Author's notes: Chapter 5 is here, sorry for a semi-long wait. You finally meet the other half of the OC pairing. Please review

The plane ride went by quickly. We paid for the tickets with the cards we got from the casino and the people looked at us weirdly and gave us first class seats. We got on and we started to move right when we were told.

Somebody told us to put our seatbelt on, but we couldn't see who. Arista told us that it was the captain over the loudspeaker and we must have looked even more confused. "The captain is the person who drives the plane and the loudspeaker is a device that allows the captain to talk to everyone on the plane at the same time." That cleared things up a little bit, but not a lot.

Once we got in the plane, we decided to take a nap and no sooner did we fall asleep, the flight attendant woke us up.

"The plane will be landing in about 15 minutes. Fasten your seatbelts and prepare to land."

"Thank you miss." I woke up everybody else and we fastened our seatbelts. The feeling of flying in the plane was amazing, but a little scary at first. I couldn't tell if anybody else liked it but I imagined Cathleen did, being a daughter of Zeus and all.

We got off the plane and Cathleen said, "I am never flying in one of those things again." I didn't argue with her because we couldn't leave her alone and she would not change her mind. "So, I guess we'll take a train to New York." We looked around, but couldn't find a train station anywhere close to our destination.

"I guess they don't have a train station close to the airport here." Ashley said. "I think we should go take a walk through the forest over there to just have some fun and relax. I could use some target practice anyways."

"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea sis. Maybe we'll find some good herbs for our medicines out there too."

"Ok then, I guess we're going to relax in the woods for a few hours." We headed towards the woods with the idea of having fun; boy were we wrong.

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The forest reminded me of the one back at camp. The trees were all in bloom and I assumed it was about mid-April, due to the slight chill in the air but still, no need for a coat. We saw a few naiads tending to some flowers that were withering from my guess, lack of water. "This place is beautiful, isn't it sis." The twin girls ran through the forest faster than I thought they could run.

"Cathleen, I need you to stay with them and make sure they don't get lost ok?" "Ok." She ran after the girls even faster than the girls ran.

"Well Jeremy, want to practice fighting while the girls are away?"

"Sure, I could use some practice." I pulled out Tidal and he pulled out Soul-Eater and we started to attack. We made sure not to actually hit each other with our weapons, but we did scare each other from time to time. One time he got close enough for me to get his neck caught between two points on my trident. "Wow, your better than I thought you were."

"Well, that's what you get for underestimating your opponent." I really shouldn't have been talking. He came close a few time to cutting my head off with his sword and he was a lot better than I thought he would be for just a 15 year old. "Your better than I thought you were kid."

"Like you said, don't underestimate your opponent." With that said we went back to our fighting.

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"Girls, wait up." Cathleen was running after the girls but couldn't quite catch them for some reason. "How could they be faster than me?" She kept running until she saw the girls picking some flowers in a flower patch close by. "There you are. I can't believe how fast you two are."

"Yeah, we were faster than we look due to all the running away from monsters when we were little." Arista took out a funny looking arrow container from her backpack and a bow. "Come on Ashley, let's get some target practice in before we have to leave."

"Ok." Ashley took out a container and a bow that looked identical to her sister's, but only in different colors.

"Cool arrow containers, but you only have 10 arrows in it. Shouldn't you save them incase we have to fight a monster?" The girls laughed in unison at Cathleen's question.

"Our arrow containers are magical, they won't ever run out of arrow." Cathleen's jaw dropped.

"That's a very convenient magical item to have. How did you get them?" The girls faces' became very somber.

"They were a gift from our mother, after she tried to keep us locked away from the world and realized it wouldn't work. She died trying to save us from a scythian dracanae when it found us at the mall." Ashley started to cry and Arista gave her a hug.

"I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to make you cry." The girls looked at Cathleen and smiled.

"It's ok Cathleen. We just don't like talking about much." After a few minutes, the girls composed themselves and put and arrow in their bows. The girls started to take aim at a tree about 50 meters away. "Ok sis first one to stick 10 arrows into that tree is the winner. It must be in the trunk and at least 5 feet away from the ground."

"Got it."

"Ready. Set. GO!" The girls fired arrow after arrow until all Cathleen saw was a blur of black and white arrows whizzing by her head. "Yes I win. Good job Ashley but I'm still just a little bit faster than you."

"Yeah but I'm getting faster. I had 9 arrows in the tree this time. Last time it was only 8." Ashley smiled like she had won and turned to Cathleen. "Where is your weapon Cathleen? Why don't you try some practicing with us."

"Ok then." Cathleen pulled out her toy lightning bolt from her pocket and pushed the center of it, revealing her sword Shocker to the girls. "Ok, I want you to fire arrows at me and I'll try to deflect them with my sword ok." The girls looked nervously at each other.

"Are you sure about this Cathleen? We don't have any safety arrows you know. We could hurt you."

"I know that but I'm not a pushover girls; you don't have to go easy on me. Just ask my teammates." They girls gave each other another nervous look.

"Ok then. Here we go." The girls raised their bows and took aim at Cathleen. "Fire." They began to shot arrows at Cathleen at a very slow speed, still worried they would hurt her.

"Come on girls, I know you can shoot faster than that." The girls got a new fire in their eyes and started firing arrows with more intensity. Cathleen was still dodging them, but with a little more work used to do it. "That's more like it."

They continued shooting arrows until they heard something that sounded like an, "Ouch!" The arrows stopped and the girls turned around to see what had happened. A teenage girl stepped out from behind a giant tree. She had longish brown hair and light skin. She seemed like an average teenage girl except everywhere she touched or walked, flowers grew and dead plants came back to life.

