Chapter 5

*Sadies POV*

Okay I have had enough secrets. First Carter didn't tell me that Zia had broken up with him, which I'm itching to find out about, and then Annabeth tells us all about the secret Demigod Camp that lies on the tip of long island. I was not a very Happy Sadie at all.

Annabeth made us get back onto a bus and take the long drive all the way out to Camp Half Blood. She didn't tell me much about the camp. She seemed to want to keep that a secret.

"Just until we talk to Chiron." She said when I asked.

Even though she wouldn't tell us about her camp. She wanted to know all about Egyptian magic and the way we live. In true Sadie style I couldn't keep my mouth shut. I wanted to, things would just slip out like when I told Carter we would have to send a fire message back to the house. Carter kept giving me these looks that said, "Shut up…"

After a while I got sick of the looks and turned around. "Hey. Stop looking at me like that. We'd have to tell Chiron, whoever he is, about us anyway. Besides if you hadn't blabbed and told her we were Egyptian she would have let us go anyway."

Carter just shook his head. This was his way of saying 'okay whatever.' I knew it well.

"I'm not holding you prisoner, you know." Annabeth said quietly as I turned back to face forward.

"I don't know. You're taking us out into the middle of nowhere. We could be stuck out here or YOU might not be holding us prisoner but Chiron might."

"Chiron's not like that. And you can't tell me you don't want to see camp now that you know about."

"We'll see and trust me I have had enough magic to last a life time.

Chiron. He was not what I was expecting. An elderly old man that ran a camp of teenagers, yes but what I didn't expect was the horse legs. Two of them. His dark eyes stared intently at Carter, Walt and I. I was reminded of Iskander, the once leader of the house of life.

We were standing on the veranda of an old farm house. Annabeth had lead us straight there. As we had passed a giant lone pine tree on the hill Annabeth bowed her head and the world around me shimmered for a second.

"I knew this day had come."

Annabeth just glared at him. She kind of scared me with those grey eyes. "You just love keeping secrets, don't you Chiron? That always seems to happen with these all important quest. Maybe you should just tell us next time, so we can PREPARE!" She said in an airy voice.

"Hey! Annabeth! I'm back."

I spun around.

A guy was leaning against the railing right behind me. He had dark black hair and his eyes were green. He seemed to radiate power and smelled of the sea. His mouth was curled at the edges with laugh lines.

"I'm Percy Jackson. I know everything. You're Sadie Kane and your brother is Carter Kane."

I was bewildered until Annabeth muttered "Iris Message!"

I shrugged. A message is a message.

"Percy. Good thing your back. I have a quest for you all."