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Chapter 10

Piper's POV

Xena was actually pretty good! Jason helped her practice with her sword, and I taught her a few tricks with the dagger. She learned fairly quickly, and her skills made me even lose attention to the fact that I was still splattered in the Stoll's paint prank!

But I wasn't worried for Xena as much as I was for Isabel. Whenever Xena was working with Jason, I turned to look at Isabel working amazingly with her bow. Will was watching in awe, amazed by her accuracy.

"You okay?" a sweaty Xena asked, breathless. I nodded. "I'm just… I'm worried about Isabel."

"I am too. But she can take care of herself. As much as I hate it, she's pretty talented at this kind of stuff," Xena admitted.

For some reason, just then, I got the urge to check my dagger, Katoptris. I lifted my dagger and looked into it. I hadn't seen any images ever since the war against Gaea.

My eyes widened when images appeared. Some of my friends at the Roman camp jumping out of a van, a girl's face, and then… I dropped the dagger and stumbled back.

"What's wrong?" Jason asked as he stabilized me.

"M-my d-dagger…" I stuttered. He suddenly looked panicked. "What did you see?"

"I-I saw a-a symbol," I mumbled.

"A symbol of what?"

I stood on my toes and whispered into his ear. "Oh gods. This is bad," he said.

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Isabel's POV

I worked with Will for a few hours, practicing a few moves to go along with my shooting skills.

"We can stop now," Will said, noticing how tired I was. I realized that it was almost sunset, and left with Xena.

Within the next hour, I had showered and gotten changed into an orange camp shirt, jeans, and the same black Converse high-tops I wore here.

Will had shown me around Cabin Seven, and I had been given an empty bunk to sleep on. A chest sat on either side of the bunks, and I was given my own.

"So," I began, "What's it like?"

"What?" Will knit his eyebrows together.

"What's it like? Fighting monsters and doing demigod stuff?"

"Don't even get me started. It's all fun until suddenly some war pops up, like it usually does. So that's debatable," he replied. I nodded. I flopped on my bunk, when a horn blew in the distance. "Dinner!" Will yelled, and all of my half-siblings lined up behind Will. I honestly was just following everybody else's lead.

We walked out to a mess hall- but it had no ceiling or walls. "No way," Will muttered. Some people in the hall wore purple tee shirts while everyone else wore orange. "What's with the purple guys?" I asked the guy in front of me.

"Romans," he grunted, and turned back around. We all sat at a stone table together. There were nineteen other tables like it. One really long table at the front was seated with staff members, I assumed.

A bizarre man with a human for his top half and a white stallion for his bottom half stood and pounded a hoof, and everyone fell silent.

I noticed a girl wearing a purple cape standing up from the long staff table. She had long, dark hair pulled into a braid, and she wore gold battle armor under her cape. (Guess who, ;D)

"As most of you know, my name is Chiron. Those who didn't, welcome to Camp Half-Blood. We have some of our Roman friends here to visit us, so please note that there will be other campers in your campers, temporarily," the man-horse, which my brain triggered as a centaur for some reason, announced.

Some murmurs came from the other tables. I looked around at the other tables, and gasped quietly. All of the six kids from the picture in my dream were here.

I saw the older raven-haired boy with sea-green eyes sitting alone at a table. The girl with curly blonde hair and stormy gray eyes sat at the same table Claire from the arena sat. I instantly recognized Jason as the blonde boy when I met him, from the scar on his lip. Piper was the girl by Jason. The muscular boy with military-style hair and dark, almond-shaped eyes sat at a table with a bunch of kids that looked about ready to tear you apart. The little girl with golden eyes and frizzy hair sat at a table with one other boy that looked slightly older than her.

But I got this gut feeling that something was missing from the big picture… but what? I shook off that thought when Will started telling me how the whole system with the dinner thing works.

I walked up to a bronze brazier and prayed silently to my father, as Will said to do.

Apollo, I prayed silently, Dad, please help me. I'm just going along with it all and hoping that I'm getting it right. I'm lost, and I don't know what to think anymore. Something, anything would help. Please. I scraped in some food into the brazier and sat back down.

After eating, we all started walking towards this amphitheater place. There was this amazing bonfire. Chiron made some minor announcements, and as we started to leave, I noticed the six kids all talking to each other. Seriously, they were starting to freak me out.

I hurried out of the stands to find Xena, and we started to talk

"Well, what do you think?" I asked her. She smiled. "I kind of like it here."

"You know, I haven't seen you smile like that in a long time," I told her. She looked like she wanted to say something else, but just then Piper came over to us.

"Can you guys come over here a minute?" she asked, and we followed her.

"These are my friends. Guys, this is Xena and Isabel, daughters of Zeus and Apollo," Piper said, and I paled. She was talking to the other five kids.

"You okay?" the raven-haired boy asked me, noticing.

