Cleo POV

My friends and I stared at the two strangers, who looked dumbstruck. Without even lifting a finger, my snakes appeared and twisted themselves around the boy and the girl.

"Omigosh, I'm so sorry." I started to free them but Emma intervened and froze my snakes, leaving our, 'guests' hovering in the air.

"What was that for? Rikki?" I said indignantly.

"Cleo, they know our secret."

" So?" I knew I was being annoying but I continued. "They don't know all of it. They can't expose us if we don't let them. Every one would just think they were crazy."

"Cleo?" Oh, I've always hated when she uses that voice. It's the voice she would use to talk to a pouting three-year old. "Do we really want to go that far?"

I stuttered, "Well,I...", but the girl, who was still encased in that frozen column and had been listening all the while, spoke up.

"Are you a demigod?"

"Demi-what now?" Emma asked warily. I could tell she thought they were insane.

"Dem i gods" The girl over enunciated loudly.

"I heard you the first time," Emma snapped. " I just wasn't sure if I had heard you correctly, or maybe you said it meaning something else." She was obviously miffed about how this girl talked to her as if she was a toddler. I grinned to myself and thought, don't dish is out if you can't take it yourself.

I studied our 'prisoners' carefully. The girl had honey- coloured tresses that cascaded down her back in loose curls and a tanned, lean, body .She looked like a model, excluding her deep, stormy, grey eyes that seemed to study carefully everything she saw. The boy had jet-black hair that was faded a bit, with eyes that were the precise, green shade of a ocean. He was tanned and muscular as well, and I got the feeling that, if we didn't have our powers and tried to fight them, we would be dead.

"So, are you?"the boy asked.

"Um, I don't think so?" Bella replied.

"She's right," the stormy eyed girl said. "How else could they survive this long?" She turned to survey us critically. "I guessing you all are about sixteen or seventeen, and you all have cell phones." We nodded and she looked satisfied. "See?"

The green eyed boy persisted, " Then how are they doing this? Do you have both sets of parents?" Bella and Rikki shook their heads, but Emma and I nodded. " Um, do you have a step-parent?" This time I nodded but Emma still shook her head. "Weird. Annabeth?"

The blonde girl rolled her eyes. "If I knew I would tell you, Seaweed Brain."

"You mean the daughter of Athena actually doesn't know something?"

"Shut up, Kelp Head."

"Athena?" Emma asked. " As in the Greek goddess of war strategy and wisdom?" This time the girl nodded cautiously. "Maybe, but..."

"I think we should take them the camp." the boy broke in.

" You're taking us where?" an outraged Rikki burst out. I had almost forgotten about her, she had been so uncharacteristically silent.

"To Camp Half-Blood. I'm Percy, and this is Annabeth. We think you're half-bloods like us."

Annabeth POV

I didn't understand how incredibly tired I was. After a hour long discussion with the girls, they finally believed we weren't trying to kidnap or, "expose them", as they put it. They told us they were staying at an hotel, but wouldn't tell us where or why. Not that I could blame them on the 'where' part. I mean, pretty sure that you are NOT supposed to tell random strangers your address. Especially not ones that tell you you are a child of a myth and are trying to take you to a random camp. Seaweed brain's way of telling them didn't exactly prove our sanity either. But I had a strange feeling their 'why' reason was connected to us.

Percy and I had decided to take them to Mrs. Jackson's apartment and Iris-message Chiron about the girls, who were named Cleo,Emma, Rikki and Bella. Mrs. Jackson was kind to all the girls, but she seemed a little aloof to Cleo and with a jolt I realised why. Cleo was only a little bit younger than Percy, so that meant, that if Cleo was a Poseidon child, not even a year after Mrs. Jackson had Percy, Poseidon had found a new love. Cleo didn't seemed daunted though, by her standoffishness. Indeed, she barely seemed to notice it.

After I had contacted Chiron, he promised to send Blackjack and some other pegasi to take us back to camp. I looked around the room and saw Cleo staring of into space with an dreamy expression.

"Cleo?"

Cleo POV

Flashback

I hauled myself out of the moon pool with a satisfied moan. "Its back" I told the others.

" But, how?" Bella whimpered slightly, looking fearful. " Who cares?" I leaned back against the newly repaired wall lazily and then shot back up. "It, it needs us to do something." I told the others.

"What? How can you... Oh." She has touched the volcanic wall. I smiled. We looked at each other, then took Rikki's and Emma's hands and pressed them to the wall. They struggled a bit, then smiled grimly. We knew what to do. The next morning I woke up on a small, trash-covered beach. I felt a wave of fury wash through me. How dare some one pollute this beach. Rikki seemed to voice my thoughts. "If I ever find out who did this, they are so dead" she snarled, furiously kicking a tin can out of sight.

"By the way, not to be a downer or anything, but where are we? Bella asked. " New York" Emma replied grimly, pointing to a tall building that poked over the horizon, and a sign that said, ' Welcome to New York City' " What?" I screamed.

" Cleo, Cleo!" Annabeth materialised in front of me, looking worried. "Are you okay?"

" Yeah, I'm fine." I lied. Annabeth didn't look convinced, but Percy appeared too, announcing to us,

"Blackjack is here!" Great. Camp Half-Blood, here I come.