Chapter 6

Chiron stared at them.

And stared some more.

And some more.

Till finally he said, slowly, "You were attacked, by leftovers."

The three campers nodded their heads. They had just gotten back from the hotel where Danny and his friends were staying at. After the episode with the flying ghost sausages, and a brief, confusing conversation on what they smelled like, Percy, Annabeth, and Grover had left to talk to Chiron with what they found. Normally they would bring the newly found demigods with them, but this was a special case. For one, when the older campers had extended the invitation to come to camp to Sam, Tucker, and Danny, the three had asked to have some time to think about it. Percy guessed that he should be shocked, but after everything that happened, he wasn't sure anything else could shock him.

Annabeth said that they could, but warned them about the dangers they could face. They may not have been attacked by any monsters yet (they didn't classify the ghosts they fought as monsters, and the campers didn't argue with them. One had flown through the border.), the chance had tripled now that they knew they were demigods.

They had taken her advice, but told her that they could handle themselves. (After seeing them fight a flaming robot and then mutant sausages, Percy had no doubt they could.)

So Percy, Annabeth, and Grover had gone back to camp. When they got there they had told Chiron everything that had happened. Including the time at the convention. He had listened carefully, only blinking in surprise at the description of Mr. and Mrs. Fenton. It was when they had gotten to the fight with the sausages had Chiron started to become worried at the mental state of his campers. And the other four teenagers.

Annabeth stepped forward, "Chiron, I know this sounds crazy, but it's true."

"And we haven't even gotten to the conversation on how we smelled," Percy added.

Chiron pinched the bridge of his nose. It was rare they came across a second or third generation demigod. He wanted the two new demigods at camp. Then there was the boy Danny. Not a demigod, but not human either. Chiron was curious, and wary.

"Do you-" Chiron started before a voice cut him off, saying with authority:

"Time Out!"

Two black handles of a clock appeared in midair, the minute hand turning a full circle, forming a glowing blue portal. The ghost master of time, in his child age, floated out, and spotted the frozen campers with their mentor.

Pulling out one of his time medallions, he placed it around Chiron's neck, turning into an adult as he did, and the blue portal vanished behind him.

"-think….that…." Chiron blinked, realizing Percy, Annabeth, and Grover were frozen in front of him.

"Hello Chiron." An echoing voice said behind him.

Turning around, Chiron knew instantly he was facing a very old, and very powerful person.

"I am Clockwork," he said, shifting from an adult to a small toddler, "I am known as the Master of Time." Chiron opened his mouth to speak but was cut off, "I am not to be confused with Kronos, the titan lord. He controls present time. I see and control the past, present, and future. I come here with no ill intentions, but a favor."

Chiron nodded, "And what might this favor be?"

"I believe your campers have already met my apprentice and his friends I assume?" He shifted from the toddler to an old man with a long beard, slightly hunched over with age.

Chiron blinked, "I assume you mean the demigods that fell into camp?"

Clockwork smiled, "Only Daniel fell in. The young satyr is correct. Daniel is no demigod. But he is my apprentice. They were right in inviting the three to camp. A danger is coming. One that can only be defeated by working with the three coming to camp soon."

"How do you know they will accept the offer?"

"I know everything. I can only ask that you teach them during their brief stay here. In return, they will teach your campers many things that you do not know."

"Is that all?"

Clockwork shook his head, and shifted back to an adult, "No matter what happens, do not lose faith in Daniel. When he comes, he will be wary. Tell him I have visited you, but do not mention details. Also, since the Hermes cabin is still full, allow Daniel to stay in the Hades cabin. Do not worry, Hades will allow it."

"May I ask why?"

"That is for him to tell, if he wants. But do not worry if he remains silent, he is only a danger to his enemies. Now, I must be going."

The two black handles appeared again, repeating the same action as before, and Clockwork floated through the glowing blue portal. Having just enough time to say before it disappeared:

"Time in!"

There was silence for a moment before Percy said, "Do we what? And weren't you facing the other way?"

