[While Nico was off looking for Bella, her life took a turn for some interesting events.]

Octavian shows Nicole, me, and Alex around. He says what just happened was a augury where demi-gods are determined that they're allowed into the legion. "At supper, we'll have an anouncement of three new half-bloods, there you will be assigned into your chohort." The rest I heard is blah, blah, blah, cohort, blah blah blah Senate, blah, blah, blah, picnic. That part I don't understand but I'm really paying attention to the area. A huge mountain, Mount Diablo, and beautiful golden hills, clear blue skies! They have their own Coliseum and a lake surrounding the valley. Steam rolls out of a place where kids come in and out all with swimsuits on.

"Bella are you really thinking of going on a picnic with him?!" Alex exclaimes.

"Wait what? Um are we in a military camp. If all of us are going some where, are we going to need permission from the General?" I ask.

"Silly Bella! No, this isn't a military camp. Although we Romans are reasonable people but we still have rules! For example..." Octavian slips off into explaining all the rules and punishments.

General Over Kill shows us the Pomeranian Line (whith the terrifying Terminus), Feild of Mars, the cohorts the Barracks, Baths, Principa or Reyna's headquarters. They have an aqueduct too connecting into New Rome. We make it back to the place where innocent stuffies die in the hands of General Over Kill. The statue of Jupiter stares at us, I wonder if he's studying all the dead stuffies at his feet.

"So there's the whole camp! How do you like it?" he asks.

"Wonderful," I say.

"Cool," Alex says.

"Okay," Nicole mutters.

"Hmph. Nicole, Alex, you guys can see the rest of the place, I need to speak with Bella. It about her joining the legion."

"Alright," Alex says wearily. "If anything goes wrong you can count on me!"

Even though he's supposed to be a couple months, almost a year, older he still acts like a ten year old kid. He can be so silly sometimes it almost got us killed. Just thinking about that makes me slip off, into the past.

Back then 'course we knew that we were demigods at the time. Unfortunetly Nicole is a daughter of some rich family (but wont tell me who), so she only gets five minutes of free time. Yet she always seeks out to see us. Now your probably wondering Well why don't you just stay with Nicole?! She is filthy rich! Sorry, but her family thinks me and Alex are street rats. But the reason I like her is not because she is rich, but she is crazy, silly, and not prissy who thinks no one is better than her. Alex's mom is a pilot and they rarely get to see each other, though when ever Grace, Alex's mom, is home she always invites me to stay over. I practicaly live with Alex though we're not related. Whe she is gone, and if Nicole is available, we go out of the city into the real world. Me? My mom told me that my dad is a business man, always traveling, going to contry to country. I never believe that, I knew that he never really loved me only my mom and her courage. She died three weeks before my seventh birth day. "A brave woman she was," is what her boss had told don't tell me what she did as a job, maybe a CSI agent? I don't know they never told me. She died when I only six. Ever since I've been running away, till I landed in San Diego. I thought my life turned for the best, meeting Alex and Nicole. All of us didn't have dads or would our moms tell us who our dads were.

We got curious. Since Grace lets me and Alex go to school, we befriended a saytr named Mark. He tells us to go to a special camp, but to wait till we're thirteen, then mutters about some smoa. When we told Nicole she says there's a place called Sonoma, we thought that's where the camp might be. They "arranged" an agreement with their moms saying that the three of us we're going to a camp. We sneak off anyways. Sadly Nicole couldn't come because of her mom saying "It's too dangerous! She will attend Ashley School Academy! There she will be whiped into shape!" We say our good-byes, Grace, being the best mom a person could ask, flies us near the Wolf house. In six weeks we are ready to head off to Camp Jupiter. It caught me by no surprise that Nicole sneeked off here.

I wonder about those security people but Octavian shakes me out of the thought.

"So Bella, all in all I'd love you to be in my cohort! So do you have any letters?" he asks.

"Oh, yeah I do. I didn't open it but it might be crumpled," I say.

