First of all, I went camping again and it was…erm….interesting. Yes lets put it that way and leave it that way. Second order of business, I am bored. So I invite all you peoples out there reading this to a tea party. You know, with the little plastic pink tea pot that has no tea in it and the tiny table that none of us except maybe my incredibly short friends out there (you know who you are) will fit in. Yeah! Its going to be awesome. Girls can wear giant poofy dresses that you would never wear in public and guys can wear tie dye tux. Sound fun or what? Ha! I love it! Don't be late for this very important date!

One more thing, this is IMPORTANT, so read it. In the first part of this story a Twist in Time I made Thalia not a hunter, I made Nico older, and I made Katie Gardner a daughter of Aphrodite. I changed my mind about Katie. I decided Travis is going to be married to a random Aphrodite named Jess. And another thing, I decided to put a character in my story with my name. Only the Jasmine in my story has an E on the end of her name. I don't. That's bout all I got to say on that, thanks! And to the anonymous reviewer, knock yourself dead. Those are my versions of the names though so you might have to change the spelling and I made Brennion up. As far as I know…hmmmm….

Disclaimer- I do not own, nope, nope!

The group somehow ended up in a stolen mini van. See thing is, Kiley and her group of peeps wanted to get Melanie via run-on-roof-tops which happens to be a speedy way of travel. Yet Annabeth couldn't find herself running on a roof and neither could anyone else so they debated on taking a few cars. Thalia didn't like this idea because it would spread them out too far and if they got attacked they wouldn't be able to back each other up. That was when Percy remembered his mother owned a mini van and had informed the group they could all ride in that. However, Sally had no intention of letting her half-blood son, who had a tendency to blow cars up, take her vehicle. They really needed the van. So, Percy being Percy, stole his mothers keys and stole her mini van. Yes that's right, you read correctly, Percy Jackson the mini van thief. How dare he. He figured no harm no foul, he was a big boy his mommy couldn't punish him. What was she going to do? Ground him? Pshh, he had three kids of his own, no way. Little did he know his mother was silently refusing to cook him anything blue for a good four months. But no one knew about that. They were all riding down the road with Percy driving, Annabeth riding shotgun, laughing as Percy retold the tale of stealing the van. Though soon they arrived in a small town right smack dab in the middle of Ohio called Wash Down. Such a strange name for a town. No one even knew it was even in Ohio, not even Annabeth miss daughter of Athena.

The town was pretty much reserved for the richest people in Ohio, or so it seemed. Even though it was small, it was a gold mine. Stock brokers, Dentist, Doctors, Government offial, Donald Trump posers. It was nuts. The town consisted of a mall that probably made up the most off the town, rich people do love their malls after all. A few random gas stations here and there, car dealerships that also sold ATV's, jet skis, and all that random stuff. The rest of the town was mostly mansions or condo's of mega proportion. Melanie King lived in one of the biggest. There is no point is describing it because it would take to long too. All that needs to be said is that is was big. Huge. And worth millions.

Here's where the problem is, you can't just walk up to these houses and knock on the door saying "HI! I'm here to take your daughter away so she can never see you again! Hope you don't mind…thanks!" The group stood across the street looking at the house as if it was a monster set against them.

"Oh I got it!" Nate yelled causing everyone to look at him funny, "I can dress up like a pizza guy and go to their door step! Its genius!" Trenton contemplated this, staring at the white marble doors and the Mercedes parked outside.

"One problem dude," He held up a finger as if to emphasize that there was only one problem, "If they didn't order a pizza, why would a pizza guy come to their house?"

"Simple, I got the wrong address."

"Okay," Erin said jumping into the conversation, "but how are you going to get Melanie? Put a bag over her head and tell her to come with you and nobody gets hurt? Real smart Nate, get the cops called on us for kidnapping. Brilliant."

"No! I'm not stupid-"

"Debatable."

"Shut up! Anyways, I'd tell her that I'm not really a pizza guy and I just want to talk to her. Then I call you guys over and we talk to her. How's that for brilliant miss jerk face!" Erin put her hand on her hip and glared, which wasn't intimidating at all when she was wearing short shorts and had her hair all prettied up.

"Miss jerk face? Revenge will be sweet Mr. di Angelo. Just you wait, when you least expect it BAM! Revenge time. Just wait." She pointed a finger at him then fell against the mini van folding her arms. Her sister smiled at her.

"That's why I love you Erin, always keeping the men in line." She mumbled while Bella laughed. Somehow, along the way, Bella had befriended the Jackson twins. The three girls were very close, tight knit, and to scary to mess with. But that is beside the point and off topic. We are focusing on Nate dressing up like a pizza guy creeper right? Right.

Trenton and Brennion had run all over town and finally found a blue pizza suit from Pizza Land (which they had stolen from the delivery itself by pretending to be two older gentlemen that were food inspectors, they even wore fake mustaches) and suited Nate up. He pulled off Pizza Guy pretty well, strange enough. Very convincing. While he walked up the white gravel path to the doors the group had taken refuge behind the stolen mini van to watch in secrecy. He knocked on the door saying "Pizza!" then waited. The door opened and a pair of skeptical eyes peeked out at him through the cracked door. Which she slowly opened, blinking at the sunlight like she hadn't been in it for a few days.

She was short and beautiful, emphasis on short standing probably only at 4'11 or so, staring at Nate with a very confused expression. She wore expensive clothing that accented her chestnut colored hair and forest green eyes. She had a splash of freckles across the bridge of her nose which was scrunched up from being confused. Her features sang a song of its own and the whole song said I'm beautiful. With sharp, angled features and a toned body, even if it wasn't very tall. She was most definitely a daughter of Aphrodite, only her daughters could be this outlandishly beautiful. Just like an angel lost from a painting.

She looked as though she was sizing Nate up, in various ways, with just the glare set on her face and the bemused smirk tugging at the corner of her mouth.

"We didn't order a pizza," She glanced over his shoulder at the street as though she were looking for something, "And where is your pizza car Mr…." Her eyes scanned the name tag, "Mr. Bone. Your look a little young….who are you and what do you want?" Nate blinked a few times in shock. This girl was good.

"Um, dang, ah…." She rolled her eyes, leaning against the door frame, and folded her arms with a glare set on him.

