He's got the looks that books take pages to tell, he's got a face to make you fall on your knees. He's got money in the bank to thank and I guess you could think he's living at ease. Does that line remind you of Ian or is it just me? If you change it to "she" it could be Natalie as well. Anyway…

Blue Ninja – Well you guessed close but that isn't Ian's parent. But Apollo is important in this story. You'll find out in this chapter. :D

TribalGirl – Ahaha no but that is a brilliant thought! Hmm PJO/39 Clues/Maximum Ride crossover that would be… hmm…

Amy Cahill – Yes! It is but not Hermes ;)

Sandy – Exactly how I felt but with SoN coming soon...

Victor janus – Hmm think Greek not roman. Similar to Thalia and Jason except another Olympian for the Kabras.

BeautifulLove13 – Ding, ding, ding! Winner, winner!

And for the person who didn't put any screen name but said she would go by Mahtob – Well not half a bit less. But they are special alright

Disclaimer:

Me: DAN! DAN, DAN, DAN, DAN, DAN, DAN!

Dan: Ow! I'm right here! Maybe you're lack of caffeinated sugar is a good thing….

Me: My withdrawal of anything is never good. Soda, books, FanFiction, Smarties-

Dan: You have a Smartie obsession?

Me: The powder, if you inhale it-

Dan: This sounds illegal, leave me out of it.

Me: It's candy, moron. NOW DO THE DISCLAIMER!

Dan: Ow!

Me: What's the matter, matter, blue eyes, blue eyes-"

Dan: My ears hurt from you yelling! And my eyes are green I think…

Me: I was singing. I really don't care.

Dan: Fine, bokgirl39 doesn't own crap.

Me: Lovely disclaimer, Dan. Wow that took a whole freaking page!

Amy's POV

When Ian got hit I panicked. I don't like him much but did that mean I'd want to watch him die? Not likely.

But screaming his name might have been the wrong thing to do. It probably saved his life, but almost ended my own.

Ian was leaning on a tree, trying not to look like his arm was melting and I was frozen in fear, staring up at a Hydra – which I'd like to point out should not exist. We're not very lucky people.

Not good I thought. Wow, Amy, understatement of the year.

I didn't have much of a chance except the dart. Something told me that I should throw it. Sounded pretty crazy but it seemed to be our only chance.

I aimed at the area of the creature where I hoped it's heart was located. Unless monsters have their hearts in their tail or something... Do monsters even have hearts? I'll have to ask the psychos who put it here! I took a deep breath and threw the dart.

Everything seemed to move in slow motion. I thought it only happened in movies but turns out that things actually seem to go slower when your life depends on it. I watched as the dart flew through the air.

And hit the Hydra.

Right where I'd aimed.

Oh. My. God.

It didn't even fall to the ground. It simply turned to dust and disappeared.

I ran over to Ian. "Ian, are you okay?" I asked. Gee, he has a huge hole in his arm. Does he look okay? I thought.

"I'll be fine, love. You know, eventually." he responded "And I can live without one arm if I must."

"You were brave." I told him, helping him up by his good arm.

"This from the girl who just, single handedly, killed a Hydra. You have amazing aim!" he exclaimed, grinning.

"It was luck I guess. And it was your dart! What was in that?"

"I have no idea. Honestly I didn't know I had a dart with me. That was luck."

We started walking, hoping to find a way out.

After few moments we heard more noise nearby.

"I bet they're making out in a tree or something." a muffled voice, said. It sounded like Natalie.

"Ian and Amy, sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" another, obviously Dan sang. Both Ian and I blushed.

"It's times like this that I thank the gods I have next to no contact with my younger brothers." an unfamiliar voice said.

"I can make up for that if you like." Dan offered "Percy and Annabeth sitting in a tree-"

"Dan, that's enough."

"Dan! Natalie!" I shouted.

Dan followed my voice and ran over. "ANNABETH, NATALIE, I FOUND THEM!" he yelled "Whoa! Dude, What happened to you arm!"

Then Natalie and another girl — Annabeth I guess — found us as well.

"What happened to whose- oh my God! Gross!" Natalie shrieked covering her eyes.

"Glad you're concerned, sister. I am going to live thanks for asking." Ian replied sarcastically.

