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i will start off with a plot and you have to continue it with 3-4 sentences. try to limit the # of sentences, it wouldn't be fair if one person did 3-4 and another did like 20! its has to stay on topic. lets see where it goes! remember to relate and continue the story. you could add in silly/randome things as long as they sorta make sense.

okay here's the start up

There once was a kid named Kalrius. He was the Son of Apollo. He figured out he was a half-blood when he met Percy at school one day.

Fair enough, stick with the forums it is.

Now sorry i got a bit carried away with this post...

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As i walked towards the arena for some sword practice time, Travis and Conner caught up with me. "BUSTED!" They shouted as they caught up with me.

"Once those photos are printed your going to be in soooo much trouble" Travis said mockingly.

"I wonder if what Dionysus will do when he finds out, after all its been a while since we had a good squirrel hunt," Connor mentioned suggestively. They both drifted away as i approached the Arena doors, neither of them had the guts or the skill to fight me, and didn't want to give me the chance to get revenge, how little they knew.

Inside the training arena there were several pairs practicing their swordsmanship already, the only unpartnered person left was Kalrius. I walked over to him.

"So Kalrius, do you have any combat training in any way shape or form? You know martial arts, fencing, etc" I asked, (as I'm now invincible i end up training new recruits, they can't hurt me by accident).

Kalrius looked nervously at me, "erm, I'm afraid not Percy, i have never been a violent person, its not I'm my nature."

Great i thought, another whole set of basic training to do again. "Okay, well lets start off with a few defensive moves." Gradually i showed him the twelve basic sword attacks and how to block each of them.
We then moved on to practicing the moves in sequence. Over the next hour we slowly advanced to faster speeds until Kalrius felt confident with the basic moves.

I stopped us at the end of the hour. "Okay now you've got a basic grasp of swordsmanship we're going to have a little sparring." I held one arm behind my back and fought single handedly, (to give him a bit of a chance). Kalrius swung for an up cutting blow to my left arm, I span riptide up to meet it with ease, then stepped backwards allowing him to rebalance.

"Come on you can do better than that," this time he feinted a mid right slash but swung his blade down to my knee at the last moment, with the pommel of riptide i hit the side of his sword nudging it of course, but when he followed up with a kick to my chest i had to dive to the left instead of knocking the sword out of his hands.

"That was innovative, are you sure you've never done anything like this before," i reiterated my question from earlier.

"Nope, I've never done anything this cool before," He said whilst launching a flurry of jabs and slices at my torso. Cockily i slapped his blade aside by the flat of it and whipped riptide up to his jaw. "Surrender?"

"No way this is so much fun," he said whilst surprising me by spinning his sword in a circle and knocking riptide from under his jawbone. During our next blow he looked at me quizzically, "Is it true what Conner was saying about Annabeth and you this morning" he queried.

At that i regret to say i lost my temper and slammed his sword out of the way with riptide before looping my foot around his ankle and pulling him to the floor. I pinned him with riptide resting against his neck. "For your own good, don't listen to those jerks. And the story they are telling is a bunch of lies, Annabeth was in my cabin but we were not sleeping together, its a long story..." (okay so i kinda lied, its necessary sometimes)

From the corner of my eye i spotted a shield spinning through the air at my head and instinctively I removed my left arm from behind my back and snatched it out of the air, barely even looking. I had a strange feeling of water dribbling down the shield and looked up just in time to see Mrs O'Leary flying after her Frisbee shield before she slammed into me, sending me flying.

Annabeth walked over, "And that is how you beat an invincible person," she said smirking at me whilst Mrs O'Leary licked my face. Her presence made me feel much better and washed away my stirring anger.

I got up slowly pushing Mrs O'Leary off of me, i turned to face Kalrius and gave him a hand up. "Sorry i got so angry, its just those two morons have driven me up the wall for the last few years. No hard feelings?"

Kalrius looked at me, "None at all," he said looking at the knife he had poking just a centimeter from my chest. I looked down in shock, "How on earth did that get there," i said roaring in laughter. "Well played Kalrius, i'll make an expert out of you at sometime."

A horn sounded and we looked around for the source of it, there on Half Blood hill, a shining silver band in her hair, stood Thalia.

We all stood there for a couple of seconds like idiots, then Annabeth ran toward the hill, crying "Thalia!!" I was about to explain to Kalrius who Thalia was, but then, Artemis appeared right next to me out of nowhere. I freaked and instinctively swiped my sword. Luckily, she caught my hand, and that was when i saw who it was. "Persues." She said calmly and i felt my face go red. "I'M SO SORRY! i j-just freaked...sorry." I stammered, but her face told me she wasn't concerned about that. "We have some mattered to discuss. I've talked to Chiron and he had agreed for you, Kalrius, and Annabeth to chat for a while together. Meet me in the Big House in twenty minutes." She said calmly, and she let go of my hand, looked at me hardly in the eyes, then she walked off to join Mr. D.

I stood there watching Annabeth and Thalia coming back to join us slowly, chatting to each other and catching up on the events of the past year.

Kalrius moved up beside me, "Percy," he spoke quietly "this may seem a little odd, but how did you and Annabeth start going out?"

I looked at him curiously, I've never had anyone ask me for tips on their love life before, "If you planning any move on Thalia dont waste your time, shes vowed never to fall in love.." I said, but his face didn't show any change in emotion except for a slightly strange look he gave me.

"I don't mean Thalia, I, well I kind of like that Haley O'Donnell from Hephaestus' cabin," he shuffled uncomfortably, seeming to regret mentioning it.

I smiled, "Its nothing to be shamed of, I would give you advice on it all but, well i don't really know how exactly Annabeth and I got so close, we simply did like it was destiny with perhaps some influence from Aphrodite. We went on so many quests and relied on each other to save our lives so often, we simply fell into love.." I paused, "Well you've got off to a good start by healing her the other day." A smirk appearing on my face, "now, here come the girls so shh for now, we can talk later about this."

Thalia and Annabeth finally reached us, "Hey Perce long time no see, how the Hades are you?"

I smiled, Thalia had a way with words "I'm fine thanks, just admiring your new Death to barbie T-shirt," i said commenting on her T-shirt depicting barbie with a bullet hole in the face and her limbs charred. "You haven't changed much,"

She smiled back at me "course i haven't seaweed, I'm immortal unlike you."

