The camp was already in full swing when Athena walked up Half-Blood hill, hand in hand with her boyfriend, Adam.
"So this is where everyone goes to become cuckoo?" He asked with a smirk on his face. Athena slapped his arm playfully. "Not everyone goes nuts here, well—"
"Don't act like it isn't true." Poseidon walked up the hill, still in his tuxedo.
"POSEIDON!" She exclaimed. "You actually came! Wait, aren't you supposed to being going googoo over Gaga?"
He smiled, "Good times… but no, she's going on tour again. Plus, I couldn't miss the first day of camp! Anyways—" he continued on a mini rant until he realized that the couple had disappeared, probably to go make out somewhere.
MEANWHILE…
"Well if your mother's from England, then why don't you have a British accent?" Lillian asked.
"Cause I've been going to a boarding school in Virginia since seventh grade," Electra replied nonchalantly. "You'd be surprised how many demigods go there."
"Yuck, boarding school." Alli groaned, "Uniforms, strict hours, having to be with the same people for months on end, rubber duckies… need I say more?" Electra yelled yes, while the others replied no.
"Not every boarding school has rubber duckies," Electra defended, "If it did..." she shivered.
"Who cares?" Autumn piped in, "It's summer again!"
"The summer." Alli whispered coldy.
"There you guys are!" Caan came running up to them, tackling Lillian with a hug in the process.
"We've been looking for you guys. Where'd you go?"
"Serendipity 3." Electra said in a dreamy voice, "The best frozen hot chocolates in the world."
"Well, you're late." He replied, with a stoic expression, even though his voice gave away that he was happy to be with Lillian again. "Come on, we've got a meeting." He stalked away, Lillian chasing after him.
"Cranky much?" Autumn said, "We should have brought back dessert."
Later,
The group greeted each other with a big mushy love fest, like they hadn't seen each other in years. In reality, it had only been a few hours. "Where's Kindell?" Nico asked, pecking Electra on the cheek.
"I think she went to go round up Athena and some newbies," Electra replied, "You know, get them all caught up."
"She could be helping Megan climb the perverted ladder for all we know." Alli smiled in Connor's arms.
"Not true!" Megan screamed, running into the arena. "This smexy chick's already been there, without assistance."
Elsewhere…
The weather took a shady turn when Mike saw the wolf. Actually, he didn't know what it was, but he did know that he had to run. And run he did, until he found an oasis in the middle of the no where. Suffering only minor cuts, he stumbled into the clearing, only to find himself in the midst of a camp.
"Great, thanks Chance." A girl came out of no where, and seemed to be thanking the wolf. "Now almost everyone's here." She grabbed him by the wrist and dragged him deeper into the camp.
"Who are you? And where the heck are you taking me?" He dug his heel in the ground, refusing to move.
"Gods, you kids get more annoying every year, you know that?" She responded, grabbing a lollipop from her boot. Mike frowned, this bossy chick didn't seem much older than himself. "Name's Kindell. This is Camp Half-Blood. Now, come on before I summon something much worse than that wolf to pulverize you." He obeyed.
Back with the gang…
"Yeah, whatever did happen to Mr. Hobo?" Connor asked no one in particular.
"We happened." Autumn said, shoving Dawg off the rock she wanted to sit on.
"Huh?" Both the boys asked
"He tried to shoot his gun, which ended up being a paint gun, by the way." She continued.
"Totally pathetic."
"Paint gun?" Dawg asked. "But those things are epic!"
"When we realized he was just a phony," Autumn continued on, ignoring her boyfriend, "Carly chased after him with Chainy while Sarah worked her hysterics mojo on him."
"Poor guy, he must've pissed his pants." Alli said, pitying the poor guy who had to feel the wrath of both Carly and Sarah.
"It was quite funny actually." Sarah said. "Now where the heck is Kindell? And Athena, and Carly and Sam and—"
"Has there ever actually been a married couple at Camp Half Blood?" Lillian asked, "I wonder what Dionysus would do if he were here."
"Don't talk about the gods," Electra warned, "We're supposed to be forgetting them, remember?"
