CHAPTER THREE ━━ THE GODS ARE REAL

EURYDICE HAD BEEN ushered inside of the Camp as older campers, healers she assumed checked her and Grover for any injuries. She held the unconscious Percy on the ground as she heard the whispers of the other campers. Apparently a scrawny twelve year old beating a Minotaur wasn't exactly a regular occurrence as the other campers in their brightly coloured orange t-shirts sized up Percy, who was still unconscious.

She heard a girl with dark skin and long pretty braids mutter to Mr. Brunner. "He must be the one." She could feel Percy shift in and out of consciousness with her words. The other campers crowded around them as she could feel Percy move slightly. She heard the concerned whispers of some of the other campers, and the judgement of some others. She could hear the man letting out a sigh as he addressed the dark skinned girl. "Hush, Annabeth." The man chastised her, as if he was used to her comments.

Mr. Brunner cleared his throat at the other demigods. "He's waking, everyone. Give him some space, please." He asked them politely as the various campers moved out of the way. But before anyone could address him, she could feel his conscience slipping away again. The man sighed. "Looks like Mr. Jackson isn't in the best shape at the moment." The half horse man clapped his hands together as commanded two older demigods to his side.

He looked to the two of them with a smile. "Charles, Ethan can you two please go and deliver Percy to the infirmary while I speak to our new camper?" The two older boys nodded as they silently carried Percy away. She really followed them out of instinct, before the half horse man put a hand out in front of her to stop her. "Eurydice." He shook his head at the girl as a warning. "Let's let Percy rest for a while, alright? He will be safe in there, I assure you." He said to her so gently that she couldn't help but believe him, and with the day that they had just had relief was all she wanted right now.

Mr. Brunner looked like he was about to speak again when Annabeth, the girl she had heard earlier spoke up. "Eurydice, like the myth?" She immediately blanked in confusion. "What?" She blurted out stupidly. "Your name. Like the myth, Orpheus and Eurydice." She muttered, like it was obvious. She blushed in embarrassment. "Oh! Uh, yes." She answered her nervously. Mr. Brunner sighed as he looked at the dark haired girl. "Annabeth, let's not hound our new campers with questions on their first day." He warned her, like he knew that her curiosity was inevitable.

The girl only smirked in response. "No promises, Chiron." She said to the older man as she and the other campers walked away. Eurydice's gaze then turned to him in confusion. "Who's Chiron?" She murmured in confusion. Grover chimed in helpfully. "Chiron, is Mr. Brunner's real name. He's the camp activities director at—" He was about to say more as Mr— no Chiron interrupted him. "Let's not overwhelm the poor girl, Grover. We talk more once your friend wakes up. Make sure that there aren't anymore lasting injuries on you." He said cautiously.

She nodded slightly in agreement. "Right..." She was already exhausted and she wasn't even the one who had killed the Minotaur. She still felt the glass piercing at her skin slightly sometimes when she moved. She winced as Chiron, watched her with a kind smile on his face. She was still trying to wrap her head around what he was. After finding out Grover was a... wait what did he call himself. A Satyr?

Right, after finding out about Grover being a satyr, half goat or something. She had thought nothing else would surprise her. But nothing could prepare her for any of this. Grover looked at her with an attempt at a reassuringly smile. "Let's go wait for Percy to wake up, alright? I know where the infirmary is." He said with a nod as he ushered her towards one of the many buildings surrounding the camp.

It felt like ages while Percy was asleep in the infirmary. In the meantime, another camper patched her wounds up with bandages and a clear warning to not get into another car crash as her and Grover had attempted to explain what had happened to them. They were in the other room as Percy recovered where the infirmary beds were situated. She saw Annabeth come into the infirmary quickly and came back out when Grover had left to go grab her some food. She eyed her the other girl in confusion as Annabeth attempted to smile at her. "I think I like you better already, Eurydice. At least you don't drool in your sleep." She muttered as she turned away from of the infirmary.

She watched the girl walk away as she blinked again in confusion. What was that about? And why was she talking about drooling in your sleep? She'll be the first to admit that she felt like she was missing a crucial piece of information here. Grover soon came back with scraps of some food he mentioned they had leftovers of. She took a bite out of a sandwich gratefully, she hadn't eaten anything all day other than those cookies.

She felt a sharp reminder as she remembered her mom. She hoped that she had managed to get out of there and leave. But... oh god. Poor Sally. She can't believe that they saw Percy's mom die right in front of them. Sure, it didn't look like she was dead. But the Minotaur had gone out the same way. She remembers the furious look on Percy's face after he recovered from the initial devastation over what happened to his mother. She swallowed hard, she really hoped that her mom was okay.

She was probably back home by now, working a nine-to-five and waiting for her to come back home at the end of the summer like she had promised. Oddly she hadn't felt Sally's presence slipping away when she had disappeared into the dust. Usually she felt the presence of... something else when someone or something was dying or unconscious. She had discovered it as a child, it was weird at first. That she didn't have to touch anyone's pulse to figure out if they were still breathing or not. She just assumed that it was purely a coincidence that she could feel something whenever someone... died.

The first time she felt it was in the hospital after she had gotten deathly ill from a flu going around their class in Kindergarten. She hadn't thought much of it then. The lives she felt slipping away as nurses rushed over to the next room over, where the man in there was dead on arrival. She wasn't scared at first, but now she was the more she thought about it. She tried to wrack her brain for any of the gods who'd coincide with one of those premonitions. She had felt the familiar sensation of a comfort she couldn't understand back then.

But now as she remembered, it terrified her. It didn't look like to her that there were any gods represented like that in the cabins she had seen briefly. She couldn't even think of who her father could be. She remembered all of the other gods, yet she couldn't think of who possibly was hers. She had some idea that her father could have something to do with death... but after overhearing some whispers from the other campers, that was frowned upon as no god to due with it had a throne on Olympus, whatever that meant.

