I was walking out of my last period creative writing class (yeah boring I know!) and I went to my locker. I got all of my stuff and went down towards the side entrance to wait for my older brother, Christian. I sat down on the floor in an empty hallway and felt eyes on me. Not unusual for grade nine's in high school; we were the new kids, fresh meat if you put it that way. I plugged in my Ipod and stuck the headphones in. I swear I only closed my eyes for a minute and there was a sudden burning pain in my right shoulder. My eyes shot open and I was horrified at the warm sticky wet sensation that was running down my shoulder. My eyes were spotting with black dots; I grabbed my shoulder and cried out in pain, the cut was obviously very deep. I grabbed my backpack that weighed a ton, but had all my necessary items; for example, cell phone, sharpie markers, everything. It was just a normal backpack, well, normal for me. It was black and silver; my two favourite colours; it had straps on it that were supposed to be used to hold a skateboard, but I wasn't any good at that. I stumbled towards the girl's bathroom, it was only twenty feet away but it seemed to take me forever to get there. Once I got inside it, I dropped my bag and turned on the tap. I grabbed a whole bunch of paper towels and soaked them with the warm water. I slipped off my sweater; my grey tank top was now a deep crimson colour. I closed my eyes and pressed the paper towel against my right shoulder, I mentally winced. The pain sort of subsided but was still there. I opened my eyes again and screamed. A big warm hand covered my mouth before the scream could fully develop. I thrashed against the huge body behind me; the pain in my shoulder was officially nauseating. I bit down as hard as I could on the hand, it immediately dropped,

'MY SHOULDER!' I screamed.

The person let go of me and I dropped to my knee's clutching my injured arm. Someone dropped down beside me but I was too concentrated on not passing out to look who it was. Whoever it was removed my hand from my shoulder and looked it over, occasionally poking and prodding it. All they were doing was making it hurt even worse, I turned my head to tell them to stop and ask them who they thought they were but the words stuck in my throat. The guy kneeling beside me had medium jet black hair, the greenest eyes I have ever seen and a very worried expression on his face. Im pretty sure I looked pretty stupid, my mouth was hanging wide open.

'Who- Who are you?' I managed to get out.

'That doesn't matter yet, we need to get you out of here. You're lucky I found you when I did. You wouldn't have survived against that thing.' He put an arm around my waist and helped me up off of the bathroom floor. He grabbed all of my stuff and slung my bag over his shoulder.

'Wait, what thing?' my head was spinning, I felt completely nauseous.

'That doesn't matter. What's you're name?' it took me a minute to remember my own name, I wasn't thinking straight.

'Uh, um …'

'Ill ask later. My names Percy.'

'Hi Percy.' I said giggling. Everything seemed funny to me now; including his very unusual name.

'What's so funny?'

I giggled again. Nothing it-you're name reminds me of someone ive read about.'

'Oh really now? What were you reading?' I tried to remember, something we had to read in class last year …

'I don't know!' I squealed.

'Ok, we need to get you out of here. You're sort of freaking me out here.' I squealed again, he quickly led me out of the school which seemed to be abandoned. We walked outside towards a big black SUV. It couldn't be his; he looked no older than me, maybe a year older?

'This cant be yours!' I giggled, seriously? This was getting really annoying. But that was the nauseating part, whenever I got hurt, or was bleeding kind of badly, I was always giggly and highly girly. Im normally not girly though my curly blonde hair might lead people to think so, my charcoal gray almost black eyes change their mind; and put them off balance. Another side affect of me being seriously injured is my non-stop babbling.

'My birthday is on August 18th, im fourteen, my mom's name is Claire, and my brother's name is Christian, my best friends name is Madison, and her birthday is on September 29th, and I wa…' he cut me off by putting his hand over my mouth again, it only made me giggle even more. We'd finally reached the car, he opened the door and I slid into the backseat. He slid in beside me. There was a girl in the driver's seat with short black spiky hair and she wore punk clothes. The radio was blaring my favourite song by Green Day; boulevard of broken dreams. I started singing along. Im not a bad singer, im actually really good; and no im not being conceited. The guy sitting in the front passenger seat turned around and smiled. I stopped mid-sentence. Holy SHIT he was gorgeous. His glossy black hair almost touched his shoulders and he had … black eyes? Almost like mine except mine were lighter. He had olive skin and a wicked smile. He started singing to the last verse of the song and Percy kicked the back of his seat,

'Shut up Nico! I think my ear drums are bleeding!' the punk girl whacked him in the arm,

'Shut it dead boy or ill have to shut you up the hard way.' I didn't want to know what that was about. I giggled again and they both looked back at me, I think I was close to feinting.

