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"Wow." Percy said in awe. Then he whispered to the person next to him, "

I wanted to celebrate. I wanted to go check in on Nico I wanted to-

Then blacked out, tired from all the magic.

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When I came to, the first two things I noticed was Nico's relieved expression, and that I was lying on a bed.

"Sadie!" he screamed with joy, then tackled me, still on the bed. I felt my face grow hot from embarrassment. Why here, why now? If Carter ever saw this, he would never let me live it down.

I tried to push him off me. But either I was still too weak, or he was just that heavy, because he wouldn't budge.

"Get off me, dead boy!" I demanded.

"Oh, sorry." He immediately released me from that bloody hug, then offered a hand to help me up.

I took it gratefully , smiling lovingly at him. He blushed. I thought it was cute.

Stop it, Sadie! My mind scolded me. You're in love with Anubis! Anubis! This is Nico!

But, Nico is kinda…cuter than Anubis. I reasoned in my mind.

Anubis is a god! A god! You're actually going to exchange a god for a half-god?

Exactly! He's a god! And he's rarely there for me! With Nico, I might even have a shot.

Fine. Whatever.

Smiling smugly that I had won the argument, I looked around, and noticed that we were in some kind of infirmary. Teenagers were lying on beds like me, but some had worse injuries. One kid was completely covered in bandages, and another had both legs in a cast. Thank the gods that Clarisse didn't do anything like that to me.

"So, um…Sadie, wanna go out?" He said, running the back of his neck.

I stared at him like he just said, Set and I are having tea time later!

"What?" I said incredulously.

He realized what he just said, and his face reddened. "No! Not like that. I mean, wanna go outside and see the camp?"

I nearly fell over, laughing. "Thank the gods that you're cute."

He was taken aback with what I just said. "You-you think I'm cute?" His face reddened even more.

I punched him lightly in the arm. "Yeah, dead boy. You got a problem with that?" He shook his head.

"Good."

We stepped outside of the infirmary together. Much to my surprise, people glanced, stared, and pointed at us like we were the new "it" couple. A couple of fashionable-looking girls cooed at the corner, then whispered to each other while sneaking glances at us. I wondered if they were jealous of Nico for being near me, or much worse, jealous of me for being near Nico.

Percy came running over to us. He had this crazy grin on his face, like he just won a million dollars. Annabeth, some punk-looking girl with a tiara on her head, and finally an Asian girl wearing designer clothes followed behind him.

"Wow, Nico. A few hours with them and you finally got yourself a girlfriend!" he patted Nico's back.

"Congratulations!" I said, turning to him. "Who is it?"

Percy and the others, except Nico, looked at me with confused eyes. It immediately made me feel self-conscious. "What?" I threw up my hands in frustration.

"Yeah guys, I don't have a girlfriend." Nico said, looking at Percy questioningly.

His smile faltered. Annabeth looked at Nico, then me, then at Nico again. "So you guys-"

Then realization came to me. "Gods no!" I yelled.

"Huh?" Nico said. He looked at me the way Anubis did when he was confused. So cute. I slapped myself (Mentally, of course) for thinking something like that at a time like this.

"Uggh!" I stomped away from them in frustration. Why can't he get it? It's so obvious that Percy was talking about us, but I don't even like the guy!

Yes, you do. A voice in my mind told me. The weird thing, is, it wasn't my voice.

Isis? I asked.

Ýes, child.

I sighed. Great, another god that wants to mess with my lovelife. Can't everybody just leave me alone?"

I heard that! And no, Sadie. The news is spread around that little camp of theirs. Actually, I heard it from Hathor, who heard it from Aphrodite. She informed.

Aphrodite? I asked her. Why are there so many gods? Who's that? The goddess of Afro?

She snorted. It amuses me how little you know of mythology, Sadie. Aphrodite is the Greek's goddess of love, didn't they teach you that in school?

No, I must've slept through that class.

She made the mental equivalent of shaking her head in disbelief. Anyway, Sadie. Whatever Aphrodite says about love, it happens. Just ask around. With that I felt her presence leave me.

Just ask around? I thought.

I was so deep in thought that I didn't notice somebody run straight into me. We slammed into each other, painfully I might add. And I was still a little weak from those stunts during Capture the flag.

I fell on my bum. "Ow! Watch where you're going, yes?" I complained.

I looked at whoever bumped me, and saw a girl, about 4'11, probably, and skinny. She has dark/ goldish skin and dark, curly brown hair. I saw her eyes, and was mesmerized by her green and golden-brown eyes. She muttered something I couldn't hear.

"What was that?"

"Sorry." She said, a little louder this time.

"Just watch it next time." I stood up a little shakily, but managed not to fall. That would've been embarrassing.

She held out her hand, and I noticed that she was carrying a bow and a quiver full of arrows on the other. "Hi, I'm Anrea Goodwin, daughter of Eos, but my friends call me Drea. You new around here?"

I shook it gratefully. "Uh, Sadie Kane. Me and my brother were just visiting."

"Oh, that's cool. Sorry about that again, but I have to get to archery. Excuse me." she said shyly.

My eyes lit up at the word "archery". Nobody knew it, not even Carter, Amos, and dad, but I've always had a passion for archery. It's just that Carter never let me touch the bows and arrows at the 21st Nome. I tried once, but he just scolded me and told me that I could get hurt. Please.

"Can I come with you?" I asked hesitantly. I didn't even know anything about this person except her name, and all of a sudden I wanted to come with her? I did not think that one through.

"Uh, sure?" she said in a small voice. It came out as more of a question than an answer.

