Morning after morning, I expected a call from the Major Gods. Nothing. I just sat waiting for something that never came.

I entertained myself with watching movies: The Lord of the Rings, The Ring, Tron: Legacy, and my favorite, Clash of the Titans. Trust me, I watched a lot more movies and I read and I played volleyball and I ate food and I slept and I swam in Poseidon's pool (they had real fish in it too! I petted a sea turtle and played with a hammerhead shark!) and finally, read some more.

Finally, I woke up one morning and was immediately called back to the throne room. I grabbed a piece of ambrosia off my nightstand, changed into a tank-top (being a goddess of heat can like really give you a heat stroke), gulped down the rest of my nectar and rushed to meet the others. I quickly look at my calendar. It was a year later.

You see, being a god is annoying, time flies. You go to sleep for one second and a week has passes… which is pretty irritating.

"I'm here…" I said, "What took you so long?" The gods looked at me.

"What do you mean?" Zeus asked.

"YOU'VE PUT ME OFF FOR A YEAR! I'M LIKE TEN NOW!" I yell at them.

"Oh my! Such a temper…" Hermes commented. I groaned.

"Well, we had to plan things." Poseidon said winking.

"So you had to take a year?" I asked.

"Yeah…" Athena said proudly, "Strategies can take ages…"

"Okay?" I wondered. "What do I have to do?"

"You are being disguised as a demigod helping some others with a problem."

"Won't some recognize me?" I ask.

"Maybe you're a familiar face…" Dionysus says eerily.

"GO BACK TO CAMP!" Zeus yells.

"Gees…Dionysus, way to go…" Artemis scolds. Dionysus sticks out his tongue at her and disappears. Apollo snickers.

"Well, what are you waiting for?" Aphrodite says.

"Whose child am I?" I ask.

"Mine…" Apollo says, "And try not to catch anyone on fire. It's a dead giveaway…"

"Okay, bye…"

So with that, I left the room.

I dressed in shorts and an orange Camp Half-Blood t-shirt when Aphrodite appeared in the room.

"Oh! No that just won't do!" she said and she dressed me in something prettier.

"Mom, you know I'm going as a daughter of Apollo—why am I wearing makeup!" I say, glancing at the mirror.

"Oh, Sorry I just get carried away." With the snap of her fingers, she dressed me in jean shorts and a thick strapped tank top so people could witness my dark tans from my dad.

"This is better! Can, um, you put up my hair in a pony?" I ask. She sighs and snapped her fingers.

"Is this fine? She asked.

"Yeah, and thanks for removing the make-up!" I say as I remove myself from the room and appear at the front gate at camp.

"Well, miss, um, Jennifer?" Dionysus says with a wink.

"Janet." I say frustrated like I had no idea who he was.

"Well, Jessica, I'll have, um, Chris take you to the Hermes cabin since your unknown." He said and took a swig of pop.

"Okay, well, it's Janet!" I say again.

"Oh whatever! Chris!" Chris came trotting forward. He was older and was a bit more built. His face was clear and his eyes were shining like his father. Once his eyes came to mine he gaped at my appearance. I had purposely made myself look older. To about his age, maybe a bit younger. My blondish-brown hair shined and was soft although in a pony. My eyes were blue but were fierce. He just looked longingly at me and really made me uncomfortable.

"So, um, the cabin?" I asked when he continued to stare.

"Oh! Um yeah, this way!" he said and he led me to the extremely crowded cabin.

"Hey! Is she um known?" Asked a guy, I think it was Tony if I remembered him.

"No." Chris said staring at me, still.

"Yes!" a boy identical said to him said.

"I saw her first, Davido!" he said.

"No I did!" A boy, Travis, said with another identical twin at his side. Hermes? What is your deal with identical twins?

"Um, Can I just get my spot and get out of your way?" I ask. All eyes stare at me.

"You can sleep right there, beside my bunk!" a girl my age says, "I'm Hanna."

"Oh! Um thanks! Janet" I said as I walk away from the boys, fighting.

I set up my stuff and I followed Hanna out to the training grounds. She was still undetermined too, which was lucky for me. I could just ask my family in the sky to help her know who her dad was.

She talked to me about her family life. How her mother had abused her at a young age and how she was always picked on by guys. I said it was sad, but that I could relate. My mother had abandoned me when I was five to a foster home. Total lie.

"Well, we might have the same father!" she said excitedly. No probably not, seeing as she was fiddling with some spare parts in her hand. Daughter of Hephaestus.

"That'd be so cool!" she marveled over it over and over. "We'll, since we're at the training ground, let's start. What do you want to do?"

"Um, since it looks fun, what about archery?" her smile turns to a frown.

"Um, okay? After that, do you want to go to the building area?" Definitely daughter of Hephaestus.

"Sure!" We took our positions at the shooting range and I saw Elida again. Her hair was a bit longer and her arms were tanner than they were.

"Who's she?" I asked.

"Oh, her?" she said, pointing a shaky finger at Elida, "Elida. She's Apollo's favorite child."

"Okay?" I said. "Them?" I pointed at a group of girl huddled around a chart.

"All daughters of Athena." She pointed them out one by one. Bridgette: Crazily dark, brown hair, gray eyes, sense of humor, friend with Elida. Ana: Curly brown hair, gray eyes, violent, quiet, serious, but fun, and friend of Elida as well. Maria: Long blond hair, gray eyes, reads too much to be normal, quiet, almost too quiet, sense of humor, tolerates Elida.

