Hey, thanks for the really nice reviews! You guys rock! I had originally planned for this to be my last chapter, but I think I'm going to keep writing for a while. See, I found this thing where Rick Riordan reads aloud an excerpt from SoN, which isn't the first chapter that I assume you all have read, (.com ,bottom right corner) where basically, Percy gets to the bottom of the hill, and he sees this old lady. She calls herself June, saying, "they did name the month after me" or something along those lines. (Juno, anyone?) Meanwhile, Stheno and Euryale have wings and are circling overhead. June wants Percy to carry her, "across the street, through the tunnel, and across the river". If he chooses to leave her, he can escape to the sea, where he will live a prosperous old life. If he chooses to carry her, he will get the chance to save the Gods and all the friends he doesn't remember. He will slowly regain his memories, but he will lose the Curse of Achilles as well. He chooses to carry June. Also, the POV's are Percy, Hazel, and some new guy named Frank. So reading that made me sort of lose my writing will, but I think I can keep going. Yay! :3
Gwen
Gwen led Percy to the Neptune cavern, fuming. Lupa hadn't killed him, even though he was a lowly Greek! And then she instantly knew he was a son of Neptune. No test. No challenge. Just why this? Do you feel that? Aww, I'm sorry to have misled you, dear. Here, I'll have Gwendolyn be your babysitter until I feel up to getting rid of you.
Sometimes, Lupa drove her crazy.
She also couldn't seem to figure out what made Percy tick. Being a daughter of Bacchus, she could drive anyone crazy, but with Percy, it just wasn't there.
Normally, she could read people like a soggy book, never finding the whole story, but always enough to find the chinks in their armor. With Percy, there was just a sense of falling, and pain.
Maybe that's why he looks so confused, she thought. I would HATE it if something like that happened to me.
She looked at Percy again. He was staring at her intently, but immediately looked away.
"So…Bacchus." He said. "That's Roman for Dionysus, right?"
"Yeah." Gwen answered. "Listen, I'm sorry if I seemed distant or rude before. You're just…Greek."
He smiled. "Yeah, sorry if I seemed stupid or annoying before. You're just so…"
"Awesome?" she suggested.
"Interesting." he responded.
We had finally made it to the Neptune cavern.
"I'll see you in the morning." She said. "And you can call me Gwen."
He smiled again, admiring his new home. "Goodnight."
Gwen walked away, thinking, good, now to kill him in his sleep.