Chapter 8 Revealing

When Beth walked out of the arena, I was suspicious. And when you're a demigod, you need to learn to trust your suspicions. I followed her as quietly as I could, until I saw that thing she was hunting. I tried to warn her not to get any closer but I couldn't make a sound. She fired and killed the beast, but she also successfully drew the attention of everyone in the audience. I hid in the shadows as Beth was claimed, who knew she was the daughter of Artemis, a maiden goddess?

After all of that was over and it was time for lights out, I stayed up. I wanted to learn a little bit more about Artemis. When I read over her page on the wiki, nothing said she couldn't have children, only that she wished not to be forced into any marriage by her father. Easy enough said. Beth's father was just an extremely lucky guy who must've been good at hunting.

I closed Daedalus's laptop and put it at the foot of my bed. I was tired, today had been the weirdest in a long time. Egyptians, new demigods, I was having a hard time keeping it all straight. I closed my eyes and rested, then, I was asleep.

Sadie has told me about Ba travels, I must say they're pretty similar. Except demigods don't become flying bird people. [Oh yes I did Sadie, its true. Don't' act like it isn't.] We just see very strange or life threatening images and we have absolutely no control over it. That night wasn't an exception.

First, I was in what looked like a large temple. The air was freezing cold, regardless of the five hundred some odd people in the room. Judging by the armor and weapons, I should've guessed they were romans but, no, I just watched. A spirit was passing among them; he kept looking into their eyes and snapping in their faces. No reaction, I checked the demigod nearest to me, it was Hazel! Her eyes were a blood red; Next to her was Frank, and even with his 'baby face' he looked pretty menacing. But I'd never seen anything like it, obviously some kind of Egyptian magic. (That's what Sadie told me!)

The spirit guy was getting closer, I prayed that he couldn't see me. He passed right by, but it was obvious this was the guy behind it. Wait, if the roman demigods were here, then that means this had also been the one who manned the attack on Camp Jupiter! I followed him, all the way I was plotting on how to kill a ghost, definitely a question I'd have to ask Nico. Into a large room, icicles hung from the ceiling even though torches hung on the walls.

"Have you contacted her?" asked the ghost.

"Yes lord Setne," said the man, I could not see his face under the hood of his cloak, "She didn't believe me when I said out soldiers are half god."

"Wonderful! At this rate, and if lady luck loves us, they will be fighting by the time we strike!" said Setne.

Need to tell Carter and Sadie. I thought. I slapped myself twice to wake up. No such luck.

"Did you hear that?" asked the hooded man.

"Yes, it came from over there." He pointed directly at me.

"No no no, they shouldn't be able to see me!" I whispered backing away. The room began to dissolve around me, and then I was back in my bunk.

"And they said slapping would work."

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First things first. The minute breakfast was over; I bolted to the Big House where Sadie and Carter were staying.

"You guys!" I said bursting into their room, "You're not going to believe the dream I had last night. Sadie looked up from her IPod, "And how are your dreams so important?"

"Demigods don't have normal dreams, we get visions that warn us or give us some important information we need." I explained.

"Still, how is this so important?" asked Sadie, rolling her eyes.

"I wanted to ask you if you recognize the name, Setne." Sadie sat straight up, "What did you say?"

"Setne," I repeated. Her mood darkened, yep, she'd met him before!

"I hate that stupid ghost," she muttered, her voice slowly rising, "he nearly killed my brother and Zia, he lost our boat, and used us to escape eternal punishment!" She slammed the bedside table with her fist.

"Sadie, he's got all the missing demigods captured and under some kind of spell." I put my hand on her shoulder and tried to calm her down.

"We need to tell Carter."

"Where is he?"

"Out sparring with Percy."

"Then I know where to find him."

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We found them on the beach, Percy ankle deep in the surf, and Carter stuck in the sand.

"Not cool Percy!" he cried as a blast of sea water hit his face.

