A/N- Hey guys! Here's chapter 7! Please note, it's longer than the other ones. Enjoy!


As soon as school was out, we contacted Chiron.

"We found another demigod" I told him, as soon as we saw him in the Iris message. We continued to tell him about Damian. Chiron stayed silent and kept a grim face through the whole thing.

"Annabeth met him on her first day at my school. He ate lunch with us, and we became friends. We shared weird experiences from other schools. Then, just today he told us he had foster parents, dyslexia, and said he can never sit still, all the signs of a demigod. What do you think we should do?" I asked.

"Tell Sally the whole story, then bring him here as soon as you can." Chiron replied. "We need all the new demigods here as soon as possible to train and discover their godly parent."

"What I don't understand is why he hasn't been claimed." Annabeth finally said. "He's as old as we are, and he has no idea that one his parents is a Greek god."

"He may be the son of a minor god who hasn't gotten the message, or has been too busy, either claiming his brothers and sisters, or-" Chiron stopped.

"Or what?" I asked.

"I must leave you two, there is a bit of trouble at archery class. Oh I should have never left the Apollo and Ares kids alone! You two, bring him here as soon as you can," Chiron said "Good luck." Then his image faded away.

The first thing I did was laugh.

"Percy!" Annabeth yelled, hitting me on the back. "Never laugh at one another's faults or you may find yourself in the same situation." She said, glaring at me.

"Sorry Annabeth" I panted "I couldn't help it. Apollo, Ares, oh I wish I was there!" I said with a final laugh.

"Come on, let's go get Damian." Annabeth said.

"But we don't even know where he lives. How are we going to find him?" I replied. She stopped. Finally, a time when I was actually right!

"He had study hall after school today Seaweed Brain!" Annabeth answered.

"How do you know?" I asked. Annabeth paused. After a moment she replied

"Well, during gym class I asked him if he was busy after school. I kind of wanted him to come home with us. Just for the afternoon. I had my suspicions about him and wanted to find out more, and besides, he's our friend, there's nothing wrong with him coming here to hang out with us. But anyway, he said no because he had to stay after school to do some work from history class that he had forgotten about. I'm sorry I forgot to tell you."

I was surprised. Earlier that day we had both thought Damian was a mortal. Annabeth had never acted that way towards mortals before. Or maybe she had already known Damian was a half blood. Annabeth had said she had her suspicions. But still. Wouldn't she have told me about it?

"That's fine Annabeth." I replied. But secretly inside I was worried. I know it sounds wrong but I was worried that, that Annabeth might soon like Damian better than me. As soon as I thought it I tried to push it out of my mind. Damian had gray eyes too. Did that mean he was a son of Athena? No, Athena would have claimed him by now. But that got me thinking, who was Damian's Godly parent?

"We're here," Annabeth said as we walked into Goode high school. "Let's go."

Luckily, Damian was just walking out of the classroom as we passed it.

"Damian, dude, come here!" I said. We all walked towards each other.

"Damian, there's something we need to tell you." Annabeth said. Gods she sounded serious.

"Alright," Damian said, "Why don't you tell me while I walk to my house? You guys can come with; my foster parents just might get worried if I'm out to long." Really, Damian was pretty loyal to his foster parents. I thought.

"Okay." Annabeth and I said in unison. We started to walk. After a long period of silence, Annabeth started stare at me, as if saying, "well, go on."

"Uh Damian," I said, "You know how you were telling us about the weird people you've run into?"

"Yeah."

"Do they remind you of anything?"

"Well, there was this one teacher I had, he was huge! He was really tall and bulky, and he spoke kind of funny, as if he had trouble with English. Gosh, he reminded me a bit of those, what are they called again, oh yeah, Cyclopes, from Greek mythology. Too bad it's not real. I can just imagine him with one eye, blundering around." He laughed. I shot Annabeth a nervous glance.

"Damian," Annabeth said. "Promise me after I tell you this you won't freak out, and please, believe us, we're telling you the truth."

"Oh come on Annabeth, do you think I'm the kind of person who freaks out. Besides, I believe you, whatever it is."

