The next day I woke up and found Nico staring at the ceiling, I knocked on the door and he looked at me, "Morning." I said and he sat up, "Yeah-" then he winced as he sat up, I sat down beside him, "I think your bandages need to be changed." He nodded and took off his shirt. He just stared ahead as I took off the bandages, I looked at the wounds. "Well it looks better than yesterday…"

The truth was it looked worse than before; he needed some serious medics, not me. I just cleaned the wounds again and put another bandage on it and Nico muttered, "You are a terrible liar Faith." I looked down sadly, "Sorry, I didn't want to worry you…" I could see him roll his eyes, and I helped him put the shirt back on.

He stood up weakly and said, "Hold my hand." I raised my eyebrow, "What?" Nico sighed, "If you want to go to camp hold my hand." Awkwardly I reached over and held it. Nico closed his eyes and then suddenly we melted into the shadows.

I've never liked the dark, maybe it's because of all the monsters that lurk there, but none the less it's never been a favorite place of mine. So traveling in complete darkness with nothing I was sure about but that Nico was still holding onto my hand wasn't the best experience of my life.

I clamped my eyes closed and imagined that I wasn't here, that I lived a different life. Not my crazy, messed up, and terrible life. Then I felt a hand on my shoulder, "You can open your eyes Faith." I heard Nico say and when I did we were in some woods.

Then Nico staggered and leaned on a tree, his forehead was beaded with sweat. "Nico, are you alright?" He breathed heavily, "Yeah, I'm just grand. Traveling half way across the United Stated with a couple cuts in my back and getting someone with me was a breeze."

Well at least he can make sarcastic comments. I thought to myself as I put my arm around his shoulder as I helped him up and he pointed in the direction of the camp. After some time I came up to a hill and found a huge camp spread out before me. There was everything from a lake to woods, to rock wall, and cabins.

"Where are the medics?" Nico pointed to small building and muttered, "The infirmary." I struggled to go down the hill with Nico while trying not to fall and trip, but I managed. Nico muttered, with his eyes drooping, "The claws must have been poisoned on that monster because I feel like crud right now." I stared at him, worried, and I said to him, "Just hang in there."

His eyes closed and then I started yelling, "Help! Somebody please!" I yelled until some campers with bows and arrows on their backs came running up to me (seeing the bows and arrows were a first for me but right now I was too worried to care.) "What happened to him?" one of them asked and I said quickly, "Monsters attacked us and it must have had poisoned claws-"The boy looked at me with concern, "How long ago was this?" "Yesterday." He looked at Nico with wide eyes, "Come on, we need to get him to the infirmary fast!"

Two of the other campers put their arms around his shoulder and started sprinting with him to the infirmary. The boy that had first came up to us looked me, "Did you get cut?" I looked at me arm, "Yeah, but it's not as bad, I don't think mine was poisoned." He held out his hand and reached for my arm, "Let me look at it." I lifted my arm up and he gently unwrapped the bandage, oh, maybe I should've been worried about my arm.

My cut looked like and infection had set in, it had bruised and it looked just plain bad. The boy looked at me, "Come on, let's get you to the infirmary and get your arm checked out." He didn't even seem fazed by the cut, unlike me who was still praying that it wouldn't start bleeding again.

As we were walking he said, "I'm Will Solace, Son of Apollo." "I'm Faith Lacy, I don't really know who my parent is yet." He raised his eyebrow, "Weird I thought the gods promised to claim their children by the time they were- ah never mind I'm sure that you'll find out who your parent is sooner or later."

Once we were in the infirmary I sat at a little station for "minor wounds", I looked at the sign in this part of the infirmary with a frown. If this was a "minor wound" what was a major one? Will came over to me with what looked like lemon square, "Eat this, it'll help." I looked at the lemon square and sighed as I ate it.

The weirdest thing happened; it didn't taste like lemon at all! It tasted like chocolate to me, "What in the world?" I muttered as I finished it, Will laughed, "That's ambrosia, it heals you, and it tastes like your um… what is it, 'comfort food'." I only had had chocolate once in my life, it was amazing. I looked at him, "Whoa, so what about my arm?" he tapped his chin, "I'll clean it up, put another bandage on it and it should be heal in a couple of days."

