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Uggghhh, don't talk to me for like 5 weeks. I hate school. But at least, on the bright side, this term in English we're focusing on creative pieces and I can wow my teacher with some crazy big words (she'd fun like that). And we can where our summer uniform! Now that is something to celebrate! :)

Here's the next chapter, I love you all! Xx

Ginny

The morning was frosty and cold, I shivered as a breath of water hit my skin and condensed, traveling down my neck before getting caught in my collar. I threw a scarf around my neck and slipped fingerless gloves onto my hand. From what I had managed to understand from the night before, we were jumping over to a cheery, demigod training camp, where they have fake-wars-that-don't-seem-very-fake and a dragon named Peleus and a centaur who sired one of the greatest villains of all times and a climbing wall with lava that they climb for fun. Oh, whatever. Seems legit.

"Ok, so because you guys are annoying in your inability to go places you haven't seen," Percy announced, striding in front of us like an army general. I glared at him. It was too early in the morning and I'd gone to sleep too late for jokes. "We're going to have to incorporate a little help into our highly strategic and thought out plan." I desperately wanted top ask what stratergy was involved in common sense but decided not to ask. I'd probably answered my own question.

"Nico said he's coming, but he has to get Mrs. O'leary first, and that could take ages," Thalia said, having made an Iris message.

"Excellent," Annabeth said dryly. "That'll only take a couple of hours, assuming she hasn't eaten the Hypnos cabin again and come down with indigestion."

"Ok, that only happened once," Percy said defensively. "And she thought it smelt nice."

"Your dog ate a building?" I asked, perplexed.

"Oh yeah, we should totally tell—'

"Nope! No way! Not ever!" Jace said, looking kind of insane underneath his thick beanie.

"What's with this weather?" Thalia blurted crossly, cutting off whatever mad rabble from an over-perc-jacksoned shadow hunter. "It is supposed to be summer! It was warmer in Switzerland!"

"It's probably got something to do with everything," Clary said dryly, sporting a pair of ridiculously comfortable looking ear muffs and a scarf that had names of Manga I'd never heard of. "Just add it to our list of things we don't know."

"Can't," Harry said bitterly. "Ran out of parchment."

"Well—" Annabeth started but she was interrupted by the appearance of a huge, black Rottweiler seemingly growing out of the shadows in the trees. She was shortly followed by a shortish guy with black hair and pale skin. He had a black sword to his side, a totally weather inappropriate aviators jacket and a silver skull ring that glittered dangerously on his finger.

"Greetings lady's and gentlemen," The boy said, out of breath just as the dog barked. It was so loud I had to block my ears. Percy ran up and punched her in the side. I had a feeling that if that was a person, they'd be dealing with a broken rib. "Your shadow traveler awaits."

"Hey, Skull Boy," Thalia said, grinning cockily. "Good to see you."

"Wish I could say the same, Grace," Nico retorted. Thalia just chuckled and ruffled his hair.

"Hello Nico," Annabeth said. "This is—"

"Ginny Weasly," I started when I heard my name come from someone I was so newly acquainted with. "Harry Potter, Jace Herondale, Clarissa Morgenstern." The others reacted similarly. He scowled when he saw our expressions.

"What? I speak with the dead a lot, ok?" He seemed oddly defensive, but from Annabeth, Percy and Thalia, I could see that it was no way an odd occurrence.

"Well, I for one am glad to make your acquaintance," Jace said, smiling and shaking the boys hand. "We've heard all of about three things about you."

To my surprise, Nico smiled. "I always have preferred an air of mystery."

"Well, from one man of mystery to another," Harry said. "Hey." Nico seemed to have passed his initial anger and faded to the more welcoming side of Hades.

He sighed. "Alright we better get this over and done with. I'm probably going to need to sleep for a year after this. If only Hazel could shadow travel, eh?" Percy agreed and jumped on Mrs O'leary's back, helping Annabeth and Thalia up behind him.

"I'll get on the dog," I announced bravely. Harry raised his eyebrows but didn't object, which he was supposed to.

