My head hurt. I was sitting at a school desk, which I couldn't remember how I got to.

"You awake Percy?" a girl was sitting next to me, her hair a golden brown and her eyes matched with flickers of gold against the hazel background. She looked at me like we were old friends.

My head hurt even more when I tried to figure out who she was. Putting on my best manners I asked her "Excuse me but who are you?" She looked a bit hurt but I really had no clue who she was. She seemed to realise this because she finally told me who she was. "I'm Isabella, but would much prefer it if you called me Bella, even Izzy would be better."

"Yeah, ok…Bella." I looked at what she was wearing; a black I skirt that was pleated, with black patterned tights and combat boots. On top she had a purple top underneath a black half zipped hoodie.

"Percy are you paying attention?" An older person that stood out the front of the class that was obviously the teacher asked.

"Um…yes Mrs…?"

"Mrs. Smith." The teacher finished.

"Mrs. Smith I repeated.

"Meet me after school Percy." Mrs. Smith continued on with the maths lesson after that. I decided to turn my attention back to Bella in an effort to get something out of her. "So, where am I?" Bella let out a giggle.

"School; where else?"

"Well where is school?" I asked her.

"You really don't know anything?" I nodded. "Well we're in Miami, the schools one of those for 'troubled children' although it doesn't matter how many times I tell mum that it's not my fault I don't do anything and yet I still managed to get kicked out of every school I go to after a year…" The bell went when she was mid rant.

Bella told me that we had one more class left of the day and how to get to mine. I spent the rest of last period wondering who I was and what I was doing here.

Once the last bell went I found Bella and got her to lead me to Mr Smith's office.

"Arh Percy come in!" She cried when we knocked on the door.

"You better wait outside." I told Bella as I entered the room.

"Percy there's something that I desperately need to talk to you about." It was at that moment that he did something that I thought was the last thing that I expected to happen. Mrs Smith grew a tail like a serpent and if this was surprising I didn't feel like this was the weirdest thing I've ever seen. She lunged at me not knowing what to do I pulled out my pen that I had in my pocket; the pen that just turned into a sword. I attacked the echidna, wait how did I know what that thing's called. I kept waving the sword about and it turned into what looked like stilled moves of an experienced swords man. I got good shot in and Mrs Smith disappeared before my eyes.

"Oh. My. God!" I spun around and saw Bella standing there with her mouth hanging open. "Did you just do what I think I saw you do?"

"Uhmm…I guess I did." I was too confused myself to give her a better answer.

"Percy do you have some deep dark secret that you want to tell me?"

"Um…none that I know myself…I think." Bella nodded, her black curls messily bouncing with her head.

"Oh here you are." A kid around my age walked into the room he looked like eh needed a shave and something to help him with his limp.

"Wallace what are you doing here?" Bella asked. The boy named Wallace turned to me. "How did you do that?"

"Um… I just kinda did." He thought it through for a moment.

"I think you better come with me…both of you, you need to see Luap immediately." Bella seemed confused for a moment. "Me too?"

"Yes, I've had my eye on you the entire year."

"Had your eye on me? What? Why?"

"Because you're a demi god of cores, I'll explain later, but at the moment we need to get you to Lupa… Now."

"What?" Bella stalled.

"Just come now!" Wallace insisted.