Hey guys!
Sorry I haven't posted in a while. My school work and my life have been taking time away from my fandom writings.
Also, my brain refuses to give me useful ideas.
Any way... This story is something that has been stuck in my head for a while now.
I wrote this for-now-a-one-shot explosion of inspiration, so that all of you have something else to read while I am trying to make my brain think so that I can continue to write my other stories.
(This has been my most long-est chapter ever. No wonder my brain is so tired.)
Disclaimer: No, I still don't own any of these successful, ingredient characters. I only own the amazing, boiling brew of plot-soup.
If ya'll want me to keep writing this crossover, leave a review that says you wish for me to continue!
Now, on with the story!
Everything suddenly became dark.
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He could remember nothing except his name, Danny.
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Inky blackness continued to cover his sight.
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And another's, Sam.
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Slowly, he was regaining consciousness.
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Though, no matter how hard he wracked his brain, he could not put a face to her name.
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Finally, after much struggling, Danny was able to open his eyes.
From what he could see, he was in a forest. He couldn't recognize where he was, then again he couldn't remember much either, so that didn't help.
"Hello…? Is anyone here?" Suddenly called a voice. Danny could tell the voice belonged to a girl, younger than him, probably. He didn't know why, but he felt like he remembered that voice from somewhere.
"Please… I need help!" the girl yelled, pleading that someone would find her. It sounded like she was on the verge of crying. "I don't know where I am...I don't know what's going on…"
Danny stood up. Something inside of him was saying that he had to help whoever that girl was. She could be seriously hurt.
Pushing through the bushes and branches, Danny was finally able to stumble into the clearing that held the girl. He gasped when he saw her. She looked to be about 12, two years younger than Danny, had the same jet-black hair as him, and the same blue eyes as well, but Danny's eyes trailed to the girl's left leg. It was slashed open, blood was spilling out and all over the ground.
"W-who are you?" the girl asked, "I know I recognize you from somewhere…"
"My name's Danny," he answered, immediately taking off his t-shirt and attempting to wrap her blood-stained leg with it. "What's yours?"
"Danielle," she said, wincing when she felt the make-shift bandage tighten. "I don't know how I got here, or how I got this wound...or why I can't remember anything at all, for that matter."
Despite the situation, Danny chuckled. "Well it looks like you're in the same boat I am, Danielle." Once fixing the t-shirt as best he could, he picked her up. Danny hoped he would be able to find a hospital, or at the very least, better medical supplies. "But right now, we're going to have to try to find a place that's better suited to help-" Danny stopped mid sentence, thinking that he heard something.
"Danny? What is it?" Danielle asked before being shushed by Danny.
He definitely knew he heard voices now. As the voices became clearer, he hid himself and Danielle away from the clearing behind a tree. He could now fully make out the conversation in the distance, and it was coming closer.
"Chiron, what do you think is this, 'flash of white light', that the other campers saw?" said a voice.
A different voice sighed, Danny assumed that it was Chiron. "Well, Annabeth, I'm afraid to say that I have no idea at what the light could have been. In all my years, I have never heard of a phenomenon described as such."
"Well, if it's a monster," A rough voice commented, "I'm going to kill it first,"
"Clarisse! For all we know, it could be Percy!" loudly yelled the first voice. Danny was able to see the group come into the clearing.
The one who had been yelling, Annabeth, and the one with the rough voice, Danny guessed she was Clarisse, were standing on either sides of a centaur, who Danny had assumed was Chiron. He held Danielle closer to him protectively, seeing the dangerous weapons that the three were holding.
Clarisse laughed at seeing the empty clearing. "Looks like your boyfriend got scared off from all the yelling." she said, motioning sarcastically to Annabeth.
Annabeth huffed in annoyance, attempting to hide her embarrassment. "Well…um… A camper just probably summoned a monster, or something, and made a big show of it as a prank, again."
Chiron held up his hands as a message of peace between the two girls. "Let's just find whatever caused the light so that it doesn't make a ruckus in camp."
The two squabblers nodded unwillingly to their elder, and the three set off in different directions. Clarisse began searching to the left of the clearing, Chiron continued straight ahead, and Annabeth was heading…unknowingly straight to Danny and Danielle.
Following instinct, Danny shot away from their hiding place, attempting to make as little noise as possible. He didn't want to get into whatever crossfire they had with the monster they were looking for.
