"Are you sure...?" Liam and I stood at the bottom of what he claimed to be the entrance to camp half-blood. Liam had spent the last three days explaining demigods and camp half-blood to me, while wandering around Long Island.

"Positive," he said, kicking off his fake feet and galloping up the hill. Liam is my satyr.

I shouldered my backpack and followed him up the hill. At the top of the hill was a tall pine tree with a coppery dragon curled around the trunk. I dropped my bag and knelt in front of him. He puffed smoke happily as I scratched the end of his nose. "Who's a cute widdle dwagon," I cooed, making him gurgle happily. A light rain had recently fallen and the mud clung to my knees as I climbed up and ran over to Liam.

He was talking to a white centaur wearing an orange Camp Half-Blood shirt. I put my thumb behind my top front teeth, a habit I've had for five years, and waved cautiously at him. I don't really talk much. The centaur bent over to be eye level with me. "You must be Taylor," He smiled gently, "How old are you?"

"She's ten sir," Liam answered for me, "She doesn't really like to talk."

"I'm Chiron," the centaur said, "I think, you have to be Percy's younger sister. Is your mom Sally Jackson?"

I nodded.

"Come on, I'll show you your cabin."

It was probably one in the morning and I was dead on my feet. As we passed an open pavillion filled with tables made of various materials, I noticed a dark haired boy and girl-probably brother and sister-standing on the steps. "JUST TAKE IT," The girl yelled, thrusting something small and silver toward the boy. The boy, probably twelve, shook his head and mumbled something inaudible and shoved her hand back against her stomach. The girl screamed and started to slap the boy. He caught her hand, dropped it back by her side and ran off into the forest.

I turned away and jogged to catch up with Chiron. He had stopped in front of a dark stone cabin. A wave pattern was carved on the pillars on the patio and a trident glowed softly on the arched door. Chiron knocked gently on the door and shoved it open with his shoulder. He had to duck inside the cabin. Percy looked up sleepily from his bunk. "PERCY," I cried running across the room and latching onto my big brother.

"Hey Kiddo," he mumbled sleepily.

Chiron smiled, "Taylor, you sleep in as long as you want. When you get up you can shower and come meet me in the Big House, okay?"

"'kay," I said, crawling up onto the lower bunk on the second set of bunk beds. I buried my nose in the fur of my stuffed cow, Justin Beiber.

The next morning, A CHB t-shirt was draped over the end of my bed. I tied my too-long hair back and wiggled into the shirt. It was two sizes too big. I'm small for a ten-year-old. Outside my cabin were more than a dozen more. A black one at the end of my line resonated with Metallica-ish music. As I wandered closer I realized it was in another language. The cabin was black marble with a skull mounted over the door and a torch burning with green fire on either side of the door. "Greek fire," Percy explained from behind me, "Hades cabin, stay away for a while." As he finished the dark haired girl from last night burst out, holding a comb and visciously shaking a can of hairspray. "Work, GAR!" she screamed at the bottle. Except she said words I dare not say.

Percy bit his lip and took my hand and led me away from the cabin. "Let's go see Chiron," he mumbled, "That was Kyuu, middle child of Hades. You probably won't see much of her older sister and Nico doesn't come out much." He stopped in front of the Big House, a big, pretty house with a huge porch. Chiron was outside, playing cards with a hairy old man. "Ah, good morning Taylor," Chiron said happily, "This is Mr. D, more commonly known as Dionysus."

I smiled at him and put my thumb behind my teeth.

"Taylor, I expect Liam explained the whole demigod concept to you?" Chiron asked.

"Yeah," I mumbled.

"So you know that Posiedon is your father?"

"Yep."

"Alright then, we can find someone to-"

"CHIIIIIRON!" Kyuu's scream split the air and Chiron's sentence.

"Oh, dear."

I dove behind Percy as Kyuu marched up with her brown hair hanging in limp tangles, "DO I HAVE PERMISSION TO BURN THE ARES CABIN?"

"No, Kyuu, you do not," Chiron sighed.

"Can I at least rip the door off?"

"No."

"Break the windows?"

"No."

"Curse at them?"

"Negatory."

"Fine. I'll just go...hey, who's this?" Kyuu jumped as I peeked around Percy. She smiled innocently, "Hey there, sweetie, what's your name?"

"Taylor..." I whispered slowly.

"Good to know. Now, Chiron, fun fact, Nico is not in the cabin and I can't find him anywhere."

"Did you look anywhere," Mr. D snorted.

"...no...Am I 'sposed to?"

"Yes-Oh, never mind, I'll go look for him!" Chiron grunted.

I ducked out from behind my brother and went over and tugged on Kyuu's sleeve. "What?" she spat angrily, then she saw me, "Oh, do you know anything about Nico?"

I nodded and took off running towards the forest at the edge of the camp. I looked back over my shoulder to make sure Kyuu was following me. I didn't see her but a small shadow seemed to follow mine. I found Nico sitting in a clearing, his head hung. "Found 'im," Kyuu sighed, stepping out of the shadows. I started back to my cabin when Nico looked up, "Wait. Who are you?" he asked quietly.

"She's Taylor," Kyuu answered obnoxiously.

"I didn't ask you," he scowled. Kyuu stuck her toungue out at him.

"She's a bit of a mute." Nico smiled gently at me and turned back to Kyuu, "And you're a bit of an brat."

Kyuu's brown eyes flickered with an angry light. The shadows around Kyuu curled up her legs ominously. She flicked her wrist and and a blast of the shadows hit Nico square in the chest. It knocked him back against a tree. His head cracked hard on the trunk and he sunk to the ground, his hands pressed to his temples. Kyuu cackled and marched away, a smug look smeared across her face. I watched her walk away and ran over to Nico. The back of his head was bleeding, caking his black hair. I pulled him up and slung his arm across my shoulders. "Iz fine r..really," he slurred as I dragged him off to the Big House.

"CHIRON!" I called as I approached the Big House. He came trotting out with a look of relief on his face, until he saw Nico's head. I helped load him onto Chiron's back and get him into the infirmary. Chiron started to clean Nico's head as I held his hand while he drifted in and out of consiousness. Nico went from giggling to sleeping and back again while Chiron bandaged his head. "It's not like her to go this far," Chiron muttered more to himself then to me but I nodded understandingly. "You can go now, Taylor, thank you." I pried Nico's fingers off my wrist and went back by the Hades cabin to see Kyuu.

No one was in the cabin. I plopped down on Kyuu's bed and looked for any sign of her. She was gone.