Before I start, I would like to say how sorry I am for not updating in forever! I had gotten some bad grades and was grounded from anything fun. Computer, TV, Games, Sunlight, the usual.

Anyway, that's beside the point, even before, this chapter was so long it was making me slightly reluctant to finish, but instead of going through what I originally planned, I cut it short, since most FanFiction readers in the Percy Jackson section have read all the PJO books.

I've also been writing random stories in my notebooks lately, but never really had the drive to finish them, so if there's another large gap between the next update, I'm either bored and writing other stuff, or I'm grounded, most likely the latter.

And to the Guest that posted a review on Chapter 7, usually they WOULD kiss more, but I'm not into all the mushy stuff. Besides, now that this story is becoming slightly more serious for the characters, I don't think that they would feel the absolute need to. But for your sake, I'll try and do something as a comfort/love scene or whatever. Just know I'm not very good at doing those things, I prefer the more... comedic approach, like in Chapter 5's opening =).

Disclaimer: I'm not Rick Riordan, I am not that talented. If I was, I would not be typing in the dark. PJO and HoO are both owned by Rick Riordan.

Chapter 14

Thursday September 24, Goode High Cafeteria, 11:45 AM

Percy's PoV

After class, the four of us (Nico, Thalia, Annabeth, and I) walked to the cafeteria talking about the other four demigods.

"No way, right now Jessica has the best fighting advantage!" Nico exclaimed.

"You're just saying that because you like her, Death Breath. Right now Stacy is the best with that bow of hers, she's got as good aim as a hunter, and she's nearly as good as Annabeth with a knife!" Thalia retorted, just as loud.

"Hey! Are you saying that in a week, she's improved with a knife to the point where it took me 10 years to get to?" Annabeth asked while glaring at Thalia with a look that said 'Say yes, I DARE you!'

"No!" Thalia replied quickly and looked away.

"I actually think that Henry is showing the most promise right now." I whispered to myself, hoping no one else would hear.

They heard.

"What did you just say?" The three of them asked at the same time. They looked between each other before Annabeth and Thalia slapped Nico then went back to looking at me like nothing happened.

"I thought you couldn't stand him." Annabeth pointed out.

"Usually I can't, but since we started training, he hasn't hit on you, insulted me, or tried to kill me. That's improvement, and to be honest, now that I know him a little better, he's not that bad, but I still don't fully like him." I explained. "Besides, you have to admit, he's pretty good in a fight. Anyone who can beat Clarisse, Will, and Travis in a three-against-one hand-to-hand fight, and win after only a week of training is definitely someone I'd want on my team."

"You know, Percy's got a point, Clarisse is the head of the Ares cabin, she's had what, at least 10 years of training? I was really surprised when he beat her even in a one-on-one." Nico admitted.

"I guess so..." Thalia sighed reluctantly.

We got to the cafeteria and sat down, not much later, Emily and Jessica joined us at the table. "Hey guys, ready for training today?" Jessica asked excitedly.

"We're not training today, remember? We're going to be telling our stories to get to know each other better." Nico explained to her.

"Stories, like... bedtime stories?" Jessica asked, clearly confused.

The rest of us chuckled while Nico gave us each a hard death glare. "No, our stories, our history. Like where we grew up, family, accomplishments, our life stories more or less." He explained to her.

"Ohhhh, I get it!" She said, nodding her head.

We were sitting in the gym, untransformed, waiting for the coach to arrive.

"Alright maggots! Listen up, we're telling our stories today. And since you four," She motioned towards Emily, Jessica, Stacy and Henry, "don't have as much to tell, you're going to start."

The four of them looked at each other, having a silent conversation. Eventually, Emily shrugged and cleared her throat.