'Um, she's been doing that for like, the last twenty minutes. We need to get her to camp. Now.'

'Uh, yeah. On it Jackson.' I giggled again. Percy dug through my backpack and took out something small and electric blue; my cell phone. He scrolled through my contacts and dialled one. I didn't know who he called, but I listened to the conversation anyways.

'Hey. No, it's Percy. Yeah. Yeah, her shoulder. No, im bringing her to camp. Yeah I understand. Kay. Yeah, bye.'

The SUV shot forward at a frightening speed. So the really hot guy beside me's name was Percy Jackson? He sounded like a hero. I poked him in the arm experimentally,

'What's her name?' I said pointing to the girl in the driver's seat. He groaned,

'Stay away from her, that Thalia Grace.' He emphasized her last name and she looked in the rear-view mirror, electricity in her electric blue eyes.

'Watch it seaweed brain or I might be forced to kill you.' He rolled his eyes.

'And who is that guy?' I giggled and pointed to the black haired kid,

'That would be Nico Di Angelo; he's not that bad once you get to know him.' He rolled the passengers seat all the way back to that Percy's legs were all squished. I undid my seat belt and let Percy slide onto my side. I sat in the middle where there was a bit more leg room. Once I got my seatbelt done up, I got kind of woozy.

'Whoa. Don't feel too good, I just … need … a bit … of … sleep.' My eyes closed as I finished the last sentence. I leaned against Percy and he put his arm around my waist, making sure not to touch my shoulder. I wasn't sure if I was already dreaming, but Im pretty sure I heard the guy in the front say something like,

'Gods. Why does Percy get all the girls?'

Someone responded. 'You set yourself up Di Angelo.'

'Shut it Thals.' I heard a thump and I don't remember anything else.

When I woke up I wasn't in a huge SUV anymore, I was in a white hospital bed. My arm was all bandaged up and I could tell it was late at night, or very, very early in the morning. Maybe like 4 or 5. I had a bit of a headache but I sat up anyways. I looked around the dark room that was illuminated by harsh florescent lights. I got up off of the bed, and looked around; there were a few other kids in here, but they were sleeping. I figured I was in some sort of infirmary or hospital. I walked straight out the double doors and nobody seemed to notice. I walked around for a bit, I couldn't tell much of where I was because it was like, pitch black. Someone started walking beside me.

'Um, hello.' I said quietly.

'Hey.' I kind of recognized the voice,

'Its, Its Nico right?'

'Yeah. Though im not surprised, you seem to know Percy very well.' I don't think he could tell but I blushed really bad.

'Um, I wasn't really myself.'

'No, No I understand.'

'Oh. Okay. So what time is it do you know?'

'Um, yeah its 5:30.'

'And why exactly are you out so early?' I asked,

'The same reason you are? I don't know, I just wanted to take a walk.'

'I see. So um, where exactly am I to be precise?'

'You are at camp half blood.'

'What's camp half-blood?'

'It's where you come when you're a demigod, like me.'

'Demigod? Is that like, half human half god?

'Basically.'

'What Gods though?'

'Greek, like Hades, Zeus, Poseidon, Athena, Apollo.'

'Oh! Well my favourite is Artemis definitely.'

'Why?'

'I don't know, she just reminds me so much of myself I guess. Well, yeah.'

'Oh.'

'So im really a demigod?'

'Pretty much.'

'Well shit.'

'What?'

'That means my brother wasn't lying. Now I owe him ten bucks.'

'You're brother bet you that you were a demigod?'

'No. he bet me that I wasn't completely human, you know, like brother sister banter.'

'When was that?'

'Last week.'

'Wait. Who's you're brother?'

'Christian, why?'

'Damn! I should've known.'

'What? Is he a demigod too?'

'Uh, yes. A particularly annoying one from the Hermes cabin to be exact.'

'So, if Christian's dad is Hermes … then is he my dad to?'

'Definitely not. Ever wonder why you have charcoal grey eyes and blonde curly hair?' he noticed that my eyes aren't actually black? For most people it takes them years to figure that out.

