Hy hy hy hy. Sorry for making you guys wait so long for an update, but I ran into a challenge. I had a bit of writers block after reading The Son of Neptune. I've decided that the story is going to take place in the eight months between the two books. One note: ROMANS!YOUHAVETOCHOOSEWHICHCOHORTYOUAREIN!Okay. I'm good. I'm only going to do one camp per chapter. I'm starting with the Greeks. All Greek characters that I accepted are in this chapter, and will get a big part eventually. In addition, there is one final character, a human! Her name is JJ Valerie, and she is 13. Sorry people, I needed a human for a plot. Here we go:

Megan never prided herself on running. She was good at it, sure, but Amanda was faster. That's why Amanda beat her to the tree. They had snuck away from camp. They decided that they could spare a day away from the training. And honestly, who needs to learn sword fighting, wrestling, archery, healing, Pegasus riding…

They were sitting at the tree now, and Megan was pulling out their plan for the day…

Bethany was having a bad day. She had woken up late, which meant that she was late for inspection. She threw together a pile of her stuff and hid it under her bunk in the Hermes Cabin, crammed near the back. After fretting about inspection, she was late to breakfast, and of course she had to run into Clarisse. She accidentally tripped Clarisse into a mud puddle, and Clarisse had been about to start an unofficial wrestling match before Bethany's best friend Amy had stepped in. Amy had led them both to sit at the Hermes table. Amy was a good friend to Bethany because despite their difference in age, (Amy: 15, Bethany: 13) Amy didn't treat her like a little kid. Of course, not many people did. Like the two girls she had seen sneak off earlier, telling her that they'd give her candy if she didn't tell. "You bribe little kids with candy!" Bethany thought angrily to herself. What Bethany wanted at the moment was archery lessons. After breakfast she'd lost a round of archery to some gloomy kid from the Hephaestus Cabin. Bethany, currently, was walking to the arts and craft cabin. She had another class with the little kids. Joy…

Megan and Amanda started climbing the tree. With any luck, the nymph wouldn't shake them off until after they had gathered enough "spy info" using their binoculars. If they were to be able to pull off this stunt, the camp would be laughing for weeks. Or about 5 minutes. But they would find it very funny. It all depended on whether or not the nymphs would shake them off.

Once again, Kelby was on his own. He was still mourning Beckondorph's death, but he had grown slightly used to being alone. How else would he have coped with living in an orphanage for 5 years? And sometimes Kelby preferred being alone. He would have much preferred to have been left alone by that girl a few days ago…

He had never talked to her before. He didn't know her name. But apparently she knew his, "Hi! You're Kelby, right? I have never talked to you before, but you seem lonely. Would you like to get to know each other? My name is Cam." Kelby didn't really want to hear another Aphrodite girl go on and on about what was "in," so he pretended to not have noticed her. She glared at him and said, "Wow. That was realnice." She sat down next to him, "What's wrong? Girl troubles? I bet it's girl troubles." Kelby nearly rolled his eyes at this. She continued, "I'm having boy troubles. Connor won't even notice me no matter how hard I try to impress him. Seriously, who doesn't notice love notes left on their bed? I mean…"

Kelby didn't listen to the rest. But he had been too polite to tell her to stop. Oh well…

"OUCH!" Amanda landed on the ground with a thud. The nymph just had to shake her off at last second. Now she would never know if the Apollo cabin actually did practice bad singing at noon. She had her camera rolling and everything. Now they would never have evidence. " Aw… now we'll never have evi-" Megan landed behind her. Megan smirked, "Just because you fell from the ivy tower doesn't mean that I did. And their bad singing is really bad." Megan said the final sentence taping her camera. Amanda had forgotten that trees actually like daughters of Demeter.

Camille was putting together one of her homemade love notes. Black heart with blue lace, forest green lettering. She re-read her note.

Dear Connor,

I don't see why you ignore my notes. I leave them for you everyday. I don't even see what you do with them. It's like you don't care. I know you secretly love me. I'm someone who will accept you, despite your unruliness. What more do you want? I love you. Don't you love me? I remember when I first fell in love with you. Your brother was trying to get that pegasus back into it's stall. It was named Blackjack. He was panicking after Percy went missing. Travis just couldn't control him. He had just been flung off. Chiron had told everyone to back off, but you stopped that horse and managed to lead him into the stable. You were just courageous.

I love you. Do you love me?

Your Admirer

Cam May

Megan and Amanda raced back to the big house. They hooked up the camera to the big TV that the camp used for announcements. They set the camera to play the video of the singing at dinnertime. Their prank would make the Hermes campers so jealous,

Amy was calmly walking to the dining pavilion. She was 5 minutes early. She calmly sat down at the Hermes table and waited for Bethany. Bethany came quickly, but was covered in mud. "Bad day?" Amy asked. Bethany looked at her with an expression that said, "Help me," and said, "That's an understatement. How was your day?" They started to have a conversation while everyone else sat down around them. Diner had just started when she hear a loud, off-key warble. She turned in the warble's general direction to see a video recording of the Apollo kids rehearsing. Badly. Her jaw dropped. She thought to herself, "I was going to film them! That would've been better than any prank Travis or Connor could pull." She saw that most of the other Hermes kids were having similar reactions. The Apollo kids had looks of shame on their face. Everyone else was laughing their head off. Just as Amy began to wonder who had pulled the prank, two girls got up. If Amy could remember their name… It was Amanda and Megan! They bowed. Chiron took one look at them and sent them to the kitchen for kitchen duty…

So, how'd you like the first chapter? Oh yeah, EmmaTheMaster'sDaughter I apologize for not making Katie Gardner your best friend, but 2 people including you wanted her as their best friend, and I thought it would be okay to put you as Bethany's best friend. Please don't get angry.