A/N: I feel so bad right now. I am so extremely sorry for updating so freakishly late! I got out of my Percy Jackson mood, and, well... I abandoned this!

Anyway, please enjoy the fourth chapter (finally) of Crossed Paths After months of waiting you finally get to figure out who her godly parent is.

Nothing belongs to me except the character Brooke Tyne.

Let's start where we left off, shall we?

"What signal?" I asked, exasperated.

Suddenly a light came above my head and everyone covered their eyes as they were blinded by the light coming from it.

"That signal." Chiron stated as he pointed to the symbol above me.

I looked up...

"Oh my gods, what the heck is that?" an Aphrodite girl cried out, she pointed her hand at the bright symbol above me.

I raised my hands in front of my eyes so I could get a good look at what was above me, blinding...

It was a symbol of a bow and arrow. They seemed to glow silver.

"Maybe Athena?" a short girl from Hermes wondered.

"No, no. Probably Apollo."

"I've never seen that sign before!"

"What is it? It is bad?"

I ignored the noises behind me and looked closer at the glowing object. Something was behind the bow and arrow. It was round, and seemed to have darker spots in it.

Uh oh, this is not good. I know exactly who that sign belongs to.

The round object was the moon.

"You're kidding me, right? This can not be happening, it's impossible!" I protested.

Chiron went to his knees and bowed his head; Nico looked at me, shocked, as Chiron announced: "It is determined." Every camp leader around me started kneeling down, just as Chiron had, and I felt a nervous feeling that my guess was right. "Artemis. The goddess of hunting, wilderness, wild animals, protector to young maidens.Hail Brooke Tyne, daughter of the moon goddess."
My nervous feeling turned into fear.

Everyone gasped, most people were frozen in place.

"This is impossible," I repeated, "She's not supposed to have children. If she does..." I gulped, that might not be a good thing to think about. "What's going to happen now?"

Chiron looked at me with a sad look, a look of pity and a bit of a 'this-is-going-to-be-complicated' look. That's not a good sign. "Brooke, if everything goes as I think it will, the only people who know who your mother is are all of the cabin leaders. If they swear to the River Styx not to tell until the gods are ready to hear, I think you may be fine for a while in camp. The gods will know soon enough. And only they will know what will happen then on."

My breathing became shallow and my chest tightened; my asthma always had to act when I didn't need it to happen!

"Brooke, you okay?" Nico approached me carefully, he placed a hand on my back.

I grabbed my inhaler from my pocket and did what I needed to do, which took a while since I was freaking out so much that I could barely even breathe!

For the record, I'm not a wimp. How would you like it if your mother was someone who, if anyone found out who she was, you could be killed and she could lose her title as a goddess and maybe even disappear forever?

"Hm, lets see... I could die, my mother could... disappear, the gods are going to come after me like a hound when he's trying to catch a wild fox, and I just had an asthma attack... I'm perfectly fine!" I spat.

Nico backed away slightly. "Brooke..." he cautioned me as I began to pace.

"This sucks! This sucks, this sucks, this sucks!"

"That's what she said..." some guy from the Hermes cabin muttered.

"Shut up!" I gave him a death stare, he looked down.

"Brooke, you must stay calm." Chiron warned.

"How can I calm down? Right now is not a perfect time to be calm! I mean I could die from this! I don't even choose who my mom is!" I leaned against the wall and threw my head back only to hit it against the wall, "Ow, not the best thing to do."

"Brooke, it's not like you can ignore who your godly parent is; you have to accept it." Nico stood in front of me.

"At least your godly parent is allowed to have kids. My... mom... will probably disappear in a mound of dust, or something!" I rolled my eyes.

"Yeah, that's true, but, until the war, no one liked my dad, so I understand what you mean."

I looked up at him, "So, you're finally talking more, huh?"

"You should've seen me before. I was obsessed with game cards and talked constantly." His lips curved into a smile. I sort of thought it would be interesting to know him then.

I tried to hold in a laugh, "Y-you? Seriously? I-" I giggled, "I cannot imagine you playing game cards!" I smiled, but my look turned serious. "But, we're going to have to tell the gods sometime. I can't just stay in camp forever."

"To start out with... I think we're going to have to pay a little visit to the hunters... and Artemis." Chiron said, a bit hesitant.

Oh boy, I thought, A field trip.

A/N: I know, not much, but I'm just warming up after, what... 3 month break from this?

Again, I give you all my sincere apologies for updating so very late!

Critique is welcome!