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So we're on our way to Portland to look for a blind guy (very helpful wording, Frank). Apparently his name is Phineas and he's a seer and he might be able to help us locate Thanatos. Anyway, while Frank was fighting Basilisks, Percy and I we were talking to Reyna. Percy She had to know that there was a giant (and I really mean giant, there were giants) army coming to Camp Jupiter. She knew about it and if we can't free Thanatos and bring back the eagle...I don't even want to think about what that means.

Percy We got a killer whale to take us the rest of the way while the person navigating got a nap. So we got up to the Columbia River and then the killer whale passed us on to some sturgeons. Then when we got to the Willamette River, the boat just sort of moved itself somehow. Anyway, we got to Portland and Percy our friend finally woke up to tell us about his dream. The giant I died to stop from rising is on a glacier in Alaska. Which is so helpful considering how many glaciers Alaska has.

Of course we had to look for Phineas in Portland in the rain. We found him wearing a bathrobe and pink bunny slippers and using a weed whacker to fend off harpies. I'm pretty sure we all felt bad for the harpies and not bad for Phineas. Also he said he can "smell demigods" which is the creepiest thing anyone's ever said to me. But then when our friend was talking to him, he started listing off all this stuff that he knew. I'm pretty sure I was seconds from beating an old man with my sword and when he started accusing me of being with Gaea, I definitely thought about stabbing him. I really don't like him. And he keeps saying things that make me look bad. About what happened with Alcyoneus. "We'll see if you're still sweet on your girlfriend then" WE AREN'T DATING AND YOU ARE A WRETCHED OLD MAN!

So in order to get the information we need from him, we are supposed to capture and tie up this harpy for his sick pleasure which is never going to happen. And of course I believe that I'm as bad as him. I'm not. I was a scared kid who was forced to do something she didn't want to do by a goddess who thought she was better than the rest of the gods and goddesses already ruining everyone's lives. She's just the same as the rest of them.

The harpy's name is Ella and apparently she likes cinnamon burritos. Only the other harpies stole her food from her and she can quote facts about pretty much everything because she likes to read and remembers everything she reads. It's freakishly amazing. I wish I could remember that much. But now we have a plan to beat Phineas and I really hope we can manage it because that old man needs to go down. Even if I shouldn't say that. He does.

So apparently running into my dad didn't help things and now I'm just...running into danger, which I guess I understand in a way, since a lot of my emotions are coming through, but at the same time, I wish I could stop myself.

And I don't I miss I still hate him, but I guess it doesn't feel as strong as it did the other day.

Well, we managed to survive. So, I guess there's that.

Too bad everything here seems to be out of control.

I can't imagine the dreams are over, though.

Woke up this morning to find my Camp Half-Blood t-shirt on my desk chair. I'll admit, I was kind of really excited about that. I had to wear it today of course. It's still kind of crazy, the whole things just showing up thing, but I could kind of get used to it, depending on what it is.

[Filtered to Annabeth and Luke]
So...the cyclopes den is the last thing that happens before I get turned into a tree, huh?

[Later - Filtered to Killian, Chuck and Chloe]
I'm gonna go do something ill-advised. Wanna join?

In case anyone is ever wondering how to tame a three headed dog? Just throw a rubber ball. They'll love it.

Mostly I'm hoping that if you do encounter a three headed dog it's not because you're in the Underworld. I can't say my time there was all that enjoyable. Percy, I'm sorry about your mom.

Not that angering the God of the underworld could every really be considered enjoyable. Especially when, not only the master bolt is missing, but so is the helm of darkness. Even worse? When said master bolt shows up in someones' backpack.

It makes my head spin.

On a positive note, I'm super excited about my new living arrangements!

So I have a flashback/black out and then I wake up and find Frank and Percy myself on the land with my friends. They seemed pretty concerned about me. I guess I would have been if I'd have been me, too. So I had to tell them what happened. Frank guessed about me. About my coming from the Underworld. He didn't even look at me like I was some freak. He just looked at me like I was Hazel and told me he'd make sure I stayed alive. Dream me feels guilty about the things I did, but...I don't know how she can ever feel bad about Gaea. That wasn't my fault.

