Alrighty, well here is the next chapter! I know I left the last one as kind of a cliff hanger, sorry! But this chapter will introduce some more characters, some of my own, and others by submitters. I will also have some original characters mentioned and showing up. And based on the last chapter, you probably know who. Anyways, enjoy!

And I want to mention for people to keep the family members and friends of those who lost loved ones in the attack on 9/11, in their thoughts.

Disclaimer: I own only a few characters!

Chapter 3: My life, should not be this complicated.

Chance's P.O.V.

I stood stock still, as the campers were quiet. I didn't know what to do or what to say. I leaned over to Marina, "Did I do something wrong?" She shook her head.

"We haven't had a child of Zeus at camp in years. Heck the last one to be born was around 43 years ago."

"I'm not that old, am I?" Everyone looked to their left as a girl's voice broke the silence.

"Thalia!" Marina screeched and sprinted off the stage. That was the first time I had ever really seen her act so un professional. I was surprised with how much force Marina had when she went to hug Thalia, that they didn't fall over. I saw behind the two girls, a group of about 20 other girls. They were all wearing silver camouflage, some even had hawks on their shoulder, and there were a few wolves standing around.

People, mainly girls, got up to welcome the new comers.

"So this is my new little brother." Thalia got up on the stage, and I got a good look at her. She didn't look any older than 16. We looked eerily similar. She had the same deep black hair, and electric blue eyes that I had. The only real difference was the height. She came up, and, well, she hugged me. "I'm just glad to see that the Zeus cabin won't be empty." She smiled and glanced back at Marina, "well now you aren't the only 'Child of the big three anymore, huh Mari?" Marina glared at the nick name.

"Hardy har har, Pine Cone Face." Thalia glared.

"You are waaay to much like Seaweed Brain for your own good." Marina rolled her eyes. I was lost, while the other campers made their way back to their respective cabins.

"Talia!" Little Alice made her way through the other campers to where we stood by the now, fading fire. The girl jumped up into my sister's arms. Thalia smiled.

"Hi Alice. How are you? My goodness, you've gotten big in the past few months!" Alice smiled with pride at Thalia's recognition. "Thalia turned to the other girls who were standing around, "Girls, go to Artemis' cabin. The wolves and birds can stay there with you. Tonight I'm camping out with my little bro. Pheobe, you're in charge for the night." The girls turned and left. She held Alice as we all talked. After an hour or so of talking, little Alice fell asleep in Thalia's arms.

"She's asleep. Why don't I take her Thals." Marina whispered. "You and Chance can head off to Cabin 1, and I'll put her to bed. I'll see you guys in the morning." She took Alice out of her arms before she could protest, and Marina walked away with so much grace, I doubt that Alice would even stir.

"You like her, huh?" Thalia asked. I looked at her and blushed. "I figured. Marina is an amazing girl." She smiled in the direction of her friend. "I've known her since she was very little. She is really special. She doesn't like to show off. She just kinda does what she needs to, and does it her own way." Thalia kept looking in the direction that Marina had walked in. "Come on, let's go to bed." She got up, and led me to Cabin 1, in the base of the "u". She opened the door, and turned on the light. There were different beds, only 4, but they were all a bit different.

"The Architect of Olympus was lent to the camp, to rebuild some cabins, either to make room, renovate or to even create. I put in a special order to get this place re done." She walked to one side, the side right across from the door. "There used to be a HUGE, and I mean huge, statue of our good old dad here. Along with a fire place. They were the first to go." She smiled. "Of course, her first priority was a certain son of Poseidon's cabin, but I came second, for being her best friend."

"What?"

"Hahahahaha." She started to laugh. "I knew I would confuse you with that." She sat down on a bed that I now noticed, had a few pictures by them. "Marina told you about the war, and who Percy Jackson and all those people were. Well, during the war, and before, Annabeth and Percy were best friends. But before they met, Annabeth had three really close friends, Grover Underwood, a satyr who is out in the world right now, Luke Castellan, the hero, and me." I took a seat. "Did you see that really big tree at the top of Half Blood Hill?" I didn't respond. "The one with the dragon and the big golden blanket?" I nodded. "Well that was me. Long story, I'll tell it to ya later. Anyway, I met Percy Jackson 6 years later. He was my cousin, and eventually, a really good friend. At the end of the war, Percy created a pact for the Gods, and Annabeth was asked to be the Architect of Olympus. She designed half of Olympus, and a good amount of camp. She was an amazing architect. And I miss her like crazy." Thalia glanced at the pictures behind her. Some of them showed her, a boy with sandy blond hair, and a girl with blonde hair. They looked so familiar.

