AN: Okay, I know it's taken me forever to update. Please address any complaints to my school, they are the once forcing endless amounts of assignments and exams down my throat. Also, one more thing, this chapter introduces one more demigod, Luna Nightfox, submitted to me in a PM.

Just for the record the title of this is sort of stolen of an episode of Dexter "This is the Way the World Ends"

Hope you enjoy and please review.

Chapter 1: This is the Way the Story Begins

"Justin! Hey, Justin!" Charlotte's wavy chocolate hair blew around as the wind did. She chased after him.

He sighed before turning around, however, upon noticing who it was, a smile quickly came to his face.

"Charlotte?" he grinned. "Hey. What's up?"

"Ah, nothing, nothing," she said quickly. "I just saw your match, you were good there, really good. I don't think Parker's to happy about it, though."

Justin laughed. "Parker's cool and he's a good fighter. But nobody likes to loose."

"Where are you headed?"

"I was gonna go see if Daniel's back. A couple of us are going to see if we could cheat better than some of the Hermes kids," he said. "...Kidding, I think Chiron wants to see me, show around a new camper. Daniel and I were supposed to give her a tour but he's still...out."

"Seeing his dad, huh?"

"Must be tough on him," Justin said. "He's always happy and cheerful, I guess he just needs this one day to remember what everything was before it happened."

"We've all had tough pasts, Justin," Charlotte said. "Hey," she joked. "He might be your friend, but he's also my half brother."

Justin chuckled, it was true, Daniel and Charlotte were both children of Demeter. "I guess you're right. Do you want to show around the new camper with me. I don't have a clue when Daniel will be back."

"Sure. Does this new camper have a name?"

"Luna Nightfox," he answered.

"Does she know who her parent is?"

"No idea."

The two of them walked and chatted and were eventually greeted by Chrion on a porch. He smiled and his hooves moved towards the two half bloods, beside him was a girl. She didn't look very old, maybe fourteen at most, with raven black hair.

"Justin, Charlotte. It's good to see you. Where's Daniel?"

"Visiting his dad." Charlotte answered. "I'm filling in for him."

Chiron nodded understandingly. "Well, Luna, this is Charlotte Riley and Justin Lawytes. They'll show you around and then take you to the Hermes cabin," the centaur then turned to the two older half bloods. "This is Luna Nightfox."

"Hey!" Luna practically burst out as they walked towards the mess and past the cabins. "So who are your parent? What's this camp like? Do you guys fight monsters? Is that really Chiron."

Charlotte and Justin shared a look. This girl was firing questions faster than an AK-47 fires bullets. But neither of them could blame her, discovering your true parentage as a half blood was pretty confusing.

Justin decided to answer her questions.

"I'm a son of Athena and Charlotte's a daughter of Demeter. The camp has magical borders which protect us from any monsters, if they could get in, it's not safe for us. And yes, that really is Chiron the centaur."

"Cool!" she exclaimed. "By the way, what are the policies on dating here? Cause I saw this guy, before you picked me up, he was kinda cute. Kept fussing with his hair, though," she added.

"Probably a son of Aphrodite," Charlotte answered, a little absentmindedly.

"Or Charlie," Justin cracked a joke. "Son of Hermes, but he does love his hair."

"Well, I was just wondering, since you know? All the gods are related in some form, so all their kids are like, extended cousins, aren't they?"

"That's true," Justin replied. "But anyone who's not in your cabin is fair game. Speaking of which, do you have any idea of who your parent is?"

Luna shook her head, with a little less enthusiasm than before.

"Nope. But I could be claimed soon, right? Chiron said that some campers get claimed like on their first day."

"It's possible," Charlotte nodded in agreement. She seemed a little bit distant.

"You know, we have a game of Capture the Flag after dinner," Justin changed the topic. "Let's find you a weapon at the armory," he smiled.