"My name is Emily, I'm 17 years old, a daughter of Hermes. I was born in Chicago, Illinois, where I lived until I was 8. Afterwards, I moved to Manhattan and have lived here since. I was with my mom on a beach when I encountered my first monster, which my mother told me was a Dracanae. A year later, I was claimed when my mom was having a meeting with the coach. I've been training for the last two years, and have ADHD and Dyslexia." She finished.

Jessica stood up next. "My name is Jessica, I was born in Hollywood, California. I'm 18 years old, and Nemesis' daughter. I lived in California for 14 years, I starred in a lot of movies. I moved to New York a week after I turned 14. The first monster I've seen attack was a Lairystagonian acting as my director. I only have ADHD."

Henry grunted as he stood up. "Henry, 19 years old, son of Ares. Born in London, England, moved here 3 years ago, killed a hellhound 4 years ago. I have Dyslexia."

Stacy finally went, and she started to talk endlessly about herself for 20 minutes. Nico fell asleep, Thalia was getting so frustrated that I saw lightning flickering across her hands, like she was going to shock Stacy. Annabeth was reading a book in Greek. The only things that were actually notable was that she was 18, born in Detroit, Michigan, came to New York when she was 10, got attacked by an Empousa, and she had ADHD and Dyslexia.

"Very nice. Alright, diAngelo, you're up!" Coach yelled at him.

Nico's PoV

"Wait, what?! Why me? Why not Thalia or Annabeth?" I exclaimed, pointing to said girls.

"Because I said so, emo boy."

"Fine...!" I growled, still pissed at the emo comment.

I looked around and sighed. "My name is Nico diAngelo, I'm the only current son of Hades. I'm 16 and was born before World War II." Everyone, save Percy, Thalia, and Annabeth gasped at that.

"My mother was killed by Lord Zeus because he was angry at my father. My father tried to save her, but failed. To save my sister, Bianca, and I, we were dipped in the River Lethe and had our memory wiped. We took refuge in the Lotus Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas. When within the building, time is sped up, what feels like one day in the casino can really be like 5 years in the real world. We spent a month in the casino, which was actually about 70 years in the real world. One of the Furies, Alecto, dressed as a lawyer and took my sister and I out of the casino. We lived in Washington D.C for some time before going to a boarding school in Maine.

"5 years ago, Percy, Thalia, Annabeth, and our Satyr friend, Grover saved us from the school. The vice principal was a Manticore, which we were able to escape with the help of the Percy, Annabeth, Thalia, and the Hunters of Artemis. Annabeth unfortunately was captured by the Manticore and taken to the Titan known as Atlas, where Annabeth was forced to hold the burden of the Sky on Mount Tamalpais.

"My sister was offered, and accepted to become a Hunter of Artemis. We were taken to Camp Half-Blood where we spent some time before Lady Artemis' Lieutenant at the time Zoë Nightshade was offered a quest. She went with Thalia, Grover, and Bianca to save Artemis and Annabeth. I made Percy promise to watch over my sister, since she was the last family I had left. Percy followed the group in secret.

"Unfortunately, Bianca sacrificed herself in Hephaestus' junkyard to save the group from the giant automaton known as Talos. When the group came back to camp, I found out that Bianca had died, and I blamed Percy. Some skeletons that had been chasing them throughout the quest appeared in camp, when I banished them to the underworld, Percy had figured out that I was a son of Hades.

"A year later, I was working with the ghost, King Minos, to try and revive my sister. He told me that a soul was needed to trade for the soul of my sister, he wished for me to attain the soul of Daedelus, someone who, at the time, had escaped death for many years. I was in the Labyrinth, created by Daedalus, and met with Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and Percy's half-brother, Tyson at the Triple G Ranch. I was captured, along with everyone else to be sold to the Titan King, Kronos, Percy, however, saved us. After convincing me to summon the spirit of my sister to talk again, she told me not to hold any grudges against Percy, and that it was her choice to sacrifice herself.

