HI GUYSSSS This story has been dedicated to my best friend here on fanfiction, Candyland0530. She's just the most awesome writer, and she's just awesome period. I can't describe it. You seriously need to go read her stuff. She's got Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Harry Potter, Twilight, and Hunger Games fanfics that are just amazing. Go check her out. It's amazing!

Ok so this is based off a dream I had a while back. It takes place after Battle of the Labrinth but before The Last Olympian. I am simply writing what happened in the dream, with a few alterations and additions for the sake of continuity. My brain's pretty messed up sometimes when it comes to timelines and stuff like that. So if anything seems a bit off, or a little too AU, please let me know. I would love to either explain it better, or fix it!

Ok, "Vanilla Twilight" Belongs to Owl City, or Adam Young, if you prefer. If I use any more songs I'll try to remember to give credit, but as an initial disclaimer, they belong to their respective owners! I'm probably going to name each chapter after an Owl City song that I think fits. Why? I love Owl City, and this dream was conceived when I was sleeping listening to Mr. Young singing. haha

I'm not sure how quickly I will update this, I have just started my Senior year of High School and am now extremely busy. It may be a while...

I don't own Percy Jackson (don't I wish I did) I'm simply borrowing him and his world!

Gods I write a lot in my author's notes...sorry XD

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CHAPTER ONE. "Cave In"

Hi. My Name is Jamie. Yea, I know. Kinda normal, and not very exciting for an opening, is it? Well I can guarantee you that I didn't think my life would be this hectic. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

I'm a senior at my school, though I just turned sixteen last month. Take enough A.P. classes and you can do anything. But anyway, my mom, Linda Robertson, works nights at the local hospital. She wasn't married to my dad, and she doesn't even really know who my dad was. All she would say is that he had a beautiful voice, and that light followed him wherever he went. I just pushed that all off, she probably imagined all that. I mean, how can light follow a dude around? Impossible.

I walked up to my school, happy that this was the last day of school for me. Ever. Mom was happy that she wouldn't have to pay tuition any longer, I was just happy that I didn't have to sit through math class anymore. Numbers and I don't exactly get along. There are times when words don't either. They simply swim off the page and make me want to chuck my textbook across the room. But when I was writing songs, I couldn't write them down fast enough.

I was humming one of my favorite self-composed songs, "Vanilla Twilight" when I saw my best friend on the face of this earth. Percy Jackson. I was going to miss seeing him every day. I remembered his first day here. There was something about him that caused everyone else to shun him and stay away, but it drew me to him. Turns out he's hilarious, and a great friend. It was kinda endearing to watch him grow from a dorky teen to the handsome fifteen-almost-sixteen year old I now saw. But you didn't hear me say that.

I walked up to Percy, who was at his locker. He greeted me with the customary hug and ear flick, which I returned with a smile.

I suppose I should explain the ear flick. When we had first met, he sat in front of me in history class, and I had to flick his ear to keep him awake. He didn't wait to long to retaliate in kind. At first it was just to get on each other's nerves. Now it reminded us of the days before everyone at school thought we were dating, the time before teenage drama decided to slap us in the face.

"Morning, Jamie." Percy said, rubbing his ear, while I rubbed mine.

"Good morning, Percy." I said, smiling.

"You ready for your last day with this underling?" He joked, walking me to my class.

"OH shut up!" I said, "You're making this harder for me! Don't remind me!" I playfully punched his shoulder, and he pretended to be hurt.

"See you at lunch, dweeb?" He laughed when we reached my classroom door.

"At lunch, loser. And don't be late!" I snickered, going into the classroom.

At lunch, I got my last tray full of 'slops' as Percy and I called it, and sat at our usual spot to wait for him. Knowing him he'd be late again. I played with the grey mass that was the 'mystery meat', wondering when they would stop calling it that. Seriously, it didn't help the imagination any!

Someone sat down across from me, and I looked up with a smile, expecting Percy. Instead, I was met with the burly senior that had been following me around school for the past week. I internally groaned as my genuine smile disappeared, replaced by my fake one. I asked, not so politely, what he wanted.

"Nothing much..." he said, cracking his knuckles. I tensed. I wasn't scared, but I could feel a fight coming on. I really didn't need this the last day of school.

I got up with my tray, dumping it in the trash, and walked to the entrance where Percy would be coming from. I opened the door, turning left to try and find his classroom and ask what was taking him so long. If he had gotten in trouble again...

There were a few students heading to the lunchroom, but their numbers dwindled. I was getting lost already and I hadn't even left sight of the cafeteria doors yet.

Burly, as I had decided to call him, came out of the cafeteria, looking around. And strangely, sniffing, like a dog. He looked in my direction, and came up to me. Little too close for comfort.

"I didn't finish." he almost growled, "I just want to kill you. Nothing much. I promise, you'll barely feel it, and I'll eat you right afterwards!"

I felt like screaming, but there was no one around to help me. So I ran, and screamed.

I glanced back, and he was following me. But he didn't look like a person anymore. Behind me ran a monster. He ran so aggressively, he was yanking lockers off the wall as he ran, papers scattering everywhere. He looked like an ogre or something, only intensely more scary and lethal looking.

I was too busy looking behind me to see what I was running towards, and as a result I ran right into someone. Percy, in fact. I expected him to yell and run like I had, but instead, he pushed me behind him and pulled a pen out of his pocket.

I was about to scream at him for being insane. After all, who pulls out a ballpoint pen to fight a monstrous thing like that? But he uncapped it, and somehow it turned into this three foot long bronze colored sword. I just sat there with my mouth wide open as Percy ran up to the monster, who looked scared now.

The fight wasn't very long, but that didn't mean that it wasn't destructive. The hallway was completely destroyed, and the few students that were in the hall were screaming at the top of their lungs. Not that I blamed them.

Burly disappeared into a pile of yellow dust, and I just sighed. I was insane. Mom would just be thrilled about this.

Percy turned to me, asking in a panicked tone, "What did you just see?"

"I just saw you freaking turn a frikkin pen into a fraking sword and friggin destroy that thing into a flipping pile of dust!" I said all in one breath, effectively silencing me for a moment to catch my breath.

He nodded. "Good. Come with me, we can't stay here." He said, capping his sword-pen-thing and taking my hand. We ran out of the school, and I yelled at him again.

"Good?! How is this good? What the crap is going on around here?"

I noticed a gash on Percy's arm I hadn't seen before, red blood trickling down his arm.

"Oh my gosh!" I said, taking his arm, pulling him to a stop, and pointing it out to him. "Look at this!"

He looked. "Well there's nothing I can do about it right now." he said. "When we get to my mom's house I'll eat some ambrosia and I'll be fine."

"Ambrosia?!" I asked, then thought better of it, and continued, "This needs stitches! It's going to get infected, and God strike me down if I'm about to let my best friend-"

I was shocked into silence, as I watched Percy's once bleeding wound mesh itself together, healing into a pink scar, then flawless skin again. My mouth hung open, and Percy flexed his arm, testing it out.

"Strange.. there's no water around.." he said, confusing me further. There seemed to be no end to this weird day. Hopefully this was just a dream. I was about to ask Percy what he was talking about, and what the crap on a cracker was going on, when he started staring above my head.

"I think I know who your father is." he whispered.

"What the heck?! How do you know that!?" I almost shouted, "What would make you even say that?"

"Listen, I know there's a lot going on that you don't understand, and a lot of questions that you want answered." Percy said, taking my hand. "But you'll have to trust me. The police will be after both of us after what happened at school." he mumbled something about mist not covering up enough, then added, "I'll explain everything I can on the way. Do you trust me?"

I nodded, and we started running again. "On the way where?"

"My summer camp." he said. "We'll stop by my apartment real quick to pick up a few things we need, then we'll go."

I didn't know what on earth a summer camp could possibly have to do with all the whacko stuff that had happened today, but I didn't want to ask right that second. Percy obviously knew what was going on, or at least had an explanation, and I didn't. I had to trust him...

When we had reached the apartment, no one was home. Percy ran into his room, grabbing two empty sackpacks from a drawer, and filling them with first aid stuff, some weird squares, a jar of unknown liquid, and a few strange golden coins in each. He handed me one, an put the other on himself. He took one more gold coin, and wrote a note to stick on the fridge.

It read: "Mom, hi, it's Percy. There was an incident at school. Jamie needs to come to CHB with me. Like now. Tell Mrs. Robertson what's going on, I'm sure she'll understand. Love you, Percy."

"Let's go." he said, sticking the note on the freezer door, and opening the apartment door.

We walked around the edge of his apartment building into an alley. Why? I hadn't the foggiest. He threw the coin up in the air, and letting it drop into the shadow of the alley. It literally dropped into the shadow, and disappeared, like it had been eaten up. My head was starting to hurt from all this mystery.

Out of the ground, a taxicab rose up. Not a normal one either. Sure, it was shaped like one, but the color was all wrong. It was a smokey grey, and it didn't seem solid. It looked like it was made of smoke.

