Hello, this is F speaking. Just here to say that I do not own any characters from PJO, or from HoO. All I own is the idea and Casper and Ella. I hope you like it, theres no post on sundays, goodbye.

Casper's POV

"I don't think that we need to wait too long to discover your parentage." Chiron was saying. "Ella's father will no doubt claim her soon, but your father…." He gave me a funny look, like I was a complicated puzzle. He tilted his head a little bit to one side, so little that I doubted he knew he was doing it.

"What?" I asked, tilting my head to the same angle. He quickly sat up straight.

"The satyr who found you, Flint, sensed a particular scent around you-"

"Thanks."

"Thats not what I meant. He sensed an aura of power around you when he first met you. We think that you're one of the children of the big three gods, Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon." He had already explained the whole greek gods are real thing.

"Which one though?" I asked. He shook his head.

"My guess is as good as yours. Hopefully you'll be claimed-" Suddenly a glowing symbol appeared over Ella's head. It looked like a staff, with two snakes wrapped around in. It was the symbol of Hermes, god of thieves and travelers.

"Ah, now that is claiming." Chiron said. Ella and I were talking to Chiron on the porch of the big house. All the others had left to train. "Will!" Chiron called over a tall blonde guy with a bow and arrow on his back. "Will, this is Ella and Casper."

"Hi." I said.

"NIce ta meetcha!" Ella said cheerfully.

"Hi," Will said, smiling. "Welcome to camp half blood."

"Will, Ella has just been claimed by Hermes. Would you please show her around."

"Course." The two sped off, Ella talking a mile a minute.

"As for you, I expect you'll be claimed soon. for now I think you should stay in the big house. I promised the Hermes cabin that only children of Hermes would stay there from now on." Then he showed me all around camp, which all looked pretty cool.

The next few days were really fun. I slept in a small cramped room on the second floor of the big house. The walls were yellow and there was a patchwork quilt on the bed, with a window overlooking the lake. I took every different class, and I could tell Chiron, Percy, Annabeth, and a few other counselors were watching me, trying to figure out my father.

I wasn't good at a lot of the stuff. I did okay in foot racing and I was a good canoer, but archery? No good at all. Wrestling would have been okay, but the Ares councilor, Clarisse, was really tough and she taught all of the wrestling classes. Annabeth taught me and Ella Greek. The thing that puzzled me was that I wasn't good at monster fighting. I wasn't expecting to be amazing my first class, but after the Hydra I had expected to be at least fine. The strange burst of manic adrenaline that had pushed me towards the Hydra was gone.

Every Time I raised my sword against Percy, who taught sword fighting, I had to take a deep breath and tell myself that I was safe: If I stayed calm, I could fight better. But that almost made me worse.

One night about a week after I arrived at camp, I was walking back to the big house after the campfire, and I heard people talking in the pavilion. I'm not the sort of person who usually eavesdrops but it was Percy, Annabeth, Clarisse, Piper, Hazel, Jason, and Chiron talking, and I was really curious.

"Still not sure." Jason said. "But I don't really think so. She would have shown some of the signs by now."

"Same here." Hazel said. "But that weird mini earthquake the day she came might have been a sign from Hades or Pluto."

"Not Pluto. Not any roman god, I think. She's good at Greek, and I gave her a few latin phrases yesterday and she had absolutely no idea what they meant." That was Annabeth.

"Definitely not an Ares kid." Clarisse was saying. "She doesn't have the muscle."

"She doesn't seem like a daughter of Poseidon. She can't swim very well, and I asked her the other day what a couple of fish were talking about, and she looked at me like I was a nutjob."

"Well, then." Chiron sighed. "We just have to keep searching. Her father has to show himself event-"

"Thats not right!" Percy sounded mad. "She's fourteen, a year over the deadline, and she's been here for a week."

"I know, Percy." Chiron sounded tired. "I know. It can't be long now." I sprinted back to the big house before I could hear anymore. They were talking about me, I knew it. My father wouldn't claim me. Chiron and the counselors were stumped. I was all alone, again.

LINE BREAK HERE PEEPS

I nervously adjusted my armor, and fiddled with my sword. The sword was unbalanced so that whenever I fought with it I felt like I would drop it at any given moment. It was the night of capture the flag, and I was on the Athena cabin's team. They were counting me as part of the Hermes cabin, because I was still undetermined. Also on our team was Aphrodite, Dionysus, Zeus, and Poseidon, which pretty much meant Jason and Percy. The other team was lead by the Hephaestus cabin, with Ares, Hades, and Apollo.

I wasn't sure who was going to win. They were bigger, and they had Ares and Hades, which meant Nico. He was a good fighter, and when he had started playing capture the flag about five months ago (according to Percy) he had started summoning legions of the dead for whichever team he was on. This made it totally unfair, so Chiron declared a new rule that he could summon three dead warriors only.

Of course, we had Jason and Percy, which made up for all of that, and Annabeth, which gave us the upper hand. Or so I hoped.

"This is going to be so fun!" Ella squeaked excitedly. The Aphrodite cabin had been helping her with her hair the day before, so it was cut evenly, neatly combed, and bright blue with red streaks. The Aphrodite kids hadn't been happy about the blue, but she had insisted on it. My stomach was churning with anxiety.

