"Annabeth!" Percy shouted through the Dining Pavilion.
"Over here!" I heard from the other side of the Pavilion.

There were so many campers, its a wonder how Annabeth heard him.

"Annabeth, I have something to tell you." Percy said as we got to the Athena table.
"Yes?"
"Annabeth, I want you to meet Brooklyn, my sister." At that comment Annabeth turned around from what she was doing and the kids around her became quiet. Some started to whisper. They all looked really shocked.
"Brooklyn, this is Annabeth. Annabeth, Brooklyn." Percy said.
"Hi, it's nice to meet you, Brooklyn." She gave me a hug, which was fine by me. I love hugs. Then I heard a voice behind me, at the front of the Pavilion.

Chiron stood at the front of the Dining Pavilion. He motioned me to come forward. As I made my way up to him, I noticed a boy standing at the edge of the Pavilion. He had black shaggy hair, chocolate brown eyes, an aviators jacket, a black shirt, dark pants and a distinctive silver skull ring on his right hand. He was pretty cute, He caught me starring and gave me a little smile. I looked down and walked a little faster, trying to hide my obviously pink cheeks.

"Everyone! I'm happy to announce we have a new camper, Brooklyn. She just arrived here so try to introduce your self but not all at once we don't want to overwhelm her."

A voice called out from the far end of the pavilion "Has she been claimed yet?"

"Not yet but I believe she is the first daughter of Poisideon."

Everyone gasped simultaneously. The crowd kept looking at me, then Percy, then me again.

"I expect that Brooklyn will be claimed by the end of the day-"

A glowing green trident started floating above my head. The symbol seemingly put everyone into a trance.

"I stand corrected! It is confirmed, Brooklyn is a daughter of Poseidon!" Now, capture the flag will be played tonight after dinner. Following that, a sing-a-long will be lead by the Apollo Cabin."He abruptedly trotted off.

I failed at an attempted to sneak back to Percy. Everyone's eyes were still on me. Then I heard someone start to clap, before I knew it the entire pavilion was clapping.

"What's with the clapping?" I asked no one in particular.
"You are the second child of Poseidon, and the first girl! Oh, and by the way that fact may make you-" Annabeth paused, trying hard to think of how to word it." lets just say every guy here who doesn't already have someone is going to put you on radar." Annabeth explained with a smile on her face.
"Oh." I kinda whispered. not knowing if I should be flattered or scared.
"Do you want me to show you around camp? Annabeth can come if you like." Percy offered.
"Um, I don't know, I- I think I need to let this soak in. I'll meet you guys back here at dinner time." I said.
"That's totally fine, Brooklyn. I'll see you later." Annabeth waved as I walked out of the pavilion.

With that, I walked off toward to lake.

"This is crazy." I told myself. I walked to the edge of the dock and plopped down, I looked down into the water when I say a water lady looking up at me from in the lake. She motioned me to come in. a few others came up behind her and motioned to me aswell.

"Correction, this is insane!" I whispered to myself. I quickly got up and started to ran for the woods. I looked back to see if they were following me, "good, maybe I can get some peace-" Before I could look where I was going I collided with a dense object.

"Umff" I heard some being grunt.
"Oww." I moaned, I tried to get up but my legs decided to take a break so I crashed back down onto the hard ground. I heard my crash test dummy get up.

"I am so sorry, I didn't see you there." I saw a hand offering to help me up, I took it.
"It's fine, Nothing could make this day more-."I forgot how to speek as I relized who I had crashed was the cute guy from the pavilion.
"Umm," my brain drew a complete blank" u- um, i-it's - I'm okay. I mean I-i." I could feel my cheeks heat up as I was embarrassing myself. I inhaled deeply to clear my head"I'm sorry, I'm a little flustered. I meant your fine, I wasn't watching where I was going."
"No, it's my fault, really. I should have been paying attention." He said, rubbing his right shoulder. "I'm Nico, by the way. Nico di Angelo."
"I'm Brooklyn, but, I guess you already know that."
"Haha, yeah. Um, were you trying to find something? I can help you if you want." Oh sweet cotton candy, he's cute and nice?! I struck gold.
"Um, I was just kind of exploring. But, um, I was just about to go back to my cabin now."
"Ok, I'll see you at dinner then."
"Okay, see you then, Nico."

I turned and headed to my cabin. My face beet red then entire way. Once I got in there, I sat down on my bunk and stared at the wall. O my sweet goodness I probably looked like an idiot, and sounded like a jerk and now I bet he hates me and he just said he'll see me at dinner to be nice and, Percy walked in the door interuppting my thoughts.

