Annabeth told me bits about how Percy made the gods promise to watch over their kids better and to claim them before they turn thirteen years old. The kid with curly hair, the one that just got claimed by Hephaestus, started freaking out about the hammer floating above his head. And then they started to talk about some curse, I don't know what it is, and I don't feel like knowing. And then the blond dude, aka Jason, suddenly knew what god claimed the curly haired kid. But he named the roman version of the god, not the Greek version.

"Leo, you've just been claimed—" Annabeth started to say.

"By a god," Jason interrupted. "That's the symbol of Vulcan, isn't it?"

All eyes turned to him.

"Jason," Annabeth said carefully, "how did you know that?"

"I'm not sure." Jason said and scratched his head.

Vulcan?" The one named Leo demanded. "I don't even LIKE Star Trek. What are you talking about?"

"Vulcan is the Roman name for Hephaestus," Annabeth said, "the god of blacksmiths and fire."

The fiery hammer faded, but Leo kept swatting the air like he was afraid it was following him. "The god of what? Who?"

Annabeth turned to Will. "Will, would you take Leo, give him a tour? Introduce him to his bunk-mates in Cabin Nine."

"Sure, Annabeth."

"What's Cabin Nine?" Leo asked. "And I'm not a Vulcan!"

"Come on, Mr. Spock, I'll explain everything." Will put a hand on his shoulder and steered him off toward the cabins.

Annabeth turned her attention back to Jason. But then her eyes widened, on the inside of his right forearm was a tattoo, a dozen straight lines like a bar code, and over that an eagle with the letters SPQR.

"I've never seen marks like this," Annabeth said. "Where did you get them?"

Jason shook his head. "I'm getting really tired of saying this, but I don't know."

The other campers pushed forward, trying to get a look at Jason's tattoo. The marks seemed to bother them a lot—almost like a declaration of war. "Okay, everyone give him some space, Jason?" I said and walked up to him, he didn't seem like someone who would cause a war, or even threaten war to someone. "Yeah…?"

When he talked to me, he sounded a bit scared and nervous, "I'm not someone to fear, but I have a question for you…Do you know of a girl with an intimidating glare and wears Armour almost all the time?" I think I just described Clarisse. But no, I'm not talking about her.

Jason was about to say something, but then he winced, "I can't remember anything before today, I'm sorry."

I sighed, "It was worth a shot, but it's okay. Welcome to camp half-blood. Uh, he needs to see Chiron-

"What's up with your arm?" Annabeth blurted out. "It's look a bit dead, you okay?" I don't want to answer, but…I kind of have to. "Ah…You see." I started to take off my coat. "That battle left a scar and then something happened."

The campers gasped, "What happened!?" someone exclaimed.

Annabeth was staring at my left side I smiled and sad, "You all know power comes with a price...My was just worse then others."

"What battle?" Jason asked. "And do you have godly powers?"

I nodded, "Yes, I do have godly powers...Although I'm not a god, but I was born with them anyway, and I did what no other demi-god or god could do by themselves, I defeated Typhon."

All the campers here knew I fought him, but they all probably forgot, since I didn't come back right away. "That's right..." Murmuring broke through all the campers. They looked at me with amazement, and maybe a little fear, "Typhon, what's that?" The new asked, "Hes-

"The father of all monsters, and the son of Gaia and Tartarus." Annabeth told them.

I nodded, "Yeah, but I did have my arm when I went to sleep, after I beat him." I may have made a mistake, "Sleep? These past four months...YOU'VE BEEN ASLEEP!?" Annabeth seemed to be really angry with me for some reason. I gulped, "Yeah, I used all the power I had that day, so of course after I won I went to bed."

"Oh great, well, while you were asleep, Percy went missing!" She snapped. "Whoa...Calm down you two." The one named butch said, "I am calm, she's the one freaking out right now. I did nothing wrong."

"Exactly! You did nothing!" She scowled and turned to the new girl, "Piper. I'll take you on a tour around the camp. Come on." Piper didn't hesitate she actually looked scared, "Okay!"

Annabeth stomped away, "What did I do?" I asked.

Butch groaned, "Come on man, you've been gone for four months the least you could do was show some concern when someone say's someone is missing."

I sighed, "Yeah...You're right, I'll apologize to her later. Sorry for causing trouble."

Butch looked shocked, "Wh-What? You didn't cause any trouble for us, she's just really, really worried about Percy, so of course she's on edge with everyone and everything."

