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Charlotte

I woke up this morning to the light streaming through the window. It was just a normal Saturday that I was going to spend hanging out with my friends, Arie and Tail. Oh sorry, did I say normal? No day is normal with the three of us. We'd go to the park, make friends with some random person on the playground (If there were any), and play games. Then we would go to Tail's house and geek out over books, games, movies, and other random things that we could geek out over. I dragged myself out of bed and started reading. Then after about an hour, when I started getting hungry, I went down to get breakfast. I got dressed and asked my brother if he wanted to come with me to the park.

"Nah", he said, "I'd rather stay home".

"Okay, but you're missing all the fun", I warned him.

I grabbed my bike helmet and bike. Then I rode to Tails's house. Arie wasn't available yet, she would come when she was ready.

When I got to Tail's house, we went to the park. I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Charlotte. I have brown hair, brown eyes, and tan skin. My hair is a very light shade of brown and my eyes are grayish. It's almost as if my whole body is one color with slight variations in shade. We played games with each other, since no one else was at the park, and geeked out over stuff.

Arie came storming up the hill to the park. We knew that she was annoyed with us for not going back to the house at 9:30. Tail, liking to make up for these things with something that includes the word magical, ran up to her and started talking.

"Ready for a magical day today?" Tail asked. At the word magical, she made her voice floaty and waved her arms.

"No," Arie said sternly.

"Well you better get yourself ready," Tail added, "because today is going to be magical! I just have a feeling."

Arie sighed.

A few hours later, nine kids showed up at the park. They were mostly around sixteen years old. One looked like a 14 year old? Another was our age. Eight of them were laughing and joking with each other. Except for the 14 year old. He was trailing behind the rest of the group hiding in shadows as much as he could. It was as if he was hot and the only way he could cool down was to go in the shadows. He was pale, with black hair, and brown eyes so dark, they looked black. He was skinny, as if he was being starved. Most of them were still skinny, but they looked healthy, as if their skinniness had to do with exercise instead of starvation.

"Come on Nico," said a girl in a purple t-shirt and jeans. She had two greyhounds on a leash.

Nico mumbled something that I couldn't make out.

"No you can't, Nico come on," said the other girl in a purple shirt and jeans.

"We can't stray from the task," Said a blond girl in an orange t-shirt, "Get up here, all of you."

"Hey!" A black haired boy in an orange t-shirt exclaimed, "I'm already up here!"

"Not you Percy" the blond girl said.

I was thinking that their parents had all sent them up to do something important. Maybe they're on a time frame.

Tail clearly hadn't heard that they had a task and ran up to greet them.

"Hi!," she yelled enthusiastically. The group stopped in their tracks," What're your names?"

I figured they would do what most people do when they are confronted by a twelve-year-old girl yelling in their face. Instead they did quite the opposite.

"My name is Percy" Said Percy.

"I'm Annabeth," stated the blond girl.

"Piper," a girl with brown choppy hair in an orange t-shirt said.

I walked up to the group, curious about them.

"Jason," said a blond haired boy in a purple t-shirt.

"Reyna," said the girl with the greyhounds.

"Frank," said the tallest boy.

"Hazel," stated the girl that was our age.

"All da ladies luv LEO," said the skinniest boy.

"LEO," the rest of them shouted simultaneously.

"Where's NIco?" asked Hazel.

Nico had disappeared from the park. As they were searching for Nico, they had found him in the shadow of a tree, grinning maniacally. A boy with dark hair around ten was coming close to Nico and then they both disappeared.

"Where did they go?" I asked.

"Camp," Annabeth said.

"Can I go to 'camp' too?"

"And Tail, Arie, and the rest of us."

Suddenly the world went black.