AN: This is my new story, co authored by… SephCurrentDaughterofPoseido n and McKennaSuaveDaughterofPoseid on! :D Enjoy! Couples are Skylar/Will, Seph/James, McKenna/Zach, Percabeth, Thalico, Tratie, Jasper, Frazel, and Leyna.

Nico had been aged during the war so he is the same age as everyone else.

Camp Jupiter was destroyed and rebuilt by Camp Half-Blood.

This is the winter after the war with Gaea.

Disclaimer: We sadly don't own PJO or HoO

Seph POV

I was walking down the beach, hand in hand with James. We were laughing about some prank that he and the Stolls had pulled on the Iris cabin.

"Then to top it all off," he said, "we painted the whole cabin the best color in the world!"

"And what was that?" I asked, leaning on him. He pulled me close and kissed my forehead.

"Sky blue of course!"

I looked up at him with a raised eyebrow, "You know the prettiest blue out there is blue-green."

"No," he insisted lightly, "I'm sorry, sky-blue is better."

I shook my head, and pulled away from him, so I could look at him, to see if he was serious. "Come on, James, you know that blue-green is better."

He was starting to get a small crease in his eyebrow, but I ignored it, how angry could he get over a color? "Sky blue, just like Jupiter's domain," he insisted.

"Blue green, like the sea," I countered.

"Oh," he said snappishly, "you mean the domain that is run by the god of earthquakes?"

I frowned, "What's wrong with earthquakes?"

"You know what!" he snapped viciously.

"James, you know that Poseidon did not mean to do that to your mother!" I exclaimed. "I can't believe that you would bring that up! And if we are going down that road, don't even get me started on lightning!"

James glared at me. "What, Seph?" he demanded. "What about lightning?"

"Oh, you know, just your dad trying to kill me, my mother and my siblings!" I informed him heatedly.

James opened his mouth to say something when McKenna came running down with a troubled look on her face, but I was too distracted to care.

McKenna POV

You ever have one of those deep gut feelings that something is about to explode? Well I had that exact feeling when I walked into the beach by Seph and James.

The feeling reminded me of two armies facing off, and it was only seconds before one of the sides would shoot first.

"Well," James said in a savage voice, "if your mother was half as annoying as you, I can't say that I blame him!"

I stood there, completely still. That was a very low blow, I never even knew that James could be that mean. My mouth was open, and I felt hot anger rising, I know he didn't talk to my sister that way!

Seph was shaking in pure fury; her eyes were burning a shade of green so dark they were almost grey. She sucked in a sharp breath, and I knew what was coming. "You complete jackass! I cannot believe that you just said that you would approve of killing my mother! What's next? Are you going to kill me? And if you find me annoying, imagine how I find you! Screw you James!"

"GODS," he exclaimed, "YOU'RE IMPOSSIBLE, I CAN SEE WHY MATT CHEATED ON YOU!"

That was a low blow, lower than the rest! Seph just stood there; I saw her eyes become shiny and bright. She was holding back tears.

"Oh, Jupiter," James muttered, looking at Seph with wide eyes, guilt was thick in them. He reached out with a hand, "Seph… I swear-"

"Save it," she snapped. With that she did the last thing I ever thought I would see her do, she ran away.

That left me alone with James, not exactly where I fancied being at the present time. James looked at me pleadingly. I walked over close to him and looked at him for a moment in utter disgust. "Bastard," I spat, before taking my hand and bitch slapping him as hard as I could across the cheek.

After that I turned around, and took off after my sister, leaving James alone.

Skylar POV

I was walking down the row of cabins looking for Will.

He wanted to try (try being the key word) to teach me how to use a bow and arrow. Even after all my failed attempts, he still wouldn't give up.

I strolled into the Apollo cabin, knowing he was probably there. Apollo and my dad were buds, so I didn't think he would mind that much.

Will was sitting on his bunk. He hadn't noticed me yet.

He was strumming something on his guitar. After humming along to it for a little bit, he stopped and wrote something in the notebook next to him.

I decided to make my presence known. "Hey, you ready?" I asked.

