A/N:

If anyone is actually reading this story...cool.

Some of the facts in this may differ from the books. I've tried to research things in book lore, but not much.

I'm writing this the day after the first one.

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"Why are you here, D?" Chiron asked me.

"Oh, I want to join your camp," I replied, giving him a charming smile.

"Technicaly, it's not his camp," someone said from behind Chiron. I looked around at him, and Chiron gave him a warning look.

"Well, whose camp is it?" I asked. Chiron ignored my question. "How do you know about this camp and why do you want to join?" he questioned, prepared for my hesitation. Well, I came prepared too.

"I mean it is the only camp for demigods on the planet, and as for the second question, I'm a demigod. I want to not be pursued by monsters every day of my life. Although with my luck..." I finished, looking back at where the shattered barrier had been.

Once again, he saw through the distraction from my answers. "You didn't answer my first question."

"Says the centaur who ignored two of my questions." I retorted.

He sighed. "I've had enough of this. Please, just tell me how you know."

Something about him compelled me to tell the truth. "I... don't know how I know. I just do." That time, he believed me. "Alright, fine. Come to the house and we'll discuss... this. Everyone else," he turned to the rest and raised his voice so they could hear him, "go back to your duties. Clarisse, have your cabin set up patrols." A large, stocky girl nodded and rallied other large, stocky people.

Huh. Big girl.

As I walked with the centaur to the farmhouse, I walked past a blonde girl and guy with green eyes. The female was glaring at me. I winked at her, which got her real angry. Probably harmless. As we approached the house, I observed the rest of camp. A forest, fields, a pavillion, cabins, which were in a u-shaped formation for some reason, sparring areas, archery ranges, an arena, and loads of other things.

We walked up to the porch, where a surprisingly shiny person sat drinking a purple liquid. Wine, maybe? "The barriers have been shattered." Chiron reported. He didn't react, but I could see he was thinking. "We also have a... new visitor. He says his name is D."

At that point, he looked up at me. His eyes were a mixture of annoyance and like I had just stole his wine and drank it in front of him. He composed himself almost instantly however, and went to take a drink. Apparently it wasn't what he thought it was.

"D, this is Mr. D." Chiron said after a few seconds of silence. I was tempted to sarcastically say '...father?' but something about him made me think that he wouldn't be amused. "Aka, Dionysus, the god of wine, grapes, and a lot of other stuff." Hmm. I thought that was someone else.

Then something occured to me. I didn't know which type of mythology these people were from. Germanic? Greek? Roman? Didn't look very Roman. Based on the pavilion and scattered white columned buildings, I assumed Greek.

Someone approached and stood beside me. It was the blonde from earlier. She was staring at the centaur, as if having a silent conversation.

Mr. D looked up at Chiron. "Why are you still here?"

Chiron cleared his throat and brought me inside. We went to a room I presumed to be his office and I prepared for a load of questions.

"How much do you know about Greek mythology?"

"Uh, not much." I admitted. He confirmed my hypothesis.

"Which parent is the human?" he asked.

"My mother."

"Who is your father?"

"I don't know." I replied. It was a half-truth, seeing as I knew his name, but I didn't know who he was as a god.

He sighed, as if this was a common situation. Then he asked an unexpected question. "Where'd you get that shirt?"

I looked down at my purple t-shirt. "Um... at the store?"

He studied the faded letters and decided he didn't find what he was looking for. "Okay."

Strange.

"Do you have any living family?"

"No."

"Any other belongings?"

"No."

He looked me over, as if evaluating me again. "Ok, but if you're going to join I need to know your full name."

I sighed. "Do-" I stopped as I felt a presence outside the closed door. Chiron seemed to notice it too. I aproached silently it and said "Hello?" in a loud voice. A heard an almost inaudible gasp and quiet footsteps moving away. I smirked.

"Well?" he said, ignoring the mysterious eavesdropper. I mean, not that mysterious. I had a pretty good idea of who it was.

"Domian Helden." I stated. He marked it down.

"Alright. Well, I'll have someone show you the Hermes cabin. That's where you'll be staying."

As I left, I noticed that there were boxes scattered around the room, as if someone were moving in. Or out.

We went back outside where the eavesdropper and the kid with green eyes were waiting. They looked worried.

"Percy, show D here to the Hermes cabin would you?" The kid with green eyes protested. "But I have a-"

"No buts, Percy. I'll tell you later."

I noticed someone else standing behind them. I looked, but something made me not look too closely at his face. I didn't like that. I focused, and found... a single eye. So a mechanical bull, a centaur, and a cyclops. What next?

Okay, so that was a cyclops, and that was Percy, but who was the eavesdropper? My question was answered as Chiron called Annabeth into the house to speak with her. Percy lead my across camp to the Herma cabin, or whatever he called it, and the cyclops trailed behind. "The Hermes cabin is where demigods with unkown godly parents stay until they are revealed." Ah. So it was Hermes. I should probably remember that.

It occurred to me for the second time today that the majority of these people were children. I mean, not children children, but like, teenagers. It also occurred to me that I looked about... maybe 17, though I was far from it. Maybe I was that old when I stopped aging? Or maybe I was younger, and I just grow really slow?

We reached the Cabin. Percy said, "Here it is. Sorry I couldn't show you more, but I'm kinda busy today." He apologized sheepishly.

"I think I can figure it out." I said, studying the cabin. They left me in front of the cabin and I walked towards it. The door opened suddenly and two similar looking people sprinted out, one chasing the other. Siblings? I walked in, and everybody inside was tense and serious, the opposite of the two I had just seen.

"...think is going to happen?" I assumed they were talking about their broken barrier. I listened to them speak for about 10 minutes, leaning on my stick. Someone opened the door and walked in. He was my height, blonde, and looked solemn. Someone looked up and saw him. "Luke! What's the verdict? What's going o..." Everyone went silent as they noticed me.

"Oh, don't mind me," I said, smiling, "continue." They seemed unable to ignore me. I sighed. "Fine. I'm D. I'm new. I'm staying here now." I went and sat on a bunk. They decided to continue.

"He says constant patrols, changing every 12 hours. He also says Clarisse is working on a patrol list." They nodded. Luke turned to me and introduced himself. I wasn't really paying attention. I was more worried that, without the barrier, the location of campers would be under more scrutiny.

I was going to be watched more than I had planned.

Percy's POV

I was confused. Clarisse had said that Chiron had been fired for what happened to the tree. I wanted to get up to the Big House as soon as possible, but Tyson stopped me. "He smells funny."

"What? Like what?"

"He smells... old." Tyson didn't explain further, and I didn't have the time to think about that right now. I ignored it and raced to the Big House."

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A/N:

This was a little short and slow, I know.

I keep forgetting things I want to say in these Author Notes.

-tellewatt252