Chapter One

Percy awoke. He sat up in his bunk bed, smacking his head on the bed above him. He let his head hit the pillow, again. After one more moment of bliss, Percy rolled out of bed. He changed into tan khakis and the orange Camp Half-Blood t-shirt.

It was very lonely in the Poseidon Cabin, because his half brother, Tyson, a Cyclops, was working at the forges. The breakfast bell rung before he could even run his fingers through his hair.

Percy rushed to the Dining Pavilion. He arrived just after the Hermes Cabin got in line. The Hermes Cabin was always last, as they housed the Hermes half-bloods and Zeus knows how many unclaimed kids. The Hermes Cabin was still crowded, even with the cabins for the lesser gods in the picture.

Shelby, Amber, CJ and Annabeth ran up to Percy.

"You are a mess, seaweed brain" Annabeth said, trying to get his hair under control.

"You're lateeee!" CJ,a short headed girl from the Hermes Cabin said patronizingly.

"He is the Leader of camp, he works like the hardest" Amber scolded CJ. Amber was a brown-haired, brown-eyed Apollo kid.

"What took you so long perc?" Shelby asked. She was the tall, short haired brunette with hazel eyes and freckles.

"I slept in." Percy said, shooing away Annabeth's hands. "I'm used to Tyson waking me up."

Everyone got their food and put half of it into the fire, saying a little prayer.

"Hey dad, I wish there was someone else in my cabin, just so I can talk to someone..." Percy said and when he smelled sea salt and ocean he walked to his table with Grover and started eating.

Rachel Elizabeth Dare, a mortal girl who happened to be the Oracle, stood up, her eyes glowing green, as green mist collected around the Pavilion. A hush fell over the campers.

"A cruel journey begins,

Leaving most distraught.

Seek the goddess of war and hunt

The Angel of Eerie and Stone

Melt her within the lake,

But beware the Hound above,

For fear the loss of your Lead..."

Rachel rasped in a voice that sounded like a cross between scraping a chalkboard and a roller coaster falling down.

Rachel blinked, her eyes back to normal. Whispers penetrated the tense silence.

"A prophecy?"

"Why now?"

"Who need to go on the quest?"

Percy remained quiet, and just thought. Grover nommed on a Coke Can, and soon that was the only sound in the pavilion.

"Well, that was…interesting." Chiron finally said

"Sorry I didn't really do anything it just...happened." Rachel said apologetically "The quest goes to only those who are brave enough."

She looked at Percy, Connor and Travis Stoll, her emerald eyes glowing a little.

"Then I guess the quest-takers have been decided. Peter Jonson, and the Stoll children." Mr. D said in his usual blase tone.

Connor and Travis quietly high-five each other and whispered loudly "Yesssssssss." They didn't even mind being called children.

Percy, on the other hand, sighed. Camp leader going on his 5thish quest, he thought to himself.

Annabeth grinned at Percy. He melted under her perfect pure smile.

He could have sworn she was Aphrodite's kid. You could tell she has been getting advice from the Aphrodite kids at least. The traditionally beautiful girls were giving Annabeth a thumbs up, then signaled something to her. She swiped her curly golden hair behind her shoulder, and smiled with her eyes closed. Then she giggled, which almost made him drool. He stared at her like he was in a trance, until Annabeth couldn't hold in her laughter any longer. Percy shook his head as Grover patted him on the back.

"It's …Okay bro… I know it's… hard …to resist her…..you chose….well." he said between mouthfuls of a soda can.

"Thanks dude." Percy smiled "But don't go and be stealing my girls."

"Girls?"

"I meant girl!" he said hastily.

"I won-bleet!" Grover cut himself off by standing up and running to the Aphrodite girls, who were waving flirtatiously at him. Their pink nails fluttered hypnotizingly.

"Classic Grover." Annabeth shook her head, taking a seat next to Percy.

"Oh whoa hey...when did you get here?" he asked, scotching away by instant "Creeper ninja much?"

Annabeth chuckled at his response.

"HEY GROVER, REMEMBER JUNIPER" Percy had to yell for Grover to hear him.

Grover snapped out of it. He galloped to the forest, snatching up a bouquet of flowers on the way to give to Juniper. Juniper was his wood-nymph girlfriend.

"You are dismissed." Chiron finally said. The kids rushed to their training, some slower and got trampled over by Shelby, who couldn't wait for sword play.

Connor and Travis walked with Percy and Annabeth. "Perc, how bout we talk about the prophecy after we beat you in capture the flag?" Travis smiled wickedly as they stepped into the Chariot race track.

"Then I guess you'll never get to talk about the prophecy with me at all." Percy smiled and put his arm around Annabeth.

"Pfft, sure." Connor said with a cocky smirk.

Annabeth waved goodbye and jogged to the chariot building station, while Percy and the Stoll kids walked to the horse stables.

"Where do you think we have to go to get this person?" Percy asked, leaning against a stable door.

"Well, she said there was an Angel of Erie..." Travis said.

Blackjack's voice nudged at the back of Percy's head. Geography maybe?

"Connor get maps of the Lake Erie in Ohio. Maybe there is an abandoned island where the Angel is. I still don't get the melt and stone part."

Connor nodded "Older maps will do best." Travis suggested.

Percy thought deeply about the lines of the prophecy. "There isn't a goddess of war and hunt that we know of.." he murmured to himself, walking towards the sword play area.

Before lunch Connor, ran up to Travis and Percy from the big house, and only three high pitched words tumbled out of his mouth.

"I found it…"