I have to admit it. I absolutely hate this chapter. I basically sat in front of my laptop for 5 hours a day, typing then deleting, typing then deleting. It was hard to try and make a follow up chapter but things will (hopefully) run a little smoother than this chapter.

8EternallyMortal8: I'm sorry if Percy seemed like a creepy weirdo but I just tried to imagine how I'd feel if I was trapped for fifteen years. Plus Dyson just lied to Addie :|

"Kylee?"

"Too girly."

"Katherine?"

"Too elderly."

"Kara?"

As soon as I heard Teddy utter the name I knew it was the one. "Yes. That one. Kara. I love it." I said.

Teddy squinted at the book and laughed, "Oh sorry I meant Kiara! Do you want to be Kiara or just plain Kara?"

I rolled my eyes and took the book out of his hands. "Not funny Teddy." I tried to say his name as menacingly as I could but it was too hard with such a cute name like his. "Whatever, let's return the book to Annabeth." I said.

We got up from my bed and we walked outside. It had been three months since my "escape" but I still was in awe with the outside world. We walked side by side to New Rome while I pondered our relationship. I was hard on him a lot but he always cared for me like a brother should. In fact, even though he hangs out with his friends often, especially Alex, he always found time to spend with me.

I thought for so long that we were in front of Annabeth's door and I didn't even know it. Teddy was giving me a funny look that I ignored. He knocked on the door, which Annabeth opened almost immediately. "Oh hey guys!" I handed her the book and she ushered us in. "Percy wanted to see you anyways."

Percy was sitting on the couch, his expression made it look like he was thinking which was a very rare occurrence. When he saw us he got up and hugged us. Even though we were technically him, he acted like a father to us which I found very reassuring. He stepped out the door and gestured for us to come with him. When Annabeth gave him a look he gave her a sorry look. "Sorry Wise girl. It's just something for them to know."

We walked out into the streets of New Rome where he bought us hot chocolate. He led us out the city and into the Field of Mars where he sat, sipping on his hot chocolate. We sat next to him, waiting for him to speak. After he took another sip he spoke, "There's something you two have to know about Dyson before you go after him."

I gasped. How did he find out what we were planning? I opened my mouth to make up an excuse but he hushed me. "Don't try to make up an excuse. I know exactly how we lie." Teddy listened intently and I decided to stay quiet, "I don't know where he is. But I do know where one of his 'factories' are."

"How?" Teddy asked.

Percy's face fell and I knew it was a bad idea to ask him. I was about to punch Teddy but Percy answered, "The reason I was locked up and tortured was because I tried to find some information on Demi Industries. They were going to keep me in a rubber room for life but when I went out for a bathroom trip I searched some files on their computer."

This time I asked him a question, and a little more bluntly than I meant. "Where is it?"

He looked up to me and said, "In a nuclear power plant. Twenty miles east of Rochester, New York. If you two are going to confront whatever is there I'm going too."

Teddy and I immediately shook our heads. "We can't ask you to do anything Percy." Teddy said. "Yeah, you've already been through a lot. There are people who need and miss you here."

He stood up, signaling that our conversation was near over. "But I owe you two. You saved me and my daughter. I owe you everything."

Just by looking into his eyes I could tell he would sacrifice anything to protect us. It made me feel… loved. Something I didn't feel much. I hugged the closest thing I had to a father and told him, "We already owed you everything since the moment we were created. Please don't go… dad."

Percy's face softened and nodded, although he still looked unsure of us. He left us in the Field of Mars for us to plan. Teddy pitched in his idea, "How about we just teleport through the sea? Rochester is a couple miles away from Lake Ontario so we could easily teleport, then walk there. And once we get there we can blow it up or something."

The last sentence caught me off guard. "Wait blow it up?"

He nodded, "Kara if we're going there we have to destroy everything Demi Industries could use for testing. That includes the whole Power plant."

It made sense but I was still nervous to do something as extreme of this. Teddy and I stood up; we were going to pack but Teddy remembered he would have to ask Leo for some explosives. We walked into his ever burning forge and screamed his name, "LEO!"

He jumped out of the fire, patting out the flames that arose on his clothes. "Ah… my two favorite demigods. What can I do for you troublemakers?"

If it were me speaking I would have been totally vague with the whole thing but Teddy just straight up asked, "Hey Leo, do you have any time bombs?"

I facepalmed while Leo looked overjoyed. He jumped into a pile of junk and began to swim around, finding the right components. Within ten minutes he had finished a hand mirror sized bronze disk with green light pulsating from it. The front had glowing dashes around the disk, forming a ring on the disk. The center had a twist and push button for priming. "Because this is all demigod business, I won't ask you what you are up to." Leo pointed to the glowing dashes on the disk, "Each dash counts for three seconds. So in total you should have one minute to prime it and get your podexs out of there."

