Disclaimer: Do I really look like Rick?

Also, I made a huge mistake. Chiara is Damien's bickering partner, not Claudia. Whoops.

*gets kicked out of Athena cabin* oh c'mon Malcoln...*runs from an angry Damien* uh oh...

It was another normal day at Camp Half-Blood. It was summertime, the Demeter and Dionysus cabins were workign with the satyrs in the strawberry fields, Percy, Annabeth and Jason were overseeing construction of various cabins, shrines, temples, and the repairs need to the Big House (Julia, Alicia, Connor, and Travis were banned from entering without supervision for at least a week), Leo and Calypso were making repairs to Festus with the help of Cabin 9, Piper and her cabinmates were teaching pegasi riding, and even Clarisse and Nico were in good moods for once, both going at each other in the arena for the whole morning with their boyfrieds cheering them on. The Giant War had ended the year before, the Romans were as friendly with the Greeks as ever, and everything seemed quite calm and normal.

Then the peace broke.

Damien White was the first to see the small gorup of what could only be demigods and a satyr being chased by a hydra. The call went out and just as the group (1 satyr and 4 demigods) reached Half-Blood Hill, Leo, Percy, Jason, Nico, Clarisse, and several other campers had raced out of the borders to deal with the hydra. Meanwhile, Will, Annabeth, and Piper got the three demigods and the satyr inside the borders.

"Yo Leo, a little fire over here!" Jason yelled.

Leo shot a blast that nearly hit Clarisse, who growled, "Valdez!"

"Sorry!"

"They'll be alright, won't they?" one of the demigods, a brown-haired girl with startling blue eys asked, panting for breath.

""Oh, don't worry about them. They've faced worse." Piper shrugged as Percy swiped off a head and Leo burned it to ash.

"Looks like fun. I'd join in but I can't shoot an arrow any better then Percy can." Will sighed, cleaning a cut on the satyr's arm.

"Speaking of which, I'm going to join in. Come with, Piper?" Annabeth asked, taking out her knife.

Piper nodded. "Definitely. Can't let the boyfriends have all the fun now, huh?" Both girls charged in to join the fight, which was already starting to end.

Another of the new demigods, a jock with a shock of black hair, stared at them. "Are they mad?" he demanded.

"They're actually the most logical of the head counselors." the satyr replied.

The groups came back, the monster having exploded to golden dust. "That was boring compared to the Giants." Percy complained.

"Yeah, yeah, we all know, you fought, what, 5 of them in one summer?" Nico grumbled.

"I don't know, I lost count actually."

"Seaweed brains." Annabeth and Nico both chimed in unison.

Jason sized up the new demigods. The girl with the brown hair, the jock with the black hair, a boy with red hair, and a girl with blond braids.

"Wow, Fern, no wonder you told us to be prepared." Jason noted.

The satyr shrugged. "Well, at least it was only a hydra."

"Wait, so where are we and who are you guys anyways?" The girl with the braids jumped in.

Annabeth stepped forward. "This," she motioned to the camp, "is Camp Half-Blood, where children of the Greek gods-which are very much real-come to train and learn how to survive. You four are demigods, just like me and my friends here. Fern is a satyr, someone who goes out into the world looking for demigods to bring ot camp."

"And yeah. The Greek gods are really real. So are the Roman, Norse, and Egyptian gods, but you only really need to worry about the Greek and Roman ones." Percy unhelpfuly added.

The four new campers looked stunned.

"Great job, Percy. You scared them." Piper sighed.

Clarisse rolled her eyes. "They'll get over it. Meanwhile, I'm going back to sparring. I have a tab to settle with Sherman. See you later." Clarisse went off.

"I'll take them to Chiron." Jason voluntered, after a moment of awkward silence. "Give them the grand tour, too.."

"And I'm going to go hide out in my cabin and eat McDonald's." Nico said, before running off, with Will in hot pursuit.

The other went their seperate ways. Jason and Fern started guiding the demigods to the Big House, explaining things along the way.

