AN: Remember to review and give me ideas for the story.

The cabin Alex led me to was a plain wood cabin, except it glowed as if it was bathed in the moonlight. Without looking into the cabin I walked in and collapsed on the only bed and was asleep in a few minutes. My dream went like this:

I was sprinting through the woods being chased by something. The trees flew past and I was obviously heading somewhere, but the only problem was that I had no idea where I was supposed to go. An arrow whizzed by my head and lodged itself into a tree. I looked back to see my hunter, but all I saw was flashes of silver sprinting behind me.

I skidded to a stop in a meadow and I knew that I had reached my destination. The moon light was shining down and slowly a young girl materialized before me. She had auburn hair and she looked to be about ten years old.

"Come find me where the trees meet the camp," she ordered and disappeared.

I woke up and I immediately knew that I had to get to the forest as fast as I could. I hopped out of my bed and I sprinted towards the forest, faster than I ever thought that I could sprint. Then I saw girls slowly coming out of the forest and I spotted the auburn haired one, the one I knew I needed to see. As I walked towards her the rest of the girls seemed to be giving me the evil eye.

"My son, come forward," she beckoned. I raised my eyebrow, not believing that a little girl could be the all powerful Artemis and my mother. As if she read my mind she changed into a young woman that looked almost the same as her previous form. I walked towards her and bowed my head.

"Shoot," she commanded the girls and bows appeared in their hands strung up. I did the only thing that I thought would save me, I ran. I sprinted through the forest faster than I had ever run before. Then an arrow whizzed by my head and lodged itself in a tree, I looked back and all I saw were flashes of silver behind me, I was living out my dream. Not in the way that people say when they get a dream job, but I was literally living out the dream that I had had five minutes earlier.

Finally I stopped in the meadow that I had been in, in my dream, and Artemis slowly appeared out of the moonlight. Great, I thought to myself, my mother is crazy and she is out to get me. When I was about to run out I saw that the whole meadow had been encased by the girls who had accompanied Artemis earlier.

She raised her hand and the girls lowered their bows, but their eyes never left me. Artemis looked me directly in my eyes for the longest time, looking for something. Finally she looked away and she motioned to a girl to come over.

The girl had short, black hair, a splash of freckles across her face and she had a silver circlet on her head. On her wrist she had a bracelet with spikes sticking out of it and a mace canister hanging off of her dress. She walked forward with a bow and arrows in one hand and two long hunting knives in the other. She handed them to Artemis and she backed away.

"You need protection when you go hunting for your destiny," Artemis explained and handed it to me, "don't worry about what my Hunters think about you, I regretted my decision, but the Fates had willed this."

Then she slowly disappeared in the moonlight, along with the rest of the girls, except the girl with the circlet. She stepped forward again and put her hand on my shoulder and looked intently into my eyes.

"I am Thalia," she answered, seeing the questions forming in my eyes.

"The tree-girl?" I asked and she gave a short laugh.

"Yes, the tree-girl. I was also an illegitimate child and you cannot let anyone tell you how the Fates willed things. Don't second guess yourself," she replied and slowly dissipated into the moonlight.

I walked back to the camp in the daze, never thinking that I would be the child of a virgin. When I got back into the camp grounds I became hearing strange screeching sounds coming from the Big House. Then I saw these shriveled up hag-like things flying towards me.

"Camper out after curfew! Snack for lucky harpies!" One of them shouted pointing at me.

I realized I had three choices:

a. Runaway and scream

b. Runaway and don't scream

c. Kick some serious hag ass

I don't think that I need to tell you that I went with choice C. I took the two long hunting knives that Artemis had given me out of their sheaths and got ready.

The harpies were some of the grossest things that I had ever seen before. They had dark shriveled up faces with grotesque mouths and they had large bat-like wings that lifted them up about four feet into the air. One of them had gotten ahead of the pack and I was forced to use reflexes that I never knew that I had. She bit me in the arm, but I stabbed her in the neck and flung her, hitting another harpy.

I know this isn't the time, but they looked so funny when they ran into each other, even though I was fighting for my life I cracked a smile. They saw me laughing and this made them even madder. The harpies let out a blood-curdling scream and launched themselves at me and I quickly slashed one and then stabbed the other. Now there were only three left and it looked like I had just called them old hags (well, I did, but not to their faces) and they launched themselves at me all at once and forced me down onto the ground.

I kicked one off making it fly through the air and then I got clawed by one in the face. Having adrenaline pumping through my body numbed the pain so I stabbed them both and they turned into dust on my body. Finally the last one flew away wailing for its lost sisters, hopefully she didn't wake everyone else up.

"Jon, are you okay?" I heard a familiar voice exclaim. I turned around and saw Alex wearing pajamas with little centaurs on them.

"Yeah," I replied.

"What were you doing out here after curfew? Where did you get those weapons?" she asked.

"Ummmm, one; it's nice to know that a curfew actually exists here before I get attacked by hags and two; I had a meeting with Artemis and she gave them to me," I answered and she had a guilty look on her face for "forgetting" to tell me about curfew.

"Yeah, sorry about that, well at least you know about that know. But I think that you're going to have to see Mr. D now that you kinda destroyed our cooks. Don't make him angry, the last kid who did walks around the woods saying that he is the reincarnation of Alexander the Great and the Macedonians are out to get him," she explained and I laughed, hesitantly. I didn't know if she was joking or if she was actually serious about Mr. D.

Thinking about if she was serious or not had to wait because out of the Big House came the funniest sight that I would see in my whole lifetime. A centaur wearing four-legged candy-cane pajamas with curlers in his tailing, galloping at me, made me laugh so hard that I was crying.

"Jon, what happened?" Chiron asked, concerned. After recovering from my fit of laughter I explained to him that I just vaporized the camp's chefs. He gave me a look that probably meant I was in a whole crap-load of trouble on my first day of camp ( I was used to it, I had already been to seven schools). "You're going to have to see Mr. D."

AN: It didn't take me that long to write this it all just hit me at once, so I hope you like it.