Summery: Kate Wolf is just a regular daughter of Apollo. Well... maybe not regular considering that she saw Percy drag Grover's body over the boundary. She saw Annabeth crying when Thalia returned. She fought in the Battle of the Labyrinth. She almost died in the war. Now, she and two siblings feel unimportant whenever someone mentions Percy or Annabeth or Thalia or Grover. They run away from camp, but will they be able to believe that they are important enough to fight Eris when she plots to destroy Camp Half-Blood?

This just kinda came to me when I thought of all the unnamed campers. Oh and for those of you who have read The Lost Hero; there will be no Roman Demigods in this. (It would just be too confusing.) It takes place the summer after TLO.

Disclaimer: Last time I checked, this is a FAN fiction website. I think it's obvious that I don't own anything except the plot and my characters.

I rummaged through all my stuff, trying to organize my tent. It's not easy trying to set a good example for the others. My half brother, Joey, I don't have to worry about. He's two months older than me and lieutenant of this messed up group. Lilly, daughter of Hermes, is only 7 and very troublesome, but good with a knife. David, son of Ares, is nine and a great fighter. And Kira, my half sister, one month younger than me, but very annoying.

We're the weirdest group of demigods you'll ever find. Joey, Kira and I ran away from camp after the Second Titan War a month ago because we still felt unimportant compared to Percy, Annabeth and some of the others. We didn't plan to start a "demigod recruitment" type of a group like the Hunters. We just happened to find David on our first day away from camp. We couldn't just leave him alone next to his mother's dead, blood covered, body. She died trying to protect him from... whatever monster it was. Then we found Lilly in a week and half later trying to kill a hellhound with a NERF gun on an orphanage playground.

Now, I'm responsible for these kids. Joey isn't as organized and quick thinking as me so he stepped down when we decided to choose a leader. I was second oldest so, you can imagine what happened.

"Kate!" came Lilly's voice from behind me.

I turned around to look at her, "What did I say about just barging into someone's tent before asking?"

Her green eyes were filled with fear, which I hope wasn't caused by me.

She said, "Sorry, but there's some guy near our camp. He asked to see you, Kira and Joey."

I dropped the map I was holding. I quickly checked to make sure my never empty quiver was on my back and picked up my bow.

"Thanks for telling me, Lilly," I said, trying to stay calm. "Can you go tell Joey, just Joey, to meet me at the edge of camp?" I didn't want to bring Kira into something unnecessarily.

"Yeah," she said and left my tent.

I knew it. Sooner or later someone will show up for us, we've just been lucky so far.

I walked out of my tent, bow in hand, and went over to where a man was leaning against a nearby tree.

Unfortunately, I recognized him. I was hoping it might be some monster to fight, I've been very bored lately.

The man looked up at me and said, "Hello, Kate."

"What do you want, Apollo?" I asked with a glare while shouldering my bow.

He frowned, "Is that how you speak to your father?"

I shrugged.

"Now, where's Joey?" he asked.

"Lilly went to get him," I said. "But you haven't answered my question; what do you want?"

"Patience. Jeez, and I thought I could actually do this without irritating you."

I was about to reply, but Joey came over next to me. He, too, was holding his bow ready, but shouldered it once he recognized who our guest was.

"Why are you here?" Joey asked.

Apollo looked at the sky thoughtfully and then said, "I was worried."

Joey and I raised an eyebrow at the same time.

"You what?" I asked.

"I was worried about the three of you," he said simply.

"Why?" Joey asked. "Since when are you worried about us? It took you forever to even claim us! Kate's been at camp for, like, five years as a year rounder and you just claimed her!"

The god sighed and said, "I know."

"And Joey has been there for three as a year rounder, too!" I added. "How are we supposed to believe you actually care? You left us for so long."

He sighed again and said, "I know! You don't have to be so mean about it."

But, I wasn't ready to stop "being mean about it". The last time I saw him was when he claimed me after the war and that was for less than a minute. I didn't have a chance to tell him how I felt then, but now I do.

