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This Chapter is for AphroditeMatch Maker, you're so undeniably awesome with a Tommer poster (!) I am going to put you on my profile!

And now for some cool news. I am going to begin... 'The Silverhand9028 Awards!'.

It's simple. Each character will be doing awards. There is Veronica's Wisdom award, Toby's Party-hard award, Magenta's Dreamer award... you get the idea. Each chapter I will put up a different award. All you have to do is leave in a review why you should get the award, and why you match the criteria.

This first award is Tom's Friendship Award. Tom is friends with everyone – Summer and Veronica who are his best buddies, Toby and Leon who are his guy mates – and Lilly finds him cute! He's also one of the only people who doesn't hate Magenta – even though she tried to kill him! He's such a nice guy and many of you have said he's your favourite! If YOU are eligible for this award, review why you fit this criteria. If I think you are the best, Tom will send you a message about why you won, and you will go on my profile page!

I got inspiration from this by Poseidon god of the seas' review, so thanks.

Let the Silverhand9028 Awards... begin!

-Silverhand9028

Summer's POV

I rubbed open my eyes and sat up.

It was 8.30.

The six of us had gone to the Hotel. Veronica, Lilly and I were in one room, Leon, Tom and Toby in the other.

Tom... I had a flashback to last night. I'd never honestly believed that we were anything more than friends. My heart didn't go boom whenever I saw him, and he wasn't that handsome, or strong, or smart. But with him, everything just felt right. Like I could tell him anything and he'd just smile, accept it and give me a special Tom-hug.

I rubbed my shoulders. I felt like a Tom-hug now. He always had a way of...

"Hey Summer," smiled a voice, shattering my thoughts.

I saw Veronica exiting the en-suite bathroom. Her hair was wet and she wore a towel wrapped around her.

"Nice shower?" I asked.

Veronica giggled. "Fine," she nodded. "Don't wake Lilly though – she sleeps for ages every morning!"

I glanced over to the second bed. Me and Veronica had shared one, but Lilly lay, a bed to herself, red hair spread about over the pillow, a slender arm daintily dangling off the bed.

I nodded.

"Don't wake her." Veronica looked at me firmly. She knew my mischievous nature all too well.

"Ah, she's had loads of sleep. Can't we just-"
"No, we can't!"

"What if I dare you?"
"Huh?"
"C'mon... Veronica, Daughter of Athena, never turns down a dare!"
"No..."

I grinned. "Okay. We both will. On the count of three, yell 'Wake up' real loud then hid behind the other bed."
"You won't do it," Veronica saw through my plan straight away.

"I will..."
Veronica threw a pillow at me and we both started giggling.

"Okay, we each have food in our packs, right?" I asked.
"Yeah."
"You know I want your cookies..."
"Summer! You always want my cookies!"
"But you want my lollypops..."
"Yeah-" Veronica faltered. She loved lollypops. "You have lollypops?" she asked, sitting forward.

"If you don't wake her up with me, I get your cookies AND my lollypops!"

Veronica's eyes sparkled. "It's on."

We both giggled like five-year-olds as we approached the snoozing Lilly.

"Ready?" I whispered.

"Three..." Veronica nodded. "two..."

"One!" both of us opened our mouths to shout, glanced at each other, stopped, and exploded into giggles.

"Okay, actually do it now..." Veronica laughed.

"Okay... three, two, one..."
I yelled: "Wa-" then stopped as I noticed Veronica not speaking yet.

"Vea!" I squealed. "Do it properly now or I'll eat all your cookies!

"Not my cookies!" Veronica smiled. "Okay... ready... three, two-"
"Erm, girls?" whispered a voice form behind us.

We snapped back our heads, terrified.

Only visible from the waist up, surrounded by a shimmering rainbow window, was Eddie.

"Aaaah!" screamed Veronica, wrapping her towel around her and sprinting towards the bed.

"Aaaah!" I screamed, terrified that Eddie had decided to materialise in our room at 8.30 in the morning.

"Aaaah!" screamed Lilly, waking up due to our screams, seeing Eddie, and being terrified.

"Girls, calm down!" Eddie yelled, "it's just an I-M!"

Lilly breathed out slowly – I could tell she was inches away from another trademark Lilly breakdown.
Veronica stopped. "Oh..."

She nervously pulled her towel tighter. "Don't tell anyone at Camp you saw me with just a towel on. Not one person!" she warned.

"Erm..." Eddie blushed as three people shuffled into the frame of the iris message, each one grinning at catching someone in just a towel.

Veronica muttered something under her breath, grabbed some clothes and sprinted out to the bathroom. "I can hear you from here," she called. "Feel free to continue without me." Lilly got out of bed and looked at the three people beside Eddie.

First there was Eddie, obviously, in a green hoodie and cargo trousers. Then a girl I recognised. She had silky black hair, cut very short in a bob. Her eyes were rimmed with black, and she wore a magenta and black striped top with an indigo alice band keeping back her glossy dark fringe.

"This is Bella Connell," Eddie introduced. "She's a daughter of Hades, and the Camp's Oracle."
I remembered seeing her spouting the prophecy in the big house. Bella smiled briefly.

"Hi," she waved. She looked a lot friendlier without green glowing eyes.