"Thalia?" She looked at me. "Who are those people?" She looked back at the pictures.

"The blonde boy is- was Luke Castellan. The girl was Annabeth Chase." She gave a sad smile and sighed. She had more pictures. She took them down and brought them over to me in a small stack. The first picture was of her, Annabeth and some black haired boy in the arena that I was shown today. "This is Annabeth, Percy Jackson and me." She smiled as if remembering the day. She continued to show me more pictures of them as kids, before she was a hunter, before the war. They were all amazing.

Thalia gave a final yawn. It was about 2 o'clock in the morning. "Well I'm going to bed. Breakfast is at 7. And I don't know about you, but I'm tired." She went back to her bed with the pictures, rolled over on her side and was instantly asleep.

It took me a few minutes to get comfortable, but with my mind cleared, I found sleep easy.

I woke to the sound of knocking at my door.

"Chance, Chance!" I rolled over to find Marina staring down at me. "You missed breakfast. Come on, it's time for sword training. And here," she tossed me a power bar. "Eat up, you'll need it. You're training with me today." She walked out the door.

I had no idea what I was going to wear, until I saw a pile of clothes on a spare bed. It was an orange tee shirt that read 'Camp Half Blood', and a pair of blue jeans. And there was a note.

Chance,

I figured you didn't have any clothes. I talked to some connections in the Hermes and Aphrodite cabin, and got some clothes for you. Hope they fit.

Marina

I smiled and pulled the clothes on. A perfect fit. I threw on the sneakers I came in, and headed out the door with the power bar in my mouth.

"Alright boys and girls. Welcome to your first sword fighting lesson." I walked up to a group of kids varying in age from 13 to well, 18. Marina was in the front of the group talking with Dan and Thalia behind her talking. "I know that some of you don't have your own weapon yet, but after this, you can come with me or go with a sibling to get you weapon from the forge." She looked around, spotted me and made eye contact for just enough time. "I want you guys to group up in pairs. Try and pick someone close to your age, and preferably your own gender." I seemed to be the only one without a partner. No one wanted to pair up with a big 3 kid on their first day, I guess.

"Hey." It was Marina. "I figured you would be by yourself. It's ok. Once a child of the big three is claimed, only experienced campers want to train with them. Especially a new one, cause they never know how to use their powers, which is why Thalia is here."

"So, I'm not sword fighting today?"

"No, you are. But with me. And I promise to not use my powers on you." She gave me a wicked smile. Her eyes analyzing my face. She handed me a sword. It felt wring in my hand, but I grabbed it any way.

"Alright every one. I am going to demonstrate a few moved with Thalia, Daughter of Zeus, Lieutenant of Artemis and Daniel Ozuna, Son of Apollo, and Head Healer here at camp. We're going to show you the basic jabs, defenses and even the disarming move. It's hard to master which is why we teach it so young, so you can master it and use it when the chance arises."

And then it began. I can't even explain what was going on. All three people were so well trained with their weapons. Thalia held a spear and a shield with a face on it that made me cringe every time I caught a glimpse of it. Dan had a sword and shield, nothing significant about either, other than the fact that he knew how to use it. And then Marina had two knifes. It was weird that unlike her counter parts that she didn't have a shield, but it was also weird that the knifes didn't match. One was solid bronze and looked a little older. Nothing significant, but it just didn't look as new as the other one. But man, did she know how to use them.

At one point, Dan brought down his sword, and Marina caught it in the hilt of her older knife, she kicked him in the stomach, and he went down. Thalia tried to jab Marina, but she deflected it just in time, only to hesitate for just a second at the sight of her opponent's shield. Thalia took that second to try another jab. She caught Marina's shoulder. Thalia smiled and kept attacking. Marina tried even harder against my half sister. The battle went on for what seemed like hours, until Marina got close enough to knock the spear out of Thalia's hand and kick it too far away to be reached.

Thalia went into defense mode blocking every strike Marina threw at her, until she made the fatal mistake of bringing the shield too far away from her body. Marina stepped in and had her knife at Thalia's throat. She smiled.

"I win again." The whole stadium erupted into applause and yells. Looked like the fight brought in a crowd. Both girls smiled and laughed. Marina pulled Thalia up from the ground.

"Hey, Marina!" A girl of about 13, maybe, ran in and through the crowd. Everyone had either left to go back to whatever they were originally doing, or started sparing. "Chiron is asking for you, he's on Iris message asking for you."