"What did you guys run into?" Annabeth asked.

"Hydra." I told her "The acid got Ian but I kind of shot it with a dart and it died. Or… dissolved."

"Where'd you get a dart?" she asked.

Natalie grinned. "I put one in Ian's pocket. I found a bunch by one of the cabins and picked some up for my gun but I didn't know what to do with the others."*

Annabeth looked interested. "They work? We've been trying to perfect poison darts with Celestial Bronze tips for ages! The poison always eats the metal though..."

"Well, if you call the monster turning to dust working I'd say yes." Ian replied.

Annabeth remembered Ian's injury. "Here, eat this." she took a bag of some crackers or something out of her pocket.

Ian eyed the stuff suspiciously. "What is it?"

"Ambrosia. It'll help your arm. Either that or it'll burn you to ash but that isn't too likely."

Ian looked even more cautious of the cracker than before but sighed and put it in his mouth. He was still in one piece so I assumed it worked.

Sure enough, his arm looked visibly better. Still kind of burned, but better.

"Whoa that's cool!" Dan exclaimed "How'd it do that?"

"Food of the gods. It's powerful but mortals will burn to ash if they eat it. Even half-bloods can't eat much." Annabeth explained.

We all looked Ian whose face was pale.

Annabeth sighed. "I'll let Chiron explain. Come on let's get out of here."

We walked back in silence. Yes, even Dan was quiet.

When we got back to camp Annabeth took us to the big house as she called it.

She told us to sit down and went to get Chiron. We still didn't talk. No one knew what to say.

When Annabeth came back the guy with her shocked us even more. He was a normal looking man. From the waist up. The rest of him was a horse's body. I guess that was Chiron.

"Hello, children." he greeted "You haven't been properly welcomed. I'm Chiron, the camp director. Welcome to Camp Half-Blood."

"Dude, that's the coolest costume I've ever seen!" Dan exclaimed.

"Umm, Dan, I-" I started to tell him that I didn't think it was a costume but Chiron beat me to it.

"Ah, — Dan is it? — I am not wearing a costume. I'm Centaur."

"Cool! How? Is, like, one of your parents human and the other a horse?" Dan asked.

I thought I saw Chiron flinch a bit at the mention of his parents. "Not exactly-" he started.

But Dan had more questions. "Are there other Centaurs? Why don't we ever see them? Do you have a human life span or a horse? Do you sleep in a stable? Is-"

"Dan!" I scolded "You're being really annoying!"

"It's fine. This happens often with younger campers." Chiron told me "Is he your brother?"

I nodded. "Y-yes I'm Amy b-b-by the way. This i-is Natalie and I-I-Ian." I told him, stuttering again.

Chiron nodded. "Very interesting." he turned to Ian and Natalie "I take it you two are siblings as well?"

"Yes." Natalie said quietly "What is this place? Why are we here? No offense but I didn't think Centaurs existed! What's happening?"

I guess he was right. The younger ones do ask a lot of questions.

"It appears I have a lot of explaining. Where should I begin?"

"How about why I didn't die?" Ian asked, sounding pretty confused "I was supposed to burn! As far as I'm aware I'm motal!"

"Ah, there's a simple explanation for that." Chiron started. Only to be interrupted again by Dan.

"'Cause he's not human! He's an alien like Amy!" Dan honestly looked like he believed that was the answer.

Ian and I both blushed.

Chiron laughed a bit. "Maybe he is but that's not what I was going to say."

"I'm not an alien." Ian muttered to himself.

"No, you're not, Ian, you're human. Or, at least half." Chiron said.

We all looked at him weird.

Dan broke the silence. "He is part snake! I knew it!"

Everyone face palmed themselves.

"No he's half god." Annabeth said. She'd been so quiet, it was as if she was invisible the whole time.

More silence. Oh my God. I thought Literally! I've always thought Ian looked like a Greek god but I didn't mean it! Don't tell him I thought that…

"What about me?" Natalie asked, breaking the silence.

"Considering you're here and you look so much like your brother, I would say you too. Maybe even the same god." Chiron answered. Natalie was silent again.

I locked eyes with Dan and we had a silent conversation.

"If I didn't hate them so much, I would think that this was really cool!" Dan told me.

