"Now that we're all here, we can begin."

Grover had arrived just minutes before, huffing and puffing like crazy. As soon as he saw me there he smiled at me and was about to ask me something when he took notice of Mr. D sitting to my left. He then started panic, and when Grover started to panic, it meant that he became a stuttering mess and probably needed to use the toilet.

Chiron completely ignored his reaction and turned his attention to me.

"So Chrysanthe, As you have already witnessed, there are a lot of monsters in the world. Learning about how heroes from the old days killed them would help you if you were ever attacked. Of course, you could always find your own way to kill them." He gave me a knowing look over the top of his cards.

I glanced down at the Minotaur horn I had placed in my lap, remembering that only two nights ago this had been stuck in the chest of a Minotaur.

"Never dwell on the past my dear, think only of the future. It may never turn out the way you want it to, but it may give you a sense of hope."

"But why did it come after me?"

"Why does anything we don't want to happen, happen. It's a cruel world out there Chrysanthe, the fates make sure of that." I nodded in understanding at his words, it was a cruel world, as I had learned firsthand.

"Now, onto happier terms, the camp. As you already know Chrysanthe, here you will learn how defend yourself against monsters, as well as other skills that many demigods find useful in life. Such rock climbing, foot racing and you might even get the chance to learn skills that blacksmiths need to know. There is a cabin and a table in the mess hall to represent each god and goddess, as soon as lessons are over, I'll have someone show you around." I nodded my head.

"But how do you know if you're good at all these things? I mean, I know you get lessons here, but that won't mean you will defiantly survive an attack against a monster or something?"

"We have a few war games," I turned my attention to Grover, his eyes seemed to be shifting between me and the weirdly dressed man sat next to me. And I'm not kidding about the weirdly dressed part. As I already said, he wore a purple leopard skin shirt, with green jogging shorts and purple jogging shoes, something told me that he didn't even use the running shoes.

"Is that all?" I asked Grover.

"Well no, we do have quests, but they are rare now."

"Quests?"

"It's where you go on small adventures my dear, normally to find something or someone." I looked back at Chiron.

"So it basically, it's like doing dangerous jobs then?" He nodded.

"But how do you get a quest?" I asked.

"It depends really, sometimes you get given quests by the Gods, but if something needed to be done in camp, I would be allowed to give them out." I nodded.

"There's something that confuses me. If the gods were meant to have lived millions years ago, how are they here now?"

"You ask a lot of questions don't you Crystal Johnson?" I turned and glared at the man sitting next to me.

"It's Chrysanthe Jackson, actually." He waved his hand at me as though he didn't care what I was called.

"Does it really matter?"

I scowled at him, "And, who are you?"

"I thought the D would have been enough of a clue for you." I tried to think where I had heard someone in Greek Mythology whose name began with D.

"Deadalus?" Mr. D growled trustingly at me.

"Do I look like a crazed inventor to you?"

"Do you really want me to answer that?" I bit back.

He opened his mouth to say something, but Chiron managed to interrupt him from saying anything more."Chrysanthe this is Dionysus, the God of wine."

I looked back at Mr. D with a raised eyebrow. "Huh, that explains so much."

"What's that supposed to mean?" I raised my eyebrow at him, was that the best he could come up with?

I smirked, "You know you don't look like Dionysus, you look like a ... Gus."

He started glaring at me, trying to scare me. I have to admit my smirk went down for a second, but then when right back up.

"Grover," I looked over at Chiron, slightly annoyed that he hadn't let me answer back. "Why don't you go and see if young William is available to show Chrysanthe around." Grover shot out of seat and ran off into the camp, most likely to find this Will person.

Chiron turned and faced myself and Mr. D. "Right, we are going to sit here and wait for Grover and William to get here, in silence, is that clear?" Both of us nodded reluctantly.

I raised my eyebrow at the can of coke Gus had in his hand, if he was the wine God, then why wasn't he drinking wine? Come to think about it, why was he even here? Shouldn't he be on Olympus? But I decided that he must have angered Sparky and that got him here. Ha ha.

