I know I haven't updated for a while, but with school starting... yea. I'm trying to balance writing with my homework, and (obviously) my demigod life. But I got the chappie done!

Dec. 22

Dear Diary,

I think I'll become a professional storyteller one of these days, telling the story of my life to some idiots. [Hey! Go away, Rachel. No reading private property!]

"She's been out for two days now," I heard someone grumble right next to me.

"Well, Thalia woke up last night, and she said that we weren't moving until she wakes up." I head Rachel reply.

"Hi," I sat up slowly, blinking in the light. "How long was I out?"

"Two days, thirty-three minutes, and ten seconds." a girl with blond hair and stormy grey eyes, a daughter of Athena if I ever knew one. "FYI, I'm Melody, daughter of Athena." Ha! Knew it.

"Hi. I'm Abigail, but I go by Abby. I'm a daughter of Poseidon, and a legacy of Aphrodite."

"I thought there was a pact for the Big Three not to have children up until after the Titan War. How old are you?" Melody asked.

"Thirteen."

"Then does that mean that Poseidon broke the vow twice?"

"Yes and no," I replied. "It's a long story."

"Tell us the story later," Rachel spoke up. "Thalia decided that we should pay a visit to Camp Half-Blood then Camp Jupiter. And she wants you to help her contact several people," she fake pouted. " I think Thalia wants you to kinda be her 'personal assistant' kinda thing."

I reluctantly got out of my comfy sleeping bag and stretched. "Got it," I laced up my combat boots. "Good thing too, 'cause I have several things I needed to pick up from cabin 3."

I met Thalia right outside of the camp, standing next to the lake, fingering a golden drachma. I touched her shoulder lightly and barely avoided getting judo flipped.

"Gods," I grumbled. "Watch it."

"Sorry. You surprised me," Thalia faced me, a smirk playing on her lips.

I gave her my own signature smirk, devilish, but charming, according to the various boys that had tried to flirt with me. "Wassup, then, if you weren't trying to judo throw me?"

"I need you to help me send these Iris messages. I can't seem to find a rainbow right now, so maybe…?"

I sighed and held out my hands. The water surged up and formed a light mist, the sunlight filtering through and breaking into multi-colored light.

"O Iris, Goddess of the rainbow, accept my offering. Show me Chiron, at Camp Half-Blood." Thalia tossed the drachma into the rainbow. It shimmered and disappeared and the rainbow shimmered, as usual, but suddenly the rainbow disappeared, and the drachma appeared and fell into the lake.

Thalia growled a curse in ancient greek. "For the millionth time. Why can't I send anything to anyone outside of my Hunters?" she snarled irritably.

I backed up a step. As I may have written earlier, no one wants to be around Thalia when she's mad.

"Never mind. We'll just try again later. I have a question. Did Poseidon break the oath twice by siring you? Because it doesn't seem like something he would do twice. Plus, I saw you at Camp Half-Blood several times, but you were an Aphrodite camper, but I never got to ask."

I sighed. "Rachel and, what's her name? oh right. Melody just asked me earlier. How about I just tell y'all at the same time? Or maybe I should just tell the whole of the Hunters of Artemis so people don't keep asking m.," I said sarcastically at the end.

"Why not?" Thalia grinned. "Julianna, Madison, and Jasmine are in the tent. You can tell all four of us the story."

Rolling my eyes, I gave my best glare, which, I'd admit, wasn't very good by demigod standards. "Do you not understand sarcasm?" I retorted.

"Nope. Let's go. You can invite Rachel and Melody if you want," she touched my arm and zapped me, just as a warning.

I looked at her. She had that 'I'm not going to back down' look that I learned not to underestimate. Sighing, I found Rachel and Melody who were practicing target practice.

"Come on, I'll tell you the story," I muttered.

Melody whooped, causing several Hunters to look at her. Rachel groaned and handed her five drachmas. "Told you Thalia would convince her," Melody smirked at Rachel, who stuck out her tongue.

"Wait. You guys were planning this with Thalia?" I tried, again, to conjure a death glare. Fail.

"Yup," Rachel said. "Apparently Athena always has a plan."

"Helps that you're just as much as a Kelp Face as that Percy Jackson, or whatever Thalia calls him," Melody raised an eyebrow at me.

"First off, it's Kelp Head, not Kelp Face. Second, he has his nickname because he's totally oblivious, and is completely clueless about girls, even Annabeth. I don't think I fit into those categories."

"Fine. I guess I'll call you Seaweed Brain."

"Percy got that one too."

She rolled her eyes. "I'll come up with a good one for you."

"Guys, the tent's over here," Rachel stood by the tent with a huge grin on her face. "Or are you two too busy flirting?"

"Holy Zeus, Rachel, calm down. We're just talking." I punched lightly on the shoulder as I entered the tent, my eyes adjusting to the dim light. I made out the forms of Julianna, Madison, and Jasmine, all who wore a slight smirk on their faces. Thalia turned, the circlet marking her as Artemis' Lieutenant flashing.

"Sit," she gestured toward several seats, sitting down in one herself. "Now that you're here, you can tell us your story."

"Perhaps, Thalia Grace, but then each of you must tell the others about yourselves something that we didn't know," I knew they wanted to hear my story, but that didn't mean that I had to stay in the dark about them.

"Oh, you're going to pay for that later," Thalia growled at me, while Melody studied me with interest.

"Fine," she said, at last. "Maybe you're not as brainless as I thought you were at first." Melody leaned forward on her seat. "So why don't you begin?"

I finally get to get the backstory out! Ha! Anyways, comment, like, review, etc.

Good Hunting!

~ Hunter of Artemis 01