As it turns out, the brunnette girl was named Kira. The black-haired boy was Rick. The blonde girl was Leah, and the redhaired was Sam. All four were from a town in West Virginia.

They'd stopped on the porch, and Jason had gone in to get Chiron. And then he remembered and cam back out.

"i forgot. Chiron's out on buisness." He groaned.

"Mr. D?" Fern asked.

"Sleeping. I'd rather not wake him. He'd probably turnn me into a dolphin. I've heard him threaten Percy before and Pollux is gods knows where."

"Wish I could help, but I've got a council meeting to get to. Good luck, guys, Jason's a good guy. Roman, but makes a great Greek." Fern grinned, before trotting off.

Sam sputtered. "Roman?"

"Son of Jupiter, Roman equivalent of Zeus. Moved over here after the War ended but I've been going back and forth building shrines and temples for all the gods and goddess." Jason shrugged, jumping off the porch. "Anyways, let me give you the grand tour." He gestured them to follow, and they oblidged.

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"...Andfor now, you'll be in the Hermes cabin, until you get claimed." Jason said, pointing it out. "Keep a hand on your wallet and watch your footing, children of Hermes like a good prank. And stealing."

"Uh, what's "claiming"?" Leah asked.

The sign of Demeter appeared over Kira's head. "That is. All hail Kira, daughter of Demeter!" Jason called out, kneeling down. ALl the nearby campers in the vicinity rushed over and did the same, repeating Jason's words.

Katie came up to Kira. "I'm Katie Gardner, head of Demeter. Come on, I"ll introduce you to the rest of our siblings." She led Kira off towards a very flourishful cabin.

"Question answered now?" Jason asked Leah, who shrugged.

"So...our godly parents will just put up a symbol over our heads?"

"not always. Some appear in person, like Mars-Roman equivalant of Ares-did for my friend, Frank, when he got claimed. Sometimes you find out on your own, like Nico did. And if you're a child of Aphrodite, you get a makeover, which I'm sure Piper would love to tell you all about. He wasn't thrilled, that's for sure." Jason chuckled.

"So it depends on the god. Great." Rick crossed his arms.

"Yeah, well, I'm pretty sure you're not a child of Aphrodite. I'm thinking Ares or Hephaestus for you. Leah seems like either a child of Apollo or a minor god, and Sam, hmm, probably a minor god or goddess." Jason speculated. "But until we know for sure, you stay in the Hermes cabin. SHouldn't take too long thouh, you'll be claimed before the campfire tonight. Yo Stolls! Unclaimed demigods!" Jason hollered to two identical-looking boys.

The duo came over. "Hi I'm Travis,"

"I'm Conner,"

"And we're the Stolls!" they yelled.

"And for once they got it right." a passing Kayla remarked. The duo just rolled their eyes at the daughter of Apollo, who simply laughed.

The trio of new campers looked at each other, slightly nervous at the rather mischeivious-looking sons of Hermes in front of them.

Thing swere about to get wild if these two were allowed to be head counselors.

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Jason had been right. Mostly.

Rick was a son of Ares. Clarisse looked slightly annoyed that the boy-girl ratio in her cabin was still greatly uneven, but welcomed Rick with the same enthusiasm as the others in her cabin.

Leah turned out to be a child of Apollo after all. Will looked thrilled.

And Sam was a child of Tyche. Sherman Yang joked that since red was lucky in Chinese culture, Sam fit the bill perfectly.

He got a slap upside the head from Chiara for that.

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Leah was glad that at least she didn't have to spend the night in the same cabin as a bunch of theives and pickpockets. And the Apollo kids were definitely nice.

Will was the head counselor. She'd already met him on Half-Blood Hill, but know she wasn't running for her life, she actually noticed him properly. He was three years older, way taller, and according to the others, had survived two wars, pretty impressive to her.

Austin was fun. She was good at violin, he was good at saxophone. They could talk music together easily.

