It was a very cold day. Not the coldest I have experienced, living in Maine and all, but pretty cold for the beginning of June. And I knew deep, really deep, down nothing good would come of it. I really did know! It feels like it happened yesterday. That might be because it did, but hey? This is my story so butt out! Now some of you might be wondering what "it" is that I am referring to so let me take you back to when it started, yesterday morning.

"Maggie get your butt out of bed this instant!" my dad bellowed from down the stairs, even though was already up and eating breakfast behind him.

"Ummm, Dad I'm kind of already up." I replied meekly and braced myself for the blow.

"Then get off you lazy bum and get to school!" he yelled in his drunken rage. Sighing I heaved my self up from the table grabbed my stuff and walked out of the house. His response troubled me a bit, normally when he has been up all night drinking and hanging out with a girl in the morning I got a severe beating for... well I'm not really sure why. But I stopped caring about that a while ago, because hey, it's all I have ever known. I have never really though about my mother but as I walked I started to think about what my life would have been like if she didn't leave my dad for another man soon after I was born. Now don't get me wrong it could have been worse, like BOTH of my parents abandoning me.

As you all can tell I was in deep intellectual thought here, therefore it was only logical for me fail to notice the wheezing, scuffling noises behind me. So of course by the time I did notice it was way to late. All I remember after that was... well nothing, I woke up here and started screamed bloodies murder cause the first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was... A HORSE MAN! And the being the very intellectual being I am, I then quite ingeniously, passed out, but not before feeling a searing pain rip through my entire body. Hey! Maybe that's why I passed out...

-The next day-

"Maggie? Are you awake?" a soft voice whispered. I opened my eyes to see a lovely woman in front of me. "Oh good! Now then! It's such a shame you wont even be able to get through orientation. But boss just wont have it any other way. Oh! He is going to love you! Seeing you are such a pretty little thing. And smart too!" As the lady spoke her shapely form began to change. Strands of yellow goop oozed from her head like hair and her eyes...well lets just say she had holes in her face where her eyes SHOULD be. Her orange lips twisted into a shape that can only be described as evil as she opened her mouth amber liquid pored from her every pore. I couldn't help my self I started screaming and I bolted up.

"Maggie what's wrong?" said Horseman, mentioned earlier. "We tried to wake you up but you were in some kind of trance. Careful! No sudden movements you took quite a thrashing from the Nemean Lion."

"Well, I... it was just a dream..." A silent scream radiated from my head as I thought about that dream. And a tiny, tiny part of me thought that maybe, just maybe, Horseman could help. But who am I kidding? What kind of sane person has a dream like that? On the other hand, what kind of sane person sees a Horseman?"

"I can't believe you killed the Nemean Lion! No one has killed him since Hercules! How did you do it?" a boy with striking features asked, his voice full of awe. I don't see how I over looked him in my original room scan! He was HOTT! He had black hair and the most mystifying green eyes; I'm such a sucker for green eyes!

"What?" I asked extremely confused. "I didn't kill anything, in fact I didn't even know something was behind me until it attacked, and then I just passed out. So it seams you know whom I am but who are you. And what are you?" Horseman took a step forward as I said that and I shrank into my bed.

"Hi! I'm Percy son of Poseidon," the boy said." Well, I'm a demi-god or half blood, and so are you. You're at Camp Half Blood. This is Chiron. And here have some of this." he handed me something that looked like a hunk of bread. I ate all of it in two bites; it tasted good, like a freshly made Christmas cookie.

" Yumm..." I said as I liked my lips "ok, Percy son of Poseidon, ummm who is Poseidon? You said it like its the president or something. And what the heck is a half blood and what do you mean I'm one of them?"

" You...you... you don't know who Poseidon is?" his face looked like someone just punched him in the gut and if I hadn't been very confused before I would have been now.

"Well no, not really. I have only heard of one Poseidon, Greek god of the sea, personally my favorite is Aphrodite she is just so beautiful and." about then I realized I was rambling so I shut my trap. The horror in Percy's face had slipped away.

Horseman walked over to Percy and put his hand on his shoulder "You have heard of the right Poseidon, you see, to answer your question what is a half blood, Percy is half god half human, and so are you." I'm guessing it was my confused stair that told him to continue. As he took a deep breath and was preparing to start again as beautiful girl with long curly blonde hair a gray eyes ran in. And suddenly Horseman and I were invisible to Percy, that girl held all his attention.

