Disclaimer: Don't own Harry Potter, Percy J, or my inspiration, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.

Chapter 2

As the three Marauders struggled up the steep hill, they noticed something that frightened them.

"Dragon!" cried James. Nestled around a pine tree was a large, sleeping dragon. In the tree it was wrapped around hung a golden cloak.

"James!" whispered Sirius. "Don't wake it up!" They crept towards the big house and thankfully, didn't disturb it.

But when they passed that tree, the sight in front of the Marauders changed. What once appeared to be a strawberry farm morphed itself into a summer camp! Since it was early June and term was ending in mere days back at Hogwarts, it didn't seem odd that camp was beginning.

"Wow! What kind of magic was THAT?! I've never seen or even read about anything of a sort!" said a shocked Remus. The three took in their surroundings like sponges. There were kids doing many different types of activities like archery, sword fighting in an arena, and climbing a rock wall over a lava pit. There was even a small berry field where satyrs were playing flutes to grow the plants.

"Wait…satyrs?" asked Sirius.

"Clearly, these aren't muggles," replied Remus.

"Well, onward! Let's do what we came for: ask for our location!" said James as he left his friends, who were still gaping at the magnificent summer camp. Eventually, Remus and Sirius decided to go after him.

The Marauders stepped onto the front porch and knocked.

"Come in!" replied a friendly voice. The three did as they were told and walked into a nicely furnished living room. "What is it you need?" said the voice form the kitchen.

"Uh…well…" sputtered James. But before James could think of what to say, a bearded centaur trotted into the living room.

"Ahhh… I see… new campers! Welcome! My name is Chiron. Please sit down." Chiron tapped his hoof against a blue sofa. James, Sirius, and Remus did as they were told, but felt a little uncomfortable, considering they were just called new campers y a centaur. None of them had ever met a centaur before.

"Mr. … uhhh… Chiron? We haven't signed the papers or paid the fees for this camp… so …" Remus said.

Chiron laughed. "Don't worry. You are new campers. I can smell it in you. You are demigods."

"What?" asked Sirius.

"Part human, part greek god. Your father or mother is an Olympian. This camp is for others like you."

"We can't be part god! That's… impossible! You must have made a mistake," stated Sirius.

"Is it? Well, I'm not joking, my friend. The gods are real and they are all around us. Once in a while, they hook up with a mortal woman and that's what forms… you!" Chiron continued. "The god leaves the mortal, or in your case wizard or witch-"

"Wait! How did you know?" asked James.

Chiron smiled. "Your friend's wand is visible."

Sirius hastily pulled down his shirt to cover the wand peeping out from his pocket.

"Anyways," said Chiron, "The god leaves and the mortal finds a new spouse. One of your parents isn't really blood related to you."

"It's my mum… she looks nothing at all like me," said Sirius.

"It was my dad," sighed James. "My mum was single until she met him when I was five. She never told me what happened or who my real dad was."

Everyone looked at Remus for his explanation.

"I've got no clue!" he said finally.

"That's alright; you will find out soon enough which god or goddess is your parent. For now, you will sleep in the Hermes cabin, cabin number eleven. I will get a camper to show you around," explained Chiron.

"But Chiron! We almost forgot! Where are we?" asked James.

"Welcome to Camp Halfblood, Long Island, New York, USA. Judging by your accents, I'd say you're from Britain. But how did you get here?" asked Chiron.

"Well, we stepped into this cabinet thing, and we appeared in a different cabinet, on a truck full of cabinets! If that makes any sense…" explained Remus.

"Do you know who was driving the truck?" Chiron looked at them with seriousness in his eyes.

"No, but a sign said 'Agrios Jr.'s Furniture store', if that helps?" said Sirius.

"Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear!" cried Chiron, who was looking so worried, it made the boys begin to worry.

"What is it?" James asked.

"It's just-" Someone with curly black hair popped into the room and interrupted Chiron. "Mr. D! I'm glad to see you!" Chiron said. "These boys are new campers! This is… dear me! I forgot to ask them their names!"

"I'm James Potter."

"Sirius Black."

"My name is Remus Lupin, sir."

"New campers, huh? Well, I'm Dionysus, but call me Mr. D. It's such a pleasure to be the first god you guys meet," said Dionysus sarcastically. "Now, Chiron, get someone to show these three around. I need to talk to you alone." He said, eyeing the boys.

Chiron trotted over to the door and called, "Annabeth!"

