This chapter is small but I promise that I will make the other chapters bigger.
Percy Pov
I had just come back to my cabin after getting a new half-blood to camp. I had nothing to do this summer after the war with Gaea so the satyrs let me help them search for half-bloods.
She was an unusual demigod. I assumed that since her name was Lyra Jackson, she could be a daughter of Apollo. But I found out that she was horrible at archery. Plus, she had a strong aura. Probably a daughter of an older god, like Aphrodite.
But I had another thought but…no it couldn't be true. I would've known if there was another daughter of one of the Big Three. We would just have to find out who her godly parent was at the campfire tonight.
Lyra Pov
My dad had just sent me a warning that Percy was going to get a quest and he might just not come back alive. He told me to pretend that I didn't know anything about the gods so he would take me to Camp Half-Blood. Then he told me to go with him on the quest.
So I pretended that I knew nothing about the hydra that was that was just about to kill me and I let Percy save me. It was really hard, letting my little brother almost die to save me.
Anyway, when he was done finishing off the hydra by somehow pulling a torch out of his bag, and burned down the stumps of its head, he took me to Camp Half-Blood.
When I arrived there was a huge crowd waiting. They made way for a girl in a Camp Half-Blood shirt who had blond hair and stormy grey eyes that studied me. She seemed to be thinking about the best way to take me down in a fight. A daughter of Athena, I thought. "Welcome to Camp Half-Blood" she said with a stern tone.
Percy told me that her name was Annabeth and that she wasn't as bad as she seems. After that, Percy gave me a tour around Camp Half-Blood, but I could tell his heart wasn't in the tour. He kept on looking at me, like he was trying to figure out who's daughter I was. We stopped by a few campers who were having archery class. Percy asked me to try hitting a few targets. I didn't want to because that would give him a pretty good idea of who my father is.
But I tried anyway. I ended up almost impaling Percy in the chest. I quickly dropped the bow and told Percy to continue with the tour. We went to the canoe lake and Percy took me canoeing. When we came near the naieds, they whispered something that I could faintly make out.
I'm pretty sure they were saying, daughter of the sea, daughter of the sea. I hoped Percy couldn't hear them, but he suddenly got a puzzled look on his face.
Then he asked me what my mother's name was. I started panicking. If Percy found out what my mother's name was, he would keep asking questions until he started to get suspicious of who my dad was. So I said that I never knew my mom, which wasn't much of a lie, since I was taken away from my mom because I was too powerful to be around her and her newly born son.
Anyway so after that, Percy took me to the Hermes Cabin and told me that I'd be staying here until they found out who my godly parent is. I put down my backpack on the little space Hermes's children gave me.
I didn't unpack my things, because dad said that he was going to claim me tonight at the campfire.
Percy told me to leave my things in the Hermes Cabin and that if I wanted to, I could try the climbing wall.
Percy Pov
I had just sent Lyra to the Hermes cabin so she could put down all her stuff and decide if she was going to try the climbing wall. Of course, I forgot to say that the climbing wall was more dangerous than an army of Minotaurs and Hydras.
With all that lava pouring down it, I was sure that she would come back all burned up. So imagine my surprise when she came down the climbing wall fifteen minutes later without a scratch or any burnt hair.
I stared at her with my mouth open. When she noticed me staring at her, she said it wasn't any different from dodging the Hydra's attacks. When I looked at her, I knew that there was more to it. Maybe there was a demigod training camp in the wilderness. Maybe she was a Roman demigod pretending not to know anything about the gods.
Whatever it was, I made a mental note to myself to take her with me on the next quest I got, because she had skill, and I would never say this aloud, but she was better than Annabeth. I was really excited about the campfire. I really wanted to find out who her godly parent was.
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