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We were all sat around a table in the big house. Rhianna's eyes were red and puffy. She'd been crying over what she'd done. We didn't blame her though. Chiron explained that she had had the blessing of hades. This sounds like a good thing but when you're blessed with a blessing of a god of the big three it sort of…takes over you, so everything Rhianna did was non-intentional but she still felt that she was to blame. Johanna was the first to speak.

'So do you think what just happened (she said awkwardly) had anything to do with the prophecy?'

'What do you mean?' said Kerry 'How could it?'

'Well,' said Johanna 'It says As an extra lands in the hands of fate that probably being Clove and the sun god being my dad well he's a healer supposedly the only one who can heal her,'

I looked up.

'Johanna you're a genius!' I exclaimed

'Only one problem,' said Rhianna whipping a tear from her eye 'Where is Apollo?'

'Well it says On his seat the god will wait so maybe he's on Olympus?' I said

'No,' said Kerry her eyes full of thought

'What do you mean no?' I said

'Well think about it,' she said 'These quests are supposed to be hard and that's too easy plus it says there something you're supposedly not going to be able to defeat and there are no monsters on Olympus so how does that work?'

We sat in silence for a while. Then Rhianna spoke up.

'Well he has to be in Olympus,' she said

'How?' said Kerry

'Well if he wasn't on Olympus then we would have heard because that's sort of a big thing when a god goes missing for no apparent reason. I felt like a real Dumbo around all of my friends when they were having all these amazing ideas and I was having none…zero…zilch. All of a sudden a girl ran in. I'd seen her a few times around camp. She had short brown hair and was about half my height but she was still quite a bit older than me. Then I remember she was Neisha daughter of Hypnos, God od Sleep so if we weren't careful she would drop down snoring at any moment. She looked really flustered for a child of a dude who sleeps a lot.

'Guys have you heard about Apollo?' she panted. She had obviously run all the way here. Johanna shot out of her seat like a bullet. I mean you couldn't blame her the guy was her dad.

'What wrong?' she asked

'He's missing from Olympus no one knows where he's gone,' said Neisha. Then she fell to the floor…snoring. Then the thing I least expected to happen happened. Johanna fell to her knees and burst into tears.

'Johanna don't worry we will find him,' said Rhianna. It was a weird sight. Daughter of the god of darkness comforting daughter of the god of light. I guess friendship really is the best thing this world has.

Xxx

I couldn't stomach dinner sitting at the Poseidon cabin alone was how shall we put it…depressing. I looked over at Rhianna. Her head was bent down so her long dark hair fell over her face. I could tell she was thinking. Johanna was sitting at the Apollo table. The rest of her siblings were sitting comforting her. Then I figured out why she cried so much. She had the pressure of having to bring back her whole cabins dad. If she failed she would have the burden of telling her siblings that she failed to get back their dad. Pressure. Kerry didn't look like she was having much fun either she sat staring down at her food watching it go cold. I sat staring into the fire for a while when all of a sudden a giant Cyclopes walked right through it. Being new at camp me and my friends obviously screamed and ducked under our tables. When I looked up the whole camp was laughing had I done something wrong? Apparently the look on our faces was priceless. Chiron rode trotted over to me

'Alanna don't be alarmed but I sort of forgot to tell you, Tyson this is Alanna she's your half-sister,'

I stood shell shocked staring up at the Cyclopes.

'SISTER!' shouted the Cyclops and before I knew it my ribs were almost breaking under the sheer pressure of the bear hug I was given. I staggered when Tyson put me down. My friends ran over.

'Cool I wish I had a half-brother or sister!' said Kerry

Dionysus walked over. For so reason he was laughing. I really hoped he wasn't drunk.

'Well actually you do Katherine,' He said pointing to Kerry 'And you do to Rebecca,' he said pointing to Rhianna.

'Wait what?' Said Rhianna

'Oh my gods seriously?' said Kerry

'oh,'

'My,'

'Gods,'

'SHUT UP UNLESS YOU WANT ME TO TURN YOU IN TO TWO WHITE FERRETS!' shouted Dionysus. The whole camp went silent especially Rhianna and Kerry who defiantly did not want to be ferrets.

'Chiron explain I can't be bothered,' said Dionysus. Then he walked off like nothing had happened.

'Sorry about that,' said Chiron 'Anyway I'd better tell you who your brothers and sisters are,'

'Rhianna you have a brother, his name is Nico, Unfortunalty he spends a lot of time in the underworld with your father but he does shadow travel up here from time to time,' said Chiron

'Wow wow wow hold up,' said Rhianna 'Shadow travel?' 'What's that,' she asked eagerly.

'First thing first Kerry,'

Kerry looked up. Her electric blue eyes filled with antipitation

'You have a sister her name is Thalia, she is one of Artemis's hunters, so she doesn't visit often,'

Kerry's eyes fell. You could tell she was sad about this.

'You also have a brother to,' said Chiron. Kerry's head shot up.

'Why haven't I met him yet?' she asked.

Chiron's eyes filled with concern 'Well you see he's on a quest now and…well…you see when he came to us, I knew from first sight that he shouldn't be alive and well he also had no memory of who he was or where he had come from,'

Kerry's eyebrows knitted themselves together then her head shot up and her eyes filled with anger.

'You let him go on a quest and he doesn't even know who he is?' she shouted 'That's just stupid!'

She screamed and a lightning bolt hit a nearby tree. The tree burst into flames. I quickly ran to the river and raised my arms the river raised. I through the water with all my might over the tree and the flames went out. I sunk to my Knees. I'd never done anything as powerful as that before. Johanna raced over and helped me up. Kerry ran over screaming 'OH MY GODS IM SO SORRY!'

I got up 'Guys chill!' I shouted 'Its ok Kerry I'm sure your brother is safe,'

'Everybody bed now!' shouted Chiron 'You four need to rest the quest is tomorrow,'

And with that he trotted of.

Xxx

I walked into the Poseidon cabin. It was weird being in the Poseidon cabin. What would life be like when Percy got back…if he got back

No don't think like that we're going to find him! I told myself

Then I realised something. There was a note and a pen on my bed. The pen was one of those ones with the multiple choice of colours. One side was blue the other was gold. Odd choice for pen colours I thought. I picked up the note and opened it. On it it read:

Brace yourself

p.s. Use the pen wisely, it's a gift from me.

At the bottom was a little picture of a trident. Then it occurred to me. A trident. This was a letter from dad and he had left me a valuable weapon. A pen. Great I thought. I pussed down the blue colour and all of a sudden I was holding a trident. I staggered back in shock. There was a little button at the top so I pressed it and the trident turned back into a pen. Then I pressed the gold side and I was the holding a celestial bronze sword. Awesome! I thought. Then I notice some words inscribed on the side of the swords blade WAVE ΘEA wave goddess. I pushed the button turning my new weapon back into a pen and placed it on my bedside table. Tyson had gone back to Poseidon palace under the sea so I was completely alone. I flopped down on my bed and slept like a Medusa victim or in other words a rock.