Sorry it's been so long but the QUEST IS STARTING! BTW I'm sorry I don't get on here enough! But I've been on a few different sites, as well as preoccupied with school. :P This chapter's 1,770 words long. How's that? Oh, anything in bold and parenthesis is my input on the story.

Nico's' POV

As we sat in the back of the strawberry van I wondered how we were gonna get all the way to Washington. My wondering stopped when Argus pulled up at the airport. Thalia got up; looking like she'd planned the whole thing. She got out of the car, grabbed her backpack and said "Coming guys?" I decided not to argue with her; after all she was my girlfriend now. (Haha. Took me long enough to get to that! xD) Percy, Annabeth, Thalia and I walked over to a ticket booth. "Four tickets to Seattle, Washington please," she said. The guy took the cash and handed her four tickets. We looked at them; they said our plane was at gate 14 so that's where we went. With a stop at the hot chocolate stand first. We sat there sipping coco and staring out the windows when I said: "What happens when we get to Seattle?" I think that took people by surprise, because nobody answered for a moment.

"We search for a big dome I guess," Thalia said.

"And if we don't find one?" asked Percy nervously.

"I know where we can find one. It's called the Kingdome Stadium. It's scheduled for removal though," Annabeth said sadly. "It's too bad it'll be going, it really is a good piece of architecture."

"Well," Thalia said, "I guess that's where we're going then."

"Attention" the voice over the intercom said, "Attention please. This is the first alert for boarding of flight 254 to Washington state. I repeat; first alert for flight 254 for Washington state."

Thalia hopped out of her chair and grabbed her bags. "That's us guys," she stated. We all grabbed our bags and went to the boarding passage. We showed the lady the boarding passes and she let us through. We walked down a tunnel thing until we were in the airplane. We found our seats. Percy and Annabeth were sitting by an empty chair. Lucky. Thalia and I had to sit by some mortal guy. So, sadly, there was no talking about the quest, or talking to them.

Percy's POV

For an ADHD kid, a 7 hour plane ride is not fun. Good thing it was over. Annabeth and I grabbed our carry-on bags and walked out of the plane. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Thalia and Nico coming up behind us. I tapped Annabeth on the shoulder. She turned around and we walked over to our friends.

"Hey, guys. How was the flight?" I asked. Then Thalia groaned.

"Terrible," she said. "There was some guy next to us that didn't speak English. But he understood it. Also, he smelled like monster. And not the energy drink," she rolled her eyes.

"Yeah," Nico added. "And we couldn't plan about the quest 'cause he was there." They both seemed to be in a bad mood, so I asked Annabeth to come get our luggage. I told Thalia and Nico that we'd get theirs too. When we came back, Thalia was on Nico's lap, and he was hugging her around her waist. They were both half asleep. I walked over and poked Thalia's back.

"Wake up my little emo cousin," I told her teasingly. She opened her eyes, realized it was time to get up, then she kissed Nico and he woke up.

"Wha?" Nico said, sounding sort of confused.

"Get up hon," Thalia said, standing up and pulling him out of the chair.

We all got our bags and walked towards the exit. We couldn't find a taxi or anything, so Thalia called a cab.

"Hi," she said to the person who answered the phone. "Yeah, I need a cab to pick me and my friends up at the Seattle airport." She paused while they talked. "Well, four people in all. And we have 6 bags." She listened again. "That's great. How much would we owe the driver now?" She seemed happy when the person spoke. "Awesome, thanks." She hung up and turned to us. "It'll be about $30.00 for us to get a ride to the hotel," she stated.

"Cools," I said. "How many minutes till they get here?"

"Well," she said, "the man said the cab would be here in less than 5 minutes. So," she turned to Annabeth. "Truth or dare?"

"Um," Annabeth said. "Well, a dare from you would be suicide, so truth."

"Ok," Thalia said laughing. "Um, do you know how long Cassie and Erin have been dating?"

"Cassie?" Annabeth asked. "Didn't she get here just a week ago?"

"Yup," Thalia confirmed, "And she's already dating Erin, the son of Ares, even though she's a daughter of Demeter. They so don't go together… Anyways, answer the question."

"Um, I think she said something about a first date with her boyfriend on Friday during capture the flag. It's Monday now, so three days."

