A/N UGH! I am so sorry I didn't get to post over the weekend. (or the week for that matter) I had nothing to do this weekend and I was like, YAY! I can typed a whole lot because I am really enjoying this. My parents encourage my writing but they banned me from the computer. I had a book I have been waiting to read so I read that and another book too but I never stopped thinking about this story. But I just couldn't get on, ALL WEEK! Anyway…That's my pathetic excuse for not updating and I blame my parents entirely. Now let's move on, shall we?

Louise

I am terribly sorry you had to listen to those two rants on and on about how annoying each other were for so long. I mean, no one wants to be in the same room with them for so long as two minutes. It's unhealthy! But let's get started on how they ended up coming into camp. Now on this one, I can't help but blame you Liz. You brought it upon yourself and no one will forget it.

I was just sitting in camp, lounging around because today was my day off thank you very much. It was the start of the Summer Season when school let out and the Summer Campers began to come back. I was one of these people. The first day back was always the best. I'd already set up my stuff for the third time in my cabin. Third year and I was still trying to figure everyone out here.

Camp Half-Blood. Home to many kids, Summer Camp to even more. What else can I say about it? Well, as far as I knew at that point everything was perfectly normal at camp. Nothing different had happened except for the fact that Seth, the Apollo cabin leader, decided to take a trip into the city and wasn't back yet. It was pretty close to dinner at that point which meant it was eight o'clock give or take a few minutes.

At that time I was laying in the grass at the bottom of Half-Blood Hill listening to my Festus-Pod 7-60. The kids from cabin nine were experimenting again and I don't mean to brag but I was able to grab a proto type before anyone else at camp could get their hands on one. It has this cool holographic touch screen with pictures projected out onto the nearest flat surface.

But again, that is beside the point. I guess being stuck out here gives us nothing better to do then tell about what happened and how we actually came to be out here. Might as well put in every detail of our story.

So there I was, I won't get into details but I was just sitting there listening to music when I looked over to the top of the hill and saw the ever annoying, jerk faced Alec looking entirely pissed off carrying a girl from around the waist across the border. This girl was probably doing the exact thing any sensible person would do: kick, yell, curse, punch. I gave her props on that, but she probably just created a big scene she could have avoided.

Once the two of them, or well, Alec, walked across the border a good couple of yards, Alec set the girl down not very gently. Actually he dropped her harshly and started to walk away. I knit my eyebrows together. This girl was probably just some other girl Alec had decided to pick up somewhere.

I shrugged and didn't stay and watch at Alec get yelled at. That was pretty common around here. I was late for dinner anyway, I needed to get going. Seth still wasn't back which meant Charlotte would be taking on the cabin leader position for now. I don't she really liked me despite our sibling bond so this probably wasn't a good thing for me.

I ran to the cabins. The circle of cabins that formed a traditional Greek Ω faced ahead of me towards the South of camp. Two cabins that looked the most like something pulled from Greek Mythology stood at the top of the circle. Zeus and Hera had their cabins set up mostly for ceremonial and respectful reasons. Zeus has actually done oddly well with restraining kid production. Sense the war twenty-five years ago, the Big Three pact was officially lifted and Zeus, Poseidon and Hades were technically aloud to have as many kids as they wanted again. Well, that's what I heard. Zeus has had two kids and they're twins. From what the old stories told me, I would have suspected more. Hera didn't have children. She just had a cabin because she'd be mad if she didn't.

From those cabins on, the others flared out. Male gods on one side, female on the other. The ends flailed out which held the now empty minor god cabins. I didn't know why they were empty and when I asked, no one told me. They just stood there with a grim look on their face as if remembering something terrible then walked away. I soon figured out it was a topic that was avoided and I had only been here about twelve hours.

My cabin was fourth down from the left. That's right, Cabin 7, Apollo the god of the sun and anything musical. The cabin itself gave off light all on its own. It looked like a traditional cabin but glistening gold. Music notes were engraved along the sides and through the doors of the cabin. The porch was neatly cluttered with musical instruments and wooden lawn chairs.

Out front of the cabin, my siblings were lining up, all were quiet. Charlotte was standing with her arms crossed waiting for apparently not only me, which was an enormous relief. I filed in next to Tracy, my half sister that was a year younger than me. She had also come back from school and had no idea what was going on at camp.

The usual loud and obnoxious Hermes cabin was being led towards the dining pavilion by—my heart skipped a beat—Dante Daniels, the Hermes cabin co-cabin leader. The fact that he was leading the cabin instead of Katherine Jones—who was nowhere to be found—was now the reason my heart skipped a beat. I've had a stupid crush on him sense the day I set foot in this place. He was two years older than me but that didn't stop me from crushing. He was tall and had dark hair like every other Hermes kid. He had bright blue eyes that gleamed slyly.

Tracy nudged me in the ribs and I ripped my wistful gaze away from Dante. "What?" I asked abruptly breaking the silence in our cabin cluster. She just smiled and rolled her eyes. Charlotte moved the cabin out and we were off to dinner.

The Mess Hall was chaos.

To me this meant that the truth was going to come out. Whatever was happening around camp was going to be talked about tonight. The reason why some cabins are empty, the missing Kat Jones and two other half-bloods and the absents of Mr. D. Chiron was standing at the front table alone rubbing his temples as the kids around the hall argued with each other about this and that and all pointing at the same girl. She was sitting next to Chiron with her arms crossed and not a very happy expression on her face. I understood what the commotion was about. This girl looked a lot like Kat Jones, but why people were freaking out so much about it, I had no idea. She muttered something under her breath and Chiron nodded.