We all cracked up at that, except Kalrius who didn't get the reference, for the first time Thalia noticed him. "So who would this young man be?"

"This is Kalrius, son of Apollo. Kalrius this is Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus and a Hunter of Artemis."

Thalia glared at me,(not a very nice experience) "Percy, i don't use my surname for a reason.. also it is First Lieutenant of the Hunters of Artemis as well. So i hear you've been causing more trouble again Percy, why is it always you?"

"I don't try to, its just everything seems to follow me..." I froze, something followed us from school, something barged the Grey Sisters taxi, and now something was in the camp, i decided not to mention it until the meeting.

"Percy wake up sleepy head," Annabeth's voice pulled me back into alertness, "Do you really need a power nap now? or will every other 5 minutes suit you."

I grinned, realizing how daft i must have looked suddenly stopping mid speech and standing there, "Well i was just thinking," I glanced at my watch "we should be going to the big house now."

I slipped my arm around Annabeth's waist and we walked off towards the great house. Kalrius and Thalia tagging along behind us..

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Sorry i am really getting carried away writing this story, come of other people feel free to contribute, we are just making this story up as we go along!

Annabeth, Thalia, and I arrived at the Big House and entered. The 3 of us walked into the main room to find Chiron, Mr. D, and Artemis all standing there looking grim. Well, Chiron and Artemis did. Mr. D just looked bored and bleary.

"Sit," Chiron said. "As you all know, these past few days at camp have seen some truly strange occurrences. At least, stranger than usual. The arrival of Kalrius with his, ah, talent, and these mysterious attacks and explosions. I am disturbed by these happenings, but if possible, I am even more disturbed by the answers we may have possibly uncovered."

I raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"

Chiron continued. "These attacks were not caused by any monster that may have slipped inside the borders. Our only conclusion is that whatever it was has been caused by someone inside the camp. And this is what disturbs me, and what it means for us, and unfortunately, for Kalrius."

Annabeth piped up, and she sounded a little confused. "I still don't get what this has to-"

"Here." Chiron thrust forth his hand. "This was recently found near the site where Annabeth was attacked."

What I saw chilled my blood, and filled me with thoughts of anguish for Kalrius. It was a fragment of a rose petal woven from metal wire.

I stammered into speech. "B-but you can't possibly mean--Haley?! That's absurd!"

"We cannot be sure, but we have no choice. For the moment, she is our prime suspect. Haley is relatively new to Camp Half Blood, and the first of the explosions did occur at the Hephaestus cabin."

Thalia spoke. "Do you think we should confront her, question her?"

Artemis replied, "I do not think so. We have no definite reason to accuse this girl, and I will not have a maiden falsely charged. I think the wisest course of action is to simply watch her closely for now. And make sure no one grows too....close to her."

I chuckled dryly. "Don't worry, I don't think we have to worry abou..-" I tailed off as a thought hit me, and I turned to Annabeth. "Kalrius!" Her eyes widened in understanding, and followed me running out of the Big House. We dashed off looking for Kalrius. We got to the Arena, out of breath, and I saw him out of the corner of my eye. I turned around to see him some ways off, talking to someone. I looked closer, and realized it was Haley. As I watched, she turned to leave, and he placed his hand on her shoulder. She turned back to face him, looked up into his eyes, and she kissed him in a warm embrace.

I stood there in shock as Annabeth caught up with me and looked on with me. She groaned, "Damn it! This is going to complicate things." I stood beside her nodding in agreement, i felt awful, if i hadn't encouraged him he would be fine, he would not have been confident enough... Annabeth almost like she was reading my mind turned and hugged me, "Percy, it's not your fault no one could have known."

"It is, all my fault, if i hadn't encouraged him!" As we continued watching they broke apart and separated, Haley heading back over towards her Hephaestus cabin friends, Kalrius standing there watching her go with a stupefied expression of radiant happiness shining from his face.

Artemis appeared next to me suddenly, moving more stealthily that I would have thought possible, frowning with distaste upon the closeness of Annabeth and I. "Tis good that you did not join The Hunters Annabeth" She said, "for your love was would have forced you to have broken your oath all too soon." Annabeth looked at me a smile playing upon her lips.

I turned to face Artemis "My Lady is there aught else that could have been in the woods? Could it have been a coincidence?" I implored for her to say anything, anything except that which i knew was likely to be true.

"Perseus whilst I am forever sworn a maiden, I understand your anguish for Kalrius and the love he feels, yet we must hope that there is indeed no other way for the alternatives would be far worse than betrayal." Artemis looked down at me, "do not let your guard down and trust my nephew to do the right thing when he discovers the truth as we perceive it." She smiled for a second, "though if he is anything like my brother he will cause more problems than he solves."

She started glowing and Annabeth and I turned on the spot to avoid being burnt to crisp.

We walked back towards the big house, where Chiron waited upon the threshold to inform us of his plan for surveillance and to plan how we would proceed from then on.

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We reached Chiron and sat on the porch. "Now, we need to come up with a surveillance method that will enable us to keep an eye on things without so many campers knowing that the culprit will be tipped off. Miss Chase, do you have any ideas?"

Annabeth cocked her head in thought, then her eyes lit up. "Video shields!" she exclaimed. "I can use the info on the Daedalus computer and design a multi-location terminal console, that can survey the entire camp."

Chiron said, "An excellent idea, Annabeth. Now I will leave it up to you to design it and Jake Mason of Hephaestus will build it. Argus will man the console, this way as few people as possible will know about it. Let me know when you are ready to for Jake to build it. Meanwhile, I'll notify Argus and designate a room for its use......"

My concentration trailed off as I looked around. About 50 yards away I noticed a girl with wild, white hair, with her head tilted as if straining to listen. A thought occured to me, but then I dismissed it. "NO, no I thought, that's impossible. She couldn't be...listening." As I watched, she seemed to notice me staring at her. Only then did I notice a faint green aura glowing about her, which faded as she straightened up and ran off. I couldn't remember who she was, or what to make of it.

"Percy," said Chiron, "Is anything wrong?"

