For later on the person who asked the question will answer last, so it will be in this alternating pattern:

Thalia, Raven, Percy,

Raven, Percy, Thalia,

and Percy, Thalia, Raven.

YEAR TWO

Six Month Marker

PERCY

I'm almost done with my training, but one thing I still have to do is build up resistance, whatever that is. It does mean however that I'm going to spend some quality time with Raven and Thalia. Neither Thunder or Aina wanted to do it so Raven offered to teach us. That is what I'm doing about now, Raven is explaining the levels of reality while I eat a cheeseburger.

"So that's basically what it is. Now we're going to go and actually do it, but we're stopping every two levels to walk around and make sure you're not going to pass out. Hopefully it I drill it you'll be done in a week to two weeks," Raven told us. Thalia raised her eyebrows.

"Why so fast? Do you have something else to do?"

"Yes, as a matter of fact, I do."

"Don't worry about it Thalia, Raven is suppose to be similar to Nico, so obviously she's anti-social," I joked. Raven huffed.

"I'm not anti-social, I'm anti-stupid." I rolled my eyes, and got up to return my tray.

"Okay, Percy and Thalia are you two ready to go?" We nodded, and we just left

Time Skip

"Alright this is the entrance to the dungeon," Raven announced.

"It doesn't seem that bad," I commented. Thalia rolled her eyes.

"So to what level do we need to build up resistance?" Thalia asked.

"Um…215 or 220, I'm not quite sure. It could have been 225 or 230."

"Didn't you do this with Nico not that long ago?" Thalia and I both asked. Raven shrugged.

"He really just wanted to master as many levels as he could, so I didn't have to worry about it."

"Okay, we might as well get started. You can find out how many levels we need when we get back," Thalia muttered.

We started down, and after going through three levels I got pretty bored.

"Why don't we play a game?" I suggested.

"What kind of game?" Raven asked.

"Well since we don't know you very well, and you don't know us very well, how about the question game?"

"I guess, Thalia you in?"

"Yeah, sure, but Percy can start."

"Okay, um….I'll start with a simple one. What's your favorite color?"

"Black."

"Red."

"Blue."

"Favorite ability?"

"Stealing things without people noticing."

"Being healed/rejuvenated by water."

"Shocking people who get too close to me."

"Favorite season?"

"Summer."

"Fall."

"Winter."

"Favorite drink?"

"Mountain Dew."

"Regular caffeinated Coke."

"Blue Pepsi."

"Best time you've ever had?"

"A couple years ago when I went on Raff's first quest with him."

"Up in Canada while I was with the Hunters, we were chasing a rock band that were really Cyclopes."

"The prank war at Camp during my first year."

"Weirdest childhood memory?"

"I was in second grade and whenever I went out for recess there was this girl sitting in a tree watching me. One day I went up to her and she fell out of the tree and started to chase me around. She disappeared after that, but everyone in my class thought she was my girlfriend."

"I was six, and I was sitting outside my house bored out of my mind, when a bunch of eagles flow by and started doing a bunch of acrobatic performances. Then my mom came out drunk and thought they were flies so she was swatting at them, and then one pooped on her. She thought it was a bomb and ran around screaming. The eagles took off in a V formation."

"I was five and in the woods when a giant snake started following me. I climbed about fifteen feet up a tree, and of course the snake followed me. When it was right next to me it puked up a rat, then the rat started to dance. I fell out of the tree and knocked my self out. When I woke up I was at home, and the rat was dancing on my window sill. I screamed and then my cat came and ate it."

Thalia and I both stared at her.

"Did you make that up?" Raven shook her head.

"I still don't understand it, at least you guy's stories made some sense."

I nodded, we talk a while longer. I can honestly say I know Raven a lot better now. Then I wondered if this is what Raven and Nico did while they were down here. If so it's no wonder why they're so close. Thunder and I got on well, but we never really talked and shared memories.

"Hey Raven what did you and Nico do while you were done here?"

"We talked, fought monsters, joked around, and sometimes we played cards in the safe rooms." So yeah, I was right.

"We're going back up now," Raven told us a few minutes later.