Chiron turned to look at the three campers, looking at him in confusion. Chiron laughed, "Nevermind. I just got an outstanding recommendation for the visitors from the other day. He assured me that they will, in fact, be visiting. You will pick them up tomorrow."

The campers looked at each other before shrugging and heading back to join their friends and siblings in the regular camp activities. If it was important, Chiron will tell them. Until then, they won't ask questions.

{The next day}

The following night at the hotel, after the campers left and once Danny's parents came back, they had asked Jack and Maddie if it was alright if they could go to the camp. Though they left out some specific details.

As soon as the door shut after Grover, Team Phantom started conversing with themselves. Jazz was looking at the prospect of the others going to camp from every possible angle, weighing the pros and cons. Sam was wondering what kind of training they had and if it could help them in the future if they learned more about Greek mythology. Tucker was wondering if they had technology and if he would be allowed to date any girls he met there. He figured so since Annabeth was Percy's girlfriend. Danny sat silently, thinking of all the ghosts that could attack and worrying if he could keep his secret.

In the end, Tucker, Sam, and Danny decided to take up Annabeth's offer of staying at the camp. But only for a week, as they had to leave once the convention is over.

They waited for Jack and Maddie to come, staying in the hotel instead of exploring Manhattan. Danny only stepped out once, to battle and catch Ember in the thermos. He got back to the hotel and transformed back, just in time for his parents to barge in.

After asking for permission, a brief argument about ghosts, and promising several chore-related promises, Sam, Tucker, and Danny were given permission to spend the rest of the week at the camp. When Maddie asked Jazz why she wasn't going, Jazz had said she wasn't interested in what they had to offer and wanted to work on some college stuff.

Danny, Sam, and Tucker waited in the kitchen the following morning for Annabeth to come take them to camp. Tucker was leaning back in his chair, playing with his PDA, Brandy. Sam was reading a mythology book she had bought from her favorite gothic bookstore, Skulk and Lurk. Danny sat in his chair worrying.

"Danny, stop it." Sam said, not looking up from her book.

Danny looked at her, "Stop what?"

"Worrying."

"I'm not worrying."

"Yeah you are," Sam and Tucker said in unison.

Deciding to change the subject, Danny asked Sam, "What are you reading?"

"You remember Pandora?"

Raising one eyebrow, Danny nodded. It was hard to forget the four armed Greek ghost who helped him when the Box Ghost got a hold of her box. She can be super scary when she wants.

"Kinda hard to forget, I finally managed some telekinesis that day."

Sam rolled her eyes, "Of course that's what you remember. Well she's Greek, right? We haven't really seen her since that whole box incident and I wanted to learn some things about her."

Danny's leg finally stopped bouncing. If this was just some plan to get his mind off things, it was working.

He leaned forward, feeling curious, "Well what's it say?"

Sam laid the book down pointing to a picture of a beautiful young girl. "This is Pandora, before she became a ghost."

Danny slid the book closer to him, looking at the picture. She looked at lot different then, than she did now. The picture was of girl looking into a beautiful, hexagonal box with a large ruby, the size of his fist, dead in the center. The girl had dark blonde curly hair pulled up on her head, with strands around her face. Coming out of the box was what looked like golden, see through snakes, slithering out.

"This looks nothing like the Pandora we know."

Sam rolled her eyes, grabbing the book back from him. There were some similarities, like the curve of her face, or the shape of her body. Danny has seen her without her helmet once, and she doesn't have the flaming hair most people think. It was curly like the picture showed, even though it was black, not that was pretty much where the similarities stopped.

The Pandora they knew was blue, with red eyes that contained no pupil or white. Just red. But she still managed to look caring. She wore a black and gold armoured dress, with a torn purple cape that came to her knees. Her helmet was gold covering both sides of her face, with a flaming, purple plume, the same color as her cape. That was what most people consider her hair. Oh, and ghost Pandora has four arms, not just two.

