"I am Thalia," the girl said. "Daughter of Zeus."

Percy swallows hard. Meanwhile the crowd behind him started growing and an uneasy murmur broke out. Percy could hear Annabeth sobbing behind him, but he was too busy thinking to pay attention to any of this.

Thalia moved trying to make sense of her surroundings. "Where am I? What happened? Who are you people?"

Percy realized nobody else had even moved towards the girl like she was some kind of plague victim. He swallowed. "Like I said I'm Percy, we are the campers of Camp Half-blood and you're on half-blood hill right outside our camp. As what for happened I don't have a clue."

Thalia got even more confused. "I made it?" she exclaimed. "Where's Annabeth and Luke and Grover? Are they ok?" She stuttered getting up causing Annabeth's sobs to grow even louder.

Almost immediately after she gets to her feet she falls dizzily. Percy catches her and puts her arm around his shoulders.

"A little help please?" he gowned

The first year camper from the Apollos chariot, who Percy found out was named Will Solace, came up and draped Thalia's other arm around him. Percy thanked him as they started down the hill. Chiron finally came out of his daze and trotted up next to Percy and Will with Annabeth on his back and Grover trailing behind. The rest of the camp, minus a few less easily disturbed campers who were still sound asleep, followed a good distance behind so that they weren't encroaching on the group and almost every camper had the same expression on their face that Percy likened to a scared puppy.

Thalia looked up at Chiron, "Are you Chiron?"

Chiron smiles sadly at her, "Yes my child we are taking you to that big farm house, once there we will treat your injuries and try to explain."

"Yeah easier said than done." Thought Percy.

Percy and Will helped Thalia into the lawn chair that Percy healed in last year. Will told Percy and Chiron that he was going to get some ambrosia and nectar before rushing off towards the first aid center. Percy leaned against the railing exactly how Grover was the morning he woke up last year. Percy thought about that day and how overwhelming it was for him; he could only imagine how over whelmed Thalia will feel let alone how they were going to break it to her.

While he was thinking Grover and Annabeth came to stand next to him; Annabeth with tears still in her eyes. Chiron lowered himself into his magical wheel chair that one of the campers brought to him and rolled over to Thalia.

Thalia looked up at him tiredly. "Please tell me Luke, Annabeth and Grover are okay, what happen? I'm so confused..."

Chiron held up his hand to stop her. "It's complicated, my dear, very complicated indeed. It would help me gravely if you told us what you remember."

Thalia cleared her throat, "Yes sir. One day when I was little maybe 6, a monster attacked me. I was able to get away but my mom explained to me that my father was Zeus, I didn't believe her at first but over the years the attacks kept happening. Then when I was 10 I got tired of it and ran away. I made it to the East coast all the way to Massachusetts, there I met Luke an 11 year old son of Hermes and an amazing fighter. Then about a year later we were running from monsters in Virginia and came across little girl named Annabeth. She was only seven and running from monsters on the streets so we knew she had to be a demigod..."

Beside Percy, Annabeth began to sob again, he wanted to hold her like at the bottom of sirens bay but he didn't think he could get away with it here so he just put his arm around her.

Meanwhile Thalia was saying "... then Grover the satyr found us and lead us to New York but we had maybe five monsters on our tail and three of them were the furies. We made it to the bottom of that hill, what did you call it?" she asked looking at Percy

"Half-Blood hill." Replied Percy.

"Yeah, Half-Blood hill." Thalia continued. "We were injured, Annabeth was unconscious and being carried by Luke." Thalia started to cry. "I told Grover to go get the others to safety, that I'd hold them off. He tried to argue but I charged at the monsters. I killed two of the furies and was fighting the third when this snake women stabbed me in the back and then... and then it was like a sensation of failing and I heard my father's voice say 'I'm sorry my daughter, you have fought bravely and have honored me, you will not been forgotten.' And then blank, like I fell asleep and didn't have any dreams and when I woke up Percy was staring at me."

"You remember nothing else?" choked Annabeth.

Will returned with a bowl of water with a rag, a bag of ambrosia, and a flask of nectar. He kneeled by her before whirling around and shooting a dirty towards the group.

"You have been making her talk! Crying takes a toll on the body you know. You should keep the emotional stuff until after she gets some rest!" He yelled with such ferocity that you wouldn't think would be possible from a 12 year old boy. When he turned back to Thalia he smiled resuming his normal innocent demeanor and began to wipe off her face.

Thalia looked down at her hands, "Little bits that I can't quite remember, like I said it's like a dream."

Chiron looked at Thalia sadly.

"If you remember anything be sure to tell me." He sighed.

He turned towards Percy and for a fraction of a second eyed his arm around Annabeth but Percy noticed. "Annabeth my dear are you ok?" he whispered.

Annabeth shook her head. "I'm happy but worried she looks about 14 at least."

Percy took his arm out from around Annabeth and crossed them. "The prophecy, she's older than me so she's the one. That's what Luke meant about replacing me!"

Chiron looked up at us sadly. "It would seem that way if I did my math correctly she's 15. But don't make any hasty assumptions Percy, the prophecy could still apply to you, you are a child of the big three and this makes you no less dangerous."

Annabeth shook her head again. "But as of right now she is the prophecy child and unless both of our math is wrong we have less than a year till the prophesy is to come true."