A/N - So, the reason that I haven't uploaded for so long is because first I got diarrhea and then I tested positive for COVID so I wasn't able to write the chapters because of headache and stomachache and stuff. But there is some good news. Here's another chapter and another book is going to be coming out soon as well. In fact, there is a hint to its plot in this chapter itself ;)

"Could we take a break?" Thalia asked.

"Maybe after this chapter?" Chiron suggested, looking at his watch. "Or are you feeling hungry?" he asked with a smile.

"I'm feeling hungry but if the others want to continue for one more chapter then I have no problem." Thalia said

"How many people are hungry?" Chiron asked. All the demi youngers hands shot up and they grinned sheepishly and Chiron chuckled.

"Should have just said so." Hermes chuckled. The demi youngers grinned.

"Lets just wrap up for today. Everybody has many activities planned as well." Chiron said. Everybody nodded and walked to the dining hall. Octavian vanished in a bright light which left everybody cheering.

"What do you want to do first?" Percy asked

"Maybe we do the giant eagle riding first so that we can take a bath in peace." Jason said. Percy nodded.

The gods took everybody to the place where automaton animals were built for rides.

"These are fake right?" Jason asked because they looked freakishly real. Zeus nodded.

Jason went and climbed one of the automatons and Hephaestus flipped the switches for it to switch on and the eagle took off. Jason gave a slight gasp as he adjusted himself a little bit and then he looked like Harry riding Buckbeak and started whooping.

"I think he's getting the feel of how it feels like riding a pegasus." Percy said with a chuckle.

"That is exactly how it looks." Silena and Reyna agreed. Everybody else either recorded Jason flying while most of them just leant against some of the walls as they waited for him to come back. They waited for half an hour before Jason landed with the eagle. Hephaestus went and switched the eagle off and placed it back.

"Had fun?" Thalia asked. Jason nodded brightly.

"What about movie time now?" Leo asked

"Marathon?" Travis asked, with a grin creeping up on his face.

"Yep." Leo grinned back.

"Piper's dad's movies right?" Annabeth asked. Piper chuckled.

"I wanna watch those. Definitely those." Lee nodded.

"All right then." Apollo said

"Your quarters?" Percy asked. Apollo nodded.

"We can connect mine and Apollo's quarters." Hermes suggested "Then we'd have a bigger screen and more speakers." He said

"Wait. Your quarters can do that?" Artemis asked with a raised eyebrow at them and Annabeth who grinned sheepishly.

"You added that feature in their quarters?" Athena asked Annabeth who grinned.

"Guilty. It was just too good to resist." She said.

"Eternally grateful to you for that." Hermes said to her with a grin. Everybody snickered.

"We'll get snacks." The Stolls said and started to run towards the snacks when Katie stepped in front of Travis and he stopped before her with his troublemaker grin.

"I'm coming with you because you might just put some sort of weird mixture into them which would probably make the coke taste like orange juice or something." She said.

"You know me too well." Travis said to her with a sigh and he three of them went to ready the snacks. Everybody chuckled at their exchange and went to get ready in their pajamas for the movies. They joined the others at the Apollo and Hermes quarters, the two of them and the other demi youngers looking like 5 year olds in the cartoon pajamas. Hermes put his hand on a scanner and Apollo went to his quarters and did the same. The partition that divided their quarters opened and they high fived. The others stared open mouthed as they never would have guessed what the heck just happened. That just left them wondering what else Annabeth put in the quarters.

"Finding Nemo pajamas?" Thalia raised an eyebrow at Percy

"I like finding nemo." Percy said with a pout

"You cried while watching finding nemo." Annabeth and Grover snorted. Everybody snickered.

"I thought it was sad too." Triton muttered.

"And you're wearing Pikachu pants." Percy said to Thalia

"We chose the perfect nickname." Nico nodded sagely. Percy high fived him and Thalia rolled her eyes playfully.

"Jason's wearing Superman." Leo whooped. Percy fist bumped him.

"Blonde superman." He snickered.

"Should've worn brick ones." Nico said.

"Not funny." Jason pouted. Everybody chuckled and looked amusedly at them as they continued talking about…pajamas….

