Chapter Seven, enjoy! :):):)

SAM'S POV

My eyes fluttered open and I looked around everything was a bit fuzzy. Suddenly I remembered the drakon and bolted up.

"Drakon!" I gasped. I started remembering more things now. "Drakon…where…Percy…"

"Hey," said a voice, "calm down. There's no drakon here."

My breathing slowed and I leaned back onto my pillow.

"Where am I?" I asked.

"The infirmary. You got knocked unconscious." I didn't really care who was talking so I just closed my eyes. Wow, I thought, I must be cray-cray (way of saying 'crazy' when I was young) enough to dream up a drakon and a dude called Percy telling me that I'm a child of a god. I started ranting about my dream.

When I finished, I took a deep breath and I focused on a person leaning against the wall near the foot of my bed. It was a boy, around my age (fifteen) with messy dark brown hair. It fell into his eyes and he had to push it back a lot. He also had extremely light brown eyes, so it looked kind of orange instead of brown. The boy had a oblong face and he was slightly taller than me. He had an amused look on his face.

"Who are you?" I asked dumbly.

"I'm Rylan," he said. He held his hand out and I shook it.

"Hi, I'm Sam," I said. Then I added: "Short for Samantha, but don't call me that."

The door to the infirmary opened and two people walked in.

"Hi Sam," said Percy. I almost jumped out the infirmary bed in shock.

"Whoa!" I exclaimed, "You're real?!"

"I believe I am," Percy replied calmly.

"So…so…" I stuttered, "The Cyclops was real? The drakon was real? The entire god thing was, I mean is real?"

The girl next to Percy nodded at me. She held hands with Percy. I figured the girl was Percy's girlfriend.

"Hi," she said. "I'm Annabeth."

"Sam," I said, nodding to her in acknowledgement. She had curly blonde hair up in a ponytail and stormy grey eyes. She leaned over to Percy and muttered: "She looks like Piper.", whoever Piper was. Percy just nodded and said something back.

I got out of the bed as Percy and Annabeth left. My clothes had been changed (somehow I don't know how don't ask me) and I was wearing a white cotton T-shirt and my jeans (those didn't change).

"Where's my original shirt…?" I asked.

"Oh, it's here," replied Rylan. He held up some shreds of cloth.

"Right," I said. I stood up and immediately I felt woozy. I swayed and staggered until Rylan caught me.

"Sorry," I muttered. He didn't answer but helped me to the porch of the house. I sat down in a chair across from a guy wearing a shorts and a leopard patterned-shirt. His eyes looked bloodshot.

"Hello again, Raylan," he said with a bored expression.

"It's Rylan, sir."

"As you young people say these days, whatever," replied the guy.

I was a bit shocked and angry that this guy was so mean.

"Who are you?" I blurted.

"Who are you?" he asked back at me with cold eyes.

"I'm Sam, who are you?" I said.

"That's Mr. D," muttered Rylan in my ear. "Don't irritate him if you value your sanity."

"Come on, I'll show you the orientation video," Rylan said. He helped me up and led me into a room.

"Just watch it," he said. So I did. And I found out the b**** on the front porch was Dionysus. Sorry about the swearing.

"Right," I said, breathless, after the video. "You guys train demigods here. You guys fight monsters. Your teacher is a centaur. Chiron, right? I remember the legend now." My life just changed permanently. Rylan nodded at me.

"I'll show you where you'll be staying until you get claimed," he said. I felt less woozy so I walked by myself. We went back to the infirmary room to get my bag when I heard two people talking to each other.

"Hi guys," said Rylan. I looked at who he was talking to. I gasped.

"Reyna?" I asked, bewildered.

"Hello, Samantha la Rue," said Reyna, smiling a bit. The Asian guy, Frank, was walking around too.

"I'm just getting my bag…" I said. I pointed to a bag on the table at the far corner of the room.

"I'll get it for you," said Frank. He was standing right next to it. He lifted it up and groaned.

"Wow, it's heavy. What's so heavy?"

I shrugged. Frank opened it and took something out until I realized…the eagle. There was suddenly tension in the room as Frank took it out. It expanded into it's normal size.

"Our eagle," whispered Reyna. "I…I thought we lost it."

"Where'd you get this?" Frank asked tightly, his voice suddenly cold.

"I…I just, you know, found it," I said unconvincingly. Frank opened his mouth to say something when a conch horn blew.

"Come on, it's dinner," said a voice next to my ear. I turned and saw Rylan. Frank and Reyna woke up the other girl on a bed.

"Hazel," Frank said, "We have to go." He picked up the eagle and left.

"You'll be eating with the Hermes cabin for now, until you get claimed," said Rylan as we walked to the dining pavilion.

"Claimed?"

"When your godly parent claims you as their child," he explained.

I sat down at the Hermes table and…

the start of a war was triggered.

Sorry about the shortness of this chapter and the lack of action again. BUT, in the next chapter a war starts. If you read the next chapter, try to relate the prophecy and what happens. ;)

-mi5hao