BIANCA DI ANGELO WAS CONFUSED. She had somehow woken up in a statue of some sort, surrounded by wires and sparking electricity. With nowhere to go, and nothing to do, she was clueless. But there was one thing she knew. Bianca had to find her brother, Nico di Angelo.
However, upon finding her way back to Camp-Half Blood, Bianca realizes that Nico had gone missing a few weeks previous, shortly after given a quest of his own.
CLAIRE WHITMAN-O'NEIL WAS FRUSTRATED. She was nearly at the age of thirteen, she'd come all this way to New York from over in Florida, and for what? To be ignored by the guy she was pining after? To be ignored by her mother until the age she was supposed to be claimed? To just wait and see what would happen until then and let herself be pushed around? No, Claire refused to simply sit and look pretty until her mother claimed her as her daughter. Luckily for Claire, she's claimed soon after a new camper arrives, along with a chance to prove herself and her worth to the rest of Camp Half-Blood.
GABRIEL HOFFMAN WAS WORRIED. After two years of your best friend not being claimed, wouldn't you be too? It didn't help that he was one of the few friends she had, and she was often picked on due to being unclaimed and a bit scrawny, especially when she was soon becoming thirteen. So of course Gabriel's excited for the girl as she soon gets claimed by her mother. And of course, he joins the quest given to the newest camper once Claire does, simply to keep an eye on her.
So even though they're on the same quest, they each have different goals. Bianca's is to find her brother, Claire's to prove herself to Camp Half-Blood, and Gabriel's to keep Claire from getting hurt.
But what they really should be focusing on, is what Nico di Angelo was going after in the first place, and how the hell did he disappear?