CHAPTER 6

KANE CHRONICLES 3

SADIE POV:

As we climbed up the hill, I was able to see the two people standing atop it more clearly. They were both around sixteen, by the looks of it. One girl, and one boy. The girl was tall, well muscled, had blond curls, and stormy grey eyes. Like Zia's, they were gorgeous and intimidating at the same time. I had a feeling this was one girl I did NOT want to mess with.

The boy was also tall and well muscled. He had messy black hair, and sea green eyes. He smelled of the ocean, just a little bit. Well, more of waves, actually. You know, that kind of salty smell from the foam?

Anyways, by the way he had his arm around her waist, I could tell these two were dating. They probably knew each other for a long time.

They have the definite air of demigods, Isis spoke in my mind.

I can't really tell, I said. I could almost feel her roll her eyes at me.

Of course you can't.

I could see they were sizing us up, waiting for us to introduce ourselves. I looked around our little party, and saw that I would have to speak. So, naturally, I stepped forward and made the necessary introductions. I had a little trouble to keep from smirking when I introduced Zia as Carter's girlfriend – they didn't really want to be public about the whole thing, which I thought was utter nonsense – and much more when I introduced Anubis as 'death boy.' It was brilliant, really.

Anyways, they introduced themselves as Annabeth and Percy, and led us inside the camp.

We saw a bunch of people running around, some in armor, and others in orange t-shirts and jeans or shorts or something.

'This is where we practice archery,' Percy said. 'This Apollo turf and they're really skilled.'

'Yeah,' Annabeth said. 'They are the best archers in the camp, second only to the Hunters of Artemis.'

They showed us the Mess, the armory – which was basically a bunch of sheds – and the sword fighting arena. Lastly, we walked up to a house, which looked like it was straight out of an 80's movie.

'This is the Big House,' Annabeth told us.

She led us up the stairs, and I saw a man in a wheel chair and a chap in a tiger print shirt – what were they adding in the water here? Everyone is so weird, they make Carter look normal – playing a game of cards.

'This is gonna be interesting,' Carter muttered next to me. I rolled my eyes, like I needed him to tell me that.