"We'll make you all sleep together in one room today and you can stay up all night talking about pajamas but can we watch the movies now?" Clarisse asked. The gang stopped their chatter, grinned sheepishly and plopped down on the mattresses as Hermes started the first movie. This time, they all had decided to not sit in their gangs but randomly so Percy ended up next to Ares and Zeus and Jason ended up next to Demeter while Nico ended up next to Poseidon and Thalia was sitting next to Apollo.

"Let the show start." Connor announced with a handful of popcorn. Everybody cheered as the lights went dark and some people put on 3D glasses while the others stuck with 2D. Another feature that was in built. People could choose how they wanted to watch the movie.

As the movie progressed, it got thicker and thicker in the plot and action and had the ones who hadn't watched it on the edge of their seats. By its description, it was sounding as if somebody was advertising the movie but that's how it was. Soon, it had come to the climax where Tristan McLean was captured and would come up with a plan to escape.

Percy's popcorn got over just then and forgetting that he was not sitting next to the sea gang, he reached out and grabbed some popcorn from somebody sitting next to him as his eyes were glued to the screen. Hey, you can't blame him for not wanting to miss such an important scene.

Ares noticed Percy's hand grabbing some popcorn. He just shrugged it off, not bothered about it. He could understand the trouble of running out of popcorn at the wrong time and honestly if his younger cousin wanted popcorn, he had no problem with that. He would definitely have not thought that about Percy a long time ago but he just wasn't that person anymore. He shifted his hand a bit so it would be easier for him and Percy to eat the popcorn. Then, after half an hour, at the start of the next movie, he ran out of coke and swore.

"You got coke?" he asked Percy, forgetting that it was Percy. The younger god looked to his side and nodded. He passed Ares the coke who sipped it, both of their eyes glued to the screen. None of them noticed Annabeth and Grover staring at the two of them.

"Ann-abeth, what is going on?" Grover whispered with a hand on his mouth.

"I don't know." Annabeth said with her eyebrows raised and her mouth open.

"Lets just watch the movie. Something that I never imagined is going on there. Might as well watch the movie." Grover said. Annabeth and him nodded quickly and adjourned their small meeting of confusion and continued watching the movie.

"Do you have blue jellybeans?" Zeus asked Percy once he ran out of the precious jellybeans in the middle of their third movie. They had had a plan to watch as many movies as possible before going to the baths before sleeping.

"Mmhmm." Percy said, and passing over a packet while he still watched the movie.

"Thanks." Zeus said. Percy tore his eyes from the screen, grinned and winked and went back to watching the movie though even that left Zeus with slightly wide eyes and raised eyebrows. Things really had changed, hadn't they? He asked himself that question at that time. The answer popped into his brain at just that moment. He didn't mind it that much.

When the final scene at the end of that movie when the room exploded as Tristan McLean ran from the scene, where he was a victim but he escaped as he injured his kidnappers, the viewers cheered and whooped and even their popcorn fell over them and they laughed and cheered as well.

"Piper, your dad has a new fan." Percy stated

"Me too." Michael declared.

"My favorite action movie actor. Him and Dwayne Johnson." Clarisse nodded. Piper turned a little red under the praise and she grinned.

"Well, we have to visit him either way. You all can come with." She said. Everybody cheered.

"All right. Off to the baths everybody. And then lights out." Hestia said with a warm smile. She wasn't that fond of action movies but she still enjoyed seeing her family come together. And yes, the movies were interesting at some parts as well.

"Of course, you like Dwayne." Michael snorted at Clarisse as they all got up

"Have you seen his acting?" Clarisse defended.

"Hey, I never said that I don't like him. I just said that it was expected that you would like him." Michael said with his hands held up in a surrender gesture.

"I like Dwayne Johnson but I prefer Paul Walker in at least Fast and Furious. Even more than Vin Diesel." Lee shrugged.

"Brian was good. My favorite too." Will nodded.

"In antagonists?" Ares asked.

"Owen Shaw. But my favorite movie was the Fast Five." Michael replied. Ares nodded.

"Same here." He said

"It was my definite favorite as well. I mean the way they planned it all." Hermes said with a grin and chef's kiss action. Everybody laughed.

They all reached the baths and everybody grinned excitedly and jumped into the baths and groaned contently.

Soon they were all splashing each other with water and of course, Percy was swimming underwater and freaking everybody out by coming up behind them. Triton fell for it again and screamed in an even higher pitch than last time.

