A/N: Sorry I've taken so long to update, been quite tired as school has been literally draining my mental energy. But anyway chapter four at last :)

Chapter 4: Camp Half-Blood

Percy's POV:

In movies you often see camps where everyone is the same-dressed the same, act the same-but it was obvious that wasn't true. That defines camp-different people, all from various backgrounds, with various tastes but one thing in common: they're all Demigods or something magical of some sort.

I was glad to see Annabeth, finding it amusing to see her pacing impatiently. Her half-sister Alex, who had the same mother (Athena), leant against a tree quietly smirking at her. Grover was chewing sweets with their wrappers still on-I noticed he had a hat covering his horns and jeans covering his goat legs. One of the newer camp members, Jacob, a son of Hecate, also stood there. We'd become quite good friends with him since last summer when the Hecate cabin had been built. I was most surprised to see Thalia, as I hadn't seen her in camp for a few years since she joined the huntresses of Artemis.

After I helped everyone get their luggage from the boat, I ran straight to Annabeth. When Grover mimicked being sick, I gave him a rude hand gesture.

Darius' POV:

Whilst Percy seemed occupied, I decided to introduce the new campers to everyone. Percy and Annabeth had started snogging, causing Alex to say 'Get a room!' meaning the lovebirds both ran off. Typical.

"Sorry about them." She smiled at the new campers.
"So, have any of you been claimed?"
"Those two." I pointed at Dan and George.
"Who by?" Grover joined in the conversation, still chewing on sweet wrappers.
"Zeus and Apollo."
"What?" Thalia looked up.
"Zeus and Apollo." I repeated.
Thalia recovered from her moments shock.
"Well," She began. "That isn't very common. But welcome to the family. I'm a child of Zeus too." Dan nodded in response.

We took the new campers to the big house to be introduced to camp. After they knew the basics, I took Melody and Larka into a different room. The room we went to had been created for claimings, as gods were supposed to claim Demigods soon after arrival. Gods didn't always keep to this, so we took Demigods into the room to do a few random tests to give us an idea without the claiming and to pass time (any idea we have still isn't official so we still have to wait.) It gets boring; once I had to stay in this room for 12 hours before someone finally realised I was half dryad instead of half God.

Larka instantly went to a computer/tablet thing that was full of a bunch of complicated stuff. I watched in interest, to see if anything would happen once she finished. Sure enough, a metallic looking cat appeared from the corner and meowed with a mechanical voice. I had to restrain an 'awwwww' from coming out: I'm a sucker for cute animals, but ssh. Instead, I thought of something else to say. "You know, the Hephaestus kids were looking fo-" I trailed off as a holographic hammer appeared above her head. She looked confused, so I continued. "The Hephaestus kids were looking for a sibling who would computer code for them so loads of their mechanical devices could come to life-I think they've found one." After I said that, she seemed to realise she'd been claimed, just as the sign faded.

George's POV:

After learning more about the camp-which looked quite fun-Grover led me to Apollo cabin. I said goodbye to Dan for a while as he went to the Zeus cabin with Thalia; Alex waited behind for the others. Jake had got bored and left, telling us he'd meet us at dinnertime.

After Grover knocked, a girl opened the door. The only similarity we had was dark brown hair- other than that, she bared no resemblance of me. She smiled kindly.
"Yes?"
"New Apollo camperrr." Grover made a bleating sound on the 'R' of camper.
"Ah, alright. Come in." She opened the door.

I stepped in, saying goodbye to Grover. He smirked before telling us he was going to ambush Annabeth and Percy. Me and the girl laughed, before she shut the door.

To the side of the door was a staircase, although from the outside it didn't look like it was a 2 storey building. I could hear voices from upstairs. The room I was in, however, was painted in golds, oranges, yellows and reds. There were about five desks, one bookshelf (most of the books looked like poetry), but what interested me the most was an abundance of musical instruments. There were two pianos, one keyboard, a bunch of stringed instruments (including guitars-one of my favourite things), a collection of microphones, a drum kit and many others, some of which I couldn't recognise.

