This story introduces one oc, but all other characters are from the books. It is set about a year after blood of Olympus. Sorry if the first few paragraphs are a bit stoppy-starty but I'll fix them later. Oh and some chapters are really long whereas some are really short but if there short they are quicker to write so I can update sooner. This is my first story guys, so all advice (and possible plot twists) are appreciated :) Thanks for reading😊

I was sitting in English. This is dumb, i was thinking. Why does this matter?

'Laia Aumn?'

'Here'

I looked around. It wasn't a bad class, but that didn't mean I wasn't bored. English is probably my worst subject. Everything just jumbles around when I try to read. Yeah, not much fun. I twist a bit of my brown wavy hair around my finger. It's not long, maybe 15 cm below my shoulders. The school jumper matches my eyes, which are really really dark blue and freak people out because when i say really dark blue I mean really dark blue. Like reeeaaally dark. Anyway, I live through English. I don't die. I don't write much. And I head down to lunch.

*CHB*

Chiron looked on, worried.

'Wait- you mean-'

'Stop stammering, Karen'

'Chiron.'

'Whatever. What I'm trying to say, is that if you don't step in, this will end badly. Very badly. We need to find this demigod. The fates insist on it.'

'But Mr D-'

'Don't say you don't know how. It'll be hard without drawing the attention of mortals, but you have several students in this little camp that might be perfectly suited to pull this demigod out of harms way. You understand?'

Chiron nodded, worried. It was going to be a very long day.

*Laia*

I walked down to lunch. It was oddly quiet. Whispers echoed through the canteen. I slid into a space between my two best friends.

'Did you hear?' Sadie asked.

'Hear what?'

Heidi leaned in conspiratorially. 'What happened to that other school. You know, the one just along the road? Someone's been attacked. One kid says it was a monster with six arms, but that sounds kinda unbelievable, right?'

'Yeah. Very.'

I tried to hide my worry. Thalia had warned me that if anything like this happened, I have to tell her AT ONCE. Thalia is the girl I live with. She's weird, cus she's never at home and she's obsessed with bow and arrow, but I can live with it. It's either Thalia or the social workers. I sometimes wonder why she gets so paranoid - about me, about her. She's always looking over her shoulder. I don't know too much about her, she's just nice to me. As Heidi glances in the other direction, I pull my phone out of my pocket. I open messages and tell Thalia :

Attack at other school, six armed guys? Idk but you said to tell you

Lx

She'll reply in a few days, hopefully.

*CHB*

Chiron trotted toward the campfire. It was only midday, but he needed to call a meeting. He pulled out the megaphone coach Hedge had lent him and yelled 'All heads of cabins, please meet in the rec room immediately! Pig says oink! Thank you.'

Ten minutes later, the rec room was full. Chiron walked in and looked around in exasperation. Jason and Percy had found a cup of water and a baby sea monster, and were trying to create some kind of storm to keep it happy, whilst Annabeth looked on in despair. Piper was charmspeaking Leo to eat all the veg on the table, but he had only managed to set it on fire. Clarisse yelled at Connor and travis ( who insisted on doing everything together) because they had stolen something or other off the ares cabin. Nico and Will were having some kind of poke war, and to top it all off Lou Ellen was trying to levitate the table.

'Quiet! Percy, Jason, leave that sea monster alone. Leo, leave the veg alone. Piper please leave Leo alone, we don't want the big house burning down. Clarisse, stop arguing, nico and will stop poking, and Lou Ellen leave that table alone!' There was a lot of grumbling, but curiosity finally got the better and everyone became silent.

'Mr D has given me some news.'

Confused mutterings. When did mr D care about the camp?

'Silence! Anyway, he was informed by Zeus himself that the fates have issued a prophecy.'

More muttering. Could the fates even give prophecies?

'And to answer your question, no, the fates have never before given a prophecy. But this is different. If this prophecy was not known, the fates themselves would be in great danger, along with the gods.'

'Just tell us already! Gods, stop holding out on us, bro! The Mcshizzle can't wait for ever!' Leo cried. Piper elbowed him. Hard.

'Shut up!' She whispered. Chiron sighed.

'As I was saying, this prophecy is very important.'