Another person shuffled forward – a boy of around eight. He was very thin and pale, with light blonde hair, quite long, that almost covered his eyes. He wore a navy fleece and black jeans. I noticed his eyes. They were like Magenta's: intense, deep, shifting eyes that seemed to stare into my soul. I realised I knew him. He was the one who Lilly said had let her into the Morpheus Cabin, and when we'd tried to expose that Magenta was raising Kronos, this was the small pale boy who'd yelled across the mess hall.

"This is Matthew Mirage. He's Magenta's brother."

I gasped. "As in a son of Morpheus, or..."
"Both."
Me and Lilly exchanged glances. I could tell Lilly found him quite cute – he reminded me of the little kids at school who Lilly always said 'Aaaaw' at whenever she saw them. She was clearly shocked that he was related to her mortal enemy. It now made sense why he was shocked when he thought his sister had been raising Kronos.

"Most people call me Matt," he smiled nervously, speaking with an tiny, unbroken voice.

Lilly's heart melted straightaway. I sighed. Typical Daughter of Aphrodite!

" And I'm Ruby," announced the third person.

She was a smiling, happy girl who appeared about eleven. She had peachy tanned skin, full pink lips, sparkly blue eyes and curly cinnamon-coloured hair, quite long. She was dressed in a plain white summer dress, but she had hair bands in her dark brown locks of blue, green, pink and orange. On her ankle was a gold band encrusted with many different coloured jewels and on her right wrist, three technicolour friendship bracelets wound with threads of all seven rainbow colours.

"Ruby is a Daughter of Iris," explained Eddie. "She's keeping this message stable – we haven't actually paid any drachmas but Ruby has a knack of opening Iris-messages."
Ruby nodded and smiled.

"So," Veronica stepped out of the bathroom, dressed in an olive brown, green-trimmed dress, "what's this message about?"

"All is not what you think it to be." Bella said.

"What?" Veronica sat down beside me on the bed.

Bella shrugged. "Every night since you left, I've been having dreams. About you... and the prophecy... and what you're doing..."
Veronica leant forward intently.

"And you were told that 'all is not that it seems'."
Bella nodded.

"I made a dream catcher," piped up Matt. "I used Morpheus dream magic to see and decipher the dreams..." He spoke slowly, pausing between sentences. "Basically, the prophecy is being misread... where you are going is wrong... you're actual destination is not what you think... and many other things."
Lilly sighed and flopped back onto her bed. "So we're doing everything wrong," she murmured.

"Not everything," Ruby smiled optimistically. "The bow of moonlight and arrows of love appeared in Bella's dream. Matt worked on the images and they are the weapons of Artemis, and Eros."
"The God of Love," nodded Eddie.

"Isn't he technically... what, my brother?"

Ruby laughed.

Bella's eyes sparkled and she grinned: "However, the throne of steel isn't Hepheastus' throne in Olympus."
"What is it then?"

"We don't know," mused Eddie, "and the helm of shadows isn't what it seems either!"

"What?" sighed Lilly, exasperated.

The image flickered – Ruby's irises turned technicolour as she sustained the message's viewing.

"I don't know," little Matt said, but Magenta said that... she was heading to Long Island for the helm."
"Why does Magenta want the helm?" I asked.

"Didn't you hear? Magenta, Jack and Aston left about five days ago."

"What? What were they doing?"
"They were..." Matt paused for a second, his large, adorable eyes glancing round. "they thought the quest... included them..."
"What?" spat Lilly. "But it says 'the six'! There's three of them! We're the six!"
Matt shrugged. "Jack went to Los Angeles to find the underworld and track down Hades' debtor. Aston went to Chicago – the last seen location of Eros and Aphrodite. Magenta headed to New York with the Hunters. They're looking for the items mentioned in the prophecy."
"Why? Why do they want to do that?" I asked incredulously.
"The six and three must form the nine, then the traitors shall decline." I heard Matt whisper.

"Huh?" asked Veronica.

"I just... heard it in a dream," he said. "Some hooded man came up to me and said it. I think I caught it in a dreamcatcher... I can show you if-"
"Matty, only Morpheus kids can read dreamcatchers..."
"Oh yeah," little Matt smiled.

"Well," Eddie said. "If you want to continue, there are three things you can do. You can head to LA, find Hades. Maybe Artemis' hole lead to there, or perhaps you can find Hades' debtor. Or maybe head to Chicago – Eros could be there with his arrows of love. Finally: go to Long Island."
"Long Island?" asked Lilly.

Eddie nodded. "We don't know for sure what's going on there, but it seems like something important's there. We heard Magenta's stealing away to search for something – perhaps the Helm of Shadows. Lots of experienced demigods like to move to Long Island too, so perhaps there."

He glanced at Bella.

"Doesn't your mom live there?"
"Uh... yeah," she murmured, her eyes shifting nervously.

Ruby whispered something to Eddie.

"Okay," he replied quietly.

Ruby turned to Lilly, Veronica and I. "I'm losing connection," she explained. "I can't hold these messages for ever. Besides, it's time for food."

The image began to fade.

"Bye girls," Eddie nodded.

"Toodles," Bella grinned.

"Bye!" called Ruby.

"Bye-bye," Matt smiled.

The message disappeared completely.

Veronica turned to us.

"So," she said, "where do we go? Los Angeles, Chicago or Long Island?"

There you go!
I know not much happened, but three important characters were introduced and I now leave the trail of the plot in YOUR hands. Where do you want my characters to end up – LA, Chicago, or New York? Leave your answer in the reviews!
Also tell me why you're a good friend and YOU could win Tom's Friendship award!

-Silverhand9028