Andy's POV

The darkness swelled, blocking my sight and making everything seem fuzzy. For a moment I just laid there, staring into oblivion, but then I heard footsteps and voices cut through the shrewd darkness. The voice was low and guttural, with a sort of hiss to the voice, but defiantly female. "Yesss, sssony, you'll get the Possseidon sscum, but not with those sssilly girlssss around. We will advance in our plan. But firssst, Thorne!"

Another voice join the conversation, "Yes, Echidna,"

"Make sure to deal with, them, dispose of those.... thingssss."

"Yes, mistress." Thorne said.

Foot steps faded, and the darkness remained. Just as I was about to crawl through the darkness, Echidna's voice cut through the mist again. "It's not nice to eavesdrop, child."

Then I woke.

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The smell of alcohol filled my nose and I involuntarily rolled my eyes, remembering the time me and Flynn were doing a first aids course and he asked the instructor if you could get drunk from using rubbing alcohol on you head. Idiots. They seem to be a dominant species these days.

I peeled open my eyes and came face first with a guy leaning over me, fiddling with something above my head.

I involuntarily screamed and smacked him in the chest. He screamed back, clearly not anticipating my awake, and scampered away to check on another patient.

"Awake for two seconds and you already scared off your nurse, congrats, you've set a new high score."

I turned my head to the side and spotted Will Solace leaning against a medicine cabinet, arms crossed, smirking. "Welcome back to the world of the living."

I rolled my head back, scoffing. "Some life, I feel like I'm giving birth to Athena. Stupid head, I think I would be perfectly fine with having it off my shoul-"

"Yes," Will intercepted, "your head, you were mumbling some weird things, did you have a dream?"

I hesitated for a second before declining.

"You sure?" he asked, his face contorting with worry. "Dreams mean a lot to demigods."

"Nope"

" Are you sure?" he pressed.

"Fine," I said, smirking, "I was dreaming about you, ok?"

His look softened a bit and I took the opportunity.

"And That's why I woke up screaming."

He recoiled placing a hand on his chest. "I am offended!"

I nodded sympathetically.

"And I thought he has something going on! I mean, after two head wounds, I though we had something special!"

I nodded my head sighing, speaking in the most serious tone I could muster. "Well, I tried, I honestly did, but, I- I just can't do it, I don't think we should talk any more."

We looked at each other in silence before breaking out in laughter.

"Hey!" a weak voice cut through the air. "Do you love birds mind it! I'm trying to recuperate from saving your life!"

Will cursed, then gathered him self and swiped his arms in a dramatic motion to the side. "Andy, meet your saviour."

I turned around to the direction Will was pointing and realized that I wasn't the only patient that was in the room.

A thin girl with short cropped blond hair laid on a cot two beds away, her skin seemed to have a health ish glow to it. Saviour?

After a while, she rolled her eyes, "Could you not stare, this is limited addition. Take a picture. It will last longer."

Oh ya, I smiled, I was going to like this chick.

"Now, I would like to reincarnate the story of sleeping beauty, the one where she stays sleeping." With that she rolled over and didn't say another word.

"She's a little grouchy." Will pointed out.

"Ya think, Sherlock?"

"No, Watson, I know so."

I rolled my eyes and swung my legs over my bed. "What time is it?"

"It's camp fire," Will responded, "you should be fine if you want to go, most of your injuries are healed, Makai can give you the full story, seeing as she was the only one conscious."

I reached out to smack him in the face while I was leaving, but he ducked down and my hand hit the wooden door frame.

"Oww," I muttered, clutchinguj my hand to my chest as I made my way out of the big house, joining the rest of the campers.

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Most of the campers had already reached the pit, and I could just barely see Percy dancing In front of the fire, making a fool of himself.

Makai- who was seated in the first row, next to Nico- shook her head. Travis was videoing Percy, though I don't think he had his mind in it, his gaze kept angling over to the bench where the Demeter children were sitting. And lastly, Annabeth was turning completely red.

I quickly seated my self beside Makai, but I don't think she noticed, because she was contently watching Percy trying to serenade Annabeth.

"You are my Wise Girl, My only Wise Girl, you give me knowledge, when I am dumb," Percy yelled off key, while Conner danced behind him, and yelled "that's all the time."

Percy then ran over to Annabeth and knelt down one knee and held out his hand.

"Common, dance with me!!" Percy shouted. At that moment, Travis handed his video camera to Cecile, and grabbed the girl from the Demeter cabin he had been eyeing. A tall Asian boy grabbed a small African American girl and joined the circle. Conner searched the crowd until he locked eyes with me, then before I knew it, I was pulled into the circle of dancing couples.

