Author's note: this is my first fanfics story ever! im so excited :D thank you guys so much for reading! if there are mistakes or you have questions just say something in the reviews and i'll try to answer. thanks! :D :D :D (i 3 smiley faces! :D) And by the way, lupa's little conversation w/ no one makes no sense if you plug it into google translate, so the meaning is at the bottom of the page. :) oh and about the bieber thing-no offense 2 jb! at all! :D
Chapter 1
Percy's POV
Reyna-daughter of Venus
Hazel-daughter of Apollo
Bobby-son of Mercury
Dakota-daughter of Minerva
Gwendolyn-daughter of Janus
Percy woke up, the world blurry.
"Where am I?" he said groggily.
"Ssh," said a girl's voice gently. Percy felt a warm, buttery liquid go down his throat, and suddenly everything came into focus.
A pretty girl with dark blonde hair and bright green eyes was standing over him. He was lying in a one of hundreds of white-sheeted beds, only a few of them occupied. He looked down at his pillow and found (epic fail but totally Percy) that it was covered in drool.
"How are you feeling?" said the pretty girl.
He tried to say "fine" but it came out as "Uglugh." The girl laughed and said, "I'm Reyna. You showed up two days ago, riding on...a platter of Crispy Cheese 'n' Wieners?"
She looked like she wanted an explanation, but Percy didn't have any. He didn't remember anything about his past; except Annabeth. He didn't know who she was or how he knew her, but over and over his mind kept repeating her name, as if she were important to him somehow.
Reyna tipped a glass of a caramel-colored liquid into his mouth, and he tasted the buttery flavor again. Immediately he felt better.
Percy sat up. Reyna took his hand and helped him stand.
"We're going to see Lupa," she told him, like he was three years old and got to go on a Disney cruise! Yay!
What she DIDN'T tell him was that Lupa was a Latin-speaking wolf.
After a long, slow, wobbly walk through the camp, where Percy saw all the campers wearing purple shirts (Bieber color? Really? he thought, even though he had no idea where that came from) and deep into a dense forest, Reyna and Percy arrived at a big rock, shaped kind of like a chicken. Reyna said something in Latin, and it slid aside to reveal a huge cave. Inside, a white wolf was curled up by a roaring fire, even though it was the middle of a summer day. But that wasn't even the weirdest thing.
The wolf was talking, in Latin, no less, to an invisible being.
"Prima legio in castra impetum Half-sanguine ducet cum legione secunda ac tertia hicmanebo et defendemus. Cum mediocribus Greek "milites" pervenire volo ut facile omnibus castris. Tertiam legionem Marin et erunt in lookout Alcatraz. Hic manebo et legionem secundam, oportet eam esse optimam pugnatoribus available ut a Graecis ad litora. Jasondesit, sic ducet legionem primam Reyna-"
As if sensing their presence, the wolf whirled around. Percy shrank back as its yellow eyes bared into him, but Reyna seemed oblivious.
"Reyna," it said.
"Lupa," said Reyna, bowing her head respectfully.
"Et Perseus Jackson," Lupa snarled. Percy tried bowing his head and almost fell over; he was still off-balance.
"Venisti ad Castra Romanorum."
Percy was confused.
"Is this tongue better for you?" Something in Lupa's voice had changed. After almost a minute of thought, Percy realized she was speaking Greek. Literally.
"A lot," he replied in Greek, discovering it was true.
"Perseus Jackson," Lupa repeated. "You have entered our domain, when my agreement with Chiron should have prevented you from doing. Why?"
"Domain?" he asked cluelessly.
Lupa's expression morphed from annoyance to somehow surprise and understanding at the same time.
"It is a dangerous game Juno plays," Lupa whispered. "Perhaps necessary...perhaps not. But, Perseus Jackson, if you are going to stay here, which I fear you must, you will learn to speak Latin, and fight the Roman way. Reyna will teach you."
She gestured at the chicken-rock door.
"Go. Become a Roman. Good luck."
With Reyna's help, Percy hobbled over to the door, feeling ridiculous and weak. He was still puzzled and a little scared of Lupa, and what she'd said. But as he and Reyna made their way through the camp back to the infirmary, and he saw how merciless and quick all the campers fought each other, and he got the feeling he was going to need it.