Author's note: Hi, here's chapter 3! This is a long chapter, longer than the previous two, but I guarantee its awesomeness. I am going on vacation for some days so I wanted to post this before I left. Thanks to those who read it *3* Please, pleaaaase review it ;_; don't make me suffer!

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Even if all those people were around the campfire, Annabeth insisted to go to something she called The Big House. As she pointed it to us I could see it was a house, but there wasn't really anything big about it. It was a small and old-looking, two-story house. It was painted baby blue, and even if it was dark, I could tell the paint was cracking and fading. Annabeth hurried us down the hill. I could tell she was anxious.

There was a big porch in front of the house. Annabeth told us to sit there for a while and then mumbled something about the campfire and finding someone, impatiently asked Leo to take care of us, and ran off towards the amphitheater. I awkwardly sat down next to Magnus. Leo was distractedly looking towards the campfire, his expression unreadable for the first time since I had met him. Which was about four hours ago.

Surprisingly, Magnus was looking at me. His green eyes were glowing in the dark, iridescent when he looked towards the fire in the distance. His black hair was still silky and shiny, even if it was a bit disheveled. He looked extremely handsome. He gave me a little encouraging smile when he noticed I was looking at him, too.

"You know?" He said with a sigh. "I may not remember anything important like my age or anything Annabeth was talking about, but I remember one thing for certain." He was no longer looking at me but straight ahead.

"What is it?" I asked with curiosity.

"I remember you. I can't really explain it. I didn't know your name or anything, but I knew I know you. When we were at the cinema I looked at you and you looked at me and I saw your eyes, and the only thing my mind was capable of doing was saying: look at those blue eyes, you know you've missed them. And maybe talking to myself is stupid but my mind was right. I remember your eyes. I remember looking at you, and I can't really remember if it's good or not, but all I know is I feel close to you." He looked at me again. His eyes were shiny, his expression lost. "Pretty crazy, huh?" For once, I was at a loss for words. What did that mean? Was Magnus also gay? Had we been in a relationship? Were we sworn enemies? Everything could be possible. I understood Magnus's sadness. All I wanted was to remember. I'd have given up anything to know more about my own life before today.

I jerked up, startled as Magnus unexpectedly took my hand. His hand was surprisingly warm, even if the air out here was really cold. I was about to squeeze his hand reassuringly when I noticed he wasn't holding my hand at all. His thumb was tracing a pattern in my skin. I instantly noticed what he was touching. He was looking at my hand curiously, not taking his eyes off it. I looked at my hand and thought has this always been here? Well, at this point always meant since I woke up in the floor of a movie theater.

In the back of my hand, almost as if it was burned into my skin, was a tattoo. It was the weird and abstract shape of an eye, its corner a little curved up in a wing. When Magnus touched it, I felt the shape warmly tingle in my skin. I looked down at it and gasped in surprise when I noticed it was no longer black. The eye was vivid red, as if it had been recently burned to my skin. Also, as he touched it, blue sparks flew off Magnus's fingers. Leo hadn't been really paying attention to us, but that got his attention. His eyes went wide at first, but then he smiled. His grin made him look like a devious kid tricking people on Halloween. I heard him whisper I knew it! I was about to ask why was he smiling like crazy and what did he know when I heard footsteps.

Well, not really footsteps. I could hear someone sprinting and something that sounded oddly like horse hooves. As I looked up, I saw Annabeth coming towards us. There were two people, one at each of her sides. Well, not exactly people. To the right was a tall and skinny boy with really messed up dark hair. He was wearing an orange t-shirt and shorts. To the left was a man riding on horseback.

Or so I thought until he approached. As I looked ahead I saw a handsome, middle-aged man with brown hair and a messy beard of the same color. His chest was bare and I could see he was fairly tan. I gasped in surprise as I looked down his waist. Where his pants should have been, was, well, a white horse. It was as if the man was joined with the horse. But that was impossible. His tail was swinging as he looked at Magnus and me with a curious expression. I completely pictured the guy as a teacher for some reason. There was just something about his presence that emanated curiosity and knowledge.

He walked forwards and wiped his hooves on the doormat. Annabeth and the other guy followed him. With his human half, he jerked the door open and held it that way for everyone to go in. His calmness was making me nervous.