Anyway, then I got kidnapped by grass (Karpoi, to be specific). Well, they weren't really grass. Wheat, Barley, and Sorghum. Of course, I finally found schist, which is a precious stone. They offered to take me to Gaea's army so I could die slowly, but I turned them down. Even dizzy and sort of not entirely with it, I know better than to agree to be killed slowly. At least there's that. They offered me wheat if I came off the rock, but wheat's not that important. Apparently Gaea has a lot of torture in store for me since I ruined her plans, but like I told the Karpoi. I am a daughter of Pluto. They can surely try to kill me. You'd think she'd get over it already.

Thankfully my friends came and helped me fight them because I probably could have done it, but when you're already feeling woozy, trying to fight a bunch of toddler-sized karpoi in weird diaper-like things is kind of difficult. But then we saw her army. Gaea's. One of my friends wasn't feeling so well, so we decided we were going to go to this store we saw. After fighting a giant snake thing we got to the store which belonged to Iris, the goddess of rainbows and also the messenger goddess. Well, she directed Percy my friend and I to the back, but said she had to talk to Frank. I don't really know what to expect next.

My dreams are just one trap after another. First, we arrived in Vegas and while looking for a place to rest, we ended up at the Lotus Hotel and Casino. They offered us a room and they had games and stuff and it felt like we were only there for a few hours; turns out we were there for five days! It was only after I started noticing people wearing clothes from different time periods that I was able to break the spell or whatever it was. By then our timetable to reach the Underworld had narrowed drastically. After that, once we did get to LA and were looking for the entrance to the Underworld, we got chased by a group of teenagers and hid in Crusty's Water Ben Palace. Turned out Crusty was actually Procrustes and he tried to stretch Annabeth and Grover, but I tricked him into getting trapped in one of his own water beds. We finally found the entrance to the Underworld, which was at DOA Recording Studios. We told Charon that we'd died in a bathtub in order to be allowed into his elevator.

And of course that's where I woke up. I don't even know what to expect when we encounter Hades. I wonder if he'll look like he does here.

On a lighter note, my birthday is Thursday. I'll be nineteen and that also means school starts soon. That's the only thing that has ever sucked about my birthday. How close it is to school starting again. Oh well, at least I get blue cake Thursday.

I didn't like my dad in the dreams before, but I like him even less now. We had to go back to my house and then he shows up and I'm supposed to be happy to see him even though he's done nothing for us this whole time. But whatever. I don't need him. I never have. I never will. The more I see of him, the less I want to do with him. I can't believe I thought even for a second he'd care about my mom and I. He never cared before. I'm so angry. All I can even process is anger and I don't know what to do

For the most part, I could care less about gymnastics, beach volleyball, or swimming. Then the Olympics happen and I'm a mess over them. It's a little ridiculous.

So. Uh.

Did Annabeth really go after Luke with a hammer?

I'm really grateful for my Dad. He saved me from a pretty shaky situation this summer for housing. Now that the school year is starting I want to try and find something more permanent. I'm hoping that I Can find something decent soon. It's always tricky trying to find someone to live with that you can get along with.

My dreams are still coming. I've been in the Thrill Ride O'Love. Talk about awkward at my age. What was worse was the fact that Hephaestus had a trap in there that triggered hundreds of thousands of mechanical spiders to come at me. I mean, us. But still.

No. Freaking. Thank You. Did it have to be spiders?

I think Ares did it on purpose. Once again -- using children to do their biding. I shouldn't be surprised at this point. At least he let us ride on the truck. Too bad they were smuggling animals. I wasn't about to let that slide. That Yankee's cap came in handy.

I woke up with my Dad's ring. Which is weird because I have his ring already from here. Now I have two. I guess that's pretty cool, though.

This quest that Annabeth, Grover and I are on in my dreams just keep getti weirder and weirder. We keep running into various gods, minor gods and monsters. I'm only like twelve and I'm on this bizarre cross country trip. I'm surprised we haven't died yet.

