Author's Notes: Same as Chapter 10.
The next two months went by fast. Arista and I had made up and she became one of my best friends at camp, after Cathleen and Jeremy.
The rest of the group had split off and made friends with other campers, but we still saw each other from time to time. Shane had become the leader of the Dionysius cabin. Stephanie was the smartest camper at camp, and became the temporary leader of the Athena cabin. Amber and Cathleen had become best friends and they were inseparable.
Jeremy had gotten close with his half-brother Nico. They were always seen together either teaching each other a new power they didn't know they had or just having fun messing with other campers. Ashley and Arista became co-leaders of the Apollo cabin.
As for Landon and I, we became an official couple. We were never apart from each other for longer than a day. We thought things were finally going to be happy and normal, boy were we wrong.
* * *
The day came when all the campers who didn't stay year round arrived and I was nervous to meet my half brother. He had become the hero who saved the world from a raising Kronus and watched his friend die right in front of him. I sat there on the beach, waiting for something to happen.
"Hey Ryan, are you nervous about meeting your half brother?" Landon came up to me and kissed me lovingly. He sat down in the sand next to me, giving me a warm hug.
"Just a little bit. I really want to meet him but I don't know if he'll like me, or rather us." I laid my head on his chest, listening to his heart beat.
"He can't not like you Ryan; you're too nice a person for him not to." Landon rested his head on top of mine.
"Thanks Landon, I don't know what I'd do without you." I leaned my head up and gave him a kiss on the chin.
"Oh, you'd probably still be a virgin sitting in the sand worrying about something that shouldn't be worried about. You need to loosen up a little bit. As long as I'm here with you, you can be yourself." I closed my eyes and took some deep breaths.
"I love you Landon. Even if you're up front with some topics, like the whole virginity thing." I laughed and listened to his chuckle faintly.
"That may be true, but I do it because there is nothing to hide. It doesn't really matter what your brother thinks of us, hell, he could even hate us, but as long as we have each other, we'll be ok."
A tear escaped my eye, "You're right, we'll be fine as long as we have each other."
We just sat there on the beach, hugging each other, hoping that time would not interrupt us. We heard yelling coming from the dining pavilion. "I guess your brother is here. Want to go see him?"
I thought about it for a couple of minutes, "Yeah, I think I'm ready now." We got up and started back over to camp.
* * *
"Percy, Annabeth, welcome back to camp." Chiron walked over to them and gave them a hug.
"It's good to be back Chiron." Percy gave Chiron a hug back and then put his arm around Annabeth's shoulder. "So, how many new campers did we get while we were gone?"
"Yeah Chiron, did we get any interesting campers?" Annabeth hugged Percy and gave him a peck on the cheek.
"We only got nine new campers, but they all came at once. Also, two of them were previous campers from World War II."
"How is that possible Chiron, they must be almost 70 years old." Percy looked questionably at him.
"Percy, remember how old Nico and his sister would be if not for the Lotus Hotel. They probably stayed there during the past 60 years." Annabeth gave him a warm smile to make him feel less stupid.
"I believe you will have to ask them how they did that, but any way's Percy," Chiron looked at him, "Your half-brother is here at camp."
Percy's mouth dropped, "Tyson's here. Already?"
Annabeth hit his arm, "I don't think he was talking about Tyson seaweed brains. I think he meant that you have a half human brother here at camp, didn't you Chiron?"
"Yes I did my dear. We got one son of Poseidon, one son and one daughter of Zeus, one son of Hades, two daughters of Apollo, one daughter of Athena, one daughter of Demeter, and one son of Dionysius."
"Wait, we got four more children of the Big Three here at camp." Annabeth looked at Chiron skeptically, "If you're right, that means that each cabin of the Big Three will have two campers in it, excluding Tyson from the Poseidon cabin."
"That is right Annabeth." Chiron looked behind her and saw Landon and I walking up the side of the hill. "Ah, here comes Percy's brother and Zeus's son."
Percy looked over and saw Landon and I walking towards them with our hands entangled together. "Why are they holding hands Chiron?"
"Well Percy, why don't you ask them?" Chiron left and walked over to greet some of the new campers that arrived with the older ones.
I walked up to Percy and smiled, "Hello, you must be Percy Jackson. My name is Ryan Pavid." I extended my hand out and he shook it.
"Hey man, so you're my brother." He looked me up and down, but kept his gaze on mine and Landon's intertwined hands. "So what's up with you two holding hands?"
The blonde girl he was with seemed to get it faster than he did. "Percy, I think they're a couple, like us." She extended her hand, "Hello Ryan, my name is Annabeth Chase." She looked over to Landon, "And hello to you to..."
Landon gave her his hand, "Landon Blaner, son of Zeus."
Annabeth smiled, "I know, Chiron told us that part."
Percy, who seemed to finally get what Annabeth had said, spoke, "Oh, I see, you two are gay." He paused for a minute, "That's cool man, I know a gay kid at my school, he's pretty awesome." Percy kept smiling as he looked at us.
I blushed and I could tell that Landon was blushing too. "Thank you Percy for being understanding. I was worried that you would not like me because of that."
Percy just kept smiling, "No problem man, now I just need to find Grover and Nico and then I've seen everybody I've miss."
"Well Nico is at the chariot race pit with Jeremy I think." Landon said and then leaned in and whispered into my ear, "See, your brother is handling it really well."
"Wait, whose Jeremy?" Percy looked at us questioningly.
"Jeremy is the other son of Hades at camp. Him, my friend Cathleen, and I all went to the Lotus Casino after World War II ended. If not for him, we never would have gone there."
"Oh, I see. We were at the Lotus Casino for a while; I'm surprised we didn't see you there." Annabeth smiled and looked over at Percy, "Well I think Percy and I should go see them now."
"Yeah, I miss Grover and Nico. Well, it was nice to meet you bro." Percy and Annabeth walked down to the chariot pit to go see Nico.
"See, that went perfectly Ryan. I just hope he doesn't eventually think of the same plan as we do when we want to have some fun." Landon smiled at me and kissed me on the lips.
"Yeah, that could be a little awkward walking into our bubble and seeing us during our activities." I laughed and Landon followed, making me relax more as we walked to the beach again.