Anyway before I start on the chapter, I want to thank TheHolyMango for their nice comment. I'll try not to give up on this story!

I stood above the body that used to be my mom. Her legs were twisted and her arms pointed in the wrong direction. Her head was cracked and bleeding.

"Who-who did this?"

Tears welled up in my eyes. I was not going to the orphanage. No. I turned and ran, running straight back to Sam's house. I barreled through the door and crashed into him.

"Oof! Get off me!"

I couldn't keep it in anymore, and started crying uncontrollably, tears rolling down my face.

"My-my mom's d-dead!" I sobbed.

He stood beside me, trying to comfort me. Then he stood up.

"I need to take you somewhere." He said.

I looked up at him suspiciously.

"Where?"

"To a camp."

A camp? My mind sped at a million miles an hour. Why would he want to take to a summer camp, of all places? I didn't have time to ponder on this, though, as the door suddenly came down. I screamed and stumbled back. In its place was a swarm of… chickens? No wait, they had human heads.

"Harpies!? Oh Styx..." Sam mumbled.

Thunder boomed, but I didn't pay that much attention because of the chicken-woman in front of me.

"Go to the back exit!" He screamed.

I took off running and sped through the kitchen, into the backyard. I faintly saw Sam next to me, yelling at me to run harder. My feet seemed to think on its own and I ran faster than ever. We reached a hill with white signs saying: 'PICK YOUR OWN STRABERRIES!' and stuff like that. We ran through the waist high grass, but just as we were halfway-

"Ouch!"

I looked back and saw Sam had tripped, and taken off his pants. I know, you're probably thinking, WHAT?! But when he took it off, it revealed two shaggy legs, and two hooves attached to it.

"AHH! DONKEY!"

I guess I overreacted a little.

"Bla-ha-ha. I'm half goat!"

I just gaped until he got attacked by the… Hippies! Wait no… Harries? Now that doesn't make sense…

"Help!"

I shook myself out of my daze.

"How do I kill them?" I yelled.

"Celestial bronze!"

What is celestial bronze? I looked around and my eyes rested on a bronze sword on the ground. I picked it up, and being the reckless person I was, I charged at the… Hammies? Why can't I remember their names!

I dodged the largest one and brought the sword down onto her neck. It disintegrated into golden dust. Unluckily for me, I accidently got some in my mouth and immediately coughed.

"Great." I muttered.

Then I struck at the next one, but it ducked and clawed my face. I worked through the pain and rolled underneath the second… thing and shoved the sword into its stomach. Like the last one, it disintegrated. I charged at the last one, who was really slow and didn't react even when I struck the sword into its neck. It wailed painfully and disappeared with its other friends. I stood up, panting. Sam was lying on the ground, all clawed and bloody. His arm was bent at the wrong angle. It reminded me of my mom. I nearly burst into tears and ran to him.

"No, don't die on me, you're my best friend!" I whispered.

Through my tears I looked to my right and saw a valley with a big blue house. I dragged my unconscious half-donkey boy across the grass where I collapsed exhausted on the front porch. A boy with sea-green eyes and unruly black hair hovered above me.

"Chiron! We've got a new camper."

He smiled at me warmly.

"What's your name?"

"I'm Halley Johnson. What's yours?"

"I'm Percy Jackson."

Okay, in this story Percy is 14. He completed 3 quests and 14 was the age in the prophecy. Annabeth is also 14 but doesn't have feelings for Percy, and Percy doesn't like Annabeth. They are still best friends, though.