AN; Hi guys it's Astrid I thought that to actually get some people reading this we should post the next chapter. No one has reviewed but that's ok. Now on with the story.

But first the disclaimer we do not own the Percy Jackson characters they're all Rick Riordans *sigh*

2 years later-

Chapter 1

Astrid Lockhart

July

7:34am

Richmond, VA

When I found the house, I thought my luck had changed. I'd ran away and was somewhere in North Philadelphia following the train tracks, when I spotted an abandoned warehouse by the Delaware river when I saw the sorry looking building. A three story warehouse loomed over me sporting the name "Pete's Toilet and Bath, Just a Flush Away!" with a smiling toilet on the billboard. (Luckily for me, it was empty with no sign of Pete or his mutant toilets)

Why was I running away?

People were always saying how amazing my voice is. But I knew they didn't care about me.

The real me. All my "friends" only wanted to hear me sing.

I had to go.

Especially since my dad left when I was a newborn, then my mom, the only person who really cared about me, was killed in a freak plane crash.

One I should have been on.

From good luck or just chance I was alive and she was dead. Five years ago, we were headed to Sweden for the summer, when I was separated from her in the crowd headed on the US flight. I guess when your 6, US looks like UK, so I thought I was on my way to Stockholm to meet up with my dad, "He's just busy, sweetie." was what my mom told me.

Too busy to come home, to busy to see his family, too busy for everything 'not' important, like my mom's funeral.

I ended up at the JFK airport, waiting with a cranky social services lady. She wore neon orange lipstick and a tight black dress with a stiff bun. She obviously did not find much joy in her work, seeing as her only response to me was; "Uh huh." so this was our whole conversation for 4 hours,

"Where's my mommy?"

"Uh huh."

"Does that mean she's here?"

"Uh huh."

"When's she gonna pick me up?"

"Uh huh."

"When's that?"

"Uh huh."

"Uh huh?"

"Uh huh."

"Uh huh."

At around midnight, she got a call from the British airline,

"Uh huh. Uh huh. Uh huh… Oh…" She paused, "Uh huh..." She looked at me with only the slightest bit of sympathy hidden in her dull eyes. "I'll tell her." She place the phone down gently and looked me straight in the eye.

"I don't think your mom's going to pick you up anytime soon, honey."

"Uh huh?"

9 years later, I woke up with a sword at my neck.

To most people, this would be horrifying, but to me, this was a daily occurrence. But back to the point, (Ha, see what I did there?)

Over me stood two girls about my age pointing weapons down at me.

The first girl had jet black hair with green and purple neon highlights streaking through her short hair and looked a little gothic with her leather jacket and denim jeans. But her eyes… they were so complex with multiple shades of amethyst almost like her eyes were seashells. Oh yeah and she had a sword. Completely unmentionable since she was holding it to my throat.

Anyway the second girl was about two inches shorter than the first and had shoulder length brown hair in a braid with one dirty blond streak on the right side. She wore a gray t-shirt and camo pants with black combat boots. Her eyes were gold and luminous and they reminded me of someone important, at least someone I should know. Anyway she had a silver bow and arrows strapped to her back, along with a sword, forged of what seemed like celestial and imperial gold.

So naturally, like a regular person, I turned to them and said "Well, Hello there. Lovely weather, don't you think?"

The first girl grunted and turned to the second.

They locked eyes with each and stood there as I cleared my throat awkwardly. After about 10 seconds, the first girl looked back at me and said "Do it."

The second girl nodded and lifted her hands to her temples and seemed to be looking straight through me. Her eyes started to glow gold, and I turned to the other girl and said "Is that normal or...?" The girl said nothing and pressed her sword a little deeper into my neck. "Quite." Then her face contorted into a softer expression, "Just don't move."

Then I felt a slight tingling sensation in my head like someone was looking through my thoughts. "Holy. Cow." I thought. "There is a girl. reading. My mind." Then the weird feeling stopped. I looked up, and the girl said to the first girl, "She's one of us Amber."

They lowered their weapons.

The first girl then said "I'm Amber and that's Grace." she said solemnly. "Astrid." I said. "Uh quick question, is that girl telepathic?" Grace smiled "Yes, I am. And you have a hint of charmspeak in your voice." I grinned back. "Cool! You guys are freaks like me. I feel so loved." Amber narrowed her eyes. "I'm not a freak." Grace motioned not to add on. "So any other surprises I should know about?"

Grace laughed. "You have no idea. But enough boasting, I suppose we can trust you now?"