"Honestly brother, I am very worried about your vocal cords." Percy chuckled.

"Oh shut up." Triton pouted.

"Make me." Percy grinned. Triton opened his mouth in surprise and then smirked. He dove behind Percy and Percy grinned and swam. So the two of them were swimming behind each other and it looked like they were having a race when they were actually chasing each other. The rest of the sea gang chuckle fondly at the two of them while one of the demi youngers snapped a photograph. They still hadn't told the other gods why they kept clicking photos but eh, whatever.

They all got out of the baths after one whole hour and now all everybody wanted to do was lie down on their warm beds and all of them thought of their mattresses and pillows which were obviously different for everybody but so dam comfortable.

They all went back and just collapsed on their mattresses. They didn't necessarily sleep but just lay down. It wasn't as late as Hestia thought it was so they all just decided to play their own games in their quarters.

Percy pulled out Monopoly.

"Should we play the classic one or some different versions because there is Avengers monopoly, game of thrones monopoly? I'm confused." He said

"Lets play the normal one. Classic." Amphitrite said, looking at the boxes and all.

"All righty." Percy said

And of course, about one and a half hour later, Triton, Percy and Amphitrite had gone bankrupt as they kept giving rent at Poseidon and Tyson's hotels and houses. Tyson and Poseidon high fived each other and then continued playing. Eventually, Tyson won and Percy grinned and cheered.

"Pay up, Triton." Percy said with a smirk. Triton pulled out 30 dam drachmas and put them into Percy's hand. Percy gave 15 to Tyson who grinned at him and Percy winked at him and kept 15 drachmas.

"I feel offended." Poseidon pouted at Percy.

"Dad. Tyson is literally the best Monopoly member I have ever seen in my life. He bankrupted me, Paul and mom together in like 45 minutes. Every single time we ever played. Honestly, you can't blame me for placing 30 drachmas that he's going to win." He said with a cheeky grin. He and Tyson fist bumped.

"Wonder who he gets it from." Poseidon said with a grin

"Hmm. I think his mother." Percy said with a mock thoughtful expression. Everybody burst out laughing.

"Sure thing." Poseidon sighed.

"Lights out?" Amphitrite asked after half an hour as Triton yawned and set of a yawning trail. They all nodded sleepily and crawled to their mattresses as they all decided to sleep in one room that night.

"Dad." Nico said, shaking Hades awake while the god turned on his stomach sleepily and put his pillow over his head and ears.

"What's wrong?" He asked sleepily.

"Do you want to play a game? I know you're only pretending to be sleepy." Nico said a little cheekily. Hades turned his head a little and opened one eye at Nico and raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah. You're right. What game?" He asked, sitting up on his bed. Nico burst out laughing.

"I can't believe that worked." He said

"We have the same personality when it comes to sleep." Hades shrugged.

"Go to sleep, you two." Persephone said. The two of them looked at Persephone with raised eyebrows.

"You're awake." Hades told her with a smirk. Persephone groaned and sat up.

"You two." She shook her head "Where's Hazel?" she asked

"Asleep. She actually managed to fall asleep. Like in a sound sleep. She's even snoring a little." Nico informed.

"Lucky kid." Persephone sighed. Nico and Hades nodded in agreement.

"What about Scrabble?" Nico asked.

"Sure." Hades shrugged. Persephone nodded as well. Nico went to his room and brought out Scrabble along with a pen and paper to note the points.

"You have a good handwriting." Persephone noted as Nico wrote their names and tabulated it for the points.

"Thanks. I stick with cursive for some reason. Just gives me a vibe of elegancy and all." He said

"It suits you." Persephone nodded "That's what Hades uses too." She informed. Nico and Hades high fived.

"That's what everybody says. That it suits me." Nico said with a small grin.

"Okay, so who wants to go first?" Hades asked as they picked out their letters.

"Rock, paper, scissors?" Nico suggested. Hades and Persephone chuckled.

"Rock, paper, scissors, shoot." The three of them said. Persephone on and started off with 'Vaults.'

"Wanna rob them?" Nico asked with a raised eyebrow. Hades snorted.

"I'm sure Hermes would love to assist you with that. Him and the Stolls and Chris." He said. Nico grinned.

