I do not own Percy Jackson or any characters or settings mentioned. EVER! Now that we're clear on that . . . This is my first PJO fanfic. Might be slightly OOC, but I think Travis/Katie and Thalia/Nico themselves are pure OOC - ness. Featuring Percabeth, Tratie and Thalico. Please review and you can flame if you want, but I honestly don't care. I don't mind CC and I will try to take it into account! Loads of different POV's for this chapter, but usually there won't be as many. Xxx

Annabeth POV

"Okay, this is a sweet snack bar," Percy said, gorging on some treats with everyone else. I blushed at his praise.

"Thanks." This was Olympus, home of the gods. I was nervous of what everyone would think, but I thought I did a pretty okay job.

"Have I already told you today how smart you are?" Percy asked, wrapping an arm around my waist.

I laughed and danced away from him.

"I do believe you have, but seeing as my mom lives here, you should probably watch where you put that arm."

Percy visibly paled. I was a little disapointed. Though, I never did find out what my mom said to him. However, Percy, who fought against the Titan lord Kronos but was afraid of his girlfriend's mom, found his bravery again and stood inches from my face.

"Well she's hopefully not watching right now . . ."

But then, Connor Stoll wolf whistled and his brother Travis said,

"Yeah, but most of Camp Half - Blood are!"

We jumped apart and Percy stood there awkwardly, but I tried to pretend nothing happened.

Nico POV

"I thought I was going to be sick," I muttered, sitting next to Thalia. Apollo had mended her legs in seconds, but Artemis gave her a break too as she didn't fully trust Apollo, the cocky twat.

Thalia laughed at me as Percy and Annabeth tried to pretend they weren't just about to make out in front of everyone. I was secretly pleased I had made her laugh, she barely ever did and could be so serious sometimes.

"They're in love," she smirked.

"Or Aphrodite's just really bored at the moment," I suggested.

"I don't think so. I'm just glad Annabeth's finally happy, even if it means I have to hold back the puke every once in a while," Thalia sighed.

I stared at her hard. When she was brushing a piece of black hair out of her eyes she noticed me.

"What?" she questioned defensively.

"Since when have you, Thalia, Lieutenant of Artemis, become a daughter of Aphrodite?" I asked.

She glared at me menacingly and drew her hunting knife.

"Call me a daughter of Aphrodite again Skull Boy and I'll reunite you with your father."

"Hey Nico, Thalia!" Percy shouted. I had been too busy avoiding Thalia's knife, but I realised the group was getting ready to move on.

I stood up and found I was the same height as Thalia. She noticed too and wasn't very pleased.

"Shrinking in your old age?" I teased. Thinking back on it, I didn't mind that Thalia was chasing me for half an hour, even if she was brandishing a knife and cursing me in Ancient Greek.

Travis POV

This was too awesome! I mean this place was covered in gold and marble statues and I was dying for the opportunity to conveniently let one fall into my backpack. They looked heavy though, so maybe on the way out.

"Everything's so big, I fell like an ant," Connor said in awe.

I snorted. "You're small enough to be one." He made to whack the back of my head but I ducked.

"I'm only a couple of inches shorter!" Connor whined, trying to punch me.

"Keep telling yourself that little bro," I chuckled.

"If I got the choice, I would definitely pick Travis to squish under my shoe," a voice said. I turned around to see Katie Gardener standing there, looking as gorgeous as ever.

"You know you love me babe," I winked. I tried everything to get this girl's attention but nothing worked.

"Keep telling yourself that. Annabeth told me to check up on you two and make sure you hadn't stolen anything," she said.

"Don't worry, we haven't taken anything yet, we're too afraid of Annabeth's wrath," Connor answered.

"Try keep it that way," Katie said as she walked off.

"Hey!" I called desperately to her retreating figure, trying to get her to notice me in a non-squishing way. "I'll be an ant in your garden any day!"

"Seriously dude?" Connor face palmed. " 'An ant in your garden'? You do know ants are pests right?"

"Damn it!" I groaned.

"I told you pranking her to get her to notice you was a bad idea," Connor shook his head.

"Since when are you an expert in anything but pick pocketing?"

Connor just contented himself with saying,

"And you got drool on my shoes man."