"No," I said distractedly, "nothing's wrong." Chiron left us and went inside. Annabeth slide up to me and gave me a warm inviting hug. She said, "Hey, seaweed brain, a sand dollar for your thoughts?" However, when she saw my face, her demeanor changed. "Percy, what's wrong? Are you feeling all right?"

Feeling! That was it. No, I wasn't feeling right, everything was feeling wrong. All of a sudden everything fell into place, it was all so clear.


"Annabeth, think about all that has happened in the past two days. We were supposed to meet on the corner of First Avenue and 70th Street to go to the movies. I suddenly discover a classmate is one of us, and I bring him along to meet you. However, what met us at that corner, a dozen Empousai all too ready to kill you, me, and Kalrius. Necessitating our taking an unplanned leave of absence from school. Then our ride to camp, we had two gods with us and yet the cab was still attacked. We get to camp and there is this horrible explosion and Kalrius has this incredible mysterious power and saves Hallie's life. Yesterday morning you almost get killed by who knows what, and if it were not for Kalrius you would be dead. And finally last night we barely escaped that same danger. Isn't it clear that someone or something is out to kill you and Kalrius."

"Annabeth do you feel anything that you have felt before. It was so clear to me but I didn't want to say it". I had to know that she sensed it too. She looked at me with a quizzical look, that suddenly turned dark, furled, and comprehending. She looked at me like she did not want this to be true. "Percy, I..I do feel darkness, evil that I haven't felt since I was fleeing for my life from the witchcraft that wanted to kill me on Circe's Island. Oh Percy, Circe is a daughter of Hecate and now her children are campers. Percy what does it mean?"

I didn't know what to say she too had figured out this nightmare. Dared I think no less say that a child of Hecate was hell bent on killing her for vengence.

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Sorry, this the third time I typed it at times I really hate computers.

"Tracy Hoax," I whispered the name, fear in her voice. "She's going to be after us both now... Kalrius as well maybe, but us definitely." I held Annabeth more tightly, "I won't let anything else happen to you, not so long as i live" I promised.

"But Percy, we can't stay together always, we'll always be in danger, in cabins anywhere where we can't guard each others backs." Annabeth looked at me her face morbidly worried. "Your back especially," she whispered moving her hand down to my lower back. My gut twinged, I glanced around checking that no one was watching, as far as I could see there was no one near by.

I thought for a moment, the place where I was strongest was near water, it was the safest place that we could be, in the ocean almost nothing or no one could pose a threat to me, a son of Poseidon. "Annabeth, there is one place we could go, my fathers palace would be safe for us, not even Hecate would dare threaten us there..." Annabeth placed a hand on my chest and with the gesture silenced me.

"Percy, we cannot run away from her, however I must agree that we will only be truly safe together," Annabeth stated. "Now remember our first good kiss? How are your air bubble skills these days?" A smile appearing on her face for the first time at our treasured memory. I grinned also at the memory not exactly getting what she was on about it for, it was not like we could sleep underwater in a bubble. Her words suddenly made sense, if the safest place for us was underwater and together, then that was exactly where we would be.

Annabeth freed herself from my arms, "now I need to go make some arrangements, not to mention talking to Chiron about our ideas and getting some permission for our little escapade, I don't want to be expelled. Go pack us some stuff and then keep it hidden, she pulled on her cap and vanished suddenly, "Don't worry I will be keeping safe," a disembodied voice called to me before an invisible set of lips kissed me.

As I walked towards the cabins I thought about how we would actually deal with this Tracy Hoax girl, we could hide and we could defend ourselves but none of it would be to any avail unless we could deal with the core issue, the longer she was free to roam around free the more chance there was that one of her ambushes would succeed, as somebody famous once said 'the best defense is a good offense'... We could discuss that tonight however.

I reached the Athena Cabin and poked my head inside, no one was there. I walked over to Annabeth's bed amused by the memory of how she was generally incredibly hostile to anyone who touched her stuff. I packed some clothes and toiletries, it was only going to be one night for now. I saw a bag of peanuts sitting by the foot of Annabeth's bed, I would be paying a little visit to the cooking pot with those, see how the Stoll's felt after a bit of Peanut soup for dinner.

After I stashed the peanuts in my pocket, I headed toward the Apollo cabin. If you've never been in there, consider yourself lucky. There were people all crammed onto bunks and iPods, laptops, and most of all, solar panels covering the cabin. I found Kalrius in a bunk and told him about what we had figured out. He agreed and quickly packed his things. I found a shock of how much stuff he already had gotten. He had managed to stash some Coke (we weren't allowed to have outside drinks, but if you knew the right guy in Hermes's cabin, he could slip you some drinks), some cool gadgets, and his clothes. We met Chiron and Annabeth near my cabin. I was packing my things while Chiron was talking.
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Chiron looked uneasy as he talked to us. "Percy, Annabeth, I understand your desire to stay safe together, but I need you two here at camp for now. The video-shield network is almost online, and Argus and I will do everything we can to keep you all safe. Please, consider what I am saying. If you two go into hiding underwater in the sea, yes, you will be protected by Percy's powers, but you will be outside the camp borders, and thus more vulnerable to attack. It will be much better if you--"

An explosion shook us off our feet. This was different, though. The tremors kept up, and grew stronger. Chiron quickly slung us on his back and galloped off towards the source of it, towards the new cabins. What I saw didn't make any sense, though. Multi-colored, pulsating globes of energy were exploding all around. It got weirder when I saw a green globe explode right on a tree, but instead of being reduced to a crater, everything in its blast radius had been turned to...sparrows, flying around and chirping. A thought hit me: the Hecate cabin was built from magical stones. If one of them had shattered...

"Chiron!!" I shouted over the din. "Take us to the Hecate cabin!" He changed course and headed towards it. The maze of explosions grew thicker, and we had to walk carefully to avoid them. Finally, we arrived at the Hecate cabin. I took one look, and saw the problem: a huge chunk had been blown away from the wall, and little multi-colored sparks were flying from the wall, which grew into pulsing globes as they sped away. Chiron stepped back, raised his hand, and shouted something in Ancient Greek, which I translated as: "O GODS, CEASE THIS DISCORD!" Immediately, the globes faded and vanished. We looked around and surveyed the damage. Large chunks of landscape were missing, and odd assorted things covered the area: birds, insects, flowers. Some areas had been turned completely to stone. I did a quick check and was relieved; no campers had been caught in the blasts.

