Author Note: DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE OCEAN'S PEARL. It would make a lot of sense if you read The Ocean's Pearl before this one, that way you wouldn't have so many questions while reading this one. Please READ and REVIEW! Thank you! I enjoy nice, long REVIEWS with advice, ideas for the story, and pointers on how to write better.
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If Kat had a choice on how her last day of school went down, seafood would not have been her choice of dinner. The Lamia would not have helped clean her room, and she would not have headed for camp few weeks early. Yup, Kat had no idea what she would get herself into this summer.
Chapter 1 Kat destroys her a room
Kat slipped out of the school building, other kids streamed out, screaming, laughing, and yells could be heard. The teachers had all turned a blind eye, it was the last day of school, and everyone had just been let out. Kat would not be returning to that school, next season. It probably had something to do with the fact that she had broken the Art Class window, while escaping an angry winged boar that had somehow gotten into her class room. She might have knocked out that Art wall to, who knew what the mortals had seen? Kat hastily walked down a few streets, and into the house she was living in. Chiron had persuaded the Mist around a family, making them believe they were a foster family, and she was their foster kid. It was confusing at first, since she had to learn their names, and they acted as if they had known her for two months.
Kat dropped her back pack on the couch, and walked into the kitchen.
"Hey, Mrs. Jell, what's for supper?"
"Seafood, shrimp and crab," Mrs. Jell replied, putting some frozen shrimp in a bowl, and checking the boiling crab legs.
Kat took a step back, she suddenly felt queasy, and hurt. Like Mrs. Jell, had cut off all her limbs. Kat gagged, she felt pity and sadness for the poor sea creatures.
"Kat, what's wrong?" Mrs. Jell looked up, "you look sick, did school go well?"
"I-I don't eat s-seafood," Kat stuttered, backing up, and falling over a chair. The smell was overwhelming her, she knew her father's side was exaggerating, but still, those poor sea creatures!
"Oh, poor dear," Mrs. Jell helped her up, "it's what I'm serving tonight, though."
"Oh, okay, got homework," Kat fled the room. Mrs. Jell shook her head,
"On summer break, and she's starting so soon? Strange girl."
"Percy Jackson," Kat said, the mist shimmered, and Percy appeared. He was sitting in a cab, and Annabeth had her back to him. Obviously, they just had a fight, but Percy just looked confused.
"Um, Percy?" Kat asked. Percy jumped and his head hit the car's ceiling.
"Jeez, Kat don't scare me like that!" Percy said, grinning at her. "What did you do to your hair?"
"My hair?" Kat's hand strayed to her head, she had done a waterfall braid horizontally, and dyed each strand pink that slowly turned into purple the farther it got down the strand.
"It's colorful," Percy said, sounding shocked.
"Ever heard of girls dying their hair?" Kat asked.
"No," Percy said, Kat rolled her eyes.
"Okay, Bubble Boy, I need your help, I'm stuck in a tight spot."
"Aren't we all?" Percy rolled his eyes. "What's wrong?"
"Well, Mrs. Jell decided to make seafood for dinner."
"That's your problem!?"
"Well, besides the Lamia in my closet, yes."
"Lamia?" Percy said.
"Don't worry, hopefully I'll vanquish it before you guys come over." Kat stated, "You should see the state of my room right now, it took a lot of work trapping the Lamia in my closet."
"Okay, then, we'll be right over." Percy said, he glanced at Annabeth, then cut the connection.
Kat sat down on her bed, it creaked, and collapsed. Oops, she must have did something to it while cornering the Lamia. Oh, well, good thing her mother had been a carpenter. She would fix it later. Kat groaned, she definitely did not want to open her closet door right now. But she knew she had to. Before the Lamia did further damage to her closet.
Kat pushed her mattress aside, and pulled out a celestial bronze spear. Not her style, but it would do. She got ready, and flung open the closet door. The vampire demon sprang out, Kat stabbed, and with a hiss, it exploded.
"Johnny! Could you get me a broom!?" Kat yelled out her bedroom door. Johnny was Mr. and Mrs. Jell's son. Johnny thundered up the stairs, and opened the door.
"Wow, that's the fifth time you've asked for the broom this we-" Johnny's mouth dropped open, "what did you do to your room!?"
"It's no problem, I'll clean it up," Kat said hastily.
"Sorry to break it to you, Kat, but a broom isn't going to clean this up."