"I get that a lot. Come on, talk. Speak boy, speak! I know you can. If you do I'll give you a treat, come on boy, speak!" She seemed to find what she was saying funny because she laughed. Her laugh was like bells chiming in a rain storm. Something that caught your ear and made you smile because of how pretty it sounded. Nate guessed it was an Aphrodite trait.

"Um, okay, thing is me and my crew over there," He pointed to where everyone had been standing which made him look very stupid now that they weren't there, "They must have….anyway, we came to get you."

"I'm not going anywhere with a stranger thank you very much. You're a creeper," She eyed him over again and smiled slightly, "A cute creeper though."

"No no! Please….ah…you're a daughter of Aphrodite right?" Melanie reeled back, her face looked like someone had just chucked a flaming marshmallow at her head. Her breaths were short and she was swaying slightly.

"What makes you say that! Oh gods you're a-" She let out a weak scream and stumbled back against the wall. Her foot bumped a potted plant which caught her off guard. She only took a seconds chance to look down at it. In the same allotted time she scooped it up and chucked it at his head. Had his reflexes not been as quick as they were it would have smashed into his head and he would have been one knocked out boy. Melanie didn't seem pleased that he was quick enough to dodge her flying plants of death because she squeaked in protest and picked another plant up. This one, though, she wasn't quick to throw. She looked at it then hugged it to her chest whimpering like it was her child she would have to sacrifice to live.

"Man this is my favorite pretty pink flower. It would be a shame to waste it on a monster. Ohhhhhh this is sooooooo sad," She looked at the flower again then at Nate, who she thought was a monster here to kill her, "No! I wont do it!" She set her pink flower down and stumbled down the steps past Nate to grab the broken plant pot of the one she had thrown. She probably planned to use that instead. Only when she gripped the broken clay plant pot its serrated edge bit into her hand as an angry dog would. Her scream echoed in everyone's ears there long after it was gone. She had crumpled to her knees holding her bleeding hand in her other, blood dripping between her closed fingers. Nate slipped the top part of the Pizza suit down and took his shirt off, bending down in front of Melanie, and took her hand. Gently he wrapped it around the large cut on her palm and held it to apply pressure so the blood would clot and cease to flow. She whimpered in pain as soon as he had pushed the shirt against her flesh though the pain seemed to ease the longer he held it.

"I'm sorry," He said in a quiet voice, not decreasing any of the pressure he had around her much smaller hand, "That was my fault. Does it hurt much?" Melanie was paying no mind to the pain in her hand, she was watching Nathan.

"What did you say your name was?" She said in a completely different voice than she had used before. Before, her voice had sounded something like a sweet girl who had been worried for her life. Now it sounded like a velvet bed that enticed everyone and anyone to lay in. It dumbfounded Nate. He suspected this happened to any men that got close enough to hear this voice.

"N-N-Nate." Melanie smiled seductively and reached with her uninjured hand to touch his arm.

"You certainly are cute. You know, I can think of a way you can make up for hurting me. It will make me feel all better." She leaned closer as if to kiss him but was stopped just before her lips touched his. Someone had grabbed a handful of Melanie's hair and pulled back hard enough to pull her away from Nathan. His shirt stayed wrapped around her hand but the pressure he had on it was ripped away when she fell back on the shoes of the person who had pulled. The person bent down and placed one finger on the girls lips, pushing their nail into her bottom lip hard enough to break the skin and blood trickle.

"Hi, I'm Erin. His girlfriend. And if you try to kiss my man again, I will rip these pretty lips off okay?" Erin smiled down at Melanie in way that made that smile a threat that she would remember. Melanie didn't seemed phased at all. She took one of Erin's hands and pulled her self up with it to press her lips against Erin's ear.

"You know, you and your boyfriend are both pretty hot. If you ever looking for a good time, you know my face." Then Melanie kissed Erin's cheek. Erin let out a baffled scream and fell back away from the girl who sat with her hands folded in her lap and smiled at both Erin and Nate.

"What is your problem!" Erin said scooting as far away from Melanie as she could get. Melanie blinked innocently, looking slightly hurt which when given by the girl made your heart tear a little. The way she could make her face contort when she was hurt made you want to cry for doing that to her. She was that beautiful. Maybe, in this instant, more adorable.

"What? I'm bi!" Melanie said it the same way you would say, 'all I did was take one cookie!' Erin immediately started wiping at her cheek and making gagging sounds which made Mel's you-hurt-me face deepen.

"Guess its an Aphrodite thing," Erin growled while she wiped, "Her mother is the goddess of love. There's no bounds for love." Nate, meanwhile, still had no idea what was going on. He didn't realize Melanie had tried to kiss him nor did he understand why Erin had been so rude to Melanie.

"Erin be nice." He glanced at his girlfriend as he said it. She was about to say something but Melanie beat her to it.

"Bahahahahaha! I'm not an Aphrodite! That would entitle me being stupid. I'm an Eros. But I can see why you'd make that mistake." She grinned from ear to ear. A smile that made your spine tingle in the best way possible. It was almost enchanting.

"Eros?" Erin quirked her eyebrow Nate.

"Who's he?" Nate asked Erin at the same time.

"Eros," The three of them looked up to see Airabella standing over them with an amused smile, "is the son of Ares and Aphrodite. He is his mothers right hand and god of love, sex, cupids, desire, and pleasure. We made a mistake, which happens frequently with children of Eros and Aphrodite. There is only one way to really tell the difference between a child of Aphrodite and a child of Eros-"

"-children of Eros loooooooooove sex!" Melanie said with a cheerful tone in it, as if her hand hadn't been cut and Erin hadn't threatened to kill her. Both Nate and Erin sat there blinking in shock as Airabella began chattering with Melanie in Greek. Apologizing for Erin's rude behavior and for Nate cutting her hand. Melanie was surprisingly polite, saying she was sorry to pounce on Erin and Nate like that and she was sorry she had thrown the pot at Nate. That she had a bad habit of flirting and assuming. She let her emotions go first and that's why she had done mostly what she had done. She formally apologized to the couple in English because she wasn't sure if they could understand her Greek. She excused herself after they explained why they were there so she could go into her house and tell her mother. Though she paused on the doorstep, with her hand on the doorknob. It was as if the metal her hand gripped so tight was made of ice that crawled cold through her limbs and froze her still.