"Okay, here goes," Annabeth sighed, "The Cyclops was real, Greek mythology is real, you're the son of one of the Gods or Goddesses." Annabeth said, it sounded like she was trying to rush it. Damian stayed silent for a moment, then he cracked a smile.

"Oh come on guys, stop kidding around, I mean, I told you I'd believe you, but I'm not that dumb!"

"No, really we mean it Damian." I said. "Don't you ever wonder why strange things always happen to you, or who your real parents were? This is the answer Damian, you meet strange people because your scent attracts them, these strange people are monsters, like your teacher. One of your real parents was a god, that's why you have dyslexia and ADHD. You were born to fight, and you have trouble reading English because your brain is hardwired for Greek. Face it Damian, this is real, you are a demigod, just like us."

For a while Damian stayed quiet. He couldn't deny it. Then finally, he said

"Dude, you guys really are serious! Man, this is so cool!" I smiled. He was taking this better than I thought.

"Alright, now that we've got that over with, let's get down to business," Annabeth said. "Damian, we need to get you to a place called Camp Half-Blood on Long Island, but first we need to tell your foster parents, do you think they know you secret?" Annabeth asked.

"Probably," Damian answered, "They were good friends of my dad before he left."

"Good" Annabeth said "That just made our job a lot easier."

But unfortunately, Damian's foster parents did not know about his secret identity. This made things a bit harder. After introducing us to his foster parents, Linda and Robert, we visited with them for a while until we could come up with a plan. We somehow got onto the subject of school when Damian said,

"That reminds me, our school signed Annabeth, Percy, and me up for an early summer learning camp, since we're having trouble learning in class, the thing is, it starts tomorrow, the teachers just told us this morning and if we're not there on the first day, the camp won't accept us. The teachers have already paid for it, and Percy's mom offered to drive us there, all I need is for you guys to know and say its okay.

"Hmm, I don't know." Linda started. She had a worried look on her face. "We never knew about this until now."

"Neither did we." Damian protested. I saw a panicked look in Annabeth's eyes, then she smiled. She snapped her fingers and a gust of wind flew from them. I knew what she was doing. She was using the mist.

"Oh no," Annabeth said "you've known this for a while, you just forgot. You told the teachers it was perfectly fine for Damian to come for the whole summer, and the rest of the summers until he is ready to leave the camp." Both Linda and Robert's expressions softened.

"Ah yes, now I remember," Linda said. "Damian, go upstairs and get your things, you don't want to keep your friends waiting." We all dashed upstairs.

"Wow, that was a close one, nice story Damian!" I said as we entered his room.

"Thanks." he replied. We quickly packed all his things and got back to my apartment. When we were in front of the door I suddenly remembered, oh Gods, I forgot to tell mom.

We walked in. Luckily, mom had left work early today and she was starting dinner in the kitchen. I told Damian to wait in my room as I went to tell mom. Annabeth and I walked into the kitchen and prepared to tell her the news. I cleared my throat. Mom looked at me.

"Uh, mom, Annabeth and I have something to tell you." I began.

"Yes?" Mom replied, looking concerned. She had heard the nervous tone of my voice.

"We found a demigod at Goode High School, and we need to get him to camp Half Blood as soon as possible." I said, then looked up at her. Her expression stayed the same, she still looked concerned.

"Well, who is it?" she asked.

"A boy in our grade named Damian." Annabeth hurriedly replied.

"He's in my room right mow," I said. Her eyes widened.

"Mom, it's okay, he's not one of those pick pocketing bad influences." I said.

"I know that dear, Paul has told me a bit about him already, what I need to know is what you want me to do about him."

I took a deal breath,

"Would you be able to drive us to Camp Half Blood?" I asked, "I mean, it's fine if you can't, I can just call Blackjack and some of his buddies-"

"No dear, you won't have to do that." Mom said, interrupting my babble.

"Let me just leave a note for Paul." She continued, turning off the oven and reaching for a pen and a pad of paper.

In a few minutes, we were in Paul's car; he had walked to the school today for some reason, and were on our way to Camp Half Blood.