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Percy's eyes slowly creak open. Blonde hair is tumbling around his face. Annabeth smiles. "You drool when you sleep," she giggles and moves away. Percy lets out a moan as he sits up on the couch. He wipes the moist drool from his check and looks at Annabeth who's standing in front of him.
"You missed the first monster I killed," Percy says. "Well second."
Annabeth looks at him. "What do you mean?"she asks sitting on the couch beside him. Percy instantly feels better as he shared Annabeth's warmth. He didn't know why he brought it up. He just felt like Annabeth needed to know.
"Well, the first was this weird old lady that was one of my kindergarten teachers. She took me outside and attacked me," Percy says.
Annabeth's grey eyes roll up to examine him. "And?" She asks.
"We were by the bike racks so I pushed a bike on her and she disintegrated. Into dust or powder something. When I told the teacher, she didn't know who the lady was or anything."
"Really?" Annabeth asks.
"Yeah."
"What was the second?" Annabeth asks. She didn't understand how the teacher couldn't remember the lady and Percy still seemed pretty shaken up from the experience.
"When you left we didn't notice because this bull in a diaper with big horns came to us. My dad told me to kill it all by myself. But I didn't have any weapon. So I tried to punch it and kick it. It got mad and swung its arms and it hit Bianca and Nico. They went flying. While my dad checked on them I got really mad and jumped onto its back. I pulled off its horn and used it as a sword."
Annabeth smiles and remembers that she was told to bring Percy out once he woke up.
Annabeth grabs Percy's hand and leads him out if the room. They walk up to the man Percy saw talking with his dad earlier. He smelled like sour grapes and was playing a card game with the horse guy and Luke.
"Mr.D?" Annabeth asks tugging on the edge of his shirt. "This is Percy."
Mr.D looks down at Percy then back at his cards.
"Welcome to Camp Half-Blood, blah, blah, blah," he says as he examines his cards.
The horseman looks at Mr.D. "My name is Chiron by the way," he says smiling. "I can get someone to show you around camp. Grover?"
The guy Anaabeth saw before comes out of another room. He has no pants on and no shoes. His legs are covered in brown fur and his feet have hooves. Annabeth stares at him.
"You're a satyr." Annabeth says.
Grover smiles. He motions for Annabeth, Percy, Nico, Thalia and Luke to follow him. They pass by the archery station, forest, lava wall and stop at the cabins. He points at the two in the middle.
"Zeus, Hera," he says.
Bianca asks the question that's on everyone's mind. "Why are they empty?"
"Hera's a maiden and Zeus, Poseidon and Hades aren't allowed to have children.
"Zeus had Thalia," Luke mutters leaning against the cabin.
"Poseidon had Percy," Annabeth says gesturing to her friend.
"Hades had us." Bianca says.
"Mr.D doesn't believe you. And Chiron is confused," Grover says. "The big 3 breaking the oath not even two years apart from each other? Not possible."
Grover continues and shows them the girls cabin on the left. Aphrodite, Demeter, Artemis and Athena.
"How come the Artemis cabin is empty?" Annabeth wonders out loud. Grover quickly explains how she is a maiden too. When they pass the Athena cabin Annabeth stops and tells Grover that's her moms cabin.
"No," Grover says. "Until you're properly claimed we don't know that for sure."
After this Annabeth kept her arms crossed and eyes in slits. Grover then showed them the boys cabins. Poseidon, Hermes, Dionysus, Apollo, Ares and Hephaestus.
"Where's the Hades cabin?" Bianca asks.
Grover looked a little nervous thinking about how he's going to tell the daughter of Hades.
"Hades technically isn't one of the twelve Olympians," he says. "Therefore he doesn't have a cabin."
Now Bianca and Annabeth have something in common. There both terribly frustrated. Flabbergasted too.
Grover continues and introduces them to the Hermes cabin. After the tour, he tells them dinner is in a few hours and also mentions that they should try and take part in activities.
Annabeth, Percy, Bianca and Nico drop the idea and sit in a corner of the cramped cabin and talk.
Luke starts taking with this other guy and they keep on laughing and high-fiving as if they were old friends or something.
Hours pass and soon you can here bells in the distance. The oldest looking guy stands at the cabin door and everyone cramps into a line behind him. He opens the door and they all begin to march towards what Grover said was the dining pavilion.
They all sit down at one picnic table and Percy's butt was only half on the wooden beam.
Annabeth looked longingly at her own cabin and wished that her mother would just claim her.
Percy looks above her head. "There's something glowing on your head," he says fiddling with his shirt. Annabeth looks up and smiles at the glowing symbol.
Chiron takes interest and smiles. "All hail Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena; goddess of wisdom and battle strategy," he announces. He does this weird horse bow thing and everyone does the same except Nico, Bianca and Percy who are looking at Annabeth in shock.
Annabeth's cheeks redden like apples and soon everyone goes back to their normal activity.
"You have to leave this table now," some kid with red hair and freckles says.
Annabeth smiles, "Gladly." She scoots back and out from the bench and walks over to her mothers table where there's a lot more room.
Percy looks around and sees some of the people at his table have their plates filled. "Where'd you get the food?" Percy asks.
"Tell your plate and cup what you want and you'll get it," a girl with short brown hair says.