He looked up and smiled. "Hey. Yea, one second."

After putting his notebook and guitar away, he went to the case at the foot of his bed and opened it. He froze. "Is this some kind of joke?" he said angrily.

I walked up to him. "What? What happened?"

"My bow and arrow are missing!" He clenched his fists and started looking around for them.

I couldn't help it. I burst out laughing. A bow and arrow. That's what all the fuss was about? Wow…

He glared at me. "Skylar, give it back."

"I don't have it." I said.

"Skylar, it was a gift from my dad. Give. It. Back." He seethed, trying to stay calm.

"Really, I don't have it! Why would you assume that?" I frowned.

"Who else could have it?"

"Uh… the rest of my cabin!"

"The rest of your cabin would be too busy stealing stuff from the camp store to take my bow and arrow."

"Well, I don't have it!" I was getting annoyed now.

"Gods, Skylar! Can you just tell the truth for once and give me back my stuff? Sometimes I wonder why I'm even going out with you in the first place!"

I froze. Did he really just say that? Tears started welling up in my eyes, like a waterfall that wasn't allowed to fall. I dropped my head so he wouldn't see.

"No, wait, I didn't mean-"

"Yes you did." I said quietly. I looked up at him. "Look, I may be a daughter of Hermes, and I may lie to everyone in this freaking camp, but I would never lie to you, ever." And the dam broke. Tears were streaming down my face. "I thought that you of all people knew me better than that."

Before he could respond, I turned and ran out of the cabin. I didn't know where I was going, I just let my feet take me somewhere, anywhere, that wasn't here.

I ran after Seph… Who I just lost….

All of a sudden I heard screams from the lake… Crap.

I started running, while taking off my shoes at the same time, which was really hard.

The ground vibrated… I better had go calm her down before somebody got hurt.

I dove into the lake, and headed for the small cave.

"Seph!" I shouted.

"Go AWAY!" She yelled.

"I will not GO AWAY!" I replied, sitting next to her, hugging her.

She cried into my shoulder, as I patted her back, giving her comforting words.

"Hey, how about we get back to our cabin? I heard Percy has a secret stash of his mom's blue chocolate chip cookies in his sock drawer…" I said coaxingly.

Feeling her nod into my shoulder, I summoned the water below us to teleport us back into the cabin.

After she was settled, I went outside.

Quietly closing the cabin door, I sneaked away, hoping to get some peace.

Looking left to right, I dashed over across to Hera's cabin, leaning against the wall.

Then I heard footsteps getting closer, so I jumped into the plush green bush to my left, concealing myself into its green leaves.

As soon as I couldn't hear them I ran to the beach yearning for the comfort of the waves.

Upon reaching the sand, I tossed off my socks, and wriggled my toes through the soft white pristine sand.

"SNAP!" I jerked up from my spot seeking cover behind some nearby trees, squishing myself into its bark.

I then saw the Aphrodite slut, Lindsey Gordon, bitch extraordinaire.

I sucked in my breath when I saw who she was with… Zach.

The Bitc- Erm… Lindsey, stood on her tippy toes, joining lips with him.

Before I could stop myself, I squeaked, interrupting "their moment".

"Who's there?" Lindsey smirked.

Gathering up of what was left of my heart, I ran from my hiding spot, dashing past a surprised Zach and a gleeful Lindsey.

"MCKENNA! WAIT!" I heard Zach yell.

I continued to run back to my cabin, ignoring him. I was only 30 yards away from my destination.

Just them something grabbed me from behind and lifted me up.

"PUT ME DOWN!" I screamed, as he carried me to "our" spot in the woods.

He then set me down, and I punched him hard in the jaw, bruising both my hand and his cheek.

"I can explai-"

"EXPLAIN MY ASS!" I yelled cutting him off, tears almost pouring out of my eyes.

He stepped closer to me, and I stepped back, not looking into his eyes.

"McKenna, please just listen to me," he pleaded softly, tilting my face up to him.

"No, I can't. I- Here." I stepped away from him, unclasping the seashell locket he gave me a few months back, and took his hand, dumping it and its chain into his palm.

