Kace's POV

Well, how exciting! Now the group of demigods has grown into four demigods, instead of a mere and peaceful two. We have a fangirl, a cellist, a music nerd, and a hypnotist. I glanced at Abigail and realized we were both thinking the same thing. "There's going to be a lot of new demigods, considering we found TWO in less than a week, not counting the ones that the satyrs found." I sighed. "Oh well, let's just go have dinner," I said, wanting to change the subject. "You know what we have after this?!" She asked me. "What?" "We have the amazing campfire sing-a-long. Annabeth told me before." She replied, looking annoyed a bit. "Don't you love singing?" "Yeah…" "Then, why do you look so depressed, even more so than usual?" She shoved me. "I do not look depressed, and I don't like singing in front of people." I smacked an open palm against my forehead. "You're supposed to sing in front of an audience." "Yeah, yeah. Whatever" "Anyway, tomorrow, we go to school...wow. Being a demigod is tough." I sighed, feeling pretty dead inside. We both started walking towards the dining pavilion while Jay and Amanda ran to catch up to us. The minute they did, though, Amanda and Abigail began arguing, like even more than what Abigail and I normally do. Jay began talking about the two girls. "Ya know, you'd think that those two would get along and all, but NO. They hate each other. Despise each other." I tugged on my bangs, wanting to avoid this conversation. "They have a lot in common, so that's most likely why they don't get along." Jay nodded and we walked in silence, excluding the other campers and Abigail and Amanda's continuous arguing. Wow. I never did think Abigail would meet someone that she could argue with more than me.

"Where do we sit to eat?" Jay asked after we arrived. "You sit with the others in your cabin, which I think is Cabin Twenty for you two. I'm sitting at Cabin Six, and Kace sits at Cabin Three." Abigail responded. "What's after that? Go to our cabins and do homework like a good little demigod?" Amanda said, sarcastically. Abigail ignored her and continued, "After that… we have to go to the campfire and do the sing-a-long." Jay started dancing. "Woohoo! Campfires and singing!" Amanda rolled her eyes. "So what? We sing songs around a stupid fire. How is this going to help us in the real dangerous world?" I sighed. Honestly, I was trying to decide which girl asked the most idiotic questions: Abigail or Amanda. "That obviously doesn't help us in anything. It's like a way for us to relax a bit, considering the rest of the day, we're either training, eating, working, or sleeping and hyperventilating from nightmares." I suddenly stopped in my tracks and Abigail did too. She silently unsheathed her knife and I began drawing moisture from the air and the lake. Amanda asked, "What the heck are you guys-", but before she could finish her sentence, I flung out my hand and sent a blast of water. Abigail flung her knife, before drawing out another. We heard a yelp and a THUD on the ground. The four of us edged forward, slowly and cautiously. I stopped and recognized the monster that snuck in as a hellhound. "Oh shoot," I cursed. "What? Why is this monster such a big deal?" "We probably led it here after that portal that Jay created." "Alright, that is it!" A voice behind us said. Everyone jumped and saw that it was Chiron. He was, well, upset might be too mild of a way to put it...

"You two have been fighting these monsters for what I guess, ALL YOUR LIVES," he said, jabbing a finger at Abigail and I. "You need to understand what it's like to be a normal teenager!" "We ARE, sir. We go to high school." Jay said. Chiron shook his head and opened his mouth to speak, but Abigail said, "Yeah. Kace and I went back to school some days ago, and it turned out great, right?!" That's when Amanda stepped in. "They are not the only ones who have fought monsters all their lives So have all these campers!" "Ok fine, but I am sending those who fought the most to school, INCLUDING those at Camp Jupiter. As much as I strongly believe that you should stay here at camp because it's safe. You guys should still be able to fight because of your experience and er- unique abilities. Now, no arguments!" The campers all sighed. Well, all of them, of course, except for Amanda. "Good. I will not come back here ever again." She said. "So you'd rather be focused on high school? And worry about your hypnosis thing where at CHB, you could learn to control it" Jameson said. Amanda's eyes widened in realization and started to curse I remembered and added, "Percy and Annabeth have to go too." Abigail rolled her eyes. "They already do, you idiot." "Whatever," I said. "Let's get back to high school."

Abigail's POV

Oh. My. God. You know, I thought Kace was the most stubborn person I've ever met, but nope. Amanda comes waltzing into my life and beats him. She's arrogant, rude, stubborn, and probably a million of other things I don't know yet. She has a GREAT opportunity to control her ability, but she decides to decline her one chance to control her hypnosis ability. If anything, I would've taken it YEARS ago if I knew about it. Kace and I had to learn our abilities by ourselves and test them on each other. Probably not safe, but I mean, we already fight monsters. So… it wasn't as bad.