"Please come inside" He said. It didn't seem like a request but an order. Annabeth and the guy with the orange t-shirt went in. With a shrug, I followed, Magnus instantly on my heels. It took Leo some seconds to do the same. He looked at the horse man sternly in the eye before following us. I found myself in what looked like a games room. There was a ping-pong table there and an old-fashioned Pac-man arcade in one of the corners, beeping in abandon.

The horse man gestured for us to sit at a small lounge with a table in the center. Annabeth, the other guy and Leo sat on the same couch, instantly making themselves comfortable. I noticed the other guy had his arm around Annabeth's shoulders. Magnus sat on another couch and I followed him. For an instant, I panicked at the thought of him hugging me like the other guy was holding Annabeth. I was really confused about him right now. What the hell were we? Why was I so attracted to him?

The horse man then did something really unexpected. He tried to sit on a chair, which, I noticed, was a wheel chair. I closed my eyes in anticipation, waiting for the wheelchair to crack and break under his weight, but it didn't. I opened my eyes after a few seconds and realized he was storing his hindquarters in the chair. How could that even be possible? When he was done, he looked like a normal man in a wheelchair. There was even a pair of plastic legs with stripped suit pants to make it look real. The only thing that ruined the image was his still bare chest.

When he was finally seated, the conversation began.

"Chiron! It's happening again… Please tell me there is no third great prophecy or something like that, we just got through the last one." Annabeth babbled. As she said this, her boyfriend's eye widened, but he remained quiet. I was thinking about the right questions to ask when Magnus did it instead.

"Okay, what is going on? Everyone has been saying weird things about Alec and I since we found you and we have no idea about what anything of it means. Could you please stop talking between yourselves like we weren't here? Whatever you want to know, I want to know it as much as you do, so please, someone care to explain?" He said in exasperation. I smiled as I saw the look on everybody's faces.

"Okay." Annabeth began, sighing. "First things first. This is Alec Lightwood" she pointed towards me with her hand "and this is Magnus Bane. Alec, Magnus, this is Chiron" she then pointed to the horse man. "He is our teacher, our counselor. Now, this" she jerked her head sideways to signal the guy hugging her. "is Percy Jackson, the only son of Poseidon in camp. And you already know Leo Valdez. Son of Hephaestus, and we could pretty much say he is the official, uh, mechanic or something in the camp." Leo didn't look pleased with this description but he didn't object. His hands were toying nervously with a pink rubber band.

"So…" Began Chiron. "Tell me, Magnus, Alexander, how did you find Annabeth and Leo? Or how did they find you?" I was too surprised to speak. How did he know my real name? I hadn't even told Annabeth, I had introduced myself plainly as Alec. I must have been quiet for too long because Magnus started explaining for both of us.

"Well, I woke up and I was in a cinema in that tiny room where movies are projected. No movie was being played and when I looked through the window I saw a guy who looked really confused" He looked at me for a few seconds, a mixture of admiration and affection written in his face. "And instantly I knew that I knew him. I don't really understand." He waited for someone to say something, but everyone was carefully listening, so he continued. "Anyway, Leo was a janitor there and he talked to me pretty casually like he had seen me before. Alec and I stayed to watch a movie, which was horrible, by the way, I don't know how can anyone make a movie with such a bad costume design." He made an exasperated gesture with his hands "So the movie was ending but someone screamed and then a disaster started because there was a disgusting monster there. So Leo killed it with his broom" I guessed he hadn't seen Leo's broom turn into a sword. Both Leo and Annabeth smiled when he said it "and then Annabeth appeared out of nowhere and told us to run. I didn't have any idea of who they were but I said Heck, why not? Even if they could turn out to be creepy kidnappers or something. And they brought us here. Now you can talk, everybody. You know, in case someone was waiting for my permission." He let out the breath he had been holding while he talked nonstop. He seemed to relax, since he flexed his arms and put them carelessly behind his head. That did really good things for his biceps. I forced myself not to look while I hoped I wasn't blushing.

Everyone still looked expectantly at us. Percy Jackson's eyes were lost in thought. I didn't even know if he had been paying attention. All Chiron did was frown. The air was tense with silence. It was Annabeth who finally broke it.

"So, Magnus, tell Chiron what you told me when we were walking." She asked gently.

"Oh, I told her that I liked her shoes!" Answered Magnus happily.

"Not that" Annabeth frowned, self-consciously looking down at her orange shoes, which matched with Percy's shirt. "About your age." Magnus didn't look particularly happy comfortable with the topic. Even if nobody had been talking to me, I decided to answer for him and spare him the embarrassment.