Chiron turned to us. "We must get to the Big House, review the video recordings." We agreed, and rode off. In a few minutes, we were through the front door, rushing to the video room. Argus was already there, madly typing on the console as different images of the camp flashed by on the shield monitors.

"Well?" Chiron asked Argus. The eyes on the back of his head darted nervously. he hit several keys on the console and one monitor switched to a recording of the Hecate cabin, several minutes ago. As I watched, someone sneaked up to the side of the cabin, placed a jar full of green liquid next to the wall, and ran off. A second later, I watched as the Greek Fire blew up, blasting a crater into the side of the wall. It began to spark, and soon the globes were exploding all around. Argus paused the recording and looked back at us.

Annabeth reached over Argus and started tapping on the console. "I'm going back to the part where the Greek fire was planted," she explained. The monitor image froze on the saboteur, and zoomed in. It was a girl with dark red hair. I was devastated as, from a close-up angle, I watched Haley straighten up, smirk, and run off. Argus ended the recording. We all stood around, stunned.

"Come on," I said miserably. "We need to find Kalrius. He needs to see this."

I ran down to Apollo cabin but no one was there. As I turned, trying to see Kalrius, I noticed a small group of campers near the Arena. When I reached the Arena there were several groups of campers with Apollo campers at each. A number of people had been superficially injured, and there slings and bandages galore. Finally I saw Kalrius, but I didn't like what I saw or heard.

"Shut up, you liar, where the hell you get an idea like that?!" bellowed Kalrius. "I won't shut up, I saw her leave something next to the cabin just before the first explosion!" yelled Connor Stoll. "Your an idiot, she wasn't anywhere near the cabin!" returned Kalrius. "She was with me when the explosion went off!"

Running to join the group, I yelled, "Stop!" just after each had thrown their first punch. "That will be enough! Connor, Kalrius, and Haley come with me right now to see Chiron. Everyone else finish up here and return to your cabins until dinner."

Connor's eye was already turning black and blue. I felt no sympathy for the little creep. Kalrius didn't look injured. Haley looked distressed and confused by the entire proceedings. If it was not for the fact that Kalrius was holding Haley's hand and was more concerned about Haley's state, he would been all over Connor shooting him angry looks.

We reached the Big House no too soon. Kalrius, satisified that Haley was okay, turned his attention back on Connor. Chiron met us at the door and from Connor's face, assessed the situation. "Kalrius and Haley, sit here. Connor and Percy, come with me."

He sat with his full attention on Connor as he explained what he saw had seen and the Kalrius confrontatation. Satisfied, Chiron dismissed Connor back to the Hermes cabin, with strict instructions to stay at the cabin until dinner.

He called to Haley and Kalrius to come into the living room. Annabeth had joined us. "Kalrius, I want you to tell me of this afternoon's proceedings from an hour before the explosion."

"Haley and I had just finished our afternoon activities and had dropped off our equipment at each of our cabins. We were headed for the beach when Haley needed to stop at the girl's room for a moment. She came back out and we had just started walking again when the first explosion went off. We tried to take cover behind a grove of bushes when Haley was hit by debris from one of the of the other explosions. When everything had settled down, we joined the campers at the Arena, and started caring for the injured. Then that idiot Connor began lying about Haley and I.." "That will be enough Mr. Wright," Chiron interrupted.

"Miss O'Donnell, is there anything else that happened that you would be able to add?" Haley sat there looking like a doe trapped in front of a car's headlights. In a shaky voice she started, "I..I..I didn't do it!" and she burst into tears and sobs so loud, I thought the entire camp could hear her. Annabeth instantly was by her side with tissues and an arm around her. It took several minutes before she regained her composure and was able to continue. "I left Kalrius to use the girl's room and I came back out and noticed someone running away from the Hecate Cabin. She had red hair llike me and I wondered who she was. I joined Kalrius and started to ask him if he had seen the girl when the cabin exploded."

Annabeth started, "You saw another red haired girl?" That will be enough Miss Chase," Chiron said. "Haley, is that all? Tell me, was anyone else in the girl's bathroom? "No one." answered Haley. "Did anyone see you go into or out of the bathroom?" "No one, sir." "I did, I saw her." said Kalrius. "No you didn't, Kal the door was at the back side of the building," said Haley. "Alright then," said Chiron, "I want to go out and sit on the front porch for a few minutes. We will join you shortly. If anyone approaches you, come back in and call for us immediately. Do you understand?

Kalrius, I want you to join us in another room." We all walked into the new surveillance room. "Kalrius, you are not to tell anyone, especially Haley, about this room or what you are about to see." Argus was sitting at the console and on Chiron's request replayed the sceen of Haley planting the bomb.

"That's impossible!" Kal yelled. "She didn't, she couldn't have..." "Kalrius," said Chiron with concern in his voice, "I know this is difficult for you to see, but we have this proof. That is Haley, placing a Greek fire bomb." Kalrius was anguished. "Why would she?"

The recording ended, but Kalrius kept staring at the blank monitor, a defeated expression on his face.

"Kalrius," I started, but he ran from the Video room to where Haley was waiting. She looked up, and what little composure she had recovered vanished as she saw his face.

"W-what is it?" Haley said shakily. "What's-"

"How could you?!" Kalrius cried in a strangled voice. "How?! You-you told me you didn't do it!" He looked at her, slightly horrified. "It-it was you? All this time? You..were trying to...KILL me??"

"No!" Haley sobbed. "I-it wasn't me! H-how can you think that? I told you!"

"I saw you on a video recording!" Kalrius yelled, and I heard anger mixed in with his anguish. "I saw you plant that bomb! And I'll bet you caused all that other stuff, too! Like that explosion at the Hephaestus cabin-"

But Haley interrupted him, and fresh rage rang in her voice. "And WHY THE HELL would I cause that?! I'm a child of Hephaestus, stupid, and in case you forgot, I NEARLY DIED!! As Haley spoke again, I could hear the anger in her voice falter as tears poured down her face. "I could never do those things, and I thought you knew me well enough to know that! Kalrius, please, believe me." She walked up to him and grasped his hand. He let it slip from his.