'I'm totally done with important prophecies' Percy whispered to Annabeth. Chiron glared.

'This prophecy is about one demigod in particular. It's unusual that we can't tell who it is, but let me recite it to you.

'A child of five gods

Shall change the course of fate

And in despair of a lost cause

Unleash hate.'

'Yeah, Hera's rage wasn't much fun. I'm really looking forward to this.' Jason moaned.

'A child of five gods? That's not possible.' Clarisse frowned.

'For once, I agree with her.' Percy muttered.

'Fate as in like fate, or the three fates?' Lou Ellen asked.

'And that is why the fates are so worried.' Chiron replied, grimly.

*Laia*

Thalia still hasn't answered. I know she never picks up, but I was worried.

'You want that yogurt?' I let Sadie take it. I wasn't very hungry. As I turned, I thought I saw a bit of silver out the corner of my eye. But I couldn't have. My mind was just playing tricks on me.

*CHB*

'We need people to hunt down this demigod. We must decide who is best suited to this quest.

'Well, Percy and Annabeth, obviously!' Someone yelled. Chiron looked at Annabeth.

'Fine.' Annabeth said.

'Whoa, wait. Do I get not say in this?'

'No, seaweed brain. Shut up.' Annabeth looked at Piper, who was trying her best not to laugh. 'I know! What about Piper too!'

Piper stopped laughing. 'Umm..'

'Wonderful! Chiron declared. 'Anybody else?'

Everybody shoved their chairs back as quickly as possible, apart from Leo, who was completely lost in his newest project and didn't even notice his name being called.

'Well that's sorted then.' Chiron decided.

'What. Me? Oh, fine. But there's no was I'm going without my second best bro, is there?' Leo grinned at Jason, who put his head in his hands.

'Second best to a machine. Wow, I feel loved.'

'You should bro, you should.' Leo told him.

'Is that final?' Chiron asked.

'That's a yes, bro!' Leo replied cheerfully. Piper rolled her eyes.

'Well, I don't know about you guys but I'm going to start packing.' She decided.

*Laia*

It was the end of the school day. I said bye to Heidi and Sadie (who lived in the other direction) and started the walk home. To pass the time, I took out my phone. As I turned it on, I noticed a text from Thalia.

'Ok. Meet you at home today? Thanks for telling Tx'

I told her I would, and put my phone back in my bag.

After fifteen minutes or so, I arrived at her flat. I opened the door, and saw Thalia in the kitchen, making some kind of soup. She's weird like that. Thalia turned around when she heard the door unlock.

'Laia!' She said, obviously relieved. 'Hi.'

'Hi. Um - why did you want to talk to me?' I asked.

'Well, you know,' she was definitely hiding something. 'Just because.'

I sigh. 'Ok.' She's like that a lot. We sit in silence for a while. I get up to go, but Thalia turns round and tells me

'Be careful, ok?' I nod and leave.

*CHB*

Piper packed slowly. She fiddled with Katoptris, and wondered how long this quest would take. She would give anything for it to be easier than the last great prophecy. Sighing, she zipped up her bag. She turned to leave, but then remembered the polos and emergency glowsticks she had found yesterday. Piper turned round, grabbed them off her bed and left the cabin.

Everyone but Leo was waiting in the area between the cabins when Piper got there. 'Where's Leo?' She asked.

Annabeth sighed. 'He forgot something or other. He-'

'Found it!' Leo yelled, sprinting towards them, shaking something above his head. 'Phew! I knew you guys wouldn't leave without me.' He grinned.

'That was my idea.' Annabeth whispered. Piper laughed.

Jason frowned at Leo. 'What even is that?'

Leo bounced on his heels. 'You'll see, bro! It's a surprise.' Percy rolled his eyes.

'Well, is everybody ready?' Chiron asked, trotting over to their small group.

'Hell to the yes, bro!' Leo said.

'Well, then if that is the case, let me introduce you to our new van! A gift from Zeus himself, it takes you exactly where you need to go.'

Both Leo and Annabeth stared at it in amazement. 'That is some first-rate engineering,' she whispered.

Leo woke from his stupor and ran at the van, yelling 'Bags shotgun!' so loudly they heard him in Madagascar. Jason facepalmed.

