'What a wonderful feeling. Nothing to do for a couple of weeks…just relax in my hometown of New York…damn-it I'm bored as hell!' Percy threw his body back against his mattress and covered his face with his aquatic blue pillow. He sighed deeply; Percy's ADD began to kick in as his thoughts wondered from Camp Half Blood- to his closest friends ,Grover and Annabeth, for some random reason, Nico Di Angelo. Last summer Percy had grown closer toward Nico, not only in their friendship; but in something else…something Percy couldn't put his finger on. Anyway, Percy's mind was now switching over to what his mother was doing in the kitchen.

Percy threw his pillow over to the head of the bed, and quickly left his room and went into the kitchen. Percy's mom immediately noticed her son presence. "Percy! Just in time, I want you to taste my new recipe for my frosting on this cake." She smiled at her son and handed him a spoon with homemade, blue dyed cake frosting.
Percy's mouth watered some as he watched the frosting approach his lips; he stuffed the whole spoon within his mouth and grinned. "It's delicious mom!"

His mother grinned, "good, at first I thought I added too much of my secret ingredient." She winked at Percy, Percy smiled, "you can never put too much of that in the recipe. Um..mom…"

"Yes sweetie?"

"Can I maybe have a guest over?"

"Sure. Do their parents know they're going to stay over?"

"Yeah." Percy cringed at his own answer.

"Then that it's ok, they can come over. So who is coming over? Is it Annabeth?"

"No, it's someone you haven't met before. He and I recently became close friends."

"Oh, so this person in a he?"

"Yup, his name is Nico." Percy got another half spoon of icing, he was grinning from ear to ear.

Percy's mom cocked an eyebrow, she couldn't tell if her son was grinning because he got more icing or because he was talking about this Nico child. She chuckled and made a mental note to keep an eye on Percy's body language when he was around Nico, Percy had only acted this way one other time, when he had a huge crush on Annabeth.

But unfortunately, when Percy confronted his feeling toward her she told him bad news about how she loved him as a brother. This happened last summer, right after Percy's junior year of high school. Right now it was Percy's senior year of high school; since he is one of the oldest on the Camp now, he, Annabeth, Grover, and other campers around their age levels have been appointed as head campers or councilors.

Percy headed up to his bedroom; he grabbed his cell phone and searched though his contacts. He panned down to Nico and stared to type:

Percy: Hey are you there?

Nico: Yeah. Y?

Percy: I was wondering, do you wanna come over? I can go get you.

Nico: Sure. My dad's a little pissed now, I just wanna get out of his hair.

Percy: Kk. I'll be over—

Nico: I'll shadow travel to the Starbucks near Central Park.

Percy: Kk.I'll be over in a couple of minutes.

Nico: Kk.

Percy stuffed his phone into his jean pocket and grabbed his jack, he headed down stairs, "Hey mom can I borrow the car? I'm going to go pick up Nico.

"Sure, just don't stay out too late and be careful." She smiled at her son and tossed the keys at him. Percy caught them in id air and smiled. "Thanks." He was out the door within two minutes.

"Envy, have you found new test subjects we can use?" A sweet seducing voice purred from within the shadows. Envy cocked his head to the direction where the voice originated. Envy grinned, dark green strands of hair brushed against his cheek, "Take a look for yourself, I have a feeling Father will be very pleased." A woman came forth out of the shadows and looked over Envy's shoulder. She wore a skintight black dress that had an extremely low cut neck line and knee high boots with a three-inch heel. Her hair tumbled down her back and stopped at the small of her back. It was wavy and tinted black. He smile was curt and sexy and her lips had a cover of black lipstick. Her name was Lust. She was quite beautiful and she was quite smart as well. Next to her a short chubby man waddled next to her. He was baled, had a pudgy squished nose, and was dressed from head to toe in black. He followed her around like a puppy. His name was Gluttony.

Lust grinned, "good job Envy. These humans look quite interesting."

"Do you know what is even better? These kids are only half human."

Lust cocked and eyebrow. Envy's grin widened, "These kids are half human, half gods."

Lust eyes widened, "How interesting."

Envy returned his attention back to the kids who were playing, the kids were sword fighting, battling one on one combat, and just hanging about talking, laughing, and having a good time; just like any other kids would if they went to camp.

"Lust, can I eat them?" Gluttony asked tugging at Lust's dress, as if he was three years old.

Lust looked down at him and grinned, "Not just yet Gluttony, we're going to need them to create something. But when the time comes, I shall tell you who you can eat."

Gluttony grinned, "Okay!"