FRANK MISSED HIS BOW…hillside—problem solved.

"That's a plus point, eh?" Apollo said, winking at Frank and grinning at Ares who grumbled in agreement albeit begrudgingly.

Unfortunately, a quiver full…medics if he made a mistake.

"That's how you eventually learn." Chiron said with a small smile.

"By dying?" Frank asked dryly. Nico chuckled and Chiron smiled and so did Hades.

"In a way, you do but then again, I don't think this applies in your situation." Nico said

"Do I want to go into the details?" Frank said

"Maybe not yet." Hades answered, deciding to focus more on the reading at that moment. He had enough time to be left to his thoughts later.

You can be anything…Shen Lun's disgrace at Camp Jupiter

"His disgrace was without meaning, if I'm going to be honest. I mean, it should have been verified before by something other than Roman dislike for Neptune." Annabeth said, with a finger on her chin as she thought out loud.

"Its that kind of thing that has been passed on from our ancestors so we can't really prove if he did something or not. Time proves it on its own." Dakota shrugged.

"I'd say it's a bit too reliant on philosophy though. What if he never was proved innocent, you know?" Chris asked, not sounding accusatory but merely curious

"I think a lot of our actions, words and life in general relies on philosophy. Without the smallest philosophy or the highest amount of it, we wouldn't be where we are." Rachel answered. Apollo nodded in agreement.

"She's right. Indirectly or directly, we're all guided by philosophy." He said. There was a bit of silence as everybody pondered that thought.

And what the family powers…advanced toward the fire

"Yeah, like that's a smaller problem especially for you." Clarisse sighed.

"Better than being without a weapon." Frank shrugged

"Fair"

He wished he had the gorgon's...petrify you with their eyes.

"It kills you if you look at in its eyes and it petrifies you if you look at it indirectly, right?" Leo asked

"Not Harry Potter, Lee." Piper chuckled and Leo blushed as he grinned sheepishly.

Somehow the real basilisk…walked straight into an ambush.

"Not the best creatures to walk into an ambush of." Reyna grimaced.

"Well, I'm guessing we should be glad that they aren't the Harry Potter ones then." Leo said with a small smile.

"Not really, its not like Frank would die if he looked at them in the eyes." Travis pointed out

"He would because he would get petrified and then barbequed." Connor corrected.

"Wow. Sounds like a toasty death." Frank said with a raised eyebrow and the brothers grinned sheepishly at him.

"Chapter's over." Athena said

"That was short." Hestia said "Should we all take a break?" Everybody agreed and dispersed in groups.

"I just want to sleep at this point." Percy groaned as Nico and Thalia dropped him to the Poseidon quarters before they went to theirs.

"I have a strange feeling that you won't be able to." Nico said to him.

"I won't because I have some duties to do now called planning." Percy groaned

"Oh well, the perks of being king." Thalia smirked at him.

"Haha." Percy said.

Percy sat on his bed, his mind doing one job while his hands tried to work on something else just when he heard the main door of the Poseidon quarters opening and Nico walked into his room.

"Guess what?" he said. Percy raised his eyebrows.

"There is an apocalypse." He said. Nico snickered.

"You sound awfully hopeful though." He said

"At this point, anything works to take my mind of stuff." Percy shrugged.

"Well, we don't have apocalypse but something equally worse at the moment." Nico informed. The door opened again as Poseidon opened it and Thalia walked inside.

"Did he tell you yet?" Thalia asked Percy who shook his head.

"We were talking about how useful an apocalypse would be." Thalia shook her head.

"Grandmother has summoned us." Nico said with a dry grin and raised eyebrows with a sarcastic tone.

Percy groaned and lay flat on his bed with his hands spread.

"When I heard the news, I fried a tree." Thalia sighed.

"I free fell onto Hazel who was carrying coffee and all this not because we're scared only because we're annoyed." Nico shook his head.

"I'm not going." Percy sighed and sat up. "I'm just going to stay here and pretend like I'm busy." He said

"That's not going to work and you know that." Thalia said as she plopped down on a chair.

"I don't care. I'm not going." Percy said seriously.

"I agree with Percy. Its exhausting. We already know why she's calling us." Nico said, also sitting down on the couch and bending forward slightly.

"Why'd she call you though?" Percy asked Thalia who shrugged. "Guess, because I agreed with you guys."

"Man, I'm tired of her calling us every time we say something against Hera or say something to her which is always in response to her saying something utterly unnecessary." Percy said, pressing his temples.

"I swear, its like Hera's her favorite and she's not realizing what Hera said was much more wrong and out of boundaries. Does she not remember that even our dads are her kids?" Nico said in irritation.

