Okay look, I'm sorry :( I've been busy and for a long while I just didn't know how to continue this even after one chapter. That said, thank you Corum for being a great person to talk to. (I know you'll be reading this xd) Anyway, sorry for the wait, this would have been out on New Year's Day, but I forgot my laptop at my house when we went to visit family so there was a solid day and a half where I just wasn't capable of writing anything, and I've been super busy with work shifts this last week. I can promise you that I do plan on writing this consistently for a while to come, college permitting so I will give updates if something happens.

I can't remember if I put this in the first chapter as an update, but chapter names. Every one of them is a song that I primary listened to while writing whatever chapter and I feel fits the idea of said chapter. Last chapter was Owl City: Wolfbite. I don't know, I'm weird like that. Music is a big part of who I am and I use music to channel my thoughts, you're free to ask me about it, but be prepared for a giant philosophical unit of a response xd.

Also, I myself am not completely sure who I want to pair with Percy if I'm being honest, I've had some input from others but I'm still not 100% decided. What I'll do is, for those who really want, if you PM me questions about the main eleven OC I'm basing this story around, I will give you more info about who they are and you can then vote in the poll that will span from chapter three till like chapter five or something, I'm not sure yet, I figure it out when I get there.

As you can guess, I don't own the Percy Jackson series or any of that, all of it belongs to Rick Riordan. So just enjoy this chapter which took me WAY too long to do.

Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and New Year to everyone!

Percy POV

I took my morning shower in peace, simply letting the water run over me, filling my body with energy. I reached up and touched the burn mark. I didn't hurt at all, in fact, I couldn't feel it at all, everything felt normal. Surely it couldn't have been from the dream, yeah, must've come from the robot deathmatch I had thanks to Leo. Well, whatever the case, I still have to train as we all know by now, I don't get much in the way of breaks.

I turned the water off and willed myself dry. Stepping out of the shower, I looked in the mirror, staring at the large redish mark across my face. To my utter shock it had faded quite a bit in the fifteen odd minutes since I got in the shower.

"The Hades is happening to me," I said dumb stuck as I shook my head and got dressed.

About five or six minutes later...

I walked up onto the dining pavilion and immediately saw my half-sister munching on something I couldn't make out from where I was standing. Heading over to where the tables holding the food were, I touched my face again. It felt warm to the touch, but there was no physical abnormality in my skin... at least, none that I could tell right in this moment. Scrambled eggs, while not my favorite thing in the world, aren't bad, some sausage, and a few slices of bacon was my breakfast for the day.

I sat down beside Sophia and greeted her, to which she said good morning back in her higher pitched voice. We sat in silence, which is odd for her in particular, for a while simply eating. She stood up and walked over to the fire and scraped the small amount of of food she had left on her plate into it.

As she walked over smiling, she looked me in the eye and then, very clearly looked right where the scar... was? Is? I don't know anymore, I'm not a typical Aphrodite girl who carries a mirror and make-up kit everywhere. To my surprise, she blinked a few times and squinted, before she lightly shook her head and went back to her usual hyper attitude.

"Percyyyy! What are we doing today? When will you be done eating? Where's Piper?"

"I couldn't tell ya what the plan is today, you should know by now I can't plan," I joked. "That aside, in a few minutes, ill be done, and Piper should be at the Aphrodite table like usual or in her cabin."

"Okayy!" she called and headed towards the large table of girls.

I sighed as I took another bite of food. Sophia has always been almost bipolar in nature, like, she'll be very very hyper 90% of the time, but occasionally she'll go silent and be super serious for a minute or two for no reason. No one questions it though, I sure as Hades don't and don't plan to. Come to think of it, I guess I should give a bit of Sophia's backstory.

*Kinda flashback*

Sophia came to camp about four and a half months ago in the beginning of March. She the daughter of my father, obviously, and a woman with a lot of native american in her, so she is lightly more lean in body comp than most. Her mom is about 6ft tall and lives up in New Hampshire in this little town called Springfield. The only reason we found her was because of a special trip that Annabeth, Piper, Nico, and technically me, planned as Grover said he could get a week or two free from nature duties and could hang with us. We went up and were just driving though the country for the first few days of our trip, stopping at famous spots or lakes to swim. On our fourth day though, we came across a small group of dracaena when we were getting our stuff packed up after a night in an inn. They weren't much of a challenge for four trained demigods, but we didn't understand why there would be some out here in the middle of nowhere. After some research courtesy of Annabeth, it turned out there was a school nearby. We didn't visit per se, but drove by it on our way to a popular swim spot, a drive that was promptly stopped when Grover said he could smell a powerful demigod inside.