Erin and Nate had walked back to the group and told them to start the van because they would be leaving soon so they were not there to see the distraught look on Melanie's face. But Airabella was. And she saw it. She walked up to Melanie and put a hand on the girls shoulder. Melanie shuttered, trying to shake off the ice that had formed around her bones.

"Melanie?" Bella tested. The girl seemed to only barely hear her but she did turn to look at Bella. There were tears in Melanie's eyes.

"If I leave….my mom wont let me come back. Ever. She's going to be very mad at me. And Taylor, I can't leave her without saying goodbye." Bella didn't seem to understand anything Melanie was saying but she was willing to try if it would make the girl flirtatious and happy again like she normally was.

"Okay, calm down. We can go in and say goodbye if you want, and I can come with you if that would help." Melanie let out a held breath. Bella could see her trying to steady herself.

"Yes it would. She's inside. Come with me. I have to get some clothes to take with me anyway and tell my mom…"

The inside of the King mansion was even nicer than the Bays. Bella felt herself getting outshined. She followed Melanie across the wood flooring down to a basement. The small girl hurried to a large dresser after she had got a bag out of the closet and started filling it with clothes she was going to take with her to camp. Bella sat on Melanie's bed, which was covered with an Ed Hardy quilt, and waited. Tapping her thighs and counting each tap to keep herself occupied.

"Mel?" Bella looked up, loosing count at 1020, to see a girl standing in the doorway of Melanie's room. She was taller than Melanie by a few inches and slightly heavier in muscle. Melanie was muscular but she was tiny, tea cup size. Where as her cousin was slim and athletic. Her hair was so curly it looked permed but it was pretty, it fit her features. At the moment her face was scrunched up and her eyes were hidden behind dark sunglasses. Melanie stood up, dropping her bag as she did.

"This is Taylor, my cousin." Taylor looked at Airabella suspiciously when she waved.

"You said we were going to the beach together Mel. What are you doing? Who is this?"

"I'm Airabella, you can call me Bells or Bella if you want. Um….oh! Yeah, I'm here to take Melan-er, your cousin to Camp Half-Blood."

"And I want to go with her Tay"

Meanwhile the rest of the group were all sitting in the stolen mini van. Kiley was in the seat furthest from the front, Brennion next to her. The two of them were secretly playing tic tac toe on each others thighs with their fingers. So far Brennion was loosing. Erin was sitting in the seat in front of them, in-between Nate and Trenton. She was still fuming about being hit on by a girl. Nate was talking to Trenton about how uncomfortable pizza suits were. In the front seat behind the passenger and driver seat, Nico was bored. Complaining. And whiney. Thalia, even though it went against her better judgment, was on a cell phone to make sure Izzy and DJ had got to camp safely. Before they had left Thalia and Annabeth had called an old friend named Grover to come get the two smaller children and take them to camp because they were to small to come with. She was a worrying mother. Annabeth was tapping on the passenger seat window with her forehead. Even at her age now, even after she had 3 children, she still had ADD and ADHD. It couldn't be helped. Percy was drumming on the steering wheel, glancing around. His eyes flashed across the rearview mirror and he saw his daughter in the farthest seat back duck her head below the seat, out of his sight, and watch Brennion smile when she did.

"Hey!" He yelled and turned around to look at them better, "What are you two doing!" Kiley's head popped up, a couple strands of hair hanging over her eyes. Brennion jumped at Percy's voice.

"I dropped a pen Dad, chill," She held up a hot pink sharpie to prove her innocence, "Geeze what did you think we were doing?" The words choked Percy so he just growled, a sign of masculine and fatherly dominance, and turned back around. Kiley grinned secretively and went back to drawing a pink chibi dragon around Brennion's belly button. He smiled again because it tickled, not because he enjoyed a cute, pink dragon, being drawn on him.

"You realize this totally destroys any shred of manliness I once had right?" He whispered as she touched up the little dragon's tail. She used a kiss as the final touch and let his shirt fall back over his stomach.

"No it doesn't. I can vouch for your manliness." She winked at him and grabbed his hand, making sure no one would be able to see it from the front seats first. Kiley could detect a slight blush on his cheeks. That made her proud.

"Here they come." Percy said sitting up in his seat. Everyone looked out the window they were closet to, to get a look at Melanie. She was pretty much exactly what they expected, beautiful. Except her eyes looked a little swollen from crying and she was struggling with the bags she was carrying. Airabella, being much taller than Melanie and more athletically built, took the heaviest of bags from her and threw them in the back of the van while Melanie climbed into the car. She sat beside Trenton, excitedly introducing herself. As she did that Airabella climbed into the back and sat by the window next to Kiley and Brennion.

"So child of Aphrodite huh?" Thalia asked once Percy had started up the car and was driving down the road. Melanie had been fixing her hair when Thalia had spoken.

"Hmmmm? Oh no, seems you guys made a misunderstanding. I'm a child of Eros. Aphrodite's my grandma." She finished pinning her bangs to the top of her head as she was talking to Thalia. Seeming happy with the job she had done, she sat back in the seat and glanced over at Trenton. Who, without noticing Melanie was looking at him, was tracing the scars on his abdomen as if they were hurting. Melanie touched her small fingers to them causing Trenton to flinch and finally notice Melanie there.

"That looks painful, how did you get them?" Trenton, who was someone that didn't speak all that often, mouthed silent words, "What?"

"Sphinx." She ran her thumb over the thicker ones on his rib cage, his smooth skin turning white under her thumb where she applied pressure.

"They are kinnda sexy." Melanie pushed her palm against his ribs and drug it down over his belly button. Trenton's eyes went wide and he tried to scoot away but ran into the window. Next to Kiley Trenton's sister snickered discreetly. It amused her to see her brother so uncomfortable because a girl was touching him. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her touch off him, setting her hands in her lap and patting her head like she was a child.

"No touching." He said to her sternly. She made a pouty look and folded her arms like he had just taken her favorite toy away.

"Not even a little?"

"No."

"Are you gay?"

"NO!"

"Then why can't I touch you?"

"Because your not my girlfriend."

"Who is?"

"No one."

