A/N Hey guys! Thanks for reading, the reviews and all of the people who have added my added Daughter of Vesta or my profile to their alerts have made me feel great and given me the confidence to continue with this story. Soon, we shall be getting into some action.

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Miette

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At the schola, Percy vigorously battled at the inanimate dummy before him. It had been hard for him to watch his new friends running around worried and upset at the loss of another one of their compatriots. Bia had made him promise though, that he would say nothing. He hoped he would hear from her soon though. Or she'd contact Gwen, or Reya, or Bobby, or Lupa, someone. Just so he could stop worrying about how she was doing and know if she'd had reached his camp and found the people he barely remembered, especially Annabeth. Now that he could almost completely remember her, he couldn't believe that he'd ever forgotten his Wise Girl, even a little bit for a short period of time.

"Percy! Percy!" Mica came running up to him, the seven year old evidently having evaded Gwen again. She stopped a respectful distance from the swinging blade of Riptide. As soon as he heard the girl, he halted his practice.

"What's up, Mica?" he capped Riptide and made a point of not squatting down to the girls height, knowing how much she disliked it.

"I have to tell you a secret!" she reached grabbed his arm and pulled him down so he could whisper in his ear. "I had a dream about Bia!"

"What was she doing in your dream? Is she ok?"

"Yup! She was talking to people and laughing and stuff."

"Good, but why is it a secret? Why did you tell me and not Gwen or one of the others? You know Gwen is going to be looking for you and annoyed at you for running off."

Mica crinkled her nose, "She won't notice. Everyone is hiding from her and the boys are being dumb. Lupa is going to be annoyed at her! Before Bia went away, she said she was going to look for Jason and your camp and find your people. I'm not supposed to tell anyone."

"Do you think that's where she was in your dream?"

Mica nodded, "Jason was there and a blonde girl, and a girl with red hair, and a boy with black hair, and fauns…" Mica paused thinking, "and more people, lots of people." She nodded knowingly, pleased with herself for remembering so well.

"Good job," Percy put his hand out for a low five, thinking that maybe the blonde girl was Annabeth, "Bia would be very pleased with you. However, she would not be happy that you came to talk to me without telling Gwen where you were going or that you and the other Nati were trying to get her in trouble with Lupa."

"We weren't trying to get her in trouble with Lupa. She's just not fun. You're supposed to teach me that disarming move with the sword anyway. Now?"

"No," Percy and Mica had almost reached the grove of trees where the Nati, or children, were supposed to be having their lessons, "this afternoon. You have to have your lessons with Gwen, I know she's not Bia. After you've been good for Gwen the rest of the day, I'll show you're the sword move."

Mica pouted, not pleased with the turn of events, "What about-?"

"No, now, go on. Grab the others and give Gwen a break. She's not used to running after you crazies!" Mica gave Percy a quick hug before following her instructions.

Bia sat up suddenly, a small smile on her lips. She knew Gwen would have trouble with the Nati without her. They just didn't listen to anyone else the way they did to her. She was also the only one with any proper patience for them. If Gwen had her way, she'd leave them locked up while she went to practice her archery. As Bia flattened the strands of hair that had come loose from her braid in her sleep she took in her curious surroundings. After a moment she remembered that she'd spent the night in Rachel's 'Cave' in the woods with Rachel and Annabeth. .Once you got past the front room, it really wasn't anything resembling a cave. Annabeth had come up with much of the design for Rachel's living area and much of the space was taken up by Rachel's artwork in varying degrees of completion.

"Oh good, you're up!" Rachel came out of the bathroom nearly ready for her day. Last night, when they'd shown her around, Annabeth had told Bia that Rachel's privet bathroom was one of her favorite things about spending the night with Rachel instead of in the camp proper and having to use the communal bathrooms. "Annabeth's already gone back to the cabin to make sure her brothers and sisters will be ready for breakfast, she's the cabin leader. You've got about half an hour. I'm sorry, I didn't want to wake you up too early."

"Thanks Rachel, 30 minutes will be plenty." Bia dived into Rachel's bathroom, thankful she'd taken a shower before bed, and got changed and freshened up for the day. She pulled on jean shorts and briefly hesitated before pulling on her new orange Camp Half-blood tee-shirt. She had five minutes to spare when she was tying her sneakers and mentally checking that she'd done all she needed to do. Her hand was wavering over her Spatha while Rachel finished pulling on her own colorfully personalized sneakers.

"You won't need that right now, unless you really want to keep it with you, though no one will think it's odd if you have a dagger or a smaller less obvious weapon. The demi-gods always have weapons on them, but except for the easily concealable ones like Percy's Riptide or that coin Jason's got, they don't usually carry their full swords except for training, capture the flag or patrols."

"Ok, sounds good," Bia checked her Pugio clip that was holding her bun in place and grabbed her Plumbata bracelet, pulling it into place as she followed Rachel out of the cave and to camp.

"Chrion and Mr. D said you could sit with us at the head table, if you would like. The campers all sit by their parents, but as we've never had a child of Hestia before, we've no cabin or table for you, besides, what's the fun of sitting all by yourself? I always felt bad for the big three kids sitting all alone," Rachel shrugged, "I guess that's just how it is, though."

"Big three kids?"

"Children of the Big Three, the brothers of Olympus. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. So, Thalia, before she joined the hunters, now Jason, Percy, except when Tyson is visiting, and Nico." A shadow quickly crossed Rachel's face when she thought about Nico, realizing the Bianca, Nico's sister whom she'd never gotten to meet never got to sit with her brother at Hades table or even see their cabin of Hades.

"Thalia?" Bia decided to ask about the unfamiliar name instead of questioning Rachel's sad look. She didn't want to bring up anything that could make her new friend sad so early on what seemed like it would be a beautiful day.

"Thalia Grace, she's the lieutenant of The Hunters of Artemis. Jason's older sister."

"Grace? Wait, sister on both sides?"

"Yup, one conceived by Zeus and one by Jupiter. Actually, she should be here any day now, Annabeth is getting anxious. She and Annabeth are best friends, they came to Camp together."

"Oh, so she's not that much older than Jason, then? If she came with Annabeth, I mean." By now, they'd nearly made it to the camp proper and were following the crowd of campers to the dinning pavilion.

"Oh, but are things ever that simple when the demi-gods let alone the Gods themselves are involved? Thalia was 12 when they reached Camp, Annabeth was 7, they came with another camper, Luke, a satyr named Grover. They were being attacked by any monster you could think of. Lord Hades was, displeased, with his brother for breaking their oath to not have children and had let out every monster of the underworld to attack Thalia. They had reached the border of camp," here Rachel pointed up to Half-Blood hill with its pine tree, Golden Fleece and dragon, "Thalia sacrificed herself to save the other three and her father turned her into a pine tree."

"Ok, but she's not the pine tree anymore…?"

"No, about," Rachel had to count back, "five years ago her tree was poisoned and loooong story short, Percy, Annabeth and Grover got the Golden Fleece to save her tree, which is part of what keeps the camp borders strong, and in saving the tree, she was released from it. She should have been 17, but she'd aged slowly while the tree, she was actually about 14. The day before her 16th birthday, she joined the Hunters of Artemis. I'm not sure all of her reasons, but I think part of it was that she didn't believe she was the child of the prophecy. And, that is all of the Camp-Half Blood history lesson for now. Time for breakfast." Rachel led Bia to the head table, under the curious gazes of the campers.

"Are you sure it's ok I sit here?"

"Yes, Bia, I told Rachel to bring you, we'll have to figure something out soon, but for today, this is fine."

As Bia sat, she glanced around the dinning pavilion and picked out the people she'd met from the sea of faces before her. Jason sat by himself at a table near to the front, Nico also sat by himself at a table behind Jason's. There were two more empty tables besides Jason and Nico's tables and a third farther back. Bia assumed one was for Percy, she'd have to ask about the other two. In the crowd, Bia saw Annabeth sitting at a table of boys and girls with light hair of varying degrees of very light brown and blonde. She also picked out the two Hermes brothers, Piper amongst a group of well dressed and done up boys and girls, Leo with a group of boys and girls who all seemed to have their heads together discussing something. There were a few other faces Bia recognized from the meeting and her walk around camp with Nico, but she couldn't put faces to names.

"Bia," Rachel bumped Bia, bringing her back to reality, "Come on." Rachel had stood and was holding her plate.

Bia mimicked Rachel's actions and followed her to the hearth fire, Bia was disappointed to see that her mother wasn't there. She watched as Rachel and the campers around them closed their eyes and scraped a portion of what was on their plates into the fire. Bia did the same thinking of her mother and the other Gods who touched her life as well as her friends back at the Scholla.

"Don't you guys offer to the Gods at the Scholla?" Rachel asked as they reclaimed their seats at the head table.

"Yes, but not like this…it's a bit more…" Bia made a face, not sure who to pleasantly explain over a meal the offerings completed at the Roman Schola.

"Oh, ok, anyway. I think I get enough of an idea. Besides, I think someone is watching you."

Bia turned to see who Rachel was looking at and ducked her head when her gaze locked with Nico's. "Don't be silly."

"Ha. We've just met."

"Right, so you're not in love with each other and ready commit to each other for the rest of your lives, but you can have…opinions on each other. I'm just saying. It's nice seeing Nico relaxing a bit the way he did yesterday showing you around and smiling and actually laughing."

