Life As We Know It

Anya

Well hello readers. I'm ANYA. I'm really the star of the story even though there are eight main characters. I have the biggest part in the story and even though the others have big parts, I have the biggest. But I am going to pass the mic now so I won't be out of breath for my part.

Luke

I don't really come into the story until much MUCH later so I shall pass the mic

Annabeth

Unlike the people before me I come in at the beginning of the story but I'm not gonna ramble on. Since I don't like when others do it I won't do it myself. Here Percy.

Percy

Thanks Annabeth, even though that wasn't true about the rambling. You ramble a lot. Yes you do. YES YOU DO. Whatever, lets get on with this. Well you readers know me from my series Percy Jackson and the Olympians and now I'm in this one. You may find this series very surprising though.

Thalia

I hope you people remember me. Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus, Hunter of Artemis. Immortal. Man I'm STILL 15. If it hadn't been for that prophecy I would be 20 now. But NO, I HAD to be a child of the Big Three. At least I'm not alone.

Rachel

Hello people, here I am, Rachel Elizabeth Dare. The one that used to be just a mortal that can see through the mist but I am now the new Oracle of Delphi. I deliver the prophecies. But I'm still trying to figure out my first one.

Ian

Hello. My name is Ian Kabra. I am the one that has a love and devotion for Anya. You may know me from The 39 Clues but-

Natalie

Just give up the mic Ian. Thank you. Hullo, I am Natalie Kabra. I am also from The 39 Clues, but we're not going to get into that. In The 39 Clues I am 11 but in this story I am as old as Thalia (except without the immorality). I am 15. I am one Anya's best friends and most trusted Lu- I'm not getting into that. Anyway I'm one of Anya's best friends. But now I will pass the mic back to Percy since he starts the story off.

Percy

In the last minute of my last class on my last day of school I was still wondering when an Aethiopian Drakon would burst through the side of the wall.

Oh if you don't remember I'm a demigod.

A son of Poseidon.

But the bell rang.

So it has been officially 3 monsterless school years. Not bad. But I didn't get my hopes up. Usually if my school year wasn't full of monsters and mayhem my summer is.

As I walked through the halls of Goode High I passed the band room, where I had killed 2 empousai with the helps of a mortal girl by the name of Rachel Elizabeth Dare. And that one memory trigged a whole sea of memories.

About the Labyrinth, about how I blew up Mount St. Helens and met Calypso, Hephaestus, and Hera. About how Rachel led us through the Labyrinth.

About how Annabeth kissed me.

And since Rachel was the starting topic I remembered how Rachel kissed me to. (But not that year)

A lot of other things had happened the year Rachel had kissed me, but I didn't want to think about that.

But as I thought about these events I thought more about Rachel.

Rachel had always been an admiring figure to me and I kind of liked her. Not the way your thinking. I mean Rachel is like really cool. Well you would think she was cool if she had thrown a blue plastic hairbrush at the Titan Lord to help YOU.

Oh put the Titan Lord out of my mind.

Anyway as you might have guessed Rachel is really cool.

Anya

As I walked through the halls of Goode High with my friend Natalie beside me I thought about what I was gonna do this summer.

"This summer will be promising" Natalie said, and as she said this I felt and urge inside if me that told me that she was right.

"It had better be"

Replied Natalie's annoying older brother Ian "I don't want to be home with Natalie all summer." Ian was as old as I was so I could tell him to shut up.

"Shut up Ian "I said "Natalie's cool" I then muttered "I'd feel bad for her having to spend the summer with you" and forged ahead.

Ian came after me.

"How come you're so mean to me?"He asked

"I'm not mean to you" I answered while I kept walking.

Ian nodded "Yes you are" he stood in front of me. "Anya all I ever did was like you. Actually LOVE you"

I pushed him aside

"I'm not mean to you" I repeated "I just tell the truth"

"No. You TRY to hurt my feelings"

"You don't even have feelings" I said

"Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee." Ian pointed out

"Okay. So maybe I am a little mean"

"A LITTLE?" Ian disputed

"But," I continued "it's only because you refuse to leave me alone."

"What do you mean?"

"You "I choked on the word "LOVE me right?"

He nodded. "Well I don't love you so I'd like for you to just leave me alone"

"I will not rest until you love me" said Ian and Natalie at the same time "hey how did you know what I was going to say?"He asked

"You say it all the time." She answered "I will make it so Anya loves me, Natalie even if it's the last thing I do" she recited "then you go on talking about how wonderful, sweet and, beautiful Anya is, and I'm like I KNOW that already"

Ian turned hot pink; even though he's dark skinned and I don't see how he could do that.