"And the legend is just as twisted as she said it was," Sam said. Lifting the book to read from it she recites, "'Each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts. Zeus ordered Hephaestus to mold her out of earth as part of the punishment of mankind for Prometheus' theft of the secret of fire. All the gods joined in offering her "seductive gifts"-Apollo taught her to sing and play the lyre, Aphrodite gave her beauty so Epimetheus couldn't resist her, Athena taught her weaving and crafts, Demeter taught her how to tend a garden, Poseidon gave her a pearl necklace and promised she would never drown, Hermes gave her deceitfulness and the jar (pithos), and Zeus gave her curiosity.

Before he was chained, Prometheus warned his brother, Epimetheus, not to accept any gifts from Zeus, yet he ignored his brothers warning. Pandora is the sister-in-law of Prometheus and the wife of Epimetheus, brother of Prometheus. After Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to the mortals, the gods sealed all the horrors of the world in a jar. It was beyond beautiful: inlaid woods of warm and burnished hues, white and amber diamonds encrusted to border the jar, green emerald in plaits of golden leaf, purple amethyst with blood rubies and blue sapphires, along with white pearls gleaming in the extravagant sunlight. They gave it to Pandora as a wedding gift, knowing that she couldn't resist opening it because of her curiosity. Because Hermes gave her deceitfulness, she opened the jar. In doing so, she released Hunger, Thirst, Poverty, Murder, Death, Jealousy, and many other evil things into the world. Only Elpis, the spirit of Hope remained in the jar.' Huh, well we know that's wrong." Sam said shutting her book.

"How is that wrong?" A voice demanded from the door. Glancing up, the trio noticed Annabeth standing in the doorway with her arms crossed and her grey eyes stormy. "Percy met Prometheus and he himself told us that the legend you just read was true. Except for the box, it's really a pithos."

Danny snorted, "Well we met Pandora herself." He smiled when Annabeth's eyes widened and continued giving his story, "She told us that she built the box herself to contain or let loose the evils after she saw all the horrible things in the world. As for it being a pithos, also not true. It a purple rectangular box with a neon green skull on it."

Annabeth looked at them a moment longer before shaking her head, "We can argue about this later. Right now, let's get you to camp." She turned and walked out into the hallway and out of sight.

The trio sighed and grabbed their suitcases, rushing out the door to catch up to Annabeth, who was waiting at the elevator.

"So how did Percy meet Prometheus?" Sam asked Annabeth, as they waited for the elevator to come up.

Annabeth was silent for a moment, pondering where to start. "Do you remember the big storm that traveled over the country over the course of a few day?"

The trio shared glances, none of them had heard of it. But they might have been busy with ghosts when that was happening.

"No," Tucker said before asking, "When exactly was it? We might have been busy."

Annabeth looked at them sharply, "Too busy to notice a storm that devastated most of America and almost completely destroyed New York?"

The three nodded their heads simultaneously and Annabeth sighed, "It was towards the beginning of summer."

The three all understood and let out an "oooohhhhh" together. Annabeth raised an eyebrow, wanting to know more. Sam saw and told her, "We were busy with a cross-country road trip chasing after a maniac who had kidnapped our families to use as leverage to get an all powerful reality gauntlet that can bend the world to be anything he wanted. And he just happened to be a gothic circus ringmaster out for revenge against us since we had earlier destroyed a scepter that he used to control ghosts who stole millions for him. While being chased by the government for helping ghosts. It was a Team Phantom mission."

Annabeth looked at her before laughing, "Well we'll definitely have to swap stories some time during the bonfire. It seems you guys have had as many adventures as Me, Percy, and Grover have had."

The elevator dinged. When it opened, the four teenagers stepped on. Leaving the hotel, Annabeth walked them to a van parked out in front of hotel. It looked like a normal delivery van for strawberries.

They all got in and Tucker gave a small shriek when he saw who was driving.

Annabeth rolled her eyes, "It's just Argus, our camp security guard,"

"Argus?" Sam questioned peeking at the man driving, "Like the Argus? Servant of Hera, guarded Zeus's mistress lo? That Argus?"