The whole camp started chanting Percy's song as he pulled an extremely red Annabeth After him, and started dancing like a lunatic.

"You are my Wise Girl, My only Wise Girl, you give me knowledge, when I feel dumb." (All the time)

The camp fire went silent when Chiron entered the circle that had formed.

"Attention! Campers! Quite down!"

The campers settled down and they started their normal sing alongs.

During that time Makai explained what I had missed, and I kept catching Conner staring at the girl directly behind me.

I eventually went back to the infirmary after campfire to spend the night, Will making sure that I didn't have a concussion.

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The morning passed by quickly, Nico and me talked, Clarrise showed me some combat, and Makai watched everything from the side, laughing whenever I messed up.

The Conch horn rang, signalling lunch, and me and Nico filled into place at our table in the pavilion. But this time someone else joined.

The small African American girl I saw yesterday at camp fire came and sat next to Nico.

Nico's face immediately brightened up, and he scooted closer to the girl. "Andy, this is Hazel, Hazel this is Andy, meet your new sister."

I felt like I was under a microscope. Hazel scanned me, and I was starting to wish I had showered this morning. My hands tugged on the ends of my ponytail; a nervous habit of mine. But I stared back nonetheless, no way is she going to intimidate me.

Hazel finally broke the silence, and put her hand over the table, offering me a handshake. I took it and smiled, shaking it very efficiently. "Hi, how do you like camp?" She asked.

I though for a second. "Well, I mean I guess I'm missing school, so that counts for something."

Hazel frowned.

The rest of lunch continued kind of awkwardly.

On my way back from the washrooms, I ran into Travis and Conner ducking into a bush.

I looked down at them, "What-" Travis pulled on my leg and dragged me down behind the bush.

"Watch." he said.

A few seconds later an angry Nico stormed out of or cabin, his hair tied up in various pink bows, and wearing tie-died shirts. I had to stifle my laugh.

"Stolls!" he yelled angrily. "Where are you!"

Nico finally spotted us hiding and marched over, grabbing Travis by the collar of his shirt. "Why you little-"

"It was her!" Conner yelled, pushing me in front of Travis.

Nico scowled at me and I threw up my arms, pointing over at Conner. My brother glared at all three of us and stormed away, muttering something about watching our backs. He's as moody as Flynn. Oh yea, Flynn...... I should probably talk to him.

But before I could go do something about it, I caught the demeaning gaze of Hazel from across the camp. What was with her?

Then I was tackled by an adolescent boy by the name of Travis.

"Ahh!" I screamed at the same time Conner yelled "Dog Pile!"

Conner's weight crashed on to me as well, and all my air left from my chest.

A few moments later, I heard the familiar voice of Will Solace next to me. Great.

"Oh. My. Gosh," Will said, imitating a Vally girl, "Group Hug!"

Then he crashed on top of me as well. After a few minutes, everyone eventually climbed off of me and I could breath again.

When I stood up, my shirt was covered in mud, which was absaloutly wonderful, because this was my only shirt.

Will scanned my body, "Well, well, what happened to you? Already in trouble."

"Hey!" I defended, "its their fault, those Stolls blamed their prank on me, and now I'm going to die because I live with Nico! And you just ruined my only top!"

Travis smirked, "Well, you could.
Always go borrow some of those Aphrodite chicks tops."

"What! No!" I yelled, mortified.

All three boys laughed as Connor patted me on the back, "Don't worry, the Stolls have got you covered. Common."

Travis and Conner dragged me off as Will walked away, shaking his head.

Conner and Travis took me to their "shop" were they stole me clothes and candy.

After supper, me and Makai- who had been absent from my life since Nico's prank- made it to campfire. And that's when the real fun started.

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"Campers, tonight we have a game of capture the flag!" the campers started cheering and shouting. "The teams are Hermes-" Conner and Travis started whooping. "And Athena. Get our armour and meet in the forest in five minutes. You all know the rules, I will serve as referee and battle field medic."

The campers flooded the armoury and I managed to grab a breast plate and my axe before making my way to a table where Conner was announcing teams.

"With Hermes we have Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hades, Apollo, Nike, Ares and Hebe. With Athena we have all the others. Oh, yea, Hecate is will us!"

Two banners entered the pavilion and cheers went up.

Within five minutes we had assigned jobs, and I was guarding the flag along with Lou Ellen and Leo.

It was pretty boring at first. Lou was playing with some magi and Leo was fiddling with some random wires. That was when Conner came crashing through the trees after Makai and an Athena boy. Conner finally caught up to the boy and tackled him from behind. Leo started flying random gadgets at Makai and Lou started going Harry Potter.