"How can we be sure that they don't already know about our plan yet?" Alli asked, "Did anyone else feel absolutely awkward trying to talk to their godly parent at the wedding?"
"That's just because you hate keeping secrets from your father." Caan scowled. "You're not strong enough yet to—"
"No," Alli said firmly, cutting off his statement. Everyone knew that she hated betraying her father, but she was getting stronger every day. "That's not it. It's like he was able to see the surface my secrets. He kept bringing up topics that resembled our plans."
Electra shivered and said in a dreamlike voice, "Like he was grasping at the end of the string, but couldn't put two in two together." Her skin paled and Nico moved to put his arms around her.
"Exactly." Alli sighed, happy to have backup from her friends.
"My 'daddy's little girl' act didn't seem to work either. He kept questioning my purple hair and my necklace, and wouldn't stop until my mom came over."
"So? Besides, there's nothing we can do about it now guys." Autumn said with a bored expression. She was more worried about the portal to Hogwarts opening soon, plus all of the Maximum Ride kids flying amuck.
"I wouldn't say nothing," Kindell said strolling into the arena, followed by Mike, Athena, Adam, and Poseidon. "Carly and Sam won't be here tonight. I've sent them on a little… mission."
"Sensei!" Dawg exclaimed. "We've missed you!"
"Yeah, yeah," she replied. "You guys can't last a freaking moment without me."
"Haha," Nico added his false laughter, "Now, can we finally get started with this thing?"
…
"This entire summer will be dedicated to one thing, and one thing only: training. You guys together will defeat all of the minor gods. Don't worry about any of the major gods." She motioned towards the woods and suddenly hundreds of kids in black capes started entering until suddenly the arena was full of black-caped kids. "Hogwarts will take responsibility of clearing the underworld and defeating Hades and Demeter."
"Huh.. what about Persephone?" Nico asked, uncomfortably adjusting his Uchiha crested shirt.
"The world needs an immortal force to keep it together." The echo of a voice filled the arena. Nico turned around to find himself face-to-face to his stepmother.
"But.. wouldn't Kindell be more powerful than you? Shouldn't she rule the world?" Autumn asked from behind Dawg, disconcerted by having to converse with her stepmother.
"Sweetheart, who do you think gave her her immortality?" Persephone smiled, putting an arm around Kindell who accidentally dropped her lollipop.
"You mean to say.. you're more powerful than Kindell?" Alli asked, clutching her head on being faced by this new tidbit of bonkerosity. "That's insane.. Kindell can defeat both Zues and Poseidon alone, and still be able to defeat a few other gods."
"And together, we can defeat all of the major gods." Persephone smiled, looking up at the sky. "I spent millenniums as Hades submissive wife. I've been waiting to end this act. Sadly, I'm not allowed to kill either him or mother."
"B-but.." Alli was still mindfucked about the prior situation. "She has pixie dust! And witchy powers! And cockroaches! And chainsaws!"
"And I have thousands of years of wisdom. You, granddaughter of Athena must understand the true value of wisdom." She turned to Connor, "Or maybe you... Connor Konoe." Connor grinned in return to her.
"I'm liking this plan more and more."
…
"What the heck was that?" Alli asked once the meeting was over and she could finally drag Connor away to a private corner.
"ESP." He was still grinning ear to ear like a ten-year-old kid that had just found a pack full of explosives.
"I'm a granddaughter of Athena, not a daughter. I can't comprehend your complicated symbolism." Alli explained in exasperation.
"Okay, Okay, I'll explain it. It's really cool."
"Better be."
"It is!"
…
Autumn and Electra finally made it to the closet on the roof of Zeus cabin after ten minutes of sneaking around. It didn't take long for the wizard kids to spot you, especially when you were one of the special kiddos.
"He. Treats. Me. Like. A. Kid." Electra exclaimed, flustered.
"He. Keeps. Saying. Sorry. Every. Five. Minutes." Autumn retaliated.
"I'd rather have a whiny boyfriend than a freaking... um, I can't think of a word."
"Pigheaded, overprotective, the list goes on." Autumn offered.
