Four steps.
As usual when I wake up at camp, I pulled out my phone and schedule. I saw it was two twenty three and almost looked at my schedule. I knew I wouldn't be able to go back to sleep until the next night, so I got up and left the cabin. I didn't know about the harpies though. In reaction to hearing the water, I walked to it.
A few times I heard harpies talking to each other, but I didn't worry about it. When I got to the beach I laid down in the sand and thought about the dream. 'How is it that he can control dreams? I thought he was lord of time, not lord of dreams.' I thought about that for an hour then I thought about why my spear was there 'Why was that in the underworld? And why had Thalia found it in the forest? Were the Laistrygonians trying to hide it for some reason?' I decided not to carry on with those thoughts.
Instead I was about to think of how Thalia acted earlier, but I didn't get a chance because I heard harpies coming toward me.
(A/N: What did one harpy ask the other?) "Where do you think he went?" One harpy asked the other.
"I thought I saw him go down here." The other said.
I stood and asked, "Who are you looking for?"
They looked at me and said, "Get him!"
Instincts took over and I ran through the sand close to the water. Almost to the end I realized my foot was getting shocked, and I started hopping while running until I noticed it didn't hurt. I looked back to see if they were trying to zap me, but they were just flying fast toward me. So I looked back down and saw it was coming from me. 'Am I still dreaming? Then I thought again, 'Why would I dream about being chased by harpies?'
Then I remembered Chiron, "I think the two of you are Zeus's children." I got a devilish grin and an idea, but I figured I would give the harpies a chance and wait until the end of the beach. By then I suppose the harpies had alarmed the camp that I was a refugee and everyone was following the two of us.
When we finally reached the end I was ready and so was everyone else. The campers had javelins, bows and arrows, and all kinds of weapons ready.
As everyone closed in on me I just stood there, waiting. When the important people came, Chiron, Mr. D, Ariadne, and Thalia, I decided it was time. I took a deep breath and held both my hands in front of me.
First I felt an overwhelming urge to stop, but I knew I had to show everybody who I was. Second I heard a voice say, "I claim you." And I figured it was my dad. I didn't know if they heard him or not, but they all gasped. Third was the coolest, a huge thunderbolt hit in the middle of the ring that had formed out of campers and other things. Fourth was probably the worst, I collapsed.
Now do you get it? Half blood prince. Half blood obviously meaning a half blood. Prince meaning son of the king of all gods. If you still don't get it, then how did you get this far in the story?