Oh my gods! Only 3 more days until House of Hades comes out! This is so exciting! I wrote this chapter last night while I went bowling (Field Trips, Peat, and Bowling Oh MY!) I was pretty distracted while writing this chapter, so if it seems a little inconsistent. Well its, istoría tou chrónou (story time)! The second part is kind of fluffy so, this is the reason I don't own, or want to own Percy Jackson, I would totally screw up the plot.

Chapter 7 (Andromeda's POV)

Shannon was so confused, I felt really bad for her. About yesterday, I was like that. Wow, only yesterday I came to this camp. It feels like I've been here my entire life. I've gotten to know the personalities of people. I still couldn't believe Nico was the freaking son of Hades.

My thought process was ruined when Nico said, "We should get inside the border. Four half bloods attract an awful lot of monster, and the fact that 3 of us are children of Poseidon or Hades... No, we need to get to camp like now. You're still unarmed, right?" The last question was pointed at me.

"Sadly," I was kind of disappointed that they didn't trust me to have a weapon yet. Well I hadn't been trained in the slightest, so it was understandable. "Can I be trained first?" they smiled at my question.

Percy responded, "Andy Jackson, you are the only demigod I have ever met, besides the Aphrodite campers, that actually wanted to be trained, before handling a weapon of mass destruction. Well, too bad. We should get you a weapon too Shannon," I got scared.

"Shannon," Nico chimed in, "you should be claimed by the campfire tonight. I honestly don't think even the gods would break an oath on the styx. Percy, why did you choose that again?"

Percy looked a little depressed for a minute, as if remembering a bad memory, "I honestly, felt that all the half bloods who joined Crooked Dude, wouldn't have met their fate if the minor gods were appreciated." I wondered what that meant.

I remembered monsters, "Border, NOW!" I pointed and everyone started up the hill. We crossed Thalia's Pine, and headed to the big house.

Shannon was remarkably quiet until she saw Chiron, "Holy Cow! Are you Chiron, the trainer of all heroes. Sorry, I love greek mythology. My favorite myth is Eros and Psyche, such a cute couple! Sorry again, I'm just so weirded out right now, I have no idea what I'm saying." She made me start to giggle.

"Can we show her around camp Chiron?" I asked. I liked this girl, I don't know why, but she seemed like an awesome person. He just nodded.

After she had a full blown tour and we went to the rest of our daily activites, we had the campfire. This was the first one that I had been to at camp, so I was pretty excited. It turns out, Shannon was kind of like Percy. She was raised by her mother and her step-dad. He wasn't too horrible, but he blamed her for everything that went wrong. He would yell at her because of nothing and he would hit her sometimes. Normally, he tripped her over and caught her, then let her fall. I thought it was pretty bad. It was so similar to my story, but so different in the same way.

My life was pretty much like this: go through the system, stay in one place for a few months, leave. The longest I ever stayed in one place, was at the Stone residence. My best friend was a guy named Walt. He had to go to the hospital a lot though and I still don't know why. So, my life pretty much sucked, like most demigods.

At the campfire, we sang a ton of songs an had an awesome time. Shannon, Percy and I all sat by the oracle Rachel. She was pretty cool, until she stood up and started spewing weird words and all.

"You shall journey to the deadest land

With the thief, the ghost king, and the dam

To a land without love, or a single wise thought

The wisest and the loving will save you of all

You will find the lost and expose the traitor

And soon all will know whom is greater"

Ok, that was creepy. Suddenly, Shannon stood up. A pink light washed over the crowd. The blazing symbol above her head, was that of a pink bow and arrow. Shannon pretty much, had a complete makeover. She had on fresh clothes and she looked gorgeous. Shannon was wearing a hunter green, leather jacket and black, lace-up combat boots. Underneath the jacket, she had a pink blouse and she was wearing skinny jeans that fit her perfectly. There was also, a bow on her shoulder. She had a quiver of arrows that were pink. Wow, her hair was done in loose curls and fanned out and her glasses were gone. Everything really outlined her big, deep brown eyes. She really looked stunning.

Chiron was the first to speak, "All hail, Shannon Greene, Daughter of Eros, the god of love." She looked confused.

"Cupid? Like, the toddler dude who goes around shooting arrows into people's butts?" This caused some snickers in in the group. It was kind of funny, thinking your dad is a toddler.

"Seriously, is this some kind of joke?" She was honestly freaking out. From behind us, a man came up to us.

"No, this is not a joke Shannon." The man was beautiful. Not masculine or handsome, beautiful. "You, Mr. Di Angelo and Andromeda have been chosen by me personally, to go on a quest. When you meet the 4th member of your quest, I appear to you and tell you what it is. That was the prophecy."

A women appeared behind him saying, "Why Eros? Come, you must not spend anymore time with your child." The woman was the most beautiful person I'd ever seen. Her appearance seemed to shift, getting more beautiful by the second. When they left in a flash of light, the camp was in stunned silence.

For the next few days, everything went smoothly. I met up with Shannon and we did pretty much everything together. She was amazing at archery. She didn't wear her glasses anymore and she wore the jacket all the time. It suited her. Somehow, I could never mess up her hair. She liked teasing me about it. Notice I said she was amazing at archery. I wasn't horrible, not as bad as Percy, but I haven't gotten a bulls eye yet. I never missed the target though. Percy sucked. He would aim for a target and hit a tree off to the side. The dryad chased him for a while, as Shannon and I were laughing our butts off. I still hadn't gotten a weapon yet. I was pretty mediocre at everything, but Percy refused to give either of us a sword fighting lesson yet. We had an awesome time.

On June 21, I had a blast. Not just because it was the summer solstice. I was finally 15. I was no longer the, "fourteen year old," I finally was old enough to go to the beach on my own. Of course that didn't stop me before, but now I could go whenever I wanted. I hadn't told anyone it was my birthday, but Nico knew. After breakfast, I went down to the beach. I saw Nico jogging over and he sat next to me. We sat in a comfortable silence for a little while, just looking at the waves. I put my head on his shoulder and we just started talking about random stuff, how many strawberries we thought we could eat, ect... ect... Then, Nico got up and told me to follow him.

"Why?" I smirked.

He gave me a little smile and I knew he was hiding something. "You'll see," and with that, he took off towards the woods. I quickly caught up to him and I saw he was laughing.

"What's so funny?" He stopped as I asked. We were in the woods now.

"Nothing, I just really, really like spending time with you. Now, did you want a weapon, or shall you forever go on drowning emposa?" He was really close to me now. This was closer than we'd ever been before. Even though we'be been dating for over 3 months, we've never kissed or anything. I got the feeling someone was watching us, waiting for us to kiss or something. I turned and someone shouted, "Oh Come On!" Nico and I started laughing. The voice belonged to Shannon.

She came out of the bushes with Piper. They had disappointed looks on thier faces, they probably expected us to kiss or something.

"Oh, you don't have any other weapons besides your bow either, right?" Nico was inviting them to come with us. Smart move.

"Sure, Piper and I can come with you." Shannon was acting weirdly. Wait a sec, Piper and Shannon, the 2 head counselors for the god and goddess of love's cabins, oh gods, this is going to be a long day.