Daniel Anderson walked back into camp from visiting father's grave. His black hair was getting a little too long, he felt, as it seemed to fall all over his face nowadays, and he had to constantly sweep it back to see.

About a year ago, he'd made the mistake of asking a girl from the Aphrodite cabin to cut it for him. Two words: Huge mistake. She'd started cutting part of it, until one of her siblings began yammering on about a "cute boy" who looked "just like Channing Tatum" or something. The girl had almost cut off part of his ear and fled to see the doppelganger of the movie star.

He looked ridiculous afterwards and had to cut it himself (rather poorly at that) and it went all choppy. Thankfully, visiting his aunt in Minneapolis, a while ago, he'd gone to a hairdresser to undo the mess. Daniel wasn't all about appearances, but you have to be at least presentable.

On his way back to the Demeter cabin, he passed the Hermes cabin and found three people outside, viciously arguing over something. There was a pack of cards and a pair of dice on the ground, where they were yelling at each other.

One of the boys, with tanned skin and wavy brown hair stood up. Daniel recognized him as Parker Cruz.

"Oi! You can't play fair, you manipulated chance!" he appeared to be yelling at the one known as Chris Hughes.

"Sit down, Parker," came another voice. British accent. There was no mistaking it, the voice belonged to Charlie Blake as he ran his fingers through his cropped blonde hair with one hand and made a gesture for Parker to sit down with the other.

Chris had a smile on his face. "I don't know what you're talking about."

"Does seem a little far fetched," Charlie said. "Lucky, too lucky."

"I'm a son of Tyche," Chris argued. "If something good happens to me, it's like winning the lottery. You're half bloods, you ought to know that."

"Ha!" Parker, scoffed. "We're sons of Hermes, we essentially have con man blood in our veins. If you're winning, it's because you're controlling it."

"That's good, Parker," came another voice. It came from Ken Nakahashi, son of Apollo. "Bad mouth your parentage, that'll end well." With his dark hair, long K-Pop star like fringe and shades, he was shuffling a deck of cards, trying to perform a trick. Showmanship came naturally to him as he flashed a smile and held out a card to Chris.

"Is this your card?"

"Yeah."

"Of course it is," he smiled.

"Hey guys, what's up?" Daniel said, walking up to the guys.

"Chris is cheating!" Parker whined, sounding a little like a three year old.

"Am not! I'm just winning."

"Ooookay," Daniel drawled a little. "Have you guys seen Justin? I was supposed to show around a new camper with him." Whatever Chris, the sons of Hermes and whatever Ken was doing there, he didn't want to get into.

"I think I saw him with Charlotte," Ken added and held a the deck o cards out to Parker. "Tap it three times."

He did so and Ken flipped the card so it faced up. King of clubs.

"Is...this your card?"

"Thanks," Daniel muttered quickly, before setting off to the Demeter cabin as he heard Charlie yelling something behind him.

Dinner came soon enough as everyone gathered at the dining pavilion. Luna sat at the Hermes table of course and began talking off Charlie's ear with questions about everything Justin and Charlotte didn't get to tell her.

As per tradition, all the campers burnt a small piece of food as an offering to their godly parent. Luna didn't seem to understand it exactly, but happily threw a piece of bread into the fire as an offering.

Over at the Athena table, Justin was digging into his food with a fork, while staring over at the Demeter table. He was stabbing the piece of chicken so hard, he didn't realize until his fork made a large clink with the plate.

"Don't kill your plate, Justin," chided fellow child of Athena, Ava Price.

"Huh? What? Sorry Ava," he muttered quickly. Tossing the piece of chicken into his mouth, chewing and swallowing quickly, his eyes still at the Demeter table.

Ava couldn't help but roll her eyes.

"Just ask her out, Justin."

"What? Ask who out?" he quickly looked at his sister.

"You don't have to be a child of Athena to figure it out," she replied. "You obviously like Charlotte."

"Charlotte and I are just friends."

"Come off it, Justin. If this is the best you can lie, you aren't very good at it," Ava couldn't help but smile a little at her comment. "Just stop the whole 'just friends' thing. Everyone at camp knows you have a thing for her."

Justin was pretty sure he could feel himself blushing and going redder than blood, blush or any form of crimson type color.

"We are good friends, he insisted, trying to steer away from the fact that he had a massive crush on her."

"Just friends?" Ava shook her head skeptically and swept back her reddish brown hair as she looked over at the Demeter table. Then, she shrugged halfheartedly. "If you say so. Too bad though, because she clearly likes you."

Instead of biting the hunk of bread that was in his hand, Justin bit his lower lip and winced slightly at the pain.

"She does not. Well not in that way. She likes me as a friend."

"For a fellow child of Athena, you sure can be dense sometimes," Ava remarked. "Whatever, we are going against Demeter cabin for Capture the Flag tonight. You are one of our best swordsmen and strategists," she said. "I don't want us losing because you are too busy staring into Charlotte's big blue eyes."

"Her eyes are green, actually..." Justin corrected, but then looked at Ava and relented. "That was a trick wasn't it?"

"Trick, test, call it whatever you want, but it's true."

"Don't worry, Ava," Justin reassured. "I can personally guarantee you that my performance during Capture the Flag will not be hindered in any form."

"It better not. I hear some of the Hermes kids who aren't playing are betting on Ares, Demeter is on the Ares team. And I intend to fully prove them wrong."

"Of course you do," Justin rolled his eyes.

Capture the flag started.

It was Hermes, Tyche, Athena and Apollo (Blue) against Dionysus, Demeter, Ares, Hephaestus and Aphrodite (Red). Some of the smaller cabins joined in with one of the teams. Chiron went over the rules before the game began.

Daniel clutched his celestial bronze sword in his hand. He was on defense with three other campers, protecting the blue flag.

Justin, one of the best strategists and swordsmen in the Athena cabin was planning to go in for the kill once the defense on the red team had been taken down.

A bunch of the Apollo kids were acting as snipers for when the Red team came to attack.

Chris saw a clearing, to get to red territory and swipe their flag. 'Piece of cake' he though with a small smirk appearing on his face. Parker Cruz should have been covering him, but the opportunity for a quick victory seemed to present itself and he was not about to let it go to waste.

Quickly calculating in his head the chance of an attack and then the chance of getting to the flag once Parker got back from...wherever he was Chris decided that his best move would to go in for the flag now and if he was jumped, send the cavalry in later.

As he approached his target, Chris felt something whiz past his head. Fearing for his brain, Chris ducked and covered his head with his hands.

"Think you could get off that easy?" came a voice.

Chris looked up from his current state and stood up straighter. He came face to face with a pair of violet eyes, a face of freckles and curly hair. Bree Williams. Daughter of Hecate. Turning around, he saw the thing that had whizzed past his head had been a throwing knife and was currently impaled on a tree.

"Hey, Bree," Chris gave a lopsided smile.

"Shouldn't have come here without someone to cover you."

Chris shrugged. "You take your chances."

"Ditched you, huh?"

"Looks that way." There was a pause, silence momentarily filled the air. Chris had his sword on him, but given the speed he'd seen Bree throw her knives, he calculated chances in his head and decided it would not be his smartest move.

In the distance, they could both here a distinct yell.

"I GOT IT!"

AN: Yeah, I know it's short but I felt like I owed you guys a chapter since I've been taking forever.

Sorry that the game went way too fast, I just found it hard to do multiple POV's in one game. Maybe next time, huh? By the way, Ava, the Athena girl is my own, I came up with her after someone mentioned their was a lack of female characters.

Big thank you to sonofthetrigod for encouraging me to update. If you have any ideas for your characters or even a character that's not yours, tell me in a review and I'll see what I can do.

I hope you enjoyed that and please tell me what you think.