Percy smiles sadly at his plate. He remembers when his mom used to make all his food blue. Gabe said it was stupid but she did it anyways. His favorite color was blue and she had always told Percy she was magic for being able to do that. Percy was on the verge of tears so he looks at his plate and says fries and chicken nuggets. Classic. Then he looks at his cup and asks for Sprite.
He's about to stick a fry into his open mouth when the same girl scolds him.
"Sacrifice!" She yells. Percy drops the crispy yellow fry.
"What?" Bianca asks.
She stands up and everyone else does except for three. Wonder who. She simply waves her hand for them to follow.
They squeeze in line behind her and she begins to explain. "We scrape some food into the fire for the gods. Say the name of the god and you can add something if you want."
She scrapes a big juicy steak into the fire and mummers something under her breath. She turns and smiles at them then heads back to the wooden table.
Percy looks t the blazing fire as it illuminates heat onto his face. He takes a small midget fry and drops it in. "Uh, Poseidon," he decides then leaves. Why Gould he sacrifice all his good food? They got plenty already.
Instead of walking back to the Hermes table, he neglects it and heads to the Athena table. He looks down at Annabeth who looks really bored. Her chin is resting in one hand and the other is fiddling with a carrot.
She looks up at him then continues swirling her baby carrot in a pile of ranch dressing. "No one Percy." She says. "No one here is my age. They don't think I'm smart enough. They think I'm oblivious but I can tell." She seems sorta riled up like she's gone mad from the heat or something.
Percy smiles at her and Bianca and Nico come over too.
Annabeth looks at them and tells them her issue. Another guy across from Annabeth looks at her.
"Annabeth your plenty smart. You're just so young. I think we all have some jealously piling up in our guts," he says.
Another girl that looks like the guy with the same blonde curly hair and tan skin speaks up,"I think Jerry's right. I'm Susan by the way,"she smiles at Annabeth. "He's my brother. I feel like mostly the really old people here think that maybe mom has some favoritism towards you."
"My mom left with my dad. Do you find that as favoritism?" Annabeth asks.
"Our dad worked at a big company in Massachusetts. We were pretty spoiled but our dad didn't really know us, ya know? We were left with nannies constantly-" Susan says.
"And we always asked if momma would come take care of us too. The nannies said they don't know our mom and if she'd come," Jerry adds.
Percy, Bianca and Nico somehow end up sitting on the edge if the bench of the Athena cabin.
"So how'd you end up here?" Percy asks.
Susan shrugs,"Out dad didn't know that our mom was a Greek goddess. He didn't know why twins just showed up on his porch. When we were twelve, we ended up here on a class field trip visiting Manhattan. A monster showed up, chased us a little-"
"And our friend Fay followed us," Jerry continues. "She was a satyr and easily led us to camp." A/N: Can girls be satyrs? Somebody tell me because I really don't know.
"That's cool..." Percy says as he dips a fry in ketchup. "How old are you now?"
"Thirteen," Susan says but she and Jerry look a little uncomfortable. They begin to have a silent conversation with their eyes. Jerry gives her a look and Susan shoots one back but then she bobs her head up and down.
She sighs and opens her mouth,"You guys?"
"Yeah?" Bianca asks.
"We really like you and all...but if Dionysus sees you here..." She looks at her brother.
"It won't be pretty," Jerry finishes off, getting right to the point.
"Who's Dionysus?" Percy asks.
"The wine dude," Jerry says. "Mr.D." He nods his head in his direction.
"He doesn't seem very happy to be here," Bianca says. She watches Mr.D scold the water which she finds really weird. By the blink of an eye, he's soaked. That's what he gets for scolding water she shrugs.
"Oh believe me, he's not," Susan says.
"Then why's he here?" Annabeth asks.
"His daddy, Zeus, made him," Jerry says.
"How come?" Nico asks. Is that all he says?
Susan shrugs,"I think he chased an animal or something. Not sure why that's a crime though. I chased my dog all the time."
Annabeth laughs,"So-"
"Excuse me!" A voice shrieks. The six of them look up. A very angry person is staring at them, arms crossed, foot taping. That makes it serious.
"Uh, Mr.D, they were just sitting here because they had a mathematical question they couldn't answer," Susan says quickly.
Mr.D huffs,"Do I look stupid?" He demands slamming his hand on the table. "Don't you think I thought you would have an answer like that? Well I did! It doesn't take fifteen minutes to answer one question!"
Jerry pipes up,"We just had to go into detail. You know us Athena kids! Always going into detail..." He mummers.
"Yeah," Susan says. "And then we got sidetracked. Talking about...More math. Gotta love that math!" She says through converged teeth.
"You hate math," Jerry says to her sister. She quickly nudges him with her elbow to shut him up.
Mr.D obviously didn't believe it,"I'll let it slide because its your first day," he says then walks away.
Jerry smiles,"he never let's things slide. And you didn't even have to go back to the Hermes table."
Susan stands up,"Dinner is done anyways. You should be happy he didn't make you do dishes."
"Probably because their so young," Jerry says standing too.
"See ya," Susan says waving to them as she and Jerry walk away.
Annabeth smiles at her three friends. "Wish you could come to the Hermes cabin with us," Percy sighs.
Annabeth laughs,"Thanks but no thanks."
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