A/N Thank yous to iStoleYourBlueMoonIceCream, Sabine8195, iscreamdrizzle, and ., and everyone else for their reviews and support! I'm sorry about the long delay. I don't want to influence your perception of this chapie soo I'll leave my comments for the end, but please, read, enjoy, comment as you see fit! After this their should not be such an epic wait!

Thank you!
Miette

**Disclaimer** I own nothing that you know perfectly well belongs to Rick Riordan

"You do it, Leo."

"Me? Why me? You do it!"

"Why me?"

"Because, Piper, you're friends with her."

"I'm not that good of friends with her!"

"Well, I value my life, and I think it would be in danger if I wake them up."

Hazel laughed as she took in the scene she discovered poking her head into the Domum Neptunia, "You guys haven't woken them up yet?"

"Would you like to?" Piper asked the other girl as Leo became a bit tongue tied.

"No thank you, I don't feel like a knife fight before breakfast and while I've seen that Percy is useless this early in the morning, I feel as though Annabeth could probably have that knife of hers out of the sheath and at my throat before I got a 'Good morning' out. Come on, I have an idea."

Ten minutes later, three other people found themselves standing before the bed in which Percy and Annabeth were still sleeping soundly. Mica, Drew, and Kiki were each wondering how they'd ended up in this position and figured Hazel really owed them.

"You wake them up. He likes you and she's your sister."

"Me?" Mica shoved Kiki toward the bed, "You wake them up! No one gets mad at you when you smile and look at them with those big eyes. You're as bad as the Venus girls!"

"Why don't we just dump a glass of water on them and run?" Drew asked, already inching toward the door.

"Son of Neptu-er Poseidon. Wouldn't work." Mica said with an eye roll.

"Oh yea."

"Fine!" Kiki took a breath. "I'll wake them up!" She stepped closer to the bed where the couple lay, seemingly having accidently fallen asleep the night before.

Percy and Annabeth were both still in their clothes from the previous day, a blanket messily pulled over them, almost as though done in sleep. The sheets were under them, only slightly rumpled. Annabeth lay facing Percy, one arm pillowing her head which was tilted against his chest, the other thrown over his waist, her blonde hair fanning out all around her. Percy hugged Annabeth to him, one arm under her shoulders, one around her waist.

Kiki paused another moment, gazing at the couple trying to decide who was her safer bet. Finally, she walked around to the far side of the bed, "Percy?" gently she shook his shoulder, while her brother and friend crept toward the door.

Percy, for his part, shifted slightly, mumbling something in his sleep.

"Percy!" Kiki tried a bit more loudly, shaking him with more force, "Percypercypercy! Time to wake up!" The girl practically shouted at him by the end.

"Wha-what?" Percy sat up quickly, while Annabeth's hand flew to the knife sheath on her thigh.

"Oh." Annabeth noticed their audience first. "Hi, guys." A light blush covered her cheeks as she sat up. "What's up?"

"It's almost time for breakfast." Kiki said walking back to join Mica and Drew by the door.

"Hazel and Piper sent us to wake you up." Drew added.

"They figured you'd be nicer about us waking you than them." Mica said with a small smile.

With goodbyes, the nati left an embarrassed Annabeth and a still partially asleep Percy.

"Hey, Seaweed Brain." Annabeth leaned down to kiss her boyfriend, "Evidently, we fell asleep last night."

"Oops." The smile Percy gave her, along with the tone of his voice told Annabeth that he wasn't at all contrite about their rule breaking.

"I can't believe Hazel and Piper sent those three in to wake us."

"It was probably self preservation."

"What is that supposed to mean, Seaweed Brain?"

"Nothing," He innocently replied, pulling Annabeth back to lay beside him.

"Come on, we've got to get up! I've got to go and get changed."

"Just stay here another minute."

"Everyone is probably already talking about my staying in here last night!" Though she didn't fight as her boyfriend fit her against him.

"Nah, it's not quite as bad here as at camp, gossip and rumors don't go around as fast. People mind their own business a slight bit more than at camp."

"Oh."