"You claimed us right after the war only because of the oath Percy made you promise! Sure, you gave us apology gifts, but that doesn't fix the years of abandonment!" I said. "Gifts can't change emotions!"

He walked up right in front of me, right index finger pointed at me, his eyes glowing dangerously and said, "You have no idea of what it's like to be a god! All the Ancient Laws stopping us from doing anything and all the stuff we have to do to make this world work perfectly!"

I would like to say I wasn't, but to be honest, I was terrified. I've only heard of Apollo losing his cool a few times... and when he did, it usually didn't turn out good for whoever caused it.

"Sorry, sir," I said, adding the "sir" part reluctantly.

Joey, being the protective brother that he is, said, "You're right; we don't know. I'm sure Kate didn't mean to offend you, she's just frustrated."

I shot him a "I can handle this without your help look" which he only shrugged to.

Apollo looked at him and then said in a slightly calmer tone, "Tell Kira to be careful."

"Will do," Joey promised.

"Well, I have to go before Zeus gets angry that I'm spending so much time with you," he said. "Bye, Joey. Kate."

He took a few steps back, half nodded to us and then started to glow. Joey and I averted our eyes. When the glow died down, I stared at the spot that Apollo had occupied.

"Did he do anything to you?" Joey asked.

"No," I replied without taking my eyes off the grass that was starting to straighten from being crushed by Apollo. "I'm fine. Go tell Kira what he said about her being careful, but don't tell her anything else."

He nodded, seeming to know that I'm not in a mood to deal with any insubordination. Then Joey went back to our camp.

I stayed there for about a minute then went back to camp.

David came up to me and said, "Who was that dude?"

"It's not important," I told him. "Can you go help Lilly put her stuff away? We're moving." I didn't want Apollo to be spying on us or something, it shouldn't be too hard to keep out of his sight, considering it's almost sunset.

"Sure, Kate," he said cheerfully and ran off, while I went to look for Kira and Joey.

I found them in Kira's tent talking about Camp Half-Blood.

"Hey, guys," I said as I walked into the tent.

"Oh, hey," Kira said. "Why didn't you tell me dad was here? I wanted to see him."

"Sorry, Kira, I just thought it might be better if you didn't talk to him. We got into an argument." I explained.

Joey nodded, "He probably would've disintegrated Kate if I hadn't said anything and I think if you were there it might have been worse on all of us." I rolled my eyes when he said that he "saved me" because he really didn't.

"Okay," Kira said. "What do you think he meant by 'be careful'?"

"I don't know. Just take his advice and watch your back," I said. "Anyways, we have to go."

"Why?" she asked.

"I don't want Apollo to spy on us or anything."

"Why not?"

"Yeah, why not?" Joey asked with a curious expression.

I sighed, "I don't know... I guess I just want to prove that I can take care of your guys or something."

Kira nodded and Joey said, "Alright I'll go take down my tent. Can you two manage?"

"Of course we can, Joey," Kira said. "We're not children, you know."

He smiled, "I know that."

"Just go pack your things," I ordered.

He nodded and left us alone.

"You, too, Kira. I don't want to waste anytime," I said. "It'll be best if we get as far away from here as we can until it'll be too dark to travel."

"Alright, Kate," she said. "But umm... can I ask you to do something for me?"

"Sure, what is it?"

"If... if dad really, like, had a vision about something happening to me, then... can you give my gold necklace to Lilly? She's been very close to me."

I hated hearing the scared desperation in her voice and seeing it in her brilliant blue eyes.

"I will, Kira," I promised. "And if it helps; I think that he was just trying to scare us into going back to camp, but either way, the rest of us will always have your back."

She nodded, "Thanks."

I nodded and left her tent to gather my own things.

Within a few minutes, we were all packed and ready to go.

"Where are we going?" Lilly asked as she skipped in front of us.

"Good question," Joey said, turning to me.

