Author's Notes: Here's chapter 18, hope you all like it. J Also, I started posting another story but this one is a Naruto one. It's a little more vulgar with it's language but it has a very similar concept to this story. So all you Naruto fans who read this story, look up Nari's Story and start reading lol.

Landon picked me up in the middle of the hallway and gave me a kiss. "So…do we go inside or what?"

I placed my hands softly on his cheeks, "I don't know, I thought we could just do it right here in the hallway."

He smiled and chuckled gently, "I don't think that'd be wise. Let's go inside before someone decides to spy on us." He walked me over to the door and opened it slowly. He carried me into the room like I was his newly married wife, although I wasn't wearing a dress, and I was glad for that.

I smiled, thinking about what we were about to do. I was contemplating about asking him if he would like to bottom, but I decided against it. I wanted to have my own fun tonight and not worry about trying something new.

He set me down gently on the bed, kissing up my shirt and neck, ending on my lips. "So…what color tonight?"

I thought about it. I was debating between orange and purple. "How about orange tonight."

He smiled and went into the other room to grab the condom.

All of a sudden, I heard a voice yelling my name. "Ryan, look behind you."

I turned around and saw Cathleen in an iris message. "Oh, hello Cathleen. Is there something wrong?"

She smiled happily, "No, I'm just calling to check up on you. I also have good news. Remember that Cameron boy I was drooling over back at camp. He asked me out."

I smiled widely, "That's awesome Cat. I'm happy for you."

Landon came in the room, "Alright, now which lube do you…" he looked up and saw Cat in the iris message, "oh, hey sis."

She raised an eyebrow, "And what exactly were you two planning on doing?" She smiled, her tone of voice was very inquisitive.

I smiled right back, "Oh, you know exactly what we were planning on doing, don't you?"

She giggled, "Maybe. So anyways, I'll let you go. I don't want to interrupt anything important."

Landon walked over to the bed and sat on it. "You don't have to go yet. Whatcha been up to lately?"

Cat repeated to her brother that she had a date, "But other than that, camp's been really boring lately. So how's your quest going?"

We looked at each other and laughed, "We haven't even left New York yet. Percy's been busy completing his own quest I assigned him."

"Oh really boys, what quest is that?"

"Remember when we caught him spying on us?"

"Yeah, but what's that got to do with the price of tea in China?"

Landon laughed slightly, "Ryan gave him a quest to test his sexuality. The other day, he had sex with Annabeth and just today, he had sex with a boy named David."

Cat's jaw dropped, "So in the past two days, Percy has had sex with a boy and a girl. So what's his sexuality?"

I cleared my throat, "He's a bisexual but get this, the boy he slept with turned out to be a demigod."

If it could, Cat's jaw would have fallen off, "No…way. That's really weird. How'd he find out?"

I told her the story about how when they finished, when David's sperm landed in a flower bed, it caused the plant life to grow.

She burst out laughing, "That's rich. I'm going to have to tell Amber about that little tidbit."

"Speaking of Amber, could you go get the rest of the group. I miss them and I'd like to say hello."

"Sure Ry." She walked away in search of the other six members of our previous group.

Landon turned to me and kissed me on the neck, "I take it we're not going to have some fun tonight."

I smiled and kissed down his jaw until I got to his collar. I slowly kissed it and bit down on the bone. "I think we'll get to it, but I do want to hear from everyone right now."

He smiled, "Then I suggest you look at the message."

I turned around and saw all my friends staring at me, some with smiling faces and some with eyes longing to see more. "Oh…hey everyone."

"Hey Ryan, how've you been?" Arista was the first one to talk. Her dirty blond hair was short now. Not too short, but not as long as I remembered it to be.

"I've been fine everyone. I just wanted to check up on all of you."

Shane shoved Arista out of the way. He told me that he's been bored for the past few days that I've been gone. He said that he wished he'd been chosen for the quest.

Stephanie told me about how she met a Hephaestus boy at camp and that she was having a lot of fun with him. She also told me that he was very good with electronics, and that they were making a cartoon together.

Jeremy was in an abnormally happy mood. He had told me that it was just a good day, but I remembered the look in his eyes. It was the same look I'd given Landon the very first time we met.