I reach in my pack, which I completely forgot about, and pull out a cream-colored ivory envelop. Nothing really special, just a seal that's in a shape cloud with a lighting bolt under it. I recived the letter the night before the night I left for camp. Lupa had said Alex had recived a fair amount of them too. I reluctantly give it to Octavian, but I pull it back.

"Can I open it?" I ask him.

"Sure."

I carefully slip my finger under the seal. Within it contains a really old parchment. I has burnt edges, with really fancy cursive writing. It says:

The Sea, Eagle, and Death must bare the Titan's wrath

And form a trinity that will walk a time ridden path

The Eagle must break men's aspect of being

In the end, most will not find it so pleasing

"What? I don't understand. Octavian?" I hand him the paper and he turns even paler, if that was even possible.

He has eyes as big quarters and is dumfounded.

"What? What is it?!" I yell.

I look for more things and all I find is another letter and a necklace. I think it's called a chain-link necklace, with half a bullet as the charm. I think it's some sort of material. I think it was ment to be some sort of wicked friendship-necklace, sure enough there's another one. I find it amazing because there is another, beautiful cloud embroidered inside the hollow side of the bullet. My finger touches it and it turns into a sword. Celestial Bronze. I have no idea how I know that but it snaps Octavian out.

"What? Where did you?!"

"I don't know."

I touch the other symbol and it turns into a bow. Both of the weapons have a different symbol. The sword has the cloud on the grip. A lightning bolt on the grip of the bow. I have no idea what these mean or why but the bow was meant for someone else. The sword fits beautifully in my hand, well balanced too. The hilt of the sword is real gold, and the blade is Celestial Bronze. Some how the bow is too but the string is, horse hair? I'm not a bow expert so I don't know. If I think hard enough they turn back into the necklaces, only the one with the cloud is on my neck.

I take out the letter, hoping to find an explanation. All I get is:

Take care of my daughter

Who in the world is this? I don't know! Why did they give me a pair of friendship-necklaces? What's up with the weird parchment that almost make Octavian hyperventilate? I scream so loud I think I just made half of the woodland monsters run deeper into the woods. I storm out with Octavian looking as shocked as ever.

I sit on a bench on Temple Hill, examining the iteams that the mystery person leaves me. I want to be left alone but I'm glad Alex joins me.

"Hey, what's up? I heard someone scream. I'm glad your ok," he says.

"Thanks Alex, I just wish I could just, just..." I can't form the words but I wish that I could find my dad, and just belong.

"Well, how about that picnic? Tomorrow. You know, with out Octavian, we could invite Nicole," he says.

"No, it's ok. I'll like it, just the two of us. Like old times," I say.

"Done! Where should we have the event? Here?"

"Why not? In the center of the Hill, I'm sure they rarely come up here. Yeah, Tomorrow at noon."

"It's a date. Oh I mean um.." he blushes red.

His blond hair is like the color of gold like the hilt of my sword. His blue eyes are nothing like mine. His is like a clear, aqua blue river. Like a stereotypical California beach boy, but he's sweet. I don't quite notice, but Alex wraps my fingers with his. I look at his face and we simile. He's about to lean in but thunder rolls in a clear blue sky.

Now we both are red as ever. I laugh at the thought of Octavian blushing, he would look like a candy cane. . . A candy cane, why does it sound so familiar? The image of the boy in the Underworld comes to mind, I still don't know his name, but the least I can do is know his name to thank him.

"Bella, I want to show you something, I think you'll like it," he says.

"Sure, what is it?" I ask.

"You'll see."

He leads me back to the Barracks and shows me the one place Octavian doesn't show me, the unicorn stables. All these mystical creatures and Octavian doesn't think to show me?! Most of them are white, some pink, light blue, and one stark black one in the back corner.

"Who's that one?" I ask.

"Oh, Reyna told me he is the difficult one. They haven't even named him." Alex explains.

I walk up to the black unicorn. He is as dark as night, in the sunlight it looks like he is wearing the stars. I slowly walk up to him, wishing he'll let me pet him. As I look around his stable, all I see is three buckets, water, hay, and carrots. All the other unicorns have fresh water, a new bed of hay, this poor stallion is treated unfairly. Just because he's unnatural, or because he's difficult?

