Im back! :D And here it is. Chapter 5 completed! This was a hard chapter to write but I still enjoyed it. I realized that the story was following off from the plan RR left off and I wanted to do something different so I don't know how it'll go. Please let me know! Here it is. Enjoy ^.^

Hazel I

Hazel began wondering when this quest would be over, so she could finally go home. Oh that's right, she remembered, I'm a demigod, do I even have a home? There had been times when Hazel wondered where she belonged. She had died a long time ago thanks to Gaea, but now had been given the chance to get another shot at life. She had taken it of course, with the help of Nico, but she wondered what she would do after all of this was over. She often felt like a toy to the gods, who used her whenever they needed her and then just "disposed" of her. She knew her friends could relate. Especially Rachel, if she hadn't been possessed.

The poor girl didn't even have the chance to fight back as Gaea took control. Gaea hadn't even given any warning whatsoever. Although Hazel di think that it would be weird if there was a warning, like, mind if a take over your body for a sec?

Thanks to Apollo, Rachel was safe for the time being, but you can never be too sure. Nico on the other hand was so tired that he had supposedly remained asleep during the whole phase. Hazel wasn't surprised of course; Nico needed all the rest he could get after what he had been through. He was still, even at this point, not telling anyone exactly what he experienced.

During the night, they had arrived near Greece, the trip was not far however, and only took about an hour. They had around 30 days before war began and did not wanted to waste any time but even so, with Nico seeming so lost, Leo had decided that they would camp outside the country and try to find more information on what the "doors" exactly where. Nico had insisted on helping of course, but he was being too shady and wasn't telling them all the news. "Just head towards Epirus, and I'll lead from there" he had told them. And after what had happened to Rachel they could never be too sure he actually was "Nico".

Hazel decided to have a talk with Sammy-no-Leo, so she began climbed up the stairs to the upper deck when she heard Leo talking to himself. She still had hard times talking to Leo ever since she had found out that Sammy was Leo's great grandfather. Great, does everyone in the family look the same? She thought.

She found him upstairs, angrily steering the ship while he muttered to himself.

"Just crack open the fortune cookie they said" he muttered, "It's not like Percy and Annabeth will fall into a hole they said"

She cleared her throat behind him and he noticed her.

"Oh hey, I was…having a conversation with, uh, Buford" he said stupidly

"Yeah sure, Leo listen, we need to talk" said Hazel, "It's not your fault that Annabeth and Percy are gone"

"It was already going to happen to matter what you did" continued Hazel trying to believe the words she spoke.

"I know but even if we could get some sort of information that could lead us to the doors or how we can close them, then, maybe then will we have a chance, but things aren't looking pretty good" grumbled Leo.

Hazel knew he had a point. Even if they did manage to close the doors, someone would have to stay on the other side because the doors had to be shut through both worlds. Would it be Hazel? She always thought she didn't belong here anyways. But she didn't want to go back to the underworld either. She tried not to think about it.

"Maybe we can find someone other than Nico and I, who used the doors of death themselves, because I don't remember much on how I was brought back to life" spoke Hazel.

"Hazel…you're a daughter of Pluto, you are supposed to remember! If Nico remembers, why don't you? No one else would remember unless-" he stopped talking and looked at Hazel in the eye. Unless? Unless what? Thought Hazel. He was just like the annoying yet sweet Sammy. But no, she had a place for Frank too. Leo was just a friend, she had concluded. She sighed. It was hard coming back to life.

Why didn't she remember? Had someone taken away that memory from her? Was it Nico? Why would she do that? Hazel could remember that she had been brought out when the doors where open, but could not remember how. It seemed to dawn on her that maybe someone had been playing with her mind…

Leo bolted straight for the steering wheel and Wii joystick. He looked as if he were about to play Just Dance 2. Not steer a 100 ton ship to…where? She was about to find out.

The engines once again rumbled to life and set course, not for Greece, but back where they had come from. She had an idea where he was headed but was it worth it?

"C'mon" he grinned, "Let's go meet a YouTube star"

A YouTube star? This should have set off warning flares for Hazel that this was about to be a bad day, but she decided to go along with the plan. After all, the place wasn't very far away.

"Hazel, think, ever since Thanatos was saved, who has come back from the underworld? Specifically Tartarus…Narcissus and probably even Echo" Leo said excitedly.

"Echo isn't human so she might remember something about how she came back; Nymphs have better memories than us, as well as special powers. I just know she will help us after we helped her" he said.

The plan was good. Hazel sensed Leo's mind working like a machine. After all, he was the son of Hephaestus. Hazel also knew that Leo was right about Echo being able to remember the doors of death. Her daughter of Pluto instincts told her so.

Once the plan had been made, Leo and Hazel woke up everyone on board since it was already daytime, and told the plan. They didn't like it of course, but agreed that it was necessary. Hazel, Leo and Piper (because of her charmspeak) would go and try to talk to Echo while the rest guarded the ship. Nico had protested that he knew the way but they didn't want to stress him out after what hed been through. Besides, they needed someone else who had seen

"But you guys get the best part!" Leo told the group that would be staying, "You get to clean a 100 ton ship!" said Leo. She felt that it was his way of getting revenge for making him work on the ship for tireless hours.

They arrived near the river at dawn. The sun was waking up from the East to start a new day. Hazel desperately hoped that it wouldn't be the last time she saw the sun rise. When Leo led a group, bad things happened. Usually by him blowing up like a flare and getting everyone killed. She wouldn't have admitted this aloud but she was also grateful got having Leo in the group. He came useful when others were not. Just like Sammy, she had thought.

"Over their!" Leo excitedly pointed towards the river.

"So what are we looking for again?" asked Piper

"Looking for again!" a new voice spoke. Hazel could make out a figure of a Nymph to her left but just looking at it made her eyes hurt.

"Who was that?" said Piper

"Was that" Echo said defiantly

"Stop!" replied Piper

"Stop" Echo agreed

Trying to keep a straight face Leo said "Why don't I take it from here Piper? This is Echo, she copies whatever you say…it's a curse she got…anyway that's not the point" he continued, "But where is Narcissus? Did he die again?" Leo said in a joking manner.

"Die again" Echo responded sadly. Hazel tried to change the topic to something else. They didn't have enough time to worry about Narcissus. Too many people had already died.

"Echo, our friends have fallen into Tartarus and we need to find out where the doors of death are" said Hazel, "Do you think you can tell us where they are?"

"Yeah, can you tell us?" said Piper again while using her charmspeak.

"Tell us" Echoed Echo. Hazel hoped that meant that she knew where the doors where.

Leo pulled out a map of Greece from his tool belt and handed it to Echo. "So where is it?" He asked. Hazel thought he should have worn a 'Leo number1' shirt again because although Hazel couldn't see much, she thought she could make out a little of Echo's face. The nymph looked like she was looking at a map of Mars. The cities of Greece had changed a lot and Hazel concluded that Echo was going to have a tough time find a spot on a map that's 2000 years ahead of her time.

Eventually Echo raised her finger and pointed to the East of Greece. A city called Ioannina, and above it, printed on the map was Epirus. The city looked huge but it helped that they didn't have to look all through the country of Greece anymore. War was coming and they were running out of time.

Leo seemed as if he was going to ask another question but Echo seemed to have disappeared. Hazel soon realized that she should have disappeared too when she saw two giants coming into view.

"That's impossible! Bachuss killed them!" shrieked Piper.

Leo tried to summon fire…Too late. He got hit by a rock and collapsed onto the floor. A dumb way to die, but he had only blacked out. He lay on the ground groaning in his daze.

Piper began talking in charmspeak in an alarmingly calm voice to the two giants. However it seemed to have no effect as the giants lumbered over to the girls and put rags over their mouths. They rags had yellow liquid on them and Hazel hoped the giants didn't have a weak bladder. She was defenceless. She didn't want to do anything. It seemed to her that she had given up.

No! She couldn't give up. She had to try to save her friends. She was the daughter of Pluto after all, and she had spent most of her life being feared, not showing fear. She pushed all of her power towards summoning every metal in the ground to rise. And it did, remarkably too much did as soon overwhelmed her as she began to see black dots. Gold, diamond, copper and dozens of other metals sprouted from the ground and began to hit the giants, but it only seemed to annoy them. Great! Thought Hazel. She was beginning to think that her power of metal was going to become useless against giants. Was it possible, that since she could move metal that she could probably change its shape into something more deadly?

Just as she thought that, sharp metal pieces as big as doors began rising from the ground. They looked dangerously like a blade. Unfortunately Hazel didn't have much power left in her, but if she could just hit the giants, maybe they'd fall back. She willed herself to shoot the pieces aimed for the big ones heart, but the giant dodged looking surprised. It was like he just couldn't believe she had just tried to kill him. A giant with ego was not a great thing. She crumbled to the ground, too exhausted to do anything.

She heard the ballistae of the Argo 2 fire around her. The others had managed to find them, but they were too late.

As Hazel blacked out, a hand was put over her and Piper's mouths (although she wasn't sure if Piper had been caught).

"We are Otis and Ephialtes. And this…is just our opening act!" said one of the giants.

Hazel blacked out.

Hmmm so now we have some friends to save. But who's going to save them? I have my guesses but I'm not entirely sure. Please review if you have any preferences or want to let me know who you want the next POV to be from. I have a lot of work but I'll try my best to update tomorrow around this same time.

So will they get rescued? How did the giants get back? Did someone let them? Maybe the spirit of Tartarus is working with Gaea? I don't know… but until next time GOOODBYE :P