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I always thought my little cousin was normal…well fairly so. Turns out, she was far from normal, not even fully human. But I only found out recently. And I halfway wish I hadn't.

The day started out normally enough. My cousin, Aria, and I were living in my old house. It was above our grandparent's house and we were staying there because she claimed she needed some time to get away. We were on break, so we had 20 days off. My boyfriend, Kaushik had come over for the day (he had a habit of coming over every other day actually).

Kaushik and I were sitting on the couch, cuddling. Now, this house didn't have a lot of furniture. There was a couch, a table and an old TV set in the living room, a small fridge and stove in the kitchen and a stack of mattresses, pillows, sheets and blankets. There were two rooms, one kind of tiny, the other bigger and two bathrooms. That was it. Aria was inside the tiny room, getting dressed after her shower, when a cardboard box materialized in front of us. It looked kind of beat up, and had a piece of folded white paper attached to it with 'To: Aria' written on it in messy scribble.

"Aria!" I called, "Package for you!"

"Huh?" she asked, as she walked out of the room, "Package?"

I found myself staring at her, like I had been for 3 days, ever since she showed up. Something about her had changed in the 10 or so months that she had been gone. She walked with her head held high. She had gotten taller (she was now about 5 foot 5), and her figure had become more defined. She was still 13, but she carried herself like a goddess, like she had some higher purpose in this world. She also had become more comfortable with herself. For example, a year ago, she would always wear clothes that covered her legs, until her knees at least. Today, she was dressed in denim shorts, torn at the edges with a worn out teal T-shirt. Her dark brown hair was tossed up in a messy bun.

She eyed the package at my feet and sat down on the ground. "What the…" she murmured, and plucked the paper off of the box. Unfolding it, her dark hazel eyes scanned the sheet, before a grin broke out on her face.

"What is it?" I asked.

"A birthday present," she said with a smirk, and handed me the paper.

Dear Ari, it read, Before you burn the box cause you think it's a prank or something, it's not. SERIOUSLY! We swear on the Styx it's not a prank. It's…well…its Hermes cabin tradition to walk around with cameras to capture embarrassing moments, but we get some really good shots too. So, since during your birthday you were flying all over the planet trying to prevent the end of the world…we thought we would give you this as a late birthday present of sorts. So that you have a reminder that your family is in one piece. We love you Ari! Love, Conner and Travis Stoll, with a bit of help from well…everyone

Aria opened the box and pulled out a bronze book thing. "Oh my gods," she gasped and ran her hand over something on the cover. I sat down next to her and peered over her shoulder. On the cover was an engraving of a trident with the words "Daughter of Poseidon," above it and "Hero of Olympus" under it. She opened the book by unlocking an intricate clasp and flipped to the first page. It was a cream color, with bronze edges. Written in a shiny bronze/gold ink was : Aria Kumar, Daughter of Poseidon, Hero of Olympus, One of the Nine, Honorary Member of the Council of the Gods, Ambassador of Camp Half Blood, Third in Command at Camp Half Blood, Slayer of Hyperion, Survivor of Tartarus, Legend of her time. Aria was grinning like a maniac, while I was just confused. What did half of that stuff even mean?

She flipped the next page and there was a picture of her, probably around 8-years-oldstanding next to a 12-year-old kid with black hair and sea green eyes. The guy had his arm around her and they were both smiling at the camera. Sibling-ly love! ;P the caption read. The next picture had those two again, along with a blonde girl with grey eyes. Aria was getting a piggy back ride from the guy and the girl was laughing at them.

"That's Percy," Aria said, pointing at the boy, "and that's Annabeth," she said pointing at the girl. After a few more picture of them, along with a guy with curly hair that Aria said was Grover, she flipped to a page where a piece of orange cloth was fixed. It said, CABIN 3, in a weird, Greek style font. The edges were burned and it was extremely worn out, and a bit torn. But, Aria gasped and smiled and ran her fingers over it like it was silk.

"My first camp shirt," she whispered, looking close to tears. She flipped through the next 30 or so pages, occasionally stopping to name someone in the picture. Some of the pictures had captions, other didn't. Aria seemed to grow up through the pictures, going from a little 8-year-old, to about 13. Same went for everyone else. She ran her fingers over a picture of her with a buff guy named Charles Beckendorf and a pretty girl named Silena, smiling sadly.

After about 35 pages, she stopped, staring at a picture of her with Percy, two other girls and two other guys. The Big Three Kids (all of them this time) read the caption. She looked like she did now, so I figured the picture was recent. Percy looked like he might be around 17...muscled and I had to admit, hot. A girl dressed in black jeans, a black T-shirt and a silver parka, with a tiara in her choppy black hair and startling blue eyes stood next to him. She looked like she was around 16. Aria introduced her as Thaila. The other girl had dark brown skin, cinnamon colored hair and dark brown eyes. She wore a purple shirt that said SPQR and jeans and looked about 13. Aria said she was Hazel. One of the guys was dressed in all black, with pale skin and black hair and an aviator's jacket. He looked like he was about 14-years-old. The other guy had blond hair and the same blue eyes as Thaila. He was muscular too, a bit taller than Percy and wore the same kind of shirt as Hazel. He was probably 16-17. Aria said they were Nico and Jason.

