Chapter 34.

"This has got to be the best quest I've been on yet." Thalia announces as she takes a bite out of her parmo. "Oh, Hell. It's a quest." I start.

"Yeah, but I don't know. I would know if any of the seven were dead, and they don't even seem close." Nico pauses, "maybe the enemy wants us to do something thing for them?"

"Then why not just get the others to do it?" Liam says

"Numbers?" I offer. "But then why would they only take seven in the first place?"

"I guess we'll find out. But like I Said, only three monsters, no deaths, and only minor injuries. And we're currently eating a take away in a friends house? This is by far the best quest yet." Thalia reasons.

"Don't jinx it." Nico warns.

"One time my friend told me not to fall over and then I fell over three times in five minutes." I smile.

"One time Apollo was bragging about how great he was at archery before practice, and then Layla handed his backside to him." Will smiles.

"One time-" Chantelle starts but she stops when there's banging at the door.

"Ok, who ordered what?" I ask, half joking.

"I'll get it." Liam stands up. "Coming!" He calls.

"Taxi for eleven?" It's a woman's voice.

"Two minutes, we'll just clean up. EVERYONE PUT YOUR RUBBISH AWAY," he shouts and we do as we're told. When we finish, we go outside. The taxi is a minibus by Royal cars. We all pause. "Dibs on the backseat!" Will shouts.

"Wait for me." Nico calls and i run after them.

"Bagsee not sitting next to Grace."

"We all climb in. When the driver gets in she tells us all to put our seat belts on. Thalia does so straight away and we all follow, but I sit on mine instead of plugging it in. I elbow Nico who is sitting next to me and show him. He stares at me for a second until her realises and then he taps Will. No one else is sitting at the back and so I just hope that everyone else feels the same way I do.

"Get the tunes on" I start to sing

"Get the tunes on, get the tunes in for us boys!" Liam joins in.

"Please." He adds.

"What radio station?" She asks and Will grimaces.

"Capital! It's not good but it's the best for music." I call

"Capital. It's on!"

"Thank you!" I shout.

After a carphone warehouse advert where the voice goes super crazy, the host is saying that he is going to play a song that has recently gone viral on the internet.

"So, this video was posted to you tube about two hours ago, and already it has over three million views. We don't have a name of the singer. And here we go," the man on the radio says. "Are you ready?" Olivia asks. "It's recording."

"That's not me. Wait." Olivia interrupts before the soundtrack plays.

"The minotaur's my butler." It plays.

"Dear gods." Nico shouts.

"Turn it up!" Will yells and the driver does.

The song lasts two minutes before the host talks again.

"Well, this guy certainly has a voice on him."

"The camera is a bit shakey don't you think?" A woman asks.

"You can hear his mates in the background." The man says before the radio goes off.

"I'm famous!" Chantelle cries.

"Let me read these comments." Olivia calls.

"What do they say?" Will shouts,

"Well, the first comment is that they would totally sleep with you."

"Can you tell them to fight me?" Will says.

"Another comment is asking you to sing be a man from mulan."

"Mysterious as the dark side of the MOON." Thalia calls.

"I am not mysterious." Nico argues.

"Yes you are." Will says.

"Well, I'm not anymore."

"Ok dark side of the moon."

"Well, the number of likes puts he number of dislikes to shame. Over a million likes to less than a thousand dislikes."

"Who doesn't like that?" Chantelle says.

"The gods probably." Liam giggles.

"Well, not all of them. Dionysius would have made another account just to dislike it and Zeus probably broke his screen with a lightning bolt trying to dislike it, but I bet you that Apollo is signing you a record deal or some thing like that." Rosie says.

"Ok, we're here." The woman announces. She opens the door and drives off as soon as we're all out. "Where are we?" Grace turns around. We're in a highstreet which I don't recognise and I can hear music and laughing.

"Rainbow night club?" Maisie reads.

"Are we at a gay bar?" Nico asks.

"Well, there's the gay pride flag" I point.

"So, do we go in there?" Chantelle asks.

"I guess. We were told to wear some thing nice." I remember.

"Well, let's find out what's in there." I walk through to the doorway. There's a bouncer just inside. "Name?" He holds a clipboard.

"Er, Katy Thompson." He looks down his list and nods.

I walk in and see a semi circle shaped bar to my right and a dance floor straight ahead with a rainbow disco ball circling above it. Some pop song I don't recognise is playing. I walk up to the dance floor. I notice that everyone here are either teenagers or young adults. The oldest must be eighteen, the youngest my age.