Kayla was slightly younger but was just as nice as the others. Leah decided not to question the two-dads thing, but did ask about why she couldn't join the Olympics. After all, other younger-then-16-year-olds had joined. Kayla had explained that as a child of Apollo, she had to follow some slightly different rules to make it fairer. But not by much.

Leah went to sleep pretty happy with her life. Even if she was miles from the place she'd grown up in.

The next day, she was walking near Half-Blood Hill when she saw the black-clothed boy from the day before. SHe dimly remembered his name as Nick. Or was it Mick? Either way, he was making a beeline for the border.

She hurried up to him. "Are you leaving camp? I thought we're not supposed to leave."

The boy glanced at her. He was about Will's age, but way shorter. He looked quite pale and had the air of someone who'd seen and done a lot.

"You're one of the new ones, aren't you?" his high-pitched voice, which seemed extremely out of place for his look, asked.

Leah nodded. "Then you probably don't know."

"Know what?"

The boy gave a creepy smile. "The Ghost King never stays put in one place."

"I-uh, what?"

The boy smirked and pulled out a peice of paper that was folded. "Give this to Solace. He knows what I'm doing, and this way he can't IM me in the middle of my indulgence."

Leah tentatively took the paper, and the boy gave a wave and sprinted off before she could say anything else.

She ran down to the infirmary to find Will, who was tending a groaning camper that had been stabed in the leg several times. "Will! Some goth kid said to give this to you before running out of camp!"

The camper glanced up. "Again? You gotta be kidding, he just went on a Micky D's run two days ago!"

"He could also have just as well gone to Percy's apartment for cookies, Mitchelll." Will countered, taking the note. "Thanks, Leah." He unfolded it, scanned it over, then gave a sigh of exasperation. "Remind me to yelll at him when he gets back and tie him down in the infirmary for a day."

Leah shifted awkwardly. "So..uh...who is he? He never gave a name, besides saying he was the Ghost King.."

Mitchell snorted. "Nico di Angelo, Ghost King, Ambassader of Pluto. Survived the Labyrinth with his sanity intact-almost alonee except for a mad ghost-, did some smooth talking to get Hades to fight in the Battle for Manhattan, did more smooth talking when he went to check out the Roman camp, broke a bunch of rules of the Underworld, almost got strangled by Percy several times, went to Tarturus, saw it in all its glory and survived it-barely, spent a week in a jar, then brought the Athena Parthenos back and nearly killed himself."

"T-wha...? How old is he?" Leah gasped.

Wil lsnorted. "15. Found out when he was 10. But Percy and Annabeth did more., Percy found out two years before meeting Nico and ANnabeth's been living in this crazy world for the last 11 years. Although, to be fair, Nico trumps them by about 60 years..."

"Gossiing about me, Solace?"

Leah turned to see Nico step out of the shadows. She shrieked and fell backwards.

Will caught her. "Sheesh, Death Boy, don't do that. ALso, I told you to stop sahdow-traveling."

"Don't worry, Dad did the honors. By the way, Demeter and Persephone are currently both in a cereal-and-brownies-mood so please don't mention either food, thanks." He grabbed some ambrosia out of Will's pocket and chewed on it. "Gross. Why does this taste liike Cheerios?"

Will rolled his eyes and pointed to a bed in the cornor. "Go. You're gonna drop in 10 seconds."

"Annoying doctor boyfriends..." Nico muttered, trudging over and collasping on the cot.

"B-boyfriend?" Leah stared.

"Yeah, they're the second cutest at camp next to Percabeth." Mitchell grinned, hopping off his own cot. "ANyways, thanks Will. See you guys later." He headed out.

Leah could only stare in shock after him."Uh...Will, who's Nico's godly parent?"

"Hades, god of the Underworld and death."

"And...Apollo represents...?"

"Healing, the sun, music, prophecy, archery..."

Will ended up catching Leah as she collapsed from shock. "I should really work on the timing." he muttered, lying his sister down on a vacant bed.

To be continued...maybe...or not...XD