[Filtered Away from Annabeth Chase]
So the dreams also make me wanna hang out with Annabeth more, but I don't know what we can do. I don't wanna just go to the movies or something like that, but I don't know what girls like to do.

ANNABETH

Yeah. I see what you meant now.

You tried to kill me with a hammer. Which, I guess is understandable when you consider everything. Also you're very small.

Team Mystic?

No one can even say they have no idea about the whole Pokemon reboot craze going on basically. I have to carry around two port chargers just to keep my phone juiced up for 8-10 hours while I'm working lately. This is insane.

What's also insane is that I'm waiting to find Charizard invading one of my dreams at some point. Wouldn't be that bad, maybe I could have been a Trainer but nooooo I had to go and be Spider-Man. Maybe I'll find some spare parts and try and make himself a real pokedex, only I'll give it a real purpose. I dunno.

On the other hand, true life finally echoes my dreams. I got dumped! WTH!!!


Where are my fellow Team Mystic's at? C'mon...

These dreams are really strange, but also I can open locks by just willing them to open with my mind. So far, I can't do that here. I don't know if that's something that will transfer over.

I got another weapon, though. A bronze knife this time. The guy whose house we were in gave it to me. He was apparently a son of Apollo. All I can say is if this is how the gods treat their kids, I wish I wasn't one of their kids.

How is it more than halfway through July already? This summer is moving awfully fast, and I feel like I blinked and it's nearly over. On the bright side, I'll have school work to keep me busy again.

And these dreams just get weirder and weirder. I swear, as a demigod, everyone is someone you should be weary of. They're always sniffing us out. You can't even talk to a lady and her dog without something happening.

I'm beginning to think that I actually am getting my abilities from the dreams. Tonight my mom asked me to peel potatoes for her and as I was peeling, I cut my finger with the peeler. When I went to wash it, it healed. The water healed it right before my eyes. I couldn't believe it. For a minute I thought I was seeing things, but one second there was a cut and the next, it was gone. I don't even know what to think now.

So anyway, this boat we found is a piece of junk. Honestly, it's not even worth the title of boat. But then Percy did some stuff and it cleaned itself up, which was kind of weird, actually, but also sort of amazing Apparently it was easily cleaned up, but I didn't have anything to do with that.

Naturally I'm on this tiny boat and I'm seasick. Why am I ever not seasick? Why are boats the worst thing that's happened to me in my life?

Frank's being sweet, though. He usually is. Even if he's an absolute mess at times. He just got crackers everywhere in an effort to help me feel less sick to my stomach.

Of course I made the mistake of thinking about the past and had another black out. Which was not okay. I hate remembering Mom as the person she was when Gaea was in control. It was awful. She would speak and it wouldn't be her voice. I've got to say that the people in Alaska were really shitty, too. Who throws bottles and rocks at a kid because they think that person's mother is a witch?

Gaea is basically a life ruiner and no one will convince me otherwise.

But I finally understand why everything I can find is cursed. And I got to dream about my death again. Only this time I remember more. My lungs filled with oil, the island collapsing. Mom.

How does a hug nearly make someone pass out? There must be something wrong with me. How embarrassing.

I imagine this place won't ever stop surprising me.

How many people can say that they've been on a bus and attacked by furies? I bet not many people. Even better? Who can say that they've convinced their friends to behead Medusa before she turns you all to stone?

I bet not many of you. Don't worry, though. I can say that.

Crap. I think I just made my bathroom sink explode. I guess it could be worse, I could have caused messed up all the plumbing in the house.

Whoa, some people are taking this 4th of July thing way too far. Seriously, when you have to invade a fireworks shop wearing horse costumes?

Maybe start looking hard at your life choices.

First a mostly melted sword, now a nine iron? Really?

Seriously? What am I supposed to do with a mostly melted sword? So this whole thing is basically like feeling like you're going insane, right? Or is that just me. Also I'm pretty sure I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with a mostly melted sword, but there we have it.

So everyone has odd dreams and discusses them publicly What the bloody hell is wrong with this place

I'm not formally used to this network sort of thing but I was told it could be of some use.