"Um, yeah," I laughed nervously. Everybody looked at me strangely, but the girl with the stormy eyes saved me from my own discomfort.

"So, another Big Three kid?" she asked.

"What?" Xena and I asked in unison, knitting our eyebrows. Okay, creepy, but still.

"You seriously didn't explain the thing to… whichever the Zeus kid is?" the raven-haired kid asked Piper and Jason. Everybody else rolled their eyes.

"Are you kidding me, Seaweed Brain?" the stormy-eyed girl groaned.

"Is it seriously that hard to figure out?" the golden-eyed girl asked him.

"Well, I'm sorry that I'm not as smart as some of you, Hazel," the raven-haired boy told her.

"You don't have to be a child of Athena to figure this out," the stormy-eyed girl sighed.

"But you are a child of Athena, Wise Girl," he pointed out. She and the golden-eyed girl, who must've been Hazel face-palmed, just as Piper and Jason did.

"That's not the point here," Piper said to him. "Percy, let me just figure this out for you."

"Xena, daughter of Zeus," she said, pointing to her.

"Isabel, daughter of Apollo," she finished, pointing at me.

"Oh," was all he said.

"Anyways," I cut in. "What is it with this Big Three thing?"

"Do you know about World War II?" Jason asked us. We nodded. "Well, it was kind of a demigod thing. There were a lot of deaths, so these three gods, all brothers, agreed not to have any more kids after that, since it was too dangerous. So they're called the Big Three- Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades."

"But since Zeus is my dad…" Xena pieced together the situation. "I still don't see this being a problem."

Piper sighed and continued for Jason. "Look, the children of the Big Three are really powerful, and that causes danger for them. So you see, monsters are more attracted to them, too, which also makes their life more endangered."

Xena paled even more than usual. Jason looked at Piper. "Great, now you've scared her."

"They were the ones who wanted to know," she shrugged. I put a hand on Xena's shoulder.

"So Piper," I said, interrupting. "Sorry to butt in, but do you mind telling us why you brought us over here, other than to amuse us with your arguing?"

She jumped. "Oh yeah! I wanted to introduce you guys to my friends."

"This is Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon," she said pointing to the raven-haired boy.

"Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena." The stormy-eyed girl.

"Frank Zhang, son of Mars." The muscular boy.

"Hazel Levesque, daughter of Pluto."

"Wait, hold up," Xena said. "They're children… of planets!?"

Everyone but us, Hazel, Jason, and Frank snorted in laughter.

"Oh my gods," Annabeth laughed. "Okay, no. That's just Roman equivalents of some of the gods. Mars is Ares, Pluto is Hades, and Jason's father, Jupiter, is Zeus."

"Oh," Xena and I thought aloud.

"Um, I have a really weird question," I said suddenly without even meaning to. Everybody looked at me, waiting for me to ask.

"Um, do any of you happen to know about… dreams?" I asked uneasily.

Everyone but Xena and I looked at each other for a total of three seconds, turned their heads back in unison, and said, "Annabeth."

Annabeth looked at me expectantly. "Can we talk about it privately?" I asked after an awkward silence.

She nodded and lead me out of earshot of the others. "Shoot," she said seriously.

"So this morning, before Piper found Xena and I, I had this dream. The first thing I saw was a wall of pictures, but I could only really see two. One was a picture of you six, and the other was a picture of a group of kids. I could only make out two faces, though- mine and Xena's." She nodded, telling me to continue. "The scene shifted to me laying in a field. I couldn't move or speak, but there were two people over me- a boy and a girl."

Annabeth thought about this for a moment. "Describe them," she said.

I said, "Well, the boy had this unruly blond hair, silver glasses, and gray eyes. He looked around fifteen or sixteen. The girl had light purple hair and dark makeup. She looked about the boy's age. The girl was crying over me, but I couldn't tell why."

Her eyes were stormy. "I think I know the boy you're talking about, but I'm not sure about the girl, though. I'll let you talk to the boy tomorrow, if you want. I'm not entirely sure on the pictures, but I'll let you know if I figure it out," she concluded. I nodded, and we walked back over to the others.

"Okay, so it was nice meeting you guys, but I think we should go," Hazel said nervously when we returned. We all nodded and parted ways.

I got back to my cabin and hurriedly changed into an old tee shirt and sweats I was given, then crawled into my bunk.

I began to think about how I couldn't believe how only this morning I was being brought here. But before I could think too deeply, sleep took over me.

I wish I had known then that starting tomorrow, my life would never be the same again.

OKAY I AM SO SORRY IT TOOK ME A WHILE TO POST THIS CHAPTER! I just got back to school from winter break, so I have to get back into that.

I just really want to wish you luck on trying to figure out what Isabel's dreams mean, because I'm sure none of you will figure it out. But I've got plans. BIG plans…

Anyways, I'll try to be more frequent on updates, so bear with me!

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