"What do you think of here so far?"

"I don't know, it's not what I was expecting."

"Oh yea?" Percy pressed his lips to the back of Annabeth's neck.

"Stop that." She smacked his hand before continuing their conversation, "I guess in some ways I was just picturing it like camp, but different, but from what Jason and Bia said, I sort of pictured it would be a whole camp full of Clarisse and her siblings running around."

"Ha! Could you imagine a one on one Reyna and Clarisse?"

"That's something I would like to see one of these days."

"Here really isn't so different from Camp, and they're putting on a good face for you guys. Plus, just in the time I've been here, I've watched them relax a lot. I was talking to Jason after you guys got here and he couldn't believe how much more relaxed the feeling was. Before you guys left camp, Bia and Jason made First Legion swear they'd take care of you guys, and as you may have noticed, haven't really dealt with many people besides them. I'm pretty sure Jason threatened Rey and Bobby into playing nice, too."

"So, his words law around here? I'm pretty sure even if you told Clarisse she had to behave she'd just ignore you," Annabeth paused, "or run you through."

"Yea, she would. Pretty much, next to Lupa, Jason is the boss man. With him gone, it was Rey running everything. They run things here much more like a military compound than a summer camp, well, not that you would know that recently. They're all nice enough, but they'd rather stick to who and what they know. It just easier to hit first then ask questions."

"I guess that sort of makes sense. I'm glad they had warning we were coming."

"I'm glad you came." Percy pulled Annabeth so she was now facing him. Lightly he pressed his lips against hers.

"UP! WAKE-UP!" Rhythmic pounding against the taught cloth of the tent wall accompanied the voice, which sounded suspiciously like Gwendolyn.

Annabeth pulled away, "I'm glad you remembered me," then pressed her lips back to his.

"Me, too, Wise Girl, me too."

Piper folded her feet under her as she sat on the deck of the Argo II. She'd thought the tension yesterday with the 'Bia Situation', as she, Leo, Annabeth, and Percy had referred to it, was bad, but today it was nearly a tangible thing visible in the air. Something more had come up or about and she really hoped the reason that Jason seemed to be gathering everyone on the Argo II would involve her being informed of what in the world was going on. No one had seen Bia since yesterday morning. Piper overheard Lou telling one of the legionnaires that Bia was running around taking care of a few things for the departure tomorrow. The younger daughter of Vesta hadn't batted an eye telling the tale, but Piper knew it wasn't true.

"Jason. What is going on? Where is Bia? She's not still hiding in the Nidus, is she?" It didn't seem likely, but Piper had known the girl such a short time who was she to make such assumptions about Bia's actions?

Leo, who had been sitting on a crate beside Piper looked up, equally as curious as Piper to hear what Jason had to say.

Jason sighed looking more tired than he had since they'd rested after their quest, "Bia is missing. There are signs of a struggle. It looks as though she actually has been taken this time."

"Seriously?" The look Leo gave Jason was incredulous.

"This is turning into a bad soap opera."

"Yea," Hazel agreed, stepping onto the Argo II just in time to hear her sister's comment, "too much drama and not enough decadent, gratuitous sex." She leaned against the rail on the opposite side of Piper as Leo.

"Is everyone else coming?" Jason asked Hazel, ignoring her comment.

"We're here." Percy said as he and Annabeth stepped onto the ship, hand in hand.

"Lou is still cajoling Amie into watching the Nati, Gwennie will be here in a second, she was just talking to DB about something, Reyna and Bobby were arguing about something when I walked by, and here is the DD." Hazel finished as Dakota stepped onboard.

"DD?" The girl in question asked.

"Daughter of Darkness." Hazel smiled as Dakota tried not to roll her eyes.

"Oh, don't you think you're clever."

"Rather." The daughter of Aphrodite smiled at her friend, who could not contain her eye roll this time.

"Why do we keep you around, again?"

"Every good story needs a 'Lover'."

"Really?" Gwenn stepped on to the ship, tying off her hair braid, "here I always thought you were the waif of our merry band."

"Ha, ha, ha."