"Okay, I'm eighteen, Magnus is nineteen, what about it?" I inquired. Why had Annabeth and Leo freaked out when we told them our ages? I really wanted to find out, this was starting to turn creepy.

"I said I thought I was nineteen." Magnus mumbled nervously. I could tell he didn't like all the inquiries about what he didn't remember.

"Why does nobody get it?!" Annabeth exclaimed, making a gesture of exasperation with her hands. "He doesn't remember his age! They don't seem to remember anything. They're way older than usual. Isn't it too much of a coincidence that they were at the same building where we had received a tip about a monster hiding? And he understands Greek!" She energetically pointed at me. "I don't know about any of you, but I'm done with the Gods' games. They're here for a reason and I'm going to find out." She stood up hastily without looking at anyone. She looked at the sky, or rather the ceiling. "YOU'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE ANYONE AWAY THIS TIME, DO YOU HEAR ME?" she screamed. Thunder rumbled outside, but maybe it was my imagination since the sky had been clear. Then she left.

"Dude, why is she so sensitive? I totally agree with her, but she still acted like we were all against her." Leo said nervously to Percy. The latter just shook his head with a certain air of sadness.

"Leo, everyone has been a bit sensitive lately. Not six months have passed since you returned from your great quest. I agree with Annabeth, it would be too bad to have to deal with another prophecy or another unfortunate demigod exchange right now." Chiron said, rubbing his temples.

Magnus was tapping his foot impatiently on the floor. I knew that, like myself, he didn't like the turn the conversation was taking. Nobody was explaining anything to us. Leo and Chiron kept talking about someone named Jason, who I guessed was the guy Leo talked so much about. Magnus sighed and looked at me. I rolled my eyes at Leo and Chiron and shrugged. I silently raised my hand to ask for their attention, but they didn't even look up from their conversation, which Percy had joined with an uncomfortable look. Magnus then hit the table with his palm to make them look up, and this time it worked.

"Um, hello? Don't mind us, we're just here trying to make sense about every single thing you said." He said with fake distress in his voice. Percy let out a laugh and Chiron silenced him with a look, looking ashamed.

"I'm so sorry, my dears. It has been a rough year here at camp." He sighed. "You're right, you need some answers. We normally use an introduction video, but I think it wouldn't be nearly enough. So, for starters, do you know why you're here?" He asked, his attention totally focused on us.

"I'm guessing it's not because of my fabulous fashion sense…" Magnus said sarcastically. I couldn't help but laugh. My mind instantly associated Magnus with fashion. While I was wearing jeans, converse and a plain, black sweater, he was wearing tight leather pants, an extra-snug purple t-shirt, a fancy blue jacket, combat boots that looked brand-new and that shiny earring I had noticed before. My mind instantly flashed the image of him with a blue scarf in his hands. I heard his voice yell in my mind And that scarf, I'll have you know, is from the Gap! I got it last year! Somehow, I knew it was the same color as my eyes. I knew my eyes were blue because Magnus had said it, but I hadn't looked at a mirror since I woke up. How did I know the color of my eyes?! I struggled to remember more, but as soon as the memory came, it left, but not without whispering sweat pea in Magnus's now familiar voice. When I opened my eyes, everyone was looking at me with a worried look on their faces.

"Alec, what happened?" Magnus's voice was full of sweet concern. He gently rubbed the spot between my shoulders. I didn't think he even noticed he was doing it. He frowned when he noticed I was smiling. "What?"

"I remembered something. But it's nothing important" I looked at him, trying to say not now. "Was I unconscious?"

"For like two minutes" Said Percy, talking to me for the first time. "What did you remember?" He asked eagerly. "This happened to me last year, and usually, the things you remember are triggered by something that happened at the moment. What was it?" I blushed. As insignificant as it seemed, I didn't want to tell them about the short moment I remembered. I had the feeling it was something between me and Magnus.

"Ummm, I saw the color of my eyes in my mind. I didn't know what color they were." I said nervously, twisting my finger around a loose thread on my sweater.

"Uh, they're blue" said Percy frowning. "Was that all?"

"Yeah" I lied. "What where you saying before it happened?"

"I was saying" started Chiron "that no, you're not here because of Mr. Bane's unusual fashion tastes. You're here because your parent, or one of your parents, more accurately, is a God or a Goddess." I frowned in concentration, searching in my empty mind something about my parents. I could remember nothing.