It was about 2:15 at the time, which is when a lot of schools got out, are sure enough there were buses pulling into the school. We drove in and parked in the smaller than average sized parking lot and waited to see if Grover could pick out the demigod. When the doors opened and kids started to run out to their parents and buses, we noticed a girl get pulled to the side by two boys. They pulled her to the nearby picnic table where they slowly morphed into Laistrygonian Giants, pinning her to the table with their strength.

"Grover, I gotta go help, now!" I yelled and basically kicked open the door. People glanced at the monsters and looked away, probably seeing a pair of bullies picking on someone but not wanting to step in.

I ran towards the three as fast as I could, Annabeth not far behind. I uncapped my sword and threw it into the back of the first monster, the girl screamed in fright as a sharp bronze weapon was now impaling a giant not three feet in front of her.

"Who dares...!" the uninjured on shouted and turned around, only to find my hand burying itself in its face. An invisible Annabeth ran up and stabbed it in the chest once and again in the knee, causing it to keel over. I reached into the first to pull out my sword, the act caused the first to explode into dust, and swung it at the second giant's throat, decapitating him and making him to explode into dust as well.

When Annabeth took her cap off and appeared next to me, the girl shied away for us and raised her hands in defense.

"Stay away from me!" She yelled at us.

"Relax, we aren't here to hurt you." Annabeth spoke softly, kneeling down in front of her. People nearby had mixed reactions, some were taking pictures, others were screaming, and a few on their phones with a crazed look in their eyes.

"Wise Girl, we better get going soon. I think they think we just murdered a pair of kids," said nervously.

"I'm aware, just hold tight."

The girl unwrapped her arms from face enough to be able to peak between them. Annabeth gave her a warm smile and reached out slowly. At first the girl didn't really seem to know what to do before she jumped to her feet and hugged Annabeth tightly, crying.

"It's gonna be okay. Are your parents here?" Annabeth asked with the same soothing tone.

"My... *sob* ...my mom is..." she said in between sobs.

Just then, a person that we later found out to be her mom came running up to us and grabbed her daughter in a hug and thanked us profusely.

We explained the situation quickly and left the premise, hoping to avoid trouble with the authorities. Luckily, we did manage to slip away without too much drama.

Now identified as Sophie's mom had instructed us to follow her and lead us to their house where we stayed and had talked about the greek gods and stuff, to be totally honest, it wasn't all that different from when I was told about this stuff. Oh how I remember that one.

Anyways, we convinced Sophie's mom to bring her to Camp Half-Blood as soon as she was able to and we heading back out on our little vacation of sorts. However, the interruption had sorta spoiled our good times out here so we headed back to camp the following day.

Sophie arrived three days later to which we greeted her warmly and introduced her to the camp and such. She was claimed two days later, which caused the big thunderhead up above to throw a tantrum at my father. I happily accepted her into my cabin and she pretty quickly started to drop the "Percy" and started to call me "Bro" ,"Big Brother", and one time "Onii-chan" which I still don't know what that means to this day. Annabeth wouldn't tell me.

*Kinda Flashback over*

That aside, people had start to disperse off to whatever training they had planned for the day. I stood up with Sophie and we dropped our plates and such off before heading out of the pavilion. Sophie was surprisingly half-decent at archery and was headed there for the majority of the day, while me, being probably the worst archer at camp, went to train some of the newer demigods in the art of swords.

As I entered our arena, a son of Demeter by the name of Alex had set up some of the straw dummies in a line along one side of the fighting area. Alex was a bit aggressive for a Demeter child, not in the sense that he picked on people like Ares' kids, but he had some fighting spirit in him.

"What's up Perce?" He asked, standing up the fifth one on the far right of the row.

"Not much, just coming to warm up before the day begins."

"That's fair enough,' he replied, shrugging as he turned to face me.

I watched as he picked up a three foot long bronze sword and pointed it at me, smiling. "How 'bout we get warmed up?"