"If I was your girlfriend could I?"

"Isn't that what I just said!"

"Then I'm your girlfriend now."

"No. Keep your hands to yourself Eros." Melanie frowned and mouthed the word "gay" then looked out the window next to her, watching house after house blur as they sped past them.

A couple hours later they had reached camp half-blood. Melanie was still pouting until she got out of the car. Then she was smiling. She had recruited Nico into carrying her bags for her to the Eros cabin while Melanie jabbered about how excited she was. Thalia had left with Annabeth to check on Izzy and DJ. That left Percy with all the teenagers, looking at him funny as he stared at a pine tree on top the hill in front of them. They followed him as he walked up the hill. The look on his face made it seem like he was somewhere else, lost in memories perhaps. He was so entranced with his memories he nearly stepped on a girl who was sunbathing beside the tree.

"Hey watch it id-oh. Percy." She stood up and moved the towel she was laying on out of his way. He nodded his thanks and moved on but only Airabella followed him.

"Amber." Kiley said grinning. She smiled back. She was wearing only a lime green bikini top and a pair of white jeans, her blond hair hanging over her shoulders in braided pigtails. She looked like she had been laying there all day because her skin had a light red tint to it. A burn that she would be complaining about in a few hours. Next to where her towel had been was an ihome with a touch plugged into it, a song Kiley didn't really recognize blaring on repeat. It sang, " Can we pretend that airplanes the night sky like shooting stars. I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now." It was extremely catchy. Making Kiley want to sing along even though she didn't know the words.

"You came early Jackson. And you brought friends!" Amber swept her lavender eyes over the people standing present, her eyes staying longer on Trenton than anyone else, smiling at each person including Melanie.

"Yeah I know," Kiley turned to gesture at Melanie who happened to be sizing Amber up with her eyes at that particular moment, "We had to bring her to camp. Meet Melanie, child of Eros."

At being addressed Melanie smiled, folding her hands behind her back and tilting her head to the side. She motioned at Amber's music with a quick nod in that direction.

"I like that song. Love Hayley Williams. She makes all music better." Amber laughed, a laugh that sounded oddly close to Melanie's, and went to hug the girl. Kiley had noticed Amber liked to hug people. Just because she could.

"I don't know about alllllllll music but this song for sure," Amber went to scoop up her ihome, turn it off, and wrap it up in her towel, "Nice to meet you. Follow me real quick." No one knew why she wanted them to follow her but for some reason none of them argued. They simply did what she wanted and followed. Followed her down the hill, past countless cabins each decorated in a different way, until they found themselves standing in the middle of the Aphrodite cabin.

Girls in nothing but either short shorts and a bikini top or a bikini suit were laying around the room in various places, on beds and love seats. The guys were digging through trunks and closets for swim trunks. Apparently the whole Aphrodite cabin was going swimming. Only a few of them seemed to have the ability to take their attention off themselves long enough to notice that people had came inside their cabin. The rest continued to pamper themselves or look for swim wear. Amber walked through all this as if she completely used to it, tossing her towel wrapped ihome and touch on a top bunk that reached higher than her head and grabbed a tank top to slip over her top half. Or so Kiley assumed, but she didn't put it on. Instead she tucked it in the belt loops of her pants like she was saving it for later.

" 'Member Ambie, later tonight. At the beach." A random Aphrodite girl said to her as she started to leave. Amber waved at the girl from over her shoulder, not caring enough to look back at the girl.

"Yeah I know, just be sure to bring the drinks and some guts this time." The Aphrodite girl squeaked like Amber had just poked her with a piece of hot metal which made Amber laugh in triumph. The group had no intention of staying in the cabin of love but couldn't seem to fit through the door fast enough to keep up with Amber's long legs. They stumbled after her while she kept long, beautifully taken strides, singing the song she had been playing when they first saw her as she went. She kept well ahead of them somehow even though they were all athletically fit enough to run on rooftops as transportation or kidnap the ones who could. She walked in a world of her own, singing about wishes and airplanes while walking light but far and leading them without their realization. One of the group stumbled closer to her with clumsy hurried strides. It was Trenton. She glanced over at him, stopping her song as the breath she drew ceased. He stole it away from her. That made her both frustrated and delirious all the while blushing and glaring. She didn't even know him but she let him do this to her so easily? How infuriating.

"So what was that about with your half-sister?" Amber growled under her breath. His voice made her bones rattle with anticipation. It made her angry beyond belief.

"First off, she's not my half-sister. She's more like….my aunt. I'm only a granddaughter of Aphrodite. Hermes too, I live in the Hermes cabin half the summer and the Aphrodite the other half. Because my parents," Amber pushed her fingers into her back pockets as she walked, glancing at everything around her except Trenton, "And secondly she was talking about the truth or dare game tonight at the beach. We play that game every Saturday when the sun goes down. We get a whole bunch of soda's and food and whatnot then play. Its fun. Oh here we are." Amber stopped at the steps of the big house, where she had been leading them this whole time. The house towered above them as it seemed because it was something new and something new always seemed bigger than it actually is.

A little ways over to the left, up the steps and across the patio, was a group of people sitting around a card table. There was a rather chubby man in a purple leopard print shirt made of silk. His black curls hugged close to his head, his cheeks red like he was drunk and his eyes set on the cards he gripped. Across from him was a man in a wheelchair with a much warmer, kinder completion. His hair and beard like chocolate with streaks of grey giving it a look a few tints lighter than it was. He wore a nice sweater vest over a white t-shirt which happened to have horse hair on it. He also had cards in his hand but wasn't gripping them nearly as tight as the chubby man. Leaning against the rail behind them was a red head with hair that was pulled back into a sloppy ponytail, flecks of yellow and blue paint obviously in her hair. Her eyes were green search lights, bright and interrogating yet filled with amusement at the moment while she watched the two men play their card game. Amber approached these people with the greatest of ease while the others seemed a bit shy and perhaps a little cautious.

"Hi Chiron," She said and the man in the wheelchair looked up, "Hey Mr. D, Hey Rachel. What's going on?" The chubby man grunted his response while both the red head and Wheelchair Man said hello politely.