'Come on, sparky.' Piper decided, shoving him towards the van.' Let's get going.'

*Laia*

History. Why did it have to be history? You're all looking forward to lunch, and then you're like: oh wait. history. Ugh. Probably one of the worst feelings imaginable. I slip my rucksack off my back and sit down. I take out my book, and listen to the teacher start our third lesson on different gods of different eras. I know. Crazy boring. He puts on some kind of film about the Greek gods, and I look on, not really caring.

*CHB*

Annabeth screamed. She could hear Jason trying his best not to throw up, and Jason was the son of the sky God. If he couldn't deal with this journey, then nobody could.

'Holy Hera!' Leo screeched. 'When the gods make vans, they don't mess around!' Yeah. And that concluded Annabeth's first experience in a god-made location-seeking in unknown-travelling van. After what felt like hours, they finally touched down, in a green just opposite some kind of school.

'Gods, Chiron. Can you test that van on someone else next time?' Piper yelled at the sky.

'But guys, Leo announced, 'look on the bright side! We are exactly where we need to be!'

Jason climbed out last. 'I would rather attach a sat-nav to tempest.'

Percy laughed. 'How would the five of us fit on tempest?'

'Fair point.' Jason looked around, and Annabeth saw him focus on the school. 'Is that where this demigod is, do you think?' He asked.

Annabeth frowned. 'I guess so. Why else would we be here?' Then she looked at the classrooms with windows lining the walls. She cursed in Ancient Greek. 'Wow. What a discreet entrance. Well done, guys. Now the whole school knows we're here.' She pointed at the faces lining the windows.

Percy scowled. 'Just what we need.'

'Don't worry, guys!' Leo wiggled his eyebrows at Percy. 'I have just the thing. A gift from a certain centurian of the fifth cohort!'

Piper didn't look convinced. 'What can Hazel do? No offence to Hazel.'

Leo grinned. 'The mist-magicky queen herself has lent us a bag of mist! No idea how this works, but she gave it to me last time I saw her.' Annabeth sighed. Gods, Hazel or Frank could always be relied on to turn up when needed. She remembered The Dolphin Incident. Yep, they were good people to know.

Leo spread his hands out. 'And I shall do the honours.' He bowed in the direction of the school, and emptied the bag.

*Laia*

Heidi is the kind of girl people listen to. So if Heidi stands up, points out the window and screams 'Oh my god!' then you get up and run to her side. Well, that's what our history class did, anyway. I looked out. I could see a smoking van in the middle of the school field.

'It just appeared there!' Heidi was insisting.

Someone else noticed that the van wasn't empty. 'Look! Look, people!'

I smiled. No more boring history videos. If I leaned a little closer, I could see four- no, five people standing around the van. Two were arguing about something, and one was enthusiastically gesturing. The only two girls looked on in a mix of exasperation and nausea. Suddenly, the blonde girl turned, looked for a few seconds, and pointed at the school. The others stopped arguing, and then the whole group started arguing as the enthusiastic boy pulled a pouch from some kind of tool belt. He waved it around, spread his arms, and opened it.

I blinked. Everyone was muttering and walking back to their seats. I grabbed Heidi as she walked past me. 'Why is nobody looking at the van anymore?' I might have sounded slightly whiny, but i couldn't stand another minute of that video. Maybe that was why Heidi looked at me strangely and said 'What van?' Confused, I looked out the window once more to see all five people outside staring at me.

*CHB*

Leo looked up, pleased. His trick with the mist had worked. He was about to start reciting The Amazing Ballad Of Leo Valdez when Percy frowned and pointed at the school.

'Leo, your mist trick worked for everyone, except that girl.'

'I'm sorry, bro! Hazel didn't give me a reliability description!' Leo insisted.

'No, I don't think it's the mist's fault.' Annabeth decided. 'Mortals can't see through the mist, but demigods can. She must be the one we're looking for.'

*Laia*

I stared at the wierd van for a couple of seconds more. Then I turned back to my seat. But the wall chose that moment to smash, and through the dust walked the tallest man I had ever seen. With six arms.

'I have you now, girl.' He grinned. I screamed.