Seeing as I'm new to the area I was hoping some of you would be so kind as to point me in the direction of a reputable store for texts. Not the Twilight and Harry Potter sort. Real books of the new age and old.

And also a decent bar or two would be lovely.

So, I finally know who my godly parent is. My father is Poseidon. I suppose the fountain and toilet incidents make sense now. I can control water apparently. I found out during a game of Capture the Flag....a demigod version of Capture the Flag that includes the chance of death. First I was attacked by Clarisse, a daughter of Ares, who wanted to get back at me for the aforementioned bathroom incident then I was attacked by a Hellhound. Both times I was healed when I touched a nearby creek and once I defeated the Hellhound, a glowing trident appeared over my head, which meant that Poseidon had claimed me as his son. It seemed to be a pretty big shock to everyone.

You would think that finding out who my father was would answer a lot of questions, but it's only left me with even more.

Speaking of parents, my mom and Paul arrived this weekend so I'm out of the dorms and in the new house. We spent the weekend unpacking the moving van. I'll miss New York, but it's nice having my mom and Paul out here.

So, it seems I've gotten my very first item from my dreams. It's a Yankees baseball hat. I haven't put it on just yet because I don't know what to expect, but in my dreams the hat made me invisible.

I used it during a game of capture the flag! And we're not just talking regular capture the flag here. We're talking Greek demi-god capture the flag. Serious injuries and all. It's not something to be messed with.

And Percy? Sorry.

Someone in one of my classes said that this was a good place to try and get to meet some new people. Here goes, I guess.

My name is Piper McLean, and I'm a college freshman at USC. Hi, I guess.

When your dad asks you to be his champion, there is no other answer than yes. Mostly because Sekhmet is totally unreliable as a protector. Well, unreliable isn't exactly the word? More like she just kills everything. Maybe that is unreliable. Probably. Anyway, she does the job, but she goes too far. So I get the joy of being Ra's champion. Basically, I am the Eye of Ra now? Being a dream!goddess is a little confusing. But I mean, I am the goddess of cats (and protection and other things), so I don't see a problem here. I'm a little jealous of dream!me. Her dad's not old and senile and he knows what he's saying most of the time

Nope. No. This is not happening. If I say no enough times, maybe it'll stop

I feel like I've turned in about a million job applications already. Even if I know it's definitely not even close to that many.

I don't know how so much gets packed into one dream. It's like the longest movie I've ever seen. Too much to even type long. I've got it all written down, though. Just in case. On top of that, things just keep getting more and more strange. I wasn't sure that could happen after watching my friend turn into a tree.

At least it's summer break and I've been able t enjoy myself some. I love reading at the park.

[ Private to Percy ]

What would you say if my dreams were identical to yours? Like I dreamed the same thing you did and then some.

Apparently when you're part of a camp full of Romans, War Games is something you do. I guess it makes sense in a way. You learn how to strategize and all, but someone died. Something wonky was happening with souls, so she came back like a few minutes later, but...

We won, though. Me and the two people I was with. So there's that. Also I can sense underground tunnels now, which I couldn't do before

I want to say I understand this whole dream thing, but I'm pretty sure I still don't understand. You talk about them like they happened. Really happened.

So I got on the computer at the library and I got an e-mail about this place? I didn't know the e-mail address, which is why I was going to ignore it, but I guess curiosity got the better of me. It's a good thing I'm not a cat, I guess.

Um. Hi. I'm Luke Caste and I'm sort of new to the area.

Seeing people from here in my dreams is so weird I guess our dreams are the same dreams, but I don't remember any of whatever he was talking about

I keep wanting to find things from my dreams strange, like the idea that a boy just ran across the highway carrying a goddess, but everything's already so surreal and strange that I don't think that anything is going to surprise me ever again. Either that or something really normal is going to happen and it'll be the surprising thing.

Just once I wish the tabloids would report on something I actually did, instead of something I didn't. Getting suspended for punching a frat boy in the face is way cooler than sleeping with a guy I've never even met.