"No doubt." He said

"That is not my thing." Persephone shook her head

"Sorry. I have a dark mind." Nico snickered.

They continued playing Scrabble and somehow they managed to play till all the letters were over. The three of them grinned once they were done.

"Now, that was good. We finished all the letters." Persephone smiled

"Well, we have an extraordinary vocabulary." Nico said with a dramatic hair flip.

"Its very exquisite." Hades nodded, continuing with it. The three of them burst out laughing.

"We should really sleep now." Persephone said

"I mean I don't know about the 'really' but yeah, we should sleep." Nico nodded. Hades chuckled.

"Good night guys." Nico said with a smile. The other two wished the same and turned off the lights as Nico went back to his own room.

Percy woke up, sweating and shaking, feeling angrier than usual and apparently he had caused enough commotion to wake up the rest of the sea gang. Well, the sea gang except Tyson and Percy was already awake as they were still having trouble falling asleep.

"Percy, are you all right?" Poseidon asked, his eyes clouded in worry.

"I'm fine." Percy croaked out hoarsely, remembering his dream. He shakily got up and poured himself a glass of water and drank it slowly. The rest of the sea gang watched him in concern as the young god was not speaking and not telling them what the dream was about or what caused him to have a reaction like that to it. He looked shaken and angry at just about the same time and it was confusing them as to what exactly he saw because honestly, him being quiet was scaring them a little. Not out of fright but concern. Percy generally wasn't this quiet until it really shook him.

"I'll be back. I need to visit Apollo and Rachel." Percy said a little quietly and as he was going toward the door, he stopped and turned around.

"Are you all right?" was all he asked Poseidon who furrowed his eyebrows in confusion.

"Of course I'm fine but-" He said, confusion evident in his voice.

"That's good." Percy nodded and left the quarters. The sea gang stared at each other in puzzlement.

Percy knocked on Apollo's door. He felt a little guilty at waking him and Rachel up at this hour, not to mention the other Apollo kids. Apollo opened the door, not looking as much sleepy as he looked perplexed at having Percy at his door at 3:30 am in the morning, seeing as he was sure that everybody went to sleep at 2 am.

Percy could see the other Apollo kids and Rachel get up groggily from their mattresses and squint to see Percy and sit up.

"Percy. Come on in." Apollo said with a smile. Percy returned a small one and walked in. Apollo gestured for him to sit down on the bed.

"You don't have to be formal." He chuckled. Percy couldn't help but give a small smile at that.

"Never in eternity." He said.

"So, how come you're up this early?" Apollo asked "And to what do I owe this pleasure of having you here?" he added dramatically.

"I…I had the most peculiar or rather, unnerving dream." Percy said hesitantly.

"Hmm. What was it about?" Rachel asked, sitting down next to Apollo.

"It was-It was about Kronos' stomach." Percy said

"It makes sense to have such odd dreams as you are the bane of Kronos, Percy. I think its just a trigger especially since you were the one who had banished him this time." Apollo said gently.

"You don't get it." Percy said "It wasn't just Kronos' stomach. Rather, it was six gods, trapped there and I know what you're thinking-" He said as Apollo was about to open his mouth "-but I had a feeling that it wasn't the elder six gods. They were somebody else. That's the instinct that I had but then again, I don't know about interpreting dreams and I might even be wrong." Percy said, his eyebrows furrowed and voice troubled.

"Percy, now I know that this might seem like a peculiar dream but I agree with Apollo on this one. I think that this might just be a trigger because it seems like the most obvious thing right now because I'm not able to sense a prophecy any time soon. And by any time soon, I mean like 5 years." Rachel said with a gentle and calm tone.

"Rachel's right, Perce. Even I am not able to sense any prophecy for the next 5-6 years. Not even the slightest hint that there is going to be a prophecy for those many years. Maybe even a decade." Apollo said. Percy nodded.

"That's all that I wanted to know guys. Thanks, really. It was quite unnerving so I just wanted to check if another prophecy was coming up." He said.

"Its all good." Rachel and Apollo smiled. Percy gave small smiles and nodded.

"Thanks guys. And I'm really sorry about waking you guys up." He said. Apollo chuckled.

"That's absolutely fine. It made sense you woke us up and it was a good thing that you clarified it. It'll help you sleep well." Apollo smiled. Percy returned it, said his good nights and went to his quarters.

