Macy


She led Percy almost to the back of the cabin assortment and up a steep grassy hill. Perched on the top of the hill was silvery white marble building. It was the same shape as a dollhouse a six year old would draw. White curtains hung in the windows.

Natalie walked up to the silver door and tapped lightly and said "Knock, knock. Open up Macy."

A eye hole slide open and two gray eyes stared out at them.

"Password?" The person asked.

"Oh my gods, Macy! It's me! I forget the password. But I really need your help."

"Who's that?"

"What I need your help with! This is Percy, my new brother."

"No way. Hold on."

Percy heard the clicking of multiple locks and the door swung open.

The girl who opened the door popped out and pulled them both in. The first thing Percy noticed were her eyes. They were gray. Stormy gray. They seemed so familiar, a rush of feelings came back to him, he remembered eyes like that, but who did they belong to?

Her eyes seemed to be studying him, working a million possibilities at once. She looked athletic and had her sleek black hair up in a bun.

"A brother. No way. He's older than Jason! How is that possible?" She said.

"Well that's why we came here. Figured you brainiacs could help." Natalie said sarcastically."Percy, meet Macy, daughter of Minerva, goddess of wisdom and battle strategies. Or Athena, to you."

A guy who had been standing in the back of the room coughed slightly.

"And this is Mark, son of Minerva."

"So why are we here?" Percy asked

"These are the smartest kids in camp, their the only people who might be able to help."

"Okay, Percy", Macy said. "Tell us your whole story."

Roughly he collected his story together. Why didn't he remember anything? Why did he call the gods by their Greek names?

"Hmmm... That is puzzling." Macy said finally.

"Do you think you can help?" Natalie asked.

"Well I can't fix him, I'm not a healer. I might be able to help figure out what happened though."

"How do you think he survived so long without camp? A child of the big three, he should've either been found of killed by now!"

"He could just be a loner. It happens sometimes."

"What I want to know", Natalie continued. "Is where he got his sword."

"Let me see."

He handed Macy the pen. She looked at the side.

"Anaklusmous." She read.

Percy felt like someone just hit his head with a hammer. He knew that name.

"Riptide", He said. "In ancient Greek."

"If you say so", Macy said. "I only speak Latin so I'll take your word for it."

"He had to be somewhere before," Natalie said. "I saw him fight; he's to good with that sword to never have been trained before."

Macy uncapped the pen.

"Wait", Mark said. He was being so quiet Percy had forgotten he was there. "That's not imperial gold. That's bronze."

"It worked though, right?" Percy asked. "I mean, it killed a Venti."

"Well yes, it did. How you got it, I have no idea", Macy said. "But I agree with Natalie, you had to be somewhere before."

"But where?"


They caught up with Reyna in the archery arena.

She had her short blond hair braided over her shoulder and was firing arrow after arrow. Everyone hit the bull's eye dead on.

"Hey guys", she said. "Come to practice?"

Natalie laughed. "Yeah, right. You know I'm terrible at archery."

"So have you told Percy what tonight is yet?"

"Oh, right", She said, turning to him. "Percy, tonight is War."

"Umm... What's that."?

"It's on ongoing game we play here. It's really fun and it helps prepare you for battle."

"What do we do?"

"It's war. Cabins join together to create teams, right now there's only two, but sometimes there's three. It used to be six cabins to a team, but now the minor gods have cabins too, so it's usually nine to a team now." Natalie said. "It's pretty simple. It's war. The Neptune cabin and Juno cabin usually lead the teams, but since Jason isn't here, the Mars cabin took over the red team, and Apollo came over to blue."

"So", He asked. "Who's on our team?"

"Blue team: Neptune, Venus, Cera, Apollo, Minerva, Mercury, Trivia and Bacchus. Apollo and Bacchus just moved to our team after Jason went missing. They both can't stand the Mars cabin."

She must've noticed Percy's strange look because she repeated: "Poseidon, Aphrodite, Demeter, Apollo, Athena, Hermes, Hecate and Dionysus. And Mars would be Ares."

"Oh, so we just fight?"

"Sort of", Reyna answered from across the field. "Its more planned. Each team has a headquarters, and two people from each cabin go and decide what our battle strategy is. You win the game by capturing the enemy fort, and ripping down their flag."

"So would I go to the meeting?" Percy asked.

"Of Course." Natalie answered. "War is the way you prove yourself here at camp."

He would've asked more, but a sound like a gong being hit echoed through the area.

"Come on," Natalie said. "That's dinner. You sit at the Neptune table with me."

He followed her up another hill to an open air Roman style pavilion. She led him a gray marble table with a trident carved into it.

Empty plates were passed out. Soon everyone got up and Percy realized why, a buffet had been set up in the back of the pavilion and kids were filling their plates.

After his plate was full, he followed Natalie back to the Neptune table, but before they stopped at a gold brazier burning in the middle of the pavilion, where kids were scraping in part of their food.

"For the gods", Natalie explained. "Burnt sacrifices. They like the smell."

It seemed like the right thing to do to Percy, so he scraped in a cluster of grapes.

Eating at the Neptune table, Percy got a lot of weird stares. He was pretty sure he saw some people staring at him and whispering.

Finally dinner was over. Lupa stood up from the head table. And by stood up, she jumped up on the table and stood up on her hind legs.

All the kids quieted down immediately.

"Tonight," She said."We continue our war."

A roar of approval came from the campers.

"We also have a new camper," Lupa announced. "Rise, Percy. Son of Neptune."

He stood up reluctantly.

After a few seconds of shocked silence a shouting match broke out with the campers.

"He's over sixteen!"

"Was he the one?"

"How did we not find him before?"

"He should be dead if he never made it to camp!"

Percy didn't like the notion that he should be dead. He preferred to stay alive.

"Silence!" Lupa barked.

All conversations stopped, the only noise was the fire crackling.

"It does not matter why we never found him". Lupa continued. "He is here now. That is all that matters. Now, to your headquarters. War begins in 2 hours."

Campers began leaving the pavilion, heading out in two opposite directions.