"I hope you're happy now," I cried, before running off to the cabin.

Quickly slamming the door, locking it, I slumped down against the door, and buried my face into my knees sobbing.

"McKenna! What happened?" Seph asked, alarmed. Her and Percy both sat down next to me, very alarmed.

Continuing to cry, I leaned against Seph, who hugged me tightly.

"Was it… Zach?" Percy asked, anger building up.

I sobbed even harder, nodding.

"That sick bastard, once I get ahold of him I'll-"

"He's not worth it!" I croaked. "And plus, you're only wearing Nylan Cat boxers!" I cried, starting to sob again.

Percy sat back down hugging both me and Seph.

Life sure does suck.

Katie POV

"Stoll!" I screeched.

I stormed out of my cabin. People around me were gaping.

Why? Because children of Demeter were supposed to have brown hair, not green!

I started going over to the Hermes cabin when I heard a laugh, a specific laugh to be exact.

And it was coming from a tree.

I walked over right under it. "Stoll, you better get down here." I seethed.

"Idiot, why'd you laugh!?" a voice that sounded like Connor said.

Then I heard a shove and Travis fell out of the tree right in front of me.

He got up and brushed himself off. Then he looked at me as if nothing had happened. "Hey Gardner, what brings you to these fine parts?"

"My. Hair. Stoll." I said through clenched teeth.

He looked at it as if noticing it for the first time. "Huh, funny choice in color you got there…"

"Stoll, I swear to Demeter, if you don't tell me how to fix this, I will freaking hurt you! Why do you always have to prank me? I mean, isn't there someone else in this entire camp that you could torture? Why! Me! You have nothing better to do and it's honestly just the most annoying thing!"

"Gods, shut up! You think people actually like having you yell at them like some stuck up little bitch? News flash! They don't! So you can stop acting like such a princess and go back to wherever the hell you came from! This whole camp would be way better without you anyways!"

That's it. I bitch slapped him across the face, tears falling rapidly from my eyes.

"Gods damned, Katie! What was that for!?" clutching his cheek.

"I'll let you figure that out." I said coldly, turning on my heel and running away.

Reyna POV

He. Would. Not. Go. Away.

I swear, if he didn't leave in 0.5 seconds, my head was going to explode.

"And then, I was all, 'Dude, we have to fight that?', and he was all-"

"Shut up!" I yelled, not being able to take it anymore.

He looked at me strangely. "No… he said-"

"No! I mean you, Leo! Can't you see I'm trying to work?"

"Well, take a break! I mean, honestly! All you ever do is work."

"Well, if I didn't work, then we wouldn't have the battle plans for capture the flag ready."

"Well, maybe you should leave that to someone else. It didn't work so well last time, we lost remember?"

"That's because there was a spy!" I said, my voice rising. "And the ones I designed for the war against the giants worked!"

"That's because we had good fighters!"

"And a good strategy!"

"Gods, you're so frustrating! I'm the one who saved you! You'd be dead if it weren't for me! Maybe I should have just let you die." He finished coldly.

I froze. That's the last thing our father had said to me and Hylla before he abandoned us when we were young. Tears started falling down my face.

Leo stared at me in shock, frozen in place. I never cried, ever. "Reyna…"

"Shut the Pluto up, Leo! Just leave." I pointed to the door.

His eyes were full of pain and guilt. But he listened and slowly walked out the door.

When he left, I buried my face into my pillow and cried.

Hazel POV

I was walking down the path from the Hades/Pluto cabin, when I saw Leo walking.

Every time I saw him, I would blush. I didn't blush because I liked him; it was because he reminded me so much of Sammy. I felt terrible about it, because I really did have feelings for Frank; he was a great guy!

He smiled at me and waved. I nodded and waved back, quickly turning my head so he didn't see the look on my face.

I took a deep breath and decided to go to the Ares/Mars cabin to see Frank.

When I got there he was literally tearing the cabin apart. "Frank!" I called, and I got no response. I decided to try again, this time a bit louder. "FRANK!" this time he snapped his head up. He was dripping with sweat and had a frantic look on his face.