It didn't seem that way to me, she really went off at me, maybe she was expecting me to know where he is, or something. Dammit. "Alright, well, I have to talk to Chiron. I'll see you guys later...Or something." I said and put my coat back on.

Butch nodded, I barely know him, but he's alright. I wonder who his Olympian parent is. Anyway, I have to see Chiron, although...I don't know what to see him about, seeing as I don't need to ask him about that black scar, since it's not there anymore. But I guess it'll be cool to see him again.

I walked back to the big house, before I was about to enter, I realized I had a follower, "Uh...Why are you following me?" I asked Jason, "I don't know what to do, plus you said that I needed to see Chiron too. Who is Chiron anyway?" He asked.

I smiled, "You can see for yourself."

We walked inside the big house and looked around, "Uh...Chiron!?" I called, no one asnwered, "Maybe he's not here?" Jason guessed,

I shook my head, "No he's here, somewhere...I got to do something, when you see him, and you will, tell him, Wyatt Knight brought you here, and that I'll talk to him later." I said and turned and walked, I'm just going to wait a little bit longer. Maybe until dinner? Because I don't want to explain everything right now, plus...Why do I feel uneasy?

I walked around camp, a lot of people noticed me alright. They would look at me and then ask me a lot of questions, I don't like when people ask me questions so I ignored them and kept walking, I made it to the cabins, there was a lot more than the last time I was here.

I think there was about fifth-teen of them. And one of them was a lot darker than most, "No way..." I said as I walked to the Hades cabin. The Hades cabin was number thirteen, right next to the Iris cabin and Hermes cabin. I was in the middle when somewhere behind me I heard Annabeth, I turn and saw her talking to that new girl.

There were in front of Artemis's cabin. They talking about how Artemis swore eternal maidenhood, so of course, no kids. Which means, no campers. Obviously. "Oh." The new girl, piper, said. She kind of sounded disappointed. Like she thought Artemis would be a cool mom, I don't know, since I'm kind of in love with Artemis and everything, so I can't tell if she would be a cool mom or not, and I would never know either way, since I don't have a mom...Or I did, but just never got the chance to meet her, or even spend time with her.

Anyway, Annabeth continued telling Piper about Artemis, "Well, there are the Hunters of Artemis, you've met one of them...Kind of." I stared at the cabin of Hades, it can wait I decided and walked over to Annabeth and Piper, I have to apologize to Annabeth, I think. "Hey." I said causally, Annabeth turned to me, "Well speak of the devil."

"Wait..." Piper said, "You mean him?"

Annabeth nodded, "Yeah.

"How? Or why?" Piper asked, and then she looked at me, "But I thought only girls were allowed to become a huntress, and that if a boy joined the other hunters won't be immortal anymore?"

I shook my head, "It's true I am a hunter, but I'm a special case, no other boy or man can join." I said, Annabeth sighed, "In other words, Wyatt isn't like other demi-gods, and like you heard before...He was the one who defeated Typhon, a monster the gods fled from."

Piper looked even more confused, "He's like a god and if Artemis didn't let him into the hunt, he would've been dead. But Artemis accepted him and then he survived and then he lost his memories then...He beat Typhon, that's about it." Annabeth explained.

"Thanks..." I said sarcasticly, "I'm the god of mortals, although I'm not a god, but I may as well be one. Anyway, my name is Wyatt Knight, I'm a child of Hades, but I also have all the power of the gods. Nice to meet you."

Piper's were wide, so...Does she believe me? "You okay?" I asked. She nodded slowly, "Fine, just...Confused." She said, "Can we, um. Continue?"

Annabeth nodded, "Yeah."

"Uh...Can I join? I've been away for awhile, I want to know about the other cabins too." I asked carefully. Plus I want to ask Annabeth what's happened in the past four months. "I don't mind." Annabeth said, but it kind of sounded like she did mind to me. Annabeth looked at Piper, "Uh yeah, sure."

Annabeth led the way, "Alright then, moving on." She sounded a bit annoyed, "K..." I said and followed, Piper did the same. The next cabin we passed was Aphrodite's cabin, it smelled like perfume which almost made me gag.

"Gah, is that where supermodels go to die?" Piper asked.

Annabeth smirked. "Aphrodite's cabin. Goddess of love. Drew is the head counselor."

"Figures," Piper grumbled.

"They're not all bad," Annabeth said. "The last head counselor we had was great."

"What happened to her?"

Annabeth's expression darkened. "We should keep moving."

Okay, seriously, somebody needs to tell me what happened.

