Time to get the story moving.

The next day I woke up earlier than most of the kids in Cabin Eleven and went down to the beach. I wandered along the coastline, thinking of all the different gods and who my father might be. My mom had never married after she met this guy, whoever he was.

Everyone said it was much better off to just have a weak god or goddess as your parent but I secretly hoped it was someone special. I know it's selfish, but what can I say.

I walked along the shoreline, my shoes leaving depressions that filled up with water when the tide rose and fell, eventually disappearing and leaving no trace that I had ever been there.

"Oi, Areth!" a voice came out from some rocks to my right, up towards the camp.

I looked around, "Me?"

A satyr stepped out from behind the rocks, "Yeah you, who else do you know named Areth? Anyways, that is beside the point, follow me, there is someone you should see."

"Alright, where are we going?" But the satyr didn't seem to be waiting for he and he hurried up the slope, I followed him, sprinting to keep up. Man, for having goat legs, satyrs sure could move fast.

I finally caught up with him again when he stopped at the big house. "He's in there, a friend of yours he says."

I peered through the window but the morning dew was thick on the glass and I couldn't see anything but shadows. "Thanks, I guess."

The satyr nodded and bounced off towards the forest. I walked out in front of the door and was about to knock when it was opened from the inside. I saw a familiar face standing in the doorway. "Matt? What are you doing here?" It was my friend Matt from high school, my only friend really.

He just grinned at me and motioned inside. He looked the same as ever except of course, his black hair had grown longer, like it always did. It grew extremely quickly. Inside, along with Matt, there was just Chiron.

"Hello Areth, I see Adam found you. The satyr, I mean." Chiron chuckled and took a sip of what smelled suspiciously like coffee. I hate coffee, it always leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

"Yeah he did." I turned to Matt, "But what are you doing here?"

Matt gave me that smile of his again that all the girls at school fell for. "No, Areth, what are you doing here? See, I've been at Camp for more than four years now and I only left this year on a scouting mission to find more half-bloods."



"Wait, you're a half-blood too?" I was totally stunned, Matt seemed so… normal. Well, he was an amazing athlete, and all the girls at school would have had major crushes on him if he didn't hang out with me (though I'm sure some of them still did), and he was really smart… Well, maybe not too normal. He was like one of those kids you have at every school, good at everything pretty much.

"Yeah, and when I first found you I had no idea you were a half-blood too, but I had been in the same position as you when I was younger, but I got over it once I had come here. I thought you had been some regular kid but when I figured out you had Dyslexia I started to suspect something." Matt pulled off being normal pretty well compared to me. He fit in with the crowd at our school.

"So, uh, who's your parent?" I felt weird asking him that, like it was something personal.

Matt didn't seem to mind though. "Apollo, the god of music, poetry, light, sun, archery, etc."

"That would explain the archery classes you took then."

"Actually, I taught them, but yeah, that is the reason."

Chiron broke in, "He's just being modest, Matt's come first place once, and second twice in the past three archery tournaments we've had here."

Matt blushed and looked out the window to hide his face.

"Chiron," I decided I should probably tell him about the incident with the boar a couple of days ago. I would have said something earlier but I still felt like it was all a dream. "I… When I came here a few days ago, I had gotten lost on the road, as you know. But I never told you I had a run in with this boar. And I mean it was a giant boar." Matt and Chiron were both listening intently to my story. "It chased me through the forest a small way and it charged at me. But, before it could ram into me, something strange happened. Fire kind of, came out of my body in a wave and disintegrated the boar."

I waited for them to both start laughing at me but they didn't, almost as though this was totally normal. Now, I'm still new here, but even for this weird place it doesn't seem very normal.

"Areth, why didn't you tell me earlier?" Chiron didn't look angry but his tone said that he was troubled.

"I… I don't know really, it was all so overwhelming I kind of blocked it out."

"That is understandable, but if something like this happens again, please let me know, will you?"

"Yes sir."

Before anything else could be said the satyr Adam burst into the room, tripped, and landed hard on the coffee table we were seated at, spilling Chiron's coffee on the floor.

"Chiron," he panted, getting up from the floor with a coffee stain on his back. "there's been an attack at the border, monsters are attacking!"