Sorry this took so long! I had no motivation. But a certain someone bugged me enough, so I kept writing. Please continue to read and review! It means a lot to me! More OCs will be introduced later on. Also, there will be opportunities to submit "villain" OCs later on as well! Keep an eye out! Also, if you have any tips on how to write your character better, please tell me!

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The door to the large house at the top of the hill was just swinging shut as Adrien and Aria approached. Apparently, Thomas had a large head start on them.

Aria walked up to the door, stepping on the porch leading up to the door hard, making her presence known. As she neared the door, she threw it open without caring that it banged against the side of the house and walked through quickly, allowing the door to swing back just as fast, nearly hitting Adrien as he attempted to follow. Pushing the door away (more gently than Aria), he followed into the house, a sense of apprehension tugging on the edge of his consciousness. Like there was something strange in the house.

During his musings, he followed Aria blindly, not really paying much attention. The sound of voices made him look up and stop himself from nearly colliding with Aria. "... JUST BECAUSE IT'S MY FRIGGING LAST NAME DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN JUST GO AND-"

"Hahaha! It really matches you!" Obviously, an argument was going on inside the room. Two male voices were coming from the other side of the door, one yelling and obviously upset, and the other edging the first on.

The first voice blared through the door again, "OH YEAH? A FULL BODY CAST MATCHES YOU PRETTY WELL. WANNA TRY-"

Aria, who had paused outside of the room, suddenly threw that door open in the same manner as the first one. The room fell quiet, but the tension didn't lift. " Okay, what in Hades is going on in here! " The two boys, one with redish - orangeish hair and one with obviously dyed blue hair were glaring (well, the red haired one was; the blue haired one was just laughing) at each other from across the table. Thomas was sitting off to the side, watching with interest and laughing. Alice was standing, leaning against the wall and looking on, seeming mildly amused.

"Oh, Aria," the red haired boy said, looking a little less angry as he addressed her, "nothing much. Except that he," the male jabbed a finger at the blue haired boy, tone growing angry again, "decided that I should be a frigging ginger and dyed my hair last night while I was asleep."

The blue haired boy laughed again, "but it is your last name. Shouldn't you live up to it? C'mon, have some pride in your heritage, man!"

The scraping of metal was heard as the red head drew a bronze sword. The room's atmosphere tensed even more. "Jesse," Aria warned, "stop, it's not worth it. Plus, it does suit you." She half laughed at the second part of her sentence.

Suddenly, the door on the other side of the room opened, and a man in a wheelchair with a blanket covering his legs rolled in. "Yes, Damon, don't aggravate Jesse any further. He's gone through enough today. And you, Jesse, try not to destroy my house. Your hair will grow back, or you can ask someone to help you. I'm sure an Aphrodite camper would be more than willing to help you out with your problem."

Jesse grumbled something and looked down, sheathing his sword and grudgingly sitting down. Damon, however, chuckled and began again, "problem? Since when was not having a s-" ** but he was cut short by Aria swatting his head, making him nearly fall out of his chair.

The man in the wheelchair cleared his throat, "thank you, Aria. Now, I don't know if any of you have even noticed, but we have a newcomer."

Adrien glanced around the room, noticing a girl with black hair he hadn't seen before. She was sitting off to the side, watching the whole event unfold mildly. As the wheelchair bound man brought their attention to Adrien, she looked up and gave him a small smile. The man began again, "as some of you may or may not know, this is Adrien." Adrien glanced at him with a confused look. He laughed a bit in response, "silly me, I didn't introduce myself. I'm Chiron, the activities director at this camp."

After hesitating for a moment, Adrien accepted this with a nod. The girl with black hair spoke up, "I'm Alexandra, but just call me Alexa. Everyone does." Adrien nodded again, this time in confirmation. Alexa continued, "you're surprisingly calm. It's kinda weird." She spoke in a light tone, and Adrien knew that she didn't mean any offence.

He just shrugged lightly, not really knowing what to say. "Nothing really surprises me," he said.

"Chiron," Aria began quietly, "he doesn't have any memory past this morning." Adrien looked up in surprise; how did Aria know that? She noticed his look and sighed a little, continuing. "Cedar told me that he was sick, but otherwise normal last night, and this morning when I saw him he was really .. weird. No offence," she glanced at him, "but he, that is, you, just took a basiliskos attack like it was a common occurrence. Not to mention that before now, you've never shown any sort of battle training. And the sudden change in personality … "

Chiron frowned, "that's odd. We'll have to examine him later, but speak of Cedar, where is he? I can't imagine he would like to miss out on showing Adrien around, memories or not."