"Okay, I know Chris, Tony, and David. Them?" I pointed to a ginger, which was sharpening a sword and customizing a spear for some Ares chic, and a brown haired kid with about two dozen cups around him and burn marks.

"That's Sam; the ginger and a Son of Hephaestus. We call him Crack Head. He loves Maria! And then there's Manny. He's a son of Mr. D, or Dionysus. Last year, some chic came. It turns out she was a goddess! Her name was like Jocelyeus or something like that. She got mad and ended up torching him alive! Of course it was on accident thought, at least we hope. She's a daughter of Apollo and Aphrodite! How, we have no idea… Also she's the goddess of heat!" Hanna retold the story. I laughed and pretended that I'd never heard it before. Sadly, I'd lived it.

"Okay, take a shot, Hanna!" I said motioning toward the targets. She nodded and exhaled. She took her shot and barely hit the edge of the target. She sighed and motioned for me to go. I grabbed my arrow and knocked it. The scent of pine was calming. I then pulled back and in a tenth of a second, let go. Bull's eye.

"OH MY GODS!" Hanna said. "How did you?"

"I don't know…I like archery!" I say. She just stares. "Do you want to go to the building area?"

Her smile lifts and she begins to trot over. An arm blocks me and Elida congrats on my shot. "Thanks…"

"Can I talk to you?" she asks. I stare at her. "um, sure." She pulls me back into a tent.

"Why are you hanging out with that girl?" she asks.

"Um, she offered me a spot in the Hermes cabin next to her so I wouldn't have to be by the guys…" I say.

"Well, you're going to need to move." She says.

"Why?" I ask.

"I already know who you are." I freeze.

"You do?" I ask dumbfounded. How would she know I'm that same girl from last year? "How?"

"Duh! You're a daughter of Apollo! And it's because of that simple shot!" she says.

"Oh… really?" I ask.

"Yeah, just wait for tonight." She says before dismissing me.

"Hey! What took you so long?" Hanna asks.

"Um, Elida congratulated me on my archery skills…" I say.

"Oh, that weird…well! Let's get started!" Her hands automatically go to metal and bolts and she begins to construct a mechanical wonder. I grab a wire and light bulb, along with a battery and construct a circuit like I was taught about in Olympus by Hephaestus himself.

"That's, um, cool…" Hanna says, noticing me touching the wire to the battery, turning on the bulb. I look at what she constructed. She had made a bronze metallic sword. She had taken out the bolts that held everything together after she welded it. She polished it and added a grip. Then sharpened it so it could kill.

"Wow…" I say, studying its gentle curves that made me curious.

"Yeah, it's for Percy, as a thank you gift! He saved my life when he and Annabeth came to take me to camp. I was literally about to be eaten by a Cyclopes…" she says, wiping the bronze with a wet wipe.

I hear a bell ring in the distance.

"Ooh! It's dinner time! Come on!" we rush from the tent and run to the pavilion.

We socialized at the Hermes table and I had a lot of fun. When we all sacrificed to the gods, I sacrificed to Apollo, asking him to claim me tonight. Chiron banged his hooves on the camp stage, we all fell silent.

"I'd like to welcome, Janet!" I stood up on the stage "She will be staying in the Hermes cabin until, oh my…"

I felt myself light like a butterfly and I stared as everyone kneeled before me. DO they know I'm a goddess? I looked um and sure enough, Apollo's symbol hung above my scalp. A golden glow shimmered around me and I could barely hear Chiron say, "Hail Janet, Daughter of Apollo, God of the Sun!" Many people rose and clapped but we all fell silent when Hanna began to glow too. I kneeled, like everyone else. Hanna glowed red and she had Hephaestus's symbol, the forge, above her head. She looked shocked.

"Hail, Hanna, daughter of Hephaestus, God of the Forge!" We stood and clapped.

I trotted over to Hanna, after Chiron dismissed us, and thanked her for all of the kindness she had shown me. I told her I'd keep in touch and that there were some nice kids in the Hephaestus cabin, like Leo!

"Thank, Janet. I hope you can bear living with Elida and Chris…" I nodded and we laughed a bit before saying our goodbyes and hugging briefly. I walked away to the Hermes cabin to gather my things and I say Chris pouting.

"What's wrong Chris?" I ask.

"You're my sister!" he says.

"Oh! I'm sorry if that offended you!" I snap and I turn away.

"No! Not like that, it'd be weird to date your own sister!" I stared. Okay, freaky!

"Oh sorry then…" I said and I left to the Hermes cabin once more. On the way, I got many looks from the Hermes twins (both groups), a couple whistles (at least before I smacked them) and a couple nice gestures hoping I could be their friends. Those of course were from girls. I was asked to be friends by Bridgette, Ana, Maria, Elida (although she was my bunk mate. She got the top bunk, I got bottom.), and Lauren. She was unlike any Aphrodite child. She wasn't a brat like the rest! (Well, besides Piper and, from what I heard, Silena, gods rest her soul…). Manny and Sam also asked, well after they whistled and I smacked them. Which was fun, although Manny almost cried because of his scars. Sorry!

So I grabbed my stuff and moved to the Apollo cabin. It was really bright and golden colored. A couple of kids were polishing arrows, Elida and Chris were singing ASDF and Marshmallow People, and others were asleep. I placed down my stuff and decided to take a shower. I also snuck in some ambrosia and nectar. Hey! I need to eat too!

After showering, I crawled into my bed and slept in peace, somewhat…


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