"Umm... I think we should head south," I said. "It seems like it's going to get colder."

"Okay and I think we shouldn't travel for longer than two hours," Kira said. "We'll need time to start a fire once we find a place to camp for the night."

"Yeah," Joey agreed.

We continued to walk in silence. It might have been an hour until I saw a shape move in the trees in front of us. I signaled for everyone to stop. They all drew their weapons and dropped their backpacks; Joey, Kira and I took out our bows and notched a few arrows each, David took out his two handed sword, and Lilly tapped her gold bracelet and as it spiraled out into a shield, she lifted her knife.

Three dracaenae jumped out in front of us, hissing. I instinctively let my three arrows loose at one of them and pushed Lilly and David behind me and my siblings.

The snake women fought us one on one. Because of the closeness of the monsters, I reluctantly took out my sword. A bow would be useless against their tridents when they're right next to me. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Kira and Joey do the same thing.

As we slashed, stabbed and blocked, we became further and further from each other. Obviously, these dracaenae knew that we were less formidable when separated.

Then, somehow, the one fighting me managed to get my wrist in between the points of her trident. I, with no other choice, dropped my sword to free my wrist. She smiled triumphantly and was about to stab my chest, but with the point only half a foot away from me, she froze with a bronze blade sticking out of her chest. With a look of horror, she exploded into golden monster dust. Behind the spot she had been occupying stood David with his sword raised.

"Thanks, David," I said as I picked my sword up. "Go make sure Lilly's okay."

He nodded and ran off someplace. I turned to look at who would need my help: Joey or Kira. I gasped when I saw what state Kira was in. Her left arm (which thankfully isn't her sword arm) was bent at a weird angle, she had a long cut on her cheek and her jeans were stained with blood. I felt my own wounds explode in pain as I ran over to help her.

The monster saw me coming and smiled, causing Kira to look around to see why she was smiling.

No! I wanted to scream a warning as I saw that the snake woman had taken this as a distraction to stab at Kira's unprotected neck, but my mouth wouldn't work. Kira turned around at the last second and tried to move out of the way of the trident but it still skimmed her skin pretty deeply, by the look of it.

I stabbed at the monster's face causing it to turn into dust immediately.

Joey, too, turned his monster to dust and ran over to Kira who had fallen to the ground.

Seeing the amount of blood loss she was starting to have, I ran over to my poor sister and knelt down by her side.

"Kira!" I said desperately and brushed some hair from her blood covered face. She was unconscious. Then I turned to Lilly and David. "One of you, get some ambrosia or nectar for Kira."

But Joey was already on it, he handed me some ambrosia which I carefully put into her mouth for her and said, "Kira, you better swallow!"

David and Lilly had put their weapons away and were now staring in shock at Kira.

"Kate, she isn't swallowing," Joey said while starting to treat her wounds and ignore all his cuts. "She might be... almost..."

"I know..." I said and I felt tears coming to my eyes. "Try that hymn to Apollo. He might listen."

"Why don't you?" he asked.

"You know I'm not skilled at healing. I'm a poet and archer."

"Alright," he said and started to mutter in Ancient Greek.

He stopped and looked at me as if to say "it won't work" but I shook my head and said, "Look."

I held Kira's hand when her eyelids fluttered and she opened her eyes weakly, "Hey, what did I miss?"

"Don't waste your energy talking," I ordered as I stroked her hand gently.

"Come on, we both know that I'm almost dead," she said quietly. "Remember what you promised me and... you can keep all my stuff Kate, it's yours."

"No, Kira, don't lose hope," Joey whispered to her.

"Kira, don't you dare leave me alone with Joey," I said.

"Yeah, don't leave her- hey!" he exclaimed when his brain finally processed what I had said.

Kira and I smirked. Then her smirk turned into a sad smile and she said, "Sorry, guys. Keep on running. Love ya."

She closed her eyes and didn't open them again.

"No..." I moaned and squeezed her hand.

Joey bowed his head and muttered a few prayers. I did the same.