"I don't know, man. During these times with her, I just give up. I like her, I really do but during this, I give up." Thalia sighed.

"I'm just staying here. We'll see what happens." Percy said and rested his back against his head board. Nico got up and pulled out Monopoly and the three of them plopped down on the bed.

It was a good one hour before they heard the ring of the bell of the main door and they sat up in alert. Poseidon walked into Percy's quarters with confusion etched on his features.

"Mother's here? She says she wants to meet you." He said. The three of them swore under their breath.

"We're a bit busy, dad. Can't see her right now." Percy said, trying to put an apologetic look on his face with a smile.

"Busy?" Poseidon asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah…a lot of paperwork-" Thalia said, pointing at the notes

"And so many bloody taxes." Nico said, whose pawn was on the tax box.

"We got to master business and deals and stuff like that, y'know and what better time than now?" Percy said to Poseidon who gave a light chuckle and went outside and told whatever the kids had told him and did not bother to refine it even a little bit but apparently that didn't work. They could hear Rhea outside and she said that she'd help the kids and came into Percy's room.

The three young gods handled the situation and calmly turned around to face Rhea.

"Hi." Thalia smiled.

"How can we help?" Nico asked.

"I think you know why I wanted to talk to you guys." Rhea said with a small chuckle and smile which made the young gods feel upset about being against Rhea this time but they knew that they weren't wrong.

"We're going to let you tell us." Nico sighed. Percy got up and closed the door.

"I don't understand what happens between you all and Hera." Rhea sighed.

"Do you not happen to know what happened? What she said?" Nico asked, a dark look on his face.

"I do know but I think you are…well, treating Hera too harshly. Let me tell you a story about her." Rhea said

"No." Percy's response cut through the air. Everybody stilled and looked at him. "I've had enough. I love you, I do, but I've had enough of you telling us some story of Hera going through something and trying to justify every single thing that she says that causes such damage to the people that we care about that it cuts through them. I've had enough of you trying to make us like Hera. She has to be nice for that respect. She should respect for that respect in return. I am not going to listen to whatever random experience you have about her for us. I can tell you a million experiences of what the three of us have been through or what the others have been through, what your children have been through but I don't think I need to but I'm not going to use them like you. I would not recite them like poetry to make others like us." He said sternly, looking Rhea right in the eyes.

The determined and stern and frankly, slightly scary expressions that the three younger gods looked at Rhea with reminded her of how Hades, Poseidon and Zeus used to be and she didn't want to imagine them after what Hera had said to them. She was always somebody that Rhea had been awfully close to and couldn't bear to hear anything against.

"But she has been through a lot and that has changed her." Rhea said

"We've all been through a lot. Your other children have been through a lot and yet that didn't change us as much as it did Hera if that's the reason you're giving us. If they changed, they've changed now for the better as well. Hera had no right to comment what she did. She had a right to be a little mad but not to such a level that she would cut open the beliefs that our dads had begun to develop about our relationships." Nico said, the dark look in his eyes becoming more intense.

"Not to mention the ways that she mocked the vows that her and dad just made on their wedding day. I have not seen dad take those vows even the slightest bit lightly. He said them as he meant every single letter of what he was saying which he was. He loves her, maybe more than he ever did and she just used those vows and promises against him and left. She not only mocked the vows but the relationship that dad is trying to build with his brothers and indirectly told him to always be on her side even if she did the worst thing ever. No story that you will tell us will change this." Thalia said with a slight growl.

Rhea had absolutely nothing to say in response to that.

"Maybe…maybe, next time, think about what everybody involved in that conversation will go through rather than just Hera. We saw the expressions that came over our dads' faces, the expressions that revealed that they just got haunted by their worst fears, you didn't." Percy said as he got up and opened the door and stood next to it.

"If you want you can stay for coffee." He said and went outside and laughed at something Triton told him which was a joke going on between him and Tyson just then. Nico and Thalia went out next, trying not maintain their grim expressions just like Percy for not concerning the adults. Rhea went out next.

"Are you staying for coffee, grandma?" Percy called out. Rhea smiled at him.

"I don't think that I'll be able to this time around. I have some reading to do." She said.

"Next time then." Nico said, trying to grin. Amphitrite looked intensely at the three young gods as Rhea left.

"Are you guys all right?" she asked

"Absolutely." Percy said, trying to keep his smile on his face.

"We were just talking and thinking about coffee." Thalia said.

"Yeah, we should get going for the coffee shop." Nico said as the three of them then left.

Hestia called them all back after a while for the reading.

"I'll read." Hephaestus said, picking up the book.