She really wasn't sure what any of this meant, but all she knew is that she really didn't want to meet her father. Something in her heart was screaming at her that nothing about this was right. That somehow she'd wake up the next day and magically be back at home like nothing happened. Grover seemed to notice her melancholy, as he looked over at her with worry in his eyes. "Eurydice, are you okay?" He asked her nervously. She sighed and shrugged. "I'm okay. I'm just... worried."

Grover nodded to her in agreement. "Yeah, about Percy?" He assumed. She winced. "Yeah, kinda. About Percy and.. everything." Grover winced in response. "Right... Chiron will explain entering to you when he wakes up. It'll be easier with the both of you awake for it." She nodded. "Right..." She winced as she took a small bite out of the sandwich she had been given. Somehow, she didn't feel hungry anymore.

She offered the sandwich to Grover, who stared at it hungrily. "Want it? I'm not hungry." She muttered as she held out the sandwich to him. He stared at her in concern. "Are you sure?" He murmured in concern, but she just nodded. "Yeah, don't worry about me. I'm too nervous to eat." She attempted to smile, but it came out all awkward instead. Grover smiled brightly. "Thanks, Eurydice." He took the sandwich gratefully.

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FINALLY PERCY WOKE up almost an hour  later. She sighed in relief once she heard the familiar sounds of his breathing. Grover and her were in front of his bed in the infirmary, right at his side as he drearily woke up. She could hear him inhaling softly as he rustled around in the infirmary bed. Grover was the first to speak out of the two of them. "It's okay." He reassured him. "You're safe." The older boy said to Percy as they heard the crows from outside cawing. Percy shakily looked around the room, his eyes landing on the Minotaur horn on the large table beside the bed.

She sighed in relief as she stared at Percy. "You're really lucky you killed that thing, you could have died." She saw the light die a little in his eyes as his eyes drifted towards the horn again. "It really happened." He said in shock. Grover sat by the bed carefully."Well it's a big deal to kill a monster like that-" He carefully explained. "So, I wanted everyone to know-" Percy interrupted him. "Did you see it?" She immediately winced, remembering what had happened to Sally. She couldn't imagine being Percy right now. But then again, she wasn't even really sure if her mother had escaped in time to get out of the storm.

Percy looked so weak in the bed. "Did you see it? See what happened to my mom?" He sounded so tired and upset that it hurt her too. Grover nodded solemnly. "Yeah, we did." She shared a look with the older boy, remembering how Sally had turned into dust. She had grown up around that woman, she was practically like a second parent to her. But she couldn't even begin to imagine how Percy felt, he watched his mom die.

What was weird about it was that she didn't feel the usual snip of death when she had disappeared. She hasn't felt the Minotaur either, so maybe it was just something she couldn't sense. "I'm... sorry. For everything.." Grover muttered at the other boy as Percy looked away from the two of them. "Grover- it isn't your fault." She sighed as she grabbed her friend's hand. He shook his head at her softly. "My job was to get you two here safely. Maybe if I had told you both the truth sooner, Percy's mom would still be here—" He sounded ashamed of himself, disappointed that he let this happen even if it was clearly not really anyone's fault.

Percy just looked even more upset at him. "Please... stop." Grover winced. "I know this isn't easy but I wanna talk about it." He said softly. She sighed at Grover's words. "Hey- let's not push him okay?" She muttered under her breath as they watched Percy stand up, sighing as he pulled his pants on, to which she quickly looked away out of respect. Grover stared at her in confusion as she did that, to which she shot him a look that said he shouldn't say anything.

Percy seemed oblivious to their silent conversation. "Your job was to get me here alive. So your job is done." He spat at Grover as he finished putting his pants on, to which she sighed in relief at. "Wait, where are you going?" She asked him in concern as he stood up towards the door. "Percy-" Grover tried to stop him. But the other boy seemed to be too stubborn. "It was so important I get here 'cause my father's a god. So I'm gonna go find him." He finished as he left the room with a swing of the door.

She immediately winced. Grover looked concerned. "Yeah. but it isn't that... simple." Before he could finish his sentence Percy already left the room. She sighed deeply. "He doesn't know that the gods don't live here... doesn't he." She knew how stubborn Percy could be to assume something, and this was yet again one of those instances. Grover sighed too. "Yeah, oh gods. What are we going to do with him?" He sounded tired of this.

She winced slightly in response. "I really don't know. Let's go follow him, before he... does something he can't take back." Grover nodded in agreement as they both knew how Percy could be. They shared a worried look and started to frantically exit the infirmary. As soon as the two started quickly running outside to find him, they heard the yell of an older man. "Peter Johnson is here!" He yelled out to someone in annoyance. She breathed in shakily when as she and Grover finally made it over to them. "Oh... god. My lungs..." She inhaled sharply, today wasn't a good day for her to be asthmatic.

Percy winced awkwardly. "Oh-kay. That.. isn't really my name. I guess I'm looking for the office?" He said in confusion, really not sure how he was going to look for his father. The man just laughed, ignoring Percy's words for a second, and stared at her questioningly instead.

He had sunglasses on his face that reflected the light in them, so she was staring right at her own reflection in them. "Pfft. God, don't you mean the gods girl?" He asked her condescendingly. She blinked awkwardly. "What?" She muttered in confusion. "Who's this one, Grover?" He asked the boy in annoyance, motioning his head at Eurydice. Grover sighed. "That's Eurydice Ramirez. She's also new-" He explained to him as the man interrupted and yelled out again. "Elise Rodriguez is here too!" He sounded annoyed as he yelled that.

She stared at him in absolute confusion. She wasn't sