(Sorry I took like forever to get this out but this was originally only going to be 300 words and now its 1,490 words. I hope you enjoy and Merry Christmas.)

Jay Evermist and The Olympians

Book One: The Battle Begins

(This will be the temporary name until further notice. If you have a better one I would love to hear it!)

Chapter 1 – Day 2664

I have been here at this camp since I was 9 years old. I have been here for 7 years, 3 months, and 2 weeks from yesterday, and not once have I felt like I have belonged.

My name is Jay Evermist and this is my story of how my life got messed up. I guess I should start with the beginning, when my parents first met. My dad never really told me how they met, but I'm sure it was romantic. Not long after that I was born and my dad even proposed.

Now my mom would have said yes, in fact she wanted to, but she knew her duties lay somewhere else so she left during the night, never to be seen by my father again. That's the story, or at least all you need to know. Since then my mom has meet me, we have even talked for hours about nothing like moms and daughters are supposed to do. But she never stays, and I have never really met her in person, just through mist calls or dreams.

Okay now to the next part, Camp Half-Blood. I like it here, it's nice. It's quaint and quiet at the moment but only because it is fall and almost everybody is back at their schools. I'm the only one left in my cabin, cabin fourteen, but there are some from Hades, Ares, Athena, Apollo, and a bunch from Hermes. Luckily all the Ares kids decided to go back to school or else my story would be a lot more violent.

So, I figured I would write this down so for anyone out there who is wondering why I complain so much about my life, this will explain it. I guess it started on November 28th. The day the oracle decided to have a fit, and I got lost with two stangers.

I was hanging out by the lake listening to the Naiads when the lunch bell rang. I looked down at my watch and wondered where the time had gone. I stood up and made my way to the pavilion which was only a couple yards away. I watched as the other campers followed and sat at their respectable tables. I was sitting alone at the Iris table, like I had been for a few weeks now, but I liked it. I also kept a small backpack with me with some things in it. I kept a water bottle, a few extra hair ties, a bag of pencils and a notebook. Every day at every meal I would pull that out and draw what I saw.

I was fun to look back and see how people would change and how their seating would be different from the last. It would actually tell you a lot about people. And that's exactly why I did it, to help me read people. Now I know people always tell you to not to judge but when you are out on your own that is your only way of survival, I'm just getting ready.

After giving my offering I ate the rest of my food fast and started my quick sketch. I moved from the Athena table, only five sat there, to the Hades table, only four, the Hephaestus table, two, the Aphrodite table, four again, Poseidon and Zeus, both of which only had one, and then the Apollo table, there were six sitting at that table. But I always spent the most time on the Hermes table. I don't know whether it was the fact that there were ten campers all together or the fact that they had the hottest guy at camp there.

I don't know if I should use the word hot, which would seem disrespectful. He was handsome, sweet, funny, brave, but maybe a little bit of a prankster. He was Conner Stoll. I always paid extra detail to him. I made his eyes extra blue and his hair have different shading of brown. Anyway, I got shaken out of my trance when Chiron a girl from Athena's Table made an announcement.

Let me get something straight, this was Annabeth and I didn't like her. I saw her as judgmental, bossy, controlling, and just plain rude. But that's a different story.

"Hello campers," She began. Most people continued eating while a few looked up at her.

"Okay, well just as a reminder, the capture the flag game will begin in two hours or whenever you hear the bell again. I just wanted to go over the standard protocol to prevent time wasted then. You will meet up with your team and discuss tactics and positions. After five minutes of that you will begin and play."

The majority of the people were looking up and listening now as I drew every detail of Annabeth attire.

"Now, the teams are, as follows. Red team you will be Athena, Hades, Apollo, Poseidon, and Iris."

I smiled to myself half-heartedly thinking that Annabeth would boss me around. Of course she would be the leader, everybody loves her.

"The blue team is Hephaestus, Zeus, Aphrodite, and Hermes." She concluded her announcement as the campers began to get up and continue with their day.

Usually during the summer when there's like triple this many people we would have schedules and classes but during these parts we just sort of hang out. I mean we still had training every Thursday and Greek every Tuesday but other than that we just walked around. So I went back up the Lake where some other people had gathered around. I took out my colored pencils and just let my mind wander.

I noticed some of the Hermes kids out of the crowd along with a few from Apollo. 'The trouble makers,' I thought to myself. I one girl from Apollo who couldn't have been more than nine hanging around Will and a girl I didn't know of. I started drawing and it was pretty obvious which ones were which; the Apollo kids were all small and agile with Blonde hair while the Hermes kids where tall and lanky with a much browner hair color.

This is when it started to get weird. Let me tell you something, I liked water; I just didn't like getting wet. So when I saw the kids continue out to the dock I scooted towards the tree I was sitting behind as fast as possible. It was kind of a blur, one second they were standing there and the next they jumped in as a group. Time slowed as a huge wave came hurtling me. I closed my eyes an crossed my arms over my face.

I heard the splashing of water on the tree and looked up slowly to see that I wasn't wet. In fact it was almost like the water bounced right off of me. I saw a few people laughing in the water while three guys came out to help me up. Two were from Apollo, a girl and a boy, and the other, I recognized that face anywhere. Connor reached for my arm and helped me up while the girl was going to get help.

"Dude, that was amazing." The guy from Apollo exclaimed.

"Yeah how'd you do that?" Connor asked intrigued. "A wave was hurtling towards you and then it just bounced away at the last second."

I was still in shock at two things, one, that I may or may not have just controlled water and the fact that Connor was this close to me. The girl had just arrived from getting Chiron from the big house. I noticed that she was about my age and her hair was an unnatural shade of Red.

"Thank you Miki, Austin, and Connor?" Chiron asked surprised. "It is not often I see you helping someone."

"Well, I did do this to her."

"That's never stopped you before." Austin, the boy from Apollo, said under his breath."

"Well, maybe it's because I don't help little-" Connor held out his fist as his brother Travis walked up.

"Boys," Chiron protested. "You may continue your dispute later. Now run along." Travis had to pull his brother away while Austin ran back over to the dock to join his own brothers and sisters. Chiron stopped the girl, Miki. "Oh and retrieve Percy for me. Tell him I need to talk to him now in the big house."

She ran towards the cabins as I shifted uncomfortably. "Now for you, come along. You have a gift, you must be trained."