When we reached Zeus and Hera's cabins Annabeth said, "We started with the twelve Olympian gods, male gods on the left, female on the right." She explained, "Then last year, we added a whole bunch of new cabins for the other gods who didn't have thrones on Olympus—Hecate, Hades, Iris—"

"What are the two big ones on the end?" Piper asked.

Annabeth frowned. "Zeus and Hera. King and queen of the gods."

Piper headed that way, and Annabeth followed and so did I, though Annabeth didn't act very excited. The Zeus cabin had white marble with big columns out front and polished bronze doors emblazoned with lightning bolts.

Hera's cabin was smaller but done in the same style, except the doors were carved with peacock feather designs, shimmering in different colors.

Unlike the other cabins, which were all noisy and open and full of activity, the Zeus and Hera cabins looked closed and silent.

"Are they empty?" Piper asked.

Annabeth nodded. "Zeus went a long time without having any children. Well, mostly. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades, the eldest brothers among the gods—they're called the Big Three. Their kids are really powerful, really dangerous. For the last seventy years or so, they tried to avoid having demigod children."

"Tried to avoid it?"

"Sometimes they … um, cheated. I've got a friend, Thalia Grace, who's the daughter of Zeus. But she gave up camp life and became a Hunter of Artemis. My boyfriend, Percy, he's a son of Poseidon. And there's this guy right here, who you already know about, and then there also his little brother who shows up sometimes, Nico—son's of Hades. Except for them, there are no demigod children of the Big Three gods. At least, not that we know of."

"And Hera?" Piper looked at the peacock-decorated doors.

"Goddess of marriage." Annabeth's tone was carefully controlled, like she was trying to avoid cursing. "She doesn't have kids with anyone but Zeus. So, yeah, no demigods. The cabin's just honorary."

"You don't like her," Piper noticed.

"We have a long history," Annabeth admitted. "I thought we'd made peace, but when Percy disappeared … I got this weird dream vision from her."

"Telling you to come get us," Piper said. "But you thought Percy would be there."

"It's probably better I don't talk about it," Annabeth said. "I've got nothing good to say about Hera right now."

Piper looked down the base of the doors. "So who goes in here?"

"No one. The cabin is just honorary, like I said. No one goes in."

"Someone does." Piper pointed at a footprint on the dusty threshold. On instinct, she pushed the doors and they swung open easily.

I looked around nervously, "Uh Piper...Maybe we shouldn't-

Annabeth stepped back. "Um, Piper he's right, I don't think we should—"

"We're supposed to do dangerous stuff, right?" And Piper walked inside.

Hera's cabin was not someplace I would want to live. It was as cold as a freezer, with a circle of white columns around a central statue of the goddess, ten feet tall, seated on a throne in flowing golden robes. Piper had always thought of Greek statues as white with blank eyes, but this one was brightly painted so it looked almost human—except huge. Hera's piercing eyes seemed to follow us.

At the goddess's feet, a fire burned in a bronze brazier. A stone hawk sat on Hera's shoulder, and in her hand was a staff topped with a lotus flower. The goddess's hair was done in black plaits. Her face smiled, but the eyes were cold and calculating, as if she were saying: Mother knows best. Now don't cross me or I will have to step on you. I've never actually had to talk to Hera face to face, and I don't plan on it, since a lot of people kind of...Don't like her.

There was nothing else in the cabin—no beds, no furniture, no bathroom, no windows, nothing that anyone could actually use to live. For a goddess of home and marriage, Hera's place reminded me of a tomb.

I froze. We weren't alone. Behind the statue, at a little altar in the back, stood a figure covered in a black shawl. Only her hands were visible, palms up. She seemed to be chanting something like a spell or a prayer.

Annabeth gasped. "Rachel?"

The other girl turned. She dropped her shawl, revealing a mane of curly red hair and a freckled face that didn't go with the seriousness of the cabin or the black shawl at all. She looked about seventeen, a totally normal teen in a green blouse and tattered jeans covered with marker doodles. Despite the cold floor, she was barefoot.

"Hey...You're that mortal Percy was with two years ago...Or was it three? I forgot." I said.

Rachel grinned, "Yep."

After that Annabeth and Rachel started talking, they were talking about Percy, Rachel had no new on his whereabouts. And then after a while, Annabeth remembered she was giving Piper a tour, and that she was being rude.

"I'm being rude," Annabeth apologized. "Rachel, this is Piper, one of the half-bloods we rescued today. Piper, this is Rachel Elizabeth Dare, our oracle."

Well this is all for the weekend, I'll another one up on monday.

Thanks for reading!

Rilurz~