I don't know how long we waited, but then again it could have been only a minute or so, either that or Grover was purposely taking his time, but time seemed to crawl by extremely slow. I had started to tap my finger nails against the wooden top of the table and I had kept moving around in my seat, eager to do something worthwhile. I managed to upset Mr. D even more with my constant moving, so naturally I started moving even more.

But after an agonizing few minutes, I saw Grover running up to from a very thin tree line, with two new people following behind him.

"You wanted to see me Chiron?" It was a boy around my age who had spoken up. He had sky blue eyes, mess blonde hair and tan skin. This must have been William.

When I looked to the other person who had come up with Grover, my eyes had widened slightly. Annabeth was standing next to Grover, panting slightly from the run over here, with a big grin plastered on her face.

"Yes I did William. I would like you to meet Chrysanthe Jackson," I gave him a slight wave.

He smiled widely at me and offered me his hand."Will Solace at your service."

I shook his hand, "Chris." I turned to Annabeth with a slight frown.

"Hey Annabeth, you okay?" I figured it would probably be a better idea to try to actually be nice to her, no matter what I felt about being around her or what she's playing at.

"I'm fine, did Chiron tell you everything?" I shrugged

"Mostly, he told me I would be given a tour so I could understand this place better."

"I don't mind showing you around, it would be fun."

I stared at her with a blank look on my face, how would I get out of this one?

"I was just about to ask William to show her around Annabeth," I looked at Chiron thankful that he had managed to get me out of having to talk to Annabeth any longer than I should.

"But maybe you would like to join them?" Never mind.

"Sure, that would be great. C'mon Chris," She grabbed my arm and started to drag me to the steps at the end of the Patio, "I have so much to show you."

I heard Will say good bye to everyone back at the table, before he started to run to catch up with Annabeth who I feared would soon be tugging my arm out of its socket.

I looked behind me at Will, pleading with my eyes for help. But he just laughed at me and just watched as me being dragged along by an overly excited daughter of Athena.

"Welcome to the archery range. If you ever need to find me, or any Child of Apollo, we will probably be here or in the infirmary." I in understanding at Will, I had finally managed to get Annabeth off my arm, when some of her younger siblings had come over to ask her for help on some sort of project they were doing.

I had practically pushed her towards them, when she had tried to get out of it.

"Go on Annabeth, they need your help. Will's here to help me around this place." After about five minutes of telling her that I would be fine, she left.

I had been enjoying talking to Will, so far he had shown me the strawberry fields, armoury, forge, the arena and mess hall. Now he was busy showing me the small archery range that was surrounded by trees and other wildlife.

"So you're the son of Apollo?"

"Yeah, God of Music, Poetry, Medicine, Archery etcetera, etcetera."

"How often are you needed in the infirmary?"

"Not that often, of course I am supposed to be working there anyway, being a son of Apollo means that healing people is second nature, but I am rarely called for emergency's. Everyone is quite cautious here, so it's rare we get to see bad cases, but it's mostly broken bones."

"Broken bones?"

He laughed. "We might be cautious, but sometimes we can get too involved in training sessions."

"Good to know."

He placed a hand on my shoulder and squeezed it slightly "Relax, if you stay out of people's way when they are like that, then you should be fine."

"Knowing that I'll see you tomorrow at the infirmary, eight o'clock sharp."

He laughed and led the way out of the archery range. After leaving the Archery range, Will took me past a climbing wall where satyrs where rushing up the wall as though someone had promised instant death if they didn't reach the top. But the longer I watched, I realized that was exactly the punishment if you didn't reach the top.

"Is that lava?"

Will nodded.

"Real lava." Once again he nodded.

I stood with my mouth open as I stared at the lava at the bottom of the wall, watching as it bubbled dangerously.

"There's rocks too." I spun around to face Will, how could he be so calm about that.

