I landed in perfect unison with the Pegasus, and led her back to the stables. By now it was noon, I had gone to see a green house worker. I needed to see the plant that my mother grew fluently, roses. I felt reassured that my mother was still out there and I would see her again, and not be locked in this prison forever. I didn't like saying Camp Half Blood was a prison but it was keeping me from my family. Sure I had spent nights at Ashes house and I wasn't a horribly home sick kind of person, but I wondered how long I would be here.

I returned to find some campers had returned two kids from the Apollo cabin, a boy named Will Solace, and another named Ryanna Lynn. Will had a bandaged arm and a cut above his right eye, his eyes were glazed, while Ryanna helped him down the hill to camp. She had sadness in her eyes, I rushed to their aid. But they just glared at me like I was crazy, maybe I was, I wasn't sure of anything anymore. Phoenix came and helped them to the camp informatory.

I watched as Will's face lit up, his brown eyes smiled at his older brother. I rolled my eyes, this kid's worshiping a fake god. Ryanna sat down in a chair next to Will's bed and fell asleep shortly after. I sat on a cot next to Will's and asked him questions about this war with the Titan's.

"How many died?"

"I don't know, a lot." He looked down at his feet.

"When are the rest coming back?"

"I don't know not a lot of my siblings are alive still. Michael died we think, Ryanna's twin sister Rena died. A lot of us are missing." He stared at his sister for awhile and sighed. "What's your name?" I looked at him,

"Penelope Rondervin."

"Rodney tells me you're a daughter of Pan, that's cool, my friends obsessed with that guy." I laughed,

"Who's your friend?"

"Grover Underwood, he met Pan actually went on this quest about a year ago with this crazy kid named Percy Jackson."

"Did he say anything about him?"

"Nope he actually kept it to himself."

"Oh."

"Listen I'm pretty tired, it was really nice talking to you, hope you come and visit me again soon." He smiled at me, and I met his eyes. And got lost in them for a second. But shook my head,

"Sure thing." I got up and let Will sleep, it was quite weird how he got my heart pumping. I loved how his eyes lit up and how his smile was just a slight bit crooked. I went to find Rodney and found him joking with a nymph.

"Rodney, tell me a little bit about that Will."

"Will Solace? Oh the kids born to be a doctor, better then me at healing. And let me tell you something I'm pretty good at what I do."

"Really?"

"Would I tell you a lie kid?" I shook my head. He shooed me away when his little nymph girlfriend took his hand. I rolled my eyes and walked down to the beach, I loved coming here it helped me clear my head. What would become of me when I met the other campers, I was pretty nervous. Considering how I got along with other kids at my old school, I was guessing I wouldn't do so well here either. Nobody was a daughter of Pan, I assumed. I watched the waves come in and then recede. It was amazing how the ocean worked. Acting like a gust of wind, not caring about anything, I wished I could be part of the ocean never ending or beginning. I watched nyrads leap in and out of the water their tails shimmering in the sunlight.

Then one with legs of a human girl stepped out of the ocean she appeared to look about thirteen. She had black hair that looked like she was still under water, her sea green eyes caught me by surprise. She wore a Camp Half Blood t-shirt and had braces, she had on ripped jean shorts. But she wasn't dripping wet like she should be, she had just stepped out of the ocean! Her legs had thousands of blue scales on them. She tossed her black hair to the left. It stopped waving like it was underwater and landed nicely around her neck. She smiled and revealed pearly teeth.

"Hi." She said, "The name's Pearl."

"Pearl, as in like clams that poop them out."

"Yeah I wouldn't put in that example, but sure if you're talking smart mouth like you are. Listen are they back yet?"

"Who?" Pearl stared at me.

"Really?" She said sarcastically.

"I really have no idea who you're talking about."

"You know Chiron, centaur big guy beard, about 800 years old. Ring a bell?"

"No not really, first of all this is only my second day here and its not shaping out so nice."

"Well I'll make you a deal, call my name when Chiron comes back and I'll help you out, um some other time k?"

"Okay?" She saluted and jumped back into the ocean. "Weird." I got up and wiped the sand off my butt. Then went to find something to do. I walked over to the archery fields and saw Phoenix shooting a few flaming arrows into the targets, a good portion of them were in the middle or otherwise right near them. He looked up and saw me then took another arrow and shot.

"Hey Phoenix." I said, he grunted in reply then took another arrow and shot.

"Since your dad's like the sun god, who's your mom?"

"Why do you care?" He turned and looked at me; his blue eyes seemed to have anger engraved in them.

"Can't a girl wonder?"

"Sure you can, but what makes you think I'll tell you."

"Because it's not that big of a deal."

"Fine my mom's Hecate." He opened his palm and held a flaming ball within it.

"That's pretty cool, so why are you here? Apollo just decide you should stay here?"

"No it was my mother's decision, she thought I would be a good influence on my brother's and sister's, my Apollo siblings too."

"I see, do you like your siblings?"

"They don't really latch on to me why?" I lit his hand and put the fire to the point of the arrow and then shot it.

"I don't know it feels so weird that I'm siblingless here and back home I have my little brother."

"What's your little brother's name?"

"Jake, we look nothing alike, he's got a way darker skin pigment then me, and his eyes are black, and his hair's this weird auburn color."

"Sounds like a cute kid how old?"

"Ten."