But of course, with his luck they were heard immediately, and mistaken as the monster the three were looking for. "Chiron! Clarisse! I found it!" Annabeth yelled to her companions. Danny heard the pace of the girls' messy running, and the galloping of the centaur's hooves, following behind him. Using some unknown strength, Danny was able to stay out of their reach, soon losing them.
"Oof!" Danny exclaimed, suddenly hitting some sort of barrier that he couldn't see, just managing to save Danielle from hitting it as well.
"Danny? What's wrong?" Danielle asked before Danny could shush her, not understanding why he had stopped suddenly.
"Hurry! Over here!" he heard Clarisse yell. Danny ran deeper into the forest until he was certain that he had lost the three weapon-wielders.
Danny continued to run in the opposite direction of the monster-hunters. He followed the invisible barrier along with his hand pressed against it, attempting to find some sort of gap.
After about an hour, Danielle finally gained the courage to talk to Danny again, too worried about his health to bother with silence, "Danny, I think you should take a break. You're wearing yourself out."
Slowing to a stop after listening to Danielle's words, Danny finally felt the weariness of running at almost top speed for one hour without stopping for a break, while also carrying a 110 pound girl in only one arm.
"Danny!" Danielle exclaimed once Danny set her down, watching him collapse onto the ground in exhaustion. It was a miracle he didn't faint.
"It's ok, I'm fine." Danny said to try to calm her down, but Danielle could see that his exhaustion was painful.
Suddenly, the two children heard growling from a darker part of the forest.
"W-what was t-that?" Danielle stuttered, looking around while attempting to rise, but letting out a small wine when her leg stopped her from doing so.
"Danielle," Danny warned, trying to get up despite his body's protests, "Get behind me. Now."
As soon as the words left his mouth, a pack of seven giant wolves that seemed to be made of the forest itself, lept out of bushes and trees, soon surrounding the two. Danielle screamed bloody murder, while Danny kept trying, and failing, to get up and protect her any possible way he could.
As the giant plant-wolves crept closer knowing their prey was unable to fight back, Danielle stopped screaming, hearing a battle-cry not too far away. At Danielle's silence, the plant-wolves stalled, their ears pricking up in curiosity.
The plant-wolves realized the ambush too late. Seven teenagers tactically jumped down from the canopy above, stabbing the wolves with various weapons until they exploded into gold dust.
"Good work, everyone!" shouted one of the teens. Danny recognized her as Annabeth. "Especially on such short notice," she added under her breath.
"Who the heck are you guys?!" Danielle exclaimed, breaking the mood of the seven teens' victory and instead gaining their attention.
"I'm Annabeth." said Annabeth, gripping Danny's hand and shakily helping him up off the ground, "Who, might I ask, are you two?"
"My name's Danny," stated Danny, noticing the looks he was getting from his fit, battle-scarred body. "And this is Danielle," he added, motioning to her as she gave a shy wave.
"Well, this is going to get annoying really fast," one of the male teens noted, referring to their similar names.
It was then that Annabeth remembered the other teens. "You all can head back to camp. I'll handle the newbies here." she said, waving her hand off in the direction opposite of the invisible barrier.
As if they had been waiting for her command, the six other teens casually walked off the scene of battle, as if they experienced almost death-experiences like that every day. Some of the girls snached a look at Danny's muscles before leaving
A glance back at Danielle caused Danny to remember her leg. "Hey, do you have any medical supplies?" he questioned, picking Danielle up, despite his obvious exhaustion, and motioning to her t-shirt-wrapped leg. Despite Danny's best, blood was starting to seep through it, and Danielle was beginning to get lightheaded.
It seemed that Annabeth had just noticed Danielle's leg as well, scrambling inside her bag and taking out a canteen of golden liquid.
"Here drink this. Both of you." she said, placing the drink into Danielle's hands.
"Yea...uh…how about...no. We need real medical supplies," Danny said, taking the canteen from Danielle and forcing it back into Annabeth's hands. Red sirens were flaring up in his head, saying taking that stuff wouldn't be good for either him or Danielle.
Annabeth sighed as if she had seen this denial multiple times. "Alright, but the Nectar would've healed you faster." she said, walking in the direction the six other teens had not moments before. Danny followed her with Danielle in his arms, set on protecting the little girl even despite exhaustion.
