Third person:

"Af̱tó eínai polý cheiróteri̱ apó ó, ti nómiza . Ach af̱tó den boreí na symvaínei. O̱ Theé mou . Tha prépei , óchi . Den échei akómi̱ " Chiron muttered in Greek before trotting off.

"This is much worse than I thought. Oh this can't be happening. Oh dear. I must, no. Not yet." Annabeth translated with a confused look on her face. "But what is he talking about?"

"Come on we have to go to the underworld. Save Heastia, Olympus, the world. Remember? We don't have time to worry about what Chiron was talking about." Percy argued. Patricia slapped him in the back of his head. "Hey!" Percy and Annabeth complained.

"Only I can do that." Annabeth added in slapping Percy again.

"Why are you ganging up on me?" Percy whined.

"No wonder she calls you Seaweed Brain. The only thing in your head is kelp. How are we supposed to get there?" Patricia snickered.

"The entrance in Hollywood" Percy pointed out proudly.

"And how do we get out?" Patricia countered

"Shadow travel" He said gesturing towards Nina and Nico who were looking at the floor.

"Um.. well, We can't exactly do that. Even if Nico and I shadow travel, 10 demigods is still too much." Nina said still not making any eye contact. "We can't bring someone with us. It never ends up well"

"We can get Mrs. O'Leary to teleport 3 people. So we still have…" Nico paused to count his fingers "5 without any means of getting out of the Underworld".

"Poseidon's Pearls!" Piper exclaimed.

"Genius Piper!" Jason exclaimed. Percy on the other hand looked a bit uncertain. You couldn't blame him. 5 pearls on such short notice, not exactly the best thing to ask for at a time like this.

"I mean, I could Iris message him. But I'm not guaranteeing anything. Give me five miuntes."

Percy's POV:

I walked towards the Poseidon Cabin and to the fountain in the back. I threw in a Drachma and said "Oh Iris, goddess of the rainbow, accept my offering. Lord Poseidon" an image of a man with black hair and sea green eyes just like mine appeared. "Um .. hi dad"

"Yes, hello Perseus" The Sea God smiled "Nice to hear from you, but what is the need?"

"I need 5 pearls. We need it for the quest -." I replied but I heard a sound like radio static. "what was that?"

"We cannot speak now – or using this. Come to my palace. I will send a hippocampus" He looked over his shoulder like whatever was disrupting the message would be there. "Hurry. We don't have much time" soon the message faded. I stood there in confusion for a while and remembered there was a hippocampus waiting for me.

I ran towards the beach and there it was .A creature from the waist up had the body of a stallion and from the waist down, had silvery fish bodies, with glistening scales and a rainbow tail. A hippocampus, or "fish ponies" to my er.. little brother Tyson.

"Where to boss?" it asked me sounding like a certain Pegasus.

"Poseidon's Palace. And would you happen to be related to a Peagasus named Blackjack?" I questioned, holding on tightly so I wouldn't slip off the speeding, overgrown seahorse.

"Yeah Boss! Cousins 7 times removed" he- or at least I thought it was a he- cheerily responded. "I can hear the family resemblance" I mumbled.

"Here boss!" he neighed.

"Thanks" I said getting off of him and threw him an apple Katie gave me on my way to the beach.

I walked up to the palace that seemed to glow a bright blue. As I walked up the sea-green marble steps I ran into Amphitrite. "Have you seen Poseidon?" I asked her. She gave me a cold glare

"In the throne room" she spat and went on with whatever she was doing before I ruined her day. She was always like this – to every child of Poseidon, excluding her own.

After some help from Triton and slamming into a granite column, I finally made it to the throne room. Genius me walked towards Poseidon and bumped into the glass doors, making a big "thud". Poseidon looked up from his book –who knew he was the reading type – and put it away.

"Come in Perceus" he called. The doors swung open and I walked in and sat on an empty chair. "So, why is it that you need five pearls."

I took in a deep breath. "Because Hestia is in the Underworld. We can get in through the entrance in Hollywood but we can't get out. He rubbed his beard and seemed to be thinking hard. He rested his chin on his hand then furrowed his brow in what seemed like deep thought. As he opened his mouth to tell me his answer I closed my eyes expecting something bad. It didn't seem likely for him to just make five pearls appear from thin air. But then again, the Sea God would have plenty pearls and plenty power to make them magical.

Much to my amazement he's answer came out in a calm tone, not one that you'd expect from the "Earth Shaker". "Well, I could give them to you now but I'm pretty sure Athena would find a way to hold this against me. Maybe I could accidentally lose 5 pearls and you just happen to receive a map of where they're located. Athena couldn't possibly loop hole me. HA HA genius!" Poseidon clapped.

"So that's a yes?" I raised an eye brow.

"No, no" he winked making my ADHD brain hurt even more.

"So okay then, bye, thanks for the help." I waved goodbye.

"And I don't suggest you stay at camp for the night and look under your pillow to find the map" Poseidon called in a very, very sarcastic tone and laughed. I think I heard him saying "Genius. Genius. Take that Athena. Hahaha" It was actually a bit funny and a bit awkward.

Once I was on the marble steps, I gave a loud whistle and the hippocampus was back still eating the apple I handed him earlier. "Can you take me back to camp?" I asked it.

"Sure thing boss!" it neighed happily, chunks of apple falling out of his mouth. I rode on his back and held on tight. He sped up and the underwater scenery seemed blurred. Coral reefs and seaweed looking like big colorful blobs. The glow of Poseidon's Palace faded away and I could sense camp nearby.

Thalia's POV:

It was pretty quiet since Percy left. He was taking longer than expected. Annabeth wanted to plan more to avoid another situation in which we end up losing Hestia but as soon as she suggested it, everybody groaned. She still thinks it was her fault Hestia got away. Nina and Fabian were talking about something, I didn't really mind them. Who I did mind was Jason and Piper. They were giving each other looks – not like daggers, more like "I love you"; like the way I looked – "not going there. I'm a hunter now" I mentally scolded myself.

I had to watch this girl. I knew Piper wasn't an average Aphrodite girl. Still, I couldn't help but feel protective over my brother.