"They aren't so bad, Dan. Not like they were back during the hunt."

"You're just saying that because lover boy saved your butt." Dan rolled his eyes.

I blushed "Exactly! Would he have done that back then? No."

"He only did it because he likes you."

"Dan, don't say that. Just because you don't want someone to die doesn't mean you like them. I saved Ian at Everest."

"You just proved my point."'

"I did not like him! And I still don't now."

"Keep telling yourself that. Just don't tell Ian."

"Why?"

"He's in looove with you!"

"Where'd you get love? Why are you even saying such a thing? He's only sixteen you know."

"I was talking to Natalie and she told me that he's been weird since Korea."

"Weird meaning-?" I was curious about this. "Wait why were you talking to Natalie?"

"Seriously, how do you do that?" Ian asked, interrupting our conversation.

"What are they doing? Annabeth asked. Seriously, where does she come from?

"They can talk with their eyes!" Natalie explained "It's weird..."

"It's not weird! It's awesome. I could be telling her Madrigal information or just telling her how annoying you are. You'll never know!" Dan pointed out. Ian, Natalie and I gave him exasperated looks. Dan covered his mouth.

Chiron chuckled at our reactions. "Don't worry. We know all about Cahills. Don't you think some of the half-bloods have been Cahills as well? Busy people they are. We also know the Vespers." The way he said it told me that they didn't like Vespers either.

We all relaxed a bit. Dan hadn't just let out a huge secret.

Annabeth appeared out of nowhere again. "How old are you?" she asked the Kabras randomly.

They looked a little shocked by her sudden appearance. Or the randomness of the question. Well, either way they were shocked.

"Umm... Sixteen and thirteen." Ian said, unsure of why she asked.

Annabeth didn't like that answer. "What? You guys should have been claimed by now! Leave it to the gods to forget a promise." she sighed, shaking her head.

Thunder shook the house.

"Sorry!" Annabeth called, looking up.

"Annabeth, don't complain about the gods! They're very busy and can't remember everything. And don't forget that your friend Percy was a broken promise." Chiron said, giving her a meaningful look.

Annabeth blushed a little and said nothing. Eventually, when no one was looking, she disappeared again. How does she do that?

"Where were we? We really got off topic didn't we? Ah yes, gods. The gods do exist, you are the children of gods." Chiron reminded us.

"How?" Natalie asked.

"The gods have always existed. They move with the heart of the western civilization and that is currently in America." Chiron explained.

"I think meant the children of gods part. I'm pretty sure neither Isabel nor Vikram is a god." Ian said.

"You have two parents?" Chiron asked. Ian and Natalie nodded "Well that's odd... Perhaps one of them isn't your real mother or father." The Kabras looked a bit —Joyful? Thankful? Relived? —That they weren't really related to at least one of their parents.

"I'd say Aphrodite." Annabeth announced, taking off a baseball cap.

"Pardon?" Ian asked.

"You guys look like Aphrodite kids." she said. When all she got were blank stares she rolled her eyes "Aphrodite. Goddess of love and beauty?" Ian nodded slowly but Natalie still didn't get it "Also known as Venus?" she tried.

Natalie nodded, thought for a minute then grinned. "So Isabel's not our real mum?" she asked excitedly. Ian smiled at that as well. He should smile more. I thought Looks so much better than that annoying smirk. Not that the smirk looks bad… Don't tell him that either! Let's just assume that none of my thoughts that day were for Ian's ears.

"I guess you two don't like you're mother?" Annabeth asked.

"Hate her." Ian corrected "We were disowned though. She's not our mother anymore."

"Long story." Dan told Chiron and Annabeth who looked kind of confused.

"Okay, then. Now for you two," Chiron said. Attention was directed to Dan and I while Annabeth disappeared again.

"W-what about us?" I asked.

"There's a reason you could get through the bounds. Do you two have both parents?"

Natalie's POV

Goddess of beauty. That sound about right! I thought And love. That explains Ian. So Isabel isn't our mum. Thank God! I mean… gods. I knew no mother would shoot her own daughter. I didn't even question gods being real. I was just thankful I wasn't related to Isabel.

"There's a reason you could get through the bounds. Do you two have both parents?" Oh no. Not this. I thought.