"Thank you Amy." The girl ran off.

"Well sorry about that. I gotta go and see what Chiron wants. It probably refers to us going up to Olympus. Why don't you go ask Thalia to help with the whole powers thing." She winked and ran off.

I watched her run. She ran with grace and power. She is reaaaaaaaaaaaaly hot.

"Watch the eyes, Lover boy."

"Uh, hey Sis."

"Why don't we go talk. And I'm not talking about the whole this is my past kinda, thing. Hades, I'm not even talking about this is how you electrocute someone without killing em. I wanna talk about you."

We were up the hill that I remembered running up when I first got here. I could see the road that lead for miles with nothing in sight. I followed Thalia as she sat down against a tree. She sighed in content as she leaned her head back in the shade. I relaxed against the tree. It provided so much comfort. I felt like I was supposed to be there, I felt safe. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw something glimmer in the light, it was golden. This was Thalia's tree.

"Yup, this thing was me." She didn't open her eyes. "Normally a dragon guards the tree, but I think that Argus took him somewhere for something. I don't bother to know any more. That's Marina's job." She let out a small laugh under her breath. She finally opened her eyes to meet mine. "Tell me about yourself. What's your story?"

I took a deep breath and started.

"For as long as I can remember, I had always seen weird things. I always saw a dog that was too big and scary. I always saw guys with one less eye. I always saw women with weird legs. My mom always said it was the trick of the light, or just my imagination. She was lying." I took another deep breath and stared at the road down the hill. "I noticed that she would get a look in her eye every time I would point it out. We started to move more when I got older. I kept moving schools. I didn't even bother to join clubs or teams because of it. I never asked my mom why. I didn't want to bother her with it." I could feel the tears come to my eyes. "She worked 3 jobs every year. So I never wanted to bother her with my problems. That was 3 years ago. 2 years ago, though we had an accident."

"What happened?"

"I wasn't really sure what it was, cause I was never told I was right, and that I wasn't crazy. And it doesn't help that the police and the firemen thought I was crazy. But I will stand by the fact that I could have sworn a giant dog attacked my house. And that when it came crushing through the wall, it hit the water heater." I stopped. "My mom was doing laundry. The dryer is, right. Next. To. The. Water. Heater."

"oh… Chance-"

"No one believed me. So I was put into the custody of Mason and Grace Church. That's where I've been the past few years." Thalia was silent. The tears were building up in my eyes, but I refused to let them fall over.

"I'm so sorry. My mom, wasn't really that great for me. I ran away when I was 10. I died when I was 12, and became a hunter after being a tree for 5 years. My mom died in a car crash." She seemed like she wasn't to sad, it was weird. "I've come to terms with it. My mom never loved me that much, and I have learned to love my life." We sat in silence.

"Hey, ummm…. I've been wanting to know what Marina's deal was." She took a deep sigh, and looked down towards the camp.

"She, well I don't really know how to explain it."

"Well, is she always so, so formal and business like? And is she in charge of the camp?"

"No. Actually Marina is one of the most fun loving people I know. She just, grew up too fast. She's dealt with a lot of shit. I know a lot of us do, but she just deals with it different ways." She paused. "She gets that from her mom. She fills her life with different things so that she doesn't notice how lonely she is. And Chiron, the camp activities director and Mr. D, the camp director, are both on Olympus for an emergency meeting."

"Because of me?" She nodded.

"They had to leave in a hurry. Marina has been here the longest and is one of the oldest campers, so naturally they left her in charge. They should be back any day soon now."

-After dinner-

It was a simple dinner, we had barbeque. I sat alone, Thalia needed to be with her hunters. I watched the campers interact with each other, each table acted so differently from the rest. It was interesting to watch.

"CHANCE STERLING!" A voice rang through the dining pavilion. Every stood up as a heavy set man walked through the crowd. "You are needed on Olympus. Pack your bags immeadiatly." The man with the read face and the leopard print shirt walked past me, to a long table.

"And welcome." I looked again to the entrance. There, stood a man with a horses body. He patted my shoulder and walked to the same table.

I felt another hand on my shoulder. It was Marina.

"Come on, we gotta go." She turned and left. I stood stunned as everyone continued eating. Thalia walked up to me.

"Go on. Go pack. Maybe you'll learn something about your little crush." She winked, and pushed me toward our cabin.

A.N. Sorry that it's a day late. My AP Environmental Science teacher is psycho and I needed to finish homework and a project!

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