"Well Amber it seems you've made some new friends. Does everyone love you?" Chiron, which the group had found by watching Amber that was Wheelchair Man, said playfully to Amber. She grinned and leaned against the card table, frustrating the chubby man whose name the group guessed was Mr. D.

"Yes, its because of my capricious nature and sexy bod Chiron. It can't be helped. Anyways, let me introduce, that is Kiley and Erin. Percy and Annabeth's kids-"

"So you are the two famous twins of the heroes of Olympus? Are you as big headed as they are?" Rachel, the paint flecked red head, said through a laugh.

"Um….I dunno." Kiley responded truthfully. Mr. D sighed as he took a sip of a diet coke that had appeared out of nowhere.

"They are clearly as empty headed."

"Mr. D please, try to be polite," Chiron said it as if he was used to this kind of behavior, "Again nice to meet you. You may continue Amber my dear."

"Will do. That's Brennion and Nathan. Thalia's and Nico's boys. That is," She had to take a deep breath before she could mutter his name, it seemed to be like a poison of the sweetest flavor in her mouth, "Trenton, son of….are you a half-blood?"

Trenton hesitated before answering. The girl was looking at him like she was angry with him, her chest heaving as she drew heavy breaths and a rasp to each intake. He wasn't sure what was wrong but he was afraid of her. Yet, as he looked at her eyes they seemed pleasant like a starlit sky and nights caress around his body. She was a girl of every opposite there existed and each part of her was set against him. Still he steeled his nerves and found her answer.

"Hecate, my mother is Hecate." Amber nodded, flustered that his voice was enough to make her lose the breath she took in and gasp for her next. His voice was something unlike any other. It was like listening to a waterfall of molten gold.

"Right. And um, that's Melanie daughter of Eros," Melanie wiggled her fingers in greeting, smiling sweetly, "There was another girl but she left with Percy. Her name is Airabella. She's….his sister." Chiron nodded, muttered something in Greek, and set his cards down.

"Well I believe I win again Mr. D," He stood out of his wheelchair, becoming half a white stallion as he did so, "And it is a pleasure to meet you children. If you wish to speak with your parents they are down by the lake. I must be off now, I have an archery lesson to teach." With that he trotted off. Mr. D glared at the kids like they were all secretly plotting against him and poofed himself away leaving a notable aroma of sour grapes behind.

"Well I guess if they are leaving I should too," Rachel said standing up right and stretching her arms above her head as she did so, "I'll be off to see if my first coat of paint is dry so I can work on the shadowing. Have fun kids. Need anything, Amber knows where to find me." She went through a door, down the patio, and into the Big House, letting the screen door slamming shut behind her. Amber stood still for about a second (her full attention span only lasting that long) before dashing off down the steps and towards the lake. The group had no choice but to be a group and follow her as best they could. However, she may have had the strange ability to walk faster than them, there was no way she could ever outrun them. Running was their favorite game to play and they played it well. They kept perfect pace with her, running right beside her and laughing as she made a face of shock that they could keep up. Running as fast as they were they made it to the lake in a matter of seconds. Their feet hit the dock with loud thuds, the noise going through the wood and ricocheting off the water back into their ears and making their noise all the more louder. The problem was, they were moving very fast. To fast to stop in time. They ran right off the dock and into the lake for a refreshing and unexpected swim. When they surfaced they heard laughter.

"Kiley, Erin, honey, your all wet!" They heard their mother tease from somewhere. They managed to pull themselves back on the dock, helping each out but leaving Amber in because she had started to swim around like a little fishy. While they sat there on the unsupportive wooden dock their parents appeared, walking towards them with a few other people Kiley recognized only from the picture that now burned in her back pocket. The girl she had seen with the stringy brown hair and standing with the very toned Mexican man walked beside her parents. Both of them were still just as big as they were when they were teens, if not bigger, and both looked intimidating. The woman held a double bladed axe in one hand and a pink dress in the other. It sent Kiley very mixed messages, like maybe she would use the axe to knock her out then use the dress to humiliate her to death. The man with her held nothing of the sorts, he held nothing at all in fact. He just walked with them.

She recognized the other couple only because one was to extraordinarily beautiful to be anyone else and the other had the same crooked smile. The man with the smile held the woman's hand, swinging it childishly, and smiling as Erin and Kiley wrung the water out of their hair. His hair had grown over the years and had become lighter. The woman, who was laughing softly under her breath like it was impolite to do such, had not changed even a little bit from the picture. Her youth seemed to live just as much as she did. And would until she willed it not to.

Bringing up the rear was the couple Kiley remembered because of how strange it had seemed to her. The man who was half goat. He trotted beside the elf like woman, her hair much, much longer than it was in the picture, while his eyes darted from person to person. He had a long beard and shaggy hair that parted around his horns. The woman he walked with gripped his hand tightly while displaying a lovely smile. Kiley snorted when the woman offered her a hand. She could get up herself. Though when she started to pull herself up her foot caught a patch of wet wood and she slipped. Her body slammed into the wood with a hard thud.

"Are you alright!" The woman asked alarmed. Kiley groaned, pulling herself into a ball so she could hold her aching ribs.

"She'll be fine Juniper," Percy said above her while she continued to groan, "That's what she gets for being so proud."

"Gee thanks Dad, I feel love." Kiley started to sit up but stopped when her ribs screamed in protest. She decided she quite liked laying on the dock. Juniper made a pained sound in the back of her throat but let it happen.

"Well children of mine," Annabeth said sitting down and dangling her legs over the edge of the dock, "Let me do all the introductions."

"There seems to be a lot of those today…" Erin mumbled.

"What was that honey?"

"Nothing mommy, keep going."

"That's what I thought. This is Grover and Juniper. That is Clarisse and Chris. And that is Travis and Jess. These are some of our oldest friends. So be nice to them or your grounded."

"They are in such a loving mood today." Kiley pointed out. Erin nodded and laid down beside her sister. Percy regarded their comment and spoke,

"Friends, these are my children Kiley and Erin. They are sneaky and deject so if they play cruel jokes on you or hurt your feelings, ignore it. Its not their fault. That's just what they do. I think its because they are teenagers."

"Wow. There really is no love at all for us today Kiles."

"Not even in the least."