"I would love to," I responded, taking Anaklusmos, or "Riptide" in English, out and uncapping it. The pen changed into the familiar sword that had saved me and my friends lives so many times over the past couple of years. I held Riptide out in front of me and bent my legs, getting into a stance that would allow me to quickly launch myself in any direction if need be.

Neither of us moved for a solid minute. Just staring each other down while standing no more than ten feet apart.

Alex stepped forward and jabbed at my midsection, which I blocked with Riptide, deflecting it to my left. I followed up on the opening by spinning, continuing the momentum of my block, I performed a high cross slash. Alex jumped back to dodge and landed raising his sword once more. It was my turn, I brought Riptide up and fainted a hit to his leg, to which he sidestepped, before I raised the angle of the swing in an attempt to slam our weapons with enough force to throw him off balance. Not expecting such an attack, he took to blow head on, blocking it with his sword, the sound of metal on metal rang out loudly as our weapons collided. Alex slid a few inches from the power behind the swing, but caught himself rather quickly, recovering enough to be able to stop my next light strike towards his arm.

We continued to trade blows, neither of us gaining an advantage for what felt like ten minutes. Sweat dripped off both of us as we were tired due to the spar, I dropped my sword and raised my hands, smiling.

"How 'bout we stop here for now, wait for everyone else?"

He smiled back and walked over, lowering his sword as well to signify that the fight was over.

"Yeah, how was I this time?"

"Much better, you're less reckless than before," I told him truthfully. Alex, when he first arrived, fought like he was desperate, if that makes sense. He tended to take a lot of unnecessary risks, lunging, large easy to see strikes, etc.

"Well, at least it's better," he laughed. "I remember that first fight you disarmed me in under ten seconds."

I had to chuckle at that, he was right. The first time we sparred, he had opened with a large wide swing and I simply stepped in, punched his hand, lock my sword in his, twisted it, and launched his sword right out of his hands.

The rest of the sword training went by without a hitch. Lots of new campers had arrived this summer and after hearing of my accomplishments, they all wanted to meet me. Me, having become a swordsmanship coach at camp, got flooded with people that wanted to talk to me and in some cases, cough cough, Aphrodite girls, flirt with me, and for me to politely turn them down every time.

Despite Annabeth and I being really close friends, I never really cared for dating or anything like that. Most of the camp, especially Nico, Piper, Katie, and such tease her and I about having a secret affair, and we all know its in good spirits. Annabeth and I almost got together after the Kronos events, but with Gaea and her army rising, we never really had the time to get together. With all that was happening, we just settled for being friends, and we are both perfectly cool with it.

It was about 3pm when I finally got some free time, something I don't get all too often with the amount of new unclaimed and claimed campers at camp. I went over to the forges to see if Leo was there. Supposedly, he's working on creating a four-armed magazine crossbow thing for a sibling, or so I've heard.

I could hear the banging of metal well before I reached the forge itself. I opened the door and peaked inside, scanning for Leo. I saw a kid named Carlos and his twin Nathan over on one, working on... a sword? I think it was a sword. Pretty sure it was a sword of some kind. Yeah, anyway, I didn't see Leo so I entered and went up to, I kid you not, an Aphrodite girl named Anya, who for some reason isn't like the vast majority of her siblings and likes to help make weapons. She doesn't fight and does flirt with half the camp, but helps the forge from time to time which I think is pretty cool.

"Hey Anya, any clue where Leo is?" I asked as I walked up on her right side. She was, at the moment, collecting a bunch of throwing daggers and sliding them into a belt before she turned with a beaming smile.

"He was here a little bit ago, like... um.. ten? Fifteen minutes at the most. No clue where he'd be at this point," she responded shrugging. I did not fail to notice her checking out my body and my muscles, I swear she was taking mental notes with each second she stared at me.

"Alright, thanks."

I turned to leave, and waved at the two Camp brothers, who had waved at me while I was talking to Anya. I heard Anya comment about something as I opened the door, though I couldn't hear it to well over the fires in each individual forge and Nathan pounding on the blade. Yep, definitely a sword. I shut the door and breathed it the fresh air, my lung happy to be free of the forge's super hot and smoky air, even if I was only in there for a minute or two.