"Jeremy, what's that look in your eyes?"

He blushed, "I…I met someone. I didn't want to tell you because…it seems like everyone is getting together with someone and I'm sure you're getting sick of hearing about it."

"Nah man, I'm not sick of it. I'm glad you found someone. So, what's her name?"

He went silent for a few minutes, "It's not a she, it a he. His name is Michael. He's an Athena son and he's sixteen years old."

I closed my eyes and smiled. I remembered when I found my first guy crush, Jacob. "You know I don't have a problem with you dating a boy Jeremy. I just didn't expect it, that's all. But anyways, I'm happy for you."

He smiled and moved out of the way.

Arista finally made it back to the front of the group. She told me that she was having some problems with some of the other campers. Apparently, they thought she was a maniacal bitch who only wanted to see people get hurt.

"Don't listen to them. Sure, you did that to me but I forgave you. Maybe you should have come along with us on the quest."

"I'll be fine Ryan. I don't want you two stressing out about something other than the task at hand." She smiled and walked out of the way.

Her sister was next. Ashley was telling me about how she was doing a duet with Cameron for the camp sonnet at the end of the week. Since he was the best singer at camp, he automatically got the lead role. That also meant that he got to choose his partner, so he chose Ashley.

Amber was the last one to come up to the message. She told us about how she can't find a boyfriend and that she wished she could find one.

"Look amber, the reason you haven't found a boyfriend yet is because there isn't a boy at camp that peeks your interest. Give it time, more campers arrive every day. Maybe you'll find someone soon."

She smiled and walked out of the message.

"Alright Ryan, that's everyone. I'll message you soon, ok?" Cat smiled, obviously elated about speaking to us again.

"Of course, call me anytime you want." I waved goodbye and the message faded away. I turned to Landon, "Alright, now let's…"

BOOM! An explosion came from outside the hotel.

I ran over to the window and looked down. Kristen was wandering around outside searching for the demigods who got away. "Oh great, it's Kristen. We need to get out of here as fast as we can." I ran over to my book bag and repacked everything inside of it.

Landon was doing the same thing, although he was shaking a little bit as he put his clothes away. "Ryan, what do I do? I don't have a weapon to fight her with."

I looked down. Damn it, how could I forget to give Landon a weapon before we left camp. "Don't worry about it. You just stay with me and use you demigod powers to fight." I slung my book bag over my shoulder and grabbed my fork out of my pocket. "Let's go. We still need to get Nico and Brent."

He nodded and we ran outside the door. He knocked vigorously on their suite's door.

Nico was the one who answered the door. "What's going on outside?"

I looked at him and gave him a serious stare, "It's an empusa. We have to get out of the hotel and kill her."

Nico nodded, "Brent, we need to get going. There's a fight about to go down."

I heard Brent scream in excitement. This must have been what he's been for.

When he ran past us not even a minute later, his bag was already on his back and he had two swords in his hand. One celestial bronze and one stygian iron.

Nico had his dagger out and ran after Brent. "You guys go get Percy and Annabeth. We'll hold off the empusa until then."

Landon looked at me, "We also need to get David." He walked next door to our room and knocked on the door. When David came out, Landon told him what was going on. David nodded and ran down the stairs in pursuit of Nico and Brent.

"Now let's go get Percy and Annabeth. If anything, this is going to be the last day we're in New York." We ran down the stairs to get the rest of the group.

We arrived at Percy's house only a few minutes later. "Percy, are you in there!" I knocked erratically on the door, praying to the gods that he was home.

He answered the door, "What's going on?"

Annabeth came down the stair, cautiously. I looked at her and she instantly understood what was going on. "It's the empusa, isn't it Ryan?"

I nodded, "Yes it is. She's destroying the entire block looking for us. Nico, David, and Brent are out fighting her, but we need you guys for help. I think we're going to be leaving New York tonight. Get you things ready and meet us outside."

They nodded and closed the door.

I grabbed Landon's hand and dragged him outside where the rest of the group were fighting. Brent was already knocked out cold and David had the empusa wrapped up in vines that were dragging her into the ground. Nico was just standing there, watching and making sure that the empusa was truly trapped.

I walked over to David, "Anything I can help with."