"Hey, there. Nice horse, you don't like this stable huh?" I ask.

He neighs as if to say yes.

I pet him on the only spot that has color, right between his eyes. I think it's called a star if it looks like one. My mortal friend Maia would be flipping out right now if she saw me like this.

"Wanna stretch those leggs?" I ask.

"Bella, are you sure?" Alex asks.

"I trust this guy," I say.

I unhook the stable door, as soon as I did that the wild stallion flew out of his cage. He rolles around in the grass and soon after chews it.

"You want to go for a ride?" I ask.

Not sure who I'm talking to, the horse scoops me up and takes me off for the ride of a lifetime! We zip past construction demigods on the Feild of Mars, past a bewildered looking Terminus, past Temple Hil, scared some Lares, and all the way back to the stables.

"He's amazing!" I yell. "So fast it's like riding on wind!"

"He's like a black blur, riding him past all those places, I could barely recognize you!" Alex exclames.

"Roxas, I think it means wind or something," I say.

Not entirely true. Kinda cheesy that I named him from a video game character. He's a half of the main character who's name means Sky. Since he's half of the Sky. . . You know what never mind.

"How about Nebula? Like the milkway galaxy?" Alex suggests.

"Yeah, why not? How about it? Nebula?"

He neighs and nods his head.

"I think it's time for lunch," Alex says.

"Oh," I sigh, I don't want to leave Nebula quite yet. "I'll catch up with u guys later, save me a seat." I say.

He laughs "Ok, see you later."

Give Nebula new water and hay, hand feed him some carrots and sugar cubes. I gaze at the horn of the animal. Making it a mythical creature.

"Can I touch it?" I ask Nebula.

He literally bows. The horn is unbelievably warm, as if it was the heart of the unicorn. I wonder if it is. I touch the tip of the horn an it's surprisingly sharp. I wince because I actually prick my finger. It catches me by surprise that Nebula licks the wound. I didn't even know that they could lick!

Thank you master. That cage almost turned me into a wild stallion!

"Wha? Who. Did you just. . ."

Only you can hear me. I should thank you for setting me free. If ever you want a ride just whistle.

"I promise I'll ride you every other day when I'm here."

I bet in all these years, my kind has not had a nice enough rider to promise that!

"Nebula! I have to go all creatures have to eat you know?"

Really?

"Bye! Nebula!"

I walk to the dining hall where all these food are being flown around, I could of yell "Food Fight!" but I looked closer. They were real storm spirits! Flying around, serving people. This is just great, its like the cafeteria all over again, don't know where to sit, and if you sit somewhere your not? You either get a food facial or a wedgie. Only here, where everyone knows how to handle a sword? I wouldn't like to think of that possibility.

"Bella! Over here!" yells Nicole.

I slop down between my best friends.

"So what's going on?! I heard that you have these crazy bullet necklaces and that you've tamed a wild unicorn?!" exclames Nicole.

I explain the whole event with Octavian, and Alex chips in on the Nebula deal. We make a silent agreement not to tell Nicole about the picnic, or the disrupted event between me an Alex.

"So Nicole has a Pegaus, Bella has a unicorn. So what do I get?!" Alex yells.

All of us laugh.

"Hey I wonder who might be our dads?" I ask.

"Imagine all three of us have the same one?" days Nicole.

"Well I can see the resemblance between you two!" I point at Nicole and Alex.

"Remember, gods don't have DNA so it is a possibility," explains Alex.

"Hm, I'm just glad I can't be a daughter of the love goddess," I say.

"Why?" he asks.

"Just the though of wearing make-up or, shopping makes me shudder. I try to make the shopping down to once a year. If and only there is a new video game that I'm itching to get my hands on, I want to stay away from the Mall."

"Come on! How about all the times you and I used to go to the movies? We all ways used to look at the clothes." says Nicole.

"Well, there were some things I like."

I look over at Alex and I see him fake snoring.

"Alright! We'll stop with all te girly chit-chat!" I push him awake.

"Alright! Geez. So I think I'm the son of Apollo, Bella, the daughter of Ares-"

"Wait what?"

"- and Nicole daughter of Dionysus!"

