I Meet The Person that Can Make a Bull's Eye while Blind

Since the recapture of Annabeth after the battle with Atlas, Luke, and his army of monsters, I decided to stay at camp for this school year to prepare to find her. I waited for many quests, but none of them would take me to battle Luke.

Thalia said she knew Luke wasn't dead, mostly because he could take a blow and he was working for Kronos, so he may have had some shield. After that we headed to the Olympia council with Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt, to the Olympic council and were voted to live. My father, Poseidon also told me Luke is alive and well and I would have to try harder to defeat him and Kronos.

Thalia wasn't here to help me, since she joined the Hunt with Zoë, who stepped down and gave Thalia her position. Since Zoë almost died at the battle, she had a change of heart and gave the title up, for she knew the prophesy was for her and would be fulfilled eventually. She visits frequently and still has her demigod powers, so she could teach me as much as Artemis and Chiron would let her. It was almost like I took Annabeth place. Thalia told all of her stories and girl stuff that should never be told to a guy to me, I helped with injured campers, and even the Athena cabin looked to me for wisdom and things, sometimes forgetting I was Poseidon's child.

Once, when I was taking care of the injured campers, Grover walked in with Thalia, Zoë, and another Hunter with blue-green eyes and dark hair, like mine. The Hunters didn't have a uniform, unless a planned battle or if they were showing off. Thalia looked her normal Gothic self; Zoë wore a long shirt that stopped above the knee that looked like a short tunic with Bermudas and sandals. The blue-green eye girl wore a bikini top with a blouse almost totally buttoned down with stone washed jeans with various tears and converse. Her hair was wavy, like she just came out of the water and had a babyish, yet mature and lovely face.

Thalia gave me a big, friendly hug. Zoë gave me a small, awkward hug, and the other waved at me and gave a smug smile, as I did the same. Zoë realized how uncomfortable the girl and I were around each other. "Percy, this is Brenna, she is an old Huntress and a close friend of mine. She is also a child of Poseidon."

Now I knew how Nico Di Angelo felt. Poseidon claimed to not of had more than one child in the past century. Her facial expression reminds me of a Victorian teen. Before we could talk, Thalia took my hand and began to pull me towards the door. "Time for practice, Percy. There's not much time."That's what she always said.

For the past year, we trained and trained and never ended up receiving a mission to bring us to her. We passed by the volleyball ditch, the arena, and the woods, all field with the Hunters practicing.

When we were passing by one of the battlefields, I thought I saw Annabeth there at the corner of my eye. I turned and almost greeted. Instead of Annabeth, it was another girl, about my age. She didn't fight like her, she fought better. She fought with skills beyond any camper.

It was her, the Stoll brothers, and another person from the Hermes cabin taking on all the campers from the Ares Cabin, but she seemed as if she could take them all and every other camper on her own. She had hazel eyes and long brown hair that reached to her hidden belly button in loose curls. She had mocha chocolate skin and wore a Camp Half-Blood T-shirt and jean shorts with orange converse. Her face was overwhelmingly beautiful, but stern, like Artemis.

She fought with a silver sword in her hand. The tip was like the crescent moon. The design on it was carefully carved and well thought out and looked as if it was brand new. Clarisse was attempting to throw the sword out of her hand, but when it did happen, it didn't leave her hand.

"Nice try, Clarisse, but as long as I have my ring, I shall hold my sword." Clarisse looked a bit annoyed, but she tried to hide it with a prideful smirk. "Don't worry, Palla. The fight's not over yet."

Palla looked away, trying to make a strategy when she saw Thalia and waved. Thalia did the same. She smiled at me once she was done. "You'll learn later."

When we were passing by the archery sight, she was there again, but different. This time, she looked talker, a little leaner, and more nonchalant. Her eyes were grayer than Annabeth's, instead of Hazel. They shined and reflected the sun perfectly. She was making only bull's eyes, nothing more or less.

"Cece," Thalia called out to her. The girl turned around and smiled as if she knew her. She stumbled over to us. Once she reached us, she put on black shades to hide her eyes. She faced my way. She touched my face sweetly, than my neck, then my face again. She smiled even bigger. "Hello, Percy. I am Cecilia Andrews, the twin of Palla."

Both of us shook each other's hand. Thalia, Zoë, and Cece linked arms. "Cece and Palla are old friends of mine. We went to school together, before I ran away. We weren't in the same grade, but we were all close friends." Thalia said.

Cece took her glasses of, and a hundred new things flashed before me. Her eyes weren't just gray; they were scaly and slimy, yet beautiful at the same time. They had a blank feature to them, like they were no longer in use. She barely blinked and her pupil was a milky, brown color, like chocolate milk, but with too much milk.

