I know my updating schedule is off so just push everything back by a week. Im so sorry. Its just that the only time I really get a chance to write is in study hall. I will attempt to stay on schedule. Im sorry. Anyway enjoy.

Chapter 6

Comas and Bathrooms

I had woken up with a blonde boy feeding me pudding. Although it didn't taste like regular pudding it tasted like movie theater popcorn. When he saw me open my eyes he started spitting out questions a mile a minute. I couldn't keep up with him at all. The words flying straight through me and into the wall behind me. With my vision starting to blur, my head spinning and with one final spoonful of popcorn pudding I was out like a light.

I woke up again but before I opened my eyes I heard a rushed and worried voice. I stabled my breathing and listened.

"Chiron is she the one? She has to be! Why wont you answer me?!" A young female voice asked.

"Calm down child. You will find out soon enough Anabeth." the one I guess named Chiron answered

"I am tired of waiting!" She whined

With the high pitched voice of the girl I went back into the realm of sleep.

I woke up on a bench with a nice quilt draped over my legs and on a coffee table next to me a large glass of what looked like apple juice. My mouth felt like a desert and I had a pounding headache. I was overlooking some sort of campgrounds on a porch. For a second reality never seemed real.

All of a sudden Grover appeared in front of me with pants on. I almost thought the event of the other night didn't happen.

"Hey Perce how you doing?" Grover asked tentatively.

He was holding a box looking down like he was ashamed of himself.

"Did it-" I started to ask

"Yes I am. Im sorry Percy." He mumbled

"Oh God" I sobbed out. I reached out for the Apple Juice and it almost slipped out of my hand but Grover caught it for me and brought it up to my lips.. I took a sip of the drink and flinched because it wasn't Apple Juice it tasted like my moms homemade blue chocolate chip cookies. I quickly drank the rest of it in the span of like five seconds. I was Immediately filled with a sense of hope and warmth.

"How did it taste?" He asked.

"Oh Im sorry I should have let you have some." I apologize.

"Oh no its fine."

"Okay then well it tasted like my moms cookies."

"Well Percy I wanted to give you this."

It was a shoe box and inside was the Minotaur horn. I snatched it from his hands and held tightly to the shoebox.

"Come on Mr. D is waiting for you," He stood up and offered me a hand.

Taking it we made it around the wrap around porch. In the back of the porch there were two men sitting at a table with a deck of cards and a girl about my age standing behind them. The girl was a lot prettier than I am. She had blonde hair in princess curls with a deep tan set in her skin. She looked like the perfect young cali girl. Her eyes ruined it though. They were a stormy grey and they were staring straight through me. It was as if she didn't really see me and just saw my weaknesses. She was terrifying a girl my age and she looked like she could kill. She had the air around her as if she knew how smart she was and that no one could match up to her greatness. My eyes snapped away from her when a lazy drawl came from beside me.

"Well finally you're awake. Welcome Blah Blah Blah now don't expect me to be happy you're here." He spoke

He was fat with a red nose and a loud tiger print shirt. His eyes were bloodshot. He looked like a cherub that spent forty years in a trailer park. His eyes were extremely bloodshot and he was holding a can of Diet Coke in his hand.

I sat down in the chair next to him and moved away from him slightly. After living with Gabe for so long I know when an adult is hitting the happy juice. I turned to the man on my otherside and gasped out of shock.

"Mr Brunner?!" I said to my old Latin teacher.

"Chiron" He corrected me "Thats my name. I'm sorry but Brunner was just a pseudonym"

He turned to the girl leaning on the railing.

"Annabeth why don't you go prepare Percy's bunk in cabin eleven."

With one last bone chilling stare from her she was off. Running towards the so called Cabin Eleven.

"Ever play pinochle we now have four players." Mr. D spoke up.

I shook my head. He passed around the cards explaining the rules.

"Percy what do you know about your father?" Chiron asked me

"He died at sea." I responded nonchalantly

"Percy your father did not die at sea. You know all those greek gods and goddesses they are real and your father is one of them." He spoke with such sincerity that I almost believed him.

"What?!" I spluttered out "That's not true he died at sea. Those are just myths."

Accepting that my father was still out there meant that I had to face the reality that he didn't care that he chose to leave and never come back. That he made the conscious decision to not love me anymore and left me and my mom with Gabe.

"Careful what you say girl before a so called myth smites you." Mr D spoke with an angry undertone to his lazy drawl.

I turned to face him "Wait your a god. YOU?!"

"Yes don't sound so surprised."

It clicked all the strange things that have happened in my life sort of made sense now. It still felt like a haze though.

