Meeting The Camp

Camp Half-Blood – The Big House Infirmary

Artemis stood bolt upright as she felt Olympus call to her. She sighed and said to Chiron and Thalia, "It would appear that the Half-Blood has arrived. I must leave for Olympus. Chiron, recently a few of my hunters encountered a demigod named danny if it's the same demigod give him my thanks."

At Chiron's nod, Artemis turned to her lieutenant. "Thalia, try to keep Sabrina from causing too much trouble around here. She has a deeper hatred for males than any other hunter I've ever had."

Thalia nodded grimly, "I'll try but so far she hasn't listened to a single order I've given."

Artemis smirked before she said, "Then keep Phoebe around. I'm sure she'll be a good enough deterrent." Thalia laughed before Artemis continued. "I know it'll be hard working with a male for the Capture the Flag game for most of the huntresses, so try to keep them calm. Tell them that I refuse for us to lose our winning streak." Thalia nodded and Artemis disappeared with a flash.

As soon as Artemis was gone, Thalia groaned. She turned to Chiron and said, "Do you have any idea how hard this is going to be? Why did you suggest that?"

Chiron smiled before he said, "Your hunters are outnumbered more than two to one, and I would think you'd take all the help you could get."

"Personally, yes. However, the hunters as a whole will not accept a male working with them. Especially Sabrina."

Just then Percy and Annabeth walked into the room leading a boy with pale skin, jet black hair, and brilliant blue eyes. He was wearing black jeans and a plain black t-shirt with bits of purple around the arms, over that though he wore a golden brown duster. Over all Thalia was reminded of the time where she had thought that Apollo was hot.

'He looks like a goth apollo'. She blushed lightly and quickly shook the thought from her head.

Chiron suddenly spoke up before she could get the thought completely out of her head. "Welcome, you must be the new camper. My name is Chiron, and you can consider me as the Head of Activities here at Camp Half-Blood. You must have a lot of questions, young man. After all finding out that you're the child of a god has to be alarming."

Chiron held out his hand to shake, and when the boy shook it he said, "Hi. My name's Danny. As far as questions go… I've learned to pretty much just take everything in stride. Though I will admit, having a god as a parent was and still is pretty surprising." He shrugged as he said that.

Percy just looked at him incredulously and said, "How can you just be okay with that?"

Danny turned to him and with a serious expression said, "I've learned a lot and done a lot in the past four years of my life so reacting to every surprising thing will just be troublesome " He shrugged and then said, "Oh and about an hour ago, a lion the size of a pick-up truck tried to eat me so it's pretty much okay. Once you've done all the things I've done , you tend to expect the unexpected."

Chiron looked at the boy surprised. "You fought the Nemean Lion without a weapon?"

Danny just shrugged and said, "More or less, I got this coat from it, which was pretty weird. But I prefer my actual jacket." He then looked around and turned back towards Percy and Annabeth. "And I told you two that I didn't need to go to the infirmary."

Annabeth looked at him annoyed and said, "You fought the nemean lion! You should at least get checked out just incase."

Danny only groaned and said, "I'm fine, I didn't even get hurt so there's no problem ." Annabeth just glared at him. He sighed and turned back to Chiron.

"She want to make sure that am alright and am fine so there's no need ." Muttering under his breath, Thalia was just able to make out, "Not that I would need it or anything."

Chiron just shook his head and gestured to a bed. Danny sat down for chiron to check him out, … only light scarring. Chiron examined him, making sure that nothing was wrong and then said, "There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with you…"

Danny instantly jumped onto the ground before turning to Annabeth and said, "Told you so." He took off the lion duster and laid it on the bed, revealing a black jacket with white stripes on the arms. He then looked around the room before his gaze landed on Thalia, she stiffened slightly.

There was something warm about the way his eyes looked. Danny held out his hand and said, "My name's Danny. It's nice to meet you."

Thalia raised an eyebrow and spoke as she shook his hand. She couldn't help but notice that his hand felt cool to the touch. "Thalia, Lieutenant of the Hunters of Artemis."

Danny then flashed a grin that sent a shiver down her spine, she couldn't decide herself if it was a good shiver or a bad one. He then turned towards Chiron and said, "You wouldn't happen to know where I'll be staying do you?"