I tried my luck with the armory next. My thought process being, 'If he's not at the forge, he's probably delivering a finished project or something.' I was right as I managed to catch him as he left the building, sputtering about complicated mechanical things that I didn't understand at all.

"Yo, Leo!" I called. His head perked up and looked in my direction, it took him a second to realize it was me before he came over and said hello.

"How's the burns?"

"They're fine, nothing major as I told you."

"Okay good," he said cheerfully.

"What are you up to?"

"Oh not much," he rolled his eyes to the left and watched as a group of four younger campers kicked a ball around. "Just making custom weapons while trying to find time for my own creations."

"Yeah, aren't you working on a crossbow thing for Varric?"

He put his hand up abruptly in in my face and shook it. "Don't even get me started on that. He wants me to make him a quad-armed, drum-fed, crossbow with a self-drawing mechanism, all with enough power to knock down a gods damn elephant and have it be small and lightweight."

"Sounds complicated."

He reached into he belt and pulled out some gears and started messing with them. "You have no idea, PLUS he's gonna name it Bianca, after his dog."

I laughed lightly. "Sorry, I shouldn't laugh, naming something after a pet is perfectly fine."

"Yeah, no, I don't have a problem with it either, it's just the name Bianca, for... a... bow."

"I feel ya, but uhh, quick question," I asked still trying to word said question in my head.

"Shoot."

"Did you happen to have any odd dreams last night? I had one where a girl was setting in a volcano, then it erupted. I can't remember anything else about her."

He shifted weight from his right to left. "I mean, if that weird to you, tell that to half of the one you got during quests. But anyway, I know what you mean, cause I also had one."

"You did?" I asked surprised.

"Yeah, also a girl, but she was like six or seven maybe, and I remember being in a coral reef but... that's about it. Oh! There was a shark with a blue strip down its back... and that all I remember."

Hmm... I wonder if there was anyone else that had a dream similar to ours. And on that note, why can't I picture the girl's features, like, at all, I can only remember the scenario and that it was a girl... and the burn mark on my face. Also if Leo didn't comment on anything of the sort, I'm assuming its not visible. Now that I think about it, the spot still feels warm, like its still there.

I shook my head to clear my thoughts, I'd have to speak with Chiron about this. Leo looked at me a little funny, but didn't say anything.

"Alright, I'm gonna head to my cabin now, maybe IM my mom, 'cause I haven't in a while.

"K well, see you later then," he gave me a two finger salute and turned to walk away back i the direction of the forges, where I could see Anya leaving and headed towards the cabins.

The door swung open as I entered the Poseidon cabin, I looked up and was the dancing water patterns on the ceiling and felt more calm just by being there.

The back of the cabin contained a fountain that could easily make a rainbow and I used to make Iris messages a lot. I reached into a small box on my wardrobe and pulled out a single drachma on my way through.

Turning the water on and letting the light from the window hit it, a rainbow formed quickly, casting the multicolored glow to the objects around it. I raised my hand with the gold coin between my thumb, middle and index fingers.

"Oh Iris, goddess of the Rainbow, please accept my offering," I said as I tossed the drachma into the mist, shimmering as it disappeared. "Show me, Sally Jackson"

The rainbow flickered for a second before it cleared to reveal a door I knew all too well. I saw as my mom open the front door of her and her Paul's apartment. She turned around and shut the door, turning back, I could see the slight confusion before she smiled brightly at me.

"Hey mom," I greeted her.

"Percy! How nice of you to call," she replied, looking like she was gonna come through the message and give me a hug. "What's the reason?"

"Oh, just saying hi, I having contacted you in a while so I thought that today would be a good time."

"Well you'd be right, I just got home from work. Anything new around camp?"

"Minus the many new campers and the promotion to official sword trainer, not much. Just the same old stuff."

"Is that so? How's your sister?" She asked. She always wanted to know how Sophie was ever since she found out about her, even though she wasn't her mom, she acted like it.

"Sophie's great, hasn't done any fighting really, just decorative activities and swimming... a lot."

My mom laughed at that, "Well it wouldn't be right if you two didn't like water."

"I mean, remember Thalia? Daughter of Zeus?"

She nodded. "I believe I know who you're talking about."

I shrugged, "Well she's afraid of heights."

She gave a quizzical look.

"She's better now than she was a few years back, but she still shows it from time to time."