"No," Dakota shook her head mock sadly, "I have to give Haze this one. Though, I suppose our absentee parents could cause at least some of us to be waifs, by definition, part of being a waif is the whole hardship and loss, being removed from previous circumstances, usually positive ones. It's that, not being irritating and useless that makes someone a waif. Some waifs are actually kinda kick ass"

"Sort of Sara Crewe?" Piper asked.

"Exactly!" Hazel pulled Piper into a quick one armed hug.

"I feel as though, Bia all of a sudden is our waif." Reyna said as she and Bobby, both bearing evidence of a recent physical altercation, boarded the Argo II.

"From Mother to Waif in less than 24 hours." Lou said sadly as she joined the older demi gods aboard the ship.

"Yes, well, though, I almost wonder if she weren't more correctly one of the shadows of the mother and we didn't notice it all of this time."

"Ok, enough!" Bobby said exasperatedly as he took a seat, "When you guys start talking literature and books and archetypes, it's even worse than when Gwenn starts talking music because to some extent you all get in on this one!"

"Now, you want to talk archetypes, Maryanne Dashwood-"

"Yes, she's totally-"

"Taceo!" Jason stood commanding the girls to quiet. The look of him, as he stood there, irritated with the girls, commanding, powerful, was a side of him the Greeks hadn't seen of him yet and one the Romans hadn't seen in a while. Everyone could tell, though, that there was not room for discussion. At that moment, he was the leader of the Schola and would take no nonsense, there were serious matters to discuss. Piper couldn't quite decide how she felt about this view of Jason, though there was definitely something to it that she found thrilling.

Reyna glanced at the other Roman girls, all of them knowing they were in 'trouble'. "Lorem paenitet, Dux." She apologized quietly, speaking for each of them, standing to attention. With a small bow toward Jason, she took her rightful official spot at his right hand as Bobby moved to his left, the two next in command under Jason. The look in Reyna's eyes, however, when she delivered her quiet apology, suggested that she in turn wouldn't take much more temper or pull of rank from Jason in this situation.

"Sorry, guys, but seriously, book club later?"

"Quippe." Gwenn said with a smile, "Now, about Bia? What do you have in mind, Legatus?"

"Lou?" Jason turned to the girl, and with a gesture, encouraged her to recount the early morning events that had lead to this second clandestine meeting in less than 24 hours.

"Ok," Bobby said slowly, "so, the girl who cried wolf was actually eaten this time."

"So it would seem." Jason replied, he ignored the brief smirk Lou threw at him, pleased that it seemed she would be proven correct about Bobby and Reyna's assessment of the situation.

"We can't put off the quest-"

"The quest?" Piper interrupted Bobby.

"Piper," Annabeth tried to silence Piper, but the daughter of Aphrodite was on a roll.

"We can't put off the quest? We can't leave Bia to whatever is going on!"

"And what do you know, Greek girl?" Reyna took a step toward Piper.

"I know that we can't just not help Bia! I know that while Annabeth, and all of the Camp, was searching for Percy, you guys did nothing to look for Jason!"

"That's not fair," Gwenn said, stepping between the other two girls.

"Shut it, Gwendolyn!" Reyna growled at her friend.

"Come on, Beauty Queen," as Leo tried to calm Piper, she remembered something.

With a sweet smile, Piper lowered her voice, "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have gotten all worked up. Don't you think it may be a good idea to go after, Bia, though?" Everyone looked as though they were considering what she was saying. "You're worried about Bia, right? We need to find her and make sure she's ok, don't you-"

"Hey!" Hazel smacked Piper's arm, breaking her concentration. "That's not nice!"

Piper shrugged sheepishly, "I don't usually like it, but I figured maybe it was worth a try for this."

"Did you just Charm Speak us? Again? What is with you lately?" Leo glared at Piper affronted as he realized what had just happened.

"Sorry." Piper muttered looking at her feet.

Jason tried to hide his smirk, "Weren't you very anti-charm speaking? Leo's right, it seems like you've been doing that more lately."

"Special circumstances." Piper muttered to her feet.