Percy opened the door. "Not my first choice either, but it's the fastest way to camp." he said, motioning for me to get in first.

I got in slowly, looking for a seat belt. I couldn't find one. There were three old ladies in the front seat, who seemed to be arguing over.. an eye?

Percy got in. "Camp Half Blood, please." he said, "And please try not to terrorize my friend like you did me the first time."

"Can't promise that!" the old lady in the passenger seat cackled.

"No, not in our contracts!" the one in the driver's seat added.

This was creeping me out.

"Now can you tell me what's going on?" I asked in a whisper-shout, still leery of the ladies in the front.

We started moving, and I really wished that we had seat belts. There was no way these old coots got their licence from New York DMV. They weren't even staying on the road. I decided to not pay attention to anything outside the cab. I had a feeling I'd get carsick if I did.

"Ok." Percy said, turning to look at me. "You remember in history class, about all the Greek gods and stuff? Well they're real. And they still control the weather and the seasons and stuff like that. And they all still have kids with the mortals down here on earth. Those kids are called demigods, or Half-bloods. I'm a son of Poseidon. So I can like, control water and stuff like that. My friend Annabeth that I tell you about? She's a daughter of Athena, so she's really wise and stuff. And my friend Grover? He's a satyr."

I nodded, trying to take in everything that was being explained to me. I was beginning to see why Percy's reports didn't always get the best grade. He had a certain way with words.

"And not only are all the gods real, their parents, the Titans, are real too. There's a war that's going to happen when a kid of the big three's," He paused to add, "That is, Zeus, Poseidon, or Hades." I nodded for him to go on.

"Anyway, when a kid of their's reaches sixteen, there's going to be a war between the Titans and the gods. Kronos, king of the Titans, is trying to escape from Tartarus, the deepest pit of the underworld. He's succeeded in that, he's now living in the body of a demigod named Luke. Kronos has all the monsters from the myths on his side, like the one that attacked you in school today."

"So, all of this exists, why doesn't anyone else know about it?" I asked.

"Well, there's this magical thing called the mist. It prevents mortals from seeing what really happens when stuff like the school incident happens. It twists their reality, and they often end up seeing something that just gets you into trouble." He said, sighing at the end, like it had happened to him a lot.

"But then why did I see what was going on?"

"That's where my statement about your father comes in. I know it was really random, but there is a good reason I said that. You're a demigod, Jamie. When your godly parent claims you, there's usually a little symbol above your head that tells others who your parent is. It appeared above your head after you healed my arm."

"Then who's my father?" I said warily, still not sure of what to make of all this Greek god stuff.

"Apollo, god of music, healing, and archery." he said, "And a bunch of other stuff I know I'm forgetting."

"That kinda makes sense I guess." I mumbled. I always had loved music, and had thought about becoming a nurse. "But why didn't my mom tell me all of this, if it's all true?"

"Well that's the thing. If you don't know you're a demigod, monsters can't sense you as easily." he answered, "Something about knowing who you are makes you a bigger target on their radar, I guess. They can smell us. It's kinda creepy. Your mom was probably protecting you from yourself, I guess."

I sat there, in shock. My whole life, was a lie. Well, kind of. And there was no way I could go back to the way it was. Not without monsters constantly trying to kill me, anyway.

"So what now?" I whispered, frightened.

"We go to Camp Half Blood." Percy answered, "It's safe there, no monsters can get in. You'll get to meet a whole lot of other kids like you, and some of your half-siblings too."

"So all half-bloods are related?" I asked, my heart falling for some reason.

"Well, on the god's side, it doesn't matter. I mean, if you and another person have the same godly parent, you're siblings, but if the gods that are you and your friend's parents are related, it doesn't matter. Its kinda hard to explain." he said. "Well, like you and me. If we were mortals, I'd be your cousin, but since our dads are gods, we're not. That's the best I can do right now.."

"No, it's ok, I think I understand." I said, my heart no longer sinking. This was strange.

I dared to look out the window, and regretted it immediately. We were flying through the forest so quickly I could barely make out the trees. Literally, through the forest. We passed through the trees without being harmed, but I still scooted closer to Percy. He seemed to understand, squeezing my hand reassuringly.

"Now that the girl knows her history.." one of the old ladies said, "She should know her future."

"I don't know about that.." Percy said, "When you did that to me I got confused, then when I found out what it meant I almost got killed!"

"Girl's future may not be like yours." the lady in the middle croaked.

"Yes, but it may also be worse!"

"Shut it! You'll make them leave without a tip!"

