Agius walked into Cabin 11 and promptly shut the door, moments after multiple sandy blonde children looked up and several in unison as one question, "Claimed or unclaimed?" Agius looked stunned for a moment and slightly unnerved,

"Uh..unclaimed." He stumbled out when his brain started working again, there were multiple groans and some genuine laughter following his statement.

A tall brown-haired young man walked towards Agius with a mischievous smile on his elfish face, "Hey kid, names Connor, and I'm head, partially immortal counselor for Cabin 11, welcome to the god of travelers' cabin."

"Partially Immortal?" Agius started confused, "How exactly can you be partially immortal? Aren't you either mortal or immortal?"

Connor laughed "It's basically like this, I'll never age, same as my brother, but I can still be killed in combat, similar to the hunters of Artemis."

"Well then." Agius said at an utter loss for words,

"Well then kid, you got a name? Or can I just call you Bob " Connor joked with a grin,

"Agius." Agius stated simply before looking for a comfortable spot on the floor to take up residency.

Connor called out to him before he made it to his spot though "Get ready for training in an hour, and capture the flag in two days."

"Sir, yes Sir." Agius responded with a faux salute.

After dinner Sunniva went to her favorite place in camp: the archery range. It was where she felt the most comfortable, one of the only places where she felt she had a connection with her father, Apollo.

She took off her bracelet, turning it into her archery set, lighting up the darkness.

She thought about growing up here, how she never knew her mother. Chiron told her that he got a call about an abandoned baby, a demigod. He, as a favor for Apollo personally went and got her. No one knew where her mother was, if she was even still alive.

'I wonder what she was like,' she wondered, 'what made Father attracted to her.'

Sunniva's thoughts wandered over to Agius and how he ended up here, what his mother was like, who his father was. She hoped it wasn't who she thought it was. It just… can't be possible. Maybe he'll get claimed soon and it will be someone she'd never expect, not… him.

Agius blocked a slash from Connor's brother Tavis using the flat of his blade with resulting in a metallic 'clang' he was sweating heavily but still kept a slightly strained confidant smirk in place, "This is pretty fun!" Tavis grumbled, under his breath before slashing out again for what felt like the three-hundredth time in the last hour, thinking to himself 'Damn Perce, when'd you go and clone yourself.'

He quickly disarmed the boy and placed the tip of his blade to his throat, "Yield?" he questioned with a smirk.

Agius grumbled before saying quietly "Yield…"

"You did good kid, remind me of a friend of mine."

Agius perked up a bit, "Really, who?"

"Percy 'Persassy' Jackson."

"He sounds great."

"That he was, tell ya what, since you did so well against me in your first training session, I'll tell you about everyone's favorite son of Poseidon."

Sunniva was exhausted after archery practice and was about ready to pass out when she walked into her cabin but her siblings insisted she help them get ready for capture the flag.

She nodded and told them to split up into three groups. She was the leader of her team of course and told them to make it safely to the Big House without getting caught. "When you hear the harpies, go. Got it?"

"Yes, ma'am," they all said unison.

"Good." At that the harpies sounded and they were off. "DAISY, TO THE LEFT!" she called out to her little sister who dodged their older brother perfectly.

Their brother, Drake, was about to race past them but Sunniva blocked his path.

"Where do you think you're going brother?" she said with a smile.

Drake smirked but didn't say anything and picked up speed. She shook her head and tried to catch up to him. She hated the fact that he was faster than her but it only made her work harder. It's why she didn't put him on her team, Sunniva wanted to see what she needed to improve, work harder.

"YOU'RE NOT WINNING THIS TIME DRAKE!" she yelled after him, picking up speed, pushing her siblings out of the way as she got more competitive.

She succeed in passing him, meaning she reached the Big House first, winning for her team. Daisy tackled her to the ground excitedly.

"Good job big sis, maybe we'll beat the other cabins this time when we play against them."

She kissed her little sister on the head. "Maybe. But for now it's bed time, c'mon guys," she said and siblings laughed and joked with each other on the way to cabin 7.

Agius sat on one of the benches of the training arena simply awestruck, hours after the sun had gone down and begun to once again peak over the hills signifying Apollo's "run" had begun, the dawn of a new day

"Woah...hurricanes? Fighting gods?! He sounded amazing Tavis!"

Tavis grinned at his raven haired training partner, "That he was Agius, that he was, whelp either way time to get ready for capture the flag, figure out what team you want to be on, and start practicing, you've got a day, use it well Kid."

"Yes Sir." He jogged off to try and find his new friend Sunniva, he wanted to show her what he had learned.

He came up to Cabin 7 in about 10 minutes and promptly knocked, silently hoping it wasn't too early; 'I don't exactly have a watch to check.' he mused to himself,

A sleepy looking blonde teenager opened the door, she looked at bit older than him, "Who are you and how can I assist you?" She said with a small yawn, he nervously asked in a slight stutter, feet tapping against the wood of the Cabin's outer stairs

"C-can I speak with Sunniva?"

The girl, Miranda, yawned again before turning her head to look inside the cabin. "Drake, is Sunniva awake? Someone is here to see her, that new kid from yesterday."

"She's sleeping still with Daisy laying on top of her but I can get her up," Drake said.