I glared at him. "Now you're supposed to save me from almost certain death from a Hell Hound by bravely taking my place."

He raised his eyebrows and grinned condescendingly. "I hardly think I'm in the mad desire to willingly go into another NDE, but if you insist…"

"No!" I threw my hands up in frustration and walked over to the hound where Annabeth helped me up. "It's fine! Whatever Harry!"

"Ok, let's go before she brings up—"

"I'm a woman! I am far too frail for this kind of thing!" I'm pretty sure you could taste the sarcasm in my words. Just as we began to disappear, Harry shouted something.

"Ginny, you are not helping your case!" Clary and Jace's laughter was one of the last things I heard before we disappeared.

Jace

The dog melt into some shadows and Nico held out his hand.

"Hold it," he said impatiently. Seriously, for a guy that couldn't have been older than 14, he sure seemed sure of himself. I took his hand and Clary took his other. Harry grasped the arm Clary's hand was on and we disappeared, sinking into a black oblivion, melting through nothing, hoping to reach the other side.

We arrived on the other side on a sunny summer day, the way things should have been. It was still early, but I could see oddly dotted people wearing orange and then the occasional purple T-shirt weaving through some oddly place buildings. We were standing on a hill, with a gate in front of us showing a picture of an old war helmet and the words 'Camp Half-Blood' written in ancient greek lettering.

In the far fields I saw some strawberry fields, where girls and boys tended carefully to the super ripe strawberries. Even from here I could smell them, baking in the sun.

"Wow," Clary said, her mouth open. 'Wow' was a mild way of putting it. This was incredible. Not as incredible as Idris, perhaps, but the place was crawling with children or young adults. I wasn't sure what to feel about this. Either the older people had left to somewhere even cooler where they grew melons and didn't have to climb a smoking climbing wall, or something even worse had happened.

"This is only Camp Half-Blood," Nico said grinning. "You should see Camp Jupiter. New Rome is amazing."

"Where are the adults?" I asked.

Nico's face darkened. "Either dead or fighting it out in the normal world." He turned thoughtful. "Some go to New Rome to live forever though, ever since the whole 'Ah! I hate you!' thingy finished." Ah! I hate you! Was a pretty good way to sum up the story I'd heard last night. Annabeth had fixed it though, she seemed good at working things out.

"We should find the others," Harry said.

"Follow me," Nico said, walking through. "Mrs O'leary probably took them to the training pavilion. That's where she lives."

"Your monstrous hell hound lives in the training pavilion?"

"Yeah! Didn't Percy tell you like, everything, last night?"

I grumbled. "Just about."

"You spoke for ages Jace. If it wasn't for you we'd probably have had another few hours of sleep!"

"That is a lie and you know it."

"I agree with Harry," Clary said as we passed the first few demigods, some who watched us curiously and others who just shrugged us off.

Clary frowned. "Why are some Orange and some Purple?"

"Oh, well, to patch things up and 'teach each other our ways', we have a kind of exchange program going on. Some of the romans come here, some Greeks go over there."

"Seems reasonable," I said, picking up on Nico's disagreeing tone.

"Hmmph. Not all good things can last. Romans and Greeks have hated each others for centuries. I'm not sure that everything can be healed that easily."

We were all quiet for a moment. "If you don't think it would work, why do they do it?" Harry asked. I knew what he meant. Nico simply radiated power. He seemed like he could destroy the entire world if he wanted to. He looked like a dangerous enemy.

"Percy believes it can," He replied simply. "And Jason."

We arrived at a circled of cabins and Harry turned to Nico.

"What are these?" They looked weird. Some were decorated with leaves and ferns and then there was another that looked completely ordinary. I saw one black and covered in obsidian and dark fire and another blue and long, decorated with shells and coral.

"The cabins," Nico checked his watch. "You can have a tour later though. The others are probably waiting."

So we walked off, I glanced back, wondering about the emptier looking cabins, and how lonely it must get in there.

So, we're off in CHB, the demigods have noticed the newbies, but don't know what to make of them, yet…

Hopefully Clarisse, Tyson, Piper, Jason, Leo and Chiron in the next chapter.

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