A/N: So, sorry about the miserably short chapter, but I'm on my way to the land beyond the gods. I'm actually writing this from my laptop in the airport. Security is tighter than last time I traveled... sigh. Anyway I'll say high to any hyperboreans I meet. ;)

3d Person POV:

"So what do we know so far?" Percy asked Piper. They were sitting on the beach holding hands, watching the sunset, and discussing their friends potential quest.

"Well lets start from the beginning." She responded. "Unleashed death must be"

"A lot of people are going to die? Maybe they're going to unleash the zombie apocalypse?" Percy said.

"Be serious" she smacked him upside the head.

"There are zombies in greek mythology"

"I still doubt that the zombie apocalypse is coming."

"You never know." said Leo joining them.

"Seriously guys." said Piper.

"I am serious about a lot of people are going to die. It could mean we are going to unleash some sort of deadly weapon or monster." Percy said more serious. "But most disturbing is the second line 'Your true enemy you will not know or see.' It suggests that the fight against this enemy may be more than just this quest, and that we won't even know who our real enemy is."

"Yeah... life as a demigod sucks enough under normal conditions. A fight against some unknown enemy is just what we need." Leo said sarcastically.

"The third line seems pretty clear, unless we are missing something." said Piper.

"The 'angel of sleep' part does seem pretty straightforward, but the 'prince of storms' thing is still a little off." Percy said.

"What? Last time I checked you had storm powers." Leo said.

"Yeah, some, but storm powers are really more of a Poseidon thing. If it had said child of storms I would have assumed Cora. If it wasn't for the painting I still wouldn't think its me." he said

"I wonder if you're the prince in the fourth line, or if the prince of horses from the fifth line is. Heck I wonder who the 'prince of horses' is anyway." Piper said

"Maybe Cora has a brother." Leo said. Before yawning, and saying "Well, I'm gonna head back to my cabin so g'night.

-Line break-

Leo POV:

We were riding my pet dragon on our way to Alaska. Cora looked slightly hurt she had never seen festus before.

"Why haven't I seen him before. He would have been hard to hide" She asked.

"It's not that I don't trust you Cora, its just the way cabin nine operates. We keep a lot of secrets." It was true. I knew one of the unspoken reasons was that children of Hephaestus weren't respected the way other cabins were. Big three kids were naturally more powerful than other half-bloods. Athena kids were all smarty-pants. Ares kids were always big, and tough. Apollo's kids had unique skills such as archery, or healing. They were a major asset. Plus parties wouldn't be nearly as much fun without them. Hermes kids were excellent spies. At least Hephaestus kids were more useful than Dionysus kids. They spent their time drunk on kool-aid...

But keeping secret machines, secret tunnels, and a secret bunker made them seem more mysterious and powerful. Made it was a bit petty, but so were a lot of things teenagers did.

Leo snapped his mind out of his philosophical thoughts. He had been spending too much time around Percy, and the other Athena kids.

He was on the front of festus guiding the dragon, not that he needed it. Kyle was in behind him, and Cora behind him.

She had been nervous that Zeus would smite her for flying in his domain, but Chiron had told her that it was similar to flying on a pegasus. She was under the protection of Hephaestus.

"Where are we?" Kyle asked.

Leo bent down, and asked Festus. "He says somewhere above Green Bay Wisconsin."

"Like where the Packers are?" asked Piper.

"How do you know that? I don't have time for mortal television, and when I do it's always something interesting, Like Psyche" Leo asked

She shrugged.

Next thing they knew they were plummeting.

Leo reached out with his senses with his senses to check on the damage done to Festus. Instead his senses were overloaded with machines below them. He felt them about to fire another volley of something, so he deactivated them with his mind. He then felt that Festus had been hit in the wing, but it wasn't serious.

"Kyle take Cora, and fly away." he ordered.

"What about you?" asked Kyle.

"Festus should be able to land without your weight fatso" I made an attempt at humor though I was really worried about Festus.

Kyle spread his wings, grabbed Cora, and they floated away in the sky.

I looked at them, and wondered what it would be like to fly under your own power. Maybe I could design a pair of wings like Daedalus had. I refocused on the important thing. There was a gaping hole in one of Festus' wings. It looked like I could do a temporary fix without too much trouble, but we would have to land first. I was afraid of what the crash-landing would do to my dragon. We were falling from quite a height up.

We approached the ground, and I prayed to all the gods I could think of, but especially Hephaestus.

We just made it. If a few more seconds had passed, and serious damage might have been dealt to my favorite dragon. Kyle, and Cora landed away away.

They walked over and Cora asked "How is he?"

"Not too bad, I'll need a few hours, and some supplies, but it shouldn't be too bad. We should wait till daylight though, I don't have enough light otherwise." I replied.

Cora nodded, and said "Should we make camp out here or inside?"

"Inside, I want to see the house of anyone who has this much security. You guys wouldn't believe how many traps, and various security measure are in place here" I answered before leading the way inside.

A/N: So I hope you liked it. You guys should go check out my casual story: The Visitor. What I mean by casual is that it doesn't have any real plot, and each chapter could almost be a one-shot. Also if you guys are looking for a good story you should check out: The Broken Bow series by Xed Alpha. P.S. I'm thinking of writing another story. Either 'Mortal' in which Percy is clear-sighted mortal in the world of gods and monsters, or 'The son of...' in which Percy is the son of... well I can't tell you guys, but I don't think you would guess. Please review ;)