` "Its nice to meet you," Grover said patting both girls atop the head. They looked at each other confused. Did this man…this half man think they were children? How annoying. They agreed on this without a word spoke and jumped into the lake to escape the awkward introductions and cruel mood of their parents. Percy kissed his wife and jumped in after them. Which left Nate and Brennion there alone.

"So your Nico's son?" Chris asked the twins as if they were one.

"Yes sir." They answered as one.

"Hmmmm….you look more like your mother at the age she was that you are now. I don't see much of Nico in you aside from the way your body is. He was all gangly like you are."

"Um….thanks?"

"Oh. Sorry, no. I didn't mean that like that, I was sorrta talking to myself. Sorry bout that. Sorry." The twins nodded half-heartily while the others standing there started talking to them.

"You can't catch me Dad! You're a slow old man!" They heard from the lake followed by laughter. Percy had jumped in after his girls but as soon as he touched water they swam away from him. Now they were playing an odd game of cat and mouse. Percy grinned at the twin girls treading water a few yards away from him. Those girls thought they had their dad whipped but in fact he had them in the palm of his hand. He willed the water to carry him towards them. It sloshed around his ribs and the water took on a human quality of a hand. Grabbing him around his whole body as if it were the hand of a giant and threw him towards the twins. They yelped in surprise but couldn't move in time. Their father landed literally on top of them. He grabbed them both and pulled them under the water with him. They thrashed and kicked at him to go back to the surface but he wouldn't let them. He was going to teach them they could breath under water. Eventually their lugs would beg for air and they would open theirs mouths to gasp for air. That would drown a normal human but not the twins. They were descendents of Poseidon, the god of the sea. He could breath underwater and so could they. If they tried. Kiley was digging her nails into her fathers neck. It was the last thing she could do. Her father was trying to kill her. But she couldn't hurt him, not in surprise like this. He was hurting her so she was hurting him. That was her logic. Erin had stopped thrashing and had gulped in water. It filled her lungs with a painful pressure and this was when she expected to die. She didn't however. She felt like she had just sucked in a large gulp of air, not water. With sudden shock she realized she was breathing underwater. Her father let go of her and used his free hand to pry at Kiley's nails. She wouldn't budge. She could hold her breath longer than Erin, that's why she was still fighting. Though almost as Percy thought that, Kiley's grip loosened and she had to breath. She felt the same thing Erin had and realized the same as well.

"Pretty cool huh?" Percy said. Both Erin and Kiley glared at him.

"You could have warned us!"

"Do you have any idea how terrifying that was!"

"I'm sorry I didn't realize…"

"Arrrg dad. Sometimes, I swear." Kiley shook her head and swam to the surface. Erin watched her go up, finding the fact that she could pretty cool.

"You know Daddy," Erin said, "Your right. We are deject. That was rather harsh. But still, you could have warned us. I'm not taking your side on this 'cause I'm still freaked out from that but still. She could have been a little nicer."

"You're the Dr. Phil of the family Erin."

"Thanks. I do try." They shared a laugh and swam to the surface. Kiley had already swam to the dock and was walking away from the lake, fuming. Brennion was trailing her like a dog at its masters feet.

"Did I make her that angry you think?" Percy frowned as his heart sank at the thought of having his daughter angry with him this whole time.

"You know how we are dad. Bi-polar to the max and just as forgiving. She'll get over it as soon as Brennion-" Percy jerked his head and Erin realized she had let her tongue slip.

"As soon as Brennion what!"

"As soon as he gives her one of his amazing pep talks! Your should ask for one some time, they are awesome! Gotta go! Mom is calling me!" Erin swam away from her fathers glare as quick as she could. On the dock everyone was chattering happily, Amber had gotten out of the water and was talking about the time her mother had used love magic on a store clerk to get a discount. Much to Travis's annoyance. Erin topped that story by telling them about the time Annabeth left her at a playground for an hour because she thought she had left Erin at home. It made Annabeth blush and apologize about 60 times. While all this happened, and it was good, Kiley was running through the camp with tears in her eyes.

She was trying to get away. Away from all this, away from herself, away from life and life's partner death. Away from the smiles and the frowns, away from everything. Her feet hit with soft sounds but pushed deep into the earth with the force of her anger. The tears in her eyes bit at her cheeks as she ran. Pain had taken the form of a monster inside her and it had its dirty paws wrapped around her heart, digging its nails deep into the soft muscle. She was hoping her feet were fast enough to take her away from all this, and away from Brennion. He was an anchor to her reality and she had no desire to be in the real world right now. Her wishes were whispers in the wind of nothingness because as soon as she stepped foot in the woods of Camp Half-Blood Brennion stepped out form behind a tree and grabbed her. It was like running into a the tree itself. She had been moving fast and the sudden force of something like a brick wall had stopped her short and ripped the breath out of her lugs. The fell to the ground, tumbling over one another until they hit the base of a tree. They were tangled together there, both breathless from running into each other and hurting from, well, running into each other. Brennion expected Kiley to pull away from him and drop kick him in the ribs. But she didn't. She hugged her thin arms around his chest as tight as she could and sobbed into his shirt. He did what he figured a boyfriend should and comforted her by hugging her close to him.

"Kiles, whats wrong?" Another sob, "Babe? Was it something I did?"

"N-No. It's not you. It's me. I'm at lose ends I suppose. I can't think right. When my father was pulling me under the water I thought he was punishing me for killing all those poor people. I thought 'He must have lied when he said I didn't disgrace him and this is how he's going to get rid of that blotch on his record' Then I thought as I was running how cruel that was of me to think of my father like that. He would never do that to me. I sickened myself. I-" Her voice died as she choked out more sobs. Brennion stared up into the tree tops, the canopies the tree branches created. He wasn't sure what to say exactly. He knew he needed to speak, to tell her something comforting then kiss her like he should but he didn't know what to say at all. There were no words.

"Your not talking," Kiley noted as her sobs became quieter, "Have I disgusted you too? That's no wonder, I'm disgusting. You shouldn't love me. I'm a horrible person." Brennion got so angry at this he sat up and threw her off of him. She fell a little ways away from him and muttered a soft "ow" as she rubbed her elbow where it had hit a tree.

