Chapter 1

The sword in the stone

*Aloe*

The bow shook in my hand as I spotted him, he was looking for me, but didn't see me yet. I was in the tree hidden by the shadows, which was kind of ironic...

You see, I am the opposite of dark, in fact, I am the son of the sun god, Apollo. "Found you Aloe" I had forgotten about her.

We were training each other, making each other stronger. But of course, she was also paired with him. I was pushed out of my place from the tree. Now a sword and a dagger were both being pointed at my throat.

"You lose" Percy said.

"You two always win" I grumbled, sitting on the ground and looking up at them.

"You're just a sour loser" Annabeth smirked.

Annabeth Chase and Percy Jackson were both seventeen years old, and boyfriend and girlfriend. They were so in love with each other, it made anyone that was single very lonley. You don't have to be Aphrodite's kid to see their love, no, all you needed was comon sense.

I was sort of an undredog, I was shorter than most of my brothers, and dorky, my brothers and sisters inherited dad's looks, I however only inherited his love for poetry.

"I wouldn't feel too bad Aloe" Lilac, an Tyche kid whom I'd liked since I got here when I was eight. "Percy and Annabeth are the best here at camp" She had come from the bushes and looked at me.

"I wouldn't say that..." Percy said modestly.

I sighed with exasperation and got to my feet. No matter how much the three tried to help me, it was no use in trying.

Out of anyone in my cabin, I was the worst arrow shooter, and I wasn't very sneaky. I was a very clumsy person and with people I don't know, I got nervous and stuttered at them. I was the least Apollo-like kid in the whole cabin... no, they whole camp... No the WHOLE WORLD. Now don't even dare tell me I'm overreacting because I'm not.

I got to my feet, suddenly startling the three of them. I picked up my bow and gently put it over my shoulder and walked away.

Out of my whole cabin, I had the darkest hair, I was the only one that didn't play basketball, and as I pointed out earlier: I'm more clumsy than graceful. And then there was my best friend Lucas.

Lucas was a son of Nike. Godess of victory, he had a lot of siblings but never really introduced them to me. But that didn't matter, I didn't introduce any of my siblings to him.

In the Titan War, Lucas lost his girlfriend Frankie, she died throwing herself in front of him.

Lucas had auburn colored hair, though at first glance it would look light brown.

*Lucas*

Aloe would always be my best friend, we always have been since the day we met. That was six years ago. We were both thrown out into the world after we got attacked by monsters and we found out that we were demigods. Well, actually, Aloe was already at Camp Half-Blood, but he was one of my rescuers.

At that time, it was Aloe, Annabeth, and Luke.

My weapon of choice was a whip, I know it sounds weird, but that's my weapon. I also have a sword, so don't get on my butt for picking such a lame weapon.

My brothers always made fun of me for my height, they all were at least 6'0 and I was only 5'8. My hair was the only thing that connected me to my mom, I had my dad's black eyes.

And then, there was Frankie, Frankie was my girlfriend before she died saving me. She was the most beautiful girl you could've ever seen, her red hair resembled fire, and her smile was the sun. I was definetly in love.

Now I was alone, Aloe might tell you that I'll find someone else, but that was easy for him to say, his crush was currently single, and last time I checked, alve.

"Hey Lucas" Aloe walked into the cabin without knocking, which he usually did, and threw his bow and quiver onto my bed.

"Annhabeth and Percy win again?" I asked him.

"Yeah, for once, I wish I would win a fight against them, or at least rescue them... Is that too hard to ask?" He looked at me. "I think your mom hates me"

I looked at Aloe, and shook my head.

"You know very well that's not how it works, you have to work hard to win" I told him, knowing my mom's rules. "And in plus, my mom's the right hand woman for Athena..."

That only made him slump even more.

I was on the computer Annabeth generously loaned me for the day, I was watching different sports winning teams.

*Jerry*

"Hey get back here!" A man yelled, running after me, I had just stolen food from his shop, and now I was running for my life.

The man that was chasing me was heavily overweight and out of shape, I however was known as the flash amongst the boys.

The man stopped for a breath, and I ran around the corner. I climbed onto a tree and stayed there, until the man went back to his shop.

I jumped from the tree and went into the nearest manhole, that was in an alleyway. After awhile of walking, I reached our secret camp, part of the sewage where worker's haven't touched in a very long time. The water was all tried up here as well

I guess you could call it a city. It was made manly of boys more then girls, in fact where I lived, I was the only girl. My backpack was chucked full of food for my boys, between the five of us, I was the night food prowler.

