"I need to find some water!" Said Mason looking around for some sort of water source. "What was that? What just happened?" I asked Mason, which didn't pay any attention at all to me. Paulette and Alex sat down on some leaves and stared at Mason waiting for some answers. "I'll explain everything, but first we need to find some water." Mason said calmly. "Forget the water! What just happened? Why did our teacher turn into a, a thing?" Paulette and I said at the same time. "She turned into a Fury, not a thing, and as I said before I need to find some water, before I can actually tell you anything!" Mason said once more. Before Paulette and I could bombard Mason with questions, Alex stood up and calmly said: "There's a river further down..." "Thanks." Said Mason, and half smiled. We kept walking until we found a small river that ran right through our path. Mason put his hand on the water and closed his eyes. Just as I was about to ask him what he was doing, I saw the water start to run up his skin, and begin to heal all his scars. When he finished, he was completely dry. "How did you..." "I'll explain later, but first I need to do something." He said. He reached down his pockets, and grabbed a gold coin with some designs in it and some weird writing, and tossed it in the water. "Oh Goddess Iris, Please accept my Offering and show me Chris and Aron, in Half-Blood Hill" Said Mason, and an image appeared on the water. I was speechless. The image showed two boys around our age, one was blond with sky blue eyes, and the other one had brownish blond hair with chocolate brown eyes. "Hey Mason! Uh, who are they? What happened?" Asked the guy with the blue eyes. "Well, you know I was supposed to bring back a Demigod? Turns out they were three. Anyways, long story short, we got attacked by a Fury." Said Mason. "Seriously? Are you okay?" "Yeah, I'm Fine, look I need you to come here and help me get them back to camp, bring Chris with you!" Mason said. The image was becoming kind of blurry and a voice said: "Please insert one more drachma, or your session will time out." Mason waved his hand over the water and the image disappeared. "What the heck is happening!" I said, freaking out. "Okay, look... What happened earlier, your teacher, she was a Fury form the depths of the Underworld. Okay? You know anything about the gods, and goddesses of Ancient Greece?" Mason asked, eyeing us carefully. "You mean like the myths about Zeus, Poseidon, Athena, Hercules, that stuff?" I said, not really knowing where this was going. "Yeah, well they are all real and still exist today..." "What?" "... And you guys may be Demigods..." He added quickly. "Wait... Hold up... You are saying that the Gods still exist today and that all the myths were true, and that the thing that attacked us back there was actually a monster from thousands of years ago?" Asked Paulette, slightly confused. "Yes." Responded Mason, and Paulette started laughing and looking at him like if he was crazy, which I was starting to believe he was. "So, what's a Demigod, Mrs. Jones or the thing called us that two times... What does it mean?" Asked Alex, she had been so silent the whole time I almost forgot she was there. "Well... sometimes in the myths, the gods and goddesses came down from olympus, and fell in love with a mortal, and usually had a child with them. Those children were called 'Demigods' or 'Half-Bloods' since they were half god, half mortal. Well the same thing still happens today, the gods come down to earth, make some mortal fall in love with them, have a child and there you are, a Demigod!" Mason said. "So, you're telling us... That we're Demigods?" I asked, staring blankly at him and he just nodded. We all fell silent for a moment trying to process the information. Then, out of the blue, a Lightning bolt struck the spot we were sitting on, making all of jump out of our seats. The smell of burnt grass filled the air. Where the lightning bolt had just struck a few moments ago, now stood two boys. They were the same guys I had seen on the water image about 20 minutes ago. Now that I looked closer, I saw that they were both tall, with a well built body. The one with the blue eyes seemed tired, and a little disoriented. "Uh... sorry for that, I still don't have the hang of this whole lightning travel thing." Said the guy with blue eyes and shrugged. "Guys, these are also Demigods, Aron, and Chris." Said Mason. The blue eyed guy was Aron and the one with the curly hair was Chris. "I'm Paulette, these are my friends, Alex and Rosabelle." Said Paulette gesturing at us and smiled. We shock hand with the boys, and then sat down around the an dark circle, the lightning had made when it struck. "Have they been claimed yet? Have you told them about camp?" Aron asked Mason, whom shocked his head. "What do you mean 'claimed' and what's this about camp?" I asked. I was so tired, with all that had happened today, and to add up, I was starting to get a headache, which didn't make anything easier. "To be claimed, means that your godly parent recognizes you as his or hers son or daughter, and camp is Camp Half-Blood, that's the place we are going to after Aron gets some rest, it's a place for Demigods, that's where we train and learn greek mythology." Responded Chris with a mischievous smile. "Oh.." I murmured and closed my eyes. My headache was getting worse by the minute. "So who's your godly parent?" Asked Alex. "Well, I'm a son of Hermes, you know god of thieves and travelers, Aron is a son of Zeus and Mason here, is a son of Poseidon." Responded Chris. Mason's expression changed completely when Chris mentioned Poseidon was his father, he seemed angry, but I don't think anyone else noticed. "Oh, cool! So, do you get like cool powers and stuff?" Asked Paulette, who seemed immensely interested all of the sudden in what Chris had to say, which was kind of strange, she usually wasn't all smily and bubbly. "Well, Children of the big three are the ones who get all the powers, but sometimes children of the other gods get powers too, like for example me, I can fly, since my dad is Hermes and all..." Answered Chris, smiling. "What do you mean by 'The Big Three'? I asked. "Children of the three eldest gods, Zeus, Poseidon and Hades. They are the most powerful gods, therefor their children are usually very powerful Demigods, but we don't get a lot of them since the pact the gods made after World War II, They promised not to have more children, since we usually dangerous..." Explained Aron. "What do you mean..." I began to say, but I was interrupted by a flash of lightning followed by thunder. Another lightning bolt fell where we were resting, this time landing exactly where Paulette was sitting. The weird thing is she didn't have a scratch on her. "What the hell just happened!" Shout Alex, and went rushing to where Paulette was, next to me. "I think your friend has just been claimed, welcome to the family sis!" Said Aron and put his arm around Paulette's neck, who just smiled. "Paulette...?" "Taylor!" "Paulette Taylor, daughter of Zeus, God of gods, the sky and thunder!" Exclaimed Chris, and Paulette sat down once again. "Cool, so do Zeus' have any cool powers or anything?" She asked staring wide eyed at Aron. "Well, we usually have complete control over the weather, and lightning, and well, some of us can control air currents. Oh! And like all demigods, we're dyslexic and we have ADHD." Said Aron. "Wait, all demigods have dyslexia?" I asked. "Yeah, it's because our brains are wired to read Ancient Greek, not english... Why?" Asked Aron, confused. "I don't have dyslexia, only ADHD, but I usually control it, I mean I can pay attention to class." I said quietly, which took Aron by surprise. Before he could speak again, a loud noise came from underneath the earth, like if the ground was growling. A large crack, formed from where Alex had been sitting, to a tree, that must have been a good thirty feet away. That's when I saw a floating hologram appear on top of my best friend's head. It was a skull with fire around it and two black steel swords with all sorts of gems in clustered on them. "Let me guess... I've just been claimed..." Said Alex. "Yep, daughter of Hades, God of the Underworld, keeper of the dead." Said Aron. "Cool." Said Alex. I could tell Aron was a born leader, he always walked with his chin up high, like he wasn't afraid of anything. "Only I'm left..." I murmured to myself. I don't know why, but I had this feeling that when I got claimed, something good wasn't going to happen. "Wow, seems like we have two of the Big Three, that's something new!" Said Chris. "Will you just drop the subject already!" Shout Mason, who had been quiet until now, and stormed off. I don't know why, I stood up and followed him. "What do you want?" He asked me, and glared. "Hey! I just came to ask you if you were okay, no need to take your anger out on me!" I said. It wasn't my fault he was having an off day. "Well, Im fine! Or haven't you noticed it yet? Now, if you excuse me, I just want to be alone!'' He said. "Hey, I just came here to help, you don't have to be so mean!" I responded, he was starting to really annoy me. "Well, you can't, cause unfortunately, you haven't been claimed yet, so chances are you aren't even a demigod, you're may very well be just a clear sighted mortal, and since I don't know if you're a demigod or not, you have no idea how to help, or even what's wrong." He said and kept walking. "Um, well I would know if you told me!" "That's the problem, I can't, so why don't you just go back to your little friends, or your house or wherever you came from!" He said and turned his back on me again. I don't know why that hurt me, maybe, because I didn't want to go home, not after i saw what had just happened, I wanted to be part of it, I wanted to get out of my boring life, and see this new world. "You know, you don't have to be such a jerk, I was only trying to help..." I whispered and ran off, leaving Mason standing there. That's when I felt a sharp shot of pain. The headache had started again, but this time it was far worse than last time. I dobled over from the pain and covered my face with my hands. I shrieked in pain, and began to see white dots that blurred my vision. "Hey, I'm ... whoa, What happened?" I heard Mason call from behind me. He kneeled down next to me, and put his hand on my shoulder. Suddenly, just as fast as the headache had come, it was gone. "What happened?" Asked Mason, slightly concerned. "Nothing. Just a headache. Why are you here?" I asked and frowned. After the jerk he was earlier now he was being nice? "Look, I just came to tell you I'm sorry, you were just trying to help." He said, staring hard at me. I stood up, and began to walk away, and he stood close behind me. "Could you stop following me?" "Where are you going?" He asked. "I don't know, back to where the others are, or just somewhere where you aren't there." I said annoyed. "Hey, I said I was sorry, besides what are you going to do wondering alone in a forest?" He said. "Yeah, just because you said you were sorry, doesn't mean we're friends, and I've been here many times before, I know this forest like the palm of my hand, I know where it leads to." I responded. He stared at me and shrugged. "What if I want to come with you?" He asked. I turned around and said: "What if you don't!" as I said that, a rock came flying between us. "How...How did you do that?" Mason asked. "I didn't do anything! Someone must have thrown a rock at us." I said. "No, you did it, I saw you, when you moved your hand the rock came flying towards us." He said looking from my hand to me. "If you're suggesting that I have telekinesis, I assure I don't, or at least not until now." "Teleke-what?" "Telekinesis, the ability to move objects with one's mind!" I responded. Then when I moved my hand again, another rock came flying towards us. "Um... Rosabelle, I think you have just been claimed..." Said Mason, I looked around to see what he was talking about but he just pointed up. Above me was a hologram of an white owl with light brown spots. The owl, somehow materialized and sat on my shoulder. "C'mon, we need to get to the other!" Said Mason, with a serious expression on his face. He grabbed my hand and pulled me alongside him, to where the other were still sitting down. The owl flew behind us. When we finally made it to the where the other were sitting, Paulette stood up and said: "Where have you guys been?"