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Lilly: Go Hades!
Hazel: But you're a daughter of Apollo, not Hades!
Lilly: I don't care!
Hazel: I say Monopoly is cooler!
Lilly: Well, it might be funner, but still!
Hazel (to me): Well, what about you?
Me: I side with Lilly.
Hazel: Well you don't own PJO!
Me: goes into depression.

A/N: Thank you, Hazel (AKA whatever her user name is [yes, I don't know my friend's user name]) for several suggestions.

Chapter 4: Percy

Percy didn't know those people who called him his friends, who that strange man was who called his name and ran after the bus, why he knew things that he supposedly shouldn't, why he felt as if he was in danger, who that blond girl with grey eyes was, how he didn't get hurt, and who he was. For some reason, Percy was more nervous than he thought he had ever been.

When he finished his testing, he found himself at a pool filled with mist and surrounded by ruins. Then Lupa said, Perseus, you are now in the first legion. She accompanied this with a loud, single, bark that reverberated around them in the fog. You will find Titiana in the waiting room. You two will be accompanied by Fadilla. I am worried about how the monsters started to reform when you were tested. But one piece of advice, show no fear and you will live. Cower, and die. I must go to Olympus. She looked down at him from a foot and a half above. her lips were forming a snarl. Hope that your Grecian self does not turn on you.

Suddenly Percy found himself outside a door. He opened it just as someone was closing the door to the other side. Then he saw a girl with mousy brown hair and hazel eyes with purple-rimmed glasses framing them. "You must be Titiana, right? I'm Percy Jackson... Um, actually Perseus, but still..."

The girl turned around and smiled at him. "Lupa told you, didn't she? She uses our Roman names. I'm Hazel, and if Lupa said Fadilla, that would be Lilly. Come and get all of the junk food you can from here, because you can't find any in camp. Plus, they give us measly portions to use for meals that we get extra food from whoever comes to the wolf house to pick people up and lead a tour. Take as much as you can, because I have a feeling that no one will be coming here in a long time."

Percy took some blue Fanta, blue chips, blue popcorn, and other blue things that he asked the fridge for. He felt that blue food would satisfy him the most, somehow.

"I guess you like blueberries?" Hazel asked him.

"No, blueberries are actually maroon berries." At this, Hazel laughed. "I just feel like blue food is the right kind of food, like I normally have it often."

"Bobby told me. I've never met you, and neither has anyone else, but he insists that you two have known each other for years. You lost your memory, he said, and I'm taking that as true."

"Well," said Percy, "it is."

"It makes sense."

"What makes sense?"

"That you like blue."

"Why?"

"Well from what I've heard, you're a son of Neptune."

"What?"

"I'll explain later, but you probably only lived with your mom, maybe a stepfather, but that means that you would take after your father the most. Your eyes are as green as the ocean, and you love blue. Two colors of water. You're able to control the water, it seems, and you seem to look like a young version of your father. Oh, and by the way, you're in Legion One of Camp Semideus."

After this there was silence for about twenty more minutes, then there was a loud bark as Lilly came in. Hazel stood up and said, "Welcome to Legion One of Camp Semideus."

Something caught Percy's attention. Was that a wreath on her head? No, he thought, that's a laurel wreath crown floating above her head. The claiming symbol of...

"Hail, Lilly, daughter of -" Percy cut Hazel off.

"Apollo."
"That's right! How did you know?"
"Believe me, I have no idea." Percy's head was starting to ache when he tried to remember something.
"Okay then, follow me." Hazel led the way out of the plush waiting room and into a small pantry. She walked in and Lilly followed, leaving Percy at the back. He followed her and closed the door behind him. Hazel then opened the door and strode out of the pantry. Percy and Lilly exchanged a nervous glance, then put on their brave faces and went after Hazel.
"This," she said, "is Camp Semideus, or Camp Demigod. I'll give you a tour of the place then we'll go to our cabin and I'll introduce you. First of all, you need to know that you are half-bloods, or demigods. A demigod is-"
"Half god, half mortal. The Gods move with western civilization. Like they lived in Greece while it had most of the power, then Rome, and then various countries - mostly within Europe, and now they're here."
Hazel looked startled. "Th- That- That's right! Who told you? How did you know?"
"I'm getting more than a bit tired of saying this, but I don't know. I just do."
"Anyways, the Roman gods - Jupiter, Minerva, Pluto, Neptune, Juno, and so forth. Like Lupa - she's the goddess of she-wolves."
"What about their Greek aspects and names? Wouldn't it be right to call them by those since they started in Greece?"
"Well, only their Roman aspects are still intact. No one knows what happened to their Greek parts." She said Greek like it was some sort of disease. "But anyways, demigods are usually ADHD, and get followed by monsters, not to mention get kicked out of schools a lot. Those are your battle reflexes. Our brains are hardwired for Latin, so you might find that reading English is hard for you."
Lilly then asked, "Like dyslexia?"
"No one here has that, so I think that's unrelated."
"Oh," Lilly said, seeming disappointed by this piece of news.