It turns out that we only had to go to 235, but it was preferred that we go to 225. Two weeks later we could do 235 without a problem, and 225 wasn't that bad. Two weeks later we get evaluated. I also figured out why felt tingles whenever Thalia touched me.

YEAR TWO

Six Month Marker

NICO

(Don't forget to go back two weeks!)

I'm so lucky, I get to spend two weeks with Percy's brute of a mentor reviewing jobs. Since Percy and Thalia are obviously going to take a while building up resistance I get to experience the jobs. Yay (please note my sarcasm).

We started with cleaning jobs, I was a janitor, I mopped up blood (I really feel for you Thalia), cleaned kitchens, cleaned bathroom, basically I cleaned everything.

Then I worked in the kitchen. I checked people's tags, I cooked food, I handed out food, I set up tables, I washed plates, took out the garbage, and watched to make sure everyone was behaving.

Next was guard duty. I was hall monitor (day and night), I did the perimeter, I guarded insane people, I guarded items, and I guarded the Boss's office.

Then I worked in the game room. I was the cashier, I restocked things, I sorted through things to determine where they go, and I processed things out of the real world.

Apparently there are more jobs, but I'm not allowed to do them yet. The one good thing that came out of this was that I got a lot of points, and I was really tired so I feel asleep fast. Finally the two weeks were over and I could go back to my own room. I had to sleep in Percy's bed, because him and Thalia bunked with Raven so she could wake them up at weird times.

These last two weeks really sucked because I didn't see Percy, Raven, or Thalia at all. I saw Raff twice, and so I was stuck with Thunder. I barely saw Aina and raven said she was suppose to help, not top mention she and Thunder were stuck together with glue.

I have to say that I'm really bored right now. Thunder brought me into the cafeteria and told me to wait here. I guess Percy and Thalia are being assessed for their resistance skills and Thunder has to be there. That's fine, but I've been here for TWO HOURS, do how much that sucks for a kid who's ADHD? I was stuck counting things.

Things I counted

1. The tables:23

2. The floor tiles: 283

3. The ceiling tiles:240

4. The lights: 83

5. Number of people who have walked in and out: 32

6. Amount of times I was asked where my mentor was: 12

7. Number of times I wished someone would come get me: 312

8. Number of times I thought I saw Aina, Thunder, or Raven: 23

9. Number of times I saw people fall asleep: 6

10. Number of times I threw things at people and then pretended it wasn't me: 56

11. Number of times I 'accidentally' tripped someone: 13

You can imagine how happy I was when Raven appeared next to me, and handed me a coffee. I jumped up and hugged her.

"Finally! I thought I was going to die of boredom," I exclaimed. Raven frowned.

"It's nice to know you missed me," she muttered, "I think I'll drink this coffee I got you." I rolled my eyes.

"Yes I missed you, who wouldn't? I was stuck with Thunder, we have nothing in common!"

"So you didn't have a good time?" I looked at her appalled.

"No, it was terrible." Raven looked very thoughtful.

"You and Thunder have very different definitions of a good time then."

"Speaking of Thunder where is he? And the others?" Raven sat down.

"Sit. I believe Thalia is preparing for her quest. Percy is sleeping because tomorrow he has to go through what you did. We are going to see the Boss, because you are getting your first quest." Raven explained. This will be interesting, I'm curious about how they do quests here.

"Am I doing this quest alone?" I asked Raven. She snorted.

"Hell no, we would never send a newbie out like that. It's stupid, now c'mon we have a meeting to attend."

The Boss's office was exactly the same. Al had us sit across from him and he hand me an envelope.

"Your job is to hunt down and kill the King Hell Hound, and take his fangs. That is the whole thing, bring the fangs back here to me. It's a more dangerous task because he is hard to track down, and stays in the early two hundred teens level of reality. He's a fair opponent in battle, but he has a pack to back him up. In the envelop is what you should need to bring, along with what you'll be paid when and if you succeed, and there's also how long it should last, and the strengths and weaknesses of you opponent. The last one you should know from Monster logy. I hope to see two soon again."

Raven and I stood up and walked back to our room. I sat down on the bunk and opened the envelope.