Teddy took the disk and shoved it in his back pocket. Leave it to him to just stick a bomb on his butt. We thanked Leo who probably didn't hear us while he jumped back into the flames. We went into our barracks, pulling out a backpack each and packing clothes, ambrosia, nectar, duct tape, and other demigod goodies. We were about to leave the camp until we were stopped by some of Teddy's friends. "Where do you think you're going?"

Alex was leaning on Sammy who had turned into a gorilla for some strange reason. I got frustrated when I realized they had their bags packed as well. "No, no, no! I am not going with you guys! This is something me and Teddy have to do."

Alex sneered and crossed her arms. "Just because you're more powerful than me doesn't mean that you can order me around."

My temper flared and I was about to through her across New Rome but Teddy held me back. I scowled because I knew I didn't want to fight him. Sammy changed into a human and shrugged, "Dude I'm fine if you don't want me to go but Alex is going whether you like it or not."

Teddy was probably more than content because the two had something going on with each other. Alex sent me playful raspberry but all I wanted to do was rip off her tongue. She linked arms with him and quickly said, "Okay let's leave before Luna-"

"Before Luna what?"

Luna appeared from nowhere as she lazily pushed Alex away from Teddy, "Oh yeah, it's called boundaries. Maybe you've heard of them?"

Now here was a girl I loved. Luna grimly turned to Teddy, "Addie was going to come but she said she wanted to spend a bit more time with dad. I know you don't want me to but if you're willing to, I want to go with you."

Before anyone could answer I yelled yes. Everyone stared at me but I didn't care. At least I would have someone to talk to during the time Alex and Teddy decided to… socialize. We walked out to the Little Tiber where we slowed the flow so that it wouldn't wash us away. We all held hands, excluding Sammy who was now starting to go out of our sight. I closed my eyes and concentrated on Lake Ontario.

As soon as I felt the ground disappear under our feet I knew we were successful in our teleportation but I was completely drained and couldn't do much except float like a dead body. I felt someone grab me and swim slowly towards the shore. Hopefully it wasn't Alex. Before I even sent another thought through my brain, I felt the water tremor. I lazily looked to Teddy who had also stopped dead in his tracks. "Kara…" he began.

FWOOM! The lake exploded as a giant sea serpent swallowed me whole. I slithered down its throat but stopped as I grabbed onto the slippery insides. I pulled a dagger from my black combat boots and prepared to slice my way out but the serpent thrashed around, making me drop it somewhere.

When the shaking stopped I saw my dagger pierced within the walls of the throat. I quickly pulled it out and sliced open a new path for me. As I sliced though the last few tissues I felt the serpent shooting straight up again. I tumbled out of the slimy hole I made in the serpent's neck and feel from the air, headed straight towards the hard ground.

Before I could touch the ground Alex flew in and caught me last moment. She floated us to the shore where we could see the serpent retreating like the chicken it was. For now, Alex had earned my respect. But that still didn't change the fact that I was covered in green monster blood. Teddy ran ashore with Luna and hugged me, despite all the grossness. "Thank gods you're alive!" he said.

He eventually pulled off me and it was then I realized that it was night. Luna noticed too and announced, "It's getting late. I think we've all had enough adventure for one day. I'll take first watch, everyone else can sleep."

Teddy settled himself near a tree where he and Alex shared a sleeping bag. Luna look disgusted as they dozed off. Even though Teddy probably was oblivious to all around him, I could tell what was going on. Before my tired eyes fell I gave Luna some advice. "If you want to be with my brother you'll have to make the first move. In case you haven't noticed he is quite oblivious to everything."

She gave me a shocked look while my eyes finally shut, drifting me to the land of Morpheus.

Teddy was clutching another clone's hand on to of what I thought was a cooling tower. The clone was younger than us, maybe six or seven but I could tell what he had been injected with. He was shifting his form from time to time, often turning into a seven headed snake monster then back to human. "You can't do it Teddy. Let him go." I said.

He looked straight into the boy's eyes as he transformed again and again. "No." he grimaced, "I can do this. I can save him!"

In the boy's hand was the time bomb Leo had given us. Only five dashes remained, meaning there was only fifteen seconds left. We were out of time but Teddy wasn't showing any sign of letting go. We waited as the timer ran out, blowing me out of the dream.

Again I'm sorry for this chapter. My heart was not put in it and it was just too awkward! Thanks for reading and remember to favorite, follow, and review!