"Thanks a lot Natalie."

"Don't be embarrassed" I said, I put my hand on Ian's shoulder "that's sweet I like that. Thank you Ian" I put my arm around him "you've made yourself closer to having a spot in my heart"

"Really?"He asked

"Really." I replied. And what surprised me most was that I had actually meant it.

Percy

When I arrived at camp Rachel was there.
See I go to camp every summer. But now go straight from school by myself. My mom knows where I go.

So as I walk up Half-Blood Hill I see Thalia's tree. It still has the Golden Fleece on it.

Then I noticed the 20ft long dragon around the tree. Peleus. He was asleep, as always. So I just crept passed.

When I entered camp everything was the way it's supposed to be. We had gotten a LOT more campers and we even had a Hades cabin. Although there's only one camper in there. As I walked through the camp I saw Chiron. But as I got closer I saw someone standing in front of him. Then I saw a bush of red.

Rachel! I realized

I ran up to her and touched her shoulder.

WHAP! She spun around and slapped me.

"Ow!" I shouted "what was that?"

"Sorry "Rachel said "just instincts. Just like when we met. Remember the sword?"

"Yes, I remember "I replied

I looked her up and down. She looked good. She had gotten taller and her wild red hair had gotten longer. She was wearing a red shirt that said in gold sparkles the initials R.E.D (most likely stood for her name-Rachel Elizabeth Dare if you don't remember) and a blue jacket with jeans. Like I said she looked good.

"So" I asked" did you survive without spouting any?"

"What?" she asked

"You know "I explained "prophecies."

Rachel's expression lit up

"Oh!" she realized "yep"

"Oh" I said a little disappointed

But then I heard her mutter something that sounded like "but something much worse happened"

"What?" I asked

"Nothing" she said

"You sure? 'Cuz-"

"I said its nothing!" she shouted and then she stormed off toward the Big House.

By the way she was acting I could tell she was hiding something from me.

Natalie

It pained me to see to see my best friend and my brother out of high school, while I still had to endure 3 more years of Goode High. Ugh. I thought so not fair.

But I was still happy for them.

Oh who am I kidding I resented them at that moment-except Ian whom I have always resented.

As Anya and Ian were jumping around I watched them. They looked so happy. I noticed Anya swing her long dark ponytail in Ian's direction. Probably trying to hit him in the face. I smiled.

"Hey Nat" Anya said momentarily stopping her dance "lets explore"

"To where?"

"Anywhere" she said "that's what makes it exploring"

"Ok" I agreed

We ended up in an empty with hill and a tall pine tree.

"I wonder what's up there" Ian muttered

"It's obviously nothing" I remarked "you can see that from here"

"Ah" Anya said "but maybe not, there's always more than meets the eye"

"I still think it's nothing" I said

"And so we shall find out" said Anya as she started walking up the hill.

The last thing I saw was Anya's dark ponytail disappearing behind the pine.

Annabeth

I was just minding my business when the dark-haired girl showed up.

You see I was cleaning my cabin bunk and Malcolm came in and called "Annabeth, Annabeth, you need to see this!" and then I ran out. What's going on? I thought

So I ran out of my cabin and saw a crowd. What I saw blew my mind. I saw…

A girl.

A girl I had never seen before.

A girl that was walking towards the camp.

"She won't get past the borders"I murmured

We all inched closer as two individuals with cinnamon colored skin and black hair followed her. Siblings I guessed mentally.

Then the dark-haired girl stopped in the front and stared at us. We stared back at her. Now that she was closer I could tell that she was pretty. She looked… oh what's the word? She looked…

Perfect.

Yes that's the word.

"What's happening?" asked someone in the crowd.

I recognized that voice; I turned around and saw…

"Percy!" I shouted, he turned around

"Annabeth!"

I went and hugged him

"Hey"I said

"Hey" he replied. But his mind wasn't on me-which made me kind of jealous-his mind was on the reason why we were all here.

"What's going on over there?" he asked as he pointed toward the dark-haired girl

"Oh" I answered" just some mortals exploring"

"Is that all?" Percy asked absentmindedly
"what do you mean?"

"Annabeth look" he spun me to face the dark-haired girl. She was closer now.

Closer.

Much, MUCH closer. All three of them were.

In fact, they were so close that they had passed the magic borders.