It's safe to say my dreams are continuing on, and they certainly aren't sunshine and daisies. I think it's important I write all of this down to look back on later. Anyway -- We did run into a satyr! And Percy, you're going to find this strange I think, but the satyr's name was Grover. He promised to take us to a safe place, but he wasn't really great with directions and we ended up taking one too many wrong turns.

Right into a Cyclop's lair. A Cyclops! You know, just when you think you can't find anything weirder? Things gets weirder. Of course I was the only one who wasn't captured which meant little seven year old me had to figure out a way to save everyone because I wasn't about to just let them all die. Not after everything. Eventually, I was lucky enough to find them. Not so lucky for them I found them hanging over a pot. Not a very promising happy ending for them, really. Things didn't get any better from there. That mean old Cyclops tried to trick me by using my Dad's voice! Now, that's just cruel and unusual punishment for a seven year old. But you know what? That Cyclops wasn't going to fool me. I stabbed him in the foot! I stabbed him! Thankfully, I was able to untie Thalia who was able to do the rest for me.

You would think that things would have gotten better after that, but they didn't. More monsters kept coming, and we couldn't outrun them. And Thalia, she ..stayed behind so that the rest of us could escape. I can't really explain what happened next, but I know it wasn't good for Thalia. Before I knew it she was ..a pine tree. A tree.

A real life tree!

We made it to where we needed to be because of her. I know things would have been worse if it wasn't for her. I could just tell. We made it to Camp Half-Blood, but she didn't make it there with us.

I think I need a vacation from these dreams.

I got two surprises this morning. The second was better than the first. First, I woke up to find the pen from my dreams on my nightstand. The pen that is actually a sword. I was about to uncap it when there was a knock at the door and I was extremely surprised to see my mom standing there. My mom and Paul had just been out here last month so she was the last person I expected to see. Turns out her and Paul are closing on one of the houses they made an offer on when they were here and she came out to show me which one and surprise me. It's funny cause I should be the one surprising her on Mother's Day.

These dreams are coming a lot more frequently and sort of in succession it seems.

Apparently, after I ran away I apparently used a hammer to fight off monsters. I was seven. Fighting with monsters. And a hammer. How utterly ludicrous is that? On the bright side, I managed to meet two people who seemed to actually believed what I had to say, and who were like me. Of course, they were much older, but I felt safe with them. I mean, I felt safe with them after I tried to attack them with my hammer because I thought that they were monsters. They told me that their names were Luke Castellan and Thalia Grace. Luke promised to not let anything hurt me, and they let me run away with them. He promised to be a better family than the one I Had left behind, and I Have to say that was incredibly appealing given how little my family thought of me. Luke even gave me a bronze knife! Again, I'm seven and now have a knife to fight off monsters, but it was the thought that counted, I think. He wanted to make sure I was going to be able to really protect myself. I have to say, though, the hammer had treated me well.

We spent so much time together, the three of us, fighting monsters and making hideouts.

We also ran into the Hunters of Artemis who tried to recruit Thalia. She didn't go, though. She wanted to stay with us, and I was so grateful for that, I think.

I woke up feeling like I was missing something -- someone.

These dreams and studying for finals don't mix well. And I thought having ADHD and dyslexia and studying didn't mix well, but this is worse cause now I keep getting distracted from studying to think about the dreams.

When we got back to school, I overheard Mr. Brunner and my friend Grover talking about how my life was now in danger. It made me really suspicious about what was going on after the whole being attacked by my other teacher thing. Then at the end of the school year, Grover wanted me to wait for him at the bus, but I was still really suspicious about what was going on so I went home by myself. In the dreams, my mom was married to this really gross guy named Gabe who enjoyed nothing more than harassing me. When I got home, he was playing poker with his friends and hit me up for money. I don't know what my mom saw in this guy. I mean, he had this weird smell and was just horrible. Luckily my mom came home soon after and said me and her could go to Montauk for the weekend, which was fine with me cause it'd get us away from Gabe. It's kind of funny that we were going to Montauk cause that's where I used to spend time in the summer.