"Don't you ever say something so stupid again do you understand! That was one of the dumbest things you have ever said to me. Shouldn't love you-bullshit! Kiley I adore you. Because of the wonderful person you are! If you're a horrible person then so are angels because they are just as likely to be as bad as you claim to be. Don't make yourself out to be such a bad person when your not, you're my angel! It's understandable that you would think something like that after what had happened. But that gives you no right to think of yourself like that. Your going to apologize to your father and then your going to feel better and that is going to be that. No more of this 'you shouldn't love me' or 'I'm disgusting' crap or I'll…I'll….I'll do something horrible! Like….um…." Kiley laughed through her tears.

"You can't think of anything can you?"

"Yes I can! I'll refuse you! For month after month!" To that Kiley flinched.

"Alright I'll be good just don't do that alright? I can't live without you. Without your touch. I would surely die. I need you Brennion." She crawled back to him, curling up into a ball in his lap and pressing her cheek against his chest to listen for his heart beat. It was her favorite song. Because it was a song composed entirely for her. He wrapped his arms around her and rested his chin on the top of her head.

"That's what I thought." He whispered. She laughed lightly but knew he was right. He always was when it came the matters of the heart. Which bothered her greatly. She couldn't manage her own heart, she had to have him fix it for her. Normally that wouldn't bother her but it might be a problem later. He ran his hands over her sides as a way of soothing her, which worked perfectly. She sank into his arms further and her eyes began to close. She reacted like a cat being petted. For now though, she decided, it would be just fine if he fixed her heart for her. She smiled into his chest, laughing at herself.

"Whats so funny?" His voice make her scalp tingle where his breath seemed most present.

"Nothing. Lay down with me." He didn't quite understand what she meant by lay down which made her laugh again, "Its not hard Bren. Lay back on the ground like that yeah." Kiley laid down in the crook of his arm, staring up at the trees with the light touch of his hair on her forehead. The trees moved at the winds touch, swaying back and forth hypnotically. Watching it lulled Kiley into a sleep Brennion following. The both of them curled up under the trees fell asleep with each other to await the rising sun.

No sun woke them. Instead they were woke by two soft yet demanding voices with the night all around them like a thick blanket of the purest black. Kiley woke groggily and slowly while Brennion jumped awake, knocking into her as he did.

"Finally! Took you guys long enough, the game is about to start!" It was Amber.

"Sooooooooooooooooooo, what were you guys doin' out here huh? All alone, in the woods. A bit promiscuous if you ask me." The other voice Melanie. Kiley yawned, stretching her arms high above her head. Not even caring what they were talking about. She was still half-asleep. And she was very slow and uncaring when she was half-asleep.

"What are you guys talking about?" She said, her voice thick with sleep.

"The game," Amber pulled on Kiley's hand to get her to stand up, "The truth or dare game at the beach! Its about to start! Hurry up!" She yawned again, looking for Brennion this time who was being helped up by Melanie.

"Game? Truth, I'm tired so you shouldn't have woken me, Dare to leave me the fu-"

"Gods your annoying Kiley. Lets just go!" Amber continued to tug on her hand. This time Kiley allowed Amber to pull her to her feet and tug her towards the beach, Kiley yawning the whole way.

The beach was beautiful the way they had set everything up. There were about 4 silk sheets laid over the sand corner to corner for everyone to sit on. Around the sheets were large wax candles, dripping onto the sand as they burned and casting a yellow orange-ish light over everything. In the middle of the sheets where the four corners touched were bowls bigger than Kiley's head filled to the brim with junk food. It looked like marshmallows, Cheetos, various little candies, and what looked like salt water taffy. Different kinds of soda's and cider were sitting in a cooler filled with ice off the to the left of the blanket. And, Kiley, Brennion, Melanie, and Amber included, there were roughly 18 people. Amber began to introduce them (there was a lot of that going today!) person by person. Erin was introduced first for some odd reason, like Kiley had never met her before. Kiley waved and said something like "Nice to meet you, do you know where the bathroom is?" Amber glared. Kiley had interrupted this very important event just for the stupid reason of her having to pee. How dare she. Though a little irritated Amber went on to introduce Bella, Nate, and Trenton. The four people Kiley knew here. They all sat close to each other, trying to push themselves away from everyone they didn't know.

"This is Bowden and Blaze, they are a thing just so you know. Bowden is son of Erebos, god of darkness and shadow. Blaze is daughter of Hemera, goddess of daylight and sun. They are both the cabin leaders of their cabin. I always did find it funny that they were together, seeing as they are like complete opposites of each other." The people being introduced waved politely with the hands that weren't tangled with each other. Bowden was tall and gangly, built like a pencil made entirely of muscle. His skin was about three shades lighter than white and his hair was so black it looked like it had been made of night itself. His eyes seemed like endless black holes, enticing and black, black, black. Where as the girl that clung to his arm as if it were her life line was the exact opposite of all this. She was just as thin as he was, both of them able to pull of the stick people look if they wanted, but she was the color of caramel. Her tan so close to his pale made them both stand out like a man wearing nothing but flashing neon underwear in an emo convention. Her hair wasn't so much blond as it was amber, honey like. As if someone had formed her hair out of tree sap that had crystallized over the years. Her tawny eyes glittered in the firelight, the fire drifting closer to her as if it wanted to lick her skin and hug her frame. It loved her. Bowden cringed from the light, trying to get closer to the darkness. He sat in front of Blaze to escape the candle light which amused her enough to the point of laughter.

"That is Ariel, cabin leader of Poseidon. Don't make any Little Mermaid jokes or she'll kill you. Literally." Ariel had her arms folded, glaring at Kiley and Brennion like they had just killed her pet dog FuFu. Her hair had the normal Poseidon black but had streaks of blond through it. Kiley assumed her mother had been a prominent blond and that blond had fought to be the main color of Ariel's hair but the godly part won and it had become black with blond highlights. Under her curtain of hair Ariel's sea green eyes swept over both Brennion and Kiley with an untrusting gaze. She plucked a piece of orange salt water taffy out of one of the bowls and started twisting it between her fingers like a stress ball while it was still in its wrapper.

"That is Ariel's older sister Jasmine. She is the cabin leader of Apollo-"

"Wait hold on," Kiley felt the need to interrupt, "How can a child of Apollo be related to a child of Poseidon?"

