Everything was fine as it could be for a demigod. It was the last day of school and hey, this is the second year at the same school...so I'm happy. I'm a demigod son of Poseidon and I go to this "summer" camp called Camp Half Blood (CHB). That starts every summer; the day you get out of school. Sometimes Chiron (the activities director) takes you out earlier if something isn't right at camp. Such as the one year Thalia's tree was poisoned.

"Percy!" my mom yelled, "You're gonna be late for school. Hurry up."

Uh-oh, I had about 20 seconds to get ready before my mom came storming in to my room. After I got ready (not very well I should mention), I got some cereal and ran out of the door saying bye to mom. Annabeth was waiting downstairs for me. Oh, I forgot to mention, Annabeth and I are now dating.

"Oh my gods, Percy, you look horrible did you wake up late... again? For the fifth time this week?"

Now Annabeth and I have known each other for a long time. She knows me pretty well (as you can tell).

"Yeah, I did. But why does it matter?"

"Well we should get going we don't want to be late on our last day of school," she replied.

We ran to the bus stop just as the bus was getting their perfect timing. When we got on the bus there were only four empty seats left. After we sat down Annabeth got close to me and we held hands. I reached into my pocket just to make sure my ball point pen (Riptide, Anaklusmos in Greek) was there. When we got to school there was a HUGE banner hanging on the front of the school saying Congrats Grads. It wasn't for Annabeth or me but a big cheer arose from the bus.

"Hey, Annabeth, can I ask you something?" I said.

"Sure, Percy, ask away."

"You know last summer when Rachel became the Oracle?"

"Yep, I remember she just blurted out the next Great Prophecy and didn't even remember what she had said."

"Well that's what I wanted to ask you about, The Prophecy. It seemed like it was going to be a pretty violent one. After we turn about thirty, you know if we live that long, we should stay at camp and help our kids, if we ever have any, in case it involves someone after us."

"That's a great idea, Percy, I'm glad I have you as a friend and boyfriend," she managed to laugh out.

Wow, I thought, Annabeth is the most wonderful person I have ever met and staring at her right here with the light shining on her face she looks perfect nothing in the world could change that.

Finally, our bus arrived at Goode High.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Mr. Juno, my algebra teacher, yelled.

Something big had just crashed into the school's stone tablet that says WELCOME TO GOODE HIGH SCHOOL! that cost like $450.50.

"I wonder what it is," Annabeth said.

"Let's go check it out, come on," I said.

When we got there, we had to fight through a crowd of people to get up close to it. To me, it looked like a small rocket but Annabeth said it was a "podcast". Whatever that is. She told me to get in it because it was some sort of transportation device to get us to CHB (I hope Chiron can pay for that tablet because there is no way I'm paying for it). This can't be good. I don't know what the mortals were seeing through the mist but they were freaking out.

When we got to camp, Chiron was waiting at the top of CHB hill for us. The place didn't look any different from when I was here the last time except for all the new cabins and campers. I wonder what the problem is.

"Hello students," Chiron said.

"Hi Chiron, what's the news?" I asked.

"Percy, Annabeth, the news is all the new campers and cabins. Look at this place. I don't think Kronos will ever rise again. If he does, we'll be ready for him," Chiron said.

"So nothing is wrong with the camp? No monsters trying to invade or anything?" Annabeth muttered.

"Not that I know of," Chiron chuckled, "I just wanted you to meet all the new campers and show them some of your techniques. It will be important in the future."

"No problem. We can do that but only if you introduce us first," Annabeth said.

"Follow me and watch your step," Chiron said.

There were so many campers more than when I first came here five years ago. So many more cabins too. Nemesis, Hades, Eros, Pan, Persephone, Macaria, Nyx, Erebus, Eris, Hebe, Hecate, Iris, Janus, Morpheus, Pomona, Selene, Triton. The Hermes cabin was expanded because so many campers might come before they are thirteen. I think that was smart.

"Okay, all the cabin leaders are in the big house. I'll meet you in there," Chiron said.

As we walked into the big house there were a lot of campers in there, much more than I have ever seen in CHB. I wonder what all of their names are. There was a person from Nemesis, Persephone, Eros, Pan and other minor gods cabins and all of the Major Gods like Zeus and Poseidon. Then Chiron walked in (or rather trotted in).

"Hello campers, this is Percy and Annabeth. They have come to help all the new campers learn new techniques. They are still young and have much to learn. Don't give them any grief if they don't know something you know."

"Yeah like the mist trick." I muttered.

"Hi everybody I'm Annabeth and he's Percy." Annabeth said pointing at me.

"Yeah like it would be the other way around!" someone shouted.