"After everyone left, I stayed behind at the Triple G Ranch, with the new change in authority. Minos was able to convince me to go back into the winding tunnels of the Labyrinth, where I was captured by Kronos' minions. I was taken to where Kronos' coffin was. Everyone else soon arrived, and witnessed an ex-camper, Luke Castellan, son of Hermes, become the host for Kronos. We escaped when I used my powers to make a wall of stone appear, which let Kronos know that I was Hades' son.

(I'm going to skip some smaller details, as well as stories from the Demigod Files, just because it'd take a lot longer than I want it to. Sorry.)

"After stopping Kronos' plans to invade the camp I told Percy about a way to defeat Kronos, it was dangerous, but it had to be done. He said that he would have to think about it, and we all went our separate ways for the summer.

"I spent my time looking into this method, as well as trying to figure out my past from when my mother had died. When the next summer had come, Percy and I went to the visit May Castellan, the mother of Luke Castellan. In the past, May had tried to host of the Oracle of Delphi, which ended up with her going crazy due to a curse set upon the spirit by my father. We found that for my plan to work, Percy had to get the blessing of his mother, which he did in fact get.

"We travelled to the Underworld for two reasons, one unknown to Percy. My father told me that if I brought him Percy, then he would tell me about my past, but didn't hold to the promise, since I didn't make him swear on the River Styx. After freeing Percy, we travelled to the River Styx, where Percy was warned by the spirit of Achilles about the curse. He would have enhanced fighting abilities and his skin impenetrable, but there would be one small weak spot on Percy's body that, should it get hit, would be able to kill him instantly. Percy took the risk and dipped in the Styx, coming out not much later bearing the curse.

"My father then showed up, and tried to kill Percy with his army of the undead. Percy, with his newfound abilities, decimated them in no time, and actually scared my father." I took a second to chuckle at that memory.

"Percy told me that he was heading up top to New York to help with the war in Manhattan that was ready to start soon, I tried to go up with him, but he told me that to win, I would need to convince my father to assist us. After days of begging, pleading, threats, and trials, I was able to convince him to help.

"We went up top and held off the army from entering Olympus, while a few others, which included Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and Thalia went up to Olympus to stop Kronos. They succeeded and won the war. As a reward, the Gods offerer godship to Percy, he declined and instead asked for the Gods to recognize all of their kids by the age of 13, and that all the minor gods have cabins for their kids at Camp.

"It's been mostly peaceful since then, I've still tried to figure out my past, but haven't gotten any closer to it. By the request of Chiron, and Lord Zeus, I was sent here to help keep an eye on things with Thalia, Annabeth, and Percy." I finished.

Everyone, aside from my three friends sat their with their mouths wide open, this included the coach. When she finally regained her composure, she motioned towards Thalia to begin her story. With the four of us, this is going to be a long day...

Thalia's PoV

"My name is Thalia Grace, I'm the daughter of Zeus, and Lieutenant of Lady Artemis. I'm immortal, unless I die in battle, I am forever 15 unless I break my oath to Lady Artemis. My life was normal for quite some time. I had a mother who didn't really care much for me, I had a little brother who went missing when he was still a baby, but was recently found, he is a son of Jupiter, the Roman aspect of Zeus.

"I ran away from home when I was 14. I met up with Luke Castellan, who at the time was the same age as I was. We travelled for a few months until we met a 7 year old Annabeth in an alleyway. Luke offered for her to come along with us as we travelled. We met Grover Underwood, a Satyr who was instructed to bring me, and only me back to camp. Unfortunately for him, I wasn't going without Luke or Annabeth, eventually he conceded and let them come along.

We travelled across the country, battling monsters and surviving until we got to New York. By this time, Hades had found out that my father had broken the oath of the Big Three, which was to not have any kids after the events of World War II. As an act of vengeance, Hades sent a large force of monsters to follow us and try to kill me. As we neared the borders of camp, the monsters became overwhelming, and unless something was done, would kill all of us.