"Hi, I'm Annabeth good to know your alive." and she said in a very rushed voice. "Hey, ummm Chiron? Mr.D is strangling some undetermined kid with vines...again."

That got Horseman into action and he started rambling " Annabeth stay here with Maggie, you too Percy. I'll be back soon, try and answer her questions." with that horseman galloped off. Percy looked at Annabeth for a good long…second before they rushed to each other and started a serious make out session, in front of me!

"Who is Mr.D and why is strangling kids? And what does undetermined mean?" I asked just so they would be force to stop kissing.

Annabeth looked murderous and Percy looked like a volcano ready to blow. "Mr.D is the god of wine but he got punished and has to come run camp for a few centuries. He is strangling kids as a source of twisted amusement...undetermined means that the person undetermined does not know who their godly parent is, meaning their Olympian parent has not claimed them." Annabeth said very rushed and never took her gaze off of Percy.

"What is up with all this godly parent and what not? I know when my leg is being pulled and right now I'm pretty sure it is..."as I said this Annabeth looked at me and seamed shocked and Percy looked slightly uncomfortable "What?" was all I could think to say.

"Nothing but you have just been claimed." Percy said kind of normal like but I could tell he was weirded out, and still slightly annoyed with me.

"By whom?" I said as I looked at what they were looking at a symbol above my head that had a sun and music note intertwined with what looked like a pink scarf.
"Apollo and Aphrodite" Annabeth said all high and mighty.
"What? That can't be! I have a dad!" and just as I was screaming this out Horseman came in looked over my head as the last of the sign shimmered away.

"Maggie..." he started when suddenly the room was filled with tremendous light and the weirdest combination of things I have ever smelled, an amazing perfume and burnt grass. In a flash the most beautiful woman I have ever seen and a very attractive young man poofed into the room, holding hands and looking very pleased with themselves .

"Welcome Aphrodite, Apollo." Horseman nodded to each respectively. You know when you get that feeling that a person is being honest –to- God truthful? Well, I got that. He wasn't lying. Here was the only logical explanation to explain everything that had ever happened to me in my life. Why I could speak fluent Greek and Latin with out ever having studied them. Why people would stop in the street and stare at me because well, not to be vain, but because of how beautiful I am. How I could play any instrument ever made. The reasons spun around me and the room began to spin too.

"Don't look so shocked!" Aphrodite proclaimed as she settled herself in a flourish in the only chair in the room, if I wasn't already sitting in a bed I would have collapsed. The room slowly settled itself. Knowing something is true doesn't mean it makes sense, and this definitely didn't. " He is just so yummy to look at…" she let her voice trail off.

"Don't you think this is a bit sudden?" Horseman asked. " She just found out you existed, got claimed and you show up all in the same hour?"

"We wanted to see are...umm... handiwork" Apollo said grinning widely.

"Eww! Gross!" was Percy's ingenious remark to that. Apollo shot him a warning look. With that every one started talking, well everyone but me.

" Hey!" I shouted over the din of the room "can I ask a question!"

"Sure sugar." Apollo said. "Ask daddy anything." I had to suppress a grimace. No way, no how, was I ever gonna call this guy "Daddy".

"What about my dad?" I shouted. Then added in a whisper "I don't get it"

A small smile crept across Aphrodite's face " I was hoping some one would ask! Oh I just love a tragic story! You see," half an hour later we were all briefed in on how my dad meet Aphrodite on the street one day after his girlfriend broke up with him and they started to talk. He promised that if anyone could change his love life for the better then he would do anything for them. And seeing that I was newly born it worked perfectly, so he took me and got a better love life. "The drinking was something I never expected, anyways when that…thing… came after you I had to make sure you got here safely! And you did! I make the most wonderful plans!" Aphrodite's smile could melt the coldest places yet her smile reminded me of something...

" I feel a haiku coming on," Apollo claimed as she took a deep breath. Wild images passed before my eyes, a terrible woman, and of amber liquid seeping out through her.

"Come back, come back sweet Maggie! My master is waiting, he is!" The dream voice swirled around the room. Everyone could hear it and the chatter instantly died. "Come back, come back," I screamed. A defining, glass shattering scream that seamed to scare the dream away.

"Maggie?" I looked up with hollow eyes. "What was that?"

"A dream." I stated. "A dream."

Aphrodite and Apollo looked at horseman with horror, "What dream Ch." and then I passed out, again.