"Where is it?" he asked

"What?" I questioned.

"My stick, did you take it?"

"Frank, why the Pluto would I have your stick?"

"I don't know," he snapped, checking under a random bunk bed.

I backed up a bit. I knew that he was frantic, but Frank was never like this. "Calm down, Frank," I said soothingly, "we'll find it."

That was when he stood up and looked at me, his eyes blazed with something that resembled fury, he looked like he was going to bust into elephant form any second. "Yeah, you'd like to find it wouldn't you, you'd probably burn it yourself!"

"What?" I squeaked, feeling hurt.

"You don't think I see the way you look at him! I know you have feelings for Valdez! It's always painted over your face whenever he's by. But I guess you're only with me because you feel bad, isn't that right? You probably thinking, 'Wow, he's pathetic!' You'd burn it, that way you wouldn't have to go through the trouble of breaking up with me!"

I stood there, my jaw stiff, trying to hold in the tears that were threatening to break free. "Frank, you know what, I have feelings for one person, and one person only, you. But I guess you don't feel the same way, or else you wouldn't bother questioning my feelings. I hope you find your stick."

"Haze…" Frank said, through my blurry eyes, I saw him, a concerned look implanted on his face, you could tell he felt guilty, but I didn't care.

"Don't call me that!" I shouted. He walked forward, but I backed away, "Just stay away from me!" With that I ran out of the cabin, not even looking back.

Thalia POV

I was leaning on the side of Zeus's Fist for about an hour, waiting for Nico to come.

Getting annoyed, I walked all the way to the Hades cabin, literally banging on the door.

Nico answered tiredly, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.

"Thalia... I did it again, didn't I?"

"Uh… Yeah, you did!" I told him.

"Look I'm-"

"You better not say sorry! Why are you always in the Underworld anyways?! Is there something I should know about?!"

"Gods, I'm a son of Hades! What do you expect? Me to always be by your side? What is SO important about today anyways!?" He yelled at me.

Did he really forget? Tears started to fall down my face.

"Well," I said, my voice bitter and quivering, "yesterday was the winter solstice. What would that make today?"

"How the Hades am I supposed to know!?" He didn't seem affected by my tears.

I stared at him for a while. "You know what? Screw you, Nico di Angelo. Screw you. Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta go and send a birthday card to myself."

I spun around and started running, but not before seeing the shocked looked on his face as he realized what he had done.

Annabeth POV

"Perfect!" I told myself, completing yet another building.

I smiled while rolling up my masterpiece and placing it into a tube.

Capping the tube, I sat up and stood on my chair, placing the tube onto the self above me which contained my other drawings.

I hopped off of the chair, landing on both of my feet.

Striding out the door with a huge smile plastered on my face, I headed towards the Poseidon cabin.

I wonder what ole' Seaweed Brain is doing.

Before I could even knock the door was slammed open, an angry Percy striding past me, not even acknowledging me.

"Hey Percy!" I said in a cheery voice.

He didn't even stop.

"Percy?" I tried again.

Okay, nothing was going to ruin this fantastic mood I was in, not even Seaweed Brain.

So I then blocked his path, smiling the best I could.

"Hia, Seaweed Brain!" I spoke with as much enthusiasm as I could.

"Move Annabeth," he told me in a monotone voice.

"Is everything alright?" I asked, full of concern.

"No, everything's not alright!" He snapped.

My good mood deflated, and anger started to boil up inside of me.

"Don't you dare snap at me!"

"Yes, mother," He said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.

I glared at him, and blocked his way again after he tried going around me.

"Gods Annabeth! MOVE OUT OF MY WAY! WHY ARE YOU SO ANNOYING?! No wonder people don't hang out with you!"

My mouth gaped open, then shut immediately, and I felt the tears fall down my cheek.

His face then turned guilty, and I turned running.

"ANNABETH WAIT!" he shouted, chasing after me.

"FUCK OFF!" I yelled, dashing into my cabin, slamming and locking the door.