"Rocks? Isn't that a bit dangerous?"

"There's lava as well if you hadn't noticed, that's worse than just some rocks."

I looked at him wide eyed. "Wow and I thought I was mental."

Will laughed walked away from the wall making me hurry behind him so I wouldn't get lost.

Eventually we had made it to a series of buildings in the middle of camp. There were built of they were standing in a U shape, none of them were the same, each building had a different theme. One had a thatched roof with flowers and trees growing out of every visible surface, while one had barbed wire trailing along the roof and a real boar's head hanging over the door, then there was one made of solid gold!

"Is that real gold?" I asked Will.

"Yeah, that's cabin seven, my cabin or as it's more commonly known, the Apollo cabin"

"You live there?"

He nodded.

"Wow."

He nodded

"Anyway, over there are the toilets and showers, and over there is the amp-" He was forced to stop talking when someone decided to push past him and stand right in front of me.

"Lookie girls, fresh meat." I looked through angry eyes up at the pig-faced girl who stood in front of me.

"And, who are you?" The pig-faced girl smirked down at me, and I wasn't joking, I was quite short. Okay, really short, I was 5'0 but that's not the point.

"Name's Clarisse La Rue, daughter of Ares. Never, forget my name."

I snorted.

"I think it will be bit hard to forget you. Your smell not very easy to miss." Behind Clarisse and her friends I saw Will shaking his head and waving his arms about frantically.

"What that meant to mean?" I looked up Clarisse with a raised eyebrow.

"Are you just as stupid as you look?" Clarisse grabbed me by the collar of my shirt and began to drag me towards the toilets. I smirked all the way there, I have dealt with this treatment before.

"I'm going to give you a real welcome to the camp."

She kicked open a toilet stall door and I got onto my knees in front of the toilet, I had decided to humor Clarisse.

"This is what we do to brats who don't know their own place in this camp." She pushed the back of my head down towards the toilet, I braced my hand at the sides of the seat. Clarisse pushed harder against me, trying to get my head into the toilet, but I wasn't relenting. I heard the pipes start groaning but paid no attention to them. As Clarisse pushed down on me harder, the groaning coming from the pipes grew louder, but still I paid no attention to them.

"Stop struggling and get your head down th-"

WHOOSH.

Water started to spray out of the toilet, gallons of water stared to come out of the toilet, dowsing everything with water.

When everything had calmed down, I looked around with wide eyes. Everything was covered with toilet water, everything that is, except me. I was kneeling in a dry circle with everything around me soaking wet. Clarisse tried to take a swing at me, but I was quick and placed a number of jabs at pressure points. It wasn't long until she laid limp on the ground.

She looked as if she was trying to move but of course she couldn't I crouched down and gave her my deadly glare, " Name's Chris. Chris Jackson, you will do, well not to forget it. By the way, I grew up in the worst side of New York. You Don't scare me."

She shuttered under my gaze, but covered it up by saying, "You little brat! I'm gonna get you for this"

I smiled my special evil smile and stood up, "I can't wait." I turned and was about to walk out the door, "You limbs will regain feeling in four to six hours have fun. Then, I left her laying in the toilet water.

When I made it outside Will rushed right up to me, looking for any evidence that I was hurt.

"Chris are you all right? What happened?"

I smiled and grabbed his hand, "Come on. I Need to finish my tour"

I pulled him along and when we passed the other daughters of Ares I said, "If you are looking for Clarisse you might want to check the bathroom floor."

Link to Chrysanthe's Outfits Is on my profile page.

Prolog Happy Family by Racoon

2- She's a rebel by Green Day and I've got the Power by Sanp

3- Whatever Will Be By Vanessa Hudgens

4- The House That Built Me by Miranda Lambert

5- Cinderella by The Cheetah girls and Supermassive Black Hole by Muse

6- Stronger (what doesn't kill you) by Kelly Clarkson

7- You're Going Down by Sick Puppies

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