I woke under a tree. I had no memory of what had happen the last couple of weeks.

"Where am I?" I wondered.

I looked down the hill and what I saw didn't make any sense. The place looked kinda like a camp. I saw kids playing on volleyball court and some canoeing on an open lake. When I looked farther into the distance and I saw a bunch of greek styled buildings.

"OOkay", I thought to myself, "this was weird".

At the end of the hill I could see a big blue house. I decided that maybe someone was in there that could explain all of this, so I started down the hill. Sitting on the porch of the house were two people. One was a tired, drunk and lazy looking man with deep black hair and a tiger printed shirt. The other man was in a wheelchair. He had brown hair and a brown beard. He was wearing a frayed tweed jacket and smelled like coffee. As I approached, the two men looked up at me and the tiger printed shirt man sniffed " gods Chiron, not another one."

"Now, now Mr. D" the man named Chiron said. "we are happy to accept any new campers."

"Where am I?" I asked them.

"Uhhhh, I've explained this too many times" Mr. D groaned, "i'm going to go take a nap."

He got up and went into the house.

"Where am I!" I repeated.

"Welcome to camp half blood" Chiron told me " this is a place for demi-gods, and you child, are a demi-god."

"a demi-what?"

"demi-god, it means that one of your parents were mortal and the other was one of the olympians- a god or goddess."

I looked at him dumbfounded. "What?" I asked,

He looked at me with pity, "come now, i'll have someone show you around, maybe you will understand better once you see the camp." then he got up out of his wheelchair. He kind of grew out of the wheelchair, looking like he had really long white pants on, then I realized that he was part horse. "Your a-"

"Centaur, yes" he interrupted "now come along."

While we walked along to wherever we were going, Chiron asked me some questions. "What is your name"

"Katie Gardner" I responded.

He also asked me whether I lived with my mom or dad. I took me a little longer to remember that. I thought hard and saw a picture image thingy in my mind and saw him."dad." I told him "I lived with my dad.

Finally we stopped next to an archery place and Chiron called over a girl. She looked about thirteen, like me, but she was a couple inches shorter. She had chocolate brown hair and golden brown eyes. "Hi" she told me "I'm Meg, daughter of Apollo."

"Would you show Katie around?" Chiron asked the girl.

She told him she would and led me off. Everything she showed me was amazing. there was a climbing wall with lava pouring down the sides, a greek pavilion styled mess hall, an armory, and an arena where she told me they held sword fights. I wondered why we needed to sword fight at a summer camp, but i decided not to say anything. There was also the woods where she said they sometimes played capture the flag. And, there were pegasus stables, I mean like flying horses. When we passed the strawberry fields I felt a strange pull in my gut. I ignored it and moved on. I saw that there was also a beach and an ocean. Meg caught me staring at the beach and said "Yep, thats long island sound. "What!" I said. We were in New York, I couldn't remember exactly where I lived before but I knew it was far from here.

Next, she took me to the cabins. There were twelve, in a U shape all around a central green about as big as a soccer field. In the middle of the field was a fire pit, some fountains, statues, and flowers. None of the cabins looked like the other. One of them was tall and looked kind of like a bank with lightning shapes shimmering on in. Another one was low and made of gray stones, one looked like a barbie house, another was blood red with barbed wire a a bores head. One of them was made of solid gold. (Meg told me that was her cabin.) One had smoke coming out of the top like a factory and one looked like a normal camp cabin. She explained that I would be staying in the Hermes cabin until I got claimed by my mom. She headed me towards the regular looking cabin and we went inside. There were only two people in the cabin, two boys both tall with curly brown hair and slightly arched eyebrows they looked our age. They both had blue eyes and mischievous smiles. They were looking at some kind of map and seemed to be planning something. When they saw us, they put the map away quickly and came to greet us.

"Im Travis Stoll" the taller of the two said "and this is my brother-"

"Connor" the other boy interruped.

They both smiled. But their smiles seemed kind of sarcastic, like they were trying to figure out if I had anything on me worth stealing. I could already tell that I didn't like these two. They showed me a spot on the floor and put a sleeping bag down, telling me that this was where I would be sleeping. The hermes cabin was crowded. There were bunk beds against the walls and a bunch of sleeping bags on the floor. I guessed that was because a lot of people probably not claimed and had to stay here. I felt kind of sad. What if my mom never claimed me and I was stuck in the Hermes with the Stoll brothers for the rest of my life. I started back to the entrance when the boy named Travis stuck out his foot and tripped me. I stumbled over it and fell, my face got red with embarrassment. Travis and Connor just laughed. I stormed out of the cabin, and Meg gave the boys a disgusted look and followed me out.

"Just ignore them" she told me. "They can be really annoying"

"No kidding" I answered.

The rest of the day passed pretty quickly. Me and Meg had fun while she showed me around the rest of the camp and introduced to a bunch of her friends.

At one point two kids walked out from the athena cabin, a boy and a girl. The boy looked our age and a girl about a year younger. They both had blonde hair and stormy gray eyes they were tall and athletic looking. We we passed them Meg froze, her face turned red.

"Hey Meg" the boy said

"Uhh, Hey Malcolm. Hi Annabeth."

They smiled and walked on. Meg let out a sight.

"OOOOOOOO" I teased. She slapped my shoulder "shut up."

I laughed, I cold tell she had a major crush on this Malcolm guy. Then the dinner horn sounded. Meg went back to the Apollo cabin and I went to Hermes. We set out to the mess hall. I was kind of bummed that we could only sit with our cabin, but dinner was fine enough. I watched the other kids ask for drinks and I copied them…

"Water" I told my cup. A clear liquid filled the glass.

I followed my cabin mates in getting food and then sacrificing some of it to the gods in a fire pit. When it was my turn, I put some grapes in and silently prayed to my mother, whoever she was, to help me and claim me. When dinner was over everybody went to the amphitheatre for a sing along led by the Apollo cabin, and s'mores. And after that we all went back to the cabins. When I hit my sleeping bag, I immediately fell asleep. It was the end of my first day at camp half blood.