"How old are you?"

"Sixteen."

"I'm about let's see…" He leaned on his bow his face was thoughtful, "six hundred and seventeen."

"Wow!"

"That's what I said." He lips curved upward. He shot another arrow and I realized he wasn't going to talk anymore then that. I sighed, a girl could get lost in conversation with the stuck up jerk. I walked over to Jupiter's tree. She wasn't too far away she was collecting leaves and putting them in a basket. I wanted to see how long it would be before she noticed me standing there. I waited and waited, then I just was about to walk away when she cried out.

"Oh my gods!" I ran to see she had dropped the basket and all the leaves had fallen out.

"What happened?"

"Well the darned chipmunk scared me and so I dropped my basket!" She stomped her little foot. I laughed, ah good ol's Juniper scared of chipmunks.

"Juniper why were you scared of a chipmunk?" I asked.

"Because they just are creepy, their so ug!" She began to pick up the leaves, I bent down and helped her. Juniper was angry could see it in her bright green eyes. She started to cry and the whites of her eyes turned green.

"Juniper what wrong?" I asked my voice was full of concern.

"I…I miss Grover! He said he would be back by now!" She yelped, and more tears ran down her cheeks.

"Grover? Was he in the war?"

"Yes, and I miss him so much."

"Why?"

"I'm his girlfriend." I put my arm around her small little neck and held her close.

"It's okay he's going to be back by tomorrow."

"What if he met some hot nymph while he was fighting?"

"Juniper listen, he's not going to, you'd have to be a fool to leave you for another girl, you're a pretty little nymph and even a god would be stupid to call you ugly."

"You think so?" She sobbed,

"Hon I know so." I let her sob into my oversized t-shirt and began to feel a bond becoming between me and Juniper. After she had cried for a few minutes I helped her finish cleaning up the leaves and then she started to stick them together to form a new little dress for her to wear. I pulled the sticky stuff out of it that Juniper called the chloroplast. And then would stick it to a leaf creating a skirt like structure. Around dinner time Juniper thanked me and hopped back into her tree. I was hungry I hadn't eaten anything since yesterday at lunch. I felt my stomach grumble I went off to find some food. I went to the camp store and discovered a two more campers. Two Hermes sons, Travis and Conner Stoll.

"Hello ma'lady." Conner said and winked his mischievous eyes were bright. Travis pushed him out of the way, and winked at me.

"Hi." He smiled and had a same victorious smile as his brother.

"Hey can I have a bottle of water and some fruit?"

"Ah vegan, ey, well here you go, that will be two drachma's."

"Um listen I don't exactly have the money…"

"Hmm, well Travis my idiot brother how should we make hottie goat girl pay up."

"I don't know Conner good question, I say she gives us a few kisses."

"Hmm, nah to much like a Aphrodite daughter," Their faces for a quick second were saddened, "how about she comes up with a good excuse to get her little vegan food?" Travis suggested, Conner smiled and laughed.

"Yes my brainiatic brother of mine, I like that idea."

"Ok toots, listen you convince us to give you your dinner and we'll give it to you, you don't well there's always Travis's suggestion." Conner gave an evil grin.

"Um well if you give me it I'll clean your beds for a week."

"Hmm, a month." Travis said.

"NO!"

"Then sorry no can do."

"Alright fine!" They smiled and handed over the food, and went on with the next customers order. The Stoll brothers, how nice of them to give me my hard earned food. I thought, and walked back out to the woods and laid down in the clearing and chugged my water thirstily. I thought about how today I had met four people, this war had been a nightmare I could tell. Will I could tell used to be a bright cheerful person, but now he was solemn and depressed. Ryanna looked like she had once been beautiful but her face was distorted and scratched.

The Stoll brothers yet mischievous and annoying, had at one time been a slight bit more playful. Not that they weren't now but it was annoying wondering what had happened to the fun loving atmosphere that had once been at this happy place. I heard a noise in the bushes and went to follow it then heard it again this time farther away, I kept listening I don't know why I followed it but something told me I should. I went until I came to a weird shaped clearing the grass in it was soft and smelled good, it was as if the air quality was better too.

In the middle of the clearing was a aura, she had auburn hair and chocolate brown eyes. She smiled at me,

"Hello young Penelope."

"Hi, what's up with the air in this place?"

"It is very clean and pure, I made this clearing to show you how the Earth once was."

"Well you have a odd way of showing it, because hundred feet of land isn't really gonna show me anything."

"Do you smell the fumes of our factory country?"

"No, why would I?"

"I'm going to show you something young Penelope that will become of our world if you don't follow what your father foretold." She closed her eyes and put her hand on my forehead, a coldness ripped through me. I gasped as a scene formed in my head. A skyline was in the distance, New York. The sky was red and smoke filled it, people lay on the ground coughing, I couldn't breathe and felt my throat closing up. Trees that had once lined the board walk were now shriveled and dead. Ashes flew through the air and I felt the world spinning. I screamed,

"Get me out of here! Get me out of here! Aura girl get me out of here!" She pulled back and looked at me the vision.

"Why did you show me that?" She didn't answer instead she said something else,

"Your father left you behind something. If something becomes of this something we will die, this is something the gods can't find."

"What's this "something"?"

"The last wild place in the world."

My throat burned and hot tears blended into my vision a sadness ripped through me.

"In the world?"