She must have noticed I was staring. She pressed a crescent jewel on her bow and it turned into a charm bracelet. There was a heart with a scroll with writing on it (I think it said 'Love waits' on it.) made of ruby, a crescent moon made of pearl, a star of diamonds, and a horse of aquamarine. The bracelet was made of gold and looked heavy.

She looked me straight in the eyes after a while. "Palla and I were cursed at birth by Hera and Aphrodite out of outrage, because of our parents."

It seemed weird to me Aphrodite, the goddess of love, would do something like this.

"Oh, but she did." She told me. I didn't bother to ask her how she knew what I was thinking. She started again.

"Aphrodite knew who was going to be the prettiest, me, so she let Hera take Palla into her own hands. She decided that since I was beautiful, that was all the beauty I needed, and cursed me to never see beauty. She was going to curse me to only see evil and only unbeautiful things, but, as the goddess of love, she decided to take my sight forever."

I felt pity for her. It was the meanest thing I have ever heard, and I know that's special coming from a boy. I remembered meeting her last summer when she told me she was going to mess up my love live and wanted all her daughters to break my heart. The best part about that was that the Aphrodite girls only wanted to be near me.

Zoë took Cece's arm from around her. "Then, how does thy know where everything is?"

This comment brightened up her mood a bit. "I love it when people ask that question. All the other Olympians, even Zeus, felt pity on me, so they all gifted me.

"Zeus gave me permission to fly whenever. Ares gave me top-notch fighting abilities. A pet owl from Athena. Plentiful resources from Demeter. Forging ability from Hephaestus. Hestia gave me-"

"Wait, stop, stop!" Thalia said, waving her hand in a stopping motion. "Why did you receive all of these gifts?"

Cece looked around. All of the campers looked at her, shocked. The Ares children there looked the most shocked and angered. Before she could answer, the speakers came on and everyone became quiet as they heard Chiron clear his throat.

"Will all head consolers cabin leaders and the Andrews come to the big house in ten minutes? Ten minutes, please. Thank you."

I didn't know what this was all about. I was the last one al the big house. Everyone was looking at the Andrew twins with pure envy, except Thalia, Zoë, Brenna, and the head of the Apollo cabin, Josh Johnson. Out of all of them, Clarisse and Selena Beauregard looked as if they were going to jump the two sisters, Clarisse cleaning her nails and Selena filing hers.

Mr. D turned his chair around and slammed his hands on the table as he slowly stood up. He looked at the girls the way Smelly Gabe use to look at me, which made me hate Mr. D more, if that was possible.

"Do any of you girls know why we are all here?"

They both were shivering from fright. Mr. D's eyes glowed and the girls screamed. He was showing them what he could do if he didn't do what he wanted.

"We are all here to figure out whose are Olympic parent."

He gave a sarcastic smile and cocked his head to the side. "Right, Palla. You are the wise one, but we are also here to learn why you are so gifted."

Palla stood up and looked as brave as she could. "We know nothing of our Olympic parent, nor why we are gifted, not one of us."

"Is that so?" He said back. He looked beyond her and walked towards Cece, she was looking at Thalia for help. Her expression showed that she could not help and that Mr. D gave no mercy.

"I know you haven't kept a secret from your sister, Cece, right?"

He looked back at Palla. She was confused. I didn't know I was there. Suddenly, I turned around to see Grover next to me. He almost made me scream out loud. "Tin can for your thoughts?" He said. I pretend like I was going to slap him, but was turned around by Zoë.

"What? What are you talking about?"

She seemed to be talking to Mr., but looked only at Cece and Thalia. Cece sighed and stood up. She didn't look at Palla, but Palla looked at her.

"We are second-generation demigods. Are mom, Cecillie, was a demigod also and daughter of Aphrodite. Once our mother fell in love with our father, an Olympian, Aphrodite and Hera was angered and cursed us."

She looked at her sister, who was now crying. I wasn't sure if it was because of betrayal or the story. Suddenly, I heard sobbing from behind me. It was Grover, holding a hanky. "This is better than my soap opera, All my Kids."

I didn't know what was nastier. They way Grover blew his nose after he said that, or that he watched goat soap operas. Everyone just stared at him for a while and then went back to where they left off.

"I'm so sorry I didn't tell you Palla, I wanted to, but Athena swore to separate us if I did."

Palla shook her head and walked slowly towards the exit. She mouth something like 'You trader' or 'How could you', then left before we could blink, all that was left was a breeze. This must have angered the Stoll brothers, because Connor shot up and turned red, pointing his finger at her.

"Now you have my father's powers? You think we're going to let you off the hook because you are double the god than use?"

Cece stood up and looked Connor straight in the eyes. Connor began to wale in agony and fainted. Everyone rushed to help him gain conscience, but nothing worked. Mr. D's face turned read with anger, but when he turned around, all that was left was a door on broken hinges.