Annabeth stared at her for a moment before, "Yes….Not many people know him off the top of their head. How did you?"

Sam huffed and crossed her arms, "I'm a goth. It's in my nature to know about all things creepy and mysterious. What goth doesn't know about a man covered in hundreds of eyes?"

Annabeth smiled and shook her head, "You will love Camp Half-blood, then. Let's go Argus."

Argus nodded his head and drove away from the hotel, taking the four teens to Camp Half-blood.

I hate school.

That's all I'm gonna say. Wanna blame something for me not updating earlier? Blame school. And 6:45 AM basketball practices, games going on from 5:00 PM to 9:30 PM, teachers thinking we need LOTS of homework and tests, and nature for getting me sick.

Sooo...I finally finish writing this chapter Friday, and it was during school. I write all my stories on Google Docs, so I just have to transfer them over to the Fanfic site, make some revisions, and BOOM - y'all get a new chapter! BUT, just as I was about to transfer, the bell rang. o_o Yeah, I was throwing hypothetical tables. Then, over the weekend, the site just HAD to crash on me the one time I get access to a computer. Oh well.

Any questions so far? How many of y'all remember Argus? Any of y'all curious about Pandora's backstory(s)? Just ask. I may or may not answer.

Just so you know, I'm not good at writing as smart people, so if Clockwork or Chiron seem a little off, sorry.

IWasNeverReal: Haha, yeah. I figured that the whole 'Greek gods are real, still alive, and not ghosts' wouldn't really shock them. Especially after meeting Pandora and facing her box. Keep in mind Danny had to face some mythological monsters to get to her palace.

Matt: Well if I told you, that would ruin the surprise! Tucker's most will be able to guess, but Sam's might surprise you. They will make sense though….I hope.

Slenderbrine: Romans? Who said anything about Romans? There will be no Romans. As you said, Romans and Danny don't mix. And Octavian….wait! Haha! Oh my Clockwork! Idea! Not for this story though. Maybe for a little one shot but….

jaguarspot: Hmmm...good guesses, good guesses. Are they right? Maybe, maybe not. It's fun dragging this out. Ohhh yeah, Danny is quite good as stirring up trouble, no matter where he goes. And Dani….I love her! If I don't find a way to get her into the story fighting right next to Danny, they will at least do something to keep in contact. Maybe something to do with rainbows….

PoisonThread: Really! Gee thanks! Wanna know a little secret? *glances around suspiciously and whispers* i'm a newbie too. What! Plot twist! But yeah, I'm totally new at this. Did you read the part where I said this was my first FanFic. I wasn't lying. Sure I had this profile for a while, but it was so I could review other's stories and save my favorites. So I'm totally blow away at the responses I get from this story.

avater4eva: Well here's some more. Well I am going to eventually, they got to be placed in their cabins, I just like dragging it out. More interesting reactions, and I honestly want to know what people think. If they hate, that's OK. They gave me an honest opinion.

meow goes a cat: Tada! An update! *meow*

EcoReibun: Here….is….another.

Thank you to all those who reviewed just to say they liked it. You guys make my day just as much as the people who ask questions. :D (And I don't do emoticons often...)

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Now, I think I should get this out of the way:

NICO WILL APPEAR!

He kinda has to. I was planning on having him there from the beginning. And he's cool. His sword is soooo much cooler than Percy's I'm just saying.

If some of you notice, I didn't answer Ninuhuju's review on here. I did answer it but I PM'd instead. It was a really long answer. If you want to know the answer just let me know and I'll PM you the answer.

Also! If you want to see what picture I was trying to describe of Pandora, go to google, type in "pandora's box", go to pictures and it should be on the first or second row. Or visit this link ( mystery of the iniquity /2012/04/17/pandoras-box/) minus the parenthesis and spaces, and scroll down a bit. It's under "LAWS OF SUPERNATURAL" Don't forget the letters in front of the address. You know the ones. Starts with an 'h'.

Until next chapter my viewers of the corn!