"I'm so, so, so, so, so, excited," Zeba said.

"Calm down Zeba!" I said angrily. Zeba and I are new at Camp Half-Blood this summer. I am sixteen and Zeba is fourteen. Zeba and I both have blonde hair and stormy gray eyes. If you could compare the two of us, I am the girly one and Zeba is the tom-boyish kind.

"Well ladies," Grover said, "Welcome to Camp Half-Blood." Grover is a satyr who picked us up in California. He saved us from the giants that were chasing us in the park.

"This is just a hill!" I said surprised.

"Well you have to walk up the hill to get there. This is Half-Blood Hill," explained Grover. We started walking up the hill. As a child of Aphrodite would say, the shoes I was wearing definitely weren't the kind of shoes you should be wearing when you are walking on a rocky road, and I would totally agree with them. I was wearing those cute little gladiator sandals, yeah they aren't the best feet protectors in the world. Rocks kept getting stuck in them.

"Well here we are," Grover said. Our eyes widened in amazement. I couldn't believe how beautiful this place was. Before we actually went in we saw a tree with this golden thing on it.

"Ummm….What is that?" I asked.

"That is Thalia's tree," Grover explained. "The gold thing hanging on the branch it the Golden Fleece, it is what is protecting the magic boundaries to the camp so no monsters get in here. And the dragon is Pelus." I thought it was so interesting. The closer I got to this camp, the more interesting all this came to be.

At the entrance to Camp Half- Blood you could see over the whole camp. The lake, the cabins, everything. It was wonderful.

"WOW!" I said. "It's beautiful." There were a lot of people here. A lot of them were dressed in bright orange shirts.

"I want one of those!" Zeba said. Grover told Zeba that she would get one soon enough, but first we needed to go to the Big House, whatever that was, and talk to a guy name Chiron, whoever he is.

I asked, "What is the big house?"
"It is the house where campers will go to hear the prophecy from the Oracle, the camp directors are usually there to." Grover answered. As soon as we got into the big house we were claimed. Our mother was Athena.

Grover, can you please go get Annabeth?" Chiron asked. Without another word Grover turned around and ran out the door, being all by ourselves with the horseman. Since Zeba was four she had always had a scared feeling about horses and spiders. Now being the daughter of Athena, I realized why we're afraid of spiders. I'm not sure why with horses though.

Grover finally came back with the girl named Annabeth. She is now our half-sister. We have a lot of those now.

"Are you related to a boy named Curtis Michaels?" Chiron asked.

"Yeah, that is our older brother," I replied. I knew what he was thinking, three children from the same goddess with the same guy. It was even highly uncommon for a goddess and a mortal to have at least two children together, but three.

"Great fighter he is, He has come here for a long time now, and how old is he now?"

"Nineteen," I answered. Before we left Annabeth talked to Chiron for a few minutes.

"OK, are you guys ready?" Annabeth said smiling. Zeba was pale white. She nodded her head and ran out the door.

"What is wrong with her?" Annabeth asked.

"She is really scared of horses!" I explained. Annabeth shrugged and we walked behind Zeba. As we were walking towards the Athena cabin, this really cute boy came up behind Annabeth.

"Hey you!" he said.

"Hey!" she replied hugging him. I was guessing that he was her boyfriend.

"OH! WOW! I'm being rude," Annabeth said. "This is my half-sister Lyra, Zeba is probably all ready at the cabin, Lyra this is my boyfriend Percy."
"Hi," I said. He was really nice. He walked Annabeth to our cabin. She explained to me a couple of things about the cabin then she and Percy had to go to an activity. I was there thinking I was alone but I wasn't. A boy with the same blonde hair and stormy gray eyes came out of a little bathroom.

"Hello mate," he said. He had a nice Australian accent. He was tall, maybe somewhere close to six feet. He had a little scar above his eyebrow. There was a long silence before anyone spoke again.

"My name is John," he said. "You must be a newbie here."

"Err-Yeah, I'm Lyra." I replied.

"So…what is your next activity?" he asked. I pulled out the sheet that Chiron had given me.

"Free time," I replied. "But I think I'm going to take an art class."

"Oh that's what I have to." He replied. I just smiled at him. He was pretty cool. John showed me where the art class takes place. I was getting kind of worried because I haven't seen Zeba again since we met Chiron.

"Have you met my sister Zeba?" I asked.

"No I don't think I have," he replied. I didn't know where she was. After art we could go to dinner. I was really hungry. Art class was sort of a blur. I just painted. I was told to scrap an offering into the fire for my mother and say a little prayer. I did it thinking I wouldn't be able to bear the smell of burning food, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, it was actually a savory smell.

After I was done I left before all the other campers left because I really wanted to go and check out the beach. Even being the daughter of Athena I still loved the beach. As I got there I figured out that I wasn't alone. There was a boy standing by the water. He had black hair and electric blue eyes.

"Hi," I said. When I said that he looked down at me. His eyes were absolutely gorgeous. He was several inches taller than me. He smiled at me. He also had a gorgeous smile.

"Hey," he replied. He had that same British accent as I did. I knew I was in love. The only problem was, I didn't even know his name.

"I'm Cody," he added, "Son of Zeus. Raised on Olympus." He shook my hand. Wow they were so soft. We talked until sunset. Who ever know you could talk to someone for a couple of hours and feel like you have known them your whole life.