"Well, I think she has a point-" Gwenn was cut off by a surprised Annabeth.

"Nico?"

"Just hush and follow!" Mica heatedly whispered to the two children of Apollo scurrying behind her. "Minerva always has a plan!"

"Yes," Drew grumbled, "Minerva! You're mother not you!"

"Just hush, Drew!" His sister growled at him from behind. The poor boy was stuck between the two girls, who between them didn't have two bits of sympathy for him to rub together. "You heard Hazel, and Piper, and Leo whispering after they asked us to wake up Annabeth and Percy! Now, they're meeting all secret again, and no one has seen Bia? You want to know what's going on just as badly as we do!"

"I'm just saying! Just because Minerva always has a good plan, doesn't mean Mica does!"

Mica turned around, her glare silencing the bickering twins, "do you have a better plan?" she waited a moment for Drew to respond, "I didn't think so." She continued making her way toward the beach where the three children intended to get aboard the Argo II where they knew the olds were meeting to discuss whatever the heck was going on. "You know they're keeping something from us, again! We can help! If they would just let us in on whatever it is!"

"They're not just going to let us tag along and help!" Drew said, hurrying behind Mica, "I'm just saying!" He held up his hands at the glare the girl gave him. "I want to get away from here and do something as much as you do, but they won't just agree to us coming if they're going somewhere."

"No, really?" Kiki lightly shoved her brother from behind. "That's why we're sneaking!"

"I got that part!"

"Come on, Drew!" Mica sighed and turned around to face her friend. "Just trust me?"

"Lead on," Drew said with a wave of his arm, "Oh Brilliant One."

"Darn right, I'm the Brilliant One! And don't you forget it!"

"Wonderful, now we'll be hearing that for the next month. Did you have to lay it on that thick?" Exasperation colored Kiki's voice as she questioned her brother.

Silent the rest of the way, the three children made their way to the Argo II, trying to stay out of sight of the older demi-gods they knew to be meeting aboard.

"Ok," Mica kept her voice low. "They are near the center of the ship. If we manage to get up here, near the aft…"

"Aft?"

Mica ignored the question and continued, "and keep out of sight behind the wheelhouse…"

"Wheelhouse?"

"…and all of those crates and barrels, we should we able to get close enough to hear. If we stay quiet, they won't notice us."

"How are we supposed to get up there, though?" Kiki shaded her eyes as she looked up at the ship, towering above them.

"I know what Mica has in mind." Drew said with a smirk. He'd wondered why Mica had asked him to bring his bow and quiver when they were sneaking around. He pulled a particular arrow from his quiver and notched it. This arrow, instead of having a traditional arrow head instead had a grappling hook. A length of strong rope was attached to the opposite end. With a silent pray to his father, that he manage this, he'd hate Mica's plan to mess up because of him, and another quick pray to Mercury that they manage this sneaking silently, Drew notched the arrow, took aim, and let it fly.

"Yes!" Kiki crowed, quietly, clapping her hands as she bounced from foot to foot.

With relief, Drew lowered his bow, glad he hadn't messed up in front of Mica. Mica, in turn was carefully tugging on the rope dangling from the grappling hook, now hanging securely onto the ships rail.

"Now, up we go!" She said happily.

Nico glanced around a moment, gathering his bearings as he came out of the shadow travel. "Hey!" He grinned sheepishly at both the familiar and unfamiliar faces around him. At that moment, with that particular facial expression, the family resemblance between Percy and Nico was striking.

"And why are you here?" Annabeth asked exasperatedly, throwing up her hands.

"You all know this guy?" Bobby asked, his hand on his sword hilt.

Percy spoke up, before Annabeth could answer, "My cousin, Nico di Angelo, Son of Hades."

"Hey Perc. How's the memory working?"

"Getting there," Percy said with a shrug.

"That's good, the Stolls are-Oh Styx!" Nico interrupted himself as the boat rocked slightly due to the sudden addition of the weight of a Hellhound and her passenger. "I thought I lost them. Red, GO HOME!"