"Hey Mirco!" I said to the head boy of our group. "I got food" I threw my backpack in front of his feet. He smiled appreciatively.

"Good job Jerrs" He emptied it on a crate that was stolen from an old factory.

As we sat there eating, I went into my own little world.

I was raised on the streets, when I was five, I was adopted by the homeless boys of the street, I lost my mom when I was four, I never met my dad, and I had been running from social service, desperate to find my Uncle.

I have long brown, tangled hair, and my eyes were green, some of the boys told me my eyes remind them of the sea. I had a green cargo jacket with a gagillion pockets, a birthday gift from Mouse and Mirco. My torn jeans was very comfortable. My shoes were new, I found them sitting in front of some stairs. Yeah, I could've stolen them, but I wasn't complaining.

"Hey Jerry" Mouse said to me. He was the youngest of the group.

"What mousy?" I said turning to him.

"Do you think you can tell me a story tonight?" I smiled.

"Sure Mouse" Mouse was like my little brother, he was only three when he came, and I adopted him as my own, he was now five.

So that night, as I tucked him into bed, I started to tell him a story about a knight.

And after that, I went to bed myself.

But this purticular night, I couldn't sleep, something was off, but no one seemed to notice. And when I did, it was short because I awoke to Mirco shaking me awake.

"Hey" He whispered. "There are people to see you" I sat up groggily and looked at him.

"Who?" I asked.

"They didn't say" I groaned and got out of bed, I stepped out of the tent I was sleeping in.

A boy and girl was looking at the 'city' in disgust. One was blonde with grey eyes, the other with green eyes and black hair.

"Can I help you?" I asked them.

"Are you Jerry Pillar?" The blonde asked.

"Depends, who wants to know?"

The boy grabbed my arm. "C'mon, before they find you"

"Woah!" I pulled my arm away. "Who are you to tell me where to go!? I don't even know you!" And as if on cue, a pipe above us busted. The boy cursed a little.

"They want you" The boy told me. "Come with us"

I watched the sewer city get drenched in water, everyone had stepped out of their tents.

"Mouse" I said, running into the water.

"Wait!" The girl yelled.

I jumped over things and such, as chaos kept rising, I didn't notice a crate come and hit me on the head. I was down and out.

*Percy*

I followed the girl into the water, telling Annabeth to get to the surface. Since I was Poseidon's son, it was easy to see through the water, man the girl was fast, that was until a crate thunked her in the head and knocked her out. I grabbed her in my arms and carried her out of the sewage.

"When we get back, I am so going to take a shower" Annabeth told me.

"Okay Wise Girl"

*Jerry*

I saw an open vast, space looking upon me, a tribe with real fur hats looking at me.

"The Gods will fall" I heard one of them say. "But first, we need the seven from the prophevy" I saw a lightning bolt and a man's face was right up to mine, I got spooked and woke up.

"You're awake..." I had sat straight up in my bed, or at least the bed that I found myself in.

There was a boy in the corner, his black eyes looking towards me, his auburn hair at first looked light brown, I looked at him.

"Where am I?" I asked him, ready for a fight.

"Camp Half-Blood" He said calmly. I noticed he was polishing a sword.

"Camp wha-?" I asked, raising my eyebrow.

"Camp Half-Blood" The boy answered. "You know, where demigods live?"

"Demigods?" I thought those were only in myths, as if he read my mind, he smirked then said.

"Thought demigods only existed in myths I take it?"

"Truthfully, yes..." The boy laughed a little.

"Of course you did" He got to his feet.

"Okay, so what am I doing here?" I raised my eyebrow at him, he just looked at me, also raising an eyebrow.

"You haven't guessed?" He asked. "Just think about it"

And I did, for five minutes, I scrunched my nose, mumbled to myself, used crazy hand gestures, until I found the answer.

"Oh no, I can't be... I can't be a demigod!" I waved my hands in denial.

I then realized that there was stinging over my eyebrow. I touched the spot gingerly.

"Oh yeah, by what my friend says, a killer crate attacked you" And then I remembered what happened the night before. Mouse...

"Mouse!" I pushed the boy aside as I flew out of the bed, and out of the cabin I was in.

As I stopped right outside, I gasped, what I saw was unbelivevable.

Many kids were walking around with weapons and talking to each other with ease, pegasi were flying overhead, and someone tried to attack me from behind, but I flipped them over my shoulder.

"Sorry" I said sarcastically.