"Only three?" I asked.

"Percy," Thalia said, "romance is something you don't understand. Sorry."

"Whatever," Annabeth said. She turned to Nico, "When do you plan on asking Thalia to marry you?" He turned bright red. He glanced at Thalia, then back at Annabeth.

"Well," he said, "I guess just when I feel that it's right. Wait, I didn't choose truth. When did this turn from Truth or Dare, to Answer Private Questions?" But no one answered him, because the cab pulled up quicker than expected. We piled our stuff in the trunk and got in. On the way to the hotel, we just talked about when we would go to the dome. It was decided that we would go tomorrow afternoon, since we were all very tired and wanted to sleep in.

Nico's POV

When we got to the hotel, Thalia walked to the desk. She said "Two rooms. They're both registered under Delta." The man typed on his computer for a second then walked to the back room. He came out with two keys and handed them to her. She walked back over. "The gods paid for all our rooms," she said smiling. She gave one key to Annabeth, who looked at the number.

"Percy and I got room 114? How bout you Thalia?" She asked.

"Nico and I are in room 113," She said smiling. "The supposedly haunted one." I swallowed.

"Room 113, really Thalia?" I asked her. But she was already walking to the elevator. Percy and Annabeth followed her with their bags. So I grabbed my pack and followed.

We reached our hotel rooms on the second floor. Everything like the pool, the main desk, breakfast room, and the rest of the lobby was on the first floor. Annabeth and Percy went into their room, and Thalia and I went in ours. When we walked in, there was an immense room, with a balcony too. There was a black leather couch with a blanket draped over the back. It was facing a flat screen TV. There were doors on each side of the room as well. I ran to one and Thalia to the other. I opened the door to find…a bathroom. A nice one... but BORING. I turned to Thalia. "Watcha got?"

"Bedroom," she said. I walked over and looked. It was an old gothic style room. It had black, lacy banners hanging from the ceiling, and the paint job on the walls started black at the bottom, and grew upwards into black, skeleton-like trees against a grey background. There was a black canopy bed in the center of the room, and to the left was a large window, and the black lacy curtains were drawn so that you could see out onto Mission Lake, named after Mission Bay in San Diego. To the right was an old fashioned dresser with a large mirror and next to that was a large walk-in closet. Thalia walked out to the couch and turned on the TV. I got my bag and went into the closet. I started unpacking my stuff and putting it up on one side of the closet. When I was done, I went out to the entry room and locked the door for the night, then sat down by her and watched Family Guy.

Annabeth's POV

I walked into the hotel room and was immediately awestruck. When you walked in, all you could see was nice leather furniture, beautiful decorations, not to mention the impressive architecture. Percy was amazed too. I walked to one end of the room and stepped onto the balcony. I looked out over Mission Lake and took in the view. I hear Percy yell something, so I stepped back in and closed the sliding door to the balcony.

"WHAT?" I yelled. I didn't see Percy.

"IN HERE!" I heard him yell. I walked to where the sound was coming from. I opened a large oak door and saw the bedroom. My eyes nearly fell out of my head. It was a huge room to start with, there was a king size bed on the left side, and near the end of the bed was a walk-in closet. I saw Percy in there, so I walked in after him. It. Was. Massive. I wasn't sure how this had been affordable, but I liked that it was. I started unpacking my stuff and was done pretty fast. I looked behind me, where Percy had been, and saw that he was gone. I walked out of the closet and saw him watching TV on a huge flat screen. I ran over to the couch and sat next to him and watched the Simpsons. Then Gator Boys was on the animal channel, so according to Percy, we had to watch that. Then This Old House was playing, and I had Percy watch that with me (poor Percy…). Then it was 9:00pm, so we both changed to PJ's, and I locked the door. We climbed into bed, and Percy was asleep in a few minutes. I was sleeping only a little after he was.

Nico's POV

It was 10:30 and Thalia and I were both ready for bed. I only got up the effort to grab the remote and turn off the computer. I'm a lazy man. Thalia had fallen asleep with her head on my chest, so I picked her up, and carried her to the bed. I set her down, and pulled the covers over her. Then I crawled in and was cozy and asleep in just a few seconds.