I sat in my throne listening to Zeus drone on and on about the dos and don'ts of what to do when we arrived at Camp Half-Blood. I'd already stopped listening at the first few words that Zeus spoke. All I could think about was how excited Percy would be to spend a whole week with me. I awoke from my thoughts when somebody snapped their fingers in front of me.

"Poseidon?" I looked up from my lap and cleared my ear.

"I'm sorry brother, what did you say?" Zeus looked outraged.

"Have you been listening at all to what I said?" I put on my most innocent face.

"Now, why would you think that?" Behind Zeus, I heard Ares, Hermes and Apollo snickered. Zeus whirled around angrily and dared anyone to open their mouth. Nobody did. He faced me again making sure I was listening.

"As I have said, remember to- Poseidon? Poseidon? "I had fallen into my thoughts again.

Zeus sighed, "Why do I even bother?" He shook his head as he faced the others with a defeated face.

He asked Apollo "Is the sun chariot ready?" Apollo nodded eagerly.

"Good, we'd better go now before I change my mind." The Olympians cheered and Hades, who was also coming, even looked happy. Apollo led us towards his prized sun chariot. Usually, it would look like a convertible but, since there were too many of us to fit into it, even though we were human-sized, he had changed it into a van instead. We all piled in, Zeus sat at the seat behind Apollo's beside his wife, Hera. Hermes, of course, sat with his brother Apollo on the seat beside him, Ares sat beside Aphrodite, Hephaestus beside Dionysus, though he didn't look too happy about that, Demeter and Hestia, Artemis and Athena and I ended up with Hades. The ride to Camp was a silent one, to us I mean, all the other pairs were noisily talking with each other, even Hephaestus and Dionysus. Hades looked just as uncomfortable as me. I attempted to talk small talk.

"So, Hades, how is Nico? Last I'd heard he's been pretty busy at Camp Half-Blood." Hades seemed to perk up and smiled as I mentioned his favorite son.

"He's all right. He's been helping your son Tyson build the new cabins for the minor gods, with the help of the undead of course." I nodded, happy that we had listened to Percy's advice about spending more time with our children.

"It's good to know that he's settled in so quickly." Hades smiled again, I swear he smiled more than he has this one day than his whole eternity, " Yes, it's easy to fit in when you turn up with an army of undead soldiers at you hand."

I raised my eyebrow at him, knowing who else he was talking about. Since the battle of Manhattan when Hades had come to help our children, we'd been extremely grateful to him and had treated him more like family. This seemed to improve Hades mood and he no longer threw huge tantrums anymore, okay maybe once in a while. I was so caught up in my thoughts that I didn't notice the van come to a stop.

"Earth to Poseidon. Earth to Poseidon. We've reached Camp Half-Blood already." It was Hades.

"Oh, right." I followed him as he walked out of the van and into Camp Half-Blood. Chiron was waiting for us on the way out. His front legs bowed.

"Welcome gods and goddesses to Camp Half-Blood. It is an honor." He straightened up and motioned toward the open pavilion.

"This way please. The campers will be there shortly." We walked toward the pavilion in high spirits. All the gods eyes darted around the camp trying to spot their sons and daughters and the campers' waved happily when they saw their parents approaching. Strangely, Percy wasn't around to greet me. No matter, he might just be freshening up, I reasoned. I looked around for Annabeth assuming Percy was hanging out with her. Ever since the last Titan war, she and Percy had grown surprisingly close and Athena begrudgingly accepted their friendship. I however doubted that it was just a friendship or something more than that.

Athena separated from Artemis and approached me, "Poseidon, have you seen Annabeth?" she asked straining her eyes to catch a glimpse of her daughter.

I shrugged, "She's probably with my son."

Athena turned on me angrily, "I swear, Poseidon, if your son does anything to my daughter, neither of you will see another day."

"Relax, Athena, Percy would never do anything to your daughter, he respects her too much."

Athena snarled, "You'd better hope not." And then, she stomped away.

Hades returned tsking at Athena, "Touchy, touchy." "

That's not even the half of it, "I muttered under my breath.

