Three weeks after the battle with Gaea, from the view of Willow A. Switch.
I ran. I ran as fast as I could, which wasn't very fast considering that I was carrying my six year old cousin on my back and I was exhausted.
"I'm gonna have to stop carrying you now, Bryce." I panted to my cousin. He slid down my back and stumbled a little before taking off towards the hill that hosted Thalia's pine tree, the magic barrier for Camp Half-Blood. He ran through the borders and I let out a puff of air in relief. At least I wasn't holding him back anymore.
As I ran towards the hill, I let out a small groan of exasperation. I had to climb a hill now? I scrambled up the hill and a Cyclops lightly scratched the calf of my leg, causing me to stumble. I cried out and drew my imperial gold sword, slicing the Cyclops' head off and getting a blast of yellow dust in my face. I ran the rest of the way up the hill and slammed into the border.
"Blutige Grenze!" I yelled. I turned around and drew my other sword, made of celestial bronze. Man, was I glad that I chose that moment to turn around. A Hell hound came bounding towards me, and I sliced its chest with my swords, covering my entire self in yellow dust.
"Great." I mumbled. I vaguely wondered if I had to dry clean my clothes to get the stuff out. I saw another Cyclops running up the hill and I prepared to turn it into dust when it exploded a few feet in front of me. I squinted as a few specks of yellow flew at me. I frowned at the pile of dust, when I saw an arrow feather pointing out of the small pile. I turned around and waved at the archer who had shot the Cyclops down.
"You can come in now." He said. I smiled briefly and walked through the border without any resistance against me. I sheathed my swords and looked down at what had been a long sleeved white shirt and army green pants and white converse. Now they were all yellow. I ran my hand through my messy dark gold-blonde hair. My hazel eyes scanned the camp. Nothing had changed much except that there were craters everywhere. A few of the cabins had scorch marks on their roofs.
"Where'd all these craters and scorch marks come from?" I asked.
"Debris." The Archer said.
"Of what?"
"A very brave demigod and his metal dragon." He walked down the hill and Bryce came running up to me
"You're safe!" He exclaimed, hugging my stomach, I laid a hand on his back and knelt before him,
"And so are you. Which was the whole reason I came." I said, smiling at him, "Now, why don't you go follow Nancy, that girl over there who is waving at us." Bryce turned around and waved back to the girl from the Athena cabin. I stood and raised my hand in a silent hello, then headed for the Big House, limping a little from the scratch. I walked up to the porch to find Mr. D and Chiron playing a card game.
"Hey Chiron, Mr. D." I said as I took a seat at the table and started playing with them.
"You will address your camp director first, young lady." Mr. D said without looking up.
"You're not my director, Mr. D. Or have you forgotten that I am not a demi-god again?" I replied, throwing some cards down. Mr. D glanced up and heaved a sigh.
"Oh, its you." He droned. "I thought I had seen the last of you a year ago when you brought your cousin here."
"As did I." I droned like Mr. D "But I found another cousin of mine." I laid a card down and glanced at Mr. D's fiery eyes.
"Don't bother Mr. D; you know you don't scare me." I said. Chiron laid down all of his cards, and won the game. Mr. D got up and disappeared in an instant, leaving behind a faint wine smell in the air. Nancy and Bryce came up the stairs and Chiron rolled after them (He was in his wheelchair) trying his best to answer Bryce's many questions. I got up to follow, but the world turned black. I passed out.
I woke up what seemed a second later in a bed in a large blue room. Other than the bed, there was a wardrobe in the corner, and my backpack and my swords were on the floor next to it. I sat up and rubbed the sleep out of my eyes. I yawned and ran my hand through my hair. I felt better than I had in a month. I looked down at the clothing I was wearing. Somehow, they had gotten me in the pajamas that I had packed in my backpack. On the foot of my bed were the clothes I had arrived in. I got up and got dressed, and I looked out the window at the campers on the volley ball court and in the strawberry field. It was mid-afternoon. I watched Nancy, Will, the Stoll brothers, Clarisse, and a guy in all black with black hair, walk into the big house. I wondered what could be going on, and then headed for the showers. I had been to Camp Half-Blood so many times, that I knew the Big House inside and out. Five minutes later, I was sitting on my bed again, wondering what I could do next, when Connor Stoll came in.
"Chiron wants you at a meeting down stairs." He said. I got up and followed him into the ping pong room, where an argument was breaking out.
"I should be the one to go! I'm a better fighter than your whole cabin combined!" Clarisse yelled at a guy from the Hephaestus cabin.
"Yes, but I created a trap that will capture the Cyclops so that we can interrogate it!"
"Ha! Your machine couldn't hold a kitten!"
"OH? How about we test that out, on you!" The guy replied as he and Clarisse came face to face in a staring contest.
"Or, you could both go, and if one person's plan doesn't work, the other could try." I suggested, leaning against the wall behind Clarisse. They both looked at me and stared as though they knew this was a logical explanation, but they didn't want to admit it.
"Both of us? I couldn't stand in her presence without dying from the stupidity radiating from her brain." The Hephaestus kid said.
"That's it!" Clarisse started at the guy but two other kids from the Ares cabin grabbed her arms and held her back.
"Calm down Clarisse!" Nancy said, "You're not helping anyone."
"I agree." Chiron broke in, "How about you go outside and take a moment to cool off." Clarisse shook her cabin mates off and stomped outside.
"So why do we want a Cyclops?" I asked.
"Campers have been going missing after the war with Gaea, and the Stoll's saw a Cyclops taking one of their cabin mates." Will said.
"But it's not just the Cyclops." Chiron broke in, "I received a report earlier today saying that other monsters are capturing demi-gods as well. And it isn't just here, it is happening at Camp Jupiter too."
"Well then." I said, "We had better get to work,"