"My mother is dead" said Magnus as if he was really sure. Maybe he had remembered something.

"So, is your father the mortal?" Leo asked.

"The what?" I asked.

"The mortal. The human." Answered Percy distractedly.

"What does that mean?" Magnus and I asked in unison. We instantly turned to look at each other. He smiled, not his mischievous grin but a real, sincere smile. He looked so cute. I looked down at my hands -which weren't nearly as interesting as his smile- and blushed.

"A mortal is a plain human." Said Chiron. He seemed to be thinking of a better way to explain it. "It's someone who—" He was cut off by footsteps. Annabeth came into the room. She had changed into a T-shirt that matched Percy's. She was sweating and her hair, pulled up in a messy ponytail, was disheveled, but she actually looked way calmer than earlier.

"Nobody's missing." She said. She frowned and then added, "I actually checked twice. Travis and Connor Stoll were hiding to prank someone from Apollo cabin, but I found them in the end."

"So they weren't switched for other demigods" Percy said. Leo stood up and started creepily looking at us from different angles.

"They must be Romans!" He said cheerfully. "Good, I can use all of my old jokes on them. Romans react funnier, like when I put peanut butter in Frank's socks and—"

"Leo," Chiron interrupted impatiently "the Roman camp is no longer our sworn enemy. Peace exists between us, and you demigods are the proof. If the Roman camp were to send demigods here, they wouldn't wipe their memory clean, they would certainly just send them."

"Okay, fine" Leo said with defeat "What are they? Irish demigods, Egyptian demigods? Jedi knights?"

"Actually, Egyptian gods didn't go around having children with mortals" said Annabeth proudly.

"INTERMISSION" Magnus said loudly. I thanked him. It was bad enough to not understand anything, but having to hear them argue like that without including us every five minutes was starting to get on my nerves. "So, if all you say is true, our parents are Gods and you are now debating their nationalities. Well, I have a feeling I'm Asian, if you ask." I stifled a laugh.

"At Camp Half-Blood live the children of the Greek Gods" Chiron began, patiently "But last year, Percy disappeared and in his place arrived Jason Grace, who is a child of a Roman god. His case was identical to yours, he didn't remember anything and he appeared at a place with other demigods" he looked unconsciously at Leo "so, my best guess is that you were sent from somewhere else, since your memory was wiped away"

"Um, Chiron? Is it possible that they both fell in the same place and hit their heads and got real amnesia? If nobody is missing, it means that nobody is making a trade" Percy said with some hope. I was guessing that if he had suffered from something similar last year, he didn't want it to happen again. Annabeth laughed nervously

"Seaweed Brain, you know that coincidences like that never happen when we're dealing with the Gods" she said sweetly.

"Actually, I have a proof that Magnus might actually be a demigod." Leo said. He looked at Magnus with a more solemn expression "you said your mother was dead, right?" Magnus nodded. "Chiron, when we were outside, he was, uh, touching Alec's hand and his fingers started to burst with magic. If his mom is the goddess, he is a son of Hecate." I blushed furiously when he mentioned us holding hands. I unconsciously touched my hand, longing from his touch, and I felt the eye tattoo against my skin. I looked down at it and noticed it was starting to blacken again.

Apparently, I was not the only person to look at my hand. The conversation about Magnus stopped. Annabeth put her arm forward and showed me a tattoo of her own. Like mine, it looked like it was burned to the skin. In the middle of her forearm were the letters SPQR, an owl and a single tally mark.

"Chiron, could this be a symbol of his place of origin?" Asked Annabeth. She took my hand, but not in an affectionate sort of way, just to show it to Chiron. "Like a cult. Ours symbolize our belonging to the twelfth legion" She straightened her back proudly. Both Percy and Leo had uncovered their arms, showing tattoos of their own. Theirs were identical to Annabeth's, except that, instead of an owl, Percy had a trident and Leo something that looked like a hammer on fire. "Maybe Alec had to go through some rite of initiation"

"But I don't have any mark!" Magnus protested "does that mean we're not from the same place?" Good question. My brain was tired of thinking so much, of trying to remember. I yawned before I could prevent it.

"Okay, kids. I think we should let them rest and tomorrow we'll figure out everything. If they're Greek, they will be claimed at tomorrow's campfire at the latest. Percy, could you take them to cabin eleven?" Percy nodded and beckoned for us to follow. Magnus thanked Chiron and I did the same. We then stepped into the porch and began walking towards the assorted buildings.

