The Lost Souls

Grover Gets a Lamborghini

The group was crossing the Potomac when they spotted the helicopter. It was sleek, black military model just like the one that was at Westover Hall.

"They know the van," Bianca said. "We have to ditch it."

Zoe swerved into the fast lane. Thalia closed her fist and a thunderstorm began.

"That should stall them for now," Thalia said.

"Maybe the military will shoot it down," Grover said hopefully.

"The military probably thinks it's one of theirs," Percy said.

"There," Bianca points. "Subway entrance."

Zoe goes across two lanes of traffic, we got out of the van and we ran down the stairs.

When we got off of the train we found a homeless guy by a trash can fire.

"Y'all need to get warmed up? Come on over!" he called.

The group huddled around the fire.

Bianca and Thalia looked almost unfazed by the cold, but Percy, Zoe and Grover were freezing.

"My hooves are frozen," Grover complains.

This time Percy didn't even bother correcting him.

"You kids need a train going West?" he asked.

"Yeah," Thalia, Percy and Bianca said.

The three glare at each other.

He points to a freight train with steel mesh curtains and a triple deck of cars inside.

"Thanks," Bianca said.

The group turned to find the homeless man and the fire was gone.

One hour later the group was tumbling west.

Zoe was in the Lexus on the top deck.

Grover was playing race car driver behind the wheel of a Lamborghini.

Thalia and Bianca has hot wired a black Mercedes SLK so they could listen to the radio.

Percy knocked on their window.

"Join you?" he asked.

The two shrugged and Percy climbed into the backseat.

"So you two aren't sure if you're going to make it this time," Percy asked, they glanced back at him. "Nico and I overheard you."

"The prophecy doesn't call for her death, but it could still happen," Thalia admitted.

"How old would you be, Bianca," Percy asked. "Since you were in the hotel?"

"Biologically in my eighties," Bianca commented. "Technically though fourteen."

"Same," Thalia added.

"When is your birthday?" Percy questioned.

"August 18th," Bianca stated.

"Apollo said that that was my modified birthday because I was a tree," Thalia commented.

"That's also my birthday," Percy said. "How are there going to be three demigods of the prophecy?"

"Who knows," Bianca said.

"Chaos changed your prophecy," a new voice said from beside Percy.

"Apollo," the three groan.

"I'm undercover," Apollo said. "Call me Fred."

"A god called Fred?" Bianca scoffed.

"We aren't aloud to interfere in quests," Apollo said. "We aren't aloud to interfere in destiny either, but Lady Chaos seems to have screwed that."

"You know?" the three demigods asked.

"You know," Apollo started. "My sister was right when she said you three were like your fathers." He received glares from them. "But yes, I do know. When someone tampers with my prophecies I notice. I also know that you three are from the future. The question is how far in the future?"

"Three thousand years," the three replied.

"How are you alive in three thousand years?" Apollo asked.

"I became a god," Percy said. "Thalia, Bianca and four others died and were sent to Tartarus. They became soldiers of our grandfather, Chaos showed up and said that it wasn't how it was supposed to work out."

At Apollo's look Thalia and Bianca glanced at each other.

"Real story is we were tortured for a thousand years," Bianca began. "And then we gave in and we're trained to be killers."

"Who all was apart of that?" Apollo asked. "I can sense fourteen are from the future."

"Percy, Annabeth, Leo Valdez, Piper McLean, Jason Grace, Hazel Levesque and Frank Zhang weren't in the group that were taken," Bianca said. "Silena McLean, Charles Beckendorf, Rachel Elizabeth Dare and Luke Castellan are the ones who became soldiers of our grandfather."

"Luke Castellan," Apollo repeated. "How did he die?"

"He stabbed himself with the cursed blade," Thalia stated. "He stopped our grandfather from rising."

"Since you all already know that I know that you are from the future you might as well know the others," Apollo comments. "Artemis will probably figure it out and Aphrodite watches all love stories, meaning she knows about this being your second time."

"I blame Percy and Annabeth," Thalia exclaims.

"Annabeth and I broke up three thousand years ago," Percy informs.

Apollo then flashes out leaving Bianca to listen to Percy and Thalia argue about Annabeth.