"Your funeral," Miranda said with a smirk.

"God, why am I being poked? Daisy is that you? It's way too early for this," a voice said, followed by a loud yawn.

"No I put Daisy back in her bed, Sunniva, now wake up Sleeping Beauty, you have a visitor."

Sunniva thought about who it might be but then smiled to herself, quickly getting up out of bed and walking towards the door, not caring about her hair or what she was wearing. "Agius, hey. You do understand it's about five or six in the morning right?" She said with a smile.

He grinned at her nervousness shining in his eyes, before putting his head down slightly, hiding his eyes beneath his raven mop of hair "Sorry about that, It's just Tavis told me to get ready for capture the flag tomorrow, and well I figured I'd show you what I learned, since I couldn't sleep, sorry for waking you up, I'll come back later."

He said with a wave as he turned and walked away, as he walked back to the Hermes Cabin his sea green eyes briefly fell on the crystal blue waters of one of the many rivers that ran through the forests, and he felt this slight pull that he just couldn't explain, shaking it off he quickly began to jog back to the "Home of Thieves" as he liked to call it.

Sunniva quickly got dressed, too awake to go back to sleep. She ran out of her cabin and ran as fast as she could after Agius. "AGIUS WAIT UP!" she called out when he saw him jogging towards the Hermes Cabin.

He stopped and turned to look at her, "What's wrong Sunniva?"

"You wanted to train for capture the flag, right? Then let's train." With that she turned around and ran.

He sprinted after her, keeping pace but not trying to overshoot her since he had absolutely no idea where they were going.

Sunniva ran to the archery range, wanting to see what he could there even though she suspects that he's better with a sword. She stopped short in front of the third target to the left, her favorite, which everyone knew. "So Agius, this is my absolute favorite place in the entire camp. We can get into reasons why later but for now it's training time."

She pulled off her bracelet which quickly turned into her bow and arrow. She walked over to the right, grabbing a set for Agius. "Here, you can use this one. You're not touching mine. Let's see what you can do."

He looked at the bow and blinked hard, he picked it up and it just felt..wrong..out of place, like it didn't belong in his grip; shaking it off, he took aim, pulled the string back and fired; only to miss the target altogether. He tried again and actually managed to nick the outermost ring.

Sunniva watched as he tried but failed. 'Just a coincidence…' she thought before clapping her hands together, catching his attention. "So Agius, this may not be your strong suit just like the sword isn't mine. But I can work with that. Follow me oh and put the bow and arrow back where it was please." She walked away, not waiting for him.

She did wait by the edge of the forest though, knowing he could get lost without her. She put the bow back in bracelet form before slipping a small dagger out of her boot and twirled it around as she waited for Agius.

Once he approached she said, "Now this may be a lot easier for you. Get out your sword."

He reached for the sheath on his waist and pulled out the celestial bronze blade he got from the arena, ignoring how unbalanced it felt in his grip, "Ready."

"Good." Sunniva held up her dagger, Agius doing the same.

Sunniva knew she wasn't going to be perfect at it even though Chiron had her practice with the dagger she currently held tightly in her grip every day for hours until she collapsed for as long as she could remember. But she couldn't be that bad against a newbie… right?

Shaking her head she slashed at him, hoping to get close but he blocked it almost perfectly. She circled around him, wondering where and how to attack. Noticing an opening on his right side, she reached for it with her dagger but it was as if he somehow expected it.

'Incredible,' she thought, getting distracted.

Agius took that opportunity to attack. Sunniva stepped out of the way at the last second, him barely missing her.

'God, he's good. Almost as good as… Focus!' She slashed out at him again, hoping to catch him off guard but he quickly stepped out the way. 'Why can't he just be as bad as me.' She looked up quickly and quickly began to climb up a boulder.

Agius watched her, wondering what she was doing. He stepped back a little, too unsure. When he least expected it, she jumped down from the boulder, cutting his arm slightly.

He hissed in pain before kicking up, knocking her dagger out of her hand and placing his sword to her throat "Yield?".

Her blue, green eyes slightly widened and she put up her hands, surrendering. "Y-Yield… now please put down the sword."

He grinned at her and complied, lowering his blade, "I won't lie, it feels off y'know? Horribly unbalanced." He said motioning to the blade before re-sheathing it.

"So I'm guessing that's not the sword you came into camp with? You seemed to work pretty well with that one."

He looked at her in confusion, eyebrows slightly raised, "I came here with a sword? Sorry, my memory's still a little foggy."

Sunniva nodded. "Yeah once you collapsed, it seemed to transform into a necklace, just like my bow turns into the bracelet. It should be around your neck still."

His hands immediately flew to his neck grasping the trident-skull hybrid necklace that hung there, it seemingly hummed in his hand almost happily, he tugged once and nearly instantly it shifted form, turning into a beautiful 23-inch obsidian colored blade, the edges lined with what he now knew was celestial bronze.

It hummed in hand once more, only he felt it much more clearly, it felt like it belonged there. "This...this is mine, my sword..my Θάλασσα-σκιά." He said with a tone of finality that sounded absolute.

Sunniva watched him with amazement and curiosity. "This is perfect Agius. This might mean you'll be claimed soon." She smiled brightly at him as he looked at his sword as if inspecting it, observing it.