I woke up after my talk with mom and she wasn't there. I know it's been just more than 7 years since I last fell asleep in mom's arms, but a small part of me missed that now. I may not openly want to admit it but I still need her comfort right now.

I walked out of my tent only to have Zoë and Phoebe embrace me. "Uhhh why are you two hugging me" I questioned

"Do we need an excuse to hug our little brother" Zoë questioned

"Well considering it is random, and it's not normal of you Zoë, I would say yes" I said

Zoë looked like she just got caught, "We were spying on your conversation with mom yesterday" Phoebe answered.

"And" I questioned

"Well you are our brother and we raised you with mom, so if anything it's Apollo's fault for you being Polyamorous" Phoebe said

"Polyamorous" I questioned

"being involved in multiple consensual romantic relations at the sametime" Phoe explained as Zoë was still looking shocked

"Oh, anyways I think I broke Zoë again" I said

Phoebe turned and looked at zoë "seems you are correct" she said and slapped zoë, "Percy broke you again" Phoebe quickly defended seeing Zoë's angry glare.

"Why do I have to have the second most annoying brother in the universe" Zoë asked looking up at the sky. I'm pretty sure if Uncle Apollo was here he would say and I quote 'it is because I am more annoying'.

I would have said something sassy if it weren't for the group of dracanae barging into camp forcing us to fight them.

I decided on using my bow, as it's been a while since I've actually used in combat, and not in a training setting.

We quickly wiped out the dracaenae, but it's a bit worrisome, as they were in a group far larger than what they normally gather in, and none of them wanted to brag or talk. Usually monsters that can talk are always bragging about how they are going to kill and then eat you, which leads me to believe this was a coordinated attack.

"This isn't good milady" Zoë said voicing my thoughts

"yes it appears so. I think we should see about gathering more information before the next solstice. Hopefully, by then we will have enough proof that he is tempting to rise again to sway the council into voting to take action" mom said

We've been hunting fairly dangerous monsters, and have killed them. Though if war is truly coming they might be back in time for whatever final grand battle is being undoubtedly planned, if they have help from one of the titans fighting. I hope Grandma Leto is fighting, mom and uncle Apollo speak highly of her and I would really like to met her.

sorry ADHD. Anyhow now we are hunting the manticore, and have tracked him all the way to Bar Harbor, Maine. Atalanta, Namoi, and I were scouting the area and going on a lead we had on the manticore. We were watching Westover Hall, a military school apparently, from the outside when a car pulled up and two very annoyed looking girls that I knew fairly well, and an annoying son of poseidon stepped out of the care before it drove off.

"hey bro what are you girlfriends doing up here, shouldn't they be in New York" Naomi asked. Ok yes Zoë and Phoebe spread word of my conversation with mom and now they all tease me about it.

"They said they would be heading to camp for winter break so maybe chiron sent them up here" I said, "However I can smell monster from here coming from the school"

"you're going to crash the party aren't you" Atalanta asked

"yup" I said

"Don't get killed little brother" Atlanta said, as I flamed traveled to meet up with Thalia and Annabeth.

"hi" I said from behind them causing Thalia to jump ten feet in the air before turning as pale as Hades, coming back down, and Annabeth to turn and hug me, while the annoying sea spawn just sighed.

"Why are you here" Peter said in his usual annoying voice.

"What are you doing off Circe's? I recall trading you for a ship" I said

"Best trade deal in the history of ever" Thalia said, as she hugged me, "but how did you get behind us without us noticing"

"flame travel and I was already hunting in the area" I finished, "And answering your next question in case you forgot or Annabeth and I forgot to tell you, I'm Hestia's Champion" I finished.

Just then Grover came out of the building, "You guys made it hurr...percy what are you doing here"

"hunting" I stated, "no further questions though"

Grover then lead us inside talking about how he found two demigods, that smell strong like Thalia did. However, there's a problem, and ironically that problem is why I am here. I quickly prayed to my mother saying that the target is confirmed to be at Westover hall.

That problem being the manticore trying to kick us out of the building, though he's disguised as a teacher and accompanied by a mortal teacher. I quickly waved my hand, like the Jedi do in star wars, and manipulated the mist, though I knew it wouldn't work on the manticore. At the same time Thalia snapped her fingers and added on to the mist.

" But we are students sir. I'm Thalia, and this is Percy and Annabeth, we're in 8th grade, whereas Peter is in 7th" Thalia stated, and the trick easily worked on the mortal teacher, but made the Manticore look confused

"let them be they're students" the mortal said and the manticore reluctantly agreed.

I don't know if he knew of my parentage or if the hunt was here, but it seemed that he was being a lot more cautious since the little trick with the mist.

Annabeth and Grover seem to know what happened but Peter was utterly confused. "What was that" he whisper yelled

"the mist, you idiot now shut up, you all obviously have a mission to complete, so let's finish it, so I can do mine with lower risk of collateral" I said

"collateral" Thalia questioned

"your mission and peter might get killed so let's get them in the clear first" I said

"I won't get killed" Peter scoffed, "I've trained with my father and Triton once they got me from Circe until the end of summer"

I so wanted to bet that Poseidon and Triton didn't go get Peter until the end of summer and like the day before he would have to go to school.

Grover lead us further into the school and eventually to what I assume was the gym, but it looked like a dance floor. Grover non-subtly pointed out the two demigods that they were sent to retrieve.

"So who am I going to dance with" Peter said, looking both Annabeth and Thalia up and down.

"not me" they said at the same time, both grabbing on to me and dragging me off.

"so uhhh... you both dragged me off to dance with you" I said, and it was just then that Annabeth and Thalia realized what they did and started to blush heavily.

Annabeth came out of the blush first, "we can make this work right thalia" Annabeth said, slightly nervously.

"I...I...I think we can try" she said

Annabeth then grabbed onto my left side and Thalia my right, before each took the arm on their respective side and placed it around themselves.

I'll be honest this was the first time I was at ease since we left CHB. I had my two best friends, and if you ask my sisters, girlfriends, in my arms. We were still paying attention to our surroundings and I just barely noticed that Peter was leaving and the demigods were no longer here, nor the manticore. "Uhh Peter just ran off after the demigods and my target" I said to the girls my eyes not leaving the door.

"Peter just left" Grover said panting next to us

"We noticed" I said, leading them out of the gym.

"so Percy what's your target" Annabeth asked

"the manticore" I stated

"Peter is soooo dead" Annabeth and Thalia said