Chapter 1
Sweat beaded at my forehead as I tried to focus on the target. "Annabeth can we stop now? We've been practicing for hours." I begged. "No you aren't quite the best but you can do better. Now aim and shoot." Annabeth scolded. I groaned and focused on the target again, I slowly pulled back the arrow and- "She's here! She's back! She came!" Grover shrieked running up to us and his. Of course the arrow I shot missed. I didn't care I spun around and stood there surprised. Annabeth ran down to Grover worry written on her face "Grover who? Who?". "Ca… Ca…Calis…." he said panting unable to get the whole name out. "Calista?" Annabeth excitement rising in her voice her face sprouting a big grin. Grover nodded still panting but he was also smiling. Annabeth dropped her bow and ran down the hill. Calista? Who was that? "Wait… for… me." Grover panted out before bursting into sprint his tired hooves doing their best. I ran after them confused and obviously forgotten, whoever she was she was clearly important. I could see a figure near the gates of Camp Half-Blood talking to Chiron all the other half-bloods circling the two. As I got closer I almost tripped looking at her, she was beautiful. Long black hair woven into a complicated but pretty braid, mysterious but caring brown eyes that were dark and hazel at the same time, lightly tan skin, not American, about the same age as me, tall-ish, pretty pink lips, with a small dot of a black birth mark just a little to the left of her lips. I must have missed a lot of conversation just staring at her dumbly because it took me a few seconds to realize she was even talking to me. "Hello? Hello? I'm Calista. You must be Perseus Jackson, I've heard about you." She said extending her hand to me. I shook it awkwardly "Just call me Percy. So you're Calista? Um…I haven't heard anything about you." I replied. She laughed, what a sweet voice. "Looks like Annabeth forgot me." She said as she hugged Annabeth. "No way you're like my sister I just haven't talked to you in forever, besides you've been gone a few years. C'mon I've got soo much to tell you!" Annabeth said dragging me off. I was surprised Annabeth always seemed so calm and mature, but now she was jumping around like little girl. Calista barely got enough time to grab her bag as Annabeth started babbling. Grover and I trailed behind them. "You like her don't you?" he said giving me a noogie. I pulled away and laughed. "So what's her story? How come I've never heard about her?" I asked Grover. "Hey man I'm not ruining that surprise you'll find out soon enough. But let's just say she's better than most half-bloods. She used to be in camp most of the year only left for school, but she left a few years ago." He said with a mischievous smile.
We ended up near the cabins and Calista and Annabeth stopped abruptly. Grover and I almost bumped into them not noticing them since we were in a deep conversation. The sky had darkened and soon we would have to go to the Mess Hall for dinner. "Speaking of Cabins which one is yours?" I asked Calista. Chiron coming up behind us from the big house chuckled. He trotted over to a spot between Zeus' Cabin and mine, Poseidon's. He dug a shallow hole with his hooves and stepped in it. We were far away and couldn't see what was happening at first but then the ground started to shake. The cabins of Zeus and Hera slid over, and the ground began shaking violently and opening up around Chiron's whole as he walked back to us unconcerned. Actually no one was worried. Did they not see what was happening or did they not care? None the less I stood there confused and scared as crap. A cabin. That's what came out just the same size and shape as the Zeus and Hera Cabins. We walked up to it and up close it wasn't like any of the other cabins. There was no name of a god or a symbol to indicate one of the gods either. But was covered in elaborate carvings each one telling a different story. But the weird thing was there wasn't a speck of dirt. For something that came out of the ground it was as clean as the other cabins. Chiron smiled at us and politely as if nothing had happened said "Let Calista freshen up and I expect you all at the Mess Hall in twenty.". We dispersed heading to our own cabins.
Dinner was very different, it was my second day of my summer at Camp and I was used to the dinners at the table for big three alone. But today was VERY different. We all grabbed something to eat and goblet and Annabeth and Grover headed off to their tables. And I headed off to mine the table for the children of the Big Three. Calista walked up and sat across from me. "You're from one of the big three?" I blurted out surprised. She smiled shyly, which was a little different on her because she seemed really brave and out-going, and said "Umm… It's complicated I'm a little different than most half-bloods. I'll tell you about that some other time.". Complicated was the relationship all half-bloods had with their godly parents, but her complicated sounded very different. Anyway she quickly recovered from the awkward moment launched into a conversation. That night at the Mess Hall dinner was different and I liked it, a lot. I hope every night would be like this.