Chap 1 The Shocking Plan

BEEP, BEEP. I was running down the alley with the passed out Naomi on my back. There didn't seem to be an end to this alley, the sirens slowly trailed behind me as I ran.

BEEEEEEP, BEEEEEEP, BEEEEEEEEEP. I was getting slower and slower, and then everything went black.

I shot my eyes open after I heard the sound of laughter. I rolled my eyes, cursed under my breath and walked over to my cabin, the Nemesis cabin. It was nice inside not too hot, not too cold, just how I liked it, "balanced". I looked at the clock on the wall by my bed, it was two thirty, and I had twenty minutes to get to my first class.

Class went by like normal, way too long and way too boring. After class I went back to the cabin to change out of my sweaty clothes. The rest of the cabin was there, Zoe the youngest, Ashlyn and Terri the twins, and Kyle the oldest. They stared at me like I was interrupting their meeting. I changed and went on my way to dinner. The line was longer than usual and as usual, no one paid attention to me.

"Xander!" I turned around to see Naomi, from the Aphrodite cabin, wave me over to wait in line with her.

"Hey, Naomi, haven't seen you around camp recently", I said jamming my hands into my pockets.

"Yea I was on a quest looking for some more half bloods", she stated.

"Oh, I thought that was done by the Satyrs", I questioned.

"Yea it normally is, but apparently a few have gone missing."

"That's really strange; I wonder what's happening to them,"

"Yea I know, I was really confused when the Oracle told me to find more half-bloods,"

"Umm the chicken please," I said to the cafeteria lady.

"Well see you around if you hear anything about, it tell me." She said

"K see you."

We went our separate ways and I went to my table. I ate in silence at the Nemesis cabin as the rest of the campers chatted among each other. I watched other people have their conversations about what happened today and what people said. It had forever since I made a friend at this camp and the few I had kept going on quests and leaving me hear. I started forward as someone grabbed the back of my shirt. I turned around to see Danny, the blind boy from the Hephaestus cabin.

At the age of twelve He had been fighting alongside the famous Percy Jackson. When he was stabbed in the eye while fighting a gorgon. Hephaestus built him a pair of metal eyes after the battle that allowed him to see faint outlines and shapes. The only problem was that it was draining his life; he'd gone from twelve to sixty in less than four years.

"I'm Sorry, did I scare you?" Danny asked, while the rest of my cabin snickered.

"Just a little," I said quietly, "Do you want to talk?"

He nodded. "Yea that'd be nice,"

When we reached the lake, it was dark and peaceful; the moon light glistened off the water, like ice on pavement.

"So what did you want to talk to me about?" I asked.

"I'm leaving camp Half-Blood, for good."

"What...why?"

"Something's up with Chiron, something bad, something big. Satyrs are disappearing, Chiron's never here anymore, and the way he's been looking at all of us, its creepy, like he knows who's next or something."

"But where will you go?" I asked.

"I don't know Xander, I don't know…but I do know that of all the people in this camp, I'd really want you with me", Danny said quietly.

"I don't know Danny, this is my home," my stomach was in knots and I felt like puking...

"I'm leaving during the capture-the-flag game on Friday; there'll be a boat here at sun down."

I watched the water glisten in silence as I heard his faint footsteps heading back to camp.

Great Zeus…