Chapter 5: A Wake up Call

"How long has she been out?" A voice asked from beside her.

"About an hour, but she fell asleep. I wonder how far the poor girl ran?"

"I dunno, but she's pretty beat up, wonder what was after her?"

She could hear the voices of two men coming from somewhere in the room. Where was she? Oh, yeah now she remembered that farmhouse her mother had told her to run to. Her mother………… was she ok? She was pondered the happenings of the night before, but she was interrupted.

"I think she's waking up! Look!"

"Hello, that was some fall you took. " The voice she had been hearing was talking to her now; she opened her eyes and attached faces to the voices. The man who was talking to her had curly dark brown hair and a green Rasta cap, and manly features and a brown, messy goatee.

She sat up and answered in a frantic voice

"Who are you?? Wheres my mom is she ok, does she know you guys?? Is everything ok!!! "

The man looked over to the guy next to him. The guy next to him looked about middle-aged with a black beard and a pair of wise-looking dark eyes. He looked at her sympathetically and began to answer her frantic questions, slowly and calmly.

"Hello, we heard you crash last night and thought we should help. We don't know who you are but we'd like to. Hi, my name is Chiron and this is Grover Underwood. We are the camp directors. What's your name? "

"My name is Alice, Alice Chase. "

As soon as she said the word "Chase", both men looked at each other and began talking to each other in some kind foreign language, which she oddly recognized as ancient Greek. They were whispering, but she caught two words, "Annabeths daughter". Then they turned back to her.

" Did you say Alice Chase? Chase, C-h-a-s-e? They guy named Grover asked.

"Yes, does that mean anything to you? "

"Your Annabeths girl aren't you?"

"Yeah, that's my mom's name. "

"That means you're his daughter. " The guy with the green cap pointed at a statue on a table, beside the couch she'd been sleeping on. She picked it up, it had picture of a young man standing in a clam shell, on the base was inscribed, "Perseus, minor god of Tidal waves, Lord of the Atlantics and General of Poseidon's merman army."

"Huh?" They had called her dad a god. She didn't get it. Merman army?

"The guy in the statue is your father. His name is Peruses, we called him Percy. "

"My Mom didn't really talk about him much until about a week ago. She said his name was Percy. And that they were old friends, that's about it. And it took about all my life to tell me that my Aunt Sally is really my grandma. "

"Annabeth didn't talk about Percy, that's just not like the Annabeth we knew. " Alice cringed at the word "knew", because she still didn't know if her mother was to be knew, or known.

"How did you get to camp? "

"I don't really want to talk about it. You wouldn't believe me."

"Yes we would, believe me. " He smiled, like he'd heard that before.

"Wait, did you know my father?"

"Did I know him? He was my best friend. We went on like a million quests together." " He is a great guy, Alice. Or should I say god, now. " There was that g-word again. She still was way to confused to try and think it over.

"Do you know where he is?"

"He's in Atlantis, with his own father Poseidon. You know he went through the same thing you just did. Your mother missing, showing up at camp, us trying to explain things to him. But it was Annabeth who did it, when it was his turn. "

"Then can you explain to me what attacked me back there?"

"Sure, tell us your story and we can tell you the best we can. "

She began to tell them her entire story like they were the best of friends.

"Wow, I can't believe this. Oceanus had the courage to that after what Poseidon did to him during the war. He so powerful now, he got so powerful so fast. "

"You don't believe him do you? " She looked at the Grover guy like he was saying pigs could fly.

"Alice, of coarse. Don't you know that the Gods are as real as they were when the Greeks ruled."

"You're crazy. Oh, my God, you really think that guy wasn't crazy, you actually think this guy is real?"

"Oh my Gods, child. " Chiron corrected.

"Huh."

"You need to believe me child. "

"Ok, so say they are real, then where's my mom?"

"She was kidnapped, by a minion of Titan Oceanus. " " Probably, somewhere in the darkest park of the sea right now." "But I don't know why your father didn't try to save her already. "

"Maybe, if he heard what happened he could go and find her, you know he'd do anything to save her." Grover added.

"My mom said he saved her life a couple times." The men nodded and then the guy named Chiron began again.

"Grover why don't you show our new friend Alice around camp get her some ambrosia and maybe meet some other campers. I need to make some calls; Oh, and Grover meet me on the porch later I need to talk to you about something. "

"Alright, come on Alice I'll show you around. " Grover smiled and gestured her toward the porch door.

They walked through field she had just the night before, but now it was full of activity. There were campers everywhere, clad in orange "Camp Half-blood" t-shirts. They were playing volleyball. Walking and chatting, and some were taking an archery class. There was even a rock-wall, but it looked suspiciously like it had lava running down it.

