The next few days were routine. I still sucked at archery and didn't seem to be improving. I was pretty good at Greek and Latin and it came easier than English. I was really enjoying history too. It was taught by Annabeth's brother, Malcolm. It followed Ancient Greeks stuff, like Hercules and the first Titan war. Percy was still telling me about the last 4 years. We had finished the story of the Lightning Thief and were on his trip through the Sea of Monsters.

I had told Percy my story on Tuesday, too. A few kids at camp knew, but I found that a lot of them were like me. (Not the Catholic part, but the orphan part)

Now it was Thursday. I was at breakfast with Percy on a clear and hot June day. Percy was babbling on about how he was turned into a gunny pig, but I wasn't listening. I was looking at the Hades table. I felt bad that Nico had to sit by himself. There was something interesting about him. Sure, I didn't know him very well and we had only met the one time, but there was something very interesting about him. I looked at him again, and this time he caught me. My face turned red as I stared down at the table.

"Nico catch you staring?" I heard Percy ask.

"How did you…"

"You've been staring over there for the past five minutes. It looks like someone has a crush on the ghost king." I didn't know what he meant by 'ghost king' but I didn't have time to ask questions.

"I do not!" I denied

"Sure…"

"Shut up." I kicked him under the table. Not my smartest idea. Percy had told me that he was invincible two days ago when I accidentally hit him with an arrow, so kicking him hurt me more than him.

"Ow!" just then I hear everyone in the dining pavilion gasp. I turned to see a 6 year-old girl at the Hermes cabin looking in the fading red image of a boars head that had appeared over her.

"Great," Percy complained sarcastically, "just what we need another kid or Ares'"

Please forget what we were talking about! Please forget what we were talking about! I preyed to the nonexistent god of forgetfulness (well nonexistent as far as I knew).

"So what were we talking about?" Percy questioned after he finished looking mad.

"You were telling me about the time you turned into a gunny pig."

"Oh yeah. So any way, Annabeth dumped the whole thing of vitamins…" I silently thanked Percy for missing the day brains were handed out.

After breakfast Percy had to teach a sword fighting class, so I made my way to archery. I walked past the ocean on my way. That weird feeling was still there. Something seemed very wrong, and I still hadn't told Percy. I had a bad habit of procrastinating and hoping that problems would just fix themselves. So, I managed to forget about it and I want to archery.

About half way through the class Jimmy told me, "I didn't think it was possible, but you have gotten worse."

"Would you SHUT UP!" I yelled at him

"Oh what are you going to do? Throw a crab at me?"

"No, actually I'm allergic to shel fish."

"Ha! You are undoubtedly the most PATHETIC daughter of Poseidon I have ever met!" I thew my bow down loudly against the hardwood floor. Everyone turned to look at us as Jimmy continued grind on my last nerve. "I bet he claimed you by accident. No way is a pathetic little orphan like yourself a child of The Big Three."

That was the last straw! Broken wrist or no broken wrist I was going to teach this kid a lesson. I tackled him. We wrestled for about 30 seconds before I pinned him to the ground.

"Danmit! What do they teach you in those orphanages?" Jimmy asked. I put my knee on his stomach so he didn't get away.

"Get one thing through your thick head, Jimmy. I may not be perfect. And yeah, maybe I am far from a typical daughter of Poseidon, but he is my father. And I am VERY proud to be his daughter. And if you every say something like that to me again," I dug my knee into his stomach harder, "you will have a facial scar that you can have a fun time explaining grand kids." I stood up and came face to face with Chiron. I'm in trouble.

I was sitting on the couch of the big house next to Jimmy. My arms were crossed and I was scowling. I was looking off into the distance because I didn't want to make eye contact with Chiron or Jimmy. Chiron was in his wheelchair form because it triggered my allergy less, but I was still resisting the urge to sneeze.

"Marisa, why did you tackle Jimmy?" Chiron asked. I looked at Jimmy. He had a nice looking bruise on his chin from where it connected with the floor.

"He told me Poseidon claimed me by accident then told me that I was a worthless pathetic orphan. He's been making fun of me sense I got here and quite frankly I am fed up with it."

"She's lying!" Jimmy lied. "She is making up stories just like the ones in that book she worships." I assumed he was talking about the Bible.

"Many of the stories in the Bible are real, like the story of Moses. And Jesus was a real person; there are non-Christian accounts proving that." I shot back at Jimmy.

"See, she still defends her old religion." Jimmy yelled at Chiron.

"I've only been here for 4 1/2 days, you aren't going to suck ever ounce of Catholic faith out of me in that time!"

