In the demigod files on page 88 it says that the thing that Thalia wares is a tiara. It also says that she has bright blue eyes. It has been five days. I have been babysitting my siblings. It was hard. They never get along and never listen to me whether I am in charge or not. Anyway, Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own PJO or HOO, Rick Riordan does.

I was kind of depressed. I was thinking about my family. Not my new one but the old one that I left in New York City. I started thinking about it when I wok up this morning.

I walked out of my cabin to go to breakfast when Annabeth came up to me. "Thalia and the hunters are going to be here soon. I am so excited!" She sensed my mood and asked, "What's on your mind, Joyce? You seamed fine last night." Her face expression changed, "did you have any dreams?"

"No, I didn't have any dreams. Yes I was fine last night. As for what is on my mind, I was just thinking about my mom and sister. Do you know what the date is? I know that it is a Wednesday but that's it," I responded to Annabeth.

"Today is the ninth. You have been here for three days," Annabeth said.

"Oh," I said sadly. After a little silence, I continued, "It has been eight days sense my sister died. Annabeth, the police man told me that my sister died and that my mom was in the hospital. I didn't bother going to check on her," I said with tears rolling down my face. "I just assumed that she would die too. I ran away that night. I ran to my house and then I ran to where I thought no one would find me, the forest."

Annabeth stepped forward and hugged me. Sometimes I forget that Annabeth is five years older than me. I cried into her shoulder until a girl with black spiky hair with a silver tiara. She also had bright blue eyes.

I still hadn't seen her and was still crying into Annabeth's shoulder when she came over to us. "Annabeth!" she shouted.

I lifted my head and looked at the girl that was coming up to us from behind Annabeth. Annabeth turned and jumped for joy. "Thals!" she hugged the other girl.

"Who's this?" the girl, 'Thals' asked.

"Oh," Annabeth said, "this is Joyce. Joyce this is Thalia."

I wiped the rest of my tears and sadly Thalia noticed. "What's up, Joyce? You seem down."

"Oh, not much. I was just thinking," I told her. I could tell that she knew it was more about what I was thinking of, but she let it go.

We started to make conversation as we walked to the pavilion to eat. "How long have you been here?" Thalia asked.

"Um," I said. "Today is my fourth day at camp."

"Wow, that's not that long. Has anything exciting happened during your time here? Something almost always happens," she asked.

"Negatively or positively? I will go with positive first. Annabeth and the rest of my new friends are playing a game by guessing who my godly parent is. Percy lost already and that leads to the negative excitement. Percy wanted to guess that I was the daughter of Poseidon but when we were canoeing on Monday I tried to tell him that I could not swim. I went with them because Percy is the son of Poseidon so he could help me, one thing lead to another and I almost drowning."

"Well," Thalia said, "that game of yours is going to be hard."

"With her being so much like a lot of the gods, the game is very hard," Annabeth confirmed.

We started walking to the archery range because I wanted to do something while we talked. Thalia was fine with it. Annabeth was good and Thalia didn't miss once. She looked board.

"I need a moving target!" she exclaimed. "I am going to die of boredom."

I wanted to throw my bow so badly. I kept missing the target. I am better with the bow and arrows than with a dagger or sword, but I am still bad with the bow and arrows. Looking over at the board Thalia, I got an idea. "Thalia, will you help me?"

Thalia looked over at me, "yah, sure. I was getting tired of shooting the target and I guess you could use some help," she said.

By the time we decided to do something else I was hitting the target 50% of the time. When I started I was hitting the target 20% of the time.

"Hey guys, I forgot to tell you, but there is a capture the flag game on Saturday!" Annabeth said excitedly. "Chiron and Mr.D are trying to even the teams out because 13 hunters against just over 200 demigods would not be fair."

"200?" Thalia asked. "There are only about 100 here."

"Oh. The Romans had informed us that they were coming about half a day before you Iris Message," Annabeth said. "We are not going agents the tradition. The hunters vs. the Greeks. Only the Romans are being split."

"The Romans are coming? Hum, I didn't see that one coming," Thalia said as we walked around camp aimlessly. "Hay, guys? Can we go to my tree to hang out? It will be fun and peaceful, unless a monster comes up to the borderline. If that happens, we can enjoy ourselves by killing it together. We can also-"

"Whoa," Annabeth interrupted. "Joyce and I never disagreed with you, Thals."

"Come on, then," I said. From there we had a race to Thalia's Pine. I almost won, but Annabeth and Thalia tied and I was a second behind them.

"Are you sure," Thalia said, out of breath, "that it is only," she took another breath, "your fourth day here? You are almost as fast as Anna and me."

"And I," Annabeth corrected.

"Yah," I replied. "My coach always makes my team and I run around the track four times before we started practice."

"Practice for what? Were you a track runner or something?" Thalia asked.

"Actually," I said, "I was a cheerleader."

We sat in a kind of triangle-like-circle thing until lunch. Nothing was different at the Hermes table. They all teased me about the decision to eat healthy, and Travis, Conner and I continued planning the prank.

Thalia and Annabeth were already at Thalia's Pine when I go there. We continued from where we left off before lunch.

Later I thought I saw something that was far away but coming our way. "Hay guys? What is that?" I pointed behind them.

They turned and Annabeth stood up and said, with a smile, "Those are the Romans. Come on you guys. Let's go welcome our friends."