Athena POV

It was a meeting I couldn't miss. Something about my own children. 'Please, don't let it be an engagement announcement for Annabeth and Percy.' She thought. Luckily it wasn't.

"Athena, you claimed that child. The strange, not-demigod young girl."

"Yes, because she is my daughter. I wasn't the first to claim a child who wasn't considered a demigod. Remember, he claimed Tyson." I didn't need to say his name for Father to know who I was talking about. They all knew I couldn't stand to say Pos— I mean his name, when I was mad at him.

Zeus sighed, knowing I was right, as me, goddess of wisdom always was.

"What is she?"

It was my turn to sigh. Honesty would help me better in the end than denying she was something special. Something no one's ever seen before.

"Half-god half-vampire."

Seriously, a vampire? They're worse than their cousins the empousi.. Athena, you're the goddess of wisdom. Surely, you had more sense than that. Why couldn't you have destroyed the child?"

"Destroying other people's children I can do just fine. Mine, well… I can't. They're my children. I'm their mother. I'm supposed to protect them." My father sighs. I know I seem out of character in his eyes. I'm supposed to kill anyone who has a risk at destroying us. I'm not supposed to take chances.

"She's immortal. She has ichor instead of blood." I added.

He changes the subject. "That vampire must have been pretty smart to catch your eye."

I laughed. "Not really. He believed she was immortal until he saw that she slept like a 'mortal.' I tried to tell him us gods sleep as well. But, the stupid stubborn vampire he is…"

"Why is she at Camp Half Blood?"

"Because, I didn't know how the other gods would take it, with the overflow of Hellhounds coming out of the Underworld, and the one that attacked Camp Jupiter just the other day. I figured we didn't need anymore chaos."

"Maybe she's the one who can save us."

So I have only 13 pages left to read of The Lost Hero before I'm done with it. Yay.