I'm back! Did you miss me? I am sorry for not updating but I had exams and became obsessed with work, oh well. No more exams for another year! In celebration, on with the story!

Disclaimer: I do not own a house, a car or even the computer I am typing this on. I DEFINITELY don't own MR or PJO (even though I really wish I did)

Chapter 3: A whole new level of weird

Percy's POV

We were playing capture the flag against the Ares, Hermes and Aphrodite cabins. I had let Annabeth lead cause (please don't tell her I said this) she is actually the best person to work out what to do. We were running around the edge of the forest, to try and get to the other teams banner. We jumped the creak where I was claimed and sped through the rapidly thinning branches. The odd twig caught my face but left no scratches, the curse of Achilles was still working and that was the reason I was running much faster than usual, I had no armour.

'Percy, go left now!' I heard Annabeth shout, and turned left just in time to see an arrow fly past. 'Thanks!' I shouted back.

Just then I looked up, I had heard a rustling, a sniper from the other team? But instead I looked up and saw a cluster of very thick branches, all entwined together to form a sort of huge nest. And in the the centre of the nest were 6 kids, and was that a dog? They all looked kinda rough, as if they had been sleeping rough on the streets.

'Annabeth' I called very quietly. But one of the kids heads shot round, how had they heard me? The girl who had turned round was beautiful. I know I am in love with Annabeth, but if I wasn't… anyway. She had dirty blonde hair going just past her shoulders. Her eyes were cold and calculating. I flinched, she was really scary!

'What is it Percy' Annabeth interrupted my thoughts.

'Look up there' I said, pointing. Annabeth looked up and gasped. 'How did they get in through the boundaries, unless… she trailed off, coming to the same conclusion I had. The collection of kids must be half-bloods.

Just then there was a faint whoosh and a thud. I looked up to see the girl from the trees standing in front of me, arms crossed.

'Who the freaking hell are you?' her voice was clear.

'I could ask you the same thing!' I looked round to see Annabeth mirroring the girl's position.

'Would you mind coming with us, we have a lot to explain, but first. Whats your name?'

'Maxine' Single word answers. That's never a good sign.

'Well, do you want to bring your… friends?' My words didn't effect her at all, except her eyes narrowing a fraction.

'There better be a good explination for this.' She said, 'You can come down now guys.' I looked up, shocked. 6 human and one canine pairs of eyes stared down at me. Wait, was that guy blind? How did he know where we were? There were 6 faint thuds and I looked up to see 5 more glares at ground level.

'This is Nick' Maxine said pointing to a tall, moody looking guy, who was an almost exact copy of Nico. 'Jeff' A incredibly tall dude who looked like he might be blind. He had strawberry blonde hair and was very pale. 'Tiffany-Krystal' A dark skinned girl with wild, curly brown hair. She smiled and waved at me. Well at least someone was friendly! 'Jessica' a short ginger with clothes anyone in the Aphrodite cabin would be jealous of! 'Zephyr' A small, too innocent blonde boy. 'And finally, Ariel' An angelic little girl with blonde ringlets and blue eyes.

We started to trudge up towards the big house. Capture the flag had ended, with the other team having won. Everyone in our little procession walked into the cream coloured house into our vineyard/games room/dining room. The motley crew of runaways (which I have decided to call them) eyes looked around until their eyes fell on the old, tired man in a wheelchair.

'Everyone, this is our camp director Chiron' Annabeth said.

'Welcome' Chiron's voice was calm and steady. I suppose he had encountered weirder things than 7 kids and a dog sleeping in the forest.

'What do you know of the Greek Gods?

Max's POV

My day had just reached a whole new level of weirdness. The old guy in the wheelchair had just told us we were all half GOD and that we could stay here to train to fight monsters and stuff. Then he turned into half horse. I mean, I have encountered some strange things in my short 14 years of life, but this was something. I turned to my flock

'Should we stay here for a while?' I didn't really think it was a good idea, but free food, a warm place to crash and protection did sound like a nice vacation from our messed up lives.

'Can we stay here Max? Pleeeaaaseee!' Nudge's pout was to hard to resist. And now Angel and Bea were giving me crocodile tears and the dreaded bambi eyes at the same time. That should be illegal.

After a wary glance at Fang, I nodded. 'We'll give this place a trial run, but the first sign of something even vaguely Itex related, were outta here.' After a round of okays, we turned back to surfer dude, angry blonde and horse guy. 'We're going to stay here for a while, can you show us a place to crash?

'Once you have all been claimed you will be assigned to the appropriate cabins, but until then you will stay in the Hermes cabin'

The second Chiron said the word Hermes there was a flash of light and two signs in the air hovered over Iggy and Gazzy.

That's it for now! But I need your help. What houses do you think Fang, Nudge and Angel should be in? If you can give me your opinion (especially on Fang, I know that's the obvious choice, but can anyone think of any alternatives?) in a review it would really help. Talking of which, PLEASE REVIEW!

Thanks for reading,

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