Riley Kramer

"You're twenty-five cents short," gruffly said the bus driver, handing back Riley her money. He had a stout appearance with a mushed nose and a beard that looks like it hasn't been shaved in years.

Groaning, Riley asked, "It's only twenty-five cents, can't you make one exception?" The bus driver made a grunt that almost sounded like a laugh, before completely ignoring Riley and taking the money from the next person.

Frustrated she walked back down the stairs and sat down on the bench dejectedly. Looking up she saw pitying glances, but not a single person could even spare a measly quarter. Now Riley didn't know how she was supposed to get to the camp, Apollo had given her instructions to take this bus, and now she missed her ride and was lost.

The bus pulled away, and Riley rested her chin in her hands and blew a strand of light pink hair out of her face. She had a habit of dying her hair different colors all of the time. Right now it was cotton candy pink, which is so far one of her favorites, next to the sky blue and bright red.

Taking a deep breath, Riley decided she didn't have another choice, and grabbed her purple backpack, starting to walk down the road, hoping she was wouldn't get lost. Riley was only walking for a couple of minutes when she heard the loud reeving of an engine, but there weren't any cars on the road. She knew exactly who it was, and looked up, seeing a candy apple red sports car with a certain God driving it.

Apollo landed on the road, the heat from his car slowly melting the asphalt. "You need a ride?" he asked with a cocky grin. Apollo was pretty hot, no pun intended, with light blue eyes and carefree blonde hair, but wasn't really Riley's type anyway.

Riley exhaled in relief, "I thought I was gonna have to walk all the way to the camp," she said with a wide smile.

Apollo jumped out of the car and opened her door for her, "I had to wait until sunrise to get over here; be careful not to touch the sides, wouldn't want the new Pythia to get her hands burned off," Apollo said with his easygoing nature.

Riley stepped in and sat down; the unbearable heat she felt on the outside of the car disappeared as soon as she stepped inside. Apollo got back in and started the engine, taking off and leaving a car sized indent in the street.

"Sorry about the bus, I needed to make a big entrance, "Apollo said, looking as if he was reminiscing on the planning. He seemed to like to make a show. Riley first met him when he claimed she was the, "100th customer," at a concert and giving her a card with his number and basically following her around.

The rest of the ride to the camp was full of terrible haiku's and attempts at sonnets. Finally just down the road from the camp, Apollo landed.

"It would draw too much attention to the Titans if I were to land in the camp again, so this is as close as I can get. Just follow the road and you'll be there in no time," Apollo explained. "Just tell Chiron that I said hi."

"Thanks, I'll see you another time, I guess," Riley replied stepping out of the car. Apollo smiled widely, waved, and took off, catching a couple of trees on fire.

Riley shouldered her purple backpack and followed Apollo's instructions. Just as he said the entrance to the camp stood right down the road.

She was thinking how peaceful it looked, but suddenly someone barrel into her knocking her down, and a feminine voice yelling, "Watch out!"

Riley was about to yell at the person, when a column of fire shot directly at where she was.

"Who are you? Wait never mind, just watch out." Riley's savior had dirty blonde hair, button nose, and almond shaped turquoise eyes, giving her a strange mixed exotic look.

"Cleo, distract the drakon from behind!"

Riley looked to who yelled that, but stopped awestruck when a giant dragon looking thing blocked her view. It was the size of three school buses combined, with bright green scales; this must be the drakon that the person was yelling about.

"I'll be right back, stay here," said the girl who was apparently Cleo as she ran off with a sword towards the back of the drakon.

Riley back up against a tree and watched in awe as Cleo slashed at the drakon. She had managed to block swipes from its claw, but it eventually got the advantage and hit her with its tail, knocking her down. Cleo flew back a couple of feet and held her ribs in pain. The drakon roared at the sky in triumph at its hit.

Suddenly a bolt of lightning from the sky hit it directly through its open maw, turning it to dust. Leaving behind a single scale the size of a car window, and Riley to comprehend what just happened. Behind the dust of the once drakon was a guy holding a spear out and looking tired as if he was the one causing the lightning bolt. He had an aura of a leader with short light brown hair, electrifying blue eyes, and a muscular build, pretty easy on the eyes.

Riley saw a few people running over as if to help, and so much was happening around her. It must've been too much when she started to suddenly feel dizzy, and darkness over overtook her vision.

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Tara Evander

Tara barely caught the pink haired girl when she fell unconscious. She didn't recognize her; the girl was extremely pale and looked like she was 14 or 15 years old.

"Need help?" asked a familiar voice. Tara turned and saw Chase Keldheart, a son of Hermes who had the same upturned eyebrows and crooked grin as the rest of his siblings; and had shaggy black hair, blue eyes, and was kinda lanky.

"Sure, that would be great," Tara replied. With the help of Chase she carried the girl to the infirmary.

"Can you believe that a drakon got into the camp? This is so far the biggest monster that has been summoned in," Chase said thinking out loud. "It must mean that the titans are planning something big..."

"There doesn't seem to be any headway in the search for the spies," Tara pointed out. The Titans weren't expected to rise again for a long while after the last war, but that was greatly miscalculated when Tethys led a new army to take down that Gods.

The difference between this time and the last was that, unlike before instead of trying to recruit the minor gods and goddess the titans were just picking them off, and it weakened the god's power. So far, according to her knowledge, Morpheus, Nemesis, Euros, Polyhymnia, and Hypnos were gone. Recently monsters have been invited into the camp by some spy or possibly even spies.

By the time that Chase and Tara made it into the infirmary Cleo was already in a bed, with a slightly pained look on her face and clutching her ribs. She must've broken a rib or two from the drakon's tail, and William was on another bed looking like he was going to pass out. Summoning a lightning bolt that big must have drained a lot from him

"Could you give Will and Cleo some nectar? I'll help her," she said referring to the mystery girl. Chase nodded and walked over to the others.

Tara heard the familiar noise of Chiron wheeling into the room on his wheelchair. "So she's back," he said to no one in particular.

"Do you know who she is?" Tara asked.

"The new oracle, Apollo brought her down a couple of weeks ago, but she wasn't able to stay due to her parents."

The girl's round grey eyes blinked open and she yawned as if waking up from a nap. "Wait," she said sitting up on the bed. "Did I make it? Where am I?"

"Camp Half-Blood," Tara replied. She quickly looked over to see how the others were faring. Will looked back to normal, but Cleo was asleep, another Apollo son tending to her broken ribs.

Smiling widely she sat up, "So I did make it! I guess that explains the drakon thingy earlier."

"Hello Riley, it's good that your parents let you stay here," Chiron said.

Riley looked down, "Well, uh they don't really know I'm here…" She continued talking to try and to explain herself when she saw Chiron's look of disbelief, "they know I'm gone, they just think I'm at a private year-round boarding school."

"Come, we can call your parents so they won't worry about you. Tara, could you come as well? Riley wasn't able to finish her tour last time," Chiron said walking over to hold the doors open. Tara nodded, and the three walked out of the door towards the Big House.

"I'm Riley by the way," she introduced.

"Tara, so… what happened the first time you came?" she asked, to try and make conversation.

"Well my parents thought I was like crazy for believing I was a oracle, and took me back… so yeah," Riley said looking down at the ground.

"So you met Apollo?" Tara asked. She was actually pretty jealous. The past two years, ever since the 3rd Titan War started there was minimal contact from the gods.

Riley nodded, "Yeah, do-" she stopped midsentence, and suddenly stopped in her tracks, staring straight ahead, a green mist started to swirl around her, and she started to speak, except it sounded like a chorus of voices was talking, not just her. The ominous noise gave Tara chills, but she knew right away what was happening. Both her and Chiron waited anxiously for the new prophecy to come.

"The Gods oldest enemy has become extricated,

Whilst the half-bloods safe haven shall be devastated.

Ten heroes must rise and find what was lost,

Hidden in the land of full of frost.

The weapon shall be used for kin to fight kin,

Their fate will decide who is to lose and who is to win,"

Then, for the second time that day, Riley collapsed on the ground, unconscious.

Hi everyone! Thanks to you support I finally posted the first chapter. I'll try my hardest to post at least once a week, and it will probably follow this format of two POV's per chapter.

Prophecy making isn't my forte, so hopefully it's good enough :P

If you have any ideas or comments feel free to review or PM me!