"We have the same mother," Jasmine said with a smile, "and different fathers. I'm a year older than Ariel though. 'Cause I'm the awesomest." Ariel hissed and threw her taffy at her sister which narrowly missed Jasmine's head.

"Awesomest isn't a word loser. So clearly you're the dumbest." Jasmine smiled again, an Apollo trait Kiley quickly guessed.

"Whatever sis, you know you love me. I'm just to freakin' awesomely amazing for you not to." Ariel rolled her eyes while Jasmine smiled on. Jasmine had bright blond hair that reminded Kiley of the color gold. Her eyes closely the color of the sky only brighter blue and flecked with gold and green. Her skin was deeply tanned from being in the sun all the time, but not tan like Blaze's. Blaze's tan had been given to her at birth, Jasmin's was acquired from being outside all year. There were similarities between Jasmin and Ariel too. Both of them had long legs and athletically built bodies. They both had small childish like faces but their eyes showed age far beyond that. They often looked over at each other like they were worried about something or were sharing a conversation without words. It reminded Kiley of herself with her own sister. There was another thing too. Kiley noticed Jasmine wearing a blue bracelet with a trident pendent around her wrist and Ariel wore a gold one with a sun. Their fathers symbol of power but opposite of who they belonged too. Ariel wore Apollo's and Jasmine wore Poseidon's.

"Anyways, that's Dean. Another child of Apollo," Amber leaned closer to Kiley and whispered, "Ariel's potential love interest. Neither of them are yet in realization of their feelings yet though. Denial, such a sad thing." Dean looked exactly like Jasmine minus the similarities between Ariel and his eyes were more green than blue. He nodded at Kiley and Brennion.

"That's Oliver, cabin leader of Hades." It made Kiley's spine tingle how similar Oliver looked to Brennion. They had the same body build, the same color hair, the same paleness, even the same mischievous twinkle in their eyes. The difference between the two was Oliver had black eyes, pools of shadow where as Brennion's eyes where cobalt blue. Oliver's hair was longer too, it brushed his shoulders. The ends were cut unevenly but his hair was straight enough that a girl would murder him to have hair that naturally straight. He gave a mock salute to them as greeting. He clearly hated introductions.

"Ignore him, he's a people hater. Where was I? Oh yes. I member now. Over there is Melina, cabin leader of Aphrodite and Jenny, cabin leader of Hermes." The two girls both smiled in greeting. Melina was sleek and slim like a panther. Her hair was long, reaching past mid-thigh. It was a warm cinnamon brown, a few other colors mixed in there but so overpowered by the brown they were to hard to notice. Her eyes matched her hair, warm pools of brown that looked like melted chocolate. She was forcefully painting Jenny's nails. Jenny was short and stout. A dirty blond with green eyes and a crooked smile. Though she looked very displeased at the moment. She looked like she hated being forced to do anything, especially being Aphrodite-cised.

"And last but not least Jade, cabin leader of Nemesis." Jade picked her chin up from staring at the sand to see who had said her name. She was a small child like thing; she fit the perfect description of a doll of deadly proportions. Everything about her was small; her build, her face, her hands, her smile. But her eyes, when you looked into them, told a story of pain and anger. Of repentance and revenge. They were so full of untold tales and sad words Kiley couldn't even tell what color they were. Her hair was cut short, a quick cut like it had been done with a knife. Oliver's hair was longer than hers. Though her hair was strange. It was so pale white that it looked peal but it had the a strange tent of green that made it….made it look like, well, like jade. Kiley couldn't take her eyes of it.

"That's why they call me Jade….." She mumbled in a quiet voice, her eyes locked with Kiley's. Kiley hadn't realized she had been staring at it so long that the girl had known what she was thinking. Kiley's choked on her unspoken words.

"It's alright," Jade coaxed, "It happens to me all the time. And yes it's naturally this color if that's what your thinking. Its nice to meet you." Kiley offered the small girl a sad smile as an apology. The girl excepted it, smiling back gently.

"Well," Amber said pleasantly, clapping her hands together, "Now that you've met the family, we can-"

"WAIT!" Everyone glanced over their shoulders to see someone with lime green hair running towards them, having trouble moving their lopping feet fast enough to run through the sand.

"Ronny?" Kiley felt vertigo seeing Ronny here. Was he a half-blood as well? Was one her best friends, this whole time, someone she had been so terrified of? How strange. No strange wasn't the word for it. Unnerving was a much better word. Ronny tripped as he ran and stumbled right onto the silk sheets, nearly bulldozing the food into oblivion. Luckily Oliver had quick reflexes and was able to move a couple bowls out of his way before he could.

"Ronny! You made it! Awesome. Everyone really is here now. Can we play! Please!" Amber gave Kiley her best pouty look which, Kiley had to admit, was pretty damn good. But it didn't work on Kiley, it might have helped if Kiley had been a guy.

"Just one second Amber. Ronny you're a half-blood?" Jade was helping Ronny up, dusting the sand out of his hair once she had got him into a sitting position.

"Well, no, not exactly. I'm not really sure what you would call me. My father is a satyr and my mother is a tree nymph. I'm sorrta a mix between the two."

"And just as clumsy as the both of them." Ariel said with a twinkling laugh. Ronny stuck his tongue out at her which only made her laugh more.

"Alright, that's it, I can't be anymore patient. Its time to play Truth or Dare," Amber pushed Kiley into a sitting position, pushing Brennion down next to her and sitting between Melina and Melanie, "Who goes first?"

"I do." Jade said with a smile and a glitter in her eyes that made Kiley shiver in fear.

This should be good for now. I'll start the Truth or Dare game in the next chap. I mean, this is longest chap I have….yeah, the longest I have ever wrote. 10,929 words. I love it! My brother is being a little heartless bastard right now. Not that any of you need to know this, I'm just frustrated. That's why I'm writing it. Hahahaha! Well, I like all my new campers. Cuz I had to make all new ones cuz all the old ones have grown up! And just wait, there is more of them. Cuz I have to do all the minor gods sand the other major ones too. It's a lot. Oh the Doors is playing. I love them. I love old school bands if any of you have gathered this. I just love music period. Hahahaha I am random today. Alright, sounds like my dad is taking us out to get lunch then I'm going to my grandma's. Coolio. Late Peeps!