AN: I'm not intending for this story to make it anywhere, but hey! It's worth a shot.

Chapter 1

Ananya's POV

We had been running from monsters for about a month. Two vampire things chased us from the campsite. We had been on our school's annual end-of-the-year camping trip. If you're wondering why our school had end-of-the-year camping trips, I will tell you. You see, the school Kami, Michelle and I went to was survival school. We learned normal things like history and math but we also learned how to use weapons like bows and arrows, swords, knifes, etc, we also learnt how to survive in the wild. At the end of every school year, we would go on a camping trip for our finals for that class.

We had been chased from Massachusetts up to Vermont, into New York. When we reached the New York border, we met a guy named Grover. He said that we were very special and that we weren't safe out in the open. He said that he knew a place that would keep us safe. We decided to follow him there. I know, we meet a random guy on the New York border who says we're special and he knows where we could be safe, so we follow him, great idea. But he was our last hope, besides, he was really nice. And he saved our lives more than once.

Currently a big, black dog was following us. Grover said we were almost there.

"GO! GO! GO! It's just up that hill!" Grover yelled. We started running up the hill. Grover was a little way behind us. Then, he chose that moment to trip and get his shirt sleeve stuck to a plant. The dog appeared right after.

"Grover!" Michelle yelled.

"Go! Save yourselves! I'll be fine!" He yelled up at us.

I wasn't leaving him, "Don't move!" I got the last remaining throwing knife from my bag. I threw it. It cut the plant off and nicked Grover as well.

"Well that's nice!" He yelled at me.

"Just run!" Kami yelled at us, as the dog was getting closer to us. Grover kicked it's nose and ran up the hill.

"And we're safe," Grover said as we got to the top.

There was a pine tree with a golden rug hanging from the branches and a statue of a woman, she looked like a Greek goddess, with her armor and chiton. She glared at you as if she were disappointed at you. I looked at the… thing below. In front of the hill, there was a volleyball court, beyond, there were two buildings, one was Greek styled and small, the other was a big blue barnhouse with a wraparound porch. Beyond that, there were fields of strawberries. There were more buildings around the place and a beach that looked onto Long Island Sound.

"Is-is that the Athena Parthenos? Like, THE Athena Parthenos?" Kami stuttered, sounding excited. "But that's-that's impossible! That was lost centuries ago! Besides, those Greek stories are just myths."

Did I mention Kami was a bit of a nerd? She had always been the top of our class and had a huge obsession with Greek mythology. It was quite scary, to be honest.

I rolled my eyes, "Kami, could you not right now?"

She glared at me. Grover got up and said, "Okay guys, let's go."

He led us down to the blue barn and made us wait outside a room. He walked into the room and talked to someone. Meanwhile, I explored. There was this big leopard head. I reached for it and it tried to bite my hand off.

"What is this place?" I pondered, looking around.

The door opened and Grover walked out, "Chiron wants to see you guys."

"Chiron?" Kami muttered. It was her Greek mythology obsession again. I rolled my eyes to the back of my head.

"Oh shut up," Michelle told her.

We walked through the door to see a man in a wheelchair.

"Children, please, sit. Grover told me what had happened and what you told him," he said. We sat down on the three chairs.

"Um, Chiron, sir, your name-" I cut her off.

"My God Kami! Shut up and let him explain!" Michelle was rolling her eyes vigorously.

"As I was saying, the Greek myths are real, the gods, goddesses, monsters, heroes, everything," Chiron had an expression that meant no kidding. But Michelle burst out laughing.

"Hahaha! This is the best joke ever! Guys, lets go," Se stood up when Chiron spoke again.

"Michelle, did you know both birth parents?" Michelle turned around. This was a touchy subject for her.

"I never knew my dad... he left a few months after I was born, my mother remarried, to the worst person ever, let me add, but she still misses my dad," her expression was sad and heartbroken.

"Anyone else with parent problems?" Chiron asked.

Kami spoke up, "My mother left my dad and I when I was very young. My dad's never been the same since."

I decided that it was my turn, "I was adopted. When I met my mom, she told me that she had to put me up for adoption because when my dad left, she couldn't take care of me and she knew I would be better off with a loving, caring family. I don't consider her my mother, she didn't care about me."

"All of you have one parent that left you, this is because that parent was a god or goddess, in Kami's case, and you are a demigod, half mortal, half god," he silenced us with a hand, "if you doubt it, then ask yourself this, have you ever felt like you were being watched, or had weird powers? Also, you likely have ADHD or ADD, which is a sign of a demigod because they're your battle reflexes and dyslexia because your brain was hardwired for Ancient Greek."

We looked at each other, we all had ADHD or ADD and dyslexia, even though we were all smart, Kami especially. It was a problem at times, but we could kind of controlled it. Also, we always looked behind us, we always felt like we were being watched. And I could stay underwater for amazing amounts of time. And owls came up to Kami in daylight a lot. Sometimes, spiders followed Kami as well, making Kami and me turn as pale as if we'd seen a dead person. And Michelle had once opened a chasm in the dining hall at school during breakfast. I honestly didn't doubt it, we were demigods.

"A demigod? You mean like the old stories of Perseus, and Heracles, and Achilles, and Aeneas, and Harmonia, and Helen, of Troy?" Kami perked up again. God-or gods, she was such a nerd!

"Yes child, they are all old and famous heroes, but I will show you new heroes who are as great, maybe even greater than them," he called Grover back in and told him something. Grover ran out of the room.