Annabeth POV

I was showing everyone a shrine to Demeter. Golden leaves of wheat and barley decorated it, but the Stolls had tried to spray-paint a box of Weetabix and stick that in too. I stopped them though because I didn't think Demeter or her cabin would be too happy.

"Why hello there," said a suave male voice and a handsome, sandy-haired teenager stepped out from behind the shrine. I realised it was Apollo. He looked a lot like Luke, but in fairness Apollo was better-looking. He was smiling at me with dazzling, white teeth.

"APOLLO! Get your sorry, immortal butt away from my daughter NOW!" a powerful female voice rang through Olympus. Apollo jumped a mile backwards and fell unceremoniously on his backside. Then he got up equally as fast, trying to tidy himself off.

"Wait. You're Lord Apollo?" Pollux, Dionysus' son asked.

"The one and only," he smiled at all the ladies.

The whole Apollo cabin knelt, but Percy, Thalia and I had meet Apollo before and the rest of the campers were too shocked. I mean, this guy only looked a couple of years older than some of his kids. I meet him loads of times before on Olympus, he was always talking about his temple.

"No need to kneel. You guys are my kids after all. I think I recognise a few other faces. How are your legs, sweetheart?" Apollo asked Thalia the last part.

She stiffened and glared at him.

"Fine," she said grudgingly. I noticed with amusement that Nico's fists were balled. Percy just put his arm around me and gave Apollo a look that plainly said,

"Dude, back off." At least he stopped being chicken.

"Anyhoo, I came to say that Zeus has limited me to only eleven life-sized statues in my temple, so now we have enough room to put small statues of all Nine Muses in," Apollo stated, oblivious to that many glares he was receiving.

"Only eleven statues? Whatever shall we do?" Nico said dryly.

"I know. It's a travesty." Apollo was about to turn away, not picking up on the sarcasm, but stopped short.

"I feel a haiku coming on!" he said excitedly. Percy had told me all about Apollo's poetry and I knew he was restraining a groan.

"Oh poor Apollo,

Only eleven statues,

But I'm still awesome."

With that he vanished into thin air.

Looking for a way to get things back on track, I said, "Let's go see the Nine Muses."

"Where would they be?" Clarisse asked.

"Well, I made them this amphitheatre and they usually hang out there. I had it built at a different angle to the one at Camp, it echoes the sound better -"

Thalia cleared her throat because she knew how long I could talk about architecture.

When we got there, the Muses were in a frenzy.

"What's wrong?" I asked Calliope, the Muse of epic poetry.

"Our hearts are merely racing with excitement and pure joy at the thought of meeting such a number of brave and selfless demigods who risked their lives to visit us," she said dramatically. I did say the Muse of epic poetry.

"I'd better introduce you guys," I sighed. Some of the campers were looking at Calliope like she had just announced she had a pet chimera.

"This is Calliope of epic poetry."

Percy POV

"That explains a lot," Clarisse muttered.

One who was pretty in the dryad kind of way, came forward dreamily and announced, "I am Erato. My speciality is love and lyric poetry."

She turned to me and said, "Your glistening eyes reminder me of a calm sea on a beautiful summer's day-"

"Ahem," Annabeth coughed.

"Yo! I'm Terpsichore and my home turf is dance. I mean like shake what ya momma gave ya!" another said and did a Beyonce dance move.

One who had laugh lines on her face but still looked young said, "I'm Thalia, the Muse of comedy, knock kno-"

"Hang on," Nico interrupted. "Thalia's namesake is the Muse of comedy?"

"Yeah," Thalia, Hunter of Artemis said. "So?"

There was silence for a moment, then Connor said,

"Well Thalia, you're not exactly the optimistic type."

"And you're a kleptomaniac," she retorted.

He shrugged. "True enough."

"I am Euterpe," a brunette sang in a soprano so high it broke a daughter of Hecate's glasses.

"Lady GaGa is my role model, she is so amazing!" Euterpe sang gleefully.

"Does she always . . .?" I asked Annabeth. She understood and nodded.

"Enough!" one with black hair insisted. No, these people aren't weird at all, I thought.

"This is Clio of history, Polyhymnia of hymns, Urania of astronomy and I am Melpomene of tragedy. We are all going to die." the depressed one continued. Yup, definetely freaky.