'How did you notice that my eyes aren't exactly black?'

'Oh, um … I don't know exactly.'

I giggled.

'What? Hey you know what ok? I just noticed because I couldn't take my eyes off them … shit. I didn't say that and nobody heard me.'

'Oh I did. And im never letting you forget you said it! HA! Oh, wait … who's you're parent? And mostly, who's … mine?'

'I don't know who you're dad is. But mine … mine is well you know …'

'Hades.'

'Yeah.

'That is so … hot.' I realized what I said,

'Wait. Um. This conversation never happened.' I started to walk away but he grabbed my wrist.

'You think im hot.' Teased Nico.

'Come one, shut up! You couldn't stop looking at my eyes!'

'Shut up jeez, give a guy a break!' I punched him in the arm,

'Gosh Nico.' I stopped and turned towards him; he stopped when I put a hand on his chest. I stood up on my tippy toes because he was way taller than me. I leaned in, but tricked him; I shifted my head ever so slightly to the right and kissed him on the cheek. I ran backwards giggling directly into someone. I hit the ground with a very audible thud,

'Shit! Im so sorry!' I said trying to get up. A big hand grabbed mine and helped me up. It was getting lighter; it had to be about almost 6 in the morning. I looked at the person trying to figure out who it was, I couldn't see very well.

'Um, im sorry, do I know you?' I said.

'I don't think so. Im Noah by the way, son of Zeus. And you are?'

'Uh, im Emylie. Daughter of I have no clue.' I said smiling. I looked back towards Nico. I kind of blushed. My plan hadn't exactly worked out to the fullest.

'Um. I don't think I properly introduced myself Nico. Im Emylie Williams. Nice to meet you.' I stuck out my hand towards Nico; his expression was a bit sadder than before Noah showed up. He shook my hand and let go quickly. I looked down.

'So um, does anyone know where I sleep? Or am I stuck in the infirmary until they figure out who my parent is?' I went over and sat down on a boulder that was down by the beach.' The guys followed me; I could tell they were sort of annoyed by each others company. Nico spoke first,

'Its you're dad right?' I nodded, at least, im pretty sure it was.

'Well then we just have to go through all the possibilities of male gods.' Said Noah. The guys sat on either side of me. I could tell what this was going to become.

'Well, okay. There's Apollo, Ares, Hermes, Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, and Hephaestus right?'

'Yeah pretty much.' Said Noah.

'Oh. Well, ill think about it I guess. Im pretty hungry. What time is breakfast?' I asked holding my stomach. My arm was still a tiny bit sore, im sure there's gonna be a scar.

''Um, in about half an hour actually. Its 6:30 now.' said Nico checking his Ipod touch. Before he could put it back in his pocket I jumped off the boulder, grabbed the Ipod out of his hand and ran down the beach giggling. I didn't turn back to see if he was following me, I just kept running. After a while I just stopped, sat down in the sand and started looking through the songs. I put the headphones on and hit shuffle. For a while I just sat in the sand listened to Nico's Ipod. I looked down from the Ipod and there was a shadow in front of me. And no, it wasn't my shadow. I spun my head around, I was now facing a pair of black skinny jeans, electric blue converse high-tops and a long extended hand painted with black nail polish. I looked up to see the punk girl 'Thalia' smiling down on me; I realized her outstretched hand was probably to help me get up. I pulled out the headphones and took the hand. She pulled me up. She was a tiny bit taller than me, but not by much.

'So what would you like? Thalia right?' she smirked,

'Breakfast time kido, and yeah. It's Thalia. And you are?'

'Oh, um right. Im Emylie.' She smiled,

'Nice to meetcha Emylie. Kay, we better go before the old horse gets mad at me for being late again.' I smiled, shrugged and followed Thalia down towards a huge Greek style pavilion. There was a line up to get in, but Thalia walked right past; I followed. She walked straight up to what I think was the head table, and there was a WHOA. Um, sorry, I mean centaur. There was a centaur standing at the end of the table arguing with a short, stout man wearing a neon purple leopard print jogging suit. Thalia leaned over and whispered something in my ear,

'Watch out for old D over there, and don't call him 'the wine dude' it pisses him off.'

'The wine dude? As in like, the Dionysus?'

'Duh.'