What you should need

1. A sword.

2. A shield.

3. Two backpacks.

4. Four water bottles, and idiom tablets.

5. Enough food for a week.

6. A lighter.

7. Two sleeping bags and a tent.

8. Medical supplies.

9. Running shoes.

Duration of the Quest

It should last no longer than a week.

Payment

Will be discussed when you return.

Strengths of Opponent

1. Pack

2. He can shadow travel

3. He has a strong bite

4. Fast

5. Is somewhat smart

6. Sharp claws

Weaknesses of Opponent

1. Poor fighter without pack

2. Puts pack before himself

3. Is easy to trick

4. Has too much confidence

5. Likes to play with his prey

"Well this should be fun," Raven said cheerily. I stared at her.

"Are you serious?"

"Yeah, I am. Things were getting a bit boring."

"And being bored is such a terrible thing."

"Hey just a few hours ago you would have agreed with me." I shrugged, she was right, and I started packing my bag. In a half and hour we were ready to go.

It's been four days, and we just got our first glimpse of the King. We followed him, but he was too fast. I managed to shadow travel us to the outside of his camp. The next two days we spent watching him. He goes out three times a day, the smallest group that goes with him is at noon, so that's when Raven and I decided to attack.

We followed them well away from the camp, and then Raven jumped out from our hiding place a drew away most of the hounds. We had set up a net a few feet away that will hopefully trap them.

There were four hounds still with the king though, Raven suspected three of them to be males and the other a female.

"I'll attack the female, you wait for the others to run off," I whispered to Raven. She shook her head.

"No, remember the plan? I distract, you do the task," she argued.

"Fine, go." Raven sprinted at the suspected female, and I followed slower. Raven then started a vicious fight which ended with the hound having a broken paw, and two deep cuts in her flank. Raven had a cut on her leg from the claws, and a bite on her arm, but she had her sword at the hound throat.

The King launched himself at Raven and snarled something at the other hounds, who took off. Everything has gone according to plan. Raven was rolling in the dirt with the King Hell Hound, I leaped on his back and sunk my sword into his back he howled and threw me off. Then raked his claws down my chest. I screamed (yes I'll admit to it) from the pain, but I managed to get to my feet. I held my ground while the King ran at me. At the last second I raised my sword, and impaled the hound. He disintegrated and in his place were four sharp teeth.

Raven stood up slowly.

"I think there's a safe house two hundred yard west. Lets try to get there before we check out our wounds." I nodded in agreement.

"I would hate to be sitting ducks."

We walked for a while longer, and then suddenly there wasn't any ground underneath us. We tumbled down, and slammed into something hard, something really hard. We lay there for a moment to get our breath back, and it was then that I really notice Raven's eyes. She was onto top of me so it was hard not to. I had always thought they were blue, but now I can see a greenish tint to them. They look really pretty.

I was snapped out of my thoughts when Raven rolled off me.

"I found the safe house," she mumbled. We stood up and found the door. Inside Raven told me to sit down, and then she gave me some ambrosia to eat, she ate some herself and quickly wrapped her wounds.

"Nico I need you to take your shirt off." I just stared at her.

"Um what?"

"Your cut, ya know the giant claw mark, it's on your chest. You need to take your shirt off." Oh now I feel stupid, it must be the lack of blood. I pulled my shirt off.

"That doesn't look good, actually you don't look good either," Raven noted.

"Gee thanks, that makes me feel good. You don't look so good either." Raven rolled her eyes and then poured some nectar over the cut. It stung, a lot. Then she wrapped it up, gave me a shirt to put on, and some ambrosia to eat. Raven also pulled out our sleeping bags.

"I'll see you in the morning," I heard her say right before I drifted off.

I felt a lot better in the morning, my chest still hurt like hell, but I didn't feel like I would pass out if I tried to walk. In fact I felt well enough to shadow travel. As soon as we were packed I grabbed Raven's hand and pulled her trough the shadows. She was a bit surprised, mostly because I didn't tell her I was going to do that, because I know she's object.