"You better or I'm kicking you out of my house." I responded.

"Just like that, we're a team on a mission." said Amber, clearly not approving our little group.

"We didn't come for a playdate," said Grace.

As we settled down for the night, I noticed how cold it was and made a fire by heating up some logs with my hands. After some compliments from Grace and a mumble from Amber, I said, "Let's play a game, to get to know each other, Answer the questions or die!"

"You're gonna fit in great. Let's play." said Grace.

"Okay…. Amber, what are your magical powers that you'd like to share with us?" I started. She sat up and made a brisk movement with her hand and made all the water from her water bottle splash onto the fire. "Goodnight." she said stiffly.

"Party pooper." I mumbled and went to sleep.

Correction. Tried to sleep. The thing was, about ten minutes after Amber shut me down, she sat up out of her sleeping bag and was basically guarding us.

The next week once we had gotten to know each other, I'd developed a schedule to pass time. Wake up for morning guard at exactly 5:00am, (Grace was in charge of time with an uncanny knack for telling the exact time) guard till 7 and then wake up everyone and eat breakfast, take a super long shower(until Amber makes the water cold at least), (I literally make my own songs in there) go on the trampoline and sing for about three hours, (until Amber yells at me) eat lunch on the trampoline, sing and bounce (until Amber yells at me... again) then make dinner, eat dinner, set up the fire for the night, and go to sleep. I was doing flips on the rusty old trampoline Grace pulled out of the garage in the backyard of our cozy abandoned home when I heard voices from the woods. I leaped to the top of a tree and found the source of the whispers. Two tall boys armed with swords stood on the edge of the clearing looking back at our house with their backs to me. I couldn't see much, but the first one had messy blond hair and a black sword that seemed to be sucking the color out of everything said:

"Wally, Chiron said they're here!"

The other boy had spiky red hair (like he enjoyed sticking his fingers in wall sockets) held a bronze sword.

"All I see is an abandoned house! How can we get demigods that don't exist!?"

"They're in the house genius! But lets wait until one of them comes out instead of us barging in." said the first boy. I narrowed my eyes. When I jumped through the open window, I knew the boys had started to follow me. Also because the the boy with the red hair said "Dude, I just saw a girl leap through that window. The first boy nodded. "Pursue, but maintain distance. And don't speed up there and scare them."

"Speed up?" I thought. "What could that mean?" I quietly sprinted to the hallway door and knocked three times and a hand pulled me in. Grace closed the door quietly and crossed her arms. "Why are there two boys outside?!" demanded Amber. Of course that's when I started blubbering, " Well I was flipping on the trampoline and then they came out of the woods and the blonde was hot did I just say that ok I did but anyway the redhead said, oh that's cool it rhymes anyway he said, 'How can we extract Demi... Something that don't exist' and I was like sneaky ninja style through the window and here I am!" Grace just stared at me.

"Then what are you doing just standing here?!" demanded Amber. "They've found us," muttered Amber. " Go back out there and see if they're a threat! Grace go with her so she doesn't hop out and greet them. I'll pack up camp and we regroup back here at sunset." Amber said.

"We don't know if they're friendly or not yet!" I said. "Bring your weapons, no excuses." said Amber flatly. "Yeah, yeah, always hostile." Grace looked at me and said in my mind, "Don't make her angry, bad things happen." I sighed and nodded. "Remember, covert." said Amber. As we walked away I asked Grace, "What's covert?" She grinned and said "Classic Sunny."

After I said that I walked out and ninja-d my way into the tree as silent as a squirrel and watched the two boys. The redhead (Wally I think) said " Did you hear that?" and the other boy said "What?" I listened this time and there it was a small rustle in the leaves where Grace went.'Grace get out of there!' I said in my mind to her, and two seconds later she materialized next to me. "How are you doing that?" I said through the link. "Invisibility." she replied. "Ugh, so unfair." I thought. "Shh.. you're thinking too loud, they'll hear you!" responded Grace. "On three, one…" we pulled out our weapons "two…" we got ready to leap "three!" We jumped from the tree and launched a full attack on the two boys. I threw my daggers at the blond while Grace went metal to metal with the second boy, Wally. "I hope you realize we can end this in five seconds with Amber or just actually trying." I said through the link

"True, but we got to make seem like we're weak. No powers until needed." replied Grace in my mind. I focused my attention back on the boy, who was dodging my daggers and trying to reason with me at the same time. "We're not here to hurt you! We're trying to help you!" the first boy said. "Help us with what? Does it look like we need help?" I said as I jabbed his shoulder.