Chiron looked thoughtful for a second before he said, "Usually you would stay in the cabin of your godly parent. But seeing as we have no idea who yours is… Well it used to be that you would be placed in the Hermes cabin until you were claimed. Though now the demigods are supposed to be claimed as soon as they enter the camp."

Danny raised an eyebrow and said, "Then why haven't I been claimed yet?"

"Simply because the gods have no idea who your parent is. A being known as Clockwork has been interfering in your life since you were born. So until you have been properly claimed you'll have to stay in one of the guest rooms here."

Danny nodded, "Sounds like something he'd do. Is there anything else?"

Chiron smiled and said, "I'll be telling everyone at the fire pit shortly." Chiron then turned towards Thalia and said, "You may want to gather your hunters as well, Thalia."

As they all left the room Thalia had only two thoughts running through her mind. The first being the strange feeling she had around Danny… The second was a tad more prominent though, 'Clockwork?'

Camp Half-Blood – Fire Pit

Sixty-eight campers and twenty-four huntresses surrounded the fire pit as Chiron addressed the crowd. "Tomorrow night marks another Capture the Flag. With the Campers against the Hunters of Artemis. Due to the recent events in the Titan War… there happens to be a small problem with numbers. As such, Artemis decided that the newest camper shall be joining the Huntresses for this round."

A couple of the campers sniggered at this, glad that they'd finally beat the huntresses. Even if it was a hollow victory. Nearly all of the Huntresses eyed Danny with distrust, and a few with downright hatred.

Sitting away from both groups Danny watched as the two groups sat talking amongst themselves. Gulping silently and fearing for his life (or half-life) at the female fury being directed at him, Danny got up and approached the hunters.

Sabrina, of course, was the first to notice him. "What do you want male?" She spoke with such venom, it was likely Skulker himself would've run from her without a second thought.

Danny however merely raised an eyebrow and said, "And here I thought you'd be nicer after a day free from being stone."

He had thought that meeting her again, she would be a little kinder but seems not.

"Sabrina you know him?" Phoebe asked, as the other remaining hunters looked at them.

"Yeah, he was the one that freed us from Medusa's stone" one of the hunters, he met before answered.

"I see" she looked at him, studying him, before stretching out her hand "thank you for helping Sabrina, Kelly and Lucy."

Some of the hunters were surprised by that action, phoebe was known to be one of the biggest manhaters in the Hunt but it seemed that she had started to cool off after the new girl joined.

"Think nothing of it I was just at the right place" shaking her hand before letting go.

"What are you doing... He's a boy" Sabrina nearly screamed her lungs out.

"Boy he maybe he still saved your lives and for that I am grateful to him for returning to us our fellow sisters" she calmly reply.

"Anyway I just thought that since we are on the same team I would introduce myself."

"I see... Still don't think that we won't fill you will arrows if you try anything."

"Don't worry I won't." raising his hands up, giving an awkward smile.

Thalia who was watching finally spoke loud enough for all the Huntresses to hear. "I'll be honest here, we're more than outnumbered two to one here. Artemis said we might as well take him on our team this time around." She then turned towards Danny and asked, "What are you good at?"

Danny scratched the back of his head before he suddenly smiled. "That depends, I'm pretty adaptable. Defense, offense, and stealth are all equal in my opinion… Actually stealth is a major plus." Danny shook his head before his face changed to reveal a demonic grin. "Or I could be a distraction."

Phoebe raised an eyebrow at him and said, "You'd sacrifice yourself as a distraction?"

"Who said anything about sacrificing? I'm pretty sure it won't be a problem." Danny looked thoughtful for a second before he said, "How good are you guys at ice skating?"

A random huntress scoffed and said, "What does that have to do with anything?"

Danny's smile widened even more and some of the girls shivered at the demonic glint in his eyes. "I've got a talent or two that'll throw off the other campers easily."

The Huntresses just sweatdrop as they saw him crackling to himself. 'he definitely crazy'. All thought.

New York – Mount Olympus – Olympian Throne Room

The gods and goddesses of Olympus just sat in their thrones observing the viewing orb with mild irritation. Ares finally growled, "How are we supposed to figure out whose brat he is, if we can't see him using any of his gifts."

Athena turned to Ares with a scowl on her face. "It's only been an hour, Ares. No doubt we'll see something at the game later."

