Bonjour (French)!!!!!

I hope you are all doing well...

Sooo... Sam and the rest of the quest-members are already in Camp Jupiter...

So...

That's the cue for going back to the lost cities =D

Sooo...

I hope you will enjoy this story... It's shorter than I had actually wanted it to be...

But still...tomorrow's chapter will be longer, I promise.

- Your Umber

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Rimeshire

Dex' POV

(I just wanted to give Dex more page-time. Poor guy, I always feel sorry for him... He has to stay in Rimeshire and work on some gadgets while the others save the world...)

Dex was shocked.

It couldn't be.

And Dex had a hunch what the Neverseen could have stolen from his room. After all they were always a million steps ahead of them.

He hurried towards his desk and opened a secret compartment hidden under the floor where he always hid the evader.

It was gone.

Dex let out a frustrated growl. "They have stolen the evader, Sophie. That's why my room was so messy. They searched for it and they found it."

He looked at Sophie.

She stroked a strand of her hair behind her ear. "We need to inform the others. How long will it take to build a new Evader?" She asked him. She was probably expecting an "In an hour I will be able to build a new Evader" for an answer.

But... That wasn't possible.

Not even if he worked without taking a break.

Not even with Sophie enhancing him.

So he stood up and started to pace back and forth in his room. "I will need at least three days to finish the new Evader. I need a sphere made out of Plactostrymatic diamond and Crystophran-"

Sophie cut him off by shaking her head. "I don't even understand a word. But start working on the new Evader. I'm sure your mom can buy you this Plac-, Placto- , whatever diamond you need. She is in Atlantis anyway. I will reach out to them telepathically and tell them to come here. But, in the meantime, gather the tools you need to build the Evader."

With that she reached her fingers to her temples and started transmitting.

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Sophie's POV

She reached out telepathically to her friends and their parents, the collective and Edaline and Grady.

And Keefe.

Were they still just friends?

Or something more?

They had kissed two days ago.

But she wasn't supposed to concentrate on that right now.

So she started transmitting.

Hey Guys! You need to come to Rimeshire right now. The Neverseen were in Dex' room. It's completely messed up and they have stolen something. I will give you the details after you come here!

After two minutes, everyone was standing in Dex' room.

Everyone meaning a lot of people.

She filled everyone on what had happened.

Including her encounter with those human-not-human Annabeth and Percy.

Their reaction was what she had expected.

Lots of talking, shouting, discussing and back-and-forth-pacing.

She sighed.

Mr Forkle noticed her sighing, put two fingers in his mouth and let out an ear-piercing whistle.

Suddenly the room became quiet and she had everyone's attention.

Keefe spoke first. "I bet Foster has an idea about who those Percy and Annabeth could be. She always has an idea."

"I don't have any id- Wait a minute!" Sophie smiled.

Keefe put on his famous smirk. "Told you! Our Foster is always the one with ideas!"

"That's not true! You all have cool ideas!" She argued. But that didn't stop her from blushing because of his compliment. She continued. "But I think I know what we could do! I could try to reach out for them telepathically. I heard their thoughts in my brain. Especially Annabeth's. She was the one who was thinking a lot. But I think, Fitz and I could use our cognate powers and I could transmit to them."

"That could work! Do you want to turn on your enhancing, Sophie? I think that would give us more power." Fitz replied.

So Sophie reached out inside herself, turned on her enhancing, which made a click-sound and took Fitz' hand.

Her enhancing had so much power that Fitz would have fallen down by losing his balance if Keefe hadn't caught him.

Keefe laughed but Fitz clearly grimaced.

Clearly, he was still mad at Keefe for kissing Sophie.

Sophie couldn't blame him.

She would've reacted the same.

But she still felt sad if she ever lost Fitz as a friend.

Fitz may have been a bad boyfriend to her but he was her best friend.

But she had more important things to do now.

So she took a deep breath, gathered all of her mental strength and transmitted "Annabeth" as loudly as she could.

The whole world had probably heard her.

But still.

No answer.

She had to transmit five more times before she received a response.

A panicked response, of course.

What the heck is this??!?!?!?

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- Umber