"I didn't do that!" said Percy laughing. Carter lunged at him, khopesh ready, but Percy had the ocean on his side. Sadie and I stood there for a while, watching Carter get his butt kicked. When they finally stopped, Sadie and I broke into applause.

"Bravo!"

"Encore! Wonderful show brother!" said Sadie. Carter stepped out of the surf and began shaking himself dry.

"It not so wonderful when you're fighting the ocean." He grumbled wringing out his shirt. Percy walked up next to him and asked, "Can I help?"

"No thanks. Unless you've got drying magic I don't want any help." Said Carter continuing to wring out his shirt.

"Suit yourself." Said Percy, he capped Riptide and walked over to us.

"And he still didn't notice that you're perfectly dry," I whispered. Sadie began to laugh again, her brother had found a crab in his shoe.

"Okay, that I did do!" said Percy laughing as well. I rolled my eyes, not funny when you've seen the same prank fifty times.

"Sadie, didn't we come to tell Carter something?" I asked, trying to get her to stop laughing.

"Oh-oh yeah. You go t-tell him. I c-can't s-stop laughing!" she dropped into the sand, laughing away. I rolled my eyes and walked over to Carter who dumped a sandcastle out of his shoe.

"Carter?"

"Yes wise girl?"

"First of all, don't call me that, and second, I had a really strange dream last night that I think you should know about." I sat down in the sand.

"And how are your dreams so important?" asked Carter shaking sand from his hair.

"Demigods don't have normal dreams," I began to explain; again, "we get visions that warn us or give us some important information we need."

"Okay, so, what message did you get from dreamland?"

"Setne is making an army of demigods." I said.

"That little (insert your choice of bad word here). I hate his astral guts." growled Carter angrily.

"So, he is a ghost?" I asked, hoping the answer was no.

"Yes, and the only way to kill him is to feed his heart to Ammit the devourer," he explained, "did you tell Sadie?"

"That's why we came to find you," I said, "now let's go get a quest to stop that stupid ghost."

AN: Okay, this next part is told from Beth even though it's Annabeth's chapter, the voices just changed in the middle of it! So, let me know if it sounds weird.

Big cabin, alone, all night, with an eternally working night light that won't shut off. To say the least, I couldn't sleep. All night I kept pacing the room, I didn't know a thing about Artemis, nor should I say, my mom. I needed answers, but I couldn't go to the Athena cabin and do a little research. I groaned and fell onto my bed.

"So bored," I moaned, "Nothing to do, no one to talk to." I stared at the ceiling, a thousand small glowing lights resembled the starry night sky. Then someone knocked on the door, scaring me so much that I almost screamed. I walked over and opened the door, Alex was standing outside.

"Hey Alex," I said, "Want to come inside?"

"Sure, daughter of the Hunt," he said smiling. I closed the door, "What're you talking about, 'daughter of the hunt'?"

"Well, Artemis is the Goddess of the hunt so you're Daughter of the Hunt." Explained Alex, "whoa, nice place you've got here."

"But it's empty and boring!" I said flopping onto the bed again.

"I've got something to fix that, Ta da!" he pulled a small package out from his pocket. It was wrapped in a black cloth that smelled of smoke. I unwrapped it, and there sitting in the cloth, was silver IPod Nano.

"It's not just an IPod," said Alex flipping it over. He flipped a small switch and the IPod grew into a gleaming shield.

"I thought, you might need some entertainment. And, maybe some protection on a quest," he said. His cheeks burned a bright crimson, mine felt hot as the fire in the Arena.

"Thank you," I whispered, I flipped the switch again and the shield became an IPod. Alex handed me a pair of white headphones.

"Rock on Huntress," he handed me the phones then bolted for the door.

"Wait!" I called after him, but he was gone. I put in the head phones and turned it up loud, and began rocking out to a song called "Carry On".

AN: okay, did that sound weird? The recording doesn't necessarily cut chapters so I have to and I thought these two fit together. If you don't, please let me know.