Purity flew with great speed and gentleness over the mortal world. She shifted every so often to make Brianna more comfortable. Brianna felt great with the wind blowing against her face. But she still felt nervous as if she was going to be blown out of the sky. They ran into a few storm spirits along the way, but Purity swatted them aside. Suddenly, she felt something tingling. She looked down and saw a maintenance tunnel.

"Down there," Brianna said pointing at the tunnel.

Purity made a churring sound and glided gently down. They landed in front of two people in armor.

"Kill that thing!" one of them said.

"No, don't!" Brianna said.

"You should be lucky that we're not killing you for arriving on that," the other guard said.

"Stop it!" Brianna yelled as the guards unsheathed their weapons.

Purity made a sound of protest but quickly flew away.

"What?" a guard said. "Look over there!"

Brianna looked behind her and saw a hydra marching towards them. It was a purple blob and its heads were weaving in and out of each other. Even from here, Brianna could see its hideous glare.

"What do we do?" she asked. She didn't have a weapon, and her new friend and pet just flew away.

"Get inside," a guard pushed her in. "Jorge will show you the way."

The other guard, Jorge, lead her through the tunnel. Brianna wondered how her new home would be in here. Then the tunnel opened up at a small town looking place with a river making a G around the perimeter.

Jorge waded in. "Come on, you have to wade through."

Bianca stared at the fast moving currents. "You're kidding!"

"No I'm not. This is the only way to get to camp," he said.

Brianna gulped but jumped in. The water was cold and strong and almost knocked her over. She shivered but made it across the river. The other guard came wading through gasping.

"Barely made it," she panted. "Almost killed me but eventually ran away."

"Okay, then… should I take her to the praetors?"

"Nah, I'll do it."

Jorge stayed by the river and the other guard lead her to the praetors. Brianna expected them to be self-centered people with purple capes, but they seemed pretty nice.

"I'm Jason," the guy with blond hair said. "And that's Reyna." He pointed to a black haired girl.

"Oh, hi," Brianna said. They waited and Brianna realized that they wanted her name. "I'm Brianna."

As soon as she said that, she felt like that wasn't true. But that is my real name! she thought. And the other part of her said No it isn't!

"Okay, so why don't I first take you to the augur, give you a tour of the city and you can clean up at the bath house. Sound good?"

Brianna nodded and Reyna lead her away pointing at buildings in the way.

"And then there's the five cohorts who have about forty people in each," Reyna finished.

"There's about two hundred people here?" Brianna asked. They had just visited the augur before and all she could think of was that he was an absolute jerk.

"And more."

"Wow…" Brianna said trying not to let her surprise show. Her black hair was straightened out and still wet from the bath.

At sunset, Reyna eventually led her back to where the cohorts were waiting.

"We have a new camper!" Jason announced raising his hands.

"Will any cohort stand for her?" Reyna asked scanning the crowd.

There was a silence that rippled through the crowd. Then a girl with curly hair stepped up and said "I will stand for her."

There was a bunch of snickers from the rest of the demigods, or legacies. The girl's cohort reluctantly pounded their shields on the ground.

Jason and Reyna gave her a sorry look and they all dispersed for dinner.

"Your name is Brianna?" the girl asked. "I'm Hazel. I'll just explain you the rules and stuff. Sorry you're in the Fifth Cohort."

Brianna felt uneasy like she wasn't supposed to belong here. But most of the people here were pretty nice. If she didn't fit in, she could understand.

"It's fine," Brianna muttered. "I don't feel like I belong here anyway."

Hazel laughed. "Come on, let's go to dinner."

They ate dinner in the back table. The aurae delivered her some barbecue and some soda. Brianna quickly ate her barbecue and it reminded her of something else… another place… It faded away.

Hazel waved her hand in front of her face. "You okay? You were staring into space."

"Yeah… Just thinking," Brianna said.

She stared at her barbecue not wanting to eat anymore. Hazel looked at her concernedly but kept eating her shrimp gumbo. Where had that idea come from? And that person who spoke in her head? Heck, she didn't even give her a hint who she was. And she was sure that she wouldn't even be able to find out who she was even with the hint.

"Um, I've been hearing voices in my head," Brianna admitted.

"Really?" Hazel asked suddenly interested.

"Yeah," she said. "I came here on a wyvern, but she flew away. But before that, I heard a voice in my head saying to keep the wyvern safe and stuff."

"Anything else?"

"She said: Remember your oath, as it is your life."

Hazel shrugged. "That doesn't sound like any god I know."

"But she sounded familiar."

"Then why don't you know?" she asked gently.

Brianna shrugged. "I wish I knew."

"You could go to the augury—"

"Nu-uh," Brianna said. She didn't want to meet that jerk again. She was sure that she met less jerkier people than him.

"Then maybe you can find out in dreams. Demigods always have weird dreams, but they're not just dreams, they're—"

Brianna cut her off again. "Omens and visions or similar stuff?"

"Yeah, how'd you know?"

"I really don't know," Brianna said, but it felt like a lie. She felt like she knew, but she didn't know how to use it.

A horn blew and everyone bustled around. "Come on, war games," Hazel grinned.

"War games?"

"I think we're playing deathball today. Fun," Hazel said.


Sorry I didn't update yesterday! Anyway, this happened after the Last Olympian, but before the Lost Hero, so Jason is still there.

tissue729: Yeah, the voice belongs to Artemis. :p