Authors note: The chapters will get longer with time.

Chap.3.

|lios

Ilios didn't think her day could get any weirder until the man from her dream came to her school. First, she was walking over to the tree from her vision when she saw something glimmering in the sun, so she walked over to see what it was. The glimmering thing turned out to be her locket, as she was picking it up some strange blinding light appeared out of nowhere at all. She looked up from her locket to see the man with the gold hair from her dream. He looked exactly the same. He said, "Go look for a strawberry field in Long Island, New York. Take the girl with red hair with you." "Do you mean Cora?" Ilios asked "I think that's her name. Anyways in the strawberry field you will see a hill with a pine tree, that will have a sign reading Camp Half-Blood. You and whatever her name is walk inside there and tell them you need to speak to Rachel Elizabeth Dare, and keep close to that locket, you'll need it." "Wait, who are you?" "Me? I'm Apollo, and I advise you to look away." Ilios looked away, and he was gone.

"Ilios? Who was that? And I need to tell you something. Well, a few things actually." Cora said from behind Ilios. "Gosh, you scared me!" Ilios responded. The girls never got the time to talk, and it looked like it would be a while till they could.

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Jeez. Cora decided this was definitely the weirdest day ever. "Ilios where are we going?" "Home first. Then, you'll see." "Ugh. I hate it when I'm left out of the loop." "Come on." On the way home, Cora decided not to tell anyone about what happened with the tree, not yet anyway. At home Cora took her backpack (it was black), dumped out her school stuff, and put in clothes, a hairbrush, toothbrush and toothpaste, some non-perishable food, and a water bottle. Cora wasn't sure where they were going, but she had a feeling it would be awhile until they came home. She ran downstairs, grabbed a jacket, and put it in her bag.

After about 30 minutes Cora asked, "Where are we going?" "I will tell you on the way there," Ilios replied. "How are we gonna get there?" Cora asked. "I don't know." Cora thought maybe she could try to fall through a tree again. "Tell me where we are going, and I'll try to get us there," Cora said uncertainty. "Ok. We're going to Long Island, New York. There should be a hill with a strawberry field and a sign saying Camp Half-Blood." Ilios replied. "We need to find a shadowy tree." "Why?" Ilios asked. "Because we need to fall through it." Cora simply responded. "How do we do that?" "I think we just hold hands and I fall backward pulling you with me, but I don't really know," Cora stated. "What the actual heck, if I get injured it's your fault." "We should probably write a note to 'Mom' though," Cora said. "Well yeah, we don't want her to worry about us. Yet, I still feel bad doing this." After Cora and Ilios wrote a note to their adoptive mom Cora led Ilios outside to the shade of a tree and grabbed her hand. "Well here goes nothing." And Cora fell into the shade of the tree dragging Ilios with her.

They reappeared in the shade of a pine tree on top of a hill. "Dang, I didn't actually think that I could do it again." Cora said a little surprised. "Wait, you weren't sure that would work?!" Ilios exclaimed. "Well, I did it for the first time earlier today so of course I wasn't sure if it would work. But hey, it did." "Holy cow," Ilios replied. "Wow, is this the camp place?" Cora asked. "I'm pretty sure," Ilios said. Then Cora saw a guy in a wheelchair looking at them. When he saw her looking back he beckoned them over. When they were by him he said, "Hello, you must be the two children Apollo said would be coming. My name is Chiron."