"..." Aria glanced away, her eyes shielded by her brown hair, mostly the blond curls in front, "he's gone. Didn't make it." She said curtly, bitterness seeping into her voice.

The room became still, and everyone looked down, not sure what to say. They all felt bad for Aria, be it out of sympathy for her loss or mourning for Cedar. Adrien just glanced out the window, feeling a bit guilty. His eyes wandered to the cloudy sky and stayed there for a moment before looking back at the other people.

Silence reigned for another few heartbeats until Alice spoke up for the first time, "you mean you don't know anything about yourself?" Her tone was a bit colder than he had heard the first time, and had a bit of an edge.

After a moment, Adrien nodded. "Nothing," he said, "but I feel kind of weird, like I'm .. sick or something."

Frowning, Aria took a step and closed the distance between them. She put the back of her hand up to his forehead, "uhm .. it looks like you have a fever." She paused for a minute, then her eyes widened, "actually, scratch that, you're burning up! That's pretty dangerous. Alice, do you mind?"

With a small nod, Alice turned to look at Adrien, and a chill passed through the room. Damon, Jesse, Alexa, Aria, Thomas and Chiron shivered, but it felt pretty good to Adrien. Alice didn't even take notice of it. Her winter coat probably helped. Aria stepped away from Adrien, and Damon pipped up, "so, claimed or unclaimed?"

Adrien cast a confused glance at Aria, who seemed to understand the question, and answered. "Unclaimed, as far as we know. If his parent already claimed him, they'll have to do it again."

Jesse spoke next, "well, that sucks for them. Did you explain what we do here?"

"Not yet," Aria said, and turned to Chiron, who handed her a brochure. She handed it to Adrien, who looked at it weirdly.

Thomas, who had been quiet for a while, laughed a bit, "I still don't see why we have that. It's not really something we're going to advertise to the general population." Aria just shrugged, but nodded, looking like she agreed. "Anyway," he said, putting his feet up on the table everyone was sitting (or standing) around, "let me formally welcome you to Camp Half-Blood."

Adrien, who had finished reading the brochure (which detailed basket weaving, swordplay, capture the flag and the Greek gods and goddesses among other things), hesitated, then nodded. "So .. if I'm here, then one of my parents is a god or goddess?"

Alexa cut in, looking at him in the eyes, "okay, this has been bugging me for a while. You're too calm. It's unnatural." She frowned a bit, "I mean, it's probably better than freaking out, but it's weirding me out."

"I noticed that too," Thomas contributed, "he was all tense earlier, and then all calm."

Adrien didn't really know how to respond, but Chiron cut in before he could, "it reminds me of the heroes I used to train. Odd .. it probably has something to do with the memory loss if he wasn't like this before." He glanced expectantly at Aria.

"No .. He was never like this," she said, "he used to be pretty upbeat, friendly and positive. It's like he's a whole different person."

"Well," Alexa said, clapping her hands together, "now that we've got the basics down, maybe we should go? I know that only about half of the senior members are here, but Damon, you need to show Adrien to the Hermes cabin."

Jesse rolled his eyes, "good luck with that guy," he said to Adrien, jabbing a thumb at Damon, "you'll need it."

Chairs scrapped against the floor as Alexa, Thomas, Jesse and Damon got up. Adrien looked confused; why Damon, and why the Hermes cabin? Thomas spoke up, noticing the look of confusion. "Oh, right, you probably didn't know. Damon is the son of Hermes, who takes in all unclaimed kids until they're claimed. So you'll be staying with him and his siblings." He smiled a bit, "they're not that bad once you get to know them, but keep an eye on your stuff." Almost as an afterthought, he continued, "right, you're probably curious. I'm the son of Hecate, Alexa's dad is Eros, Jesse's mom is Nike, Alice's mom is Kihone and Aria's dad is Apollo."

"Hey," Alexa said, in a friendly way, "we could've introduced our own parents."

Thomas shrugged with a smile, "sorry, I was on a roll."

"Well then," Chiron said, "you'd best get going. I'll start arranging something for Cedar, but in the meantime, Damon, can you go show Adrien around? Maybe take Alice. Aria, can you go check on the medics? You're a senior camper after all. And I assume Thomas will go along. That's fine, just don't run around drawing too much blood." He laughed a bit, and Thomas scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "I know you use it for your experiments, but patients aren't always in the best shape to have blood drawn. And Alexa, will you help Jesse with his hair problem? Try to keep him from going after Damon, will you?"

** No offense to any gingers. I love you guys. :3

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