Everything that had happened suddenly hit me. While I was with Chiron, I'd had no trouble believing everything he said, but now it seemed crazy. Greek Gods? Seriously? It had to be impossible! How was I even here? I had woken up in a crappy movie theater and now I found myself at a supernatural camp where everyone believed in Gods. Including my parents! Who were my parents? I wondered if Magnus was having any trouble dealing with it, since he looked fairly calm now.

"So, when you are new to camp and you don't know who your godly parent is you stay at cabin eleven. The Hermes cabin." Percy broke the silence. "I stayed here when I first arrived. It is kind of, uh, full."

"How do the houses work?" I asked with curiosity.

"One of your parents is a mortal, one is a God or a Goddess. Every God and Goddess has a cabin. For example, my father is Poseidon and I'm his only kid, so I stay at cabin three. Your godly parent has to claim you, acknowledging you are their son. So, when they haven't done that, you stay indefinitely at cabin eleven. Hermes is the God of travelers, so he gives asylum. But, in my opinion, he should be the God of canned sardines, since his cabin looks like one." We were passing a cabin that was completely black and had luminous green torches at each side of the door. I thought it was extremely cool.

When we finally arrived at cabin eleven, the only word I could use to describe it was plain. It was painted white and even looked like a normal house, for the exception of that medical emblem of a stick with snakes on the door. Magnus wrinkled his nose. Percy quietly opened the door and murmured Travis? A tall kid got off his bed and came towards us. He was blond and looked really sleepy.

"What's up?" he mumbled sleepily.

"This are Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood, they're new arrivals. If they're lucky, they'll be claimed by tomorrow." Percy said in a low voice.

"Oh, wonderful! We are actually pretty empty right now, the Gods have been in a claiming mood recently. We have two empty bunks there" he pointed to a corner of the room. "You can sleep there. Just be sure to wake up early. Welcome to camp and all, now goodnight." He said, yawning, as he walked back to his bunk. Percy said goodnight and left, closing the door behind him.

Magnus and I walked to our bunks, being careful not to step on anything. Luckily, there wasn't anyone sleeping on the floor, even if there were sleeping bags everywhere. We found two empty bunks next to another and lay down. None of us actually had nightclothes, so we decided to sleep in what we were wearing.

After about twenty minutes, I was still pretty uneasy about everything. I was far from sleeping, my mind recalling everything that had happened since I had woken up. Next to me, I heard the tossing of Magnus's sheets. Maybe I wasn't the only one having trouble sleeping.

"Can't sleep?" I whispered.

"Hardly" He answered. "Alec" he whispered almost inaudibly.

"Yes?"

"What did you remember earlier?" I blushed. I had actually forgotten about it. "Was it about me?"

"Yes. Uh, I think we were fighting" I said as I remembered his voice yelling.

"Fighting?" He asked with amusement "About what?"

"Well, I know it sounds stupid, but about a scarf. Oh, and, ummm, I heard you call me sweat pea." I said with a little embarrassment. He giggled as silently as he could.

"Well, that sounds totally adorable!"

We kept talking, careful of not waking the others. Our bunks were close enough, so we could almost whisper in each other's ear. After about half an hour we decided to try to sleep again. He leaned close to my face. At first, it seemed like he was going to kiss my cheek. I was too mesmerized to do anything about it. But then, he seemed to change his mind and he shyly gave me a peck on the lips. I could feel all my blood rush up to my face. My first thought was to punch him. He kissed me!

"Goodnight, Alexander" he said sweetly into my ear.

"Goodnight." I said, surprising even myself when I gave him another kiss.

Oh, by the way, I don't own the characters, etc. Awesome Rick Riordan and Cassandra Clare do. Di Immortales!

And oh, by the way (#2), a few words regarding the timing of this story. This is being written after City of Lost Souls and The Mark of Athena were published. Nor City of Heavenly fire or The House of Hades and its unnamed sequel have been published, so I don't have any idea of what will happen there. In this story, Heroes of Olympus is already over. What may happen in House of Hades or Book 5 I invented it myself u.u I am certainly NOT going to wait until October 2014 just to get the details on my fanfiction right, am I? D; Also, this happens right after City of Lost Souls. City of Heavenly fire hasn't been published either but it's kind of irrelevant for this fanfiction~

Anyway, I love you if you read and review. Next chapter up after the weekend!