Getting into the stadium was the easy part. The stadium was overflowing with people laughing and listening to music from various podiums. The hordes of people did not help the fact that we were on a time limit to get back. We passed a stand that was selling "Limerick" t-shirts.

We passed by a pile of flyers that had been set on a table. I scanned over it as we wandered through the crowd. Apparently it was a week long music festival. I turned it over and looked at a map of the festival. There had been a large music performance on the field the previous day.

I pointed it out to Lexie. "It's somewhere to start." she shrugged as we altered our course towards the center of the stadium.

We could see the giant grass field at the center of the stadium, there was a large podium built in the center. The stands around the field were coated with people, old candy wrappers, popcorn, and spilled soda. "You think it's over there on the podium?" I asked.

"Only one way to find out." When we reached the bottom we climbed over the railing and crossed the grass field.

We were a few yard lines away when I saw a figure standing on the podium digging through instrument cases. He didn't seem to notice us. Lexie and I crept up to the podium. "Who's there!?" He shouted as he bolted to his feet, holding a bright gold guitar. He looked down at us. "I'm supposed to be up here!" He shouted, clutching the instrument like it might fly away.

"We're just here for a friend's instrument, a lyre, have you seen it?" I asked eyeing the guitar in his hands. "We won't tell anybody you are here if you tell us if you've seen it."

"I know why you're here. You're demigods. You're here to take my lyre back to Apollo." He pointed at us angrily. "I won't let you, this lyre will give me power again, I can get revenge on Heracles for killing me with my own lyre! What kind of music student kills they're teacher for correcting them!?"

"Um Lexie does actually." I said pointing towards my sister.

"I killed him for trying to kill us!"

"After he said he was kicking us out for playing incorrectly." She scowled at me and and I turned back to the man, "You taught Heracles? Wait you must be Linos, you taught both Orpheus and Heracles. My history teacher told me about you."

He nodded, "The one and only, now if you don't mind I have a concert to get ready for." He bolted off the stage holding the guitar-lyre by the neck.

Lexie and I sprinted after him. He ran into the main area where the festival. We chased after him, trying to avoid knocking over the hordes of people that were in our way. "You'll never take this lyre from me." He shouted over his shoulder at us, his voice had a sort of lyrical phrasing to it. He ran into the part of the stadium that was covered with tents; all trying to make a profit by selling instruments, music albums, band t-shirts, concert tickets, and music lessons.

Lexie cursed. "Now we'll never find him." She looked out the glass wall. The sun was starting to set, we were running out of time. "We need to find him now!"

"Well if you were a vengeful, lute playing, maniac, where would you be?" I asked sarcastically.

"First off it's a Iyre." She slapped me on the back of my head. "Lutes were used in the Renaissance. Get it together Sean!"

I rolled my eyes and looked through the crowd. I almost missed him, but I caught a glimpse of 'his' golden guitar-lyre in the center of the crowd. "Look there he is!" I announced to Lexie, pointing in his direction. We ran after him, bolting past the crowd.

We cornered him inside one of the tents. "Sorry no autographs right now, I have a concert to prepare for I'll sign stuff later." He waved us off and tried to walk past us only to be shoved back by Lexie and I.

"We're not here for autographs and you know that." I answered, slightly irritated.

"Now look Linus, you can't keep the lyre for several reasons. One, it's not yours to keep. Two, I sure as Hades ain't gonna let you keep it!" Lexie spoke as she stepped forward towards him. "We need it so Apollo will stop flirting with Sean's crush, and to get him to give all of us a ride to California so we can continue on our quest to save my boyfriend! Now give us the lyre!"

"Oh the little girl wants my lyre." He laughed. "You don't deserve it, only I deserve it. Only a worthy musician can have such an instrument . And guess what! I have the lyre!" He gave us a toothy grin as he backed up a few steps. "Apollo has other lyres, I only want one, he'll survive without it. Now like I said before I have a concert to prepare for." He plucked one of the strings and a blast of air shot out from the instrument that knocked me and Lexie to the ground.

"I'm going to kill him... We don't have time for this!" I heard Lexie grumble as she started to get to her feet again.

"You're not a threat to me." He plucked a few strings and what felt like a tornado hit me in the face. With me and Lexie both on the ground again he bolted out of the tent and back into the crowd.

"Now where did he go!?" I complained pulling Lexie back up to her feet.

"I'm really starting to hate this guy!" Lexie cursed as she led me out of the tent. We looked around for a few seconds. "Did he say something about a concert?" She asked pointing to a crowd forming in front of a podium.

"Yeah, he did." I answered. "You think he's up there?"

"Hello Dallas! Are you ready for the best concert of your lives!?"

Lexie turned her head in the direction of the noise and then back to me, "Yeah I'd bet my sword on it." She grinned.

We pushed our way through the crowd until we were a few meters from the stage. Lexie was right, Linus was standing center stage holding "his" Lyre.

"Okay, we found him, how do you expect we get it from him?" I nudged Lexie to get her attention.

"I'm guessing running up on stage and beating him until he give it to us isn't an option..."

I shook my head, "No, we don't need the police after us."

"He said earlier that only a worthy musician could have the lyre, so I guess we have to find someone to challenge him for it, but who..." she trailed off in thought and then suddenly her head popped up to look at me. "Sean!"

"Yeah?"

"You!"

"Me?"

"Yes you! You can challenge him!"

"What no! Why me!?" There was no way in Hades that I was going up there in front of those people.

"Do you know anyone else that knows how to play an instrument that is currently here with us?"

"Yeah you! You can play french horn, sure not well, but you can still play it."

"Yeah about that... I never knew how to play it, I was only at your school for a week and I just faked the entire time. So you're all we got."

"Gods no!" I shook my head. "Anyway I don't even have my instrument." I gave her a smug grin. "Any other plan, you are the "smart" one." I said sarcastically.

"You do realise we're at a music convention right... we can just borrow one."

"You mean steal, have you been spending too much time in the Hermes cabin!" I backed away from her. "Are you insane, what if we're caught?!"

"What else can we do! I told you at the very beginning of this entire quest that there'd be a possibility for this kind of stuff to happen. And if we don't get caught then we don't have to worry about the what if."

"That makes a lot of sense..."

"Look this is the point where you decide whether or not you continue on with me or not, you have two options, challenge him and go with me, or back down and find your own way home. Your choice; choose wisely."

I sighed. "Sometimes I hate you..." I looked at the nearby stalls for a trumpet. "Well, where are we going to find a horn... or had you not thought about that? Because I don't see a single one."

"Just come on." She said grabbing my arm and pulling me towards the tents.

Sean/Author: Yet again, thanks to my editor Lexie, and Aasha I hope you start reading these again. Please review, some advice would be appreciated.

Lexie/Sean's most favorite sister/friend in the world: Sure thing, what else would I do with my free time other than have a social life... Readers I need your help to solve an argument Sean and I have been having. Do we (Sean) need to use more detail when describing things? I think yes.