Rachel slid off of Mrs. O'Leary's back, dizzy from her trip through the shadows. "I don't know how you guys do that! Percy, I think when you get home, you need to get more treats for Mrs. O'Leary, I couldn't find any." Mrs. O'Leary bounded over to bathe Percy in saliva, leaving Rachel to sit on the deck of the ship as she regained her equilibrium.

"Would someone like to explain what is going on?" Each of the Romans, besides Jason, had blades at the ready.

"Yes, that's a good question." Annabeth said, gesturing for the Romans to lower their weapons, "They're friends, but I'm just as curious as to why they are here as you are." Annabeth folded her arms across her chest, glaring at the two new comers.

"And the Hellhound?" Dakota asked looking askance at creature now, collapsed in an exhausted, snoring heap.

"Also a friend," Percy said, scratching his faithful pet behind the ears.

Turning back to the newcomers, Annabeth raised an eyebrow, "Guys?"

Rachel and Nico began speaking at once.

"He just goes tearing off…"

"If she would have just helped me out…"

"I told him just to send…"

"I wasn't going to sit and…"

"…but nooo, he wouldn't listen or…"

"Ok! Enough!" Gwenn looked back and forth between the Greeks. "You can actually understand what they're going on about?"

"You get used to it," Percy shrugged.

"You stay out of this! Mr Go Disappearing without a trace! As though we didn't have enough to sort out with Olympus being closed! You're mother was beside herself! Poor thing thought with the war over she had less worrying over you to do!"

"Oh my gods! Mom and Paul!"

"They're fine." Nico said, as he and Rachel both joined the group, instead of remaining a few feet away on either side where they had arrived.

"We went to visit them. Once we knew for sure where you were and that you were safe. They found out what the baby is going to be, by the way."

"Baby? Mom's pregnant?"

"I guess he hadn't remembered that detail yet." Rachel said with a laugh, "yes, you're mother is pregnant and she said if you are not home in time for the birth you had better have a good reason."

"She sent cookies, too." Nico added, "But we ate them all."

"We? Di Angelo? We?"

"Ok, I ate most of them. They wouldn't have been any good by the time Percy got to them, anyway." Nico muttered the last bit under his breath.

Rachel rolled her eyes, giving Percy a hug. "Missed you, hero."

"Missed you, too, Rach."

"This has been nice and all, but we," Reyna gestured to herself and her fellow legionaries, "would like to know what in the name of Jupiter is going on."

Rachel turned, hands on her hips "Put those pointy things away and we'll share."

Gwenn decided immediately that she liked this girl, though Reyna looked as though she wanted to use her 'pointy thing' on the red head.

"Well Death Boy, I guess it's your story to tell." Rachel said as she took a seat against Mrs. O'Leary.

"Maybe introductions would be a good place to start?" Jason said with a smile, enjoying the dumbfounded expressions on the faces of his fellow Romans.

"Nico di Angelo, son of Hades," the boy in question said as he went to pet Mrs. O'Leary, saying to her, "I'm sorry the irritating mortal made you take that long trip girl."

"Hey! See next time I help you out!"

"That's what you're doing?"

"Mortal?" Dakota's eyes flicked from sizing up her half-brother to the girl in surprise.

"Rachel Elizabeth Dare, clear sighted mortal and Oracle of Delphi, at your service," she said with a bow from her seated position.

"And the single most annoying female to ever be born," Nico muttered.

"The single most? Don't you think you're being a bit harsh? Clarisse can be irritating, ugh and some of those hunter girls Thalia hangs out with?" Rachel wrinkled her nose in distaste, "don't even get me started on some of the society girls I've met, far more annoying than me. I know you're no fan of your stepmother, either. You're just pissy because I couldn't give you a prophecy to help you find your new little girl friend!" Rachel glanced around, "Where is Bia?"

"I told you, Rachel! She's been taken!" Nico looked at the faces around him for confirmation, "Right? She's not my girlfriend, either."

"Sure she's not," Hazel said with a giggle.

"Let me guess? Daughter of Aphrodite?" Rachel made a face, "Or, Venus?" She corrected herself, to Nico she replied, "I was holding out hope you were wrong."

