Challenge 1 Part 2

Hazel woke up in her bed.

At first, she was unfamiliar with where she woke up, then she realized that she was in one of the houses in New Rome.

She turned to her side, and saw that she was sleeping with an older version of Frank.

"Frank?" Hazel whispered softly.

Frank opened his eyes blearily. "Hazel? It's like 1 AM, what's up?"

"Can we talk?" Hazel asked.

"Are we breaking up?" Frank asked, sitting up. "Everyone knows that if a girl says can we talk, something's up."

"Something's up, but we don't need to break up," Hazel said, getting up. "I hope we don't, honestly. Can I make us some hot chocolate, then we can have a conversation?"

"Sure," Frank said. "You're not really giving me hope."

"Let me just make the hot chocolate, then we can talk," Hazel said.

Five minutes later, Frank and Hazel were sitting on their couch, holding their hot chocolate.

"So, what's wrong?" Frank asked.

"Did I always go around naked?" Hazel asked, gesturing at her nudity.

"No, but - wait, what, why aren't you wearing clothes?" Frank asked.

"It's a long story, Frank," Hazel said. "I guess we can start it with the day we died."

Five minutes later, Frank was holding his head in his hands.

"So, this world isn't really real?" He asked.

"As far as I understand, no," Hazel said.

"And in the real world, the Pit crashed out and destroyed the world, and the Fates only response was to choose Percy to be the New King of Olympus, but to also give him a harem, a harem that you're part of?"

"That's the short answer, yes," Hazel said.

"And the only way for you to bring me to the new world would be to gender change me, bring me to Percy's harem, and join you guys?"

Hazel bit her lips. "If it helps, I think you'd make a beautiful girl?"

"No, Hazel, it doesn't help," Frank said, but his lips twitched.

They sat there in silence for a few moments.

"Alright, I'll do it," Frank said. "This is crazy."

"That it is," Hazel said, throwing an Olympaball at Frank, who caught it.

"See you there," Frank said, then he disappeared.

The ball sat where Frank had been, beeping down like a bomb.

Suddenly, it flashed, and when Hazel could see again, there was nothing there.

As if Frank had never been there.

Hazel sighed, then she got up and made a rainbow over the kitchen sink.

"Fleecy, do me a solid and show me Nico DiAngelo," she said firmly, tossing a coin at the rainbow.

The rainbow shimmered for a second, then it cleared up to show Nico.

"Hazel?" Nico asked, looking at the Iris message.

"Yeah," Hazel said. "Look, Neeks, can you shadow travel over here? There's something I have to tell you."

"Sure, there's some things I have to do first, and —"

"Now, Nico," Hazel said. "Please? Trust me, this is more important than anything you have to do right now."

Thirty minutes later, Nico was staring at his sister like she was crazy, but at the same time he wasn't sure what she just told him was impossible.

"Prove that everything you just said was true," Nico demanded.

"Nico, I'm not normally naked, am I?" Hazel asked. "That's something the show changed."

Nico frowned as he just realized Hazel's nudity, and the abnormality of it.

"Ok, I believe you, yeah," Nico said. "I'll come, but can I choose who you use your last Olympaball on?"

"Sure," Hazel said. "Honestly, I barely even had a plan. They just gave us the balls and sent us off. Who do you want to bring?"

"My boyfriend," Nico blushed. "I just don't want to leave him behind. I'll be back, give me a few minutes."

Nico shadow travelled away, then thirty minutes later he came back with Will.

"I only believe this because of Nico," Will said. "Now, if I find out you're lying..."

"I'm not," Hazel said. "Which one of you wants to go first?"

"Me," they both said.

"Fair enough," Hazel grinned, throwing both balls at them.

They caught the balls, then within moments, they flashed away.

Hazel sighed, then she snapped.

"Home Base."

After a moment, she disappeared, and the room looked like no one had ever been there.

Zoë found herself in a place she was very familiar with in her old life, before the Island.

The tent of the Lieutenant of the Hunt.

Only, she wasn't alone.

There were two beds, and two girls were sleeping on each.

They both moved groggily as they heard Zoë move around, then one of them realized that Zoë was an intruder, and she jumped at Zoë.

"Reyna, wake up!" Thalia called as she tried grabbing Zoë. "There's a weird person that looks like Zoë in our tent!"

Reyna immediately rolled out of her bed, and she grabbed Zoë.

Zoë pulled out an Olympaball and touched Reyna with it, transporting Reyna away.

While Thalia processed Reyna disappearing into thin air, Zoë grabbed Thalia and held the second Olympaball right over Thalia.

"Call thy Lady," Zoë ordered. "Else thou wilst join the other one."

Thalia gulped as she saw the seriousness in Zoë's eyes.

"Milady," she called out.

A minute later, Artemis teleported into the tent.

"Thalia, what do you - Zoë?" Artemis looked on in shock.

"This is a gift from the Fates," Zoë said, throwing an Olympaball at Artemis.

Artemis caught it, then she was teleported away, then Zoë used the last ball on Thalia.

"Home Base," she snapped, and the tent was empty.

Rachel woke up in her cave, then she stretched lazily.

"Well, I guess it's time to get to work," she said.

She grabbed a paintbrush, then she painted a portrait of the Island, drawing an image of the place she knew to be her prison of sorts.

After she was done, she walked to the Big House and found Chiron.

"Chiron, I've just drawn something, I'm not sure what it means, but I know who I have to show it," she told him.

"Shall I call a meeting?" Chiron asked seriously.

"No, I don't know why, but I feel like this has to be kept secret," Rachel said. "Send Katie Gardner and Piper McLean to my cave."

"As you wish, Oracle," Chiron did a half bow, then he trotted away.

Ten minutes later, Rachel, Piper, and Katie were in her cave, looking at the painting of the Island.

"So what's this, Rachel?" Piper asked.

"I don't know," Rachel lied. "All I know is that you have to touch these balls."

Rachel showed the Olympaballs to Katie and Piper.

"Alright," Piper said. "On 3?"

"1...2...3...," Katie said, then they touched the balls and flashed away.

Rachel sighed as she finished her mission.

Two hours later, Chiron would look for the girls in the cave, but he wouldn't find anyone.