Thats when Chiron decided to stand up but when he started to it just kept going and a white velvety coat came up with him. Stepping all the way out there was just an empty wheel chair and he was standing in front of me with the back half of a horse.

"Lets go Percy. Ill give you a tour."

"I should take my leave as well. Grover come let us discuss your less than perfect assignment." Mr D spoke and then walked away with Grover nervously trotting behind him.

"Will Grover be Okay?'

"He has big dreams that one. It will be challenging for him to accomplish them." Chiron vaguely answered.

We walked around and Chiron showed me the whole camp. People wherever I went would stop and stare and then whisper to each other. I felt like I did not reach up to the standards they expected. I was just some scrawny 12 year old who had just started puberty and was still real awkward looking.

At the end of the tour we went to the cabins. They were the most strange collection of buildings I had ever saw. One of them was made out of pure gold you couldn't look at it straight. Another had a bunch of smoke stacks on it and looked like a living machine and yet another looked like a barbie house. The one we stopped at was the one that looked most like a summer camp cabin. It was old the paint was peeling and it had a musty smell to it. Annabeth was waiting outside of the cabin for us. She gave me another one of her cold stares but cracked a smile at me. Pushing herself off of the wall of the cabin she greeted us. Walking up to the door with Chiron and Annabeth was absolutely nerve racking. We entered the cabin and the first thing that hit me was the sheer amount of people in the cabin. every bunk was taken up and so was almost every inch of floor space. Everyone stopped talking and stared at us getting up and bowing the Chiron. After they had bowed Chiron decided to take his leave. At that they just stared at me waiting for me to make my first move. I had been to enough schools to know the routine of checking out the new kid. I walked in but as I was going in I tripped over someones foot and went flying landing on the floor. The cabin erupted into laughter as I just got up and brushed myself off.

"Now now settle down. We all know someone tripped her." A boy said.

He walked out from behind a few people he was taller than me with a deep tan and sandy blond hair. Startling blue eyes had a scar running from underneath his eye to his jawline. I think he was about two or three years older than me. He was definitely the leader of the cabin you could tell.

"My names Luke Castellan son of Hermes" Luke told me offering me a hand to shake.

"Percy" I responded without accepting his hand. He put it down awkwardly and gave me a quizzical look like he knew me from somewhere but just couldn't place it. I noticed that other kids in the cabin had the same sharp features as Luke and the same mischievous glint in their eyes that got teachers to peg them as troublemakers.

"Claimed or undetermined" Someone called out from the back of the cabin I couldn't see who.

"Undetermined" Annabeth said with a certain hostile undertone like she hated that anyone wouldn't be claimed.

I stayed silent realizing that my dad didn't really care enough to claim me just like the others. I switched feet nervously all eyes were still on me like they expected me to ask some stupid question. Annabeth grabbed my elbow and dragged me out of the cabin.

"Percy! What were you doing you were just being so quiet. Are you OK?" She asked concerned. This was the first real niceties she had shown me and it felt genuine.

"Yeah I'm fine. I was wondering when will my dad claim me?" I asked

"I don't know Percy maybe tomorrow maybe never."

"Hey Newbie!" A girl called. I turned around and saw a girl with stringy hair and a decent build with beady little eyes.

"Go away Clarisse." Annabeth told Clarisse.

"Stay out of it Princess." Clarisse spat back "Whats your name Newbie."

"Percy. I told her confidently. I had handled enough bullies to know that she was one.

"So Prissy want me to give the special camp welcome" She taunted me smirking.

She lunged for me and grabbed the scruff of my neck leading me to the bathrooms. I knew what was about to happen and I struggled like my life depended on it but I was smaller that her and she already had the advantage.

When we had entered the bathroom she had two of her friends behind her helping and cackling along. Annabeth stood in the corner looking through her hands. They started to thrust me towards the toilet in a stall. It was old and rusted and it smelled terrible all I knew was my head was not going in it. I pushed back resisting her. The pipes groaned and then I felt a strong pull in my gut and an arc of water went over my head and slammed into Clarisse and her friends sending them flying backwards. They spluttered and started to get up but that's when the sinks and showers acted up spraying them back to the floor. They got pushed out the door and then everything shut off. There was a perfect circle around me of dry floor and everything else was soaked Annabeth still in the corner and she wasn't spared. Once I got over my shock I stood up and went outside and Annabeth stormed away behind me. I felt really bad but my attention was turned to Clarisse. She looked like she was about to kill me right there and then.

"If you don't want to gargle more toilet water then I would leave." I threatened her and she was dragged away kicking by her friends.