"What i Like about Photography is that it takes moments that should have been forgotten, and just Freezes them, and allows us to share it with everyone and share it with future generations. But theirs is also the sense of Secrets of the picture, or the stuff you don't know, or don't see. You don't really know what happened before or after a picture its like time is just frozen in that moment."
― Jesús Holguin

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"Forks High School?" Annabeth asks. "You want us to pose as normal students at Forks for a quest, but you wont even explain to us what it's about?!" She yells, all too loud for our demigod hearing to take.

Chiron simply nods at her, as he wheels his way over to the projector. "Switch off the light, would you dear? I need to show you all something."

Annabeth huffs but obeys our favourite- and only- camp activities director. Once the brightly decorated, tapestry filled, room turns pitch black, I hear a shuffle and the old projector starts to slowly work its magic. Very slowly. The overhead projector groan and grumbles as a furry image blurs onto the big whiteboard screen.

"What is that supposed to be?" Percy and Nico asks in unison, causing them to grin and fist pump each other.

"That is your quest, if you choose to accept it," Chiron answers, his voice slightly strained as he turns the stiff dial on the projector, in an attempt to change the quality of the picture.

As I look closely, I can just make out a figure. It looks so strangely familiar to me despite it only being a blurry image. Something from my partly-forgotten past in Forks maybe?

Chiron hits the projector in frustration and the picture suddenly becomes HD. Better than HD actually. The beauty and power that radiates off him is blinding and I feel my jaw slacken and drop. Something about this picture bring me back to the forest. The one that surrounds my stepfather's house in Forks.

It's always that same forest in Forks that my brain seems to remember form my past. Not much else but that. They come to me in small flashbacks. Sometimes it takes just a distant memory, word or even an action for me to remember a little glimpse of what happened to me on my twelfth birthday. Why it is momentarily- Chiron's words not mine- erased from my brain. At times, I think it will never come back.

"What is that?" I find myself asking Chiron.

"That," Chiron wheels away from the projector and back to his place at the front of the ping pong table. "Is the reason you are about to go on your first quest, Bella."

Nico and Percy grin at me and I blush, embarrassed to be put in the spotlight. "Why?"

"Because your father wants his species dead, or at least far away from the humans as possible."

My breath hitches and for a moment I forget how to breathe. "Why would father want to do that? What have they done?"

"They have done nothing wrong," Chiron reassures me, "They didn't choose to become vampires."

"They're vampires?"

"Oh yes, they're vampires alright."

"How can you be so sure?"

"Do you see their eyes?" Chiron points at the image.

I look closely and find that they are a crimson. Not possible unless wearing contacts and very unusual. I nod.

"Well when a human transforms into a vampire, their eyes change from whatever it was to a red hue. This is because of the remaining blood I their system. Depending on the diet they choose, their eye colour changes. The vampires you are supposed to find are one of two vampire clans that chose to feed off animal blood, therefore they have topaz eyes."

"So every other vampire has...?"

"Blood red ones," Nico says, sinisterly, trying his hardest to scare me.

I ignore Nico's snarky comment and proceed to question Chiron. "Why does father want them dead?"

"He believes that they are a danger to the locals If they lose control and must be sent somewhere else with less of a human population. And that is why you must go on this quest. If you choose to accept you will be sent to Forks and pose as relatives of an old student of mine, Charlie Swan."

"Charlie?" I gasped. I hadn't seen my stepfather since the summer when I was twelve years old. I wonder. Does he still live in that little white house? Maybe- with or without his permission- I can go trekking in those woods to find out what really happened that frightful night.

"Yes. Bella as his daughter, Percy and Nico as his nephews and Annabeth as a family friend. I have negotiated with Zeus, and I have bought you enough time to gain their trust so you can take them to Olympus and prove them innocent as they go on trial. " With that, Chiron flips a switch and the room is once again pitch black.