"Like I ever get to see the tips we get anyway! You're always stealing them!"

"I am not!"

"Ladies!" I said firmly, still uneasy but tired of their squabbling, "What is it that you have to tell me?"

"One that you hold close, will die. And their death approaches swiftly."

All three of them said together.

"We really should start charging for that." the one in the middle grumbled.

"BRAKE!" the passenger shouted, and if Percy hadn't held onto me, I would have flown straight through the windshield. Percy and I got out, the cab disappearing into the ground again. I shuddered. That was most definitely the scariest cab ride I'd ever taken.

"What the heck does that mean?" I said, "I mean, 'One that you hold close, will die, their death approaches swiftly' what kind of fortune is that?"

"It was clearer than mine, but I have to say it wasn't a good one." Percy said. "After we've checked in with Chiron, I'll IM my mom."

"Instant message?" I asked as we climbed a hill.

"Iris message. I'll show you later." he answered, cresting the hill.

At the top of the hill was a large pine tree, a golden sheep's fleece hanging over a branch. I took a startled step back when I saw something in the tree watching me.

We walked down the other side of the hill, heading towards a little house. The porch wrapped all the way around the house, and I could faintly smell strawberries. Percy knocked on the door, and I was met with something that majorly startled me.

A white horse, or more accurately, a white-coated centaur, answered the door.

"Hey, Chiron." Percy said. "This is my friend Jamie. Turns out, she's a child of Apollo. She got claimed after a mess at our school with a monster."

"Hello, Jamie." Chiron said, smiling. "You must have a lot of questions."

"Well, actually, Percy's answered most of them, for now." I said, unsure of what to think about this guy, or how to act around him.

"Well then, I'm sure Percy can show you to your cabin, and give you a tour around until it's time for dinner." Chiron said, "It was nice to meet you, Jamie."

"Yea, same to you." I said, shaking the hand he extended to me.

Percy and I walked away from the door and around to the other side of the house. There, I saw a row of cabins nestled in a little clearing, a lake, what appeared to be a volcano, and many other things that looked dangerous but fun.

Percy led me around, showing me the training areas, the rock climb, and the Pegasus stables. This place was getting more awesome every second.

"This is your cabin. You have quite a few siblings that you'll be living with, and they're all really friendly." Percy said, leading me past the Apollo cabin. It seemed inviting enough, much more friendly than the Ares cabin.

"What about you?" I asked. "Do you have any siblings here?"

"No. Well, I have one, but he's not here right now. He's working with my dad." Percy said, "His name is Tyson, and he's a cyclops. But he's the biggest softie ever when you get to know him."

I smiled. His cabin smelled like the sea, and the inside was so clean, I knew Percy hadn't been there in a while.

"Hey, I still have to IM my mom. Come on, let's go." He said, pulling me to the lake.

He asked for one of the golden drachmas in my pack, and I handed it to him. The water suddenly had a small jet coming out of it, creating a thin mist. A rainbow shone, and Percy tossed the coin into the rainbow. It disappeared.

"Sally Jackson, please." he said, and the rainbow shuddered, and then it was like I was watching television. Percy's mom stood in her kitchen, but something wasn't right. Her eyes were red and puffy, and she was sniffling.

"Mom?" Percy said, noticing his mother's condition.

"Oh, Percy." She said, "Is Jamie there? I have some bad news.."

My stomach dropped through my shoes. No, no this isn't what those old creeps meant.

"Jamie, honey." Sally said, "Dear, your mother.. she's, she's been killed. By an empousi"

I felt my strong walls crumble, and tears streamed down my face. I was breaking.

"I'm so sorry, sweetie. I love you."

I couldn't hear much of the conversation after that, but Percy finished speaking to his mom, and then walked over to me. I was now on my knees, crying. He sat down next to me, and wrapped me up in his arms, telling me that I would be ok.

I was clutching his shirt, and crying into his shoulder. Why did this have to happen to me? Why couldn't I just be a normal kid? Why did my mother have to be taken from me?

"Hey," Percy whispered to me, "Believe it or not, I know how this feels."

"How?" I said, my voice cracking through my tears.

He told me a shortened version of his quest with the master bolt. I was slightly comforted in knowing that he had felt my pain, but also saddened that my mother had actually been killed, not just taken. My mother couldn't come back. I couldn't save her.

One that I held close, had died.

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Well? what do you think? Like I said, this is based off of a dream that I had a while ago, and it may seem a bit AU at times. I'm unsure of how long this fic will be when finished, and I know this chapter was really long. I'm sorry. I write a lot sometimes.