Reunion

It has been around a month since I left Camp Half-Blood Hades came by to chat and learn more about me and we started to get along relatively well he seems to like me because I show respect but I also don't try to kiss ass or anything like most humans who he has met and I also don't really care what he talks to me about I also managed to make him laugh with some of my comments about Zeus and the other Olympians though he noticed I didn't ridicule Athena, Artemis that much and I respected Hestia quite a bit which he found interesting and when he asked me about it I told him that alongside him they were the ones I respected the most because of their personalities and also because especially with him they didn't go around raping people or messing with mortals without some kind of reason.

Speaking of Hestia I had a couple of chats with her as I had talked to her at Camp before I left and she noticed I had left so she came around every now and then to make sure I was okay. I also hunted some monsters during the month and managed to get better at fighting I no longer came out of a fight with a monster needing to wait for my clothing to repair itself from the scraps that were left on me, there was more than one occasion at the start where I came out of a fight with only a couple of bands of cloth around my privates to preserve my decency Hades and Hestia may have freaked out a bit when they came to pay me a visit and found me covered in wounds and that little clothing Hades actually got a couple of the dead to help train me in combat for a couple of nights after that incident both of his decision and because Hestia wanted me to learn how to fight they debated multiple times sending me back to Camp to train but I managed to convince them by telling them that I had already been told by Chiron that he wouldn't train me as this wasn't my world so I had decided to wander around.

Anyway enough mulling over the past month I was currently wandering past the Lotus Hotel and Casino when someone ran into me almost knocking me over if not for my mentors Hades chose teaching me to never lose my balance and as I spun to face whoever it was that ran into me I heard them shout "Night what? No time come with us!" and got grabbed and hauled into a cab where a girl I recall seeing at Camp was shotgun Grover was beside me and climbing in behind me with a backpack was Percy, my idiot brother. As Percy got into the cab the girl in the front tells the driver to get them to Los Angeles and swipes a card that displays an infinity symbol.

"So how's life?" I ask casually as if this was an everyday event and the girl, Percy and Grover all stare at me like I grew two heads before Grover hits me in the back of the head surprising Percy and the girl.

"How's life? Night you left Grover and I at camp and disappeared for a month, Chiron has been trying to find you in all that time to ask you to clarify what you said as you left, then we finally meet after a month and your first question is hows life?" Percy almost shouts at me and I just sit there before opening my mouth "well it has been a month as you said what else did you want me to ask? Did you want me to talk with you about mum? Did you want me to say something like sorry for disappearing for a month without telling you and leaving you at Camp where you were perfectly safe?" I ask Percy this as a question with a look that says what are you a moron?

Percy looks kind of sheepish before they all start to look tired and end up having a nap. I stay awake to make sure nothing happens to us on our trip and that the driver doesn't try something as I notice Percy drooling on my duster which fortunately is waterproof like a raincoat.

Arriving in Los Angeles I wake everyone up and we get out of the cab beside the beach, stepping out of the cab I stretch and the others look at me and I hear the girl comment "she is like a cat when she does that don't you think?" and I manage to hear Percy and Grover agree to her then I hear her ask me "who even are you?" I look at her confused as Percy had called me by name earlier.

"High my name is Nightingale I am Percys adopted sister I dropped him and Grover off at camp about a month ago and have been wandering around since, seeing as Chiron refused to train me I decided to get real-life experience which has had some ups and downs but I no longer finish fights against monsters with most of my clothes destroyed at least." I decided to answer her question and Percys earlier question at the same time "now a couple of things one what are you all doing here and who are you?" I point at the girl when I say the second part of my question and she answers both of my questions.

"My name is Annabeth Chase I am a daughter of Athena, as for what we are doing here we are on a quest to recover the Master Bolt which has been stolen and also to try to rescue Percy's mum." hearing this I look at them confused as she didn't answer much of my question and I was trying to remember what I knew of the Percy Jackson books as after a year and a month not to mention however much time it had been since I read them in my past life the details were rather fuzzy for most things especially for Lily as she had even more memories to sort through.

Fortunately, Percy decided to clarify "Hades has the Master Bolt and mum we are going to try to convince him to return them both to us." At this, I get more confused as Hades had already apologised for taking mum but said she was safe but he had said nothing about having the Master Bolt but he had mentioned briefly that his Helm of Darkness had been stolen by someone but he wanted that kept a secret for now.

"Anyway we are here to get some help for our journey then we need to find DOA recording studios which is the entrance to the underworld." Percy continued.

"Okay I know where that is so I can take you there after you have finished I saw it when I was wandering through here a couple of weeks ago," I tell them and it was true the part I didn't tell them was that I was shown it by Hades who told me to go there if I ever wanted to visit at some point.