He sidestepped and weakly attempted to disarm me. "Grace, please lets get Amber this is pointless."

"Fine, cover me." she said through the link as she leaped up into a tree and started to call Amber through the link.

When I turned back to where the two boys should have been, only the blond one stood in front of me. "What the…" I started, looking around for the redhead Wally, I turned around and saw him pursuing Grace.

I got my bow and aimed it at him. Before I could shoot, the other boy stepped in front of me. I said "What are you doing?!" The boy looked at me with intense black eyes,"If you really want to take us out , then shoot me" he said. In the background I could hear his partner say "Dude! Arrows hurt!"

I just couldn't do it.

"No."

"What?" said the second boy

"I said no, I can't do it," I said as I lowered my bow.

"I can't just kill him, I'm not a murderer," I said with a sigh as I held out my hand.

He looked at it suspiciously as if I was gonna judo flip him when Grace landed back down from the tree with Amber and the redhead and told the first boy,"Dude, be happy she's giving you the option."

I looked at her like she was crazy and said "I've only judo flipped you ONCE and that was because you spilled your water bottle all over my phone where I just downloaded 50 songs!"

"Which Amber fixed and you did by hacking the phone and getting them for free,"

"I don't get it, music should be free to the world so everyone can enjoy it," I said dreamily.

"Sure Sunshine sure," said Amber

"Don't call me Sunshine!"

"Fine Sunny,"

"Hey, thats not what I meant! Where are you going?! Hey come back!"

"I got to get our supplies that we left in the warehouse,"

"Come back! We need to talk this out with them!"

I yelled back but she just shook her head and walked toward the house. I turned back to the boy who was staring at me like I was crazy. "What?" I said " Free to the world,really?" He responded. "Whatever, who are you and where did you come from!?" "Ok, well I'm Andrew Mace Reckonson and I'm a demigod which I think you know, and that boy with the redhead is "Wally West!" he interrupted. "I'm a demigod too! My father is Hermes and Andrew's a Hades kid." Me and Grace just looked at him. "And we are here from Camp Half Blood to get three demigods, you guys, and we don't know who their parents are I think you three are them so please be…."

"Helpful." finished Andrew. I looked at him for a second before saying,"Sure as I said earlier you can call me Astrid..."

"Astrid, what are you doing!?"

It was Amber walking back from the house. I didn't know what her problem was, these people seemed fine to me, but then again, I thought a dracae we fought last week was an innocent cheerleader… blowing up the front yard… real nice.

"What now Amber?" I asked with a sigh.

Grace looked between us as if not sure whether to say something or be silent. "They're the people who are going to take Grace away!" This was news to Grace, who stared at the boys and fiddled with her sword hilt, ready to pummel them. I jumped back, startled, and turned around to Andrew who had a grim look on his face "You're taking away Grace?"

"We don't have a choice, it's the god's orders, we are supposed to find the six demigods of the new prophecy. We don't know who though, but we have to, we don't have a choice,"

"Demi-what? A prophecy?,"

"Long story. Chiron…"

"The horse man from Greek mythology? Are you mental?" asked Amber.

"Yes, and no. Anyway 'the horse man' is our camp director. He sensed a powerful godly force here. So that meant either powerful demigods, or the world was ending. So he sent us."

"You are mental." mumbled Amber

"So are you guys coming?" he said, ignoring Amber.

I looked at when Amber yelled "What are you doing?!"

"I'm going to think,"

"There is nothing to think about, we are not going!"

"Maybe I want to go," I said then walked off not wanting to talk anymore.

"Can 'Grace' speak for herself?" We all turned to her.

"Thank you. Astrid..." I grumbled. "and Amber, you know we need help. We can't run forever. And I'd rather none of us die, please and thank you. So I think we should go. I don't trust you two, but I trust you're telling the truth."

The boys looked at us wearily, and I realized that we were coated with blood, mud, and monster dust, not a flattering combination. Five seconds passed. Ten.

Amber groaned, "Fine."

"But first I think we should get to know you before we run off with you people," she said.

"We're a team now," said Grace. We exchanged uneasy glances,

"...whether we like it or not."

AN: So wadya think please r&r. The team hopes that whenever you are reading this you had a wonderful day but since it's New Years for us "HAPPY NEW YEAR!" We will add the Percy Jackson characters later on in the story promise. I would add as much as I could but I don't think the team would be happy if I added everything we had.

Yours truly,

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