A/N: Guys, I am so sorry that I made you guys wait a month for the update. I have had a serious case of writers block, I changed this chapter so many times, I almost gave up, but I didn't. Again so sorry. I'll just let you guys read the chapter.
Mo's POV
Olivia was pale, paler than usual. "Liv, what's going on?" I asked putting my hand on her shoulder.
"Grams isn't picking up." Olivia put the phone to her ear.
"Oh gods," Wen said. He put the bag he was holding down and ran over to her, "Who are you calling now?" He asked.
"Who do you think, Wen? I'm calling the hospital." Wen looked a little taken back, I think we all were. Olivia rarely yells at anyone, especially Wen, except when it comes to family, "I'm sorry," she said with a sigh, "I'm just really worried about her." Tears were brimming in her eyes. I put my arm around her shoulder and squeezed her comfortingly.
"It's going to be okay."
"Hello?" Olivia said.
"Put it on speaker." Stella said crowding around the phone. Olivia obliged.
"Hello?" Olivia repeated.
"Hello, Mesa Hospital, how can I help you?" A young woman's voice came from the phone.
"Hi, I am calling in concern of Gertrude White, I was wondering if she came in recently?" Olivia said.
"I'm sorry we are not allowed to disclose information on patients, or potential patients." The woman said.
Stella grabbed the phone "Listen lady, this woman is an 80 year old woman with leukemia, who just so happens to mean a great deal to many people. Now either you tell us if she is in that hospital, or I will personally tell the local news what a crappy secretary the Mesa Hospital has, are we clear?" Stella said angrily.
"Listen hun, that's all well and good, but unless you are a family member, I can't tell you anything." The woman said.
"That's great," Olivia said, "I'm her granddaughter. Olivia White, she's also my legal guardian."
"Well then that makes a difference." We could hear clicking coming from the phone. I grabbed Charlie's hand nervously. "She was recently brought in by a friend, she tripped while getting tea for her book club. She is fine, but she is being kept overnight of the leukemia. She is currently being given chemotherapy."
"Thank you, thank you so much!" Olivia said and then hung up. "Thank Gods! She's okay!" Her hands went to her mouth, and she smiled, "She has a broken leg, but she's okay." She hugged Wen with excitement. "I was so scared." She said.
"We all were," Wen said, stroking her hair soothingly. Olivia pulled back from the hug slightly, and kissed Wen.
I turned to Charlie, he looked like he had tears in his eyes. "She's alright," I said wiping his eyes.
He hugged me, his hands wrapped around my waist, it felt nice to have them there. "I was worried for a moment. Grams is one of the only adults I have met who isn't judgemental to me. I mean I know I'm not the quickest person on the planet, but she doesn't push me. I don't want to lose her." He said.
"I don't think any of us do Charlie." I said pulling back. I looked him in the eye, and kissed him.
"LOVEBIRDS!" came a yell from the truck. I pulled away from Charlie to see an angry Christine, "If you're all done with the kissy kissy over here, the rest of us are ready to go. Everyone's stuff is in the back."
"We sit in the back!" Stella yelled.
"Then watch the stuff, there's no room in the front anyway." Christine said turning on her heel.
"There was before." Charlie mumbled. I laughed.
This was going to be a long ride.
Christine's POV
Was I mad? That's an understatement. I knew that somehow I was going to find Scott again. I just had to, but right now, we needed to focus on stopping that Minotaur. I had to put my prejudice aside and help Ray. He was my friend.
Everyone hopped in the truck, Grover offering to drive. Honestly its better than me driving. I am a horrible driver when I'm mad. I got in the front, and pulled out my book. If there was one thing that could calm me down, it was the writing styles of Cassandra Clare. I looked in my fold down mirror to see the others talking and laughing with Jessica. How was it that we lost one, yet regained another?
I pulled out my iPhone and figured I would see what was going on without me. 3 missed texts from Katie. Uh oh.
"Hey Percy? Can I borrow your phone? I need to call my friend." I said.
He passed me the phone, I quickly dialed the number and held the phone to my ear.
"Hello?"
"Katie? It's Christine." I said into the phone.