"Fun's the word." I mumbled sarcastically. At that moment, a tremor ran through the ground underneath the entire camp. Ripples of nervous talk spread through the campers. There had been a lot of weird seismic activity lately, and nobody could explain it.

Our teams split up, the Hephaestus team, carrying a large bronze colored flag with a fiery hammer on it went one way, and our team, with a tall white flag embroidered with a silver owl. Ella and I walked side by side behind Percy and Annabeth, who were leading the group.

Annabeth started sending groups of people off in different directions. Ella and I went right up to the border line (the creek) with Piper and a black haired Aphrodite girl who Piper called Drew. She wrinkled her nose at Ella's hair, and gave me a scornful look. I didn't like her at all. Percy and Annabeth ran off with the flag in the opposite direction.

"Why did Annabeth send us out here?" Ella asked. "Its not like we're the best fighters on the team, and we're not bad enough that nobody would take us seriously."

Piper shrugged. "Annabeth told me her plan. They have guards on the left flank, and the larger group of fighters is going to draw the enemy away on the right flank. Then we're going to run up the center, fight past the flag guards, grab the flag and run. Easy."

"Yeah." I sighed. "Depends on your definition of easy." At that moment, a conch horn blew somewhere in the trees, and far off to my right I heard the sounds of fighting.

"Annabeth will send us the signal when-" From behind us a light flashed in the woods like a flashlight. "Oh, theres the signal. Run!" We sprinted through the woods, jumping the creek and dodging the occasional pair of battling demigods. We reached a giant mound of boulders that Drew and Piper called Zeus's fist.

The flag was perched at the top, and Nico di Angelo, Clarisse, and a dead roman warrior guarded the base. We ducked behind a tree.

"How will we get past them?" Ella whispered nervously.

"I have an idea." Piper whispered. "Drew you're our distraction, head over there and draw them away." Drew scowled at being commanded to do anything, but snuck away through the underbrush. "When at least one of them has gone after Drew," Piper whispered. "We'll attack. Ella and I will fight, and Casper, you're the best climber. Get to the top, get the flag, and run." Ella and I nodded.

"Oh!" Drew shrieked from about twenty feet to our left. All three guards turned to look. Drew had tripped over a fallen tree root. She was sprawled on the ground, and her sword had disappeared. Either she was a very good actress, or she actually did trip.

Clarisse barreled off towards her, and we burst out of the bushes, sprinting towards Zeus's fist. Ella was a much better fighter then me. She drew her sword and swiped at Nico, nearly hitting him. Piper battled the zombie knife against spear. I ran past them to the base of Zeus's fist.

'Find a handhold and just start climbing.' I remembered Chiron saying. I tossed off my heavy helmet and dug my toes into a tiny indent in the rock, lifting myself up and reaching up again with my hands.

In only a minute I was practically at the top, but below me things weren't going as well. Piper had finished off the zombie, but Clarisse was back and things weren't going well. Ella was holding her ground against Nico, but he was slowly pushing her back.

I turned back to the stone in front of my face and felt around with my feet for a foothold, but a gust of wind slammed into me, and I slipped. Hanging on with only my fingertips I swore under my breath and finally managed to find a foothold in the stone. Heaving myself up further I rolled onto my back on the top of the fist, gasping for breath, heart pounding.

Far below me, Pipe cried out. Leaning over the edge I saw her on the ground clutching her stomach. Clarisse's spear sparked with electricity. On the edge of the clearing was a few more fighters, and they weren't on our team. I felt a spark of panic, and far below the ground started to shake.

I clutched the flag for support as the stack of boulders began to sway. A full army of kids were gathering at the clearing, enemy fighters who were being pushed backwards by our forces.

We didn't have much time, and the pillar of rock was really swaying now, a few feet from side to side. I lifted the flag and stood. There was no way I could get past the crowd below. 'If only they never got to us.' I wished silently, fear anxiety spiking in my stomach.

Far below, the shaking intensified, a chasm splitting in the ground, pushing the crowd of fighting campers one way, and pushing Nico, Ella, Clarisse, Piper, and the entire of Zeus's fist the other way. Everyone below stopped fighting, as they scrambled out of the way, panicked shouts spreading through the campers.

The ground was shaking, and I let out a scream as Zeus's fist tilted, and came cascading down. Everyone below scattered, and I clutched the flag tightly and braced for impact as I tumbled through the air with the boulders.

I rolled when I hit the ground, hitting my head and giving myself the heimlich maneuver with the flag.

"Ow…." I groaned, scrambling to my feet. The other campers were panicking, some staring at me, some dodging rolling boulders, some still fighting.

"Everyone, please!" Chiron's voice rose clearly, and all talk and movement ceased as everyone turned to face Chiron.

"How did this happen? There was another earthquake!" Someone called. Chiron opened his mouth to say something, but I beat him to it.

"I did this." I said blankly. Everything fell into place. Whenever the tremors started, it was because I was feeling strong emotion. The first, when I first got here, was because Percy had asked about my mom. Then again when I fell off the climbing wall, and again when I felt panic at the top of Zeus's fist.

Everyone turned to stare at me.

"How could you have done-" Ella started, but at that moment a glowing symbol appeared over my head. A greenish blue holographic trident.

"Hail, Caspian." Chiron said, as everyone started to kneel to me. I was confused, what was going on? "Daughter of Poseidon, god of the seas."