After a few seconds passed, I looked over at Lilly who was crying into David's shoulder. The son of Ares himself looked like he was trying hard not to shed any tears. Kira had been their sister for about a month now. She was my sister, too, but she treated them differently. She to them was a real sister, I was more of their protective leader.

I carefully took Kira's gold necklace off and wiped some blood off of it. I then stood up and walked behind Lilly. Gently, I put the necklace onto her neck. As she looked around at me, I crouched down in front of her and brushed away her tears as I let mine fall.

Lilly slowly touched the golden sun pendent on the necklace and I said, "She wanted you to have it. Make her proud by wearing it always. Know that she loved you."

She nodded and then I moved in front of David. "She loved you, too. Now you're the third oldest. Can you help me out?"

"Yes," he said simply.

"Thank you, would you take Lilly on a little walk around the area while I and Joey discuss some things. If you need anything just shout."

David nodded and took Lilly away by the hand.

I walked over next to Joey and started to actually cry when I looked at Kira's body again.

He put his hand around me and I let him hug me. After a few minutes I finally gathered up some strength to say something.

"How could he not answer your prayer?" I asked and knelt down to hold Kira's limp hand again.

Joey's face was pained as he said, "I don't know. Maybe it was to punish us for being rude to him earlier."

"Do you actually believe he would do something like that?"

"No," he said.

"But why not save his own daughter?" I asked.

He didn't reply for a while but then whispered, "He knew she would die."

"What?"

"He told us to tell her to be careful." he explained. "He must have had a vision or something of her dieing."

I would have said a bunch of insults to the stupid sky so the stupid sun god would hear me and apologize, but I only said, "Curse him."

"I know how it feels," Joey said gently and put a hand on my shoulder.

"I shouldn't have asked you guys to leave camp with me," I said quietly. "I should have left alone. Kira might still be alive.

"Don't say that. We finally got to feel like real heroes out here," he said. "Besides if you were on you own, some monster would have killed you on your first night."

"True..." I said with a sigh.

We had another moment of silence but it was ended by Joey asking, "What should we do with her body? We can't just leave it here."

When he said that I felt like the leader again, not the little heartbroken sister. So I wiped away my tears before I answered.

"Umm...we could put it in her tent tonight," I suggested. "and then tomorrow we'll look for a hospital to leave it at. It's not like we could just walk back to camp and be like: 'Hey, nice to see you all again. Here's Kira's dead body. Bye!' That would just be weird."

He chuckled, "Yeah, it would and I guess that's a good idea."

"Okay, I'll go find Lilly and David," I said. "You start to set up camp. Put her body in her tent and wrap it in her bed sheet."

He nodded and I left to find the two youngsters.

I saw them sitting by a nearby creek talking to each other. I didn't show my presence because I wanted to know what they were talking about. Both of them had tear stained faces.

"I still don't understand how Kira can be dead," Lilly said.

David sighed, "She is. She did it to protect us."

"I know, but why?" she asked.

"She... wanted to make the monster go away so we could be safe and happy."

Wow, I thought, A son of Ares being good at comforting sad girls.

"Okay."

"Yeah, so let's stop crying," he said. "We have to be brave for Joey and Kate. I bet they wanted be alone to cry."

I frowned. Now that sounded more like an Ares' kid. Thinking of others as weaker.

"Yeah, we do have to be brave for them," Lilly agreed in her cute voice.

Then I saw something that shocked me again. I could barely believe what I was seeing: David, son of Ares, just kissed Lilly, daughter of Hermes, on the cheek and then she kissed his.

The only thought in my head after that weird scene was, Oh great! I have two in-love and depressed kids to live with and take care of! Nothing is wrong with that! Yup, it's perfectly normal... All thirteen year old girls have to deal with this.

I stepped out from behind my spying bush and said, "Come on, guys. We're setting up camp over there."

"Okay," they said in unison and we walked off to where Joey was starting to set up camp.

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