"Alright, you ready?" Percy asked as he loaded the last of his family's things into his car.
"Yep. Are you sure the portable crib is packed?" Annabeth asked
"Yes, I'm sure." Percy said.
Annabeth nodded as she brought Carly down in her car seat.
"Let's go." Percy said as they all got in the car and headed out to camp half blood.
When they arrived, Peleus blew a little steam to welcome them.
"How are you doing boy." Percy asked as he rubbed the dragon's snout.
Peleus snorted something as the little family walked towards the big house.
"Percy, Annabeth, welcome back to camp and this must be your little daughter." Chiron said, since he wasn't able to attend the baby naming.
Percy nodded and then said "Chiron, I talked to dad and he said that as long as you approve, Annabeth can live with me in cabin 3, since it's usually empty, it'd be the best place to raise Carly when we're here." Percy said
"If Poseidon has approved of it, then of course you may stay in cabin 3." Chiron said.
"He also gave us permission to make some renovations to it to make it seem more family friendly." Percy said
"Of course." Chiron said again.
Annabeth thanked him as they headed towards the cabins.
At lunch, Chiron did the announcements.
"Attention campers. We have several new faces here at this summer. We will be expecting new members of Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Iris Ares, Apollo, Dionysus, Hecate, Hypnos, Nike, Hebe, Nemesis, Athena, Hermes and we will even be having a new member of the Hades cabin this summer."
"You're kidding." Someone from the Apollo table called.
Nico (he and Reyna were staying at Camp Half Blood this summer, instead of Frank and Hazel), said "It's true. Dad has a son named Xander and while he isn't here yet, I expect him to arrive here this evening."
Chiron nodded and then continued "We will also be having a new resident of the Poseidon cabin." Chiron said
All eyes turned to table 3, where Percy, Annabeth (she was allowed to sit at the Poseidon table with the rest of her family), and Carly were sitting.
"Aww." Someone from the Aphrodite cabin, I think it was Lacy called out.
"Who's that baby?" Travis Stoll asked
"This is our daughter Carly. She'll be staying with us in cabin 3, so if anyone wants to come and see she and you can't find us, go there." Percy said.
Chiron nodded and then said "Also, from Camp Jupiter, we welcome back Nico di Angelo, son of Hades, Reyna Ramirez-Arellano, daughter of Bellona and Dakota, son of Bacchus."
"Also, after lunch, there will be a senior counselors meeting at the big house." Chiron said
After lunch, Annabeth left Carly with Malcolm as she and Percy headed up to the big house.
When they arrived, they found most of the other senior counselors were already there.
Leo was talking with Clarisse about different weapons she'd like him to make her, Jason and Piper were sitting next to each other and were making faces at each other, Travis and Connor were writing on a sleeping Clovis's face, Lou Ellen was changing the color of the ping pong table, Nico just looked bored out of his mind, Butch was distracting Ethan from Hebe, Pollux from Dionysus, Jade from Nemesis, Erica from Tyche and Brian from Nike with random rainbows, Will Solace was randomly shooting arrows at the wall, and Katie Gardner was shouting at the Stolls for putting mud in her sheets.
"Anyway, we are here to discuss the schedule for the upcoming summer. Percy I want you to teach masters sword class." Chiron said.
Percy nodded.
"Chiron, I think it would be best if, at least until Carly stops nursing, I just don't teach any courses." Annabeth said
"Agreed." Chiron said
"We'll have Malcolm take over your usual classes until then." He continues.
Annabeth nodded as they continued on with the meeting.
The next day, Annabeth was taking Carly for a walk on the beach while Percy was teaching sword class when a someone began to emerge from the shore.
"Poseidon." Annabeth said, surprised to see her boyfriend's father.
"Annabeth, just who I wanted to see." Poseidon, said, taking his granddaughter from her momma's arms.
"What brings you to camp?" Annabeth asked
"Why don't we go wait in my cabin for Percy to back and then I'll tell you." Poseidon said.
Annabeth nodded as she led Poseidon back to the cabin.
When they arrived, Poseidon was a bit amused at what they had done to his cabin.
They'd gotten rid of Percy's old bunk in a corner and replaced it with a real bed similar to the one they had at home. They'd gotten Leo to build a little side room that was a nursery for Carly that had a crib and a changing table. Finally, they had cleared out some space at the head of the room and had made a nice little living area with the sofa and a TV like Rachel's.
"I like what you've done to the place." Poseidon said as he began to play with Carly.
When Percy entered the cabin, he was surprised to see his father.
"Dad, what a surprise." Percy said
"Well, I wanted to see my granddaughter and I wanted to invite the 3 of you to come spend a few days down in my palace." Poseidon said
"How, Annabeth can't breathe underwater without an oxygen bubble and I can't keep that up the whole trip and we don't even know if Carly had inherited my ability to do that. She's your granddaughter, not your daughter." Percy said.
"I can remedy both of those things." Poseidon said, taking Annabeth's hand and kissing it. Immediately, she felt a strange warmth go through her body.
"What's happened to me?" Annabeth asked.
"I just gave you my blessing, giving you permission to enter my realm and stay there as long as you want." Poseidon told her.
"Thank you, but what about Carly?" Annabeth asked
"All of my grandchildren have the same powers as my demigod children. She'll be fine." Poseidon assured them.
"Okay." Percy said.
"Wait, what about Amphitrite and Triton?" Annabeth asked, for even though she'd gone swimming in the sound lots of times before, since her mother had a rivalry with Poseidon, she was scared to go down to his palace underwater for a few days, even if Percy was with her, so she was trying to find a way out of this.
"Annabeth, if you don't feel comfortable going to dad's we don't have to." Percy said
Poseidon sensed Annabeth's distress and said "Annabeth, I promise that I will make sure you return to the surface safely."
Annabeth took a deep breath and sighed in relief.
"Okay, let's go." She said.
However, little did she know that there were several sea spirits that were in love with Percy and hated Annabeth would do anything to kill her.
Let's see how their visit plays out in the next chapter.