"He is cute, and seems really nice. I wouldn't mind to spend time with him and get to know him."

"See? That's all I'm talking about."

"I'm sorry, Bia," Chiron interrupted from beside Rachel, "I hadn't realized that Rachel had been spending too much time with the children of Lady Aphrodite."

Rachel rolled her eyes at the Centaur standing beside her at the table, "Please. I'm just saying, look! Nico's stayed at Camp for two whole days in a row."

"I see your point, Rachel," Chiron sighed, "but don't jump to any conclusions, and don't scare away Bia or bully her into anything."

"Oh, don't worry, Chiron. You should have seen Jason jumping to conclusions." She tilted her head down and shook her head at the memory.

Rachel laughed, "That was pretty funny. Talk about over protective." The three pleasantly finished the meal discussing various aspects of camp half-blood, explaining things to Bia.

"Ok, Bia," Chiron began once the meal was over, "I think it's past time we let Lupa know where you are."

"This is not going to be fun." Bia said, though she knew Chiron was right. "Ok, where can we find as a rainbow?"

"I don't want to risk the connection, we'll see if the children of Iris would mind letting us borrow their cabin for a few minutes. We'll have to make the IM later this afternoon to make up for the time difference."

After ok-ing the request with Butch, the leader of the Iris Cabin, and his siblings, and Bia's giggles over the fact that a son of the goddess of rainbows was called Butch, Bia found herself before a perpetual rainbow with Chrion standing beside her.

"I think Bia, you should speak to Lupa before she even sees me. It's been awhile since we've spoken, and I'm not sure what her reaction will be to you being here. The last time our two camps interacted they were on opposite sides of a very bloody war."

"That's why we had no idea of eachother? Our parents split us up for our own good?"

"Yes, but now it seems, and I think she's correct, that Queen Hera thinks it's time to bring the two camps back together."

"Well, I agree for what's it's worth. Ok," Bia stepped up to the rainbow and held up an aureus, the roman equivalent of a drachma, that she'd fished out of her bag.

"Dea munus recipere." She muttered in latin, tossing the coin into the glowing colors of the rainbow, then when it shimmered, her coin being accepted she continued, "Lupa of the Roman Schola, Palatine." Again, the rainbow shimmered, before solidifying into an image of an abnormally large she wolf watching a group of teenagers practicing swordfighting.

"Lupa Mater." Bia said in a whisper, un-noticed by the wolf, she cleared her throat, knowing either way she would face Lupa's displeasure for leaving without permission, "Lupa Mater." The she wolf turned quickly to the sound of Bia's voice.

"Bia?" She looked at the girl, "Where are you? Why have you gone? What were you thinking with Jason still missing, we need to be focusing on countering whatever is going on with Gaea,"

"Lupa!" Bia interrupted her, "Please, let me speak."

"You disappear, and then you speak to me in that tone, you may not be a pup any longer, but I will still put you in your place, daughter of Vesta."

"Lupa Mater, I'm sorry. Please, I've much to tell you. I am at Camp Half-Blood.

"With the Greeks? Pup, that is not safe."

"It is, I promise, I've found Jason. Queen Juno sent him here, with no memory, as she sent Percy to us. An exchange of leaders. Juno believes that the only way we can defeat Gaea is to work together, Romans and Greeks, side by side."

"If you're at Camp Half-Blood, do they know who you are? Who Jason is? The last time the two camps interacted, it was a bloody and unpleasant affaire." Lupa glanced over her shoulder at the campers training below her, though she was well away from them.

"Chiron didn't tell me what happened, but he told me that much."

"Chiron? Is he with you?"

"Right here, Lupa," The Centaur walked up to stand at Bia's side, "I thought Bia should try and talk to you before I spoke to you."

"What are you doing with my pups, Chiron?" Lupa growled low in her throat.

"Protecting them and training them as you would. I have not taken then from you, Lupa. They were brought here, as my camper was brought to your camp. What Bia has told you is true, this is all Hera's doing. Perhaps it is about time, either way, the only hope we have of stopping Gaea is working together and even that is a slim thing."

Lupa seemed to pause and consider this, "Fine, that explains what has occurred with Jason and Percy, but what about you, Bia? Did Queen Juno pick you up and drop you at Camp Half-Blood as well?" Lupa asked knowing that was not the case.

"Well, no. I'm sorry Lupa, I had been having dreams before Percy came to us, then they got worse. I spoke to both Queen Juno and mother and both encouraged me to come find Camp Half-Blood, they said I was a necessary part of all of this and that if anyone could help bring the two sides of our family together it had to be me. I'm sorry I left without telling you, I knew you would stop me and I knew the last thing we needed was to worry about another missing fighter."