"I told Grover to take Luke and Annabeth into the camp while I held off the monsters, I was supposed to die that day, but my father turned me into a tree on the top of the hill of Camp Half-Blood to save my life.

"I stayed in that tree for 6 years until Percy and Annabeth went on a quest to the Sea of Monsters and retrieved the Golden Fleece. Someone had poisoned my tree and the borders to camp were weakened, the only way to save camp, and me indirectly, was to obtain the Fleece. The magic of the Fleece was enough to cure my tree, and restore the borders, but was also powerful enough to revive me from the tree.

"I spent a year training and catching up with my friends, during the time, I found out that Luke had joined Kronos' side, I was heartbroken, since he was like family as Annabeth and I travelled with him. The year after I was revived, Percy, Annabeth, and I were sent to Westover Hall, the boarding school that Nico and Bianca were at, to take them to camp. Unfortunately, as Nico told you, it didn't go as planned and the Manticore known as Dr. Thorn attacked, and captured Annabeth.

"We left for Camp the next morning in the sun chariot, driven by Apollo, he actually let me drive that day and let's say that a few places won't be able to grow crops anymore...

"Anyway, we stayed at Camp for a few days, until we had the customary Capture the Flag game against the Hunters, which we of course, lost... again. Zoë Nightshade was given a quest by the Oracle of Delphi. I went on the quest, to save Annabeth mostly," Thunder rumbled overhead to signal that Lady Artemis wasn't pleased. I muttered a 'Sorry,' and got back to my story.

"Along with me were the Hunters Zoë Nightshade, and Bianca diAngelo, Grover Underwood came along. Percy asked why he couldn't come along, Zoë stated that it was because he was a boy. Percy pointed out that Grover was a male as well, she stated that he was a Satyr, and was an exception. We left the next day for Washington D.C. We found that Percy was actually following us on his pegasus, Blackjack. Along the way of the quest, we fought the Nemean Lion, but thanks to Percy's... odd plan, we were able to defeat it.

"We kept travelling until we got to the Nevada Desert, which was the home for the Junkyard of the Gods. In the junkyard, Bianca, Nico's sister had taken a figurine, which caused us to get attacked by the guardian of the Junkyard, Talos. Bianca sacrificed herself to save us so we could keep going.

"We travelled to San Francisco, and got help from Annabeth's dad, he gave us a car to use for transportation to get to the Garden of the Hesperides. Unfortunately, it was destroyed by a lightning bolt..." I growled the last part out, remember how angry I was at my father for that.

"When we go-" I was cut off by the gym doors bursting open to reveal Rachel Dare.

Third-Person PoV

"Rachel! What are you doing here?" Percy asked.

Rachel didn't respond, instead, she made her way over to the group of seven demigods with a glazed look in her eyes.

"Rachel...?" Annabeth called her name cautiously.

Again, Rachel didn't respond, however, as she got near the group, she began to talk, not in her voice, but in the voice of the Oracle of Delphi.

Eight shall go west to the Titan's enclave,

To find the one who has lost all cause,

Regain the half guarded by the mother,

Wielded by the son of the sea, no other.

Gain the favor of the gods,

And fight time against all odds.

Rachel immediately passed out after reciting the prophecy, before she could hit the ground, Nico caught her and set her down on the bleachers.

"I guess we have a prophecy, and from the fact that the Oracle came all the way here, it's for the eight of us." Percy said.

"Right. We should head to camp to get supplies ready, we need to tell Chiron about the quest, also try and get these four fitted for some armour and supplies." Annabeth replied.

I was going to make this slightly longer, but I felt like it was well enough for now. The next chapter will be the arrival at camp, and interactions with the four high schoolers with the rest of camp.

Also, I don't usually like asking, but I would really like reviews and constructive criticism on how I'm doing, and where I can improve. Also, if you have ANY ideas for the story, feel free to submit them. I haven't planned out everything yet, only a few more chapter in advance, as well as something that popped into my head during summer classes.