"I thought you were my friend," he said coldly.

Those words broke something in Haley. She ran, sobbing utterly, from the Big House. Kalrius stood there, a stony expression on his face. After a minute of cold silence, Kalrius slowly trudged outside.

Me, Annabeth and Chiron stood there dumb-struck. Kalrius was heading back to the arena to help the other Apollo healers. He looked dejectedly at the chaos and debris of the explosions; the damage was all too obvious. Craters the size of wells were everywhere. Animals of all sorts flew/scampered/slithered about the camp, all of them unused to their new habitat. A thick green acrid fog was spreading slowly over the camp. I saw an innocent dove fly into it and emerge a pixie.

"Chiron, we need to do something about that." I said and pointed to the magic cloud.

Chiron regarded the cloud for a time and then turned back to me. "Percy, I think you can do that by yourself."

"What do you mean?"

"Lord Poseidon is ruler of the seas, yes, but he is also the storm bringer. What we need now is a stiff wind to blow that fog away. Just try it Percy, i'm sure you'll find you have no small influence on the great winds themselves." With that he turned away with his arms folded, faced the camp and waited. Great, I thought. Another opportunity for me to screw up and make things worse.

"But I..." I started to explain, but Annabeth put a hand on my shoulder. "Do it Percy, I know you can. Chiron has faith in you, and so do I. It's only a little breeze we need, nothing major." She gave me a reassuring smile, and I felt like everyone I loved smiled with her. It had the same calming effect as when my mom smiled, and I swear for a moment I tasted chocolate chip cookies. I took courage and reached for the wind. The pit of my stomach suddenly gave a lurch; it felt like there was currents of air fighting inside it. From across the lake, which was usually placid, i could see the head of a wave coming striaght towards the beach. It buffeted up the sand, scattering parasols and beach balls. A single ripple of grass shot right up to the cabins, and hit the cloud head on. Instantly the fog was ripped and torn aside by the wind, then it started to move with the current, but slowly. I urged it to go faster, and felt my stomach tug harder. In seconds the cloud was all but gone. I finally let out a sigh and moved to wipe my forehead. Without noticing though, I had taken Annabeth's hand in mine. She was looking at me with pride and love. Chiron patted me on the back and galloped of to help the campers at the arena.

We looked out over camp to check if I had blown aside anything else. Apart from the beach, all seemed fine to me. My eyes came to rest once again on the Hecate cabin, and I spotted Tracy. She was not alone. She and the Iris girl, Alison Reem, were comforting another girl as they walked away from the chaos. They had their arms around her shoulder, and the one in the middle was visibly sobbing. I watched them as they walked, convinced of some plot that they shared. Suddenly Tracy stiffened, and turned. Alison noticed and turned to see what she looked at. Tracy was staring straight at us. The girl who was in the middle turned finally, looked at us, and then ran of crying again. It was Haley. Alison called out to her, flashed us an angry look, then ran off after her. Tracy remained, fixing us with a hollow look. When I could take her look no longer, I was about to confront her; she gave a sad shake of the head, turned and ran off too.

"Annabeth?" I said. "Did you see what I just saw?"

"Yeah. I-I'm certain. But why? It doesn't make sense..." Annabeth looked worried. I knew she shared my doubts.

I nodded and serched for her again. She was gone. Nobody else seemed to have noticed our stand-off, and I was glad of that. I had enough questions already without anybody asking me further ones. I just couldn't figure out Tracy's expression. It didnt fit the theory that we had. The look on her face was of genuine sadness and regret; as genuine as the tears in her eyes.

Annabeth left me to run in to get her baseball cap. I stood there trying to comprehend everything that had transpired today. Heaing Annabeth calling to me I went back into the surveillance room. There Argus showed us the footage of Kal and Haley returning their gear to their cabins and walk holding hands toward the beach. They stopped at the restrooms and Haley went around to the girl's side, entered and exited several minutes later. And resumed their walk until the explosion.

"I don't understand it," I said. "How did she get to Hecate's cabin and back. This showed the events exactly as Kal had described them. Except for the 2 or 3 minutes that she was inside and the couple seconds going around the corners; she couldn't have done it." "Unless," Annabeth added, "she climbed out a window and made it to and from Hecate's cabin without being seen."

But that would have meant she would have had to hide the Greek fire in the girl's bathroom. The windows are high and small. How could she have climbed back in?" "Well," added Annabeth, "she when might have the ability to transport from place to place." "Or," I said, "she can become invisible." We just looked at each other.

With that Argus tapped my arm and pointed at a very clear picture of Haley as she stood up from placing the Greek fire next to the wall. I didn't notice anything, and was about to ask what when Annabeth said, "Look at her eyes. She has very blue eyes in this picture." "So," I added. "Percy, Haley's eyes are green not blue." I just stood and stared in amazement.

"We need to find Chiron, Kalrius, and Haley and show them this," I said. With that the conch sounded for dinner.

We ran to dinner and we saw Kalrius looking pale but he was scraping food off his plate. Thaila was with the hunters but she also looked down. Chiron came to me and Annabeth and said, "I would like all four of you, Kalrius, Thaila, Annabeth, and Percy, to sit with me at me main table". We moved toward the table and quietly sat down. Kalrius seemed upset, but at least he was eating. Annabeth and I told him about what we saw.

We had been so busy for the past few days, we forgot Spring Break was past starting and there was an influx of campers on Friday evening. The volume from conversations in the pavilion was a loud roar. Everyone was talking about the strange happenings of the past 3 days. Frequently campers would stop talking and stare or point fingers toward the main table. Ocassionally, girl's high pitched giggles were heard and I dreaded the conversation had turned to Annabeth and me.

For the second time in three days Dionysus was absent from camp, which was odd. He had been away for both episodes of explosions. I wasn't sure what to make of it.

Being Friday evening we were suppose to have a game of capture the flag. Annabeth's attack had suspended anyone from going into the forest. This too had campers grumbling both about thee game possibly being canceled and others afraid it would take place. The volume of conversations had gotten so loud that I could barely her Annabeth telling me to look. Suddenly the pavillion became silent and everyone was looking at the entrance. There stood a vision, a girl with radiant red hair dressed in a floral dress that so complimented her figure, face, and hair she madeen I heard the sweet you think of Cinderella at the ball.