"Hey." A girl with straight brown hair and brown eyes wearing a little red dress comes up to me. "Are you here on your own?" She shouts over the music.

"I'm just waiting for my friends. If they can detach themselves from each other's lips for two seconds." I shout.

"Do you wanna dance?"

"Sure."

"Woo! What's your favourite song?"

"Livin' on a prayer!"

"Lets go and ask the DJ."

She drags me by the arm to the far right hand side. I can't head over the music but the girl says some thing to the guy at the booth and he nods. She pulls me back to the floor and I start to dance with her. It's fun. When she whips her hair I smell coconut. I get out of breath quickly because I'm very out of shape, but I don't stop or slow down. I can see Liam arguing with the bouncer and Will and Nico are by the bar and Thalia is looking over at the doorway. At least they're ok. I shrug and turn back to the girl. "I'm Jessica." She yells.

"Katy!" I reply.

"So, what do you think of this place? It's just opened tonight, first gay bar for youth I've seen yet."

"It's great!" I grin.

The music stops for a second before I hear the intro to Livin' on a prayer. Everyone recognises it and everyone screams. I can even see Will dragging a grinning Nico to the dance floor. We all sing along to the chorus. At the end of the song, Jessica points to an empty corner and smiles. I laugh back. We run over and she presses me against the wall. We're both giggling. I jump onto her waist and we make out. Her lips taste like strawberries and I'm giggling like a child. Crazy stupid love is playing and it feels so right. Jessica starts to shake so I drop down and pick her up. She throws her head back in laughter. We're acting like crazy, stupid teenagers making out with some one we met five minutes ago. I remember that one time Liam brought home a girl that he had met that day and announced that they were a couple. They broke up the next day.

"Let's go back to dancing." I yell and she nods. I twirl her around before letting her go and she lands elegantly on her heels. We end up next to Will and Nico and Will raises his eyebrows at us. I stick my tongue out at him and go back to Jessica.

Thalia even comes up to us and starts whipping her head back and forth.

I still don't see any of the other half bloods around and I bite my lip. I hope they're ok. Jessica's eyes widen and she grabs a knife I didn't see from her dress. She throws it over my shoulder and takes off her heels before I can turn around. "What the-?

She clicks her fingers. "You saw nothing." She says quickly.

"Jessica, what was that?" She bites her lip and runs off to the back of the room. I follow her down a corridor and listen to the music fade. "Hold up.!" I call.

"I catch her at a dead end. She's trying to open a locked door."

"Katy. Do what I say. Get out of here. You don't know what I'm dealing with." As she says that her eyes widen and she pulls out a sword. The sword is made from imperial gold. "You're a half blood." I say. She looks alarmed at first and points the sword at me. "What are you?" She snarls.

"Daughter of Athena. You?"

"Daughter of Hephaestus. You're not a monster."

"Would a monster make out with you? Actually, after that, em, snake lady, thing, the answer may surprise you."

"How do I know you're not pretending?"

"Monsters can't be harmed by mortal weapons right?"

"Yeah. But I don't carry mortal weapons around with me."

"Oh. Well that sucks. I don't know, Thalia, Will and Nico are with me."

"I know them." She crosses her arms. "Take me to them."

"Sure, they're on the dance floor." We run down back to the dance floor and I point to Nico who is making out with Will. "Maybe don't ask them now."

"And Thalia?"

"Here." We help as she appears behind us.

"Jessica Yetman." Thalia says "What are you doing?"

"Proving that I'm not a monster." I grin.

"Ok. Anyways, they have some sort of magical barrier. Only us, Nico and Will can get in." Thalia says.

"Liam was arguing with the guy in the door way. What was at about?" I ask.

"He does to want his little sister to be in a bar alone, the guy was telling him not to be so controlling basically."

"I'll make sure to tell the guy thanks." I laugh.

"So, why can we get in but they can't?" I ask.

I swear, all I did was blink and suddenly I'm in the bunker I saw that night. Grace, Lexi, Thalia, Liam and Jessica are all there with me. "This is the place." I say.

"Seven empty bedrooms." Nico comes running to us. "All with our parents symbols painted on them."

"So, where are the seven?" Thalia asks. "And how did we get here?"

"Wait, you know how on the day we met that we were a child of Hephaestus short of a copy of the seven?" I say.

"We found one." Thalia sighs.

"We're the missing seven." I conclude.