The darkness was, well, dark. No sound, no color, no light. That was until the sun rose, brightening up the dark sea. There was color now, and sounds; sounds I couldn't recognize. I think they were voices.

My eyes flickered open. I drew in a fast gasp, as if breathing for the first time. Curious eyes swam over me.

"Oh, thank the Gods!" Exclaimed Percy.

"What happened?" I asked trying to sit up.

But the pain of my broken bones shot up my spine and I fell back down into a lump.

"You need sleep. Do not try and sit up because it will cause severe pain. You've broken many bones."

I looked up at the owner of the voice I had heard so much in the past year.

"Mr. Brunner?"

"Yes and no." Mr. Brunner started. "I am Mr. Brunner, but that is not my correct name."

"Okay… So what is your real name, Mr. Brunner?"

"My name is Chiron, Activities Director and Trainer of Heroes."

"Activities Director of what?" I looked at him skeptically.

He had been kneeling beside my bed side in an off-white room. But when he stood up, what I saw surprised me. Mr. Brunner, or now known as Chiron, was half horse! From the waste down he had the body of a white stallion. His hooves were a black-brown color and his tail swished in the wind coming from the open window that looked out on a strawberry field.

"You were the horse I saw!" I shouted at him, not thinking before I spoke.

I guess that's what you get when you have ADHD.

He chuckled to himself.

"Yes, I guess you could say that, but I am not a horse, Luna. I am a centaur. I'm sure I taught you this in Latin?"

"Oh, yeah…" I said trying to remember all of his stories of the Greek myths.

"Well, as I was saying, I'm Activities Director of Camp Half-Blood."

I looked up at Percy; he was standing next to the bed with his arms crossed looking down at the floor. He looked down to me when he felt my piercing stare. I was good at that.

"Yes," He confessed. "This is the camp I was talking about this morning."

He looked back down to his shoes; studying the aglets on the laces.

"Okay… umm… I have a few questions?" I asked it like it was a question.

"Go ahead." Encouraged Mr. Brunner/Chiron.

"Okay," I tried to think of a good question to ask to answer most of my questions in one fowl swoop.

"Okay," I started again. "Why did you push me down the stairs, Percy?"

He looked at me again; his sea green eyes were outlined in red and he had a pained expression on his face.

"Look, Luna, I had too. If I didn't the Hydra would have gotten you."

He looked down again, shaking his head and sighing.

"The… Hydra? Like the big dragon thing with a ton of heads, Hydra?"

"Yes, Luna; that Hydra." Said Chiron.

"Okay… So, it's real?" I didn't believe any of this.

"Yes, all of it is real. Everything I have taught you this past year about Greek Mythology is real."

I looked at Percy again.

"Seriously?" I always believed Percy because he would never lie to me; or to anyone for that matter.

"Yeah, all of it."

That took a minute to soak in. But then I thought What does this have to do with me?

"Okay," I said, trying to be strong. "What does all of this have to do with me?"

"Well, now that you believe us, this should be the easy part." Said Chiron brightly.

Percy just scoffed next to me; his eyes still hidden.

"Okay, Luna, do you remember the stories of Perseus and Daedalus?"

"Yes." I said confidently. That was my best class.

"Well, you know how they were called demigods? They were half-human and half-God.

I nodded my head. Oh, crap, I guess my neck was broken too.

"Yes." I squeaked out.

"Well, you are a demigod too. One of your parents is mortal, one is a God."

Okay, this had gone too far. Even my best friend was in on the joke! What kind of sick game is this?

I started laughing which surprised them.

"Okay, guys." I managed between my laughter. "Jokes over."

"This is no joke, Luna." Said Chiron, his face was serious and his eyes looked like he held the world's past.

"Okay… So if you're seriously not joking, then what the heck does this have to do with me?"

"Like I said before, you're a demigod."

"Okay… Well, if one of my parents is a God, then who is it?"

"Well, Percy and I both had our speculations…"

"You mean you knew?" I asked Percy; rage boiling up inside of me like a volcano about to erupt.

"Yes, of course I knew." Said Percy. "It seriously wasn't that hard to figure out; all of the usual signs were there: ADHD, dyslexia."

I sighed. My best friend and Latin teacher new more about me then I knew myself.

"Okay," I started. "So who do you think is my parent?"

"Well, it's got to be one of the female Goddesses seeing as you already have your dad. My guess was Athena. Percy thought it might be Persephone. But then we came to the conclusion it was probably Demeter."

"Demeter?"

I knew her name, but I forgot what she did.

"Yes, Goddess of agriculture, nature, and the seasons."

"Oh, well, I guess that would explain the gardening gene my dad said I had."

"Yes, exactly." Smiled Chiron. "But we did want to try something before you were claimed, just to see if our guess was correct."

He galloped away and came back with a potted rose plant. He placed it on the side table and I looked it over.

"Umm… What am I supposed to do with this?" I questioned.

"Just focus on it, think of the seasons, and nature."

I focused on the plant. Its petals were a dark burgundy red and its stem was a brilliant green. It had no thorns on its stem, which I thought was weird, but I continued to focus. I thought of the seasons: Spring; how all of the flowers and plants seem to just magically know when to start growing again. And then it happened.

Just beside the one rose planted in the pot grew another smaller rose. Its petal were tightly bunched together as it rose now to the middle of the first rose. I kept concentrating. The rose now started to bloom, its petals even more brilliant in color to the first rose. I looked up at Chiron. But he wasn't looking at me. I glanced over to Percy; he wasn't looking at me either. They were both looking above my head.

I bent my neck as far as I could up until it started to ache. Above my head, shining with its very own light, was a flower; a sun flower actually. It had stunning yellow petals and the seeds were a very dark shade of brown in the middle of it.

I looked back to Percy.

"I so called it." He smiled at me.

"All hail, Luna Scenes," Said Chiron "Daughter of Demeter: Goddess of agriculture, nature, and the seasons.