I saw an opening to the other side and saw Conner nod toward me, so I went for it.

I stumbled over the creek on the middle but otherwise managed to get to re flag undetected.

I hid in the top of a tree and waited, watching Percy guarding the tree. A familiar gost was in the branches next to me, and I nodded at it. A few seconds later Clarrise burst through the brush, attacking Percy would have won easily, but the little gost kept tripping him up. Eventually, while Percy's back was turned, I snuck up and grabbed the flag, the same time as Hazel.

We both looked up and glared at each other. Just then Percy turned around and I let go of the flag, giving it to Hazel. Hazel let go of it too. Suddenly Nico jumped out of the shadows and grabbed the flag, tossing it to me, then engaged in combat with Percy.

I made a made dash through the forest, dodging all my attackers.

Makai was coming across the border, limping, but I was almost there.

Just as Makai was stepping over the border, Will tackled her from the front and sent her backwards. I vaulted over Makai on the flag and was falling toward the ground, when all of a sudden I wasn't falling down- I was flying sideways.

Claws ripped at my side as I slammed shoulder first into a tree. Above me was an animal with a yellow and a blue eye. The top half was a lion, and it had a scorpion tale. It growled for a second before opening it's jaws wide, leaning its snapping jaws towards my head.

I closed my eyes, wishing to be some where else, anywhere else- and then suddenly I was floating. I peeled open my eyes and saw that I was above the beast. I had shadowed traveled!

My joy was short lives though, for its tail swung down at me. I managed to duck to the side and I pulled out my axe. It swung its paw at me and I jumped onto its back, and was thrown off a few seconds later, but I managed to slice into the thing. After that I wasn't so lucky. The monster's giant paw ripped into my shoulder, dislocating my shoulder blade.

I slammed into another tree, hitting my head on a sturdy branch. It came closer, its claws digging into my flesh. Then Percy tackled the lion scorpion, yelling "Thorne!". The weight of the lion was taken off me, but I could feel my head start to get lightheaded from the loss of blood.

Will knelt down beside me and started holding by shoulder.

"Hey, it's that guy from my dream," I said woozily.

"Curse it! Andy! I told you to tell me if you had a dream."

I laughed slightly but just ended up coughing up blood. Then as per usual, my eyes rolled into the back of my head, and I passed out. I am such a noble person!

But then I woke up two minutes later.

I was still on the forest floor and other campers were muttering. Makai was leaning over me.

"Andy, are you all right?"

"Do I look it?" I asked.

Makai shook her head no. Such a reassuring friend.

"I just don't get it," she sighed, "that manticore shouldn't have been able to get into camp without someone summoning from inside." Just as she finished saying that, Chiron approached me and silenced the whispering.

Chiron looked solemn as he addressed me. "There have been... things stirring that are wore inking the gods, your dream, Andrea Parker, and this attack, has proven the rumours true. A quest is to be issued!"

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I stood in front of the curtain covered cave and looked back at Makai. She nodded and I approached the curtain.

"Oh mighty drapes," I said, "tell me my future, -"

Makai backhanded my head. "Idiot, go inside the cave."

I chuckled and pulled back the curtain, entering a dimly lit cavern covered in various paintings and art pieces.

In the centre of the room stood a girl
Painting a intricate picture of a blonde teenage boy with a jagged scar running down his face. Beside him was another boy with brown hair and an eye patch. The girls curly fiery red hair was up in a messy ponytail. She was wearing ripped blue jeans covered in paint, along with a tie-died shirt with the words 'Party Ponies' written across it. The girl turned around from her painting and set her easel down on wooden stool next to her. She smiled and her green eyes scanned me over. "So, come to get your so called 'destiny'?" she asked.

"Depends, really, I'm not really in the mood to be bossed around by life."

"Nice to meet you," the girl said, sticking out her hand, "I'm Rachel Elizabeth Dare, or RED for short. All you have to do is ask for the oracle to show you your destiny."

"Ooookkayy," I muttered, "Oracle of Delphi, show me my destiny."

The candles and latter a providing light seemed to dim. Rachel's eyes glowed green and her mouth opened up, green mist started flowing from it.

A reptilian voice came out when Rachel spoke, and it sent shivers down my spine.

"Hello," the oracle hissed, the green mist curling around my legs, "So, the time has come."

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All rights to Rick Riordon.

Thank you to my friend bobby_the_ice_man for writing this chapter, as she does for all of the Andy chapters.

What do you think about this new Scarlett character?