(Note: Early Release due to being almost finished with Book One.)

Chapter Title: I Am Not A Happy Camper

(A/N: Chronologically, this is the first chapter, however this will be the second actual chapter of this book published (on Wattpad), and fitting as to who the POV in this one is of.. since the focus of this book, while Heroes Of Olympus, is also about Kayton too.

This chapter is sort of a recap of events from the back portion of the last book too, so spoilers if you read this chapter without having read the last book.

Warning: angst.)

I.

Just.

Want.

To.

Scream.

No really, I fucking do. Also yes.. I know.. no swearing. Well, guess what? I'm pissed off right now, so I'll fucking swear whenever the hell I want to!

And if you think that's bad, there's two other people that feel the same way as me, and we're all upset for the exact same reason right now. So I really don't have the time to be nice right now. Not when the most precious person in the world to me is gone.

If you're confused right now, let me explain.

My name is Kayla Knowles, and I'm pretty sure that at this moment, I am experiencing every single emotion that a person, let alone the daughter of a god as well as a Queen, can experience in this situation. It's all for a very simple reason. My boyfriend who's also the Monster King, Colton Reynolds, has disappeared from Camp Half Blood. He went out for a evening patrol last night and simply vanished into thin air, along with all of his gear, including the stuff for both his Whitworth and the MG42 that we have in the armory.

But it gets worse.

One of my paternal half brothers, Michael Yew, is also missing from the Apollo Cabin. Michael was the head counselor for me and my siblings from when Lee Fletcher, our older brother, stepped down from the position the summer before last. With him gone, another one of my siblings, Will Solace, took over as head counselor.

I'm a daughter of Apollo too, but technically, I'm not apart of Cabin Seven. I'm part of Cabin Fourteen, also known as the Typhon Cabin. It's a long story that my boyfriend has probably already explained to you, so no need to bore you with the details. We're the only residents of Cabin Fourteen, unless Typhon decides to make any more half bloods honorary kids of his like he did us.

Like Colton's disappearance is hard on me, Michael's disappearance is hard on the former head counselor of the Hephaestus Cabin, Jake Mason, recovering in bandages from injuries caused by being burned by the Bronze Dragon. It's not an actual dragon, it's actually an automaton dragon created by the canon in the past. It somehow went haywire despite Beckendorf's best efforts. Jake tried to stop it, but failed, ending up in a full body cast because of it.

Michael hadn't taken it really well, as Jake was his boyfriend. Yes, the two of them were gay for each other, and believe me when I say, I and the rest of camp were happy for them. But now, like me, he was suffering.

But that's not all who is missing. No, not at all. Suffice it to say, Jake and I aren't the only ones who are suffering from the disappearance of the ones who hold our hearts.

Annabeth Chase also belongs in this category since Percy Jackson, the boy who me and Colton surpassed with the help of Typhon - though we never asked for it, is also missing. He disappeared at the same time he and the other three did. A couple of nights ago.

One minute, the four affected people were with their lovers as we fell asleep - well, except Annabeth and Jake. When we woke up, they were gone, along with their weapons too. Cue two massive meltdowns that had to require assistance from the heralds, beings of elemental magic that serve me and Colton as the Monster King and Queen - again long story - having to be on hand to calm us down.

Who's the last person to be affected by these disappearances? Well, it's simple. That person would be the daughter of Zeus, one of the two lieutenants of the Hunters Of Artemis currently (thanks to Colton's power), Thalia Grace.

Her boyfriend is Luke Castellan, a former traitor to Camp Half Blood and one who my boyfriend once swore he would kill if he ever saw him again, now back with us permanently at fifteen years old, and like Colton an honorary hunter of Artemis (Thalia and I are members as well, but we stick with our boyfriends), as well as head counselor of the Kronos Cabin. Needless to say, his disappearance was not only hard on his girlfriend.

Ethan Nakamura, a dude who had redeemed himself by realizing the truth thanks to Colton transforming into the Monster King for the first time in the Battle of Manhattan, was taking Luke's disappearance very hard as well. He was a son of Nemesis, but by Kronos' blessing, he was also an honorary son of his, hence why he was in the Kronos Cabin alongside Luke and Chris Rodriguez, the boyfriend of my boyfriend's older sister Clarisse La Rue. Ethan looked up to Luke, and with him gone, the son of balance was really more angry than ever.

I didn't blame him at all.

If that wasn't all bad enough, camp is also at war. Yes, we hadn't been a month after the last war had ended before we were at war again. Why we were at war this time? It's simple, it was because of Colton and I becoming the Monster King and Queen. Our ascension to the thrones that as of two summers ago we had no idea even existed had caused a splinter faction to branch off from the forces of Gaea and the Giants, who we are slated to fight the next Great Prophecy against. Led by Porphyrion, this faction which include fellow rogue giants Periboia and Enceladus, this faction aimed to take our power for Porphyrion and his bride - most likely Hera - to use to destroy us and Gaea's forces and rule over everything.

Porphyrion was supposed to have been the first Monster King, but then he had fallen in love with Hera and started the First Giant War because of that, so Gaea had given the power to Typhon instead. It is through Typhon that Monster Kings and Queens get their power. Apparently, the now former King Of The Giants held a grudge against his mother, his father Tartarus, and Typhon because of that, since the three Giants - Porphyrion, Periboia, and Enceladus, had somehow escaped Tartarus, leading to a confrontation between us and them not even four weeks after the Battle Of Manhattan.

So yeah.. we were all basically caught between a rock and a hard place. To say that we didn't stand much of a chance, however, was definitely a major understatement, since given that me and Colton were the Monster King and Queen, we had the backing of major factions of monsters on our side (+ the Olympians side by association).

Colton had been the one who handled matters related to the monsters. But now, he was gone, and the burden of responsibility now fell to me, even with the assistance of the leader of the heralds, the fire elemental herald named Cháris who was also the oldest of the bunch.

So.. what exactly did all of this have to do - the war, the rivalry between my boyfriend and Porphyrion over the Monster King's power, the disappearances, and the now angsty natures of five very concerned, emotional teenagers - have to do with the upcoming Great Prophecy?

Well, as Annabeth, Butch from the Iris Cabin, and I fly on my former cabin's chariot - given to us by Clarisse in order to end her feud with Michael - towards the Grand Canyon, it was unfortunately about to strike us in the face. Annabeth had been receiving visions from Hera since the disappearance of Colton, Percy, Michael, and Luke, and just last night before this, Hera had given her a vision that told her that 'a hero with one shoe' as Hera put it would solve our issues.

Knowing that Colton, despite him and I being made honorary children of the Queen of the Gods, and Percy were not exactly on good terms with her, it was likely that we possibly were not going to get what we thought we were going to get, at least in my mind.

In fact, we got a whole lot more than we bargained for.