I was smart though, and shadow traveled us to the infirmary. Raff was there, and for some reason I really hated that, and him pulling Raven off to check out her cuts. I got some grumpy doctor guy. He had me patched up in a few minutes, and I was just waiting for Raven. It was annoying, I was never this impatient before, she only came out a few minutes after me after all. Something's wrong with me, maybe his claws were poisoned and it's messing up my feeling. Anyway Raven and Raff came out chatting which also annoyed me (still don't know why),and then Raven hugged Raff (that really annoyed me, in fact I'm a little mad), and we were on our way to the Boss's office.

The Boss drilled us on what happened, I gave him the teeth, he gave us both 250 points, and we left.

"What now?" I asked.

"Now we drop our stuff off and get something to eat. We're taking the next few days easy, we want to make sure your cuts heal okay."

YEAR TWO

Six Month and Two Weeks Marker

THALIA

The test for completing resistance was interesting. We were hooked up with trackers that showed how deep we went and well we reacted to the levels, we had to go down to 235 and come back up as quickly as possible. We had to do it separately.

Percy went first and did it in a grand total of forty-eight minutes. Then it was my turn, I was a bit nervous. There were some terrible monsters down there. Percy hugged me and wished me good luck. That made me feel a lot better. I really like hugging Percy, he makes me feel safe and he always smells like the ocean.

I headed down into the dungeon, I was good the first ten levels. Then the stair wall switched on me. That's okay it's happened plenty of times. I got into a fight with a troll, and got away without a scratch. I started to relax after that, I ran into a few monsters, but it was nothing I couldn't fight. I don't know why I was so nervous. Raven was a great teacher, she told me everything I needed to know, and we had been down here tons of times.

I did it in forty-five minutes flat. Percy gave me another hug, and I could have melted. Then we had to wait for Al to give us our score, whether or not we passed. This was the part I hated the most about evaluations. It's so suspenseful. Thankfully we both passed.

"Good job Thalia," Raven told me, "You did better than most. The average is an hour for demigods." I grinned.

"How fast did Nico do it?" Him being the son of hades he had an advantage.

"He did it in a half an hour." I was impressed.

"Wow, I'm going to have to congratulate him when I get back."

"You'll have to wait. Al wants to talk to you. You're getting your first quest."

"Really?"

"Yeah, Aina's at his office already. Now hurry." I nodded and ran off. This was pretty cool, I was finally going to see more of Tartarus, I have to say the place interests me.

Once I was in the Boss's office he started talking.

"Three miles north of here are some woods. In these woods are trees with golden leaves, you have to gather some of these leaves, and scrap some bark off of the trees. Be careful the trees are guarded by wood trolls. Six feet tall and fierce fighters. For longer quests I give people folders with information inside, but I suspect you quest won't take more than a day. You should bring a bag to put the items in though." I nodded.

"I'm coming with you too," Aina added.

We got up and left. We started straight on the quest only stopping to get a bag.

When we neared the woods I could see the trees. They were a good deal taller than the rest and had this glowing light about them. They must be magical. I could also see the trolls easily enough when we got nearer.

"So what's the plan?" I Aina. She shrugged.

"Kill them all," she suggested. It was times like this I really missed Annabeth, she always had a plan. There were only five trolls, so I decided to go with Aina's plan. We took the trolls by surprise, and before they could react two of them were dead. I kick one of the trolls in the balls and he kneeled over which gave me the perfect opportunity to chop his head off. Aina was fighting two trolls and I ran over to help, one of the trolls got a nasty cut on my arm, but I managed to stick him in the side with my dagger. Aina also finished up her troll, she had some bruises but was okay.

"I'll get the bark, you pick the leaves," she said looking at my wounded arm. I nodded and grabbed a branch. I was really lucky these branches were close to the ground. In ten minutes we were set, and sprinted out of there in case any trolls came.

When we arrived at the factory Aina told me to go to the infirmary while she checked in with the Boss. I agreed with her and walked to the infirmary, and guess who was there. Percy.

"Hey Perc, what are you doing here?"

"Thunder told me to come down and see if they need any help. I'm starting the job process tomorrow. Here let me take care of your cut. They're a bit short on doctors right now. Some of the boarder guards where attacked," Percy explained.

Percy lead me over to a table and had me sit on it, then he washed out my cut, and wrapped it up. He did it some gently, man having a crush on him is hard.

"Here have some ambrosia." He handed me a square, and I ate it. Instantly my pain went away.

