*Laia*
I gasped. For a few seconds, the forest cleared, and I could see- a summer camp? Buildings were arranged in a omega shape around a central green, and it was surrounded by trees (apart from the beach and road). Random other buildings were dotted around, and as we descended people gathered below us, pointing and staring. All wore orange t-shirts. It was amazingly surreal, but I couldn't help thinking 'this is my life. This is where I'm supposed to be' as we landed on the grass. The chariot rolled smoothly until it hit a stone and tipped on its side. The crowd cheered. 'Well driven, Grace.' Percy laughed. Thalia told him to shut up. Everyone left the chariot, me last. Stunned, I looked around. Around us were a load of old style buildings- Greek? But the ones in the middle were all slightly odd. I hadn't noticed that in the air, but one was a temple, one was some kind of glowing silver house and another had a pretty cool steampunk theme going on. I started to freak out - but not in terror. In the this-is-the-coolest-place-I've-ever-been type of freaking out.
In front of me, everyone already knew Leo, Jason, Piper, Annabeth and Percy. The weird thing was, they all knew Thalia, too. I wasn't angry at her, but she really DID have some explaining to do. I sat on the side of the chariot until they remembered I was here.
'Ok guys', Thalia was saying, 'You sent these five on a mission to find the demigod in the new prophecy, right?' I whispered to Annabeth, who had moved back to stand next to me. 'What's a prophecy?'
'I'll explain later.' She told me. God. I was going to have to listen to a lot of explanations later. I listened as Thalia continued. 'We believe we have found her.' At that point, everybody started to stare at me, like they hadn't noticed me before. I tried to smile, but then I took in what Thalia had said. Me?
It was hard not to ask Annabeth all of the thousand questions rattling inside my head. Thalia kept talking. 'We are going to call a meeting of all head counsellors, to discuss what happened and laugh at my brother's failure.' She grinned at Jason, who just rolled his eyes. 'Meet in the rec room in ten minutes?' The crowd nodded and started to disperse, afraid to disobey Thalia no matter how much they wanted to stay. When they were all gone, Piper (who I had barely spoken to) smiled and said 'We all want to hear your story. Because you have no cabin mates yet, me and Annabeth will show you round, ok?' Annabeth winked at me. 'But until then, join us at the head counsellors meeting.' I might have looked slightly worried, because she tried her best to reassure me. 'Don't worry. There'll be squirty cheese and nachos.'