She led me to an archery range, where other campers were shooting targets. A group of teenagers with blonde hair were teaching the younger ones, probably the new campers.

"Hey, Drea! Who's the new girl?" I heard someone say. I saw a boy with black curly hair and midnight blue eyes walk calmly towards us. As he got closer, his eyes got wide. "Oh, you're Nico di Angelo's girlfriend!"

I stomped my foot on the ground. "I am not his girlfriend!" I grumbled.

He smirked. "Sure, sure. But I saw you together, and trust me, the way he looks at you, and the way you act around him, it's so obvious that you two are in love. "

I stepped forward, ready to smack the living daylights out of him, or probably do something much, much worse, but Drea got between us before we could start fighting. "Guys, please stop it. Can't you just get along?"

The boy looked at her, and sighed. "Drea, I told you already, knock of the "being polite is good" thing, would you? I mean, that's why you've only got a few friends here. You're too…how do I put this? You're too goody-goody."

"Sorry. But politeness was the one last thing my dad taught me before…" her voice quivered.

"Oh. Yeah, I forgot about that. Sorry." He rubbed the back of his neck. Awkward.

I saw the coner of her lips tug into a smile. "No problem. Now, Sadie, this is Iris Grim, son of Eros. Iris, Sadie Kane." She gestured to me.

"No duh, Drea! I mean just about everybody at camp knows her! Seriously, they are the "it" couple next to Percabeth!" he squealed like a girl, which made me wonder if he was straight.

I gave him one of my death glares, which must've worked because he stopped squealing.

Drea just looked at him in confusion. "Percabeth?"

"Percy and Annabeth, duh!" he said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

She just answered, "Oh."

Iris turned to me. "So Sadie, want to try archery?"

"Uh…sure." I said.

He went to a shed in the corner, and came out with a bow and a quiver of arrows, which he handed to me.

"But wait, I don't even know-"

"I'll teach you, come on!" he urged.

Both of them led me the targets, then Iris taught me the basics, like how to hold the bow, , how to notch an arrow, and other stuff like that, while Drea shot the targets.

"-and then you notch the arrow just below the nocking point, and…Sadie, are you even listening?"

The truth was, I wasn't. My mind kept going back to what he said before. "The way he looks at you, and the way you act around him, it's so obvious that you two are in love. " It kept repeating and repeating in my mind.

No! I can't be in love with Nico! I'm in love with Anubis! Think of Anubis, Sadie. His chocolate-brown eyes, that looks like just Nico's…Nico's jet black hair, Nico's cute, pale face-

Argh! Stop thinking about Nico!

Iris waved a hand in my face, snapping me back to reality. "Sadie? Hey, Sadie!"

"Oh, sorry Iris. Just thinking about things." I notched an arrow, wondering if it was even correct, and let it fly.

It hit the center of the target. Iris stared at me in shock.

"Uh, beginner's luck?" I said.

"Maybe, but even I couldn't do that on my first day! Sadie, do it again!" he urged.

I notched another arrow, and let it fly. Surprisingly, it hit the center of the target, again, just a little to the left of my first arrow.

Now both Iris and Drea were staring at me. "Sadie, you're a natural! I think that in a few weeks you'll be the one teaching us."

I smiled. "Thanks."

Most of the day went by like that. Drea, Iris, and I talked spent most of the day at the archery range, chatting about things. They told me of the battle of Manhattan, which I was a little freaked out about, since Manhattan was a stone's throw away from Brooklyn. I told them about the House of Life, our upcoming battle with Apophis, and our quest to gather more recruits and train them.

"Well, if you need help, you know who to call." Iris said.

"Who, Drea?" I teased.

He snorted. "Yeah, right. The most she would do is talk about the problem."

Drea glared at him, and punched him in the arm. "Shut up."

Then, a conch horn blew in the distance. Drea and Iris began walking towards the sound.

"what was that?" I asked them.

"It's dinner. Come on." Drea grabbed my arm, and practically dragged me to dinner, which was fine by me, since I'm so hungry.

During dinner, I couldn't help but notice that Nico kept looking at, and blushing. I actually looked back at him once, and he just looked away. I wondered what happened to him.

After dinner, I was about to go and find Carter, but Percy stopped me.

"Hey, Sadie." He called.

"Yes?"

"Carter is looking for you at the Aphrodite cabin." He said, and walked away. I swear I could see him smiling evilly to himself, like he was planning something.

I didn't even know where the Aphrodite cabin was, or how it looked like. I asked some campers, and they all pointed to a life-sized Barbie house.

As I got closer, my nose started to itch from the smell of perfume. I knocked on the door politely, which almost made me gag. Normally, I would just barge in there, but if Carter was here, and for some reason I saw him inside making out with a girl-well, let's just say that I would be permanently scarred for life.

The door suddenly opened. I stepped inside, and noticed that the lights were out.

"Hello? Carter?" I called out. Suddenly, two pairs of hands grabbed me, one pair holding to one of my arms. Together they dragged my somewhere inside the cabin.

I kicked, punched, and fought back for all I was worth. But gods, these guys had arms like steel.

Then , someone opened the lights. It took a moment for my eyes to adjust to the sudden burst of light, but the I noticed a pair of see-green eyes looking at me.

"Hey there, Sadie."

"Percy! What the hell are you-" I looked around, and saw that Percy and Annabeth were both holding me by the arms, and that I stood in front of a closet. "What are you-"

Before I could say more, another girl opened it, and Percy and Annabeth pushed me inside.

"Ah!" I heard someone scream, and definitely isn't me.

Who is it? Find out next chapter! Oh, and reviews make me happier than when Sadie finally finds love, so if you want more Sadico, just clock the Review button right there!