"Percy, what happened?" Triton asked as he shot up from his mattress where he was sitting down as Percy walked back into their quarters. It was relieving that Percy looked a lot better than when he left.

"It was just an unnerving dream. I was worried about some prophecy or something so I went and asked Apollo." Percy said.

"And he said?" Poseidon asked with his eyebrows furrowed in worry

"He said that there isn't any prophecy coming up in the next 5-6 years." Percy said with a smile.

"That's good but are you all right? You looked shaken up and a little angry as well." Amphitrite said in concern.

"I'm fine now. That was just an after effect, kind of, of the dream." Percy informed.

"Okay then." Triton said

"Brother's all right." Tyson grinned and hugged Percy who chuckled.

"All of us should rest then. Hestia thinks that we've all been asleep since 12 and there's no doubt that she's going to wake us up by 9 am. Lets try to get 6 hours of sleep in." Poseidon said

"Yep." Percy nodded. The others nodded in agreement as well and collapsed back onto their mattresses and luckily all of them were snoring off within 10 minutes.

"Wake up, everybody. Please." Hestia said, in her soft girl voice as she teleported into the Poseidon quarters. Amphitrite was in the restroom, getting ready and the others were still snoring on their mattresses.

"Wake up please." Hestia said again. Percy and Poseidon gave sleepy groans

"Ten more minutes, Aunt Hestia/Hestia." they murmured groggily and trailed off at the end as they went back to sleep. Hestia sighed but couldn't help but smile a little bit at the similarities. Amphitrite came out of the bathroom and sighed.

"Wake up, you sleepyheads!" She shouted. The sea gang members shot up, blinking their eyes.

"What time is it?" Triton asked

"10 am." Amphitrite informed "Hestia's been trying to wake you up for one whole hour. If I would've been her then I would have just shook you all awake." She shook her head. The sea gang grinned sheepishly.

"Sorry." They said to Hestia who gave them a smile.

"Its quite all right." She said

"No, its not." Amphitrite huffed

"It is. It was sweet to see them all asleep." Hestia chuckled.

"First person to say that. Thank you." Percy said with a grin. Everybody chuckled.

"I'm sure Annabeth did." Triton said with raised eyebrows.

"She says I drool when I sleep. A joke, you know. That's the way she defines that." Percy chuckled. The others nodded.

"Should've figured." Triton shrugged.

"Hey, Kelpy." Thalia said as she waltzed in through the door while Jason just leaned against the doorframe and Zeus just stood next to Jason and still in the line of sight.

"Ah. Such a gracious face and voice to grace me as I wake. Not to mention, I absolutely love the word choice." Percy said with his troublemaker grin.

"Ah. Such a lovely morning where I feel honored to hear the sass in my absolutely dear and lovely cousin's voice." Thalia replied back with a matching grin.

"Now that you two are done with your early morning roast battle and are done blessing each other with your presence-" Jason started

"Oh don't worry, we feel blessed by you too." Percy said quickly. Jason snorted.

"Now that we have all been blessed and graced by each other's presence-" Jason corrected. Percy and Thalia nodded. "-I think we start reading in ten minutes?" Jason asked. Hestia nodded.

The others burst out laughing. They honestly hadn't seen or had for that matter such friendly type of banter for a long time. They had seen non friendly banter, of course and now they just wished that they could go back to having friendly banter and really, it was getting there.

"I'd say that Percy got graced by two people at once." Zeus said with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah, now you team up against me too. I feel betrayed, uncle." Percy grumbled.

"Did he just-?" Triton asked, openmouthed.

"He did." Zeus and Poseidon said at the same time.

"What?" Percy asked innocently. It was genuine innocent and not the fake innocence.

"You called him uncle." Triton said, pointing at Zeus. Percy stiffened a little, remembering his dream.

"I did?" he asked, though he knew that he sure as heck did.

"You did." Tyson confirmed.

"Okay cool. That is my relation to him either way." Percy shrugged and got up to get ready.

"Are you all right?" Thalia asked Percy.

"I'm all good. I have to tell you something later though." He said to Thalia and Jason who nodded.

"And, were the blue jellybeans good? I quite enjoy them but I think that I gave you a different flavor?" Percy said to Zeus with a raised eyebrow.