Hermes suddenly looked up from the viewing orb. "so what do you think he meant by ice skating? It may be December down there, but it doesn't snow in the camp."

Hera only glared at the orb, "More than likely he was alluding to one of his gifts. Though none of us possess any form of ice."

Athena turned towards Hera and said, "Keep in mind that Clockwork said that many of his talents would be misleading." She then noticed Hades' dark scowl on his face and said, "And what bothers you uncle? Something you'd care to contribute?"

Hades stared at the orb showing danny for while before speaking. "He reeks of death".

That silenced the room as everyone processed what he said.

"Sooooo he's your kid." apollo said getting a death glare from the God of the underworld.

"Just because I said he reeks of death doesn't mean he's one of mine." he said angrily at his nephew.

"But aren't you... You know.." hermes started only to shut up when the glare turned to him.

"Well he's not... My kids give off a slight aura of death but him" he turned back to the orb "it raps around him like a cloak... But it's weird am sure I have seen something like this before". He whispered the last part.

"What do you mean uncle." Athena asked.

Hades shook his head. "Honestly I can't be sure. But he's like that huntress of yours Artemis."

Artemis looked at him quizzically, "Who do you mean?"

"The sick one."

Artemis bristled while Apollo looked depressed. "I still can't figure out what's wrong with her. There isn't a single bad bacteria or virus in her body. Her cells are fine if a bit unusual…"

Athena looked at Apollo confused, "What do you mean unusual?"

Apollo snorted and replied, "Exactly what I mean, unusual. She's got two different kinds of blood in her. Normal human red blood… and some weird spec green blood. I was able to tell that she needs both in her body, though as to why I can't tell. The amount of red blood is slowly decreasing while the green is increasing, like it's overpowering her."

"Do you think that there might be some kind of connection between the two of them?"

Hades was the one to respond. "I'm certain of it. When Artemis frist picked up the girl her death aura was brighter but now it's your blessing has covered it up so I can't be sure. The life auras surrounding them are almost exactly the same. Either the boy is somehow her father or twin. Though the auras surrounding them tells me that he's her father."

Dionysus looked at Hades confused. "The two of them are only about five to six years apart. Neither of those make sense."

Hephaestus suddenly looked up with a glint in his eyes. "Not in a traditional sense. Maybe she's some kind of advanced animatronic."

Apollo quickly responded with a flesh and blood comment while Hades proclaimed, "She has an aura that says she is alive and dead at the same time. Just like that Danny kid. Regardless she is alive. Not one of your robotic monsters."

"A Homunculi then! They've existed before!"

Before the fighting worsened Artemis shouted, "ENOUGH! I will not just sit here and allow you to insult one of my huntresses with your idiotic suggestions. She is alive, she is sick, that is all!"

Artemis then leaned back against her throne as the room fell silent. Athena eventually broke the silence and addressed Artemis, "You have to admit that there must be some sort of connection between the two of them."

Artemis sighed and said, "For now she needs to rest. Her condition has been getting even worse lately. I don't want to hurt her."

"But if there's a connec-"

"Look, I don't ask my huntresses their life stories. They usually choose to tell me, but the only one she has spoken to was Phoebe."

Zeus interrupted then, "Then why not just ask her and be done with it?"

Artemis bristled and said, "I have! Phoebe has told me that they're the girl's secrets to tell not hers. And that she is respecting that trust as much as her oath."

Aphrodite suddenly groaned. "I hate Clockwork right now!" At everyone's questioning stare she smiled sheepishly and said, "I was planning on messing with his love life a little but Clockwork won't let me."

Poseidon looked at her rather annoyed, "Haven't you messed up enough people's love lives, Aphrodite?"

Aphrodite suddenly grinned and said, "Who says I was going to make it worse? Clockwork said that he probably has the most interesting love life that I could ever imagine. I only wanted to help move it along a little faster."

Hephaestus smiled then, "Perhaps I've got a new television series coming soon."

Hermes just raised an eyebrow and said, "You do realize that we're all getting to watch it for free right?" In response Hephaestus just grumbled to himself while Apollo and Poseidon burst out laughing.

A lot of people have been asking me for an update, so here you go.

I have problems putting ideas down... It's annoying to have hundreds of ideas but they keep clashing with each other so it takes time for me to write them.

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