There was a puzzled silence and then a little girl from the Hermes' cabin came forward and said,

"But you're immortal."

Melpomene seemed to have forgotten this fact and she murmured, "Oh yes," to herself.

POOF! A big pink cloud appeared and I struggled not to choke on the smell of designer perfume. It was worse than the Aphrodite cabin.

"Hello kids!" Aphrodite said. I almost freaked out there and then for two reasons. One, if Aphrodite comes looking for you, run for your love life, and two, she looked a hell of a lot like Annabeth. I remembered last time I meet her, she changed to look like anyone I'd ever had a crush on.

She winked at me and I felt the heat rise to my face. She obviously knew what I was seeing.

"My fellow gods and I have come up with a way to entertain you all and ourselves," she said cheerfully.

This made everyone extremely wary.

"By holding a treasure hunt!" she squealed.

Everyone's face (including mine) pretty much said, "Is she serious?"

Aphrodite sensed this and decided to spice things up by saying,

"The prize will be two months no chores and extra desert for that period."

All the demigods stayed alert as Aphrodite explained the rules. We would work in pairs already picked out for us and we had to follow clues.

"Now the pairs are . . . ." Aphrodite began as everyoe waited in anticipation.

"Percy and Annabeth!" All the Aphrodite cabin 'awwed'.

"Chris and Clarisse!", who smiled at each other.

"Thalia and Nico!" They both shrugged, but I knew Nico was mentally jumping for joy.

"Travis and Katie!" Katie face palmed but Travis mouthed, "Thank you!" to Aphrodite.

"What about me?" Connor asked.

"Oh, you'll be with my daughter Drew," Aphrodite said.

Aphrodite chuckled as Drew looked disgusted when Connor stared at her drooling.

Thalia POV

The stuck up goddess of love took her time calling out the pairs and they all 'mysteriously' contained a boy and a girl.

"I'm really glad I'm with you," Nico said. I raised an eyebrow at him but I felt like blushing.

"I mean, I feel sorry for Connor being with Drew," he amended. I thought I felt something unpleasant in my stomach - disappointment? No Thalia, you're probably just dehydrated or something.

"Anyone who crosses her, she makes them wear the 'Shoes of Shame'," Nico mocked.

I snickered, "Now I'm really scared. Death to Barbie has always been one of my favourite sayings though."

Nico smiled back at me and my heart thumped.

Katie POV

Travis. Stoll. I was paired with Travis Stoll. And he was smirking like there was no tomorrow.

"Why are you so happy?" I asked.

"Because," he said simply.

"Because?" I prompted him suspiciously.

"Just because."

Okay now I was seriously worried. Call me paranoid, but Travis had pranked me too many times before. So I did the only thing I could think of.

"Promise you're not going to prank me?"

He pretended to be offended.

"I can't believe you would say such a thing. Your words Katie, they sting," he said, placing his hand on his heart.

"No need to be so dramatic," I said.

"Ah but Katie," he sighed. "I'm a dramatic person."

He suddenly wrapped his arms around me and lowered me to the ground in a ballroom dancer way.

His sparkling blue eyes were full of mischief and he looked kind of cute. Wait. Stop right there Katie. Travis is not cute. Erato has been rubbing off on you. Yeah and if there's a Muse of talking to yourself, she's been rubbing off on you too.

"Hem hem," Aphrodite coughed and Travis did the most ungentle manly thing ever. He dropped me!

"Katie, I'm so sorry!" he said as he helped me up. Barely anyone noticed my fall and maybe it was because I wasn't angry.

"I am going to kill you. Slowly and painfully," I hissed. Travis was preparing to run when Aphrodite said,

"Can we leave the cold-blooded murdering until later sweetheart?" Travis did puppy-dog eyes and everything.

"'Til later," I growled, glaring at Travis.

"Here are your first clues," Aphrodite said, and with a click of her fingers, a small piece of parchment poofed into every groups hands.

It read,

"One uses it everyday if thou flits between two worlds,

But the only other witness shall deny it's existence.

Good luck young demigods,

Athena."

I made up the clue so it's probably easy, but if anyone knows the answer please review with it. Thanks, please review! xxx