That same night though things started to get even weirder. First Grover showed up outside our cabin without pants. That's not the weirdest part though. From the waist down, he was a goat. My best friend was a satyr and I had no idea. Not that I knew satyrs actually existed or anything. So Grover told us we had to leave cause we were in danger and my mom just went with it. We got int he car and she started driving like a freakin' race car driver and then a hurricane hit and we ended up getting struck by lightning. Turns out, we had been chased by a Minotaur and it really wanted us dead. It ended up injuring Grover then it...I don't even know what it did, but it grabbed my mom and she disappeared in a flash of light. I was so angry that I somehow broke off one of it's horns and stabbed it with it. I killed a Minotaur! I stil can't even comprehend it. I pulled Grover over some hill after that then passed out.

I woke up in real life after that and couldn't get back to sleep and haven't been able to study since. If I fail cause of these dreams, I won't be happy.

You know that finals are starting to get to people when you go in the elevator and find four girls sitting in the floor around a monopoly board and just staring at you because you're interrupting them in the one place they can forget about essays, tests, and everything else for just a little while. I'm sorry, I'll just use the stairs for awhile. And good luck to whichever one of you is playing as the dog piece.

It's nice to have a break from the spiders and the monsters, but it also is a little bit of deja vu. It feels like my dream is playing out something that I've already lived through. I know it's because of the spiders and monsters that I left home in my dream, but it still felt the same as when I was younger. It's a very strange feeling.

In other news, do boys honestly think that whistling at a girl is going to somehow attract that girl to them? You look ridiculous when you do that, and you should probably never do it again.

Ever.

Are the Romans insane? Seriously? You better not show any weakness or this giant wolf will eat you? Ugh. Can I retract my enlistment? I didn't even ask for this!

I'm out in the world, having black outs whenever I try to think about the past, but wait! Don't show any weakness, 13 year old girl or a wolf is going to eat you, because being a Roman means go into battle and never be afraid. Great

What a great time to be a Roman demigod. I am so pleased.

So, my pre-Algebra teacher turned into some crazy monster and attacked me in my dreams. But then my Latin teacher showed up and gave me a pen. A pen that turned out to be a sword! I don't even know how that's possible, but when Mrs. Dodds attacked me again, I used the sword and turned her to dust. I don't know which part was weirder though; the pen sword or the fact that when I got back to the school bus, no one knew who I was talking about when I mentioned Mrs. Dodds. I don't understand what is going on in my dreams. It's just really bizarre.

I guess sneaking out of the Underworld is a thing? Apparently. Only it's 66 or 67 years in the future now.

Also I've never been so happy to have my own body. No offense, Stiles.

[Filtered to Nico]

Thank you for saving me. I don't know if I should say anything, but thank you

I saw the funniest sight today while on a coffee run for work. There was this doll, maybe two feet high, just walking down the street with a muffin in her hand.

The animatronics were flawless! It was really like a porcelain little girl just meandering down the streets of Orange County. Does anyone know if it was a promotional stunt? Perhaps Pixar's new project?

So I thought that first dream I had was a fluke, but I had another one when I fell asleep while studying and it feels different than other dreams I've had. So, the first one, I was on a field trip and I was like twelve and we were at the Museum so I thought it was just another one of those weird school dreams I have sometimes. In this new one though, it continued from the last one and that never happens. This girl came up to me, this girl who is like the school bully and she was doing what most bullies do and somehow the fountain nearby completely drenched her. Like, the water deliberately came out of it and drenched her. It was really weird.

The Shattered Sight Curse was interesting. Horrible and interesting. David and I argued while locked in two separate cells at the Sheriff's station so that we wouldn't try to hurt each other then Regina and I fought physically, because she threatened our baby. I actually threw her through a plate glass window. We really made a mess of the Sheriff's station. I feel bad for David and Emma cause they'll have to fix what we broke. At least the spell was broken before Regina and I could kill each other.

Whoa, waking up to find a motorcycle out in my driveway isn't a bad way to wake up. Knowing that it can fly? Makes it infinitely better.

I don't care if it is only a few more weeks until the end of the semester - I can't live with my roommate anymore. Today was the last straw. How is it my fault that his girlfriend doesn't understand what the words "I'm gay" mean? We almost came to blows I don't care if it means moving back to my parents house.