin" I said before turning to Reyna, "we'll be okay. You guys have helped enough, and I don't want you guys in more danger. I promise we will meet again someday" I said smiling.

Reyna rushed over with a tear in her eye and engulfed me in a hug. The last thing I ever expected her to do happened next. She kissed me. It lasted only a second, but it was incredible. It was my first kiss. "Thank you for everything Percy" she said with a blush.

I nodded with a smile, also blushing. She walked over by Hephaestus, and I noticed Zoe throwing her a glare. I didn't have time to think about that as Hylla pulled me into a hug. "Don't worry I won't kiss you" She said with a smirk, before composing herself. "Thank you for everything, and you better keep that promise" She said seriously, looking me directly in the eye.

I just nodded. She walked back over to her sister and they disappeared in a flash.

"Here is a mechanical spider. It will lead you to the forge. Once you get there click the button on the bottom, then when you're finished click it again and it will bring you back" Hephaestus said handing it to me.

I just stood there waiting. He looked at me questioningly, and I just face palmed. "Umm, yeah, you have all of my weapons and it would be nice to have something to defend myself with" I said with a smile.

He gave me an apologetic look before tossing me a spear. I nodded, and the spider jumped out of my hand and scurried away. We had no choice but to follow it.

It moved at a pretty quick pace so we were at a constant jog.

"Hey, can I ask you something?" Zoe asked. I nodded that she could. "What would you think if I asked Thalia to join the hunters?" she asked like she already knew the answer.

I sighed, "Well, in any other scenario I would be happy for her to join if she wanted to. I mean, it is ultimately her choice, but I just ask that you wait until after this war to ask her" I said pausing, "the prophecy says we can succeed if we both work together to defeat Kronos, but if she stops aging then I am afraid it might not work out in our favor" I said looking over at her.

She just nodded, expecting something like that. "I think she would be happy to join though, after it is all over I mean" I said giving her a smile.

She nodded and we skidded to a halt. The spider had stopped which meant we had arrived. I picked it up and clicked the button. It rolled itself into a ball.

We crept inside Mt. St Helens and did our best to stay hidden. Man was it hot in there though. I saw telekhines moving around so we quickly moved onto this catwalk and ducked behind a cart. They went by unsuspectingly, talking about some scythe.

We crept further and ducked behind another cart. I looked out from behind it and saw about a dozen of them all gathered around what looked like a stick. No, not a stick, it was a scythe. It must be Kronos' scythe.

Zoe seemed to come to the same conclusion that I did and we ducked back behind the cart.

I turned to her, "Alright, I'll stay here and take care of that weapon, you go back and warn Hephaestus" I said. She glared at me and was about to respond, but I cut her off, "No Zoe, this is how it is going. If something happens Hephaestus will never know. I can take care of myself. You go warn him. This is the only way" I said harshly.

She looked taken aback, but then glared at me, "You better not die" she growled out. She pulled me into a hug, before clicking the spider and hurrying off in the opposite direction.

I sighed, having no idea how I could pull this off. I disappeared in a flash of flames and reappeared right next to the one with the scythe.

They gasped, and I quickly stabbed the one holding the scythe with the spear and it turned into monster dust. I disappeared again, and reappeared about ten yards away, feeling drained of energy.

"An intruder. Hmm a son of Poseidon it appears. I wonder if his daddy can protect him" One of them said smiling mischievously.

I just looked confusedly at them. So, I did the only thing I could think of. I stepped forward and chucked the spear at the one that had said that to me. Unfortunately, it ducked, but two of its comrades weren't as lucky as it went right through one, and into another one behind it.

I cursed, and looked up as it spoke again, "Let us see if your daddy protects you. Let us see if you burn" he said with a smirk as he scooped up a handful of lava and threw it at me.

I dropped the scythe. The lava felt cool against my body at first, then started to become warmer. It was nothing I couldn't handle though thanks to Hestia's blessing. The other telekhines followed his example and all started pelting me. I'm sure the only reason I was still alive was because I was a son of Poseidon, as well as a champion of Hestia. More so the latter probably. At this point it started getting a little hot. I guess Lava wasn't exactly in her domain. They kept pelting me and there was nothing I could do.

I started backing up and at this point the lava was starting to burn a little. I was backed up to the edge when I got an idea. I picked up the scythe and prepared to charge when a rock was thrown at me instead of lava. It hit me in the shoulder and surprised me. I took a step back to compose myself, but tripped on the wheel of the cart.

The next thing I know I was free falling towards the Lava. Wow real heroic, I thought, get hit with a rock and fall into a volcano. When I made contact with it, it was as if I was fired from a cannon, out of the volcano, and into my uncle's domain. That's when everything went black.

A.N. So there is chapter 8. The girls were Reyna and Hylla! And I gave you a little Percy/Reyna but she won't be back around until later in the story, or maybe a sequel if I decide. I'm not sure. I decided to do a little Thalia POV, and they were the one's who got captured and brought to the arena this time. I'm having Hephaestus do something different with their weapons because I got an idea that is a little different and I really like it. Also the poll is now closed, so let me know what you all think of this chapter. The next one should come shortly.