"Rick, please be quiet. Do you know who you're talking to? You're talking to Perseus Jackson, son of Poseidon and Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena and they defeated the Titan Lord Kronos," Chiron chided, "Now I will introduce you guys to everyone that you don't know. That's Angela, Lucas, Rick, and Leila."

"Hi," Annabeth and I said in unison.

"Annabeth you can go to your cabin. Percy go to yours I think you will be surprised. You will start teaching them new fighting techniques starting tomorrow at noon."

"Okay, bye Chiron." I said walking off to my cabin.

Annabeth and I walked out together looking at all the new cabins and faces. It felt like it was a whole new world from before the titan war. The sky was shining which it always is in CHB but it seemed like it was shining brighter today, it's like Zeus was doing this just for us.

"Bye, Annabeth, see you later." I said.

"Bye, Percy," Annabeth replied.

As I got to my cabin it sounded noisier than last time, which was weird because I don't think I had anybody else in my cabin when I left CHB. I wonder what could be going on. I hoped a hurricane hadn't destroyed the cabin. I opened the door and to my amazement there were at least ten campers in there, not including me. This was incredibly awkward.

"You must be the Percy Jackson," some kid said, "I'm Aphen."

"Hi Aphen, who is everybody else? In my cabin!"

He looked kind of scared. Hm, maybe I should say something to reassure him that I'm a good guy just messing with him... or should I just sit here and watch him quiver in fear?

"Hey, dude, I'm just messing with you. So my dad wasn't kidding when he said he would send a lot more campers to me." I said looking around at everybody.

"You mean our dad, all of ours," Aphen said, "Okay, this is Marco, Casey, Brooke, Leasha, Isaac, Tommy or Thomas, Samantha, Stephen, Rose, and Dominic."

"Hi you guys. Okay, where is everybody sleeping because I have a bunk. It's the top bunk near the door with a shield hanging next to it. Oh and have all of you met Tyson? He is our Cyclopes brother, and he made that shield for me while on one of my adventures before the titan war." I said.

Here is where everybody is sleeping in case you were wondering. Leasha is on a top bunk across from me, Marco is beneath her, I'm above Rose, in the bunk in front of my feet is Aphen on the top and Brooke beneath him. Across from Aphen on the top bunk is Casey with Stephen beneath her. At Casey's feet is Thomas on the top and Samantha on the bottom and finally in the back is Dominique on top and Isaac on bottom.

At dinner I sat with my new cabin mates, which was weird because I wasn't used to that. I called my mom with the cell phone she gave me for emergencies.

"Hi Percy!" my mom greeted me.

"Hey mom."

"You're at camp right? Not in some horrible condition calling me to pick you up?" My mom said worriedly.

"Yeah, I was just calling to tell you that dad left me a few campers in my cabin."

"Oh that's great, Percy," my mom said, "Call me again if anything goes wrong, okay?"

"Yeah, mom, I'll do that," I said, "Bye, love you." Then I hung up my cabin mates asking who that was.

"It was my mom guys. Do we all need to know everything around here?"

It is a Friday so we have Capture the Flag. It's the Apollo cabin against the Hephaestus cabin. Apollo gets Poseidon, Athena, Ares, Hermes, Persephone, and Nemesis cabins. Hephaestus gets Eros, Pan, Demeter, Artemis, and Dionysus cabins. I would trade the Ares cabin on my team for anybody else but I'm not captain, the Apollo cabin is.

The Apollo cabin is a great leader. They have everything planed out and everybody in their strongest position and almost a little where the person wants to go because they put Annabeth and me next to each other. The next thing I knew the Apollo cabin leader was yelling commands and orders. Pretty soon we won. The flag's original picture of flames and an anvil turned into a picture of a sun with flames coming off it.

After capture the flag I went to my cabin. The sing along is okay but I rather be in my cabin listening to the crickets chirp than everybody singing. I thought I was the only one who came in during sing along but I was wrong Aphen walked in. I don't think he noticed me.

"Hey dude," I think I scared him when I said that.

"AUGH!" Aphen yelled as he looked up at me, "Dude don't EVER scare me like that again. You scared me half to death... Gods."

"Sorry. I didn't mean to scare you."

"That's okay. Why are you up there and not singing?" Aphen asked

"Um…because I need time to think? I'm also horrible at singing. Hey, dude, I'll let you in on a little secret," he leaned in closer, "BOO!"

"PERCY! Gods, you're going to kill me!" Aphen looked mortiphied.

I like Aphen, he's nice. I think something happened to him when he was younger. Like what happened to Luke, Thalia, and Annabeth. I wish some demigod somewhere didn't have any parent problems. I had Gabe, Annabeth had her dad, Thalia had her mom, Luke had his dad and mom and I think something happened to Aphen. I could be totally wrong though. He doesn't really seem like he had parent problems. Oh I don't know. It really wasn't my business.