"What are you implying?" Nicole asks.

"Well, there's no other way of describing it."

"So try to think of how I'm the daughter of the war god?"

"Well then, I think you need to eat!" He pokes my stomach.

Its true I haven't eaten anything good for the past couple of days, though I would love to hear Alex's reason of why I could be a child of war.

"Fine, I'll let you go! But only this time."

We inhale all of our food. Some yummy burgers, a glass of Cola and a few brownies.

"Alright! Now that our bellies are full, it is my pleasure to welcome Bella, Alex, and Nicole on to the platform," Reyna says.

As I walk up to the platform, my heart stops. Twohundered people, just staring at me. Times that by two and fourhundered eyes looking at me studying my every move. Right now I'm a still as a statue.

"So the letters please."

First up Alex. He hands Reyna a handfull of letters. All saying about the time when he slayed a basilisk, or the time when he defeated a bunch of Hellhounds, they even mention him saving me from death.

"Many achievements this boy has made. Who will accept him?" asks Reyna.

"I do!" Larry yells. I think he is the leader of the second cohort. That's all I know about the guy.

"Alex Jones. Welcome to the second cohort."

She put a dog tag necklace on Alex. As she is placing the necklace a symbol of a lyre apears on his head.

"Ave, Alex Jones, son of Apollo."

A wave of applause comes from the place. As Alex walks down to his new home, he mutters "Good luck," and goes back into the crowd.

"Alright Bella. Letters."

I go up into the spotlight, the crowd dies down and waits.

"Oh? Um I have them but Octavian has a piece of it."

"Really? Well then let's-"

"Wait!" as if on cue Octavian run up to the platform and yells:

"A page! A page from the Sibylline Books! A prophecy!"

As he reads it to the crowd I already have it stuck in my mind. When he is done all the eyes divert directly to me, as if I just burped in the middle of his speech.

"Yeah, that came with the package too." as soon as I said it, I wanted to put it all back into my mouth. All the eyes still are focused on me. Only now I realize they're staring at my head. A symbol of lightning shows then flashes. A thunder storm is followed. Then a gasp.

I look towards Nicole and not only do I see the thunder but I also see a trident clashing with it. A thunder so loud it almost made my ears pop booms. A voice as powerfull as lighting speaks.

"Yes! Yes, congratulations to my daughter and her friend Alex. I'd like to say to my son and great-great-great granddaughter. Good luck. This is Jupiter, signing out." and like that my dad is gone.

What happens next is a blur. I see Jason rasing his hand to accept me, then again he is my half-brother. Reyna giving me the necklaces back and putting the dog tag on me. Nicole has no letters so she's in the same cohort as me, fifth. She on the other hand is excited about sharing a cabin with me. I nod and smile. We walk to the new home I'll be sharing with my brother and my niece. Strangely Nicole's older than me by seven months. She's fourteen, and I'm only thirteen. I find my self dragging a practice dummy up to temple hill. Probably going to hack this thing in front of my dads temple.

As I walk up I notice more temples on the other side. Bellona, Mars, and a small shrine for Pluto. . . Pluto, Hades, death. It's all coming back to me. Nico, Hades, dieing, the candy cane Nico, the kiss... Then him shoving me through the door! The nerve! Right there I lash out my sword, Sora, meaning sky, in honor of my daddy. I wonder how he even got this thing?! And two of them?! He just showed up! Saying "oh hey! Congrats! Oh and I like Jason and Nicole better. Bye!" Now I'm some sort of pawn in this stupid prophecy! To bad I have to drag Nicole along. Her being the Sea, and me being the Sky. Oh great! Death, being Nico! I don't want to face some Titan, or break men's aspect of being! Why would I? I don't want to kill anyone.

I lash out all of my anger on the dummy. Some faces come to mind, Octavian, Zeus, and even Nico. A little stab there, slice of the arm here. Ugh! Off comes the head. A dark force develops in the area. The smell of Death runs through my nose.

"Bella!" he yells. "I'm so glad-"

"What do you want Ghost Princess?" I point my sword to his nose. If only it was made of foam instead of boy.