"Whoa…" breathed Danny and Danielle, looking around them at the breathtaking view once out of the forest.
"Welcome to Camp Half-Blood, you two," Annabeth stated in a dramatic fashion. Danny unconsciously froze at the word 'half'.
Following Annabeth, Danny saw they were by a fighting range. He could tell it was a fighting range because there were teens strewn about, fighting. The six other teens who had rescued Danny and Danielle were fighting there as well, but stopped and waved at the three as they passed by.
They also passed a huge grove of strawberry plants, a lake, and a bunch of random buildings in a weird formation.
"Where are we?" Danielle asked Annabeth once they had stopped at a huge, blue house.
"You're at Camp Half-Blood, silly," she said, as if those words explained everything.
"Let me rephrase her question," Danny explained, knowing what Danielle had meant to ask, "What is this place?"
Annabeth looked at them as if they should have already known this. "What do you-?" she began to ask, cutting herself off, "Oh. Well, I guess Chiron will explain things to you," she said, realizing the two 'newbies' probably were never told anything about themselves.
Danny and Danielle looked at each other with knowing glances, remembering that only an hour ago, these people that were helping them didn't know that they originally attempted to kill them.
"C'mon," Annabeth said, motioning the two inside, "Let's get that leg fixed."
Once inside, Annabeth began explaining as they walked. "This is the Big House-"
"Suiting," Danny commented as he looked around.
"Yes, I know," Annabeth grumbled, annoyed at being interrupted, "The Big House is an important part of Camp Half-Blood. It has been here for as long as anyone can remember. Mr. D, Chiron, and the other Camp Half-Blood staff members meet with the cabin counselors here. It serves as the Camp's infirmary, which is needed quite often. There are four floors, but the attic is off limits."
"Did you memorize that from a book, or something?" Danielle asked.
"Or something," was Annabeth's answer.
They reached a door that had weird lettering on it.
Danielle couldn't read the letters, but Danny could. "Ιατρείο. Infirmary." Danny translated. He didn't know how he was able to read whatever language he had just spewed out, but he assumed the answer was somewhere in his lost memories.
"How did you do that, Danny?" Danielle asked, straining her eyes on the word as if it would magically reveal its meaning.
"I don't know how," he answered, shrugging his shoulders, "I just did it."
Annabeth just nodded in understanding before opening the door.
Inside the Infirmary, Danny and Danielle could see two or three kids on stretchers with another teen or two checking bruises and wrapping bleeding cuts.
"Aftermath of the capture the flag game we just had," Annabeth explained.
She walked to one of the empty stretchers and motioned Danny to set Danielle down onto it. One of the teens came and started talking to her about medical stuff. Seeing that, Danny knew she was in safe hands.
"C'mon," Annabeth said, pushing Danny out the door, "It's time for you to meet Chiron, and to get all this stuff explained that will take way too long for me to explain."
"Puberty?" Danny joked as they walked upstairs, earning a laugh from Annabeth.
"You're almost as bad as Percy at jokes." Annabeth stated. Danny thought he heard a hint of sadness in her voice, but he knew he shouldn't push her to talk.
Once upstairs, they reached a door with another set of weird letters.
"Γραφείο Χείρωνα. Chiron's Office." Danny once again unconsciously translated, "How much more basic can you get?"
Annabeth sighed dramatically before chuckling under her breath. "Believe me, they have been even simpler than that."
Opening the door, Danny was greeted by the sight of Chiron, the centaur he had seen in the woods with Annabeth and Clarisse. "Ah, Annabeth," Chiron exclaimed, "I was just about to go looking for you. I needed to to talk to you about that flash-" Chiron was interrupted by Danny politely clearing his throat.
Annabeth seemed to have momentarily forgotten Danny was there. She seemed to do that a lot.
"Oh! Chiron, this is Danny, one of our newest campers, and he needs to see the orientation film." Annabeth stated.
"Of course," Chiron answered, motioning for Danny to a seat in front of a projector screen, "We may continue this conversation outside." Annabeth nodded and closed the door. Danny presumed they were going to talk about something that Chiron had found out about the white flash of light.
"Alright," Ciron stated after turning on the projector, breaking Danny from his thoughts, "Danny, if you have any questions after the video, feel free to ask them to me or Annabeth."
With those words, Chiron played the film. Danny's world soon became upside down not long after.