"Caly!" A whiny voice said.

"What!?" A female voice answered back seemingly annoyed.

"Can we cuddle?"

"Go cuddle your teddy bear, Valdez."

"You don't have to be so mean!"

"Daddy! Look at what I made!" What sounded like a little girl said.

"Is that-"

"Oh, my baby girl is growing up!"

"Leo that's a-"

"Good job, Ez!"

"Leo. That's a bomb. And it's gonna go off in ten seconds."

"Oh my goodness! That's awesome- wait- what?"

Insert lots of giggling and crashing here.

"Ezzi, give that back. Hey! Charles! Get your sister to stop running!"

"Yeah okay dad. Just let me attach this teeny weeny piece here and-"

"Charles...I will set you on fire."

"Dad, I'm too young to die. Just a sec."

BOOM!

"Calypso, that was a toy bomb."

"Oh I know."

"You're a biiig meanie!"

"Love you too."

"So, can we cuddle?"

"No."

"Fine. Ezzie! Let's cuddle!"

"No."

"Charles, let's cuddle!"

"Uh...no."

"Pillow! Let's cuddle. Yay!"

"Mommy, I saw Charlie put sugar in dad's tea. Lots and lots of it!"

"Wha- no I didn't..."

"Charlie..."

Knock knock.

That was me knocking on the Atlas cabin door.

Calypso opened the door when she saw Annabeth she immediately pulled her into a hug which Annabeth gladly returned. You see, much like Rachel, after she had come back with Leo, and after understanding the whole incident about me going to her island for that vacation, Annabeth and Calypso had grown to struck a bond.

She was wearing denim jeans and a red shirt instead of a traditional greek dress, caramel hair tied up in a pony tail. Another big change from after Leo brought her home.

A little girl came running up, clutching a stuffed teddy bear to her chest. "Auntie Anniebeth!" She squealed and ran into Annabeth's arms and started babbling about architectural stuff. Calypso laughed but it quickly faltered when she caught sight of me, Thalia and the rest of the army.

"What the-" she muttered. "Come inside, I have a feeling we have a lot to talk about."

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"So you want me to build a ship that can travel through space?" Leo cleared up, looking at me skeptically.

"Pretty much." Luke answered.

"Awesome." Charlie muttered from his chair over by a small table clattered with nuts and bolts and various other little scrap bits and pieces. Beside him, the metal suitcase whirred and poked a dragon like head out of its suitcase looking body. He saw me and he hummed excitedly when I smiled at him. It was like he looked right through my hood.

Leo smiled. "I have an idea." He looked between us, but directing it more towards Annabeth. "You wouldn't mind if it looked like warship, would you?"

Annabeth smiled. Leo took that as an okay sign. "I'll need help. Lots of it." He unfastened a piece of parched paper hanging from the billboard over a desk and passed it over to me. It was a crayon drawing of a very familiar looking ship.

"That's the blue print." Leo said.

Luke peered over my shoulder and raised an eyebrow skeptically.

All I did was grin at the paper and share a look with the 'metal suitcase'.

* * *

The rest of the day was spent by building the Argo III. Jason, Piper, the whole of the Hephaestus cabin and some other willing volunteers all gathered to help including Beckandorf, Silena, Luke, Bianca, Me, Thalia, Zoe, Annabeth, Nico, Will and a bunch of others.

Calypso and Charlie, Leo's ten year old son was also helping out. And his daughter, Ezperanza was walking around the place, giving everyone moral encouragement.

I think Beckendorf was a little surprised and honoured when he realised the meaning behind Charlie's name.

Bianca worked with Nico and Will, and I could tell that she was enjoying every moment of being with her brother.

Nico seemed to enjoy it too, though he seemed a little bit confused, he was smiling a lot more than usual and added with the fact that Will was by his side he looked happier than I'd ever seen him.

Zoe and Thalia were acting as if they were long lost friends, laughing over jokes as they helped with getting the equipment.

And of course there was Luke drifting around the place helping, but ending up near Thalia most of the time, and she didn't seem to mind it.

The area in the middle of Bunker 9 was being cleared up for the ship and people were collecting materials and gathering up equipment.

Festus was clonking around inside in his full dragon form, which gave the Chaos army a bit of fright but Silena, Beckendorf and Annabeth exchanged looks with a knowing smile, and I saw, Beckendorf's gaze flicker towards mine for a moment longer.

(A/N Percy Jackson and the Bronze Dragon short story for anyone who's confused.)

By noon, Hazel, Frank and Reyna had arrived and part of the hull had been laid down. There were lots of hugs and welcomes. Ezperanza squealed and ran over to the little curly haired girl holding onto Hazel's arm. The two of them ran over to a little corner and started chatting animatedly. Ezperanza even took some scrap metals from around her and morphed them into a tea set and the next minute they were playing tea party.

Charlie walked over to Hazel's and Frank's older daughter tentatively and said hi. She had long black straight hair and eyes that looked like a mix between a gold colour and brown.

Annabeth was sitting in a corner, at a little work top, drawing up some blue prints when I wandered over.

She looked up from her work and smiled, but I could tell it wasn't sincere. "Hey." She muttered.

"Hi." I replied, sitting down next to her on the bench. "Pretty cool design." I added peering at her drawings. "You gonna be an architect or something?"

She smiled. "I am an architect."

"Cool." I said, smiling back at her. "So Ariel is-"

"Yeah." She answered, looking away. "And- she's around sixteen now and- I didn't even see her grow up and I'll probably never see her ever again and-"

"Hey it's okay." I assured her, taking her small hand in mine. "We're going to find her. No matter what the cost is."

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A/N.

Hiya guys! I feel like screaming for joy! School holidays! Woohoo! I'm just gonna read, read and read some more. I think I might re read the Percy Jackson and HOO series from top to bottom. I'm am seriously obsessed. No kidding. Just yesterday, I stared at the corner of my room, laying on my bed reflecting on how far Percy has come. How much he and Annabeth faced. I mean seriously! They were freaking twelve years old!!! Ahhhhhhh! I'm gonna cry now!!!

Okay anyways, this chapter is dedicated to Human_Being. I was reading Handcuffs, Kisses and Awkward Situations. The chapter where the little girl Gracie comes in and I read your comment about your life and swear I literally cried. Then I checked your profile and let me tell you, sometimes I wish I was some sort of catfish too because humans are just...gods. Then I read your quotes book and I cried some more. No kidding. I actually cried. Real tears. And you are a really awesome person okay?

Guys, go check out @Human_Being 's quotes book. It's truly amazing.

So that's all for now, bye bye!

Love ya all! I'll try to update soon!