Flinging myself onto my bunk, I sobbed into the pillow clutching it as tightly as I could.
Last thing I remembered, was the pain in my now crushed heart.

Piper POV

I was walking down to the lava wall; Jason was going to teach me how to climb it without getting killed.

I was almost there when a random boy popped out of practically nowhere. He had bright blue eyes, and his hair was so blonde that it was almost platinum, along with his tanned skin, it was impossible to mistaken him for anyone other than a son of Apollo. In other words, it was Mikel.

I smiled at him, and he smiled back shyly. "Hey, Pipes!"

"Hi," I said brightly.

"We still on for tonight?" he asked.

"Of course, you know I would never back out on you!"

He smiled in apparent relief, "Of course I do."

You see, Mikel was really nervous about asking Elizabeth Coleman, daughter of Hermes out on a date. She was his best friend and kind of a tomboy. He would have gone to the other Aphrodite girls, but he figured that I would take a less extreme approach to helping him.

"Well," he said, "I guess I'll see you later." And with that he walked off.

I was about to continue on to the lava wall, when Jason himself came walking up, and he had a look on his face that said that he was ready to kill, which disturbed me, he didn't have that look a lot. I smiled at him, and he just frowned at me, as if I'd punched his grandmother.

"Something wrong, Jason?"

"Yeah, there is something wrong!" he snapped.

I raised an eyebrow; he never talked to me like that. "Well, are you going to tell me, or am I going to have to guess," I replied icily, two could play at that game.

"I had no idea you had another boyfriend!" he exclaimed.

I frowned at him, what in the name of Hades what he going on about. That was when it hit me, and I felt so hurt that he would even think that I would even consider cheating on him.

"Well," I said so coldly, Khione would be jealous. "I hope you know that I don't have any boyfriends, because any boyfriend of mine would know that I would never cheat on him, and he would also know the difference between someone asking me out, and me helping a boy ask his friend out. Because he would know that if anyone even tried to ask me out that I would pull Katropis on them."

I spun around and left him there, looking stunned. Well I hoped that he was happy, because I sure wasn't.

Lou Ellen POV

I was walking from my cabin to the beach when out of nowhere, a tall shape came and crashed into me.

We both fell, him landing on top of me.

I looked up to see the frantic face of Connor Stoll. His eyes were wandering around until he looked down and realized he was on top of me.

He got up and pulled me up with one hand. "Sorry bout that, I was kinda in a rush…" he said, rubbing the back of his neck.

I smiled. "It's fine. Just out of curiosity, what were you running from exactly?"

"Uh… Travis…" He said, a bit apprehensively.

"Why?" I said, confused.

He told me the quick story. They pranked Katie, and he pushed his brother out of a tree.

I laughed. "Only you Connor, only you."

He grinned. "Yep!" he said proudly.

I rolled my eyes. "But that still wasn't nice." I scolded. "You shouldn't have left him."

His smile left his face as quickly as it appeared. "It's not that big of a deal…"

"You left your brother to face the wrath of Katie while you just lounged around doing nothing!"

"It can't be that bad!"

"Yes it can!" I was starting to get aggravated now. "You can't just keep going around breaking the rules and not get caught or have to face the consequences!"

He rolled his eyes. "Well that's what I do! And you're gonna have to deal with it!"

"Why don't you make me! And your brother is gonna be pissed, you traitor!" I yelled.

"Gods, shut up! And you would know about being a traitor, wouldn't you!? Probably learned that from mommy dearest before the titan war!" he growled.

I froze and stared at him wide eyed.

He gasped as he realized what he'd just said. "No, wait. Lou, I didn't mean-"

"Fuck off." I said, trying to stay calm, even though my voice was shaking and tears were rapidly falling from my eyes.

I spun around and ran towards the woods. Screw the beach… er, no offence Lord Poseidon.

I heard Connor's voice calling my name behind me, but I paid no attention to that. Nor to where I was running, I was just running.

AN: Damn, this be long… Well check out the stories about Jeph, Skill, and ZaKenna on our profiles! :) Review! Love ya!

~Nessa