After around ten minutes I was all set and he sat down next to me, "So how'd you meet Nico?" I explained how I was on my own, monsters attacked and he helped me out of there, how I'd ran away and how he'd saved me. Then I also explained how we survived the cliff fall. Will raised his eyebrow, "Weird, the only other demigod that I know that can control the winds is Jason." I shrugged and stood up, "I'll figure it out later, but can I check on Nico?" Will nodded and led me deeper into the infirmary to where he was.

A couple campers were around him, they all had the same bows and arrows that Will had and I guessed that they all were children of Apollo. Man that guy's been busy hasn't he? Another odd thing they all looked around the same age…

Nico lay on a table, with his back up, and he seemed half asleep. I stood there in the doorway and Will put his hand on my shoulder, "He'll be fine, we got him here just in time." I felt guilty all over again as I looked at Nico.

Will crossed his arms, "You can check on him later, right now I'll show you around Camp Half-Blood." I wanted to stay with Nico and make sure that he'd be alright but Will was already walking away and I didn't want to feel the guilt I was feeling.

With a heavy heart I followed Will and he looked at me, "Do you want to see the cabins?" I shrugged, "Surprise me." Will trudged on to what looked like a farm house he pointed it and told me, "See that, it's the Big House. I want to you to meet Chiron." I think I recalled Chiron, wasn't he that centaur that trained heroes in ancient Greek legend? No he can't still be alive.

I soon found out that he was very much alive. He stood on the porch centaur and all, I gawked at him, and Will laughed. Chiron looked over the camp then when he saw Will and I coming towards him he uncrossed his arms. "Afternoon Will." Then he glanced at me, "Who's this?" the way he said it wasn't rude, but he seemed genuinely curious. Will said casually, "This is Faith, Faith this is Chiron." Chiron smiled at me, and asked Will, "Does she know her godly parent?" he shook his head and Chiron nodded, "Well Will, you can show her around the camp and maybe her parent will claim her." Will nodded and started to walk away, I waved to Chiron and he smiled back.

"Can you show me to the cabins? I want to see some of the other campers." I asked and Will nodded. His blond hair swept over his eyes as he smiled at me, "Sure." Will led me around the camp talking about the different things that we passed and I was getting happier that I came here by the minute.

Finally we came to the cabins, there were so many and each cabin almost had its own personality. There was a dark red one with barbed wire and when Will saw me looking at it he pointed to it, "Try to stay away from that cabin and its campers, that's the Ares cabin. The bottom line about that cabin is to try and stay away from them." I nodded getting the jest and we walked by numerous other ones, one cabin was blue and it guessed, "That's the Poseidon cabin?" he nodded and replied, "Only one Poseidon kid, Percy Jackson, you'll hear a lot about the guy-"

"Who's the new girl?" asked a boy, he looked around seventeen, messy brown hair, and sea-green eyes. He looked at me with a raised eye brow Will whispered, "That's him." Percy rolled his eyes and asked me, "Is Will spreading rumors about me?" I shook my head and Will laughed, "If any rumors do start up you'd probably have the Stoll brothers to blame for that."

Percy asked, "What's your name?" "Faith." He smiled, "Well hey Faith, hope you find your cabin." He walked away with his hands in his pocket and I saw him pull out a little regular ball point pen. He seemed like a really chilled guy, but likeable enough, I looked at Will and he said, "That guy is a living legend, and one thing don't mess with his girlfriend Annabeth or else he will flip out on you."

Then we were walking past some of the cabins, one of them looked like a casino, another was filled with trophies and then there was one that stopped me dead in my tracks.

It looked like a regular cabin expect for the fact that it was covered in murals of the different seasons and it felt a little different depending on where you stood around the cabin. Come in. said a voice in my head, and almost without thinking I did what it told me, and when I opened the door I closed my eyes and it felt…right. It was almost as if I was supposed to be in here.

The cabin was empty and then I noticed what I thought was a statue; only it was so detailed I could almost guess that it was real. He had a red shirt, Bermuda shorts, sandals, and curly black hair. He had beautiful brown wings that were tinged with golden and red wings too. The most striking thing about him was his eyes; they looked golden, like a sunset on a warm summer's night "Hello Faith." It said and I jumped back into Will. I looked at him and asked, "Do you see him too?" Will nodded and said, "I can verify that he isn't one of the campers here."

The man stood up and smiled, "Yes Will Solace, I'm not a camper here, I'm Favonius." I looked up at him and he smiled down at me, Will looked at him, "Are you claiming her?" Favonius nodded to him and smiled sadly at me, "I must go Faith, but know I'm watching over you." With those words he disappeared into red and gold wind and left what felt like a summer's breeze.