When Kristen saw me, she suddenly became much stronger because she was able to snap the vines and charge at me. "I'm going to finish what I started sixty six years ago!" She had her fangs and claws bared as she ran awkwardly toward me.

I turned to Nico, "I need you to create a few undead soldiers. I can handle her but I need a distraction."

He nodded and summoned four undead soldiers, causing Kristen to shudder. "You think I forgot about those little nuisances. I've come up with a way around them." She kept running, but she started to puff out her chest. "Take this!" She started to screech. It was a ear splitting, glass breaking screech that destroyed the undead soldiers when they heard it.

Nico looked at her, fear written all across his face. "What do we do now?"

"JUST DISTRACT HER!" I rummaged through my bag, looking for the one last sea shell I'd bought way back when. "Gods damn it, where the Hades is this thing!" I looked up and saw Kristen slam into David, knocking him unconscious. I threw my bag on the ground, and when I did that, the shell rolled out. "Finally!" I grabbed the shell and threw it to the ground, forming a geyser of ocean water.

Percy and Annabeth showed up only a minute later. He looked at David and Brent lying unconscious on the ground, "What happened?"

"Kristen knocked them out. They're alive but if she gets to them, they'll die."

Landon looked at me, still a little unsure of what to do. Then, he seemed to get an idea, "Ryan, Percy, make a very tight water bubble around Kristen. We're going to take her out just like we did the hydra back when we first met."

I looked at him, "That's a great idea. Let's go Percy." I willed the water geyser to expand, causing an explosion of water. The pain my stomach felt was excruciating, but once Percy started helping, the pain slowly numbed.

When Kristen saw the tsunami wave heading towards her, she tried to turn around, but it was too late. The wave slammed into her right after she turned around.

Percy and I then began to will the water into a bubble, trapping her inside. For added effect, we made the water inside the bubble spin.

Landon raised his hands up to the sky, "Lightning!" He swiftly lowered his hands and a bolt of lightning struck the bubble.

Kristen screamed and dissolved into a pile of spinning dust in the bubble.

We released the bubble, closing the stream of water shooting up from the ground. "Thank the gods that's over." I fell to the ground, too weak to move my body.

Landon fell to the ground next to me. "Ryan, are you ok?" He was shaking my body effortlessly; I couldn't move.

"I'm fine, just a little tired." I tried to smile, but just couldn't.

Landon rummaged through my bag until he found the nectar and ambrosia I had brought. He gave a piece to Percy and Annabeth, "Give those to Brent and David." He took one piece and placed it at my mouth, "Here, eat this."

I slowly ate the ambrosia; it tasted like a sauce cover meatball. Once I finished the ambrosia, I was feeling much better. I got up cautiously, trying not to overexert myself, "Thanks Landon." I gave him a quick kiss on the cheek.

Percy gave the ambrosia to David. When he woke up and saw Percy leaning over him, David gave him a peck on the cheek. I saw Percy blush and then help David up off the ground.

Annabeth, thanks the gods, was over with Brent and paying no attention to Percy. When Brent woke up and saw Annabeth leaning over him, he shoved her off.

We all gathered in the middle of the street. It was five in the afternoon and we were all exhausted from our long day. We heard police sirens in the distance, meaning that someone had reported something to them, a terrorist attack or something.

"We need to leave, now." Nico picked up his bag off the ground.

"But where do we go?" Annabeth was holding onto Percy's arm tightly.

Landon thought about it for a few seconds. "The prophecy said something about a valley of sand. I suggest we go somewhere that has a desert. It also said that we would meet someone in the valley, didn't it?"

I thought about the prophecy. It did in fact say that we would meet someone in the desert, but also that someone in the group was going to ditch us when we arrived there. "It did say that, in fact, it said that we would end up meeting two friends along the way. We've already met David, so that means we only have one left."

Annabeth and Percy both looked down, "But that means that Luke isn't the other one."

"That may be, but we still need to finish the quest before we can be sure. Who knows, maybe he was already reborn and is going to meet us in the desert. The only question is, which desert do we go to?" Nico stepped forward, The closest desert to the underworld is the one in Nevada. I suggest we head in that direction."

"Alright everyone, next stop, Nevada desert."