AN:I had the entire thing written, but then my laptop died and I hadn't saved it so I had to rewrite the entire thing. On Thursday I have to do my play (Cinderella). Sorry if this is short.

Sadie's POV

"So, Carter what are you going to do today? Oh great and powerful Pharaoh of the House of Life?" I asked in my most sweetly annoying voice. When I used this voice, usually everyone suddenly 'remembers' that they have something to do and they leave the room afraid that I might set off a Ha-di spell. It comes in really handy if I need to talk to my brother alone or if I'm on a date with Walt/Anubis and someone interrupts us.

"Oh, brother dear, I just got a message from dad. He said that we have to go to Phoenix to meet a group of new...friends, as he put it, I said seriously.

"By the way, Zia is coming too," I joked, it was still true though.

"Oh, she is? Um, when do we leave? Do I need to pack anything?" Carter asked.

"Pack a bag, dad said that we could be there for at least a week," I replied.

"What?! Why?"

"We have to meet these people who it might take a while to get them to get along with us. I don't know who they are, but we have to stay in some remote house."

"Oh, okay. So I have to pack things for a week in the desert. I guess I could pack like I was going to the First Nome for a week. I have to go now. Hey, will Walt be going too?"

"Actually, yes, he will be going. Be ready in an hour, I haven't told the others yet," I replied.

Annabeth's POV

"Hurry up, Seaweed Brain!You don't want us late for the meeting, do you?" I called.

"Okay, just calm down. You don't have to worry about me! You should know, since we did defeat Kronos, and we did make it out of Tartarus without being killed, and we did defeat Gaea you know," I have to admit, Percy did have a point.

"Okay, that's it, slow poke, I'm going to the meeting by myself!" I gave up and stormed off. Percy, as usual, was fooling around in the sword fighting arena. I mean, sure I understand having to practice, but he did defeat so many Titans, Giants, monsters, Tartarus himself, and Gaea! He should have enough practice by now!

"Okay, I'm coming! What is the big deal about this anyway?" Percy said as he ran out.

"Well, Chiron said that there are some gods there now waiting for us, including our parents," I answered.

"Well if you had told me that a few minutes ago, I wouldn't have wasted time. I would've left already," Percy replied.

"Come on, Seaweed Brain. Just walk to the Big House. Some of the Romans are coming to the meeting as well, you know and I can have Reyna come out and..." I trailed off as I realized that Percy was several feet behind me. "What is it now, Seaweed Brain?" I asked annoyed now.

"Well, did you say the Romans will be at the meeting, too?" he looked worried now. I wonder why.

We haven't seen the Romans since we got back last week and Reyna had finally gotten through to Octavian with the Athena Parthenos. That was thanks to me finding it in the tunnels under Rome and tricking Arachne into weaving her own trap and then, I still shudder to think about it, Percy and I fell into Tartarus, where I sent a message to Rachel through one of the Stoll brothers. I sent her to reason with Reyna and convince her to go to Greece and meet us so that she could take the statue back and make peace between the two groups.

"Yeah, so we need to hurry. You know that these people don't like to be kept waiting, especially by their former praetor and fellow legion member, which I still can't believe, Percy," I said now starting to take out some of my anger about Hera taking him away on him.

"Well, Annabeth, you know that wasn't my choice and I couldn't help being taken away, besides when I joined the legion, I didn't even know who I was. I only remembered my name, my age, and...your name."

"Aw, Percy, I'm sorry. It's just that if it wasn't for the fact that you were gone for eight months before I could contact you and you scared me to death, I wouldn't be so mad, but it was Hera that did it," I said as we arrived at the Big House.