When I woke up I was strung across laps in the car. "OI," I yelled startled I would have fallen if Katie hadn't had her elbows propped on my shins, playing MY Gameboy color.

"20 miles!" Kenzie called from the driver's side.

"Why am I always getting hurt?" I whispered.

"Well…" Clarissa started.

Before she could finish I said, "Who was that fire guy?"

"A Talos," Katie explained without looking up. "Nasty brutes who defend Ares's temple."

"Fantastic. So we have to fight more soon?"

"Probably." Kenzie said.

My mind clicked into 'Weird teenager' mode. "Whose lap is my head on? Dare I look?" I slowly turned my head. "Holy merrrr- Lexi!"

"Hahaha, what?" she stammered.

"Can I go back in the trunk yet?"

"Deal with it." Kenzie said. "We're ten minutes out."

So, just to make the situation more awkward I said "How you doin'" in a creepy voice.

It was good thing everybody laughed. It feels like all the tension needed to be lifted. We all laughed and made small talk the rest of the way there. Approaching the hill, Half-Blood Hill, so I'm told it's called, was a place where a Demi-god named Thalia, made her finale stand to save her friends. And her dad, Zeus, turned her into a pine tree. Another story I'm told is that a second half-blood named Percy, fought and killed the Minotaur. Alone and unarmed.

'Impressive' I thought. 'I don't like this Percy kid, seems kind of stuck up,' I didn't say that though. I felt like if I did I'd get would be chewed out.

"Any who…" I tried to start some kind of conversation as we unpacked our bags and worked our way up the hill.

I stopped dead in my tracks. At the top of the hill, curled around the pine tree was a 20 ft. long purple dragon. I couldn't move. I was astounded. A real dragon! "How is that even possible?"

"At camp half-blood almost anything is possible!" Kenzie said

"Even for a loser like me to get a girlfriend?" I said jokingly nudging Clarissa who had friend zoned me many a time. Come to think about it. Every girl in our group had friend zoned me at one point or another.

"Where do we sleep?" Clarissa asked.

"Depending on your godly parentage there is a cabin with your siblings." Hunter said.

"Whoopey!" Lexi said. I think she had an older brother though I didn't know much about him.

"Not actual blood relatives," Kenzie interjected, "half siblings who share you're parentage. Any unclaimed go to the Hermes cabin but all of you should be claimed soon because you are all above the age of 16."

"Not me!" I said. "Still fifteen, and it's... Five months till my birthday."

"Chris, look up." Noelle said.

Looking up I saw a white symbol of two daggers crossed and a pouch in between.

"That's odd," Hunter said.

"Totes." Kenzie agreed.

I started to panic, "Why?"

"It's usually a caduceus," a raspy voice sounded down the hill.