Chapter 1

As I walked up Half-Blood hill lead by a Satyr who called himself Grover, I couldn't help but wonder how fast my life had changed. Just yesterday I was an average fifteen year-old teen living in downtown Manhattan, now I was ascending the hill to a summer camp that supposedly doesn't exist. See the thing is, this camp is for people like me, what was it Grover had called me...a Demigod? Either way it was all pretty intense, minus the fact that this Grover guy was half goat, and believe it or not that was the least surprising thing today.

I mean seriously, I was enjoying a regular day at my school hanging out with my friends, when all of a sudden goat-boy shows up saying I need to come with him, that everything would be explained. At first I thought he was mentally insane, but then I thought about what he meant. For as long as I could remember, my life has been very strange. Like when I was four, and I was found with a venomous snake latched to my arm, or when I was seven and I was playing outside, my elderly neighbor Mrs. Dodds walked by and gave me a look that beamed with pure evil, then she hissed and ran off.

Could this boy explain everything? Right now I was starting to think he could. I was so mixed up in my thoughts I hadn't realized Grover had been rambling on the entire time. When I finally tuned in he was talking away as if I was listening to every word. "...So then my friend Percy summoned a wave that doused Junipers tree, oh and Juniper is a wood Nymph, oh and my girlfriend, but that's not important I'm sure you couldn't care less..."

"Uh...Grover" I cut him off

"Yeah" he replied

"I kinda...tuned you out"

"Oh" he said sadly

"It's not that your boring it's just..."

"Just what?"

"Uh...nothing...I just...your...uh"

"You were gonna say strange weren't you?"

"Maybe"

Grover just sighed and kept walking, we reached the top of the hill and there, right in front of me was Camp Half-Blood, I already knew I was going to like it here.

It was breathtaking, the camp was filled with green fields, there was a large strawberry garden where Satyrs were playing what looked like pan flutes, and the music seemed to make the plants grow. There were cabins decorated in all kinds of different styles, and looked like they formed the shape of the Greek letter Omega, there was a house on a hill that looked like a farm house, there was a table and chair out front and a lake in the middle of the camp. I had so many questions, but before I could ask anything Grover interrupted "This is it Nathan, Camp Half-Blood, you'll be staying here for the summer"

"I'll be staying here?" I said in amazement "which cabin?" I asked

"Don't know, we haven't determined who your godly parent is yet"

"Godly parent!"

"Oh" he said embarrassed "I always forget to mention why your called demigods, see, one of your parents is a Greek God"

"You mean like Zeus or Hephaestus?"

"Yeah like them, when you get claimed we'll be able to assign you your cabin, but since you're undetermined you'll be put in the Hermes Cabin"

"So my father is a Greek God?"

"If your mother's a mortal then yes, Demigod means half-human and half-god"

"Now enough talk" Grover said, "let's get down there"

After he said that I couldn't get down the hill fast enough, I ran down the hill while the other campers walked forward, coming to greet me. I finally got to the bottom of the hill; campers were horded around to meet me. I'll say, it's the most attention I'd ever gotten in a while. The campers came up swarming around me trying to introduce themselves. There were so many of them waving and trying to get my attention, when all of a sudden a loud voice cut through the noise "Calm Down" all the campers quieted and stepped aside as a man, no a horse, no a horse-man Approached me. What was it they called them in Greek Mythology... a centaur? "Hello there young one", the centaur said to me "I am Chiron, camp director, and you?"

"I...I... I'm Na...Nathan West"

I hadn't realized that Grover had caught up, he nudged me with his shoulder as if telling me to show some respect. "Its fine my dear satyr, I do not blame young Nathan for being so surprised, it is all very much to take in at once. Now, let's give Mr. West some time to get acquainted, once you're ready Nathan, go see Perseus Jackson, he will give you a tour of our little camp. Afterwards come find me, we have much to discuss Nathan, much to discuss." And with that he trotted off.