'Oh. Mmkay.' We walked up to the table and she tapped the centaur on the shoulder.

'Hey what's up Chiron? Um, ive got Emylie over here, and we should probably talk after breakfast. She's gonna sit with me okay?' he didn't have time to respond before I was pulled by the wrist towards a big white marble table. We both sat down and these girls who looked no older than ten and were a little green served us our food,

'Nymphs.' Thalia said like it wasn't a big deal.

'Oh. Kay.' We ate, not really in silence since the room was huge and there were at least one hundred campers. Mostly everyone at each table looked like sibling, I guess that's because they are all half siblings. Everyone was staring at me, the room went quiet. A few forks clattered against the marble tables, Thalia's being one of them. She was looking above my head, her mouth hanging open.

'Holy shit.' Was all that she said, I looked around, even the centaur (Thalia told me his name was Chiron) 'Chiron' was staring at me now. I looked around, everyone was staring now. The room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

'What? What's wrong?' I said quietly to Thalia. She'd finally managed to close her mouth.

'Hey Emylie, can you do me a favour? Look up.' I listened to her immediately. My head shot skywards and I almost fell backwards. There was a floating silver symbol above my head. The image of a silver bow and arrow. Ooooooooooooh shit. This is NOT good.

'This isn't good.' I got up and walked out of the dinning pavilion with at least one hundred pairs of eyes on my back. All I could think of was; how the hell did my life go from being at least sort of normal yesterday to being the daughter of a goddess who swore to be an eternal maiden? Like seriously? WHY ME? I don't know where I was, but I just sat down in the middle of (I think it was a field) the grass and I just sat there. Not sure what else to do. I still had Nico's Ipod, so I took it out, put the headphones in and blasted the music. Im not sure when I fell asleep after that.

Someone shook me awake. My vision was blurry. I wiped my eyes, Noah was kneeling beside me, and his black hair was shading his electric blue eyes. Gosh, I probably looked like I just got in a fight with a comb and the comb won. Yup, probably. I blinked a few times, clearing up my sight. I sat up a bit,

'Uh. Hi Noah. What's up?'

'The sky, the clouds. Possibly a Russian spy satellite? I don't know. But what I do know is that you are needed at the big house, like, now. so up ya get!.' He grabbed my waist and pulled me up. I let a slight squeal and found my balance. Noah Laughed at me.

'Hey! It's not funny you know.'

'What are you talking about? It's hilarious.' I faux punched him in the arm.

'Hey!' he grabbed my hand before I could punch him again. My smile dropped and turned into a pout,

'No fair! You're stronger than me!'

'What's you're point? Im also taller than you.' He smiled a goofy smile and raised an eyebrow. I gave up fighting for the control of my own wrist, and I started walking again. Noah's hand slipped into mine. I stopped. He did too.

'What?' he asked honestly confused.

'Well I can't exactly hold you're hand. I barely know you.' His smile faltered a bit,

'Oh. Yeah I guess. But they seriously need you at the big house. All the kids of the big three, and well, you.' I shrugged and kept walking towards the big blue farmhouse that was called 'the big house'. When I got to the porch, Chiron Percy, Nico and Thalia were waiting for me. Noah followed quickly behind me.

'So, um. Yeah this is extremely awkward.'

'Well awkward isn't exactly how I would put it. Strange is far more suitable for this situation. I have been sent an Iris message from Lady Artemis wishing to meet you on Olympus.'

'What? Like when?'

'Like now.' he said in a false mimicking voice. I raised an eyebrow.

'Thought so. So, um, how do I get there?' I asked.

'well, Argus is waiting for you down at half blood hill with the camp van. One person may go with you.' I could hear the silent pleading coming from Noah, Nico and Percy. Sorry guys, tough luck.

'Thalia, will you go with me?' she shrugged,

'What have I got to lose?'

'Kay lets go.' I started walking towards the porch stairs, Thalia walked with me.

'Good choice.'

'For what?'

'Taking me duh.'

'Oh, yeah.'

'Seriously? Did you not hear the silent pleas of take me with you! Take me with you! From my idiot brother, dead boy and seaweed brain?'

'Um, yes I did.'

'Well then, you've got followers! Bet you didn't have those at high school.' She said in a sing song voice.

'Yeah, I know. You're brother tried to hold my hand today.'

'Wow, awkward.'

'Definitely.'

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