Chapter 4

(Sadie's POV)

When my half-sister pulled me out of French class to go to a 'camp for half gods', I knew something was about to go down.

My name is Sadie de la Grande, I'm very nearly 14 years old and I am a demigod. My half-sister Bellina's name fits better with our last name, and she often teases me about it. To be honest, I don't give a crap...sorry, I'm rambling.

I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 10. At the time I didn't know what it was, but when I hit secondary school I learnt that it wasn't exactly cakes and rainbows. I always got distracted in class, even if it was a subject I loved. When anyone was talking, I would feel a sudden impulse to speak over them. Now that I'm 13, I'm still learning to control it. I can't stop my mind wandering, but the speech thing seems in control.

Okay. Enough about me.

When I turned around to face the cabin, I caught Leo beaming in the corner of my eye. My feet seemed to thud along the floor. I looked around at all the cabins as Leo named as many as he could. Aphrodite - a horrifyingly pink house with very pretty girls sat just outside, and ridiculously attractive guys sat on the deck. Athena - a beautiful blue and gold house. There didn't seem to be many people around that cabin, but there was a suspicious amount of people reading by the lake. Ares - admittedly the most intimidating looking cabin, its blood red walls and boar's head making it seem like a slaughter house. Demeter - with grass growing on the ceiling and roses beaming in the sun, dotting around the porch...it just looked amazing.

Leo stopped.

"Poseidon cabin. Cabin number 3." My eyes widened. I honestly thought the Demeter cabin looked good until I saw this. The walls sparkled a blue-grey colour, and seashells dotted the cabin like freckles. All of the windows were facing in one direction - towards the sea. The window sills were decorated with the most beautiful sea plants I've ever seen. I couldn't name them, and I was too shocked and lost for words to ask Leo, although I doubted he knew anyway.

I stepped inside. There were bunk beds pushed to the wall, but only one seemed messy. The floor was strewn with clothes, obviously from the other cabin members. Suddenly, a tall boy with jet-black hair and stunning green eyes popped up from behind the fountain in the centre of the cabin.

"Leo," the boy said. God, his voice was like liquid gold. "Who's this? Got yourself a girlfriend?" I shifted awkwardly, and Leo frowned.

"Not funny, Perce." Perce? Weird name.

"So who are you?" I suddenly realised he was talking to me. I froze as I met his gaze. His half-smile was crooked, but still perfect. He had to be at least 6ft.

"Oh," I said. My voice shook like I was on a rollercoaster. "I'm Sadie."

"Nice to meet you, Sadie. I'm Percy. Percy Jackson." The name rang a bell. The girl at school who turned out to be a satyr wouldn't shut up about him.

"Aww, lovely sibling bonding time." Percy's smile wiped clean off, as did mine.

"Sibling?!" We cried simultaneously. Of course! Why else would he be in the Poseidon cabin?

"Well we do kinda have the same hair..." Percy ran his hand through his chaotic hair, and without thinking I copied him.

"My mum is blonde," I stuttered. "So it must be Poseidon."

"Y-yeah. It must be." Percy chuckled. I heard Leo slowly creep away behind me, but Percy ushered him to stay.

Leo moaned. "Do I have to?"
"Yes!" Percy and I yelled. Percy stared at me, and I added, "...please..." Leo, slightly creeped out but still beaming his curious smile, sauntered back into the door.
"So," Percy sighed. "What do you want to know?" My heart was racing and my ADHD started to flare up. I tapped my foot to contain my excitement, while I thought of all the questions I wanted to ask. Can you speak to fish? Is controlling water normal? How long can we hold our breath? Can we swim faster? What's the biggest body of water we can control? Can we control sea animals as well?

I thought for a while, before calmly asking, "Can you speak to dolphins?"

"Do you like dolphins?" YES YES YES, I LOVE THEM!

"Love them."

"Then I have some good news." YAY!

"Awesome." I tried to think of the least creepy question I could before Percy cleared his throat. Outside it was eerily silent. A voice boomed something I couldn't quite hear then all was silent again.

"I saw what you did with the lake." Oh god.

"Really?" OH GOD HE'S GONNA DISOWN ME.

"I was impressed." YES! "Is your friend okay?"

"Err, yeah. She seems to be." Percy chortled.

"She got a bit wet," Leo piped up from next to me. I giggled, but I was still kinda embarrassed about it. I nearly killed my half sister, how am I supposed to joke about that?!

"Ooh! I've got another question!" I cried. "Does my sister have an awesome half-brother too?" Oh wow. Sucking up to him. Well done, Sadie.

"What cabin is she in?"

"Err..." I paused. What was his name?! I ushered him out of the cabin and pointed at cabin furthest away. It had grape vines everywhere, so I knew it was hers.

"That one".

Percy stopped smiling. "Oh. That's Dionysus." He looked at the floor.

"I-is something wrong?" I spoke.

"Hm? Oh, nothing. Just thinking. Err...well she would have two. There were these twins - Castor and Pollux. Awesome fighters. Nice people. But then this massive battle raged, and Castor was killed. Pollux is still pretty damaged about it, and Mr D has his moments." I laughed at Dionysus' nickname, but stopped when I realised that it sounded impolite. Laughing at a person's death wouldn't exactly be the best introduction ever. "So in answer to your question, yes."

I swallowed hard, and waited for the deafening silence to take over. My foot was still tapping against the cold grey-blue floor.

"Sorry if this is awkward," Percy mumbled.

"Awkward? This is amazing! I'm really glad I met you Percy." He beamed.

"I'm glad to hear that. It was lovely to meet you too, Sadie." Percy clicked his fingers in realisation and ran to the fountain. "I've gotta show you something." He opened out his hand and nodded at Leo, who then flicked a golden coin into his hand. The coin glistened and mimicked the pattern of the rippling water. Percy dropped the coin into the water and breathed the words, "Oh Iris, goddess of the Rainbow, please accept my offering." A rainbow appeared, hovering just over the water. Percy quickly whispered, "What's your sister's name?" In a slight panic I spluttered, "Bellina de la Grande," and spat all over his face as I said it. He nodded, repeated her name and watched as the rainbow shook.

The image showed Bellina and Nico sat on her bed, talking about Dionysus and this guy called Bacchus and something about Romans and Roman forms and other things I didn't recognise. Nico looked up into our eyes, and his hand latched onto his sword, before sighing and relaxing again.

"Iris message?" He said. I guessed that was what we were doing.

"Yeah. Just showing Sadie how to do it."

"Yeah, whatever. Just warn me next time. I almost had a heart attack." Bellina met my gaze.

"Sadie?"

"Bell?" Leo looked at me and mouthed, "You call her Bell?"

"How are you doing that?"

"Iris message," Percy chirped. "In case you didn't hear."

Intrigued, I reached out and pushed my hand through the mist. Suddenly the image disappeared, and I was left staring at the wall.

"Well, we gotta race off, Sadie." I whipped my head around to face Leo, who was pointing out the door.

"What? Why?"

"We gotta figure out your weapon. C'mon."