"That is a well thought out point, but so instead of telling anyone what you were about and walking blind and alone into what could potentially be an enemy encampment, you decided it was better to just disappear?" Bia flinched at Lupa's words, knowing the she wolf was right. "Did anyone know where you were going?"

"Umm," Bia knew that she'd kept enough from Lupa for quite awhile, "Percy and Mica?" She felt bad for the trouble they'd be in for her naming them.

Lupa turned and roared down and the sword fighting campers, "Perseus Jackson! Michelina Sanderson! To me, right now." All movement below Lupa stopped before two people toward the far end of the group began to make their way toward Lupa. Bia was pleased that apparently Percy was showing Mica some sword moves as he'd promised. A lot of the older campers had little time and patience for the Nati.

"Yes, Lupa?" Percy asked as he came to stand beside her, Mica out of breath only two steps behind him.

"I've some people you need to speak to."

Percy glanced at the image before Lupa, "Bia? You made it? Thank the gods. Chi-Chiron?" He stumbled over his still a little vaguely remembered teacher.

"Made it safe and sound, only a few problems. You're friends are nice."

"We've missed you, Percy. Annabeth especially."

"How is she doing, is she-?"

"She's fine, she misses you. One of the first things I did yesterday was speak to her."

"May I speak to Bia?" Mica looked between Lupa and Percy and the shimmering image of Bia and Chiron.

"Yes, Pup. For now I'm going to go and let the officers know what's going on. I will IM you tomorrow and I expect you to be prepared to update me and the officers on what's going on and begin discussing a plan."

"Yes, Lupa." Bia replied. Lupa and Chiron said goodbye and left the two teenagers and the child to speak to eachother.

"I miss you, Bia," Mica said, "I didn't tell anyone where you were. I had a dream about you and I only told Percy."

"Good job, honey. Thank you."

"Want to see the sword move Percy is teaching me?" Mica stood back and raised her practice sword pointing it toward Percy who laugher.

"Not right now, Mica, but I want you to keep practicing so you can show me in person next time I see you," there was the bang of a door quickly opening and closing behind Bia, "I think I've someone here who wants to talk to Percy." Bia turned smiling to see a breathless Annabeth.

"Oh, gods, Percy!"

"Hey, Wise Girl." Percy had a sheepish grin as he looked at his girlfriend and realized all over again who lucky he was.

"Percy!" Mica whispered, unsuccessfully, tugging on Percy's arm, "That's the blonde girl from my dream about Bia!"

"Good. Mica, this is my girlfriend Annabeth, she's your sister. Annabeth, Mica, daughter of Minerva."

"Hi." Mica seemed shy all of a sudden.

"Hi, Mica, are you taking good care of Percy for me?"

Mica nodded, enthusiastically, "Yes! He misses you, a lot. He told me and Bia you were the most beautiful, smartest person he's ever known." Annabeth blushed at the compliments. "I'm going to go practice the disarming move Percy's teaching me with Drew. Bye! It was nice meeting you! I miss you, Bia."

"Nice meeting you, too Mica."

"I'll see you soon, Mica, and please don't hurt Drew! I would like all of my Nati in one piece when I get home!"

Mica was already on her way down the hill and waved over her shoulder.

"I'll let you two love birds catch up. I'll talk to you tomorrow, Percy. See you in a few Annabeth." Bia left the cabin of Iris, pleased with the course of the last few minutes.

Bia was lost in her head as she stepped out of the Iris Cabin. It was through this distraction that she was startled by the young man who appeared at her side, his touch light on her arm. Before she'd had a moment to think of what she was doing, Bia had her pugio out of her hair and at Nico's neck.

"Yield?" He said weakly, a small smile on his lips.

"Oh Jupiter! I'm sorry, Nico!" Bia released her grip on Nico's arm like it was burning her and stepped back, slipping Flamma back into its sheath in her hair. She looked down, embarrassed by her reaction.

"It's ok! I should have realized you hadn't seen me. How was talking to Lupa? How is Percy?"

"How did you-?"

"Seriously? The whole camp knows. Secrets aren't easily kept around here, besides, Annabeth was pacing right here until Chiron came out and said she could go in. You left her to talk to Percy?"

"Yea, they're catching up. You should have seen the look on his face when she walked in." Bia shook her head smiling. "Talking to Lupa went better then I'd expected, it was almost more frightening that way. At least her anger would have been like her, normal."

"Well, I'm sure she's realized like we all have that what's going on now is bigger then all of us, bigger then Romans or Greeks, she's probably resigned to whatever has to be done to win and have the most fighters survive."

"Well, that sounds logical and makes sense. Come on, I thought you were going to teach me some Greek sword techniques before we had to meet with everyone."

A/N Thanks for reading! Reviews and constructive criticism are greatly appreciated!

Miette