"Christine! Where are you?" Katie said hurriedly.
"I told you I was visiting some family and friends out of state." I said, "Why? Is everything okay?" I asked quickly.
"Some weird guy came by the other day, said he knew you."
Something then clicked in my head, whoever tried to get the others out of the way, might have wanted to get me out of the way. "Katie, what was his name?" I asked, trying to hide the worry.
"Didn't ask. When he found out you weren't there he just, left." She stated.
"Dammit!" I said forgetting about the others and Katie.
"Why Dammit? Christine is something going on?" Katie asked, a worried tone in her voice.
"No, nothing is wrong. I'll call you in a few days, I have to go, my cousin is acting up." I quickly hung up the phone. "Grover, stop the car." I said.
"What? Why?" Grover asked looking over at me.
"I said stop the car!" I said quickly.
Grover quickly stopped the car. A chorus of bangs and ouch's came from the flat bed. I quickly hopped out of the car, and started banging on the flat bed. "EVERYBODY OUT!" I yelled.
"What the hell is going on?" Jessica yelled at me.
"We've got a problem."
Jessica's POV
Okay, I may be new to this group that Percy has going on here, but what is up with this Christine chick? I mean she has an awesome sense of style, and I love the Mortal Instruments Tattoo, and her hair is just awesome, but why is she so pushy?
"Okay we're out," I said, "Now can I repeat, what the hell is going on?"
"Stella," Christine said ignoring me, "You know how we were talking about how someone summoned the hell beasts into the camp?"
"Yeah? Why?" Stella asked looking at her.
"Well, someone was just recently at my house. He spoke to my roommate."
"Is the who you were talking to on the phone?" Percy asked.
"Yep. She said that he knew me, and that once he found out I wasn't there, he just left. Didn't leave a name or anything."
"Okay, I'm sorry, confused mortal here. What the hell is going on?" I asked looking at everyone.
"About a week ago, we were at camp and we were attacked by hell beasts. The only way to get those into the camp is to summon them, since they're so dangerous. So someone summoned them and told them to attack us." Olivia explained to me.
"So you think this guy is the one that was at Christine's house?" I asked pointing at Christine.
"I think so," Christine said.
"There's something else. Christine, there's something you're not telling us," I said looking at her.
"How could you tell?" Christine asked.
"I'm good at reading people. My best friends are crazy. Now, what aren't you telling us?" I asked.
"I think I know who it is." Christine said.
"Who?" We all asked at the same time.
"I think it's my brother, Sean." Christine said looking down.
"Your brother?" Percy asked, "You're going to have to be more specific."
"Sean. He's my half-brother, but not like you think. We have the same mom, but different dads." Christine said looking up.
"Is his dad mortal?" Olivia asked.
"No. His father is Hades." Christine said looking up.
"He's a big three?" Annabeth asked.
"That's bad." Grover said, "That's really bad."
I looked around trying to see what the problem was. I noticed that Wen, Mo, Charlie and Stella were as confused as I was. "Okay, confused mortal. What's so bad about the fact that his dad is Hades?"
"Yeah, I'm confused on that too." Wen said. Mo, Charlie, and Stella nodded in agreement.
"Hades is one of the big three. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades all makeup the big three." Annabeth said.
"They usually makeup the famous rulers, or conquerors." Grover said.
"Not long after World War II, which was basically three kids of the big three fighting, they each swore on the river styx never to have another child, because it was too dangerous." Olivia continued.
"They each broke that promise." Christine added.
"Percy, is a son of Poseidon." Annabeth said.
"Thalia, is a daughter of Zeus." Grover added. When he saw how confused I looked he added, "She's a friend of ours."
"Nico and Bianca were both children of Hades." Percy added, "Nico is a friend, and Bianca was as well."
"Was?" I asked looking at him.
"She died a few years ago." Annabeth said.
"Oh," I said.
"Sean is also a son of Hades." Christine said.
"Why haven't I seen him around camp then?" Grover asked.
"I don't know. As soon as Sean was 18 he packed his bags and left home, moved to LA. I think he always knew what he was, he just didn't want anybody else knowing. Not that that's hard, he can control Tartarus. The monsters wouldn't dare go near him."