"So I guess thats why you still where this!" He grabbed the chain of my cross neckless (which, yes, I was still secretly wearing). He was pulling it in a way that threatened to snap the chain.

"How did you see that." I said in a near whisper

"It came out when we were wrestling."

"Marisa, I will have to take that…" Chiron told me.

"It was my mothers!" I lied. "Please. I have no desire to find out if she is alive or not, or meet her, but this neckless is the only thing that connects me to my past." That wasn't a lie. I really didn't want to meet my mother and the neckless did connect me to my past. I was more like… double talking. Hey, if the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet can do it, so can I.

"Look, I don't know which one of you is telling the truth so…" Chiron started

"Marisa is telling the truth." I heard a voice say. Nico di Angelo stepped out of the shadows and continued, "Mr. D wanted to see Melody so he sent me to find her. I walked in as Jimmy accused Marisa of getting worse at archery. Everything Marisa said is true." (Incase you were wondering Melody is the head counselor for Apollo.)I mouthed Nico a quick 'thank you'. 'You're welcome.' he mouthed back.

"Hum, well Jimmy I have no choice but to suspend you from capture the flag tomorrow."

"WHAT? How do you know Nico isn't lying. He is the son of Hades after all." Jimmy protested. Nico put one hand on his sword. "You better watch what you say to me in this world, it could effect what happens to you in the next." Nico threatened. Jimmy gulped and ran off. Nico left too.

I was alone with Chiron so I thought it was the perfect time to bring up the thing with the ocean. "Chiron I wanted to talk to you about something." He turned to face me, waiting for me to continue. "I have noticed something is off with the ocean. As if the tides were gone and the waves were coming at random hight s."

"So you know?"

"Know what?"

"So you don't know?"

"No. What don't I know? What aren't you telling me?"

"It doesn't concern you. Go back to your cabin, you don't have to go back to archery." Normally I would be happy about that, but not in this case. I went back to the arena to get Sophie.

"Huston, we have a problem!" I yelled to her. Incase you are slow, Sophie is from Huston. She heard me jagged over to where I was standing. As we walked out of the arena she asked, "Okay, so how much trouble did you get into?"

"None, but thats not the problem. the problem is…" She cut me off.

"Wait how did you not get in any trouble?"

"Oh, Nico saw what happened and defended me."

"The son of Hades?"

"Yes. Now, anyway, the problem is with the ocean. Something is wrong and I need to find out that it is."

"I don't see why you have to figure it out. Ask Percy too. He's the hero of Olympus, invincible, your bother who has been here for five years and"

"And he has an I.Q equivalent to room temperature."

"That was a little below the belt don't you think? He probably just acts stupid to get on your nerves."

"Maybe you're right but…"

"But nothing'. Go talk to your bother. This ain't Apollo 13. You can't just call up Huston and expect answers."

"Weird how that all ft together like that."

"You're right. I kinda makes me wish I had planed it." And we walked away from each other.

The rest of the day was normal, except for the people whispering and pointing at me as I walked by. It was like they thought I couldn't see them. I skipped the camp fire that night and went straight off to bed. And the dreams found me again.

I was on an island of some sort. It looked like Hawaii, but it was too deserted. I walked forward a little, through the brush. I came upon a girl with her back turned to me. She was talking to those freaky dog/sea lion/ human hybrids from my other dream. Then it occurred to me that this was the same girl, too. I hid behind and overgrown bush so she wouldn't see me eavesdropping on her.

"It had been three days now. Just wait. Soon they will embark on a quest. They will fail, and a civil war will start. This time will do things right. We will over throw those over-confident gods the right way." As if sensing something, she turned her head to look over her shoulder. Her eyes glowed red and focused on. I felt as if every ounce of fear that I had rushed to my cerebellum. I woke up steaming.

Percy was staining over me, looking as concerned as ever. I silently apologized for making fun of him earlier today (or maybe it was yesterday, I was unaware of the time). "Marisa, are you alright?" I nodded, "I'm fine"

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"No" He didn't seem to like that answer but it didn't matter. He pulled my blanket over me and gave me a hug. I really was grateful for my brother. "Thanks" I told him as he pulled away.

"No problem, just try to get some sleep, okay."

I nodded and rolled over, even though i knew I probably wouldn't be able to get back to sleep.

sorry for the long time to update. I really didn't even want to post this yet because I only got 2 reviews, but your lucky I post this to DA too and got 3+ nice reviews there. So here you go! chapter 8. oh and I forgot to ask in the last chapter, but I need a beta-reader. also I hope no one was offended by the mild swearing and threats. And sorry for going a little Jesus-happy in the middle part.