So that was my dad? Will put his hand on my shoulder, "Are you alright?" I nodded and said, "Well it looks like I've found my cabin, do you know if I have any brothers or sisters?" Will shrugged, "No you're the only child of Favonius, which is actually the Roman form of Zephyrus, but we aren't too picky here. Any who, we figured that since the gods of the winds were all related pretty closely we'd just make a cabin and have all of the kids of them in here. We've found a Son of Boreas, but that's it."

I sat down on one of the beds and sighed, "Well, I'm sure you have things to do, you can go…plus I need a little time to think."

He nodded and left without another word.

Had my dad watched over me even when I was being chased by those monsters, why hadn't he helped me? Why had he just appeared to me now? Why not a couple years back when the monsters had just started trying to kill me?!

"Who are you?" I heard a voice say in the doorway, he was wearing an orange Camp Half-Blood t-shirt and had black hair that was back in a small think pony tail. His eyes were dark brown like melted milk chocolate and he was kind of pale. He looked probably a year older than me.

I stood up, "Faith, I'm a daughter of Favonius, what's your name?" he said, "Cole. I think you know who I'm the Son of." I nodded and said, "Yeah, you're the Son of Boreas."

He walked up to me and sat down in the bed next to me, and I sat back down, "I heard that a new camper had just gotten here with Nico di Angelo." He chuckled, "You know that boy never sticks around for too long, he spends most of his time in the Underworld." He did? I looked at Cole and raised my eyebrow, "I didn't know that." He crossed, "That about all that most of us know about the Son of Hades."

He looked at me and asked, "You don't have a lot of things do you?" I nodded and sighed, "I've lived without a home for all of my life, it's not like I could've had a lot of things." He pulled a couple of things out of his trunk by his bed, "Here are some shirts, they might be a little big but they're better than nothing." I smiled at him and took the shirts, "Thank you Cole." He shrugged, "Don't worry about it, they're just shirts."

This was the first time somebody had given me something, ever. I didn't take that lightly, though he looked like he didn't want me to thank me any more so just smiled again.

Cole and I just talked about different things until he said, "Hey it looks like it's time for dinner, come on." AT the pavilion he told me to just ask for what you wanted to eat and drink and it'd appear. "How about steak, medium rare, and some mashed potatoes?" I asked and poof! It was there, and then I asked for some water. It appeared and I tried something, "Make it bubbly water." Bubbles started forming and I stared at my cup Cole laughed, "You look like you've never had bubbly water." "Well I haven't!"

Then after we ate we had campfire and I kept looking around for Nico, and I remembered he was probably still in the infirmary. That really dampened my mood.

After campfire I walked without anyone to the infirmary and I found Nico right where I remembered him. Everything was dark in there except the rooms/places with people in them. Those were lit with a candle. When I found him, he was asleep, I sat down in a chair in front of him and let my head drop, "I'm sorry…" I whispered and his eyes slowly opened, "Faith?" he asked and I muttered, "I'm sorry I woke you up, I'll go." He said sleepily, "Stop apologizing, it's fine. I'm getting fixed up; you don't have to worry about it. Enjoy camp." He muttered as he fell back asleep and put my face in my hands.

The fact that this was all because of my and he wasn't mad just made me feel even worse! I wished right now that it was me that it happened to and not him. I stood up and heard footsteps, oh crud, I'm not supposed to be out late! I recalled as I thought of Cole telling me that earlier.

I tip-toed out and felt a pair of hands out in the darkness ran into me, "Agh!" I exclaimed as I fell back into Nico's room. A teenager with blond hair, electric blue eyes, and a little scar over his lip stood in the doorway. "What are you doing here?" he asked, and I looked over at Nico, he seemed to get my message.

The guy nodded and leaned in the doorway, "You know him?" "Nico brought me here, if it hadn't of been for him I'd probably be dead." He said, "By the way I'm Jason, Jason Grace." "I'm Faith Lacy."

Jason sat in the other chair and looked over at Nico, and I stood up, "I better get back to my cabin." When I got back I found Cole already asleep and I quickly followed.

Nico falling off the cliff played into my dreams, only this time I couldn't do anything about it. He fell and fell…I woke up in a cold sweat with tears running down my face.