"Do you want to get something to eat?" I asked. Percy nodded and we walked towards the cafeteria, with him telling me jokes the whole way.

"So how was your quest?"

"It was fun." Percy shook his head.

"I always knew you were insane."

"Oh shut up, you're just jealous."

"Yep, I'm really craving death right now." I laughed, which made Percy grinned.

"Hey where's Nico and Raven?"

"Oh he got a quest too, but it's suppose to be a lot longer than your's, I think. Thunder didn't know much about it." I nodded, it made sense.

"We'll have to interrogate him when he gets back."

We did indeed interrogate him, just not as roughly as we would, seeing that he's injured and all. After Percy left to do some more jobs Nico started talking more.

"I think there's something wring with me," he started.

"You got that right."

"I'm serious, I've been having weird feelings." That caught my attention.

"What kind of feelings?"

"I don't know how to describe them. Yesterday when I got back I wanted to punch Raff when Raven hugged him, and before that he was really annoying me and he didn't do anything. I keep getting this weird urge to make sure no harm comes to…people," he finished awkwardly.

"To people? Anyone in particular?" Nico sighed.

"Just Raven," he mumbled. That's how I feel how Percy, I mused. I never want him hurt, I get jealous when he's with other girls. Nico doesn't have a clue what he's feeling. Poor him.

"Maybe you like her," I offered vaguely. Nico shook his head.

"No that's not it. Well thanks for talking to me, uh don't tell Percy." Then Nico ran off.

This is kind of sad. Nico would have been fourteen going on fifteen in the real world, he's growing up mentally but not physically. That really sucks. The same thing is happening to me too.

I shrugged, there's nothing I can do about it. Now I have to find Aina. She must have something for me to do now, my arm is perfectly fine. Turns out she did, she wanted me to practice my sneaking skills, so I had to follow Percy around all day with Aina watching. Whenever someone asked me what I was doing I had to lie too, so I guess I learned from today. I also learned that even though we can't grow anymore we can still develop muscles.

YEAR TWO

THIRD PERSON

Percy finally got his quest. He was disappointed in it though, all he had to do was walk fifty feet to the lake, dive in, and grab the rusted metal at the bottom. The three (Percy, Thalia, and Nico) went on an exploration quest. The Boss has been talking to their mentors and is thinking about making them members soon. Their mentors have also been going on quests, except they won't tell anyone what they are.

On the day that Nico, Percy, and Thalia had been in Tartarus for two years exactly Nico and Raven got a big shock. They saw Percy and Thalia kissing, yes kissing, but you'll hear more about that later. Nico however still has mixed feelings.

Up in the world of the living, things have been getting more interesting. The group of demigods is growing, and still they're managing to stay secret. At first they did some acts against the gods, but then they got a strange note telling them to stop.

YEAR TWO

ANGEL

Our group grew a lot over the last year. We have a lot of Hermes' kids. I'm the only daughter of Athena though, I don't mind. I don't want to be like my siblings, it seems like they mindlessly follow mom's orders. They spread lies about Percy, Thalia, and Nico, with help from the Aphrodite cabin. Back to who's with us we also have most of the children of Nemesis, many children of Hecate, and a bunch of Ares' kids.

We have a good group, although most of them are older than me, they're all trustworthy. There's one other kid my age(eight and a half), he's from the Hermes cabin and his name is Nick. He just joined a couple days ago so he doesn't know about our special meeting today.

"Where are we going?" Nick asked me as we ran to keep pace with the older kids.

"We're going to go meet a someone who we suspect is a god, and seems to be supporting our cause." He nodded and kept silent.

This guy set us a mysterious note too, it save our butts. We almost got caught by the gods for acting out against them.

Connor and Travis hot wired the camp vehicles and we snuck out of camp. We drove to the outskirts of town, to some old factory. We all gathered into the building, and then there was a bright flash. There was a man standing in front of us. "Dad?" Nick asked.

It was Hermes. He looked like how I remembered him, tall and blonde.

"Hello, I am indeed Hermes."

"Are you on our side?" demanded one of the Ares kids.

"I wouldn't be here if I wasn't." Excited chatter broke out, people were grinning at each other. We had a god on our side.