Chapter 16.

I sit up too fast and see dark grey spots. Nico pushes a cloth onto my forehead and I lay back down, as his hand guides me. "Will can be annoying but he's cute as hell and educational." He laughs."Also, Thalia and Lexi have had their fair share of nasty injuries so I was thinking about opening a hospital, and our nurses and assistants can be skeletons."

"You'd look weird in scrubs." I comment. I've never seen Nico in any other colours besides grey, black and navy. "Once I had to wear the same Hawaiian shirt for almost a week."

I pull a face. "Same. Anyways, how's your arm." He notions towards my right arm and I look at it. It's wrapped in a white bandage and, my gods. "What's with the sticker?"

In the centre is a large, square purple sticker with a star in the middle saying 'I'm a star!'

"Didn't want to lose you. It's a busy plane."

"What!" I sit up slowly and see I'm in a small cubicle, a TV that I hadn't noticed before is in front of me and the chair is fully reclined. Nico stands to my right, half in, half out of the area.

"How the, how did you get through security?"

"Well, I got a skeleton to pull the fire alarm when you went. Then, we began to leave but ran back in. After you passed out, we poured nectar down your throat and we just walked through. We boarded the plane an hour ago. We found a spare wheel chair and we got to board first." He shrugs. 'Magic is helpful."

I nod, remembering that nectar and ambrosia speed up the healing process and can heal any injury or disease. Plus, I just learned that you don't have to be conscious!

"Anyways, the food here is free. Want some?"

I nod. Pans cross my fingers that there's something that I would eat.

Nico passes me the menu, and after some thought on which meal sounds the least dangerous, I opt for a fruit salad.

After I've eaten, I feel almost like a human being again and I decide to go and communicate with my species. Or, in other words, I go and say hi to the others.

So far, no other monsters. But Nico warns us that England is one of the ancient lands. He was born in Italy, but because he was born there he wasn't effected any more. However, everyone else here was born in America, so this should be fun.

I don't know how long the flight from America to London is, but we arrive at half past ten at night. We don't get past security until eleven, local time, and I'm exhausted. New York is five hours behind London, so I woke up in Cabin 6 nine hours ago which seems reasonable, but we did fight a manticore today so I think our tiredness is justified.

We walk out of the airport and go to a near by wood, it's empty and with no street lights I think it's isolated enough. I have never been to London before, so we should leave in the morning.

It's a good job that Thalia was prepared because I didn't bring a sleeping bag and it's too cold to sleep out. Also,a England does rain a lot. She throws a piece of cloth to the ground and a tent pops up. It looks to small to fit all six of us, but when we crawl inside it's like the Tardis from doctor who. Just without the aliens and the time travel. But, the monsters are legit. Thankfully not now.

There are real beds, not air beds or sleeping bags. It's so much warmer than a regular tent and there's a map of London on the wall. "That map over there will change to where you travel to, and it shows every place in the city, real time." She explains. The top is painted dark purple with a silver full moon surrounded by thousands of small stars. One wall is decorated with bows, and another could be mistaken for a real forest. So many different shades of green.

"Get some rest. We should leave by nine tomorrow, so be up by eight." Nico says before climbing into bed.

I get more than seven hours sleep too.

The best part, I have a normal dream.