~Chapter 1~

This may sound really stupid, but my life has just been turned completely upside down all in a few days' time. I learned who my birth parents are, my crush that I used to date is now my best friend and it turns out that he likes me, too. I also met my 3 half-brothers that I never knew I had. On top of all of that, most of my friends are also demigods and some are quite powerful, too. To be honest though, I had an idea that all of this was coming, I just didn't know when. If you are wondering how I knew it's because I have had these insane dreams since I was a little girl. I never knew what they meant exactly until all of them came together like a puzzle this week. You are probably getting bored with me just talking, so here I go.

Hey, my name is Kataigida Lynn Jackson and I know you are probably wondering why my name is weird but it means storm in Greek, so my friends and family call me Storm. I have blonde hair that goes down to about my shoulders. I guess you can say that my hair is curly although half of my hair is straight. I have stormy sea-green eyes that some people say turn ocean blue when I get seriously mad. I have a younger half-sister (or so I thought she was my half-sister) named Hailey Wellen who is 11 years old and she tends to annoy the crap out of me. I am 13 years old and will be turning 14 in 2 days, on the 13th of June. Since my birthday is going to be in 2 days, my mom decided to through me a party tonight because not everyone was going to be able to make it on the day of my birthday. At first it was going to just be a few of my friends, but that plan was quickly thrown out the door the minute the party started. You are probably wondering "what happened" and "did anyone that wasn't supposed to be there show up" and instead of ranting for a long time like I want to, I am just going to start from the beginning of the night.

"Storm your friends are here!" cried my mom from outside. I was currently up in my room making sure that I looked okay in my bathing suit, although I was going to be wearing a swimming suit cover up over it for most of the night.

"Okay, I am coming!" I yelled back as I turned away from my mirror to run down the stairs. When I reached the door that led outside from the room that connected the garage and the house I was very surprised to see who all had shown up. My friends that I am always are with came and they are Zoe Perez and her brother David Perez (they are twins), Violet Sane, Elizabeth Smith, Lauren Bezler, Grace Hayes, Leena Castor, Lily Underwood, Carmen Hall, and Skylar Reed. One thing that I regret not telling my friends is that you cannot bring people if they are not invited. As it turns out Skylar brought Bryan and Cole Wood who are twin brothers will not stop making fun of me. Violet brought Nicoleta Banks who I cannot stand because she is so mean all of the time and she doesn't even know it and she doesn't even try. Then the worst of all Lauren brought her boyfriend Scott Logan. The reason I hate this is because Scott and I used to date when we were in 5th and 6th grade. When we broke up he never really gave me an exact reason as to why he broke up with me he just did. I don't want to be around him because I think I still like him but I don't know why because he is a total jerk to everyone even to Lauren and she knows it but is too blinded by "love" to see it. Oh well, I guess things just happen.

"Hey Storm can we go swimming now?" asked a very impatient Liz, that is what we call Elizabeth for short.

"Sure Liz go on ahead I was going to ask all of you if you wanted to go swimming anyways." I said as I took off my cover up to reveal my ocean blue bikini. My friends and I swam all night until our parents told us to get out because it was getting too dark but of course we all didn't listen and kept on swimming.

"Okay I am done swimming I am getting way too tired and I want to go read my book" explained Zoe as she grabbed a towel to dry off.

Most of the others chorused in response with "Yah, I'm hungry" or "I am tired too". "Oh, come on guys I'm nowhere near tired how can you all be tired already" I said as I waded around the pool.

"Storm just get out all of us are so there is no reason to stay in..." Grace said as she droned on about why I should get out but by then I had stopped listening because I had a weird feeling inside of me that I didn't get very often.

"Wait, Grace, shut up," Grace was about to argue when everyone else shushed her, "Do you guys hear that?" I asked half scared and half just wanting to see what everyone thought it was because, unfortunately, I already knew what it was. You see ever since the night of my 7th birthday I have had these really weird dreams that are surprisingly vivid. I have written all of the dreams I have ever had since then in a journal so I could go back and look at them incase ii had the same dream or a dream that explained a previous dream I had had. I remember having this dream not too long ago and it was one of the dreams that have left me scarred for probably the rest of my life. All of a sudden there was a long, low roar from a little ways in the distance. All of my friends were frozen in thought and fear but since I have already dreamed about this situation I knew exactly what to do.

"Storm, what was that?" squealed Leena as she was the first one to recover from her very rapid thought process.

I hesitated before I answered her because I still wasn't sure if I should tell them what exactly was going on but then my mom came out of the house followed by most of the parents and answered my question for me.

"Everyone inside now there is no time to explain, but for those of you who want to know a reason well that reason is if you don't get inside you might die from what made that loud roar." I stated as I started ushering everyone back inside. Of course, Nicoleta had to ruin everything for me because she is so freaking stubborn.

"Storm I am not going anywhere until you give me the truth as to why you are actually scared and you don't get scared often at all so this better be a good reason." said Nicoleta as she sat on the ground and folded her arms across her chest like a 2 year old.

"Fine you want the truth Nicoleta, then I will give you the truth no matter how much it might scare you. That thing that just roared in the distance is the Minotaur and it is coming to get us and will be here soon so unless you want to be Minotaur chow I suggest you get inside." I told her as I was trying to drag her towards the door.

Wait do you mean to tell us that the real Minotaur is coming to get us? But why?" asked Scott as he was trying to get his hand out of Lauren's tight grasp.

"Yes, Scott. That is exactly what I am trying to say. The Minotaur is coming to get us because we are all..." I tried to finish but was abruptly cut off as the Minotaur barreled through the fenced right into my backyard. Everyone outside stood in absolute fear and shock at the sight of the huge and hairy bull-man.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Heroes of Olympus or Percy Jackson and the Gods of Olympus characters. Rick Riordan does. I do own the plot and the OC's such as Storm and Scott.