"Who is that?" I had barely said, when Annabeth called out, "Rachel!" What! The transformation was too incredible to believe. It really was Cinderella except it was Rachel Elizabeth Dare in high heals, a dress and makeup.

Rachel appproached the main table and conversations began again hot and furious. Annabeth jumped up to run and hug Rachel. She looked like Barbie and then I saw Thalia scowling at her. My first thought was Rachel had become a Finishing School Automaton.

As Chiron was ordering another chair for Rachel, she was saying hi to everyone. Then I heard the sweetest words. "Annabeth, can I borrow some of your clothes and get out of this hideous getup?" Di Immortales, she hadn't changed.
As she ate, we found out that the only way she could come to camp for spring break was if she attended the Spring Social Luncheon with her parents. They drove her directly to the camp after the luncheon and what was packed in her suitcase was nothing she wanted to change into.

We all ate quickly. Annabeth and Chiron had a private chat. Then she and Rachel ran off towards the Athena cabin. I was not happy to see her go, unprotected. I wanted to go after her, but Chiron wanted to speak with me first. He had decided Annabeth should stay at the Big House for saftey. I opened my mouth , but he quickly added I would be staying there too.

Chiron called, "Quite," and everyone settled down quickly. "I would like to welcome back all the campers who have joined us for spring break. We will not be have capture the flag tonight, due to.." and suddenly there was a horrific screaming from several girls.


I leapt up from the table, my blood like ice in my veins, As I ran d sbuource of the screams, I uncapped riptide which grew to a sword in my hands. I neared the girls and what I saw chilled my blood even more so. A dark mist or cloud in the undefined shape of an insect, like a spider had encirlced the girls, 4 of them, with black strands that looked like a fence. No one appeared injured, but I was surprised to see Haley and Tracy with Annabeth and Rachel.


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Sorry for the Star Wars stuff, it was a too good opportunity to resist. And I REALLY got carried away writing this section, its a chapter in its own right.. anyway:

Next author: Yes your going to have to write the prophecy, have fun

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"Percy! Stop!" Annabeth shouted at me, "It's a trap, get back before you get entangled too." I suddenly saw the danger some tendrils of the foggy thing, their prison had be sliding towards me feet trying to trap me like the girls were. I slashed Riptide through the bonds, but as had happened to Annabeth in the woods the blade passed straight through. I leapt back cursing as the tendril stabbed at me, what ever magic this was it was surely of the darkest kind.

I looked suspiciously at Tracey, she had a strange look on her face which I regarded as panic, little did I know at that time. She appeared to be muttering something under her breath, I thought maybe she knew some counter spell, could she free them, after all as a daughter of Hecate she must know a lot about all magic including the dark stuff.

Annabeth appeared to be shouting something at me but I could no longer hear her, the fog around the bars of their prison was thickening, sealing them off from me. I tried dodging the tendrils and get close enough to the bars to slash them apart, they were surely made of a different material than this fog.

A tendril slipped behind my guard and lashed for my back, an arrow sprouted through it, pinning it onto one of the cages bars. I glanced backwards for only a moment and saw Thalia with her bow drawn standing a hundred odd meters behind me. A sudden high pitched scream threw me to the floor in agony and a out of the corner of my eye I saw a flash as the cage vanished, along with everyone inside. "NO!" I shouted pointlessly at the air, I had failed Annabeth, she was gone!

Thalia grabbed me by my shoulder and pulled me out of my fit of rage. I suddenly noticed, sitting where the cage had been. Something I had not seen in a while, not since the arch. There stood the Chimera, far bigger than when I had last seen it. It looked dazed, I guessed it must have been from its unexpected transportation here, the only reason it had not attacked us yet. My pursuit of Annabeth would have to wait a while, I would be no good to her dead.

Thalia stood beside me, "Percy, do you know the legend of how the Chimera was slain?" she hissed, her body still as a rock. Without turning my head from the monster I whispered back, "Only that it was like stopped breathing somehow, something to do with lead."

"That is right Percy, we need to get some lead down its throat so if suffocates," She said looking at me, "Hephaestus's Cabin is our best bet." We slowly stepped backwards avoiding any sticks or twigs that could draw its attention towards us. Slowly for no obvious reason its head turned towards me glaring, as if remembering its escaped meal from all those years ago. It leapt straight for me, I ducked and it sailed straight over my head slamming into a tree behind me, as its snake tail snapped at me I slapped it aside with riptide. "Thalia go find some lead I'll hold it off," I shouted, being all but completely invulnerable made me feel a lot more confident these days, even this huge goat/lion/snake would find me an awkward mouthful.

"Sit boy!" I said jokingly, all that it did was pounce at me again, I nimbly side stepped then back flipped as it let a torrent of fire off at where I had been standing a second earlier. Yes i have had enough of being burned in the past, honestly I have even had lava thrown at me, trust me it hurts. I spent the next 5 minutes dodging blasts of fire, until it tried to bite me with its snake tail, it missed and sunk its fangs into a small tree, a black poison swelling out.

Realization slapped me in the face, the chimera is what must have attacked Annabeth, it must have been trapped inside the shadow cage by someone and then it attacked Annabeth, with the only part of its body which could reach outside the cages boundaries. Anger filled me, how dare this monster attack Annabeth, I felt a familiar tug in my stomach and suddenly the chimera froze mid bound, sucking for air. Somehow I was choking the beast to death, like Darth Vader in the movies! This was awesome! It crumpled into dust leaving only a set of fangs lying on the ground next to me.

Thalia stood outside the Hephaestus cabin looking at me in shock, a lump of lead tied to the end of one of her arrows. She slowly walked over to me, amazement displayed openly on her face. "Percy, how the Hades did you do that?" she asked.

"I, I don't know," I stuttered, "I was just so angry with losing Annabeth.." I looked down noticing for the first time, a small puddle sitting a few feet from the teeth. Thalia followed my look and saw the puddle, then looked between me and the puddle.

She smiled, "Well I guess your little buddy had a drink recently, and you choked him to death with it." She looked almost afraid of me. I looked about to see what damage had actually been done to the camp before I had killed it, standing by the dining pavilion stood the majority of the camp, all with some fear and/or admiration inscribed on their faces. I thought about it, if I had just seen someone choke a monster to death with some water I would imagine I would be pretty afraid.