Here at camp, we have legions, like in ancient Rome, and we do things together by legion. Occasionally we help the lower level legions to get better, but not usually. All the new kids have to go through tests like you two did, and then they get placed in their legions. You two are both in the first legion, so you'll be staying in the same cabin as me, Bobby, and some others.

"To the right is the rock wall, and yes, it's real lava. Our other facilities are the canoe lake, forest where we train to battle monsters, the sword fighting arena, archery fields, the Latin class area, the pantheon replica where we host praetor meetings, the cabins, ocean, and the Coliseum replica where we fight monsters and have duels. Any questions?" Silence. "Okay then, to the cabin."

There were six cabins that were all uniform on the outside. Simply built with the legion number hanging on the door. On all of them, there were smaller cabins built onto the largest one. The trio of demigods entered the cabin, and Percy was glad when he felt the warmth. Outside it was misty, grey, and cold. Inside it was bright, warm, and cozy-ish. This helped Percy's nerves. Every bit of him was either screaming traitor! or trouble, don't stay, leave! He felt as if it was wrong to be here and if the campers ever found out where he was from (wherever that was), then he would be in serious trouble.

Whenever Hazel said said something bad about the Greeks, he felt the need to support the Greeks. Like they were his family or by insulting them, she was insulting him. Something like that.

"Okay, guys. While I'm giving out the food orders, you two get settled. Lilly, you're the third door on the right, find some free bed and take it, unpack, and I'll meet you here. You, Percy, are going to go to the second door on the right at the end of the hall. Neptune's area. Lupa told me that you won't be claimed but she is sure that you are a son of Neptune. I'll see you two around dinnertime in this room with the rest of the legion. See you then!" With that, Hazel left.

Percy walked into his new mini-cabin and set his things down on the bed. Something told him that he wouldn't be here for too long, so he didn't bother unpacking. Percy walked around the room, taking the place in. The walls were painted blue and had seashell patterns on it. There was a fountain in the middle of the room, and Percy immediately knew that the water was salt water. The beds were all hard, the floor slightly cold, and the whole place seemed a bit like an empty cave; bare.

The place seemed too uniform for Percy, so he decided to walk out and hang around in the main cabin. Lilly came out just seconds after he did.

"Nice place?" Percy asked her.

"More or less," she replied with a sigh.

"Let me guess. Nice deco with the walls, some statue or something in the middle of the room, and everything looks orderly and neat?"

"Yup."

"But the beds are lumpy and hard, the floor is cold, the bathroom is too plain, it seems like a barren cave, and nothing seems to keep your ADHD happy for long?"

"Exactly. It's too uniform, and I feel like I'm not supposed to be here, and that I have some other use in the world besides training here."

"Same here."

"And the worst part is, they have all of these words carved in the wall as part of the design, in lots of languages - I think they're the languages from all of the places that the gods have lived in - but mostly in English, Latin, and some other language. But I can't make out one word of it! The English, most of it if I concentrate hard; the Latin, none; And that other language, nothing. Except for one word that I think means Greek or Greece."

"Can I see it?" Percy inquired.

"Sure." She led the way into the Apollo area and Percy saw that the item in the middle was a Lyre, and the walls were painted yellow, orange, and gold. The walls did indeed have letters carved in them.

Percy took a look at one wall, found nothing he could read, tried anther, nothing, then he tried the one to the left of the door and saw English, something that looked like Latin (which he could make out a few words of), and that other language that Percy immediately knew was Greek. And he could read it.
"Well," he started, "I can make out most of the English, but I guess that I have dyslexia, because everything keeps on floating around. I can understand tiny bits of the Latin. Not sure how, but I can. And the other language is Greek, and I can understand it perfectly. Better than the English, actually. It seems like I don't have dyslexia with Greek. But I really don't think that I come from Greece. It says the same thing as it does in English though - I think."
"We should tell Hazel - or maybe Bobby. They might know why you can understand it."
"No!" Percy almost snapped. "I don't know why, but I think that it's a bad idea to tell the others. I think I might be in trouble if they knew who I really am. But I don't even know who I am!"
"Guys! I'm back! Wanna start making dinner?" Hazel's shout came from the main cabin area. When Lilly and Percy entered, she began talking again. "Let's get cooking. It's my turn today, so I think that we should make something to celebrate two new campers in one day. That's you two. So you two look through the cook books in the Ceres area and pick out something that looks good. It's down the fifth first hallway on the left."

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Character contest:

I need some names for characters I've made up based on my friends! (please just put a name and suggestions on changing the looks and attitude!)

Profiles -

1. Gender: Female

daughter of: Mars+Aphrodite

looks: Curly blond hair greenish-yellow eyes

acts: like an aphrodite kid and a Mars kid (more like an Aphrodite kid)

2. Gender: female

daughter of: Ares+Venus

looks: straight, white-blond hair with blue eyes

acts: like a Venus and Ares kid (more like an Ares kid)

3. Gender: female

is a cat

looks: all black with a white paw

can breath underwater

4. Gender: female

is a cat

caramel colored fur

can have as much wisdom as Athena herself

Plus any suggestions for monsters and/or giants would be nice :) 8)