Chapter 1: Note

"Percy, we've just received this letter. It's addressed to you," Chiron told Percy, handing him an envelope. He grabbed the letter from Chiron's hand/

"Thanks, I'll read it in a little bit," Percy said to Chiron and walked to his cabin. Now, why was he getting mail from an anonymous writer? He got kind of scared. When he walked into the cabin, he tore open the letter.

"Meet us in the woods around camp tonight at 12:00 a.m. You'll know you're there when you start feeling a bit… chilly.

Icicle"

"Who's Icicle?" He said to himself and placed the note on his bed. "Guess I'll find out later."

…

At 11:55, Percy put on a coat and snuck into the woods just outside of the camp. He knew it was extremely risky, because monsters were more active at nighttime. He brought his sword, Riptide, just in case any monsters got smart ideas. He wandered around for a few minutes, waiting to feel a bit chilly when he heard a voice from behind him.

"Hey, bub," The voice said with a heavy brooklyn accent. Percy turned around and went to grab Riptide, which was in it's pen form, but it wasn't in his pocket.

"Lookin' for this?" The voice said, but was now suddenly above him. He looked up and saw some teen wearing goggles waving Riptide around. "This is a pretty snazzy pen, I might just keep it." He jumped down in front of Percy and handed him his pen.

"Who are you?" Percy asked the kid, who ran his hand through his short, spiky, brown hair.

"I'm Giovanni, but you can call me Kinetic." Giovanni smirked and pulled his goggles off of his head. He held his hand out for a handshake and Percy reluctantly shook the new guy's hand.

"So, uh, what do you want?" Percy asked "Kinetic".

"Well, we heard you're pretty powerful and wanted to ask you if you'd join our little group." Giovanni told him.

"Wait, what do you mean, 'we'?" Percy said to him, watching Giovanni pace around him.

"I mean, we." Giovanni ran up a tree at superhuman speed and sat on a branch. Suddenly, a girl floated down. Man it did start getting chilly. She seemed to have godly powers as well.

"Are you guys demigods?" Percy asked them. He noticed that he was asking a lot of questions.

"Yeah," Giovanni responded. "I'm a son of Hermes. This is Hi'iaka. She's a daughter of Boreas."

"Hmph. He looks kind of weak. We should kill him like we did that last kid," Hi'iaka said to Giovanni. She started forming large balls of ice around her. It looked like she was getting ready to attack Percy.

"Give the man a chance, I mean, Seaspray said the same about me but look how I turned out," Giovanni said and ran around the camp at an extreme speed. He was running so fast, it seemed the ground was going to light one fire because of the friction. It was like something you'd see in a comic book.

"Yeah, because Seaspray beat you into shape. He's old. He's older than our usual recruiting age." The girl said again and slowly floated to the ground.

"Now, now, Hi'iaka, no need to get aggressive," A third voice said and someone appeared from the shadows. He was wearing a mask that covered the bottom half of his face. The design on it resembled something like shark teeth. "I'm Maximus Thawne. You can call me Seaspray. I'm a son of Poseidon. Just like you," He held his hand out for a handshake, but somehow it didn't feel friendly.

"Hey, how come I've never seen you guys around at camp?" Percy asked them and shook Seaspray's hand.

"Ha! The camps. They're no fun. Anyway, we're a group of demigods with extraordinary powers. Powers like that of our parents. I know you have them too, Percy. If we went to camp, we'd be restricting our true potential," Seaspray said, holding his hand out. A ball of water started forming in his hand out of nothing. "Can you do this?"

"No… but I'm not leaving camp. You guys should come, you'll have somewhere to live and you can teach the other campers how to use their powers," Percy insisted and started walking back.

"Hm. You're not going to join us, I presume. That's a shame. Giovanni was starting to like you," Seaspray told him. "Take care of him. He can't know what we're doing"

Percy turned around to see Seaspray walking away and Hi'iaka started hurling huge ice balls at him. He clicked Riptide so that it would turn into a sword and sliced the ice boulder in half.

"Guys! Come on!" Percy yelled. Suddenly he was swept off his feet by something he couldn't see. A flurry of punches started hitting in the face, one after the other. When the punches stopped coming he was barely able to see Giovanni and Hi'iaka following their leader.

"You think I finished the job?" He heard Giovanni ask Hi'iaka.

"No, you're too weak. This is how you finish the job."

An ice boulder started forming above Percy's head and he was barely able to roll out from under it before it hit the ground, causing it to shake.

"There, that should do it." Hi'iaka said, not even checking to see if she actually killed Percy.

"I've got to warn the camp!" Percy thought to himself and got up. He started sprinting back, trying not to be noticed.