There were also other creatures I couldn't decide what to call them, I took off on a brisk walk, I had to find a familiar face.

I was so absent minded, I rammed into someone's chest.

"Woah!" He said. "Are you okay?"

I looked at the man, he was a centaur, I backed away and ran off.

I was terified of horses, they practly spooked me, even if they were centaurs.

I hadn't even realized that I got in the way of a pegasus landing.

Incoming! I looked up at the black blur heading towards me. I knew it was a pegasus coming my way, so I was pratically frozen. I felt a force hit into my side, making me get out of the way.

I had closed my eyes, expecting to get hit by a hoof but I didn't. I opened my eyes slowly.

I looked at the person who saved me as he rolled away from me. It was a different boy, with curly black hair, his tanned skin reminded me of some of the homeless boys that went to the beach often.

"Are you two okay!?" A girl and a boy ran over, the same two that was trying to get me to go with them last night.

"I'm fine" I said.

Um... Can someone help me?! I'm kinda stuck in this vase! I looked over and saw the pegasus trying to shake a vase off it's head.

The black haired boy, that had green eyes, went to go help him.

"Why didn't you move?" The blonde girl asked me.

I got to my feet. "Where's Mouse?" I asked her.

"Who?" She raised her eyebrow.

I got scared again as the pegasus backed up and getting nearer, and then, when the vase came off, stumbled backwards, and bumped into the blonde girl, which naturally spooked him, and he started to buck.

A breif remembrance appeared in my head.

The girl thankfully side stepped out of the way, but I still curled up into a ball. It seemed to click in the girl's head.

"You're scared of pegasi!" She said. I nodded.

The girl talked to the green eye boy and told him to take the pegasus away, which I was most greatful of.

"Thank you" I told her, I then turned to where the boy was, but he was gone.

"That was Aloe, he's very shy though" The blonde told me. "By the way, I'm Annabeth"

"It feels like you know me already" I said to her. "But I'm Jerry"

"Nice to meet you, and sorry about the freak out last night" She said apologetically.

"I just hope Mouse is okay... He's the youngest of my group in which I lived with"

Annabeth started to talk to me.

"You lived on the streets?" She asked as we started to walk around.

"Yeah..." I confessed. "But I really didn't mind, it was actually fun..." I sighed.

*Lucas"

Aloe came over to me, dirt covered his face, I was rubbing my sore elbow from being thrown into the chest next to the infirmary bed.

"What happened to you?" I asked Aloe as he sat down on the steps in front of the Big House next to me.

"I just saved someone from being trampled by Blackjack" He sighed, wiping the dirt off with the back of his hand.

Blackjack was Percy Jackson's steed, a fine pegasus if I do say myself. Next to Percy, and the hunters, Blackjack trusted me pretty well. But I prefered Pork Pie, he was mine originally.

"That's cool" I said, as he noticed my bruised elbow.

"What happened?" He asked, Aloe wasn't a very good healer like his siblings, but the bruising wasn't bad.

"New kid shoved me out of their way" I said.

"She was strong enough to push you out of her way?" Aloe knew me well enough that I could pretty much defeat anyone in a fistfight.

"Yeah..."

*Percy*

After I put Blackjack back into his stall, I walked out of the stables to find Jason waiting for me.

"What is it Jason?" I asked, as we started to walk.

Jason had something on his mind, and I couldn't help but think it was about Piper.

"Is your relationship going okay with Piper?" I asked him.

He looked at me in shock. "Of course!" He yelled. "It's just her birthday is coming, and I don't know what to get her..." Great, I wasn't good on present getting for girls.

"Get something from the heart" I said, after considering it a bit.

"Okay" Jason sighed, still unsure.

*Jason*

I was just going to talk to Percy about Piper's birthday and nothing else, but then, as we passed my dad's fist.. A group of storm clouds were surrounding it and lightning had hot the rock pile. Percy and I looked at each other.

"Should we check it out?" Percy asked as we looked at the confused faces of the oher demigods. Everywhere else was pretty clear thanks to the barrier.

We walked to the rock pile, and on the top of it was a celestial bronze sword.

"Did your dad deliver that?" Percy asked. I shrugged, I trully didn't have any clue. We climbed to the top and both tried to pull it out of the rock, but nothing worked.

"It looks like we'll have to find King Arthur" I told Percy.

TBC...

Jerry: Hey everyone! We are back! I hope this is to your better liking...

Lucas: First I'm son of Zues and now I'm the son of Nike?! How does that work?

Aloe: See ya!

Lucas: Please don't forget to review!