The next morning, I arrived at school and I was surprised to see THREE trucks with the labels, Delphi's Strawberry Service. I choked in a laugh. "What?" asked Jay. I was trembling. I couldn't hold it in any longer. "Ok, so, the Mist, as Chiron probably explained to you, covers CHB as a strawberry field. And I'm pretty sure whenever the campers travel in large groups in the city in, they travel in those trucks," I said. "Then, why are you laughing?!" Amanda asked, impatiently. Kace caught on and explained. "Well, they're all ADHD kids, right? I can't imagine how around eight ADHD kids per truck are stuck in a closed space and they can't move around." We all started laughing, even Amanda, who I would've thought would roll her eyes.

I ran over as soon as I saw Percy and Jason step out of the truck. "What's up, guys?" I said. Percy grinned and said, "Well, it's going to be a bit more than just Annabeth and I…" I frowned. "Wait, what-?" I said and faltered. I saw demigods that I've never seen before, wearing purple, coming out of the trucks. "Jason, are those the other campers from… um" I asked, but couldn't remember the camp name. Kace rolled his eyes and said, "Camp Jupiter. The Roman campers?" Percy grinned. "Yup. C'mon, we'll introduce you to them." He replied. I turned to Jay and Amanda. "You guys want to meet the others?" Kace shrugged and Jay replied, "Sure." while Amanda said, "Fine."

Annabeth and Piper came over and Annabeth introduced her to Amanda. Amanda looked a bit uncomfortable. Probably because, um, child of Aphrodite, goddess of love, who can ask their mom to curse you to fall in love with your enemy. I saw a girl with shoulder-length curly, cinnamon, brown hair and gold eyes. Kace nudged me. "Want to go talk to her?" I stared at him. "I never knew it would be you trying to get me to talk to someone!" He shoved me. "Shut up. I'm not emo or anti-social."

"Uh, yeah, you are." With that, I kind of ran off before he could attack me. I walked over to the gold-eyed girl. "Hey, I'm Abigail Desario," I said, extending my hand to her. She smiled. "I'm Hazel Levesque and this-" she pointed to a burly boy with brown eyes and close-cropped black hair behind her. "-is Frank, my boyfriend." she finished. "Hi, Frank," I said. The same thing happened with all the other demigods. I met Reyna, a praetor of Rome, Leo, a child of Hephaestus, Calypso, a goddess who was banished, Katie, daughter of Demeter, Travis and Connor, sons of Hermes, and Thalia, the Hunters of Artemis lieutenant. "Oh! We should head in and get our schedules…" Piper said, but everyone was chatting too loudly. I asked Piper, "Would you like my help, Miss Mclean?" She smirked. "I'll help too. Guys, be quiet!" And I whispered into everyone's mind, but Jay's. Everyone was quiet, probably against their will, but we marched into the front office to get our schedules.

AND WE SKIP TO ALL THE DEMIGODS SCHEDULES!

First Period: Trigonometry w/ Miss. Elise

Second Period: English w/ Mr. Blofis

Third Period: History w/ Mrs. Clove

Fourth Period: Lunch

Fifth Period: Gym w/ Mr. Felisha

Sixth Period: Foreign Language (Cause why not?!)

Seventh Period: Biology w/ Ms. Everlee

Seventh Period: Electives! (Weather for Jason and Thalia, Home EC for Piper and Hazel, Marine Biology for Percy, Architecture for Annabeth, Woodshop for Travis, Leo, Connor, and Nico, Gardening for Katie and Calypso, Choir for Amanda and Abigail, Orchestra for Kace and Jay, and Fencing for Frank and Reyna.)

I was on my way to PE in the morning when I literally ran into a teacher. Literally. "Oh, I'm so sor-" I started to say, but then I looked up. It was Mr. Felisha. Everyone teased him because of his last name, but he was really nice and lenient. "I'm so sorry!" I said. He smiled. "No, that's okay. I knew I was going to drop my stuff anyway. It is awfully hard." "I'll help you if you like," I offered. "No, you have to get to class. Thank you, though," He said. I went back to walking to class.

I walked into the locker room and came face to face with Katelyn and her "friends". I cursed. "So, weirdo. I heard you skipped school last week. Not that anyone noticed… but anyway. Was it because you needed to get your brain checked for mental issues? I mean, obviously, it was…" I walked around her and opened my locker to start changing. "Why would you care? You don't even seem to have a brain," I replied, slamming my locker closed. I was going to walk past them when she shoved me to the wall. I sighed and rolled my eyes. "You really want to do this right now?" She snarled and leaped forward. I was going to wait until the last second before stepping away when Katelyn suddenly laid sprawled on the ground. I looked around and realized that Amanda had tripped her.