AN: Hey guys! Thanks for checking out this Fanfic! This is my first Percy Jackson so please, please, please review and let me know how I'm doing! Oh yeah and for the sake of this fanfic, I made Nico 15 instead of 13!
*Disclaimer I am not Rick Riordan.
Chapter 1
I ran past the river hoping against hope I would make to the camp ahead of me. I was about waist deep in the rushing river, when the monsters caught up with me. Desperately I flung my arms around trying to propel myself further ahead.
"HELP!" I yelled, but some of it was drowned out as I swallowed some water. Still flinging my arms I heard a voice yell back,
"Stop moving your arms around like that!" so I started concentrating on getting to the other side. Soon I heard a whistling sound just above my head. Then a splash in the water told me, who ever helped me shot down one of the monsters chasing me.
As soon as I made it to the other side of the river, I looked up to see my rescuer. She had gold eyes, and beautiful brown. She dropped the bow she used, and helped me to my feet.
"Come on, we should get out of here before more of them show up." She said pushing me towards the camp.
"Thank-you so much." I said between breaths.
"No problem, I'm Hazel by the way." She replied, "You're lucky I had time to tell you to put your arms down, I'm not that good with the bow. For all I know I would have accidently shot you instead."
"Well I'm glad you didn't, I'm Erika." I replied slowly gaining my breath back.
When we reached the camp I had fully regained my breath, and started taking in my surroundings. It was like we were in a huge field, and there was this random town in the middle of it. The sun was burning brightly, and I began to sweat, I guess it didn't help that I had been running from monsters only moments ago.
"Who's that?" I heard voices ask as I followed Hazel.
"Ignore them; there hasn't been anyone new for a while now, so they're all excited." Hazel said smiling.
"Right." I mumbled under my breath.
"I'm taking you to Reyna by the way; she's one of our Praetors. Well actually she's the only one right now." Hazel finished slowly.
"Why's that?" I asked curiously.
"I should probably let her tell you herself."
"Oh, okay."
"Hazel, who is this?" I heard a voice ask just ahead of us. I looked up to see a beautiful girl, she looked to be a year younger than me, and that would make her 14.
"This is the new recruit that came in just a while ago." Hazel explained.
"Very well, will you follow me…" Clearly she was waiting for me to tell her my name so I quickly said,
"Erika, Erika Sommer."
"Right," she said, and turned and walked quickly away.
I basically had to jog to keep up with, and I kept on getting weird looks from people watching us walk… I mean jog by. I had totally forgotten Hazel was with us until I looked behind when I kept hearing footsteps following me. Eventually we made it to a building and I asked, "Where are we?"
"We are the principia." Reyna explained glancing at me. "Come on in I want to ask you a few questions before I let you go see Octavian."
"Who's Octavian?" I asked. I started to feel like I was the one asking all the questions.
"He's the camp augur. He's also a legacy, descendant of Apollo. He's got the gift of prophecy, supposedly" She answered.
"Supposedly?"
"You'll see later, for now just come inside."
Inside the ceiling glittered with a mosaic of Romulus and Remus under their adopted mama she-wolf. Lupa had told me that story a million times. The floor was polished marble. The walls were draped in velvet, so I felt like I was inside the world's most expensive camping tent. Along the back wall stood a display of banners and wooden poles studded with bronze medals. In the center was one empty display stand, as if the main banner had been taken down for cleaning or something.
In the center of the room, a long wooden table was cluttered with scrolls, notebooks, tablet computers, daggers and a large bowl filled with jelly beans, which seemed kind of out of place. Two life-sized statues of greyhounds—one silver, one gold—flanked the table.
Reyna walked behind the table, and sat in one of the two high-backed chairs. I wished I could sit in the other, but seeing as Hazel remained standing I figured I should too.
"So…" I started, but suddenly the two dog statues bared their teeth and growled.
"Easy guys," Reyna told them.
They stopped growling instantly, but for some reason they kept on watching me.
"Don't worry, they won't attack," Reyna said, "unless you try to steal something, or I tell them to attack you. That's Argentum and Aurum."
"Silver and Gold." I said instantly. I cover my mouth surprised. How had I known that? My face must have looked confused because Hazel answered my question.
"Don't worry the longer you're here the easier it will be to learn Latin. The meanings of some words will just pop into your head." She explained smiling.
"Oh, well I guess that's a good thing." I sighed.
"Okay, let's get started. I want to hear your story. Tell me everything." Reyna said looking at me with her brown eyes.
"Well I guess it starts in my home. I used to live in Salt Lake City, Utah. I had a father, step-mother sister, and brother. I never knew my real mother, and my dad never told me about her. No matter how many questions I asked he never gave an answer. And my brother and sister are really only my half-brother and half-sister.
"Then one day a monster came to our house, and attacked me. My step-mother yelled saying that it was all my fault that the house got in a huge mess, because the monster attacked me. I killed it using a kitchen knife. I was only fourteen at the time, and I decided the best thing for me to do was leave. I took some money from my dad, leaving him a note saying what had happened, and took a bus to Sonoma Valley, California. I don't know why I chose that place, but it just seemed right.
"Then Lupa found me, deemed my worthy to be trained, and she took me in as her cub. There I found out that my mother was Diana, goddess of the Hunt, and wild animals. I trained with Lupa for about seven months, and she decided I was ready to find the camp.
"So I spent about two weeks trying to find the entrance to Camp Jupiter, and I had monsters trailing me ever since I left Wolf House. Lucky for my Hazel saw, and helped me out when I was trying to cross the river. And that's it. There's nothing special about me, I just want to try and live a normal life here." I finished taking in a breath.
For a while Reyna studied me, and then she nodded and looked at Hazel.
"Take Erika to see Octavian Hazel, then the bath house, by then we should be ready to assign her to a cohort, if she is accepted, during the evening muster." Reyna instructed.
Hazel nodded, turned and started leaving. It took me a few seconds to realize that she had left. I had to hurry out to catch up with her.
"Where are we going exactly?" I asked once we were walking together.
"Temple Hill, that's where Octavian does his… readings." She said.
That's when I saw him. A boy, he looked to be about my age, pale skin, and untidy black hair. Even from a distance I could see his bright brown eyes. I stopped dead in my tracks, and Hazel looked at me.
"What's the matter?" She asked curiously.
"Who's that?" I asked still staring at the boy ahead of us.
Hazel looked around to see who I was looking at. She laughed a little, and turned back with a smile.
"That's my half-brother; his name is Nico di Angelo."
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