"So, what's your name?" The girl who was apparently my half sister asked.
"George. And you?"
"I'm Connie." She smiled brightly. I noticed she seemed extremely smiley and optimistic, which would be good to be around.
"So, you're from England? I've never been there." She said. I nodded in response whilst admiring a guitar. I placed my own guitar, still in its case, with all the instruments.
"You play guitar? That's cool. Apollo's God of music along with other things-his children can usually play an instrument or sing."

"I prefer guitar, but I'm alright at piano playing. I sing too-and write my own songs." You know sometimes when you're talking to someone you've only just met, and you end up talking about similar interests and realise you're going to get on well?

That's how I felt even before meeting the others.

Dan's POV:

Thalia had decided she'd move across from the Artemis cabin (which was built in honour of Artemis and was a place for the huntresses to stay on the apparently rare occasion they were in camp-Artemis didn't have any Demigod children) to stay with me in Zeus' instead. I at first told her I didn't mind sleeping alone, but she told me, "The statue is disconcerting-you'll want company." When I saw what she meant-a tall statue of Zeus with piercing eyes that followed you across the room-I decided I'd prefer her company. By statue, I don't mean an ancient, weather-worn stony-eyed statue. I mean a realistically painted, full colour statue.

Thalia put both our sleeping bags in an aclove that Zeus' eyes didn't reach.
"More of a temple than a cabin." I remarked.
"Tell me about it. Artemis' is more comfortable, but to be honest its a little lonely. Besides, I haven't had a brother in a while." She seemed to drift into thought after that.

Larka's POV:

Darius led me out of the room. Alex was waiting outside.
"Hephaestus." He answered her questioning expression.
She nodded. "And what about Melody?"
"Still unclaimed. Can you wait with her whilst I take Larka to her cabin?"
"Sure." Alex went into the room we'd just left. I followed Darius outside.

We went past a few cabins before reaching a very technological-looking cabin. Darius knocked. The door was answered by a boy with black curls, a smudge of soot on his face and calloused hands.
"Hey Leo." Darius seemed to know him. I decided that made this boy alright instantly.
"'Sup. New camper?"
"Yes." "The others are working now. Nice on the boat, by the way."
Darius and I froze. How did he know?
"Well, come in, don't just stand there!" He smirked.

I stepped inside the very mechanical-looking cabin, side-by-side with Darius.

Melody's POV:

"Hey." After I heard a voice, I looked up, startled from a book I'd just started to read about Greek myths. I then recognised Alex.
"Hi." I replied.
"You can read?" She sounded slightly surprised.
"Yeah..." I tried not to make it sound too much like it was an obvious answer.
"You probably find that an odd question. Sorry-I'm used to most other campers. They're dyslexic-even other Athena children. I'm the only one in my cabin who isn't."
"Oh, okay then." I replied. That made sense now.

A cough came from the corner, startling us both. A woman who looked to be in her twenties was sat on a chair in the corner. Alex seemed to recognise her-I, however, didn't. She seemed a little bit familiar, with dark hair and stormy grey eyes; from my brief meeting of Annabeth earlier, I realised they had resemblence.

"Athena?" Alex whispered. "Hello." The woman stood up. "Sorry to startle you-I have a message. The message falls at the same time as a claiming, so I thought I'd come here."
"A claiming?" I questioned.
"Yes." She handed me a mirror, which seemed to appear from nowhere.
"Aim it above your head." Above my head hovered a silvery holographic owl.
"So I'm a child of-" I began.
"Me. Athena." Athena smiled at me.
"So, what was the message?" Alex seemed to have recovered from her shock.
"There will be a prophecy soon-it's important." Athena checked her watch. "Well, I do believe you have dinner to attend."

"Don't look!" Alex turned away, so I followed suit.

When I turned back, Athena had gone.