"Got it, Smarty, I'll take care of it."
"Alright then," Johnny said. He turned and left.
Kat swept up the monster dust and threw it out the window. She did her best to tidy her closet. Her clothes had been torn off the racks, most of them had been shredded. Two of her Camp Half-Blood t-shirts, and a t-shirt from the Smithsonian she had got last winter, and an Aquarium Hoodie were still wearable. The rest were torn apart, Kat sighed, and dumped the shredded cloth into a garbage bag. She tidied her room the best she could, and piled her collapsed bed neatly. She wrote a little note, saying she would pay for the damage of the room later. And that the neighbor's cat had scratched up her closet. Indeed, her closet walls had ugly talon scratches across it. The door was worse. Kat checked her room quickly, grabbed her Smithsonian backpack, and stuffed her three surviving t-shirts, her hoodie, two pairs of jeans, a hairbrush, her special sea shell necklace, two small celestial bronze knives into her backpack, a package of Oreos, and a can of Mountain Dew. Then she marched downstairs.
"Hi, Mrs. Jell?" Kat said.
"Yes, Katrina?" Mrs. Jell said, taking the boiled crab of the burner.
"I was wondering if you remembered me talking about my older brother?" Kat winced, as she saw the crab.
"Percy? How could I forget him? You don't stop talking about him!" Mrs. Jell smiled.
"Yeah, well, I forgot to mention, Percy takes me to a camp every summer for fun. . ."
"And?" Mrs. Jell prompted.
"Well, he's coming to pick me up in about two minutes. . ."
"Oh? And I suppose you want me to let you go?" Mrs Jell asked.
"Yes," Kat grinned apologetically.
"Tell me about this camp." Mrs. Jell said sternly.
"Well, the Camp director is Mr. D-"
"Does that stand for anything?"
""That's actually a game at Camp, trying to figure out his last name. Anyway, he's nice." Katrina saw Mrs. Jell's strawberry garden suddenly brighten, and looked like it was actually thriving. "And the activities director, is Mr. Chiron-"
"As in the Greek myt-"
"Exactly," Kat interrupted, "anyway at the camp there is archery, canoes, capture the flag, swimming, rock wall climbing," Kat grimaced at the thought of the lava rock wall. "Hiking, arts and crafts, and for some fun, they teach you sword fighting."
"Real swords?" Mrs. Jell asked, skeptical.
"No, definitely not, they don't want the campers to get hurt. We use wooden swords."
"I guess you can go, but remember, next year if you get kicked out of school again, we are pulling this. . . camp."
"Got it, Mrs Jell, thanks-"
Ding dong ding dong ding dong!
"That would be Percy!" Kat leaped up from the kitchen stool, "gotta go!"
"Took you long enough," Percy teased as Kat leapt into the cab.
"Sorry, Kelp Head, I had some convincing to do," Kat shot back.
"Jeez, Pearl Brains, lighten up." Percy laughed.
"Got it, Bubble Boy," Kat turned to Annabeth, "what's up?"
"Percy met his mortal friend again," Annabeth grumbled. Kay's eyes widened,
"Rachel Elizabeth Dare, the girl who could see through the mist?"
"Yup," Percy sighed.
"And?" Kat prompted.
"She saved my life, from two empousai, she saw them before I did," Percy said.
"She's got a hobby started." Kat said, impressed.
"Excuse me?" Percy asked.
"That's the second time she's saved a demigod from a monster, if she keeps that up she'll have a hobby started," Kat informed him.
"Dangerous hobby," Percy muttered.
"Kat! What did you do to your hair?" Annabeth said, seeing Kat's multicolored hair.
"I dyed it, I promise the next person to ask me that is going to get judo flipped." Kat growled.
"Drop us off right here," Annabeth said to the cabby.
"Are you sure, Miss, there's nothing here," the cab driver said. Annabeth handed him a stack of bills and he decided not to argue. The three demigods climbed out,
"Race you to the top, Bubble Brain," and Kat bolted, Percy at her heels.
"I win!" Kat gasped, tapping Thalia's pine tree.
"No fair, you had a head start!" Percy complained.
"Life is not fair, bro," Kat laughed, then they both grew silent realizing her statement.
"Not fair," Percy sighed.
"Poor Bianca and Zoë," Kat said.
"You two coming?" Annabeth asked.
"I guess," Kat hoisted her back pack over her shoulder, and the three stepped across the camp's boundary line.
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