"Hey! I didn't think you would be in here, you ok?"
"Yeah, I just, there was this water person looking up from me at the bottom of the lake when I was standing on the dock. And then I started to run to the woods, but halfway there, I crashed into this guy, Nico di Angelo, and I probably made the worst first impression ever in the history of man kind because he said "I'll see you at dinner then." and-"
"Wait, you actually had a conversation with Nico? That's surprising, He must like you..."
"Why would you think that?"
"Well, he never really talks to anyone. He hasn't said more than a few sentences to me at a time."
"Oh, so um, why would he like me? Like if I, um you get the point."
"Why wouldn't he like you? Your pretty, and I haven't known you for long but you just have that light that can't be faked, I could probably list a million of others but it's dinner and there serving pancakes in your honor!"
"What are we doing here then, Come on, there are pancakes to be eaten!"

At the Dining Pavilion, Percy and I were getting our food and were about to sit down when he showed me how to do something.

"Brooklyn, before you go sit down, we have to scrape an offering into the Brazer."
"Why?"
"It serves as an offering to the gods, or for us, Poseidon."
"Ok." I scraped a part of my meal into the Brazer then we went to sit down.

I saw Nico sitting alone at the Hades table. When he looked up and saw me he smiled and kinda nodded his head 'whats up?' I smiled back, as I turned my face to the side I gave a silent squeal. My heart was throbbing in my chest. I quickly sat down to not call any attention to myself.

"So is the Capture the Flag any fun?"I began pouring syrup onto my small disks of edible happiness.
"Oh yeah, the whole camp gets into it."
"And the sing-a-long?"
"Yup. We all sit around the fire pit," he pointed over in the middle of the cabin's area. "The fire is magic and matched the mood of the campers. Its usually 20 feet tall and a bright orange-y yellowish color. Its tons of fun."
"Awesome! I can't wait."

Chiron appeared and cleared his throat, all the campers quieted down. "It's almost time to start Capture the Flag." All the campers cheered. "You all know the teams and rules, go hide your flags!"

Everyone quickly finished there dinner and headed out out of the pavilion and simultaneously splitting into two groups.

Annabeth walked up and stood next to Percy and with the rest of our team there they started announcing the plan. Well, Annabeth did most of the talking, Percy was standing there nodding. Percy, Annabeth, and I started walking ahead of the rest of our team towards the woods.

"So if we put our flag at the stream, that makes it a big enough clearing in the woods for it to be clearly visible." Annabeth said.
"Yeah, but who will be the pair to guard the flag?" Percy asked.

Just then Nico jogged up to walk with us.

"Um, How about Nico and Brooklyn?" Annabeth suggested. My face turned noticeably pink, I believe I have figured out this camps shipper. There's always one.
"Works for me." Nico said. "Brooklyn?"
"Um, y-yeah, I could do that." I managed to stutter out.
"Great! Percy and I will go try to get the flag. The rest of you, you all know who is defense and who is offense. Now go!" Annabeth barked the order out to the rest of the team.

Nico took the flag and lead me to the stream. "Ok, the flag is in place, all we have to do is wait. But they should be a while, who knows how long it will take to get past the defense." Nico explained.
"Awesome." I said.
"Have you figured out any of your powers yet?"
"Um, no."
"Oh, ok. I just thought it might be helpful if you could maybe control the water."
"I could do that?" I asked with shock and wonder.
"Well I thought-"

Nico was cut off by a couple of demigods that came from our left trying to get our flag.

"I got this one." He said before he took both of them on in combat. They went running back to their side and Nico came back to stand a few feet away from me again.

We stood in silence until a couple minutes later another couple demigods came from our right. Nico started walking towards them and he got the first one easily, but the second one gave him trouble. He took a shot at Nico and got lucky, Nico fell to the ground while I just stood and watched not knowing what to do. The demigod stood over Nico ready to take another shot as I felt a tug in my gut. It was only a second but it felt like a minute. I concentrated on the attacker as the feeling got stronger, it got to the point where I felt I was about to burst when suddenly a huge blast of water hit the other teams offensive, hard. The water was forcing him back, away form Nico. I realized I was controlling it, with pure will.

Nico got up from the ground and walked over to me. "That was amazing!" I was still in temporary shock, "Thanks." I looked over to the water. Wow, I couldn't believe I did that. Breaking the silence we heard more footsteps coming our way. I guess I wouldn't have to wait long for more practice. Nico walked toward to north where the noise was coming from.

"You ready?" He asked.
"Yup, I got your back." He gave me a smile as the opposing team offensive broke through the brush.
"This is going to be fun."