I don't own PJO. Thanks to MandyJane, cotix 14 (I'm sorry that there isn't much Percabeth, I just find it harder to write about them, but I'll try), 11percyjackson11, Creative Central, clare, Bonifaco16 and loveyou4eva for reviewing! I probably should have told you guys this, but not all of the gods leave clues. There is only about two or three chapters left to go.11percyjackson11 and loveyou4eva got the riddle right! Well done, I couldn't get it when my friend told me. I had to beg for the answer. Sorry this chapter took a while, I've been trying to learn the dance off the Party Rock Anthem video (look it up on YouTube, it's awesome). Happy Easter holidays everybody. Sorry, this is really short.

Travis POV

Yes! I kissed Katie Gardener! She was acting all awkward, but at least she kissed me back!

I was trying to find Connor to tell him the good news while Katie got the clue. Then I saw Melpomene talking to him. I decided to eavesdrop.

"That's not fair!" Connor said indignantly. "I sang and everything!"

"Alas! You are not allowed to take the next clue for your partner is not with you. It is a cruel twist of fate yes, but it is the rules," Melpomene said solemnly.

As Connor stalked off I caught his arm.

"What's up?" I asked.

"They won't give me the next clue because Drew isn't here," Connor explained.

"Well, when I win, I promise not to tease you too much," I grinned. Katie walked over to me.

"I've got the clue and I know the answer."

"Goodbye Connor! Have fun!" I smirked, walking to a more private place so Katie could share the answer. When the amphitheatre and everyone else was out of sight Katie handed me the clue.

"Five men are going from a car into a church. It's pouring rain and -"

"The man's in a coffin," Katie said before I finished reading.

"I hadn't got that far yet," I explained.

"We need to get a move on. You can bet your 'amazing' stealing skills that Nico will get that answer in a second and Annabeth will figure it out soon enough," she stated.

"Getting competitive Katie?" I asked grinning.

"What do you think?" she retorted, but not unkindly. We walked in no particular direction.

"Katie, in case you haven't realised, were on Olympus," I said, seeing a problem.

"Funny enough, I had noticed that, thanks," she said, raising an eyebrow.

"No, I mean, the gods live on Olympus right?" I said. Katie rolled her eyes.

"And they're immortal, so there might be a shortage of coffins here. Besides, we burn the bodies in a shroud anyway," I concluded. Katie bit her lip.

"Houston, we have a problem," she said.

Nico POV

"Easy," I said flatly.

"What is it?" Thalia asked timidly. I don't think I'd ever seen a timid Thalia before. It was almost as unnatural as a stupid Annabeth. It was kind of unnerving too. She probably still felt bad. There was no reason to though. I made it all up in my head. She never liked me in that way and never will. I decided to try to stop moping. I was only making things more difficult.

"The dude's in a coffin," I explained. That wasn't too hard, but I was a bit stuck on how this would lead to the next clue.

"And the closest thing to a coffin on Olympus is that war memorial," she said. Jeez, her mind works quickly. "So we had better try that first."

"Makes sense," I muttered.

"Let's go then," she said determinedly.

"Thalia, can I ask you something?" I said. She stiffened. I had thought she might, but I wasn't going to ask her anything about what happened outside the amphitheatre.

"I guess you just did Skull Boy, but yes you can," she said slowly.

"Why do you want to win so bad when you aren't even going to be at Camp Half-Blood for the next two months?" I asked. She sniggered and looked slightly relieved.

"It's not necessarily that I want to win, but that I just want to beat Percy," she smirked.

"Seems like a pretty good deal for me. I get to beat Percy and get two months of no chores and extra dessert," I said. It cheered me up slightly to think about how, if we won, I would never let Percy live it down.

Percy POV

I had no idea what the answer was. Hence why I was looking at Annabeth hopefully. She saw my expression and said,

"Don't worry, I know the answer."

"Thank Zeus," I said.

"What did you think I wouldn't get it?" Annabeth demanded. I tried my best not to look like a deer caught in headlights.

"No, just the clue is really hard and I didn't get it so I was hoping you would . . ." I tried to explain. Annabeth just raised her eyebrows.

"Come on, we're going to the war memorial," she said, grabbing my arm and pulling me along.

"What? What's the answer? Why are we going to the memorial?" I asked, bewildered.

"The guy is in a coffin and the closet we are going to get to a coffin on Mount Olympus is a death memorial," she said impatiently. I didn't fully understand, but I decided to trust her.

When we got there, I was frozen with shock. It was like an enlarged version of the camp bead for last summer. It was a black model of the Empire State Building with names etched around it, double my height. At the base lay small metal objects, not much bigger than my thumb and they looked like key rings.

"I'll get them," I said. I retrieved one of the pendants and went back to Annabeth before I did anything to it.

"Now what do we do?" I asked. Annabeth opened her mouth but a voice emitted from the object. It said.

"What animal can always be found on the web?

Hermes."

Annabeth shook her head. "Hephaestus must have helped Hermes on this one. Hermes was hardly giving us a really difficult riddle, so they put two gods in one clue."

"You know the answer then?" she asked me. She obviously did and didn't like it one bit.

"Of course I do, it's easy," I said. "But I don't see how 'spider' is going to get us another clue."

As soon as the word 'spider' left my mouth, the key ring started to shake.

Katie POV

We didn't really eavesdrop on Percy and Annabeth. Just long enough to hear about the memorial. We ran there a quickly as we could, Travis being faster from the countless times he was caught stealing and had to leg it. Annabeth and Percy got there before us, but we hid in the foliage so they wouldn't see us. They might think that we followed them, which we didn't. Well, not really.

At the bottom of the memorial were several metal . . . things. Percy picked one up. Then it started talking, saying the clue. A Hephaestus invention obviously. The riddle was so easy, even Percy could probably get it. The answer was spider, a creature that many people were afraid of. If I had a drachma for every time Aphrodite's children ran screaming out of their cabin because of a tiny spider, I'd have enough money to build a Parthenon look-a-like. Annabeth and Percy started talking and Travis turned his face to me.

"Are you afraid of spiders, Katie?" he said innocently. A little too innocently.

"No, I work in the strawberry fields, I'm hardly afraid of bugs. What are you afraid of?" I asked, turning the tables.

"Mr. D incinerating me."

"Fair enough," I said, turning back towards Annabeth and Percy. Then I did a double take, not sure what I was seeing. The metal object had begun to quiver violently

Thalia POV

The very second we picked up the clue, a voice came out and said the 'riddle', which doesn't even deserve to be called a riddle it's so easy. We both knew the answer, but before one of us could say it out loud, I heard people coming.

"Come on," I said, grabbing Nico and pulling him behind a bush. Deep breaths Thalia. Yes, you pulled Nico behind a bush but only to hide.

"What was that -"

I clapped my hand over his mouth and pointed through the branches towards the memorial. Percy and Annabeth stood there.

Nico nodded his head furiously, wanting to be released. I was so close to him it felt strange. I didn't have time to think about my feelings though, so I forced myself to think of something other than Nico. Which was incredibily hard.

I let go and moved further away from him. He shook his black hair out of his eyes and tried to take in as much air as he could, while making as little noise as possible.

"We can't wait here, they might get ahead of us," Nico whispered.

"We know the answer is 'spider' but we still don't know where to go," I insisted.

Suddenly, the metal thing started to vibrate. It transformed into a mechanic spider that was level with my knee. It scuttled off and before I could say anything, Nico had grabbed my hand and was dragging me after it.

Sorry for the length and the small cliffy. Please review! Now I'm off to do some shufflin' . . .