Only a couple of minutes later, Katt was standing beside the row of cabins with the little bit of luggage she had. She was being moved out of the Hermes cabin as she had already been claimed, but the Hades and Poseidon cabins had started a fight over who would get her. "Poseidon claimed her first!" Percy argued. "Therefore, it is only fair that she should reside in our cabin." Nico, who was there on one of his visits, scoffed. "The earthquake symbolized Hades's wish for her to be in his cabin." There was silence as the now non-existent Zeus cabin was given a chance to 'talk.' "I'm sure that was an angry rumble!" Percy yelled, getting more excitable with every passing moment. Katt let out a small groan. This could take a while.
She walked over to the feuding boys. "Maybe you should let me decide where I want to be." she said. Percy and Nico hung their heads in shame. "Anyway, wasn't there some people in the Zeus cabin during the game?" The forest had claimed its next victim. Katt strode over to the Zeus cabin and plunked her bags down inside. "After that display of manliness" she said. "I think that I don't want to join either of your cabins. I'll stick with Zeus." Percy and Nico sighed.
Katt stood in deep thought for a moment. "The missing Zeus kids." she finally said. "Tom went missing in the woods, just like them." A girl from Athena butted in. "So did one of our guards!" The campers fell silent for a moment. Out of the blue, one of the missing Zeus kids came running into camp, panic stricken. "Whatever's in the forest got my friend." he panted. "And Percy, I'm so sorry, but it got Annabeth too." Percy stood in a state of pure shock for a good couple of minutes. There had to be some sort of mistake! But it was no use. Annabeth was gone.
Katt led Percy back to the Poseidon cabin, being the only other descendant of the sea god. "Annabeth." Percy mumbled, still in a state of shock. Katt patted his shoulder sympathetically and steered him toward his bunk. She walked back outside. "I'm new to all of this." she said, "But it seems to me that the wisest course of action is to increase patrols around the forest and keep up business as usual." The campers were silent for a while. They had to admit that attacking an unknown monster was not a smart decision, but it felt like they were abandoning their friends. Then, one of the girls from the Athena cabin voiced what they were all thinking.
"I was one of Annabeth's friends." she said. "I don't like abandoning her, But I agree that it would be unwise to charge into battle blind. Good thinking Katt. Annabeth would be proud." Katt forced a sad smile. She had never met Annabeth, but she obviously meant something to all of these campers. They all staggered back to their cabins and went to bed.
The next day was Katt's first sword fighting lesson. She was asked to pick out a weapon from the armory, which had impressive numbers of monster killing weapons. She finally decided on a black single handed sword made from a material that Nico told her was called stygian iron. It felt comfortable in her hands as she walked behind Nico to officially start the lesson. Nico showed her the proper way to hold the sword and listed the properties of stygian iron. According to him, it was "better than celestial bronze" whatever that was. When she had finally mastered holding her sword, they moved on to the proper care of a deadly weapon.
When the lesson was done, Katt felt completely exhausted. Unfortunately for her, it was still early in the day. Next up on her task list of death was canoeing on the lake with Percy, who would probably work hard and push her even harder. She let out a long suffering sigh of pure agony and started on her way.
After a long walk that had done nothing to help her tired arms and legs, she had reached the boat launch. Percy was waiting for her beside a creaky old boat that had been named The King of the Seas. Katt stared at him, her eyes flicking to the boat. Percy laughed. "We're not using that boat." he said. "That one was retired a long time ago. We'll be using that one." As he said this, he pointed at a shiny new canoe that was in markedly better shape. Katt breathed out a sigh of relief. There was no way she had been going to get in that piece of junk. She helped Percy push the good boat to the water's edge and the two of them got in.
Percy showed Katt the proper way to hold the paddles and the two of them set off for a lap around the lake. It wasn't supposed to be a strenuous activity, but Katt had her doubts. From her vantage point in the tiny boat, the lake seemed huge! However, they managed to make it the entire way around the lake without getting attacked by some sort of mythical water demon, so Katt supposed that the lesson was a success. She dragged the boat ashore, completely fed up with life. She did manage to perk up a little when she realized that the next thing on her busy schedule was lunch. Her joy was short lived, vanishing when she remembered that after lunch was archery followed by a history lesson that was guaranteed to be boring. She started on the long walk back to the dining pavilion.
Lunch helped to cheer Katt up. She ate with the only other remaining member of her cabin. His name was Shaun, a nice looking guy with blonde hair and blue eyes that had already promised to teach Katt how to operate her sky powers. He gave her an ornate bracelet that was made of celestial bronze and could turn into a gauntlet at any time. And he was blushing. Obviously he had not heard the rules about not falling in love with someone with the same godly parents as you. Then a strange thought struck Katt. He had given her a piece of armor to show affection. Man, these kids were weird.
Katt left the dining pavilion feeling full and well rested. She walked down to the archery range where Chiron was waiting for her with his bow and arrows. She made her way over to him, grabbing a quiver of arrows on her way. She was definitely getting better at carrying weapons. Chiron helped her pick out a bow, and the lesson began.
"Now Katt," Chiron said in a friendly voice. "Does the bow feel better in your left or right hand?" Katt shrugged. "Left, I think."Chiron showed her how to hold the bow and shoot it so as not to injure herself. After a few minutes, she figured that she had it down. She placed the bow down, slipping the quiver off her back. She thanked Chiron profusely and started to run in order to reach history on time. As if in slow motion, she tripped and fell, sliding on the asphalt and grazing her leg. Chiron ran over to her as she lay on the ground, groaning, and stared in awe at the area where the sharp stones had broken the skin. Instead of red blood, her leg was oozing golden ichor.