"Over there is Archery, and that's the rock-wall, Oh and that's our swords arena."

"Swords arena?" What kinda camp has a swords arena?

"Yes, at Camp Half-blood we teach you to protect yourself against monsters, and such."

"Monsters and such, you mean like the people who attacked me?"

"Yeah. Just like that. " He smiled at her. "You know you remind me a lot of your dad."

"I do? People keep telling me that but I don't get it. "

"You face, your attitude, your rebel smile. I remember your mom you'd to never be able to say know to him when he smiled like that." Grover then looked out at the sea and chuckled. Alice smiled; she had always thought that her dad had been some guy who had just left because he didn't love her mom. But now she knew she was wrong. He'd left because he'd loved her.

"Alice lets get you some lunch and a t-shirt and go and meet some campers. "

"Ok, I am pretty hungry" Grover showed her down the large valley-like yard that was in front of the cabins.

"These are the cabins, one for each Olympian, the first twelve are the major gods. The ones on the east and west wings are the newly made cabins. Those are for the minor gods. "

"Which one do I sleep in? "

"That's what I've been trying to figure out."

"You see, your father doesn't have a cabin because he thought he wouldn't need one. Especially, because he became a god at such a young age. Well he didn't know about you yet. So you will be either in the Athena cabin or the Poseidon cabin. Your mother is a daughter is an Athena, and your father a son of Poseidon. Plus your father hasn't claimed you yet. I'm going to have to ask Chiron."

"He hasn't claimed me?"

"When you get to camp your parent needs to claim you. So that you can be in the right cabin and so you can do quests in their honor. "

"Oh, but you know who my parents are."

"That's what's confusing me. We can't just put you in the Hermes cabin, as un-determined. We could, I mean ever since we added the minor wings to the cabins there only been about one or two undetermined campers in there at one time. "

"Oh."

"Alice, don't worry your father will claim you soon. He's probably still trying to find your mother."

"He's, trying to save her?"

"As soon as she was kidnapped her and Poseidon should have known. Besides the Atlantics are his kingdom, given to him by his father."

Alice was very confused. These people had just told her, her father was an Olympian god, and that her mother was kidnapped by a serpent and she might never see her again.

Chapter 6: An un-expected visitor

Alice got up the next morning, and took a long shower. Chiron was still trying to figure out what cabin to put her in. Grover had nursed her wounds, she had a sprained wrist and a bunch of scratches on her legs and arms and long gash down the side of her neck. But with Grover's help, Chiron said she'd been in a better condition in a couple of days. They had gotten her some loner clothes, three camp half-blood t-shirts and a pair of shorts and a pair of jeans. Chiron was encouraging her to try some of the camp activities to occupy her mind away from her problems. She had even gone to crafts and made a bandana on a loom with some girls from the Aphrodite cabin. It was beautiful here, but she was still miserable.

She went out to her first Archery class that morning, and had realized it was totally fun! She spent awhile-shooting arrows calmly, until the instructor wanted them to practice deflecting objects with just arrows, a very hard task. He threw a rock, and she aimed her arrow hit the rock but instead of pushing the rock away from her, it changed coarse. It went soaring in the direction of the other campers, hitting a boy right in the shoulder. If they hadn't been wearing protective vests he would've been seriously injured. Not that he wasn't hurt anyway. Alice ran over franticly crused in ancient Greek, which she realized shed been doing a lot lately.

"Are you alright? I'm so, so sorry! Do you need some ice? Oh man, I'm such a stupid klutz."

She ran over to him, he was tall and muscularly built with a long, curly, dark auburn hair. He sure enough, had an arrow in the side of his armored vest, and he was bleeding through his orange t-shirt.

"No, no I'm fine. But next time try to aim a little to left when you're deflecting something that big. Then the arrow will have room to shift, so that will break the rock. "

"Wow, thanks for the tip. But seriously I need to get you some ice. " He smiled, and his deep blue eyes twinkled. " Hi, I'm Stephan. Yeah, and some thing like that would be nice. What's your name?"

"Alice, I'm new here, as you can see I need to improve my archery skills. Come on lets go see if Grover can help with your cut. " He smirked. "Yah, think I can't tell. " She helped him up, and walked him to the big house. After giving him some nectar and giving him a bandage for him shoulder, they went back out and he tried to teach her how deflect the rock, like she was suppose too.

------Later-----

"Now Alice, the most important part of deflecting the rock, is getting the position just right. " He stood behind her and held the bow and positioned it for her.

"Then, you need to configure the speed, count in your head: One, Two, Three, Four. Release!"