Before he could stand and say something though, Emma Winters from cabin five stood up on her table and yelled, "Hey! Shut up!" at the top of her lounges with such force everyone grew silent. Satisfied, Emma sat back down. I always knew her as a quiet girl but she looked really mad right now. Or annoyed. Or just plain out bored. It was hard to tell with children of Ares. She blew her long blonde hair out of her face as Chiron stood.

"Thank you Emma," he said lightly. Emma nodded and leaned her elbows on her table. "First off, welcome back to Camp Half-Blood all who have recently arrived. Also, I would like to welcome Lizzie Murray," he said her name as if clarifying a confusing matter, which he was, "she came here this afternoon. The Hermes cabin will welcome her with open arms I presume," his eyebrows shot up questioningly at the Hermes table.

A soft, half-hearted murmur of welcome came from that table. Chiron gestured for Lizzie to go to that table and she lightly nodded and slowly made her way over to the table where she sat down right next to Dante. I felt my ears go slightly red.

Someone cleared their throat loudly from the Aphrodite table. Chiron slowly turned his head to them but the question was out before he could react. "Francis?" a young daughter of the love goddess asked. Then two other names were brought up. Jack and Kat, from two other tables. Dozens of other names were said that I knew were from the cabins that now sat empty at the end of the circle of cabins. My heart beat faster as the secret reason why the camp has been so quiet was so close to being revealed.

Chiron sighed and I listened as about two dozen people held their breath to be able to listen to every single detail when Chiron revealed the truth. I, and Tracy, was both ones to do this. I saw Liz. She was looking around the Hall just looking while everyone else's eyes were on Chiron. She slowly got the picture and did so also.

"As many of you know," Chiron said looking down and placing his hands on the table. "Our camp was attacked only a week ago. We still have failed to know what—or whom—has attacked us. For the ones who do not know, every child of a god that is not one of the Olympians, have disappeared along with three others. Though this attack was nearly harmless and damaged nothing and no one was hurt, nearly a hundred campers have been kidnapped against their will or willingly have chosen the path of the attackers."

"Kronos?" another one word question, this time from cabin 9. Thunder shook the pavilion.

"No," a girl from the Aphrodite table stood up. The cabin leader, Eve Jameson, stood up to speak. She was shaking, probably still shaken from the other night or whenever this happened. "This threat has got to be different. None of us," she said irritably gesturing everyone in the pavilion "got kidnapped. It's obvious, don't you see it? Everyone who has been unclaimed and stuck in the Hermes cabin is gone. Every single minor god's children have been taken and now, three of ours truly have been abducted. I wouldn't be surprised if a ransom note was stuck to Thalia's pine."

She folded her arms and sat back down as if we all understood what her point was. She rolled her eyes just as Zac Ross son of Athena stood up. "We're not jumping to conclusions, Eve," he spat. "There are dozens of possibilities for the reason why this happened and for who is to blame."

"Oh, hun," Eve said with a laugh. "You're just upset because your girlfriend was taken away from you. So sad isn't it?" she was specifically talking to her half sister Lena Matchers who nodded with her perfectly tanned and makeup covered face . Both of them had that long blonde hair and light blue eyes. They seemed so innocent but everyone knew they were just evil cheerleaders that ruined the school. Notice I'm using High School terms because it's still probably hard to process everything that is happening. Why not make it simple?

Zac seemed ready to pounce at Eve and the Mess Hall was starting to erupt with loud talking again but Chiron put his foot down, literally. "Enough!" he yelled and once again the Hall was silent. "We have sent out four people, none more and none less who have volunteered gradually to question and search for our friends."

"There are millions of kids in this country," an older boy from cabin four said in his thick English accent. "how are we supposed to pick out our hundred?"

"We can't," Lena said with a shrug. She smirked lightly but just enough for it to be seen before she let it disappear.

"You keep your mouth shut!" someone called abruptly and full of defensiveness. Tracy gasped next to me. "What?" I whispered softly.

"I only speak the truth! Get it through your thick skulls. Now stop the yelling. It will keep my head rattling all night and then how would I be able to sleep."

"There seems to be nothing in there that can rattle."

Lena narrowed her eyes at that one person who had been calling out at her. I turned my head in the direction hers was facing and saw that it was Lizzie. She had her eyes narrowed across the room, glaring daggers right at Lena and Eve.

"I wouldn't talk like that if I were you, new girl," Eve warned with no enthusiasm at all while looking at her nails.

Liz was about to stand up but Dante put a hand on her shoulder keeping her from getting her eyes clawed out by Eve or Lena.

"That is enough!" Chiron yelled again, but no one was listening.

People continuously yelled across the hall at each other fighting and arguing about the pointless things. Eve and Lena slipped out of the Hall just in time for me to just catch a glimpse of their designer shoes escaping towards the cabins. I sat there with my head buried in my hands thinking hard through all the yelling and arguing. Some first day this has been.

A/N HAHA! I did it! It was a long chapter too that you guys deserved. Again, I'm soooo sorry that I didn't post. UGH! I feel so bad! (this may happen often, I say I will post a lot then don't get to. My parents don't understand how important it is for me to stick to a schedule. ANYWAY… PLEASE REVIEW! I would love it guys! (: