A/N- Thanks to Demi for reviewing, SilverMoonGrimm, xoxohanachan8998, and Tosho (plus three guests) for reviewing and following, and General E, IvyGreenCat and otakukeeb7 for following. This chapter is dedicated to all of you guys. Hopefully, I'll get the same amount of reviews and followers (or more) this time. Also, sorry for the long wait!
This chapter might be a bit confusing if you haven't read the Heroes of Olympus series! (So I hope you have!)
Sorry again for the relatively short chapter!
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Chapter 2
PIPER
Piper wanted this day to be perfect. After all, it was her birthday, and every demigod needed a break. Especially one who defeated Gaea and her giants a few weeks ago. Piper wanted her 16th birthday to be a total success, everything going her way. Unfortunately, the day didn't go exactly as it did in Piper's mind.
When Piper woke up, there were banners and balloons taped all around the cabin, with the words Happy Birthday and Sweet Sixteen written on them .She was thinking the day was starting out right, until talk of a party started out. Piper didn't want a party, but when she protested, her cabinmates ignored her and kept chattering about the clothes and refreshments they will have.
"It'll be just perfect!" Hannah gushed, clapping her hands together. Piper loved the new nine year old girl who just joined the camp last month, so she didn't have the heart to say she didn't care for a party.
"Come here, Piper!" Lacy shouted, gesturing. "I'll do your hair!" Piper reluctantly moved toward the girl, dragging her feet. After spending thirty minutes sitting still with her half siblings gossiping and putting on makeup, Piper had had enough.
"Guys!" Piper shouted over the noise, putting a bit of charmspeak into her voice. "This is all very great, but we need to eat breakfast!" The others stopped what they were doing and looked at her, bewildered.
"We don't need to eat!" Shouted twenty voices. "We'll eat the refreshments later at the party!" Piper sighed and spoke up once again.
"As senior counselor, I say everyone should go eat breakfast right now. You'll get strength you need to dress me up!" Piper said cheerfully and persuasively, though in the inside she didn't really mean it.
A few minutes later, the whole Aphrodite Cabin was at the dining pavilion. The boys and girls sat down and started eating, chattering and gossiping about what dress they were going to wear and such. Piper was the only one still standing, looking out for one special person: Jason. The Zeus table was empty. Sighing, Piper sat down.
All I wanted was to spend time with Jason and the others, not a party with my half siblings! Is that too much to ask for? It's my birthday, and nothing is turning out the way I wanted it to be! Piper thought, scowling.
"How's it going?" A voice asked, interrupting Piper's complaining inside voice. Gray eyes and long blonde hair came into her view.
"Hi Annabeth." Piper greeted.
"What's with the hair?" Annabeth asked, her eyes filled with laughter and amusement.
"Just a birthday present from my half siblings." Piper grumbled.
"I'm guessing your day didn't exactly start out the way you wanted it too." The blonde haired girl sympathized and went back to her own table.
Piper sighed and started sitting down and picking up her fork, but was interrupted by a loud shout.
"Intruders!" Leo came into view with a frying pan on his head and the hammer he was waving around frantically as he ran.
"What are you doing with a frying pan hat?" Piper demanded.
Leo looked up like he just noticed it. "I'm not sure...I think it it's my new helmet. But you can have it for your birthday." He tossed the pan so suddenly it almost hit Piper in the face.
"Thanks, I guess." She said. "But what do you mean by intruders?"
"There's a boy and girl both about thirteen or twelve near the entrance of the camp. I don't think either of them are demigods, but they would have gotten pass the boundaries if they were mortals." Leo informed her. Piper sighed. She hoped they were just wandering bystanders and not something that would maybe cause more trouble or another quest. Piper was tired of quests. Especially ones that involved her.
"Well then, I guess we should go see them." Piper stood up, and the other Aphrodite campers who heard the small conversation followed her lead. They ran after Leo, who was still waving his hammer and shouting," Intruders, Intruders!"
When Piper arrived, she saw that most of the campers had abandoned their breakfast and were crowded around Chiron, Jason, Annabeth, Percy and the two children. The news of their arrival had already swept through camp.
"Who are you?" Jason demanded.
The boy spoke first. "Hey I'm Puck." He didn't even seem the least nervous, unlike the girl, who was eyeing everything with suspicion.
"Do you play hockey?" Percy asked. Annabeth kicked him to show this wasn't a good time.
"And you are?" Chiron asked the silent girl.
"Sabrina" She said flatly.
"Or Grimm." The boy Puck added. "But ugly and stinkpot works just as well.
"Are you guys dating?" Hannah wondered. That got Sabrina to talk.
"With fairyboy here?" She shrieked. "Never in a million years!"
Piper thought, fairyboy? It turned out Annabeth was thinking about the exact same thing.
"What do you mean by fairyboy?" She asked suspiciously, inspecting Puck up and down.
Sabrina widened her eyes like she made a mistake. "It's nothing." She said quickly, though she was obviously hiding something. "Just a nickname."
"How did you get in here?" Jason asked, just as aggressive and suspicious as the first time. Even though he chose to attend Camp Half Blood instead of the Camp Jupiter (unlike Frank and Hazel, who stayed behind in New Rome.) , he was still very much a Roman at heart.
Puck, instead of being frightened by Jason's fierce tone, thought it was funny.
"You've got to be kidding!" He said, laughing out loud. "There was no one guarding or anything. Ever heard of walking through an archway?"
Chiron exchanged worried looks with Annabeth and Percy. Piper understood his concerns. If these people had no trouble walking through the entrance, that meant either they were not mortal, or something bad had suddenly happened to the magical boundaries that surrounded the camp.
Piper guessed Chiron realized that this matter was not to be discussed with the whole camp just yet, because he yelled, "War council in a few minutes. Senior counselors meet inside the Big House!"
Piper sarcastically thought to herself.
And The Best Happy Birthday to you.
Short chapter, abrupt ending, SORRY!
