FRANK WOULD'VE PREFERRED TO go…pocket gets heavier every day."

"How'd she know?" Leo asked

"She was Juno's messenger for quite a while." Chiron answered

"And here I thought that that was dad's job." Travis said with a raised eyebrow.

"She took Iris' help for quite a while. There were certain tasks that she gave only to her." Chiron told him with a small smile.

Frank couldn't breathe…"I don't have any gifts!"

"No, you have many but you just had to figure out how to use them." Ares said almost immediately.

"Yeah, took a while for me to realize that." Frank sighed.

"That's not true, Frank."... just needed directions, she said.

Connor whistled. "Damn."

The scene in the rainbow…until he was giggling uncontrollably.

Everybody chuckled or laughed warmly. Frank had the widest smile on his face and even Ares was smiling as he remembered just how she would poke him in the shoulder until they were both laughing till they were out of breath.

Then there was Sung Guo…His ancestor had been a beekeeper?

Everybody couldn't help but laugh at that.

"Yes, he used to make honey. It was the most delicious honey ever." Leo teased.

"Of course it was." Frank said with a grin.

"The way the hints are always there but you just need the right moment to figure it out." Chris said

Frank hadn't thought about these…it sounded like a challenge.

"It is a challenge. You need to know who you want to become and then you can become anything. You need to know who you can be and when you have to. You need to know that you have to become you and that's what the challenge is all about." Lee said to Frank with a smile. Apollo looked at Lee, pride glimmering in his eyes.

"Those animals that you can turn into, Frank, are a part of you just as you are a part of them. You need to believe that and you need to accept that a part of those animals will always be in you." Pollux added.

Frank nodded in agreement at that.

Frank pressed his hand against…I have to go on this quest and—"

Ares sighed.

"Have to," Iris said…Find a new path!"

"Sounds a bit like foreshadowing if I'm being honest." Apollo said with a raised eyebrow.

Frank thought about that…Frank didn't want to be a hero.

"I didn't mean for it to sound like I wanted you to want to be a hero. I wanted you to know that you already are a hero and you just need to believe that." Ares explained as looked at Frank. Frank smiled at him with a grateful look in his eyes.

"Why are you telling me this?"… I can't be that selfish.

Everybody in the room smiled at that.

"I have to go," he said…Seek out the seer Phineas.

"Not him." Triton groaned as he buried his head in his hands.

"Seriously?" Poseidon said weakly.

He's blind, but he can…They're my sisters."

"Glad she let us know that." Hazel said

"Your sisters?"… "How do I use the spear?"

Everybody snickered at that and Frank blushed but even he grinned.

"You'll have to handle that…paperweight by accident

Chiron and the ones who knew Iris chuckled.

"She would do that, all right." Hermes said with a small smile.

No, I meant a demigod friend…no one he trusted more.

Hazel and Frank smiled at each other.

But how could he confess…that kind of burden from him?

"I'd never think of you as weak. Instead, I don't think that there are many who would be as strong and brave as you that they would be ready to give the one thing that holds their life to another. I don't think that there would be many would want and try to live, knowing that the only thing that stood between them and death was a wooden stick." Hazel said to him, squeezing his hand to which Frank replied by placing a kiss on her forehead.

He wrapped up the tinder…marched out to face the basilisks.

There were a few chuckles at that.

"Chapter's done." Nico said, holding up the book.

"I'll read." Athena said.