"It was a different flavor but I liked it." Zeus said with a nod.

"That's good. Multiple choices in flavor for jellybeans. Always a wise move." Percy said and then he groaned as he processed what he just said.

"It's a good move." He corrected. "I like Athena but not that much enough to start talking like her. No offense to Annabeth of course." He said. Everybody snickered at that.

"The wise without 'girl' did sound weird coming out from your mouth." Jason nodded.

"I can imagine why." Percy nodded sagely and went to change his clothes.

"Triton's in this bathroom and Tyson's in the other one." He groaned.

"Lets just talk." Jason suggested.

"Sure." Percy shrugged. He started removing his shirt as Thalia started talking about the movies last night, not even looking bothered about Percy changing his shirt. Jason looked completely unbothered as well.

"Yeah. True. That scene was so well edited and kudos to Piper's dad, really." Percy nodded. The others just raised amused eyebrows. Honestly, they just wouldn't completely get an idea of how close the cousins were.

"Ah, so you're finally not wearing finding nemo." Grover said as he walked into the Poseidon cabin.

"I love my finding nemo pajamas." Percy grumbled. Grover chuckled.

"You're wearing Stark pajamas and tshirt today." Thalia said with a raised eyebrow

"Feeling violent, buddy?" Nico asked as he leaned against the doorframe as well as he didn't want to go in because there were already people there.

"You could say." Percy snorted

"No violent movies for you then." Nico replied.

"Oh shut up." Percy snorted. Nico grinned. "And anyway, you're one to talk, wearing Targaryen pajamas and the literal quote of 'you win or you die' on your tshirt." Percy added.

"That's a killer dialogue though I feel for chaos maybe the 'chaos isn't a pit, it's a ladder' would be more suiting." Nico said thoughtfully.

"First thing is that Nico shouldn't have even watched that show because it is an R rated show." Poseidon said with raised eyebrows.

"Aunt S didn't allow me to watch it either. I actually just watched it this year. A couple of days after my birthday, really. Once I turned 17." Nico said with a snicker.

"That's good. Close enough to 18." Amphitrite nodded.

"That's what he thought." Jason said with a nod.

"Okay everybody. Reading in 30 mins." Hestia said, clapping her hands. Everybody nodded and went to the dining hall.

Percy, Thalia, Nico and Jason sat together as they made their fathers sit together on another table because why not? And because Percy wanted to tell the other three about his dream.

"So what's up?" Thalia asked

"I had a dream." Percy sighed.

"About what?" Nico asked

"Last night?" Jason asked.

"Yeah. Last night. It was about Kronos' stomach. There were six gods there but some instinct made me sure that out of the six gods that were there, three of them were definitely not Demeter, Hera and Hestia." Percy said in a hushed tone.

"So six gods in the titan's stomach but you felt that 3 of them were not the original gods." Nico summarized. Percy nodded.

"So that makes it feel like your dad and Hades were there but there were four other gods that were not part of the original ones in the stomach." Thalia said.

"Yeah." Percy nodded.

"A warning?" Jason asked with wide eyes.

"That's what I thought. I went to Apollo yesterday, when I had the dream. He and Rachel said that they sensed absolutely no prophecy for the next 5-6 to years or maybe even a decade. They said that it was just some trigger after defeating Kronos and becoming his bane." Percy said.

"Well then its that itself. It's a weird dream to have at this point but then I suppose they would have known. Prophecies come early. If there was something lined up, we'd know." Nico said, leaning back on his chair.

"Yep. That's true but did you sense which gods could've been there? Like, you were able to sense that three of them weren't the three ladies but did you sense who the gods were?" Thalia asked

"It definitely wasn't one of the demigods who turned into gods. I'm sure about that." Percy said "And it wasn't just an immortal. They were definitely full fledged gods." He added.

"So that leaves only the 14 Olympian gods and their spouses." Jason said. Percy nodded.

"I don't know more than that." He said

"It was just a trigger. It makes the most sense." Nico said. The others nodded in agreement.

"Is everybody ready?" Hestia asked. Everybody nodded.

"Can we read in the garden?" Katie asked. Hestia nodded. They all got up and went to the garden and Dakota picked up the book.

"I'll read." He said.