Once the Romans had been introduced, with Bobby's already regularly limited patience running low, Nico finally began explaining what in New York had lead up to his and Rachel's arrivals.

"I woke up this morning, probably around 6 our time, from a dream of Bia being taken." Nico ran his hand through his hair; a gesture his friends knew was nervous and subconscious. He described the dream he'd had, which matched up with the scene that Alouette had discovered when she went looking for Bia. He explained how he'd seen a guy, around 15 or so grab her and drag her to the waiting Dracaena and an Earthborn. He smiled slightly when he described how he thought Bia had broken the guys nose, but started to lose his train of thought.

Rachel squeezed, his hand and took pity on him, "he came to my lair, and woke me up. He told me Bia had been kidnapped." Quickly she rehashed their conversation and the odd fact that she couldn't prophesize for him. "I had everyone trying to help keep track of him all day. So he wouldn't just go off and do something stupid." She glared at Nico who was remembering sweet, quiet, Katie Gardener tying him up with rose vines and going to get Rachel when he finally managed, so he thought, to get away to Shadow Travel to the Schola. What the daughter of Demeter hadn't realized was that he could still stretch out his hand to reach just enough shadow for his needs. "Once, he finally did disappear, I grabbed Mrs. O'Leary, and just told her to travel to wherever Nico was. And here we are," she finished with a shrug.

"How did you manage to Shadow Travel here when you don't know where here is?" Hazel asked looking around at her fellow legionnaires to gauge how they were taking the newcomers story.

"First, I tried to lock in on where Bia was, but I just disappeared for a moment and ended up back where I started. So, then I used her little treasure box," he pulled the box in question out of his pocket, "I figured if I chose one of her friends to lock onto, I would most likely end up at the Schola. It worked."

"Wow, that was…logical. I'm impressed." Annabeth said with a small smirk.

"Shut up."

"Ok, but so now what do we do?" Leo asked, he was getting aggravated with the talking. He wanted to do something. They had a kick ass war ship, evil giants and Gaea to fight, a missing Bia to find, and missing Hunters, including his best friend's hot sister. It was time to get this show on the road.

"Well, Juno said Bia was important to the quest. Do you think this is what she meant? Do you think she knew something like this would happen?" Gwenn asked, chewing on the end of a strand of hair in her anxiety.

"Actually," Reyna spoke up, "maybe it is." She looked thoughtful, thinking out her words just before she spoke them, "like, maybe a mini quest so we could all get used to each other before going to Greece? Working together, and fighting together? I mean, we all care about Bia. Like she's a mutual goal. Even more so than the quest itself, because it's an emotional goal, to save our friend?"

"That makes sense." Dakota nodded, thinking through what Reyna had said and trying to remember what exactly the queen of the gods had said when she'd appeared to them just the other day.

"Lupa always says a soldier is at their best, but possibly most dangerous when their emotions are affecting their actions. Maybe that's exactly what this is." Hazel said.

"So, maybe Bia isn't one of the seven? Maybe her part is something else completely." Jason said.

"So who are the seven, then?" Nico asked, he didn't want to be talking, he wanted to be finding Bia.

"Jason, Bobby, Gwen, Percy, Annabeth, Piper, Leo." Rachel said with certainty, "don't ask me where that came from, I just know it's-" Rachel didn't get to finish her own sentence, as she cut herself off. Her eyes began to glow and her posture more rigid as the raspy voice of the oracle took over,

'To work together is a must,

To reach the one you bear no trust.

This no task for dismissing,

For the greater journey you'll find the facts that you are missing.

Only with unity will success transpire,

Or in the battle the seven will fall to fire.'

Rachel slumped back against Mrs. O'Leary as the green aura faded.

"Does she do that…often?" Hazel asked hesitantly looking askance at the girl who was slowly coming around as Percy, who was closest, helped her to sit back up.

"Often enough," Annabeth sighed, "after the war she accepted the spirit of the Oracle of Delphi from the mummified hippie girl that was the last oracle."