Chiron cantered over, "Percy, that is a very powerful gift you have, however you must swear something to me: that you will never use that on a human or demigod ever, swear it on the Styx."

I turned to Chiron and said, "Chiron you are afraid that I will go mad with power, and I understand your fears, yet I find your lack of faith disturbing. I swear upon the river Styx that I will never use that power on a human or demigod ever."

Chiron sighed with relief, "Percy I imagine you are quite distressed right now and exhausted, I must order you to rest, tomorrow we must start the hunt." He turned to Thalia, "Have you your goddess' permission to accompany Percy upon this quest?"

Thalia nodded to my relief, "I do Chiron, and I am prepared to do whatever must be done to save Annabeth."

"Very well, now both of you go get some sleep, I must deal with this fit that the Stoll brothers seem to be in." He looked at me an eyebrow raised, "It seems to be the revenge of someone, for certain pictures."

At that I smiled, "Peanuts Chiron," I shouted as he walked away. I turned to Thalia, "I won't give up on Annabeth, no matter what the cost." I walked away to my cabin, never having felt so lonely in my life..

That night I dreamed of Rachel's room, well her loft, She sat there on a stool her eyes glowing green. "Ask your question seeker..." She said to me..

My dream self asked, "How can I save my friends?"

Rachel spread her palms, and green mist enveloped me. When my vision cleared, I saw a craggy mountain, dimly lit by faint torchlight. Stars gleamed overhead, and a deathly pale moon hung framed in the sky. I moved toward the base of the mountain, and saw a temple hall roughly carved into the mountain face. I entered the hall, which was lined with green torches, bathing the hall in eerie, green flickering light. As I moved down the hall, I saw writing carved on the walls, in Ancient Greek, in Latin, and in strange, runic markings. Somehow I knew they were records of magic. I reached the end of the hall, and a towering marble black statue came into view. It had the body of a woman, and three heads: a dog, a horse, and a lion. All of a sudden, the dog head spoke with Rachel's voice:


"Three shall journey to the Queen of Night,
To rescue four, they combine their might,"
The dog head fell silent and the horse head spoke:
"For one, her name shall she redeem,
Another is not what she may seem,"
And then the lion head delivered the last two lines:
"But unless the lover's vigil keep,
Be torn apart in eternal sleep."

I woke with a start, my face clammy with cold sweat.

I shifted uncomfortably from under my sheets, whilst my clothes were dry the bedding was soaked in sweat. There was no way that such a dream could be just a dream, it must have been a true prophecy.

So Annabeth, Rachel, Haley and Tracey were alive, for the moment. In this mountain temple dedicated to Hecate, no one else would have so much magic around their temple. At least I had a destination now, a place to channel my efforts into finding. Chiron surely knew where this would be.. I told myself I would consult him a little later. But who had actually sent them there, I resolved to tell Chiron he would be able to make sense of it all..

I lay about restless in bed, I couldn't wait to be off once Chiron was able to decipher the riddle. The moment I saw a ray of light on the distant horizon through the window I leapt out of bed pulling on some clothes. The moment I was presentable I sprinted over to the Artemis Cabin, I knocked quickly and began to open the door when a force blasted me straight back, away from the doorway.

I lay stuck down on the ground until the door opened and Thalia stood there laughing at me, "Percy! You know how much Artemis dislikes boys and you try and enter her cabin," Thalia stumbled over to me laughing. "The Lady Artemis does not grant entry of any boy into her cabin," she smirked at me then stepped back inside the door and did something because the force pining me down was lifted.

She stood there whilst I picked myself up off the floor and dusted myself down. "So whats the rush? I am as anxious as you to search for Annabeth but we don't exactly know where we're going.." She looked at me with sudden comprehension on her face, "you, you had a vision? We must talk to Chiron now."

We both made our way over to the big house and knocked on Chiron's door. A sleepy voice shouted at us from behind the door, "What on Olympus do you want at this time in the morning?"

I looked at Thalia, my expression clearly readable, had he actually forgotten about Annabeth so fast? or was he being a grumpy horse today? "Chiron, it's Percy, I've.. well I've had a sort of.. dream prophecy..."

The door opened suddenly and there stood Chiron, his tail quite visibly in curlers. "You had a 'dream prophecy'? Is this some kind of joke?" He looked at the expression on our faces and then he followed our gaze, "Oops, erm would you two mind waiting on the porch whilst I erm, prepare myself." His face flushed red. "And will you please not tell anyone, it would be terribly embarrassing if anyone found out." The door closed quickly in our faces.

Thalia and I took up seats on the porch and settled down in silence waiting for Chiron. I knew that Thalia was thinking the same as me, every second waiting was a second less to find Annabeth before anything should.. happen to her... We both looked up at a clopping noise and Chiron stood before us. "So tell me about your Prophecy, every word" I started to tell him, every word burned into my memory...

Chiron listened intently as I relayed the prophecy. When I had finished, Chiron remained silent for a moment, then spoke.

"This places the importance of a quest to retrieve the four girls on an even higher level. My interpretation of the prophecy is thus: 'Three shall journey to the Queen of Night.' This line is quite straightforward, for The Queen of Night is merely another name for Hecate, goddess of magic. Whichever three takes this quest shall, I think, have to find Hecate's domain to resolve this matter.
'To rescue four, they combine their might.' Whoever goes on this quest shall have to work together to succeed.
'For one, her name shall she redeem.' Judging from the happenings of the past few days, this line most likely applies to either Tracy or Haley. The same goes for the next line,
'Another is not what she may seem.' One shall be proven innocent, and one is concealing secrets.
'But unless the lover's vigil keep.' I would assume this line speaks of you, Percy, or Kalrius.
'Be torn apart in eternal sleep.' If you or Mr. Wright do not succeed in your 'vigil', someone may consequently die. The next question is who shall go on this quest." He looked at me.

"I'm going," I replied without delay.

"So am I," Thalia piped up.

"Very well," consented Chiron. "And the third?"

"I know who should go," I answered, "But I'm not sure he'll want to. Not yet, at least." I got up and left for the Apollo cabin, to wake Kalrius.