Amy and Daniel looked at the ground.

Ian got up and walked over to Chiron a whispered something to him.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize…" Chiron apologized.

"It's okay right, Ames? It was ten years ago…" Daniel said, trying to sound like it didn't bother him.

Amy nodded. "D-Dan's right." She muttered.

It was quiet for a while.

Then Annabeth appeared behind the Cahills. She must've had an invisibility cloak or something because she kept appearing and disappearing.

"I can't tell with these two. They don't have any particularly notable features of any of the gods. Like Hermes always has the elfish look, Athena always has grey eyes, et cetra. I can't tell. What are some of your talents and interests?" she asked, randomly. This girl's questions were so weird.

"Ninjas!" Daniel shouted "Ninjas, word problems, Pokemon, math… oh and any video game where you get to shoot stuff. Amy likes to read. I suppose she's good at that. She's also a decent writer. Not like Janus good but I've read some pretty deep stuff in her diary-" he stopped talking.

"You. Read. My diary?" Amy asked angrily. If she was anything like Ian had been when I read his journal this was going to be fun to watch.

"Yes? No? Maybe?" Daniel asked, unsure of what the right answer was.

Then they were silent. I really hate when they do that silent communication thing.

"Amy has really good aim." Ian offered after it was clear that we weren't getting anything else out of the Cahills. We all looked at him weird. "With the Hydra… she shot it perfectly…" he explained quietly.

Annabeth and Chiron exchanged glances. Great now they're doing the silent conversation thing! Could everyone do that but Ian and I?

"Dan, I did not write that! It's not even true." Amy defended.

"Then what was I reading?" he asked.

"I don't know. Not what I wrote."

"No one else thinks that-" Amy covered his mouth. "Shut up if you want to live" she growled. I'd never heard Amy sound so… intimidating. It scared even me.

"Anyway…" Annabeth continued awkwardly "So far you guys sound like Apollo kids."

"How?" Amy asked quietly "How are we Apollo's kids if we had both parents? I know they were both our real parents!"

"I agree with Amy! As cool as it would be, I know they were our real parents." Daniel said.

"There has to be some explanation to why you got through the bounds and can see through the mist…" Chiron said.

"Could we- I don't know… it has to do with having a god's blood right? Could like… one of our parents be demigods?" Amy tried.

Chiron considered that. "Do you have all four grandparents?" they shook their heads.

Dan's POV

What were we going to say? Our dad's parents had been Vespers! We couldn't exactly tell Chiron that. He obviously didn't like the Vespers.

"Our dad's parents… died. A really long time ago." I lied. I didn't know if they were alive or not. For all I knew they could be watching us from little spy cameras as we spoke "And our grandmother, Grace, died two years ago." I finished. I saw Amy look at the floor sadly as I said that. She still missed Grace. I did too.

"And your grandfather?" Chiron asked, obviously hopping this wasn't another bad question.

I looked at Amy who shook her head. "We don't know." She told him "Mom and Grace never talked about him. I don't think Grace was ever married."

Annabeth looked at Chiron and they exchanged looks.

"Well this is rare." Chiron said "Very rare…"

"What is?" I asked.

"I'm thinking that your mother was a daughter of Apollo." Chiron said "It's just very strange… demigods almost never live long enough to have kids."

Yeah yeah world's worst stopping place but it's pretty long… it's no cliffhanger or anything but oh well.

Sorry it's been MONTHS since I updated but I've been lazy. I have no excuse other than that.

*Worlds worse excuse I know but I didn't know what to put…

Interview!

Me: Sooo?

Amy: Dan is being really annoying.

Annabeth: Again, glad I hardly know my little brothers.

Natalie: Older brothers are annoying too!

Ian: But we all agree Dan is worse?

Dan: Aww love you guys too!

Me: It's okay Dan we love you.

Dan: That's scary…

Natalie: No! No I don't like Dan.

Ian: Agreed.

Annabeth: I just met him.

Me: Okay Amy and I love you!

Dan: I'm still scared…

Me: Not like that weirdo! I know you're in love with-

Dan: *covers my mouth* CUT!

Director dude: Hey that's my job!

Dan: Well hurry up!

Director dude: CUT!

Gosh I missed these interviews