"Mummified hippie-"

Nico shivered, "you don't want to know," he said cutting off Bobby. "Why couldn't you just do that this morning when I asked?" He said glaring at Rachel who was back in the conscious world.

"And you two left me stuck with him!" Rachel muttered to Percy and Annabeth before answering Nico, "You know it's not like Video On Demand all the time! I can't just prophesize on demand! Either you have to be granted a quest or she has to decide it's really important. What did I say this time, anyway? Something nice with unicorns and puppies for once?"

"No, but it didn't sound too bad, either." Lou said quietly, still a bit stunned by the red heads performance.

"You said we have to save Bia," Bobby answered, glaring at Nico when the younger boy interrupted him with a cheer.

"Basically," Gwen began to tick things off on her fingers, "Save Bia."

"Find out some stuff we need for the quest to Greece," Leo continued the list.

"We all need to play nice," Reyna put in.

"Or we fail against Gaea." Annabeth said quietly, wondering why all of this crap had to keep happening in their life time.

"Wonderful." Rachel replied. Smiling slightly at the four fingers Gwenn was now holding up, representing each statement.

"So, we move up our departure." Jason said with finality. "We leave tonight instead of tomorrow. Rey, you're in charge here. Gwennie, talk to DB about whatever you have to to have your tent affairs in order," the daughter of Apollo nodded already mentally reviewing the necessary instructions for her brother, "Kota, Hazel tell no one about the Bia thing, not even your seconds, I don't want it getting out."

"What about DB? Or Lupa?" Gwennie asked.

"If it becomes necessary, Rey will read DB in. We're going to do this quick and quiet and head to Greece. Maybe maybe not stop back here on the way."

Gwen nodded taking a deep breath. None of them expected anything like this happening anytime soon after the war.

"Ok, it's 1400 now, be back here and ready to leave at 1500."

"I'm coming with you guys." Nico said, stepping up beside Jason.

"Nico," Rachel interrupted.

"Look, I won't come all the way to Greece, unless something comes up and you need an extra sword, but if you don't let me come, I'll find away to try and rescue Bia myself."

Jason looked at Percy, who gave a slight nod indicating that Nico was as serious as a heart attack and determined.

"Once we find her, it will be good because I can shadow travel her and I home and you guys can continue to Greece and kick giant ass."

"Ok." The roman leader replied with a nod.

"Where are you guys going to start looking for Bi?" Dakota asked wishing she could come.

"Leave that to me." Lou replied holding out her hand for Bia's amoletum, or treasure box as Nico thought of it.

"I couldn't find her with it to travel to her."

"You're not her sister or a child of Vesta. Trust me. I can find my family. She's probably blocked, but I'll at least be able to get an idea.

With that, the group split up, to get ready for the journey they would be disembarking on in just under an hour.

Drew, Mica, and Kiki, sat staring at each other, mouths agape.

"Stow away?" Drew whispered, being pretty sure of the response his sister and friend would give.

The girls did not disappoint him, "Stow away!"

As soon as the older demi-gods had gone, the three children scurried off the ship the way they'd come.

A/N Ok, I hope you enjoyed. Now, I understand from my own experience why people post chapters they are not pleased with or proud of. My thought was usually, then fix it till you are! Maybe it's the chef in me. Anyway, this chapter has been written just about as you see if before you since the middle of March, besides a few slight edits, a few slight additions, and the subtraction of the previous chapter which was originally part of this chapter. However, I held it back soo long because I was unhappy with it. I can't put my finger on what it is, like when you meet someone and you have no good reason, but you just don't like them? Or you look at a picture or something and you know it's wrong, but you just can't put your finger on it? Well, that's pretty much how I've felt about this chapter. I finally decided to post it for your edification, though since holding it back wasn't improving it any. Now, we can at least accept this chapter for what it is and get on with the rest of the story (which is pretty much written, jsyk). If you have any constructive thoughts with what's wrong with this chapter please, feel free to share, otherwise, please take this chap for what it is, and I will have the next one to you shortly!

Thank you for reading!
Miette