Soo...

I seriously love updating. That's why it's been happening so much.

GAH! UPDATING! I LOVE IT!

Anywho, I'm trying to make it a goal to update AT LEAST twice a week. And so far, I have completely overachieved my goal!

Win.

Repeat of the repeats: Dialogue and characters belong to you-know-who. (Not Voldemort. The other guy)

Seriously, if you don't know who the other guy is, just look at the past five chapters or so. Man, you're slow.

I guided her around the area between the cabins, pointing out all of the different ones.

As we passed by Cabin Eight, Piper stopped.

"Artemis?" she asked.

I was a bit surprised.

"You know Greek mythology," I said, more as a statement.

Piper nodded. "I did some reading when my dad was working on a project last year."

Wait…

"I thought he did Cherokee art," I pointed out.

Piper looked stunned. "Oh, right. But—you know, he does other stuff too."

McLean, Greek mythology…why did that sound familiar?

I pretended not to notice.

"Anyway," I continued, "Artemis is goddess of the moon, goddess of hunting. But no campers. Artemis was an eternal maiden, so she doesn't have any kids."

"Oh." Piper looked a bit sad.

"Well, there are the Hunters of Artemis," I said. "They visit sometimes. They're not the children of Artemis, but they're her handmaidens—this band of immortal teenage girls who adventure together and hunt monsters and stuff."

Piper looked curious. "That sounds cool. They get to be immortal?"

"Unless they die in combat, or break their vows. Did I mention they have to swear off boys? No dating—ever. For eternity."

"Oh, never mind," Piper said quickly.

I laughed. I remembered the time I was actually considering becoming a Huntress. That was before I realized that I liked Percy…when he saved me.

I shook off the thought.

We passed cabin Number Ten.

"Gah, is that where supermodels go to die?" Piper gagged.

I cracked a smile. "Aphrodite's cabin. Goddess of love. Drew is the head counselor."

"Figures," Piper grumbled.

"They're not all bad," I said, remembering Selina. "The last head counselor we had was great."

"What happened to her?" Piper asked.

I frowned. "We should keep moving."

I showed her the rest of the cabins, thinking about which cabin she would belong in.

Piper was a complete mystery to me. She was so difficult to read, but then she seemed really open other times. But then she snapped shut when someone got close to her.

I decided to change the subject.

"We started with the twelve Olympian gods," I said, taking my mind off of things. "Male gods on the left, female on the right. Then last year, we added a whole bunch of new cabins for the other gods who didn't have thrones on Olympus—Hecate, Hades, Iris—"

"What are the two big ones on the end?" Piper asked.

I scowled at the cabins. "Zeus and Hera. King and queen of the gods."

Piper strode towards them and I followed cautiously in her wake.

"Are they empty?" Piper asked.

I nodded. "Zeus went a long time without having any children. Well, mostly. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades, the eldest brothers among the gods—they're called the Big Three. Their kids are really powerful, really dangerous. For the last seventy years or so, they tried to avoid having demigod children."

"Tried to avoid it?"

"Sometimes they…um, cheated. I've got a friend, Thalia Grace, who's the daughter of Zeus. But she gave up camp life and became a Hunter of Artemis. My boyfriend, Percy, he's a son of Poseidon. And there's a kid who shows up sometimes, Nico—son of Hades. Except for them there are no demigod children of the Big Three gods. At least, not that we know of."

"And Hera?" Piper asked, glancing at her cabin, an uneasy look crossing her face.

"Goddess of marriage," I said, thinking ahead to choose my words carefully. "She doesn't have kids with anyone but Zeus. So, yeah, no demigods. The cabin's just honorary."

"You don't like her," Piper noticed.

"We…have a long history," I said cautiously. "I thought we'd made peace, but when Percy disappeared…I got this weird dream vision from her."

"Telling you to come get us," Piper said. "But you thought Percy would be there."

I sighed. "It's probably better I don't talk about it. I've got nothing good to say about Hera right now"

Piper looked at the cabin again, studying the doors. "So who goes in here?"

"No one. The cabin is just honorary, like I said. No one goes in."

"Someone does." Piper pointed at a footprint on the dusty threshold. She reached forward and pushed the doors open.

My heart leapt and I stepped back. A horrible, cold feeling washed over me. "Um, Piper, I don't think we should—"

"We're supposed to do dangerous stuff, right?" And Piper strode inside.

Two chapters today! Just like yesterday!

I think one of the reasons why I'm updating so much (besides me just loving it) is because it freaking bothers me when authors don't update all the time!

ESPECIALLY when they leave it on a cliffhanger.

ESPE. CIAL. LY.

So, I'm trying hard not to do that. Hence the updating goal that I have.

And I just love it.

I know this chapter is a lot shorter than the past four, but I still have homework.

mehhomework.

OKAY BYE.