A/N: Hello everyone! Long time, no update.

So we recently came up with nicknames for one another and mine and Erika's are used in this chapter. So to clear up any confusion: Erika=sunshine (daughter of Apollo - god of the sun) & Hannah= Barbie Doll (daughter of Aphrodite).

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Disclaimer: (these really suck…) Jessy and I do not own any PJO or HoO characters or Camp Half-Blood; all rights go to Rick Riordan.

Erika

Erika walked through camp, hand in hand with Leo.

'Figures,' she thought. 'I start dating Leo and right away I have to leave on a quest without him, possibly for months'.

"So, you ready for your first quest?" asked Leo. Erika paused for a moment.

"Yeah, I guess. I'm a little scared though". Leo gave her hand a gentle squeeze.

"Don't worry Eri, we can Iris Message whenever you want", he smiled. She smiled back at him as they walked up to the docks. "Good luck beautiful", Leo said kissing her on the cheek and walking away.

She walked up the gang plank and set her bag down on the main deck of the Argo 2.

"Sup sunshine?" Erika turned to see Jessy standing there smiling at her. Jessy gave a small laugh. "Dude, your bag is bigger than Hannah's! I thought Barbie doll was the daughter of Aphrodite not you". Erika stuck her tongue out at Jessy and giggled.

"So where is everyone?" asked Erika.

"Zaspel and Hannah are below deck in their rooms, Jake is below deck with the map Evey got from her dad charting our course, Julia is saying goodbye to Dean", Jessy winked at that. "Ev is saying goodbye to Curtis-".

"What?" asked Erika. "Since when is Curtis a demigod?!"

"I know right? Apparently it's the same situation as with Jack". Erika nodded in understanding. "And then of course you and me are on the deck", Jessy said.

The two girls stood there in silence for a moment.

"…..DUUUUHHHHH", Jessy said. They burst out laughing as Evey and Julia came up the gang plank. Julia had a beautiful metal flower in her hand. Erika guessed it was from Dean.

"What'cha guys laughing about?" Evey asked.

"Oh just, Jessy", Erika laughed pointing at Jessy.

"Got it", replied Julia with a smile.

"Well, I'm gonna head below deck. I need to talk to Hannah about something", Jessy said. "See you demigoddesses in a little bit". With that, Jessy walked away leaving Erika with Evey and Julia.

"So", said Erika in a little teasing voice. "Julia. Did Dean give you that flower?" Julia looked to the side, blushed, and quickly ran over to the controls.

Erika went below deck to put her stuff in her room. Leo was right; the rooms did change to fit the resident. She walked out, closing the door behind her, and looked around the ship. Leo really did do a good job building the Argo 2. She couldn't help but be a little proud of her boyfriend. Ok really proud.

When she walked passed Hannah's room, she doubled back and leaned her ear a little closer to the door. She didn't want to eavesdrop on her friends, but this sounded important.

"Well I don't know what to do", she heard Jessy say in a slightly worried tone.

"Jessy don't worry. I'm sure we'll figure some way out of it. And who knows, maybe what we saw in our dreams was out of context", replied Hannah.

Jessy sighed. "I really hope you're right Hannah".

Then Erika heard footsteps coming closer to the door. She quickly ran over to the couch and sat down making it look like she'd been sitting there the whole time. Jessy came out first. Her face looked paler than usual and she had that same worried look on her face that she had the night they found out about their prophecy. Erika wanted to ask what they were talking about, but she couldn't without them knowing she was listening to their conversation.

'And besides', she tried to convince herself. 'If it's really important they'll tell us eventually…won't they?'

"Hey, Jessy are you ok?" she asked. Jessy looked startled for a second but then smiled and turned to Erika.

"Yeah I'm fine. Just a little dizzy from the ship rocking, that's all".

Then Jessy went up on deck with Hannah behind her. Sea sick? The boat hadn't even left the docks yet, they were hiding something. Erika just had to find out what.

A/N: Thank you so much for reading! Updates are going to be more like this because our school starts in 2 weeks… So please review, follow, favorite, something! It really does mean a lot to us when you do! Thank you!