Athens: So please welcome John the blue panda to our show

Castle: You don't have a show. But I do *wiggles eyebrows*

John: What's he doing here?

Athens: You know Castle?

John: Well ya, remember before you kidnaped me…

Athens: Kidnapped is such an ugly word. I think 'taken with no intention of returning' fits it better.

John: Ok, before you took me I was a TV star.

Athens: Right- Well Castle, do your job.

Castle: Athens does not own Percy Jackson or any of Rick's characters, though he does own Ryan, Dalton, and Sara.

Chapter 7

As I walked back to my cabin, I started wondering about what my life would be like. I mean if monsters kept attacking the camp just because someone want's me dead, someone is going to die, and I cannot accept that. As I walked into the cabin, I saw that most of the bunks were empty. They all must still be on the hill, I thought sleepily.

On my first day at camp Annabeth warned me that demigods sometimes got weird and scary dreams, sometimes so vivid that you would wake up the next morning in a cold sweat, thinking the dream was real. I had never had any before so I was a little scared when she mentioned it. Though all the time I had been here I have had no dreams. Now I realized how vivid they could be.

I felt like I was falling, you know when you do and you jolt back into reality? Well that's what happened, but no reality came. I looked around but saw nothing, save the black darkness surrounding me. As I fell, I could feel the air heating up. As the air continued heating up, a vast cavern spilled into view.

The air was blood red. The ground, covered in glass shards. Vast mountains, also blood red, stretched as far as the eye could see. A disembodied voice cackled. The dream shifted to where I was standing on a navy ship.

I know this place, I thought. It's the USS Yorktown CV-10. It's the one that I visited in Charleston. As I turned, I stifled a yelp. Two more of those Grim Reaper things were standing behind me. As I slowly backed up, trying to find anything to use as a weapon, they walked toward me. I was sure that they saw me and were going to kill me. Then the strangest thing happened. They walked through me. This cannot be happening, I thought to myself. The two Grim Reapers kept walking towards the stern of the ship. As I collected myself, I started to follow the two of them.

As I followed them deeper into the ship, I tried to memorize the route we were taking in case, well I had no idea why I was doing it, and after all they can't see me. As we turned another corner, I woke up with a jolt. As I looked around, I felt my heart steady. I had not even realized that it had been racing.

As I looked over at one of the monitors in the back, the clock read 7:34. As I got up, I looked around to see everyone sound asleep. I got out of bed and went straight to the bathroom. I looked at myself in the mirror. I saw my father's face. My traitor father. I turned away from the mirror, holding back tears. A soft knock came from the door as I walked out. Another Athena kid was standing there, waiting for me to be done. We were the only ones up.

"Can I ask you something?" I asked the kid before he went into the bathroom.

"Sure, what is it?"

"Why are we here? I mean, can't we live in the mortal world? Not have to worry about monster attacks every day?"

As he replied, he looked wistful, "I think that all of us would love to leave, but we can't. Even though there are monster attacks here, there are even more in the mortal world. Think about it, trying every day having a monster attack you and your family, and every day worrying if that day will be your last. No, camp is the only place that is safe for us, at least until your eighteen. The only other way you get to leave is if you either have a quest or Chiron believes you should not be here because you are causing other demigods to be in grave danger," he said with a smile, "But that rarely happens."

"What happens when you turn eighteen?"

"You leave the camp, you would have gotten all the training you would need and you will be able to live in the mortal world for the rest of your life, unless you want to stay and help train the younger half-bloods." With that he turned and walked into the bathroom, leaving me to think about what he said.

I turned around, and started towards the door when it flew open. Percy was standing in the door, and as he walked in he went straight for Annabeth, who was still sound asleep. "Annabeth, Annabeth." He whispered softly. "Time to get up, Chiron wants us." Annabeth's head lifted slowly, and she muttered something unintelligible. "Chiron is calling a meeting with the other head counselors." Annabeth said something else and I decided it was my time to leave.

I walked out of the cabin towards the small fire that was slowly dying out. Not wanting to have to build another one, I went into the woods to get more fire wood. As I came back out, arms loaded down with the wood, I saw Percy and Annabeth walking out of the cabin, towards the Big House. Putting the fire wood down I remembered what the guy said in the cabin, 'Chiron believes you should not be here because you are causing other demigods to be in grave danger'.

I turned back towards the two of them, and started walking slowly behind them. As we got closer, more Demigods were also walking to the Big House, though no one else had a tail. As I looked around, it seemed that we were the only Demigods awake.

As we drew closer, I ducked into the strawberry fields to avoid being seen. As the rest of the Half-Blood's walked into the house, I started walking towards the back of the house. As I got to the back, I looked around to see if anyone was watching, and when I was satisfied that no one was, I climbed up the side of the Big House, not looking down. As I got up to a window, I looked in to see all the Demigods sitting around a Ping-Pong table, with Chiron standing at the front. As I looked around, most of the Demigods were chatting with each other softly. Then Chiron stomped his hoof and everyone went silent.

Chiron started to say something, but I could not hear him. I moved to the other side of the room and pressed my ear to the roof, right above Chiron, at least I think so. As my ear grew numb from the constant pressure of the wood, I heard him say, Ryan… Spy… What to do? Then there were several shouts throughout the room. They have decided to throw me out, I thought to myself as I pulled my ear back.

I walked back to the cabin were the other campers where slowly walking up. I climbed in slowly and quietly. I walked over to my bed and sat down, not caring anymore if I made any noise. The rest of the world will go on even if I am dead I thought glumly to myself.

Athens: FINALY DONE!

John: I hope so it took you a few weeks.

Athens: Shut up, give me credit, I finished.

John: Fine, Happy New Year.

Athens: R&R