A perfect shoot, the arrow smashed into the rock, which deflected about a foot in the apposite direction. Stephan was a great teacher, and she didn't have a problem looking into his gorgeous deep blue eyes for guidance. He'd been teaching her all afternoon, she was finally getting the hang of it. He was so dreamy.

Suddenly, they heard the conch horn blow, and they raced to dinner. She got in line and sat at the guest table with Chiron and Grover and some of the instructors. But when she started to say something to Grover, Chiron interrupted:

"Oh, Alice can I speak to you aside for moment. "

"Sure Chiron. What is it?" He motioned her aside and they walk the short distance from the terrace to a volleyball pit with a tree beside it.

"There's someone here to see you. He wishes to speak to you at once. " Alice was confused, who would want to see her?

"He's over by the dock, waiting for you. But first Alice, please listen carefully, he's been through a lot lately and he needs someone to listen. "

"Um… alright but who would wants to see me?" Chiron smiled softly at that remark.

"Just go and speak to him Alice."

She obeyed and walked down to the docks. As she walked down the beach she say the figure standing on the dock. When she got closer, she could see his basic features. It was a man, he was muscular, and tall with hair as black as the night sky. She stepped up onto the platform leading to the dock, and the man turned. He looked at her with an intense expression and a pair of sparkling sea-green eyes. He was wearing a dark blue v-neck t-shirt, with a pair of sea green Bermuda shorts, and looked just like a surfer on his way to the beach.

She stepped forward slowly, but as she did he stepped forward to. Hesitantly she began to speak.

"Chiron said someone wanted to speak to me." He looked at her and started to smile.

"Are, you Alice? Seriously??" His tone sounded almost childish.

"Yes, why?"

"Because I always thought you'd look like Annabeth, but you look just like me." He chuckled slightly. Alice took a good look at him; to her surprise he was right. He had her green eyes, the same jet-black hair, and crooked smile and wild look in his eyes that had gotten her a reputation as a born rebel.

"Are, are you my father??" It was a strange question, but it just slipped off her tongue.

"Yeah, I guess, I guess, I am" He looked as puzzled as she was. "Yeah now, I'm kind of new to this so I don't really know if I'd make a good father. He looked at his hands like he was nervous.

"What do you think, that I'm not, I mean I've never actually had a Dad? And I don't know what you'll think of me." At that remark, he looked up and smiled, and she realized he looked just her mother had described him, same face, same attitude.

"You want my opinion?………. I think your just fine. " She felt almost happy, of what he thought of her. "But, what I really want to know is what happened at the cabin." Her expression changed, so did his, like he was holding back tears.

"You really want to know?" She had been dreading this moment. "Yes. I really do, and I want to do all that I can to help. "

"Well its kind of hard to explain, you'd have to see the place where it happened. "

"That can be arranged." She had forgotten that Grover had told her father was the god of Tidal waves, so of coarse he could probably just snap his fingers and be there. "But, how?"

"Well, because I decided to visit you in complete human form, we will need some kind of transportation." He thought for a second. "I have an idea, I think you're going to like it. But I wouldn't tell your mother if I were you. " He smiled, almost child-like.

"Follow me." He gestured her off the dock and she followed him back into camp. She followed him, and the way he walked it looked like he knew the camp like the back of his hand. They walked down to the foot of the terrace where she ate, where Grover was making his way down to the big house. As soon as we approached he stopped dead in his tracks, his hooves plated on the ground like his was trying not to faint. He looked like he'd a ghost.

"P-p-p-Percy? Is that you?"

"Who else do you think it is genius? " My father walked up to Grover and hugged him, in his own manly way, like he was greeting an old friend.

"Percy, I see you've met my new friend Alice."

"Yeah, well Chiron thought I should come down here and meet here myself, & meet her. "

"Alice, you tell me if this big fella, is giving you any trouble." He teased. " Hey yeah now, Grover did Chiron leave my motorcycle in the Pegasus's stables, all these years. "

"Yeah, he didn't dare touch it. And your Pegasus buddies guarded with their lives, from the Stoll boys. They had their eyes on that thing for years. "

"Where's Chiron then?"

"In the big house getting the music for the nymphs play for then sing along later. " He began to run down to the big house, and she followed. When they got there Chiron was walking down from the screen door.

"Wait Chiron…." Chiron looked up from the papers in his hand, and smiled.

"Percy, I'm glad you came. "

"Can I talk to about something?"

"Sure, Alice could you wait on the porch, for a second. " She watched as they the men walked into the house, with a sinking feeling in her stomach. She thought over the last 30 minutes, she'd met her father, and he had he'd to explain things to her, in a way. But it wasn't the way she had thought it would.