TWO

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I Visit Camp Crazy

Over the next hours I floated in and out of conciousness. I heard snips of conversations, and at one point I finally woke up.

"Is she awake?" asked a voice I recognized as Alice.

"I think she is." answered another voice.

That voice turned out to be Grover, the satyr that saved Alice and I.

"What was that thing?" I said as I explained about Evil Mcperfectpants.

"That was an empousa." he answered.

"A wha-?"

"Wait until we get to Camp."

We took a cab to "camp", arriving late in the afternoon.

"Welcome to Camp Half Blood!" Grover said half-heartedly.

We walked past tons cabins, all beautifully customized. However, one was truly amazing. I stopped abruptly in front of a huge cabin that looked just like the ocean. I felt a strong pull to just open the-

"Emma! Come on!" Grover yelled.

I sighed. We walked and walked until we reached the Big House. It was huge, with a sky-blue paint job and an eagle weathervane. And at least four stories high. Sitting in the front of the cabin was a half-horse/half-human thing.

"Hello," It said with a smile. "I'm Chiron."

"H-hi?" I struggled.

Chiron chuckled and said, "It's okay, I get that a lot. I'm a centaur. Welcome to Camp Half-Blood! Have you by any chance learned about the Greek Gods and Goddesses?"

"Uh, yeah," I said "Like, Zeus and Athena?

"Yes, very good!" Chiron said. And with that he explained all about camp.

"No way am I a child of a Greek God." I stuttered, "Whose am I?"

"Um….," he hesitated "We're not sure until they claim you."

"Oh." I replied. "Then how do you know I'm a half-blood?"

I looked over to Alice. Alice was smiling all flirty at a certain boy who was swigging an obsidian sword around, knocking the heads off straw dummies. He was dressed in head-to-toe black and had the essence of darkness surrounding him.

"Are you dyslexic and ADHD?" asked Chiron.

"Yeah..." I answered.

"And has a monster recently tried to…I don't know...Kill you?"

"Unfortunately."

"Are you the child of a single parent?"

"I'm adopted."

"That's how we know!" He laughed and sent Alice and I off to the Dining Pavilion.

"My dad is going to freak out that I'm not home!" Alice said

"My mom is going to send out a missing persons report. Scratch that. She probably won't care."

Behind us Grover's voice said "Don't worry; they think your school sent you two on a trip to Europe.

"My dad won't believe that." Alice said.

"Where do we sit?" I asked.

"You sit at the Hermes table until you are claimed."

"Hermes?" I asked.

"The big table with lots of kids." Grover sighed.

We went and sat at a table crowded with tons of misfit kids. The table went silent and looked up at us. I smiled feebly and sat down. A flurry of questions started up, and I had a hard time answering all of them.

"Who are you?"

"What's your name?"

"Ever stolen something?"

"How'd you get here?"

I coughed awkwardly. All of a sudden, they stopped talking to stare above Alice's head. Was my head not pretty enough to stare at?

Then I looked at her. Floating above her head was a pink heart. The Aphrodite table started clapping and Chiron stood up.

"Alice, you have been claimed by Aphrodite!" he said, "Go to your new cabin mates!"

Alice got up and model-walked her way to the lavish pink table. The other people there started throwing pink confetti all over her. She smiled one of her dazzling smiles, and sat down. I guess she forgot about me.

Later that night, I tried to fall asleep in the Hermes cabin. I was in an old sleeping bag in the far corner of the room. I was exausted, but there was so many people snoring and kicking, that I couldn't even shut an eye. I sighed and rolled over on my side.

My dreams were weird. I saw the empousa, the Pegasus in the sky, and the calming ocean. I woke up at three a.m to find the entire cabin awake and gawking at the top of my head.

"Uh…." I yawned, sitting up and attempting to pat down my bed-head, "What are you looking at?"

A boy slowly raised a pointing finger above my head. Confused, I got out of my sleeping bag and walked to a crooked mirror in the front of the room. It took a second for my eyes to adjust, and I squinted until the blue-green light over my head came into focus. A trident.

"Poseidon?" a voice whispered.

"But, I thought Percy…" Another person said in a low voice.

They were murmuring to each other until Chiron rode in wearing a night shirt and a cap. He almost instantly spotted me. I looked away, sheepishly.

"Judging by the trident over your head, it seems you have been claimed by Poseidon." He yawned, "Follow me."

I got my things, and followed him to the beautiful ocean cabin. Poseidon's Cabin. I practically skipped inside, to find it nearly empty. Only one person was in there. But the cabin was gorgeous. Seashells were everywhere, adorning the walls and floor in a pattern I couldn't comprehend. And there was a prominent fountain in the back of the room.

"Perseus!" Chiron yelled "Wake up!"

"Ahhhh!" He yelled and fell off the top bunk onto the seashell paved floor.

"Chiron! What is it?" he asked, and then looked at me.

"Uh, Hi?" He said.

I looked to Chiron for help, but he was gone.

I walked over to a bunk on the opposite side of the room and sat down. Percy walked over and sat down next to me.

"Um," he said "Welcome to Poseidon's cabin. What's your name?"

"Emma." I replied quietly

Then he told me about the Big Three.

"So wait," I started, "How is it possible that I'm Poseidon's daughter, if you're-"

"I'll tell you in the morning."

And with that, he got up and went to bed.