"What were you doing firing arrows like that in a forest? You could have killed some of the magical plants that grow here." She removed an arrow from a redwood tree and healed the tree back to normal. She turned back to the girls and said, "I am Amber Fancher, daughter of Demeter." She gestured in the direction that she came form.

"Hey guys, it's safe. It's just some more half bloods like us." From that direction, two more half bloods came out and smiled.

"Hello, my name is Stephanie Carter. I'm 17 years old and I am a daughter of Athena." She smiled lightly.

"My name is Shane Manny. I'm 17 also and I am a son of Dionysius." He pulled out a clear thermos and made it fill up with Skittles. "Sorry, I'm very hungry." He laughed and started to eat his random assortment of Skittles.

"This is amazing, I can't believe we found more half-bloods by just waiting around." Cathleen was getting along really well with Amber and Ashley and Arista were talking with Stephanie and Shane. "We should get back to the boys and tell them that we now have some more team mates traveling with us." The girls and Shane ran off to meet up with Jeremy and myself.

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"Wow Jeremy, you're a lot better than I ever thought you'd be." I had cuts all over my body and was exhausted. "Do you want to take a break?"

"Yeah, I think that's a good idea." We walked over to a near by river and splashed our faces. "Hey, could you heal us up with the river water?"

"Yeah, that's probably a good idea Jeremy." I had the water flow over both of our wounds and healed them right up. "There, that's better."

"HELP!" We looked over in the direction the scream came from but couldn't see anything,

"That was weird. It must have been the wind or something." Jeremy and I walked back over toward our swords and saw Cathleen with her new group waiting there. "Hey Cathleen and company."

"Hey Ryan. This is Amber, Stephanie, and Shane. They are all demigods and we're going to help them get to camp with us." Cathleen smiled and so did the new members of our little group.

"Well hello there, my name is Ryan Pavid and this is Jeremy Hagid."

"Hello." Everything was fine and happy until.

"HELP ME!" The cry was closer now.

"I think somebody is in trouble guys. Lets go check it out." Cathleen started towards the scream.

"I agree. We actually heard that scream before. Right before you guys got here that same scream echoed through the forest but we didn't see anything so we assumed that it was just the wind playing tricks on us." I took everybody else and we caught up with Cathleen.

"Well if you heard that sound before, then why didn't you go see what it was?" Amber asked me and Cathleen stared.

"Like I said, the noise was farther away and we thought it was the wind." We kept running until we got to a clearing and saw another demigod fighting a giant hydra with eight heads. "That demigod's in trouble." I took out my fork and charged at the beast.

"Come on sis, let's go help out." Ashley and Arista took out their bows and arrows and started firing at the beast with deadly speed and accuracy.

"Come on Jeremy. Lets go help Ryan and that mystery demigod." Cathleen and Jeremy pulled out their weapons and charged at the beast as well. Jeremy made some dead soldiers raise up from the ground and Cathleen was keeping the beast's attention away form the mystery demigod. "Ryan go over and see how that fighter is doing."

The mystery demigod turned and saw all of the new fighters. I appeared next to him and threw two of the last seashells I had left from my fight with the empusa. He watched in amazement as two geysers of ocean water came up from the ground. "You're a son of Poseidon, aren't you?" He looked at the stream of ocean water that was spurting out of the ground and smiled again. "Trap the hydra in a water bubble and I'll help you finish it off."

I looked at him, wondering how trapping a hydra in a water bubble would help defeat it, but I didn't think we had a better plan. "Ok then, oh and what's your name?"

"My name is Landon Blaner. Now I need you to put it in the bubble now."

"Ok I'm on it." I willed the water to trap the monster in a giant bubble. The hydra spat acid from it's mouth, trying to dissolve the water, but it didn't work. "Ok, the beast is in the water. But what are you going to do?"

Landon raised his arm and screamed, "Lightning," and just like when Cathleen said that, lightning shot down on the water bubble. The bubble turned bright blue and white from the shock of lightning and it took all of my energy to keep it from bursting. The hydra squirmed in the bubble, but it wasn't enough lightning to kill the beast. "Damn, I don't have enough power to take the beast out myself." I looked at Cathleen and she understood what to do.

Cathleen raised her arms and screamed, "Lightning," and another strike of lightning came down on the bubble. The hydra roared and dissolved into a giant pile of sand and dust in the bubble. I willed the water stop and after a few minutes, the water was gone.

I looked at the boy next to me in awe. "You're a son of Zeus, aren't you Landon?" He smiled and fell to the ground, unconscious from the fight. I grabbed the nectar and ambrosia out of my bag and gave him enough to at least wake him up. His eyes opened and they were the most beautiful shade of sky blue I had ever seen. "Hey, are you ok?"

He sat up and smiled again. "Yeah, I'm ok. I should really thank you…"

"Ryan, my name is Ryan." I smiled whole-heartedly and he kept his smile going.

"Ryan then. Ok, thank you very much Ryan." He looked over at the rest of my group, "Thank you everyone, and especially you half-sister." Cathleen ran over to us and looked worried for her brother.

"Hey half-brother. How would you like to come with us back to a camp where children like us can be safe?"

This boy never seemed to let his smile fade. "I would like that very much and then maybe I could repay my debt to Ryan and you for helping save me.

"Let's not think about that right now. Let's just get you back to the train station with us and head out, ok?" I was really happy that Landon was coming with us and I didn't have a reason why yet. I just knew that I'd be happy knowing he was safe near me.

We helped Landon back up to his feet and gathered up the group. With our now group of nine, we headed back the main city where we would catch the next train to Long Island, New York.