I walked over to the Apollo cabin slowly, I was wondering whether it was the correct thing to do to tell Kalrius the full extent of the prophecy. If he was truly this deep in love then it could break his heart, and what would he do if it turned out to be Haley who is this 'Another is not what she may seem' if that was Haley we would have to fight her, Kalrius wouldn't be able to do it.. Then again ignoring prophecy was not something I wanted to do, and though it felt incredibly selfish, if Kalrius was with us then the last line could not only mean Annabeth..

I saw a bucket of water and I poured it over my head, who the hell was I to be so selfish and heartless. I could keep a vigil, whatever it was, much better than Kalrius. Perhaps it would be best if only Thalia and I went along alone, then Haley should be in no danger. I sighed, Kalrius would insist on coming anyway so I should probably just get used to it and except the prophecy for what it was.

I was suddenly in front of the Apollo cabin, it was if it had appeared from nowhere because I was so distracted, something I would have to deal with, a distracted halfblood is a dead halfblood. I rapt gently only the door and was surprised when it swung straight open and Kalrius stepped out a rucksack slung over his back. "I'm ready to go, and you are not going to stop me..." He said with confidence.

I looked at him and smiled, "Well if you insist, I was planning on bringing you along anyway, just promise me one thing, you won't do anything stupid." He looked at me, his expression saying are you serious?

"I've heard the stories about what you've done Percy, your hardly one to talk about not doing stupid things, but very well I will do my best to avoid doing anything stupid. Now can we go?"

I stepped behind him and had a quick peek in his bag, "Well you appear to have everything you need.. except.. you haven't got any weapons." I thought for a moment, how had Thalia's arrow hit the shadow-spider-thing? No other weapons had harmed it at all...

Kalrius shifted awkwardly.
"Yeah, well, none of the bows seem to um, work for me."

I grinned slightly. "S'okay, I had the same problem till I got Riptide." I thought for a sec about Kal's weapon problem, and the problem of how no Celestial bronze weapons could harm these Dark creatures. An idea hit me. "C'mon," I said. "Let's drop Nico a visit."
Half a minute later, we were standing in front of the Hades cabin. The glassy obsidian walls mirrored the green torches, flickering with emerald light from inside twin skulls, which glowed like jack-o-lanterns. I knocked several times. Kalrius peered closer at the large skull mounted over the door. All of a sudden, he jumped back in surprise as two blazing green eyes filled the once-empty sockets. They swiveled down to glare at us. Nico's voice issued from behind the door.

"WHAT? This had better be good, Percy." The door slowly swung open with an onimous creaking sound. Nico stood framed in the doorway, looking, appropriately, like death itself.
"Next time," he grumbled, "Use the doorbell." He punched a button on his door, and creepy organ music rang out. "Now, what's the problem?"

I explained the problem with Kalrius's weapon, and the problem with the Dark creatures. He grinned. "I think I can help with that. I've been tinkering with something in the forges. Just finished today."

Nico ducked inside the cabin, and reemerged a second later with something in his hand. At first glance, it was an ordinary Swiss Army knife, but when I looked closer, I saw that the blade was black as midnight, and the air around it was freezing cold.

"Stygian iron," Nico explained, "but watch this." He flicked open the blade, and the knife began to change shape, growing longer and thinner till Nico held a 3 foot long bow, made of smooth, shiny black metal. "I also made this, with a little help from Thalia." He brought out a bow quiver stocked with arrows. He pulled one out, and I saw the arrowhead was forged from Stygian iron as well. "As long as one arrow is still in the quiver, it will refill itself completely." Nico handed the bow and quiver to Kalrius, who looked slightly awed.

"Wow, thanks Nico," Kalrius said gratefully.

Nico rolled his eyes slightly. "Yeah, well, take good care of the bow. And don't mess up, all right? Either of you." He stumbled back inside and shut the door behind him.

I glanced at the horizon. Dawn was breaking, and there was no way I could get any more sleep. "C'mon," I told Kalrius. "Let's get to Half-Blood Hill. We've got a long trip ahead of us." A few minutes later, We had reached the crest of the hill where Thalia was waiting for us. We gripped our packs, and without a word, the three of us set out.

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As we walked slowly away towards the road and towards the vast distance we would have to travel each of us stole glances back at the camp, longing looks knowing that we were in danger the moment we had crossed the boundary line. I steeled myself and strode forwards, I would not be returning without Annabeth, she was more important than the world to me.

From the corner of my eye I noticed Thalia and Kalrius steeling themselves as well and I thought about each of their own goals, Kalrius would do anything he could to save Haley, Thalia would risk her life for Annabeth the last of her 'adopted family'. I, well I was going for Annabeth and Rachel.. But who was looking for Tracey Hoax... No one had ever seemed close to her..

I looked over at Kalrius, and the bow on his back. "So Thalia where did you get the idea for a Stygian Iron bow from?" She glanced up at me, questioning whether I was actually that stupid.
"Well the bow is mostly Nico's idea, but the arrows, the single arrow that hurt that spider thing was a Stygian Iron arrow I kept from after The Battle Of Manhattan." She smiled, probably thinking like me how Grover would approve of the recycling. "Anyway, so I went and got Nico to make some extra arrows for us, Artemis showed me the refilling quiver spell a long time ago when I became the Lieutenant of the Hunters."

I nodded and said "O right." I didn't really get how it worked but as long as it worked it didn't matter. We stepped up to the road and I pulled Kalrius towards us. "Now mind praying to your father for a little help?"

He looked at me wearing an unsure expression, "Percy, erm how do I do that?"

Thalia looked at him sympathetically, she had been ignored by her father for a long time and understood his worries, meeting his dad face to face would be quite disturbing. "It's okay Kalrius just speak and he will hear you, all of our parents can hear us, whether they bother to answer is different." A crackle of thunder echoed through the morning sky.

Kalrius spoke in a quite undertone, "Dad, if you can hear me please, help us, our friends have been taken and we need to find them." The rising sun flared brighter and slowly from the sky descended a golden chariot, which slowly morphed into a familiar golden Mercedes.

"Need some advice then dudes? Or a lift, I did offer you a free ride at anytime you liked if I remember, eh Percy?" A voice called from inside as it pulled level to us, there his a bright grin on his face sat the same old Apollo...