AN: I OWN NOTHING!!!! Dang writer's block. It took me two hours to write one sentence the other day. VERY hard to write this chapter, so I might end up redoing it. POVs switch a lot. But, finally, they meet THE CULLENS!! YAY!!

Thalia's POV

We were currently flying over Mt. Rainier. Nice mountain, if you don't have a problem with looking down at it. Really, this trip was what it would be like if I ever ended up in the Fields of Punishment. I was hugging my Pegasus' neck so hard my arms had started to ache. At least Thunder didn't mind me practically choking him to death.

About thirty minutes later, the Pegasus in front of me started to angle downwards. Thank. The. Gods.

I noticed Percy start to peel off from the rest of the group, probably to go meet Chiron at the airport. He waved at us, and then Blackjack put on a burst of speed and they were gone. I saw Annabeth halfheartedly wave back, then put her head on her Pegasus' neck. Oh, she is so in denial.

As we got closer to the ground, I could see a small town come into view. Not very far away, there was a large house in the middle of a forest. There seemed to be a fair sized clearing around it. We were headed straight for it.

Our Pegasi landed with a cacophonous stampeding sound. We all slid off and looked at our surroundings. There was a very green forest surrounding us and the house. That's when all Hades broke loose.

From out of the house, six people came running. Well, running isn't really the right word. It was more like they flew.

From out of the forest, two others came. They stood next to the others who had stopped quiet gracefully. I wondered what in the world they thought of the eighty or so kids who landed in their backyard on a hundred or so flying horses. I stopped wondering when I looked at their faces.

They were beautiful. Amazingly beautiful. They also had pale skin, so pale it looked white. This, put together with their speed, made me sure that they were absolutely not human.

There all stood in pairs, as if they were couples. There was one guy who had blond hair they same color as his weird golden eyes. There was another one with bronzy colored hair standing next to a girl with dark brown hair. The one with the bronze hair had his arm around the girl, in a kind of protective way.

I was trying to remember any kind of myth that involved pale skin and unbelievable speed. The only one I could remember were empousai, and I'd never heard of male empousai.

Annabeth's POV

We finally get to meet the people Chiron sent us to meet. I didn't have to be a daughter of Athena to know they were definitely not human. I really didn't think they were Greek either. They might be empousai, but I don't think male empousai exist. Nor would they stand there instead of attacking us.

If they weren't empousai, what were they?

I was trying to figure out a tactful way to say what in the world are you when the girl with dark hair and the one with bronze colored hair stepped forward.

"Guys, I think we're creeping them out," she said. Her voice was amazing, but that was when Clarisse did one of the stupidest things she's ever done.

She ran forward with her celestial bronze spear lowered at one of the ones behind the pair that stepped forward. The girl she was running toward had wavy blond hair and was standing next to a guy with muscles that were, well, I don't know how to describe him. If he said he could pick up a car, I wouldn't have doubted it for a second.

Anyway, Clarisse was running at the girl like she was going to cut her up into tiny pieces. This was not going to end well.

When she was about five feet away, the huge guy grabbed her spear, with her still hanging on to it.

"How ya doing?" He leaned down so that his face was in hers. He was grinning from ear to ear.

Clarisse has kind of become a friend over the past year or so, but I had to admit it was hilarious. Her face was horrified.

The people were trying really hard not to laugh. The rest of Camp Half-Blood looked about ready to attack.

The huge guy set Clarisse down carefully, and she walked back to us. I have to give her credit; she still held her head up. She walked over to where Chris Rodriguez was standing.

"Emmet!" one of the others with short black hair said, "you didn't have to scare her!"

"Sorry," he said to Clarisse, still grinning. Clarisse looked like she was going to pass out. I don't blame her.

"What – I mean, who, are you? Do you know Chiron?" I said.

An older man with light blond hair stepped forward.

"We are the Cullens. This is Alice and Jasper, Rosalie and Emmet, Bella and Edward, and Esme and I. We are a coven of –"

"Vampires!" the one called Emmet shouted out. Okay, that's different.

Needless to say, the campers were a bit shocked. You'd think that after a couple years of dealing with things and monsters mortals would consider impossible we'd be used to this kind of stuff.

"O-kay," I heard someone from my cabin say.

"Well, I'm Annabeth. And this is pretty much all of Camp Half-Blood, not including the satyrs and dryads. Oh, and Percy. He went to go meet Chiron at the airport. He should be back soon."

All of the Cullens exchanged glances. It was like they rehearsed it.

"Um, did you say meet Chiron at the airport?"

"Yes," I said, my eyebrows coming together, "Why? Do you know something?"

"Maybe you better come in." I raised my eyebrows. I looked over my shoulder at the other campers. Their house was big, but not that big.

"Just bring a couple people in. Everyone else can do whatever they want."

I walked back over to the other campers. The other leaders of the cabins walked over to me.

"I say we hear what they have to say, and everyone else can pitch the tents. I think we may be here a while." I said. The other leaders agreed. We gave out orders and the various parts of the tents were brought out of random saddlebags in which they had been packed during our week or so journey across the country.

As we walked into their huge house, I wondered if this was some kind of trap. Had it really been smart to give them that much information?

"Don't worry," the bronze haired one they called Edward said, "It's not a trap."

How in the world did he know I thought it was a trap?

"I can read minds." I'm pretty sure my jaw dropped.

"Edward, you're freaking her out," the girl named Bella said.

"Sorry," he said, "but it's true, and you would have figured it out anyway."

We all crowded around a long dining table. The one with black hair called Alice put out more chairs, so that we could all sit down. We were really squished. I was smushed between Beckendorf and Castor.

"What do you know about Chiron?" I said.

"Chiron Iris-Messaged me."

"How is that possible?"

"Well, we're not exactly what you would call mortals."

"True. What did he say?"

"He said your camp was being attacked, that he was sending all of you guys over here, across the nation, and that was all I got out of him because he said he was about to be captured."

Thalia's POV

Crud.