"Yeah. And you know what, HE NEVER TREATED ALLI LIKE THIS!" Electra tossed her sword to the ground. "I love Alli.. and Nico.. and I like being with Nico. And since Alli has Connor I can be with Nico without feeling guilty.. and.."
"Where are you going with this?" Autumn asked, suddenly feeling less worried about her issue with Dawg. It was just him being him.
"I don't even know! That's the worst part. I thought all the confusion was supposed to away after the transform-" she was interrupted by a very loud shriek which sounded a lot like Alli.
At the lake by the roof
"This is brilliant. Brilliant beyond brilliant." Alli held Connor close to her, gushing. "I'm so proud of you!"
"Alli-chan.. you're suffocating me."
"Sorry.." she let go of him. They stood there for a second, awkwardly. Slowly they turned to each other, their eyes meeting. "Connor-dono?"
"Huh." Connor closed his eyes. Calm your nerves... And before he knew it, he had just had his first kiss.
"It took us a freaking year to have our first kiss." Alli whined.
"Maybe it would've helped if you didn't keep waiting for me to do it!" Connor argued.
"Good Point. You have no balls." Alli reasoned.
"OFFENSIVE!"
...
"Kindell, I just heard Alli scream..." Athena said.
"That's great, will you get out of my shower." Kindell tossed a towel at Athena's face.
"Oh my gods Kindell you've gained muscle! And your boobs shrunk. Whoa.. how'd that happen. All the way from C to A!" Poseidon exclaimed, appearing behind Athena.
"GET OUT!"
…
Sam and Carly were in Chicago now, the Illinois plains too painful for Carly to look at. Why of all places did this kid have to be in Chicago?
"We're here." Sam said, the car lurching to a stop. He gently pulled off Carly's eyecover. "C'mon wake up."
"I'm awake goddamnit." Carly swatted his hand away.
"You could be nicer." Sam crossed his arms, offended. Carly took her hand in his and smiled apologetically.
"I'm sorry, I just haven't been here for so long. It's putting me on an edge." She then turned to what was in front of her: A Gas Station. And in the strangest way, a single though popped into her head. I wonder what my Apollo cabiners are doing.
…
All the Apollo kids were sitting quietly and tensely in their designated corners. The classical music refused to relax them and their poetry books were overfilling to the brim with dark, terrorized poems, many about ambiguous, bright, yellow plastic.
As if to fulfill their deepest, darkest nightmares, the door flew open. In front of them was the figure of none other than Hermione Granger. They all held their breathes, too afraid to scream. Hermione walked over slowly to the Asian Kid. She pulled out her wand and held it to his neck.
"We want a 500-line sonnet. A poem about the undead. All in Latin. You guys have three days. Failure to finish it in that time will leave you with more rubber duckies than you can imagine." Hermione turned around and pointed to Dawg. "Since I am not familiar with the technique of summoning rubber ducks, I have Dawg here as witness. And you all know that he can summon them very well."
The Asian kid nodded slowly, the entire cabin frozen. Once the wizards had exited the building the Asian Kid turned to the rest of the cabiners.
"Any of you know Latin?" They all shook their heads.
"WE'RE DOOMED!"
…
Carly and Sam pushed open the glass door of the gas station together, walking in hand-in-hand. Carly slammed a 50 dollar bill on the counter as well as an ID.
"I want two packs of Parliament. $24 each right?" She asked. The Sikh clerk nodded and handed Carly the blue-boxed cigarettes. Carly dropped them in their duffel bag, cursing under her breathe. You couldn't go on a mission without Connor begging you to buy him some cigarettes. Besides, there weren't very many 18+ year olds at camp. Actually, it was just her and Sam. And Nico who was 19. Kindell died at 17 as far as the government knew, so her ID was useless. As for Annabeth and Percy, well, they moved out of camp during that year. They were now married and lived together in Manhattan at Rachel's old apartment. Besides, even if they were there, it would be against their moral standards to buy cigarettes illegally for a 16-year-old.
"Okay listen," Sam said to the clerk. "We're looking for this kid and we we were wondering where we could find him. Around our age,-" The clerk didn't let him finish. "You mean Debashish don't you?"
Carly smiled, this was going to be easier than she thought.