All of their positions in the picture intrigued me. Aria stood next to Percy, with a smile on her face. Thalia was on the other side of Percy, half glaring at Percy and half smiling. Percy had a smile/smirk thing on his face and had his arms around Aria and Thaila's shoulders. Hazel looked like she was trying hard not to laugh and was standing with Nico on the other side of Aria. Nico was rolling his eyes, laughing, with one arm slung around Hazel. Aria had one of her arms around Hazel's waist. Jason stood next Thaila, eying the people next to him with a smirk and an expression like, 'Why on earth do I know these people'.

The next picture had Aria, Percy, Hazel, Jason and Nico, along with 2 more girls and 2 more guys. One of the girls was an older Annabeth, the other was a really pretty girl with brown hair in a braid with feathers. Aria introduced her as Piper. One of the guys was tall and buff, like a football player, apparently known as Frank. The other was a short(ish) Latino kid with slightly pointed ears, curly brown hair and brown eyes. His name was Leo. Again, their positions were interesting. Percy had his arm around Annabeth's waist and she was leaning on his shoulder, both of them grinning. Jason had an arm around Piper, who was leaning into him and another around Nico, who looked like his grin was slightly reluctant. They were standing to Percy and Annabeth's right. Frank and Hazel were holding hands and standing to the extreme right, next to Jason Piper and Nico. Percy's other arm was slung around Aria's shoulders, and she was leaning against Leo. They all wore either orange 'Camp Half-Blood' T-shirts, or purple 'SPQR' T-shirts. They were all smiling, their eyes dancing with happiness. The caption read, The Nine.

There were a lot more pictures, including some that were cute (like the one of Aria with her arms slung around Percy's neck from behind, or the one of Percy with his arm around Aria, kissing her cheek), some that were funny (like the one of Aria and Hazel chasing Percy, him laughing his head off, them looking murderous) and some that confused me (like the one of Aria glaring at a laughing Jason, pointing a bronze sword at him menacingly, or the one of Aria smirking, holding a water bottle, aimed toward a scared looking Leo like a gun, or the one of Annabeth and Aria attacking a terrified looking Percy with a white sword in Annabeth's case and a bronze one in Aria's case).

Aria laughed at some pictures, introduced more people and shook her head at other pictures. I exchanged a look with Kaushik like 'What on earth?' Finally, Aria came to the last page, that had a group photo of most of the people in the book, with the exception of some. They were all smiling or grinning or laughing. Written underneath it was The Family, The Heroes.

Aria closed the book and hugged it, grinning like a crazy person, before looking at Kaushik and I. "What?" she asked, looking at our confused faces.

"Aria…who are those people? And why were you guys in armour in some of the pictures? And why were you carrying weapons?" I asked.

"Oh…Uh…" she stammered, "They're my friends, from the camp that I go to…and we're in armour cause…um…"

Suddenly, the air behind her started to shimmer and a moving image of Percy appeared in midair.

"Aria?" Percy said.

Aria turned around and stared at the picture, "Oh hey Perce, what's up?"

"Nothing really, but we're thinking of showing up there by tomorrow."

"What?" Aria asked, looking confused.

"Yeah…uh…I was wondering if we, like the rest of the 9, could come and hang there till your break gets over. Ya know, to kinda get away from it all," he said in his heavy New York accent.

Aria made a slight choking sound, "Here? Like, India?"

Percy nodded, his grin fading a bit.

"Oh…uh…I'd have to ask my mom…hold on, " she managed, pulling out her phone and calling her mom.

"Hello?" she said into the phone, "Hey Ma…..yeah, no we're good…..yes I mean that in all ways…..no apocalypses…..no I'm not going on a quest…..Ma! Would you just listen?….yeah, Percy just Imed and he wants to know if the rest of the 9 can crash here till end of break….to get away from it all for a bit Ma, same reason I came home…..yeah ok cool…..yeah I'll ask her….ok, alright, thanks….love you too….bye." She hung up and turned to me. "Ma said it was ok with her if its ok with you. Something about you being the one who has to deal with us…"

I looked at her pleading expression and thought it over. Over 15 days with 9 slightly insane teenagers, if the pictures were anything to go by. Probably not the world's best idea…but I was curious. If I was to learn anything about my cousin's crazy life, these people were going to have to come.

"Yeah sure," I told Aria, "They can come."

Both Aria and Percy grinned. "Awesome, thanks," Percy said, "We'll see you tomorrow. See ya Ari, love you."

"See ya Perce, love you too," Aria replied and slashed her hand across the image, making it disappear.

Something told me the next two weeks were going to be pure insanity.

And there we have it, the first chapter! Like it? Love it? Hate it? Let me know! Till next time

Daughter of Poseidon