"Why do you think it's him though?" I asked looking at Christine.
"Sean's always been a bad nut. Never followed rules, of any kind, he always went to the principal's office, he was expelled from 2 schools a year almost, until my mom finally decided to home school him. When he was sixteen he started hanging out with the wrong crowd, got into the wrong things, no matter what my mom or I did, he just kept going with it. Never changed, if anyone would let out the bull out of its pen, it would be Sean."
"Well this doesn't matter. We need to get home." Olivia said.
"Yeah, we're going really slow, is there any way we can get there faster?" Wen asked.
"I don't kno…..OH MY GODS, I'M AN IDIOT!" Olivia yelled.
"Why?" I asked looking over at the blonde.
"There might be a way, but that's only if Ray decides to put aside his pride, and work with me." Olivia said looking over at her twin.
"Olivia, you couldn't possibly mean…"
"That's exactly what I mean."
"With this many people there's no way."
"That's why we have to work together."
"But how?"
"The truck."
"The truck?"
"The truck."
"How?"
"We hold onto the truck and pray to Zeus it works."
"I'm sorry, but what's going on with my truck?" Percy asked.
"Sun travel." The twins said in unison.
"Sun travel?" The rest of the band and I asked. Percy, Annabeth, Grover and Christine had a why-didn't-I-think-of-that look on.
"Sun travel." The twins repeated in unison.
"What's sun travel." Wen asked, looking down at his girlfriend.
"It's exactly what it sounds like. We can use sun to travel. Only children of Apollo can do it." Olivia said looking up at him.
"And how are you going to do the truck?" I asked looking at them.
"Well if we hold the truck, and everyone is in it, we can just transport the truck." Ray explained, while walking over to me.
"Okay then." I said.
"Well what are we waiting for, let's get in the truck." Stella yelled, and hopped on to the flat bed.
Olivia's POV
The fact I hadn't thought of sun travel before just proved how worried I was. Normally I would have thought about it immediately, but since I'm so worried, naturally I don't think about it until someone thinks of a faster way of travelling.
After everyone had gotten settled, I started to give some instructions. "Okay, this will be a lot easier if you all hand on the side of the truck." Everyone grabbed the side of the truck with both sides.
"Ready Olivia?" Ray called from his spot in the front, both his hands on the dash board.
"Ready Ray." I called back, both my hands on the back of the truck.
"3" Ray called.
"2" I called.
"1" We called in unison. I started mustering all the energy I could, my head turned to the sky, letting the sun soak me. I started groaning as the family buzzing started. I closed my eyes, and I could see the light gathering, "You might want to close your eyes." I called over the loud buzzing. I focused on a place Ray and I both knew, Dante's. The light grew brighter and brighter as the buzzing grew louder and louder, meaning it was working. The pain in my chest and head were growing stronger, but I ignored it. I kept pushing, focusing on the pizza place I performed at many times. I felt a trickle going down my nose, but I continued to ignore it, I knew Ray was feeling the same pain. I focused, and that's when I started to smell the freshly baked crust, the tomato sauce. I was glad it was a Sunday, because Dante's was closed to customers on Sundays.
After a few minutes the light started to dim and the buzzing became quieter until the both ceased to exist. I opened my eyes, and released my hands from the back of the truck. All I felt was pain, a strong pain everywhere. My head was pounding, and my chest felt like it was about to explode. All I could taste was blood from the nose bleed that didn't stop, that was now coming from both nostrils, and my hands were cut from hanging on so tight to the back.
My vision started to grow spotty. "Olivia?" I heard in the distance. My vision grew spottier, and spottier, the calls became more distant, "Oh my Gods, Olivia!" I could just make out the faces of the band, and Jessica, that was the last thing I saw before everything went black.
A/N: So I hope the detail, and the fact that Grams is alive makes up for the fact that I left you guys with a cliffhanger for more then a month.
Review what you want for the next chapter, or the chapter after that. I'm trying to keep ahead of the chapters, anyway review please.
~HPSlyth7Lovegood