We stood in front of the campers beside the main table as Chiron introduced us to the new campers who hadn't met us yet. I was only vaguely aware that a hundred of pairs of eyes were on us but, I was too busy worrying about my son to care. The Poseidon table was still empty and after examining the Athena cabin, it seemed that Annabeth was still missing as well. Doubts started to sow themselves in my mind. Where were they? Suddenly, I felt a sharp pain at my ribcage and I turned angrily on my brother, Zeus.

"What?" Zeus motioned to the dispersing gods, "Go to your table already!"

I blushed, "Oh, right." I walked over to my table as Zeus joined his, much to the delight of Thalia. Percy hadn't arrived yet. Panic filled my mind. Where was that boy? One minute, two minutes, three minutes, four minutes. Just as I was about to ask Chiron where Percy was, two lone figures appeared at the entrance. Everyone's eyes turned toward them. I recognized one as Annabeth but the other I didn't recognize although, she looked distinctively familiar. Annabeth whispered something to the girl and she paled.

Due to my sharpened hearing, I could hear what they were talking about: "Oh, crap!" that was Annabeth, "I forgot to inform Chiron about you!"

The other girl, "And here I thought daughters of Athena were supposed to have a photographic memory!" Her sarcastic attitude was somewhat familiar too.

"Shut up! I guess now, we have to tell Chiron in front of the gods." The girl looked panic- stricken.

"What?"

"We have no choice! Come on, let's go!" Annabeth grabbed hold of the girl's arm and dragged her in the direction of the main table where Chiron was sitting, watching them. She paused once to apologize to her mother about being late and then, she resumed her dragging.

"Chiron," she bowed respectfully. She then began to speak so fast that I couldn't make out any of what they were saying. The other girl stayed out of their conversation occasionally meeting my questioning gaze and then blushing and turning away. Annabeth and Chiron occasionally switched their gaze to me with Chiron looking paler each time. Finally, Annabeth and Chiron slowed down enough for me to hear.

"Are you sure about this?" Annabeth and the girl who had joined the conversation nodded, "Positive." They said in unison. Chiron paled once more and I thought he was going to faint right there and then but, he mustered enough energy to face the camp who was staring at the unknown girl fixingly, even the gods. Apollo's mouth was slightly agape. Chiron cleared his throat loudly making all eyes turned to him.

"I'm sure some of you have noticed that the Hero of Olympus, Percy Jackson, has not joined us yet." Some murmurs were heard and some pairs of eyes switched their gazes to my empty table.

"Well, it seems that Eris, goddess of discord visited us last night and placed a spell on someone." Chiron had beads of sweat on his forehead and his horse tail flicked nervously.

"I'm afraid that the unfortunate camper who has been affected is none other than Percy Jackson." Gasps all around, the loudest one from me. I growled.

"Where is he now?" Chiron gulped but, before he could answer, the girl spoke up.

"I'm here, dad." My eyes switched over to the girl who was supposed to be my son, disbelievingly.

"Percy?" Percy half-grinned.

"It's spelled with an I now dad." My mouth dropped so did the campers' and the gods and goddesses. I went silent for a while taking in his- her words.

"Who?" I asked, I could feel the my voice screaming murder even as I spoke that one word. Perci gulped.

"Eris." I struggled to maintain my anger.

"Percy," I began.

I was interrupted by a certain chuckling war god, "Correction Poseidon, you mean Perci." My head turned and I growled. Someone beat me to it. As suddenly as he started chuckling, he stopped. He started to make retching noises as though someone was strangling him. My eyes flickered over to my daughter who was holding out a hand facing Ares. Fury was unmistakable in her eyes. She made the war god suffer a little while longer until she finally released him from her grasp. She looked at him victoriously.

"Anything else to say, Ares." The war god fingered his throat as he glared at Perci.

"You'll regret this punk." But, other than that, he said no more and returned to his table. Red with rage and embarrassment.

"Anyone else?" Perci asked her voice still calm with a dangerous edge to it. Nobody spoke. Suddenly, the fury in her eyes extinguished completely and she looked like herself again.

"Alright. Eyes back to your tables, nothing to see here." With that, she skipped to her table. Despite her warning, all pairs of eyes still followed her, with a mix of adoration, from the campers, and anger, from the war god. Chiron turned to Annabeth, stunned, but Annabeth only shrugged and walked back to her table.