Chapter 3 Welcome to Camp Half-Blood

Ok, you know how I said the monster was ugly? That's because it was. It head the head of a bull, horns and all, and the body of a snake. Thing is, its skin was peeling of its back and it had tons of nasty scars all over its face and mouth. It was at least 10 feet tall.

I had to think fast, because it was getting closer and closer. I rubbed my silver ring, and it turned into my bow. I began shooting at its body, but it didn't seem to care. I tried to think of what might hurt it most. So I shot it in its left eye just as it was lunging at me. That definitely hurt it, but it mostly just made it madder.

I decided to jump off of Luna, as I was still on her that whole time. I tried jumping onto its tail. I failed the first couple of tries as it kept flicking me off. I finally jumped onto its tail. I then took two arrows from my quiver and put one in each of my hands. I then started stabbing my way up the snake-bull thing's back. It kept making loud screeching noises like it was in a lot of pain. I finally got up to its neck, took both of my arrows, and put one into each side of its neck. The creature toppled over, with me on top, mind you, so that wasn't exactly fun, but it was dead at least.

My head had hit the ground as the snake-bull thing fell, so I passed out. I woke up a few hours later with a crowd of strangers surrounding me. They had asked me if I was okay during the freak plane crash. Apparently, the mist caused them to think that the monster attack was a plane crashing into the ground. I told them I was fine, but one of the people insisted I stay at their motel, I couldn't argue with sleep because I was so tired and my head still hurt. I decided to pay the small fee to spend the night at their motel, fittingly called "The Snake's Den."

I woke up the next morning, and found Luna parked right outside my room. I decided to grab a bite to eat, and headed off towards Camp Half-Blood. As I said before, I was almost there when that snake-bull thing attacked.

I finally arrived at Camp Half-Blood at around midnight. It appeared that everyone was asleep. I decided to just walk in through the entrance. No one greeted me, so I walked over to the apparent Artemis cabin. I wondered why there was an Artemis cabin for a minute, then I thought that the Hunters might use it when they came here, so it made sense. I decided to climb up to one of the top bunks and go to sleep.

I awoke to the sound of people yelling. Apparently they were all freaked out because there was a weird motorcycle parked outside of Camp Half-Blood. I jumped out of bed and said that it was Luna and that she's my motorcycle. That just made them even more scared and they asked me who I was and what I was doing here.

I finally saw Percy in the crowd, and he explained to everyone else who I was. They were all astonished that I was a child of Artemis, but I explained everything to them and they understood.

I then walked over to Percy and Annabeth, and we hugged and then started talking.

I said, "Hey cuz, I haven't seen you in a while."

Percy replied, "Yeah, what've you been up to?"

"Not much, just part of a prophecy now."

Percy then said, "Really? That's awesome! How was the trip here?"

I then told him about my fight with the snake-bull thing and Annabeth told me that it was actually called a Cerastes.

In case you didn't know, Percy and I rarely ever see each other we've only really seen each other a couple of times after he turned twelve. When we did see each other, we discussed our Greek lives because I had told Percy early on that I knew about him being a son of Poseidon and I told him that I was the daughter of Artemis.

So basically we all caught up with each other, and began talking about how I was going to fulfill the prophecy.