"Coming! Coming!" A blonde girl leapt through the door. "Hmmm… new campers. None of them look anything like any of the Olympians, so we'll see who their godly parent is. Follow me, boys." She turned and walked out, and with her, the Marauders.

Boy, she's cute! thought Sirius. So, naturally, he went up to flirt with her.

"Hey," he said with his killer side smile on, "So you're Annabeth, right? I'm Sirius. You know, orange looks good on you."

"If you're flirting, knock it off," she said sternly and then changed the subject. "So anyway, this is Camp Halfblood. Chiron probably went over the whole godly parent thing with you, right?"

They nodded.

"Good, so I can just skip to the fun stuff. This is the rock wall…" Annabeth toured the Marauders through various camp activities, which excited the boys. But they were really excited once they reached the arena. "So, have you ever sword fought before?"

"Ummm… no," was their response.

"Well, most demigods are exceptional fighters because they have ADHD."

"Yep," said Sirius, "All of us have that."

"Excellent. Most have dyslexia as well. Are you dyslexic?" she asked, going a bit further than Remus wanted.

I guess I should tell them, he thought.

"Sirius and I am," James replied.

"Me too," Remus told them.

"WHAT?! " asked the surprised James and Sirius.

"I'm dyslexic. It makes studying and such difficult, but I can manage since I learned a spell in first year that changes paper color and this other one that makes the font bigger."

"So that's why-"

"And you didn't tell anyone?" asked James.

"Er…I didn't want people to make fun of me or not like me, so I kept it a secret."

"Oh, okay."

"Yeah, well," Annabeth continued, "since we halfbloods have dyslexia, we have an easier time reading ancient greek, which is very important."

They moved onto the cabins. There were a whole bunch of them; at least twenty.

"This here is the Zeus cabin, which has only been occupied by one girl, my friend Thalia, and one boy, Jason."

"Cool," said Sirius.

James looked to the left. "And that one?"

They looked at a house that looked like it should've been underwater with merpeople living in it.

"That's the Poseidon Cabin. My boyfriend Percy used to stay there." Annabeth said.

Darn! She's taken, thought Sirius.

"Why used to?" asked Remus.

"He's gone missing," Annabeth said.

"Oh, I see." Said Remus.

Annabeth then showed them the Hestia and Hera cabins, which did not seem at all interesting to the Marauders.

"Wow! This one looks cool, like the moon. Huh, Moony?" said Sirius, who was looking at a glinting silver cabin. Remus shuddered.

"It's just the Artemis cabin." Annabeth said.

"Yeah. I know." Remus replied quickly. Annabeth looked suspicious, but kept going. "This is my cabin, the Athena cabin."

The door was open a crack, so you could see shelves and shelves of books and kids on laptops, studying.

"No offense, but I'd definitely not do good in that cabin. I hate studying!" exclaimed Sirius.

"I agree, Padfoot," said James.

"What's with these weird nicknames? You're Moony," said Annabeth pointing to Remus, "You're Padfoot." She pointed to Sirius, "but who're you?" Annabeth looked at James.

"Prongs."

"British people are so strange," Annabeth mumbled.

They passed the Hephaestus cabin, which looked like a factory and the Apollo cabin, from which music could be heard. The Marauder's least favorite cabin had to be the Ares cabin. It not only was the most horrid color, its campers seemed like a very nasty and mean bunch. Not the kind you want to prank.

They toured around eight more cabins, a few which were under construction.

The Aphrodite cabin was pink with purple trim.

"Ewww…pink!" said Sirius.

"Let's hope we're not in that cabin," said James.

"And last but not least, the Hermes cabin," said Annabeth. "It's getting late, so I'll see you at dinner. It's in about an hour."

After some good-byes, Sirius, James and Remus filed into the Hermes cabin. They met the campers and everyone seemed to be nice, but they all had a mischievous look in their eyes. The three were exhausted, so they decided to relax until dinner. Sirius wanted to shower; that usually calmed him down.

While Sirius was washing, the Hermes cabin presented Remus and James with freshly stolen toiletries from the camp store, which included some mousse for Sirius.

"With his hair, we felt he needed it," laughed the boy who gave them their things.

That's when James got his evil idea. With some convincing, Remus agreed to assist James with his prank. The star at transfiguration turned anything he could find into potion ingredients. Remus assisted him in brewing a liquid that was very smooth and replaced the mousse in the bottle with the potion.

"Ha! Thanks Moony. This is going to be great!" James smiled and soon, he fell asleep on his borrowed sleeping bag. After cleaning up, Remus followed suit.

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