"I guess there's a first for everything."

"That is true. So what about you? Anything new?"

"Not really, Paul isn't home yet, so I have some time to myself. The landlord changed a few weeks ago, and the new one is very polite, nice man."

"That's good. How's Estelle?"

"Ha, hyper as always. Not quite as bad as you were, but still pretty bad."

I chuckled nervously at that. My ADHD was present throughout my life and it made school super difficult, and in turn my mom's life as she had to constantly find new schools for me.

"Well it was nice to talk to you, but I better get some stuff cleaned up around here and take care of your sister."

"Ah yeah, you too mom!"

I gave her a light wave and swiped my hand through the mist, cutting of the call. Standing up, I stretched my arms and legs, sighing as I finished. As my mom said, Sophie and I did love to swim, and honestly, I could go for a nice dip right about now, but I probably didn't have time to in all honesty.

I walked over to the door and went to open it, only for it to slam open in my face to reveal a wide-eyed Sophie. She smiled and dashed past me into the cabin, her dark hair waving behind her.

"What's with the rush, Soph?"

"Sorry, I just remembered I forgot a thing! Me and a few friends were gonna make some necklaces and stuff!"

"Oh alright, well, take it easy. Don't run anyone over, okay?" I told her as I left the cabin.

"Okay Big Brother!"

I shut the door and went back towards the arena. I saw the group of kids playing with the ball had vanished to wherever and Katie was out in front of her cabin while tending to the flower boxes and small garden.

Upon reaching the arena, I saw a few people having a spar. One was using a shield and spear and the other a pair of knives, both seemed unfamiliar with their choice of weapons as they struggled to maximize the strengths of said weapons.

As I approached, they turned to face me after the one with the spear gestured in my direction with the point of the spear.

I never got to the arena as I was interrupted by the sound of a house galloping, and unless someone was on the back of a Pegasus, they sound could only belong to one person. I turned and saw Chiron headed our way, nodding as he past, going towards the base of the hill.

"Mind if I follow him?" I pointed a thumb in the direction of the passing centaur. They all glanced at each other and collectively shook their heads. That was all the invitation I needed as I took off after my teacher.

I eventually caught up to him when we reached the top of the hill next to Thalia's Tree. At the top, Chiron stood with two kids from Apollo's cabin helping a girl who clearly hadn't eaten much recently as her limbs were paler than even Nico is sometimes. Her hair was as jet black as any hair I'd ever seen, maybe even a dark shade than mine, which is pretty dark. It seemed to reach down to her lower back and was all free falling with a pair of almost ruby red chrysanthemums, one on each side. She wore a slightly torn pair of jeans and a dark, baggy black shirt with a wolf head on the front. A simple red silk choker with a gold circle right on the middle of the band was found around her neck and she wore two thin gold bracelets on each wrist.

The two Apollo kids got on each side of her and helped her stand. I saw her mouth move in what I assume was a thank you, but she kept her head down. Using the two boys as support, she hobbled her way forward to Chiron who had acknowledged my presence with a respectful nod.

When she looked up, both Chiron and I lightly gasped at her eyes. Her right was dark dark blue, but her left was like looking at a pool of blood that sparkled in the light. Like, I had seen odd eye colors and... uh.. whatever its called when you have two different color eyes at the many school I'd been to, but to have two distinctly different colors, and one of them being a not naturally occurring one was definitely a first for me and apparently Chiron as well.

"Let's get you patched up quickly," Chiron said, breaking the silence before looking at both the boys. "Can you two help her to the Big House?"

They nodded and continued to support her weight as they made their way to the other end of camp.

"Mind telling me your name?" Chiron asked lightly while trotting along side slowly.

At first she didn't answer, staring at the ground in front of her. I didn't think she was gonna answer and after about ten seconds of nothing, I was pretty confident in that fact, except I was wrong.

"Katrina. Katrina Blossom." she said weakly.

"Well, I will wait to officially welcome you to Camp Half-Blood until you're recovered." Chiron responded, looking back in front of him.

Even though I only knew her name and that she'd been here for all of two minutes, something about this Katrina girl had warning bells screaming in my head.

I would need to know more before I could judge her completely, but still, people don't usually set me on edge by simply existing very often...

'Katrina... who are you exactly,' I wondered as I followed the small escort party.

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