The next morning, Sophie woke up in her bunk in the Athena cabin. Then, she promptly groaned. It wasn't like she didn't like it here but, she did call this place camp crazy for a reason.

Unfortunately for her, her bunk mate Delilah had heard and, called from beneath her. "Are you ok," then after a worried pause, "you aren't sick are you?"

Sophie rolled over in her bed, the sheets becoming a tangled mess, "I'm not sick, just tired."

From the other side of the room Malcolm called, "Maybe you should try some coffee."

Sophie rolled her eyes, Malcolm was famous in the cabin for being a coffee addict. "Do you want me to have a sugar rush?"

"At least you're awake." After that, a small sleepy hush fell over the cabin as, its member tried desperately to get one more minuet of shut eye.

Just when Sophie was about to drift off again, she was shaken awake by Annabeth while being told "Common, even Zombies need breakfast." Sophie had to agree. In her opinion, food always tasted better when you weren't the one cooking it.

After an uneventful breakfast, Sophie and the rest of her cabin trooped over to the big house where, they were going to have their mythology class, which, Sophie had just yesterday been nominated to be the co teacher along with Annabeth due to "Knowing more than nearly anyone about our family history" As Malcolm had put it.

"What's the topic today" asked Sophie, as she eyed her cabin and the Hermes campers who, had decided to "join in on the fun" as Travis had jokingly put it. He fooled no one. Everyone knew that he and his cabin were there for the sole purpose to annoy "Cabin kill joy" (well, all except Chris, who had gone un-cabin-like seriousness due to his involvement in both sides in the Titan war.)

"May I suggest something?" Asked Connor, who was currently hanging upside down on an old arm chair by the fire place that, now didn't even hold ashes.

"What?" Sophie was reminded painfully of her sisters.

"How about Sisyphus?" The old hero was a favorite story among the Hermes cabin.

"You just want to learn about him because, he tricked death."

"Twice!"

Malcolm scoffed "You ask to learn about him every time we have Greek mythology together, you know his story better than us."

"Then what are we going to learn, the birth of your mom?" Even if it was obviously meant as a joke, the Athena camper's eyes lit up, this being a favorite story of theirs.

It was Annabeth who told the story. "Right after the first Titan war," most of the room shivered "Zeus took Metis, the goddess of good council,"

Is there someone in charge of bad council?" A random Hermes camper asked. She was shushed.

"as a wife. For a little while the couple was happy but, Zeus got a message from the Oracle that, Metis, would have a child that would be more powerful than him.

Since he over through his father and, his father over through his father, he was understandably paranoid. To get rid of the threat, he swallowed Metis whole." Sophie was reminded of when the other original six Olympians minus Zeus got swallowed by their father.

Athena grew up in her father's head, and, when she grew up, Zeus got such a pain in his head that, he ordered a stunned Hephaestus to chop open his head with his ax. Hephaestus obliged and, out came Athena."

In the silence that followed Sophie asked her questions, "Why did Zeus get such a terrible headache anyway?" Even though her dreams had crept back on her during the course of the day, she wondered what everyone else thought.

This time, it was Malcolm that answered. "Metis made her daughter's armor out of her essence. That gave Zeus a headache.

"By the time that Athena was ready, why did it hurt, the armor forging was over?" Having just remembered the spikes, a ghost of a smile was on her lips.

"Don't know, that was never mentioned." For the first time, the Athena cabin didn't know something about the subject they excelled in.

"I have another one, why did Metis stay behind anyways? I'm sure that she had enough time to escape along with her daughter."

Annabeth perked up, happy she could answer some question that she knew something about. "There is a theory about that. What probably happened was that, Metis pored all of her essence into Athena's armor so, she faded."

"Wouldn't it be hard for her to fade, I'm sure good judgment still exists somewhere in the world. "

"Like not questioning our family history, it just gives you a headache." Travis was indeed getting one.

Ignoring him, Annabeth continued. "The other theory is that Metis had a boy and a girl and, she stayed behind to keep the boy out of trouble."

Just then, thunder rolled through the camp, Zeus was obviously not happy by the subject. Sarcastically, Sophie wondered why.

….Third person pov…

Up on Olympus, Athena was pacing the throne room, hoping that her counterpart would be quiet. Her father was known for his temper and, even if Athena was his favorite child, she knew that his patience was wearing thin fast.

Sorry for the wait, summer homework hates me.

As far as I know, Athena never had two full sisters in the myth that along with the theory of her having a brother was made up by me.

I put this chapter in here to show what the campers think of the myth of Athena's birth, and because I'm currently suffering from a bad case of writers block.