As I was surrounded by darkness, as I waited for something to happen I kept seeing flashes of things that made no sense to me.

A man holding the sky, a girl being forced under it instead of the man then a group of seven people going towards a fortress on a mountain. But none of the people had clear faces all off them were like blurry photos you see of criminals on TV.

I saw the a girl being killed by the man but what scared me the most was that for the briefest of moments the girls face became clear I saw the girl that I never wanted to get hurt...

It was the face of Zoë Nightshade. After that she became blurry as she fell to the ground and didn't move again. Then everything became dark again and I knew no more.

When the darkness finally faded and consciousness returned I noticed that I was in a tent that was quite large enough to fill at least six people. When I looked closer I noticed that it was the hunters' medical tent.

As I tried to sit up I felt a huge spike of pain leap up into my left side. I noticed then that I was bandaged there so I guessed that was where the stinger hit me earlier but what really surprised me was the weight on my right chest when I liked closer I saw a mess raven hair spiralled over me. 'So Zoë stayed with me during my blackout' I thought as I let my fingers trail softly through her hair.

But during my shift in my bed I must have stirred her slumber and her head shot up from my chest so fast I thought her head would come clean of her neck. As I looked closer I noticed she had bloodshot eyes and dried tears on her eyes from crying and she looked like she had not slept well if at all latley.

"Hey sleepyhead glad your up." I said trying to cheer her up, big mistake.

As soon I had finished that sentence she slapped me so hard across the face. I thought she would leave a permanent imprint on my cheek.

"What the hell were you thinking Percy, you almost died from that stunt you pulled but I suppose that was your plan all along was it not? Why did you do that are you completely insane I was so worried I thought you would die your heart even stopped at one point because the poison from the stinger was so much in your bloodstream that we...we."

By the end she was openly crying and hitting me in the chest repeatedly in the chest.

"If Apollo had not showed up you would be at worst dead and at best brain-dead. Why did you do it did you not think of anyone else." She said sobbing loudly.

"But I was thinking of someone else I was thinking that I wasn't going to loose you after all wave been through together. I'm not sorry for saving you all I'm sorry for is not being fast enough to dodge the stinger from that manticore." I said with finality in my tone of voice that made no room for any and all comebacks.

"So has anything exciting happened during my k.o?"

I asked with mirth in my voice trying to lighten the mood. But at Zoë's look it appeared to be the wrong the wrong way.

"After you jumped after me lady Artemis got kidnapped and the hunters were all knocked out seemingly at once. We were going to wait for you to…" "Wait Artemis was kidnapped the Artemis who can hear anyone coming a mile away with ease." I asked with a grin (I was doped up to the max don't hate).

"Well she was a bit distracted at the time you know with you saving me, tank you for that by the way." She said. "Look I know someone who can help us he owes me a favour for saving him a while back. Don't worry we will get her back even if it's the last thing I do. So gather up the hunters and pick the best of them because we are about to go and save a goddess."

I said while picking up my armour and mp3 player from a bedside table. Twenty minuets later I came out just showered and clean ready for anything well except for a ‚hunters shopping trip' but god I can't talk about that.

"As we all know Lady Artemis has been kidnapped and we have to save her so what we have to do is simple, an old friend of mine owes me some large favours, now usually we would have to consult the oracle to be able to do this but we just don't have the time to figure out a riddle no matter how smart we are." I said with a glare as some of the hunters were about to protest. "So we are going to Quinsy in New York where my friend is to get the information that we need so if there aren't any questions we will set off." I announced.

But as we were about to set of we heard the demigods who had apparently been sitting in camp during all this fiasco. "We wish to help saving lady Artemis we are able fighters and strategists, besides the more the merrier right?"

Said a girl with black short hair and electric blue eyes as she pointed to the rest of the rest of their group:

A girl with blond hair and storm grey eyes that seemed to crave solving the unknown and a satyr with dark skin acne and appeared to be both scared out of his mind but steeled his nerves enough not to let it control him.

"Fine I'm Percy by the way and these lovely and sexy ladies who will probably kill me for calling them that are Zoë, Phoebe and Diana now who might you be?"

I asked while ignoring the pissed of looks of Diana and Phoebe and surprisingly a blush from Zoë. So the satyr returned by giving us their names: Grover the satyr. Annabeth the blond. Thalia the blue eyed. As we set course for our destination I couldn't help but shake the feeling of some thing big was going to happen on this trip.

On our way to meet my friend we encountered sparingly few monsters only about twenty wary few compared to such a large group of seven demigods and hunters I would have suspected at least a hundred of them so we were ahead of schedule.

As we arrived were I had set up the meeting I noticed that my friend was already there waiting for us. "Well if it is not Percy Jackson coming to say hello to an old friend and what a crowd you have with you four hunters of Artemis, a satyr and two demigods. All you need is a god or a goddess to complete your set.

So what can I do for you Percy?" He asked with a grin. As I was about answer Annabeth interrupted with a thirst for knowledge worthy of Athena and rudeness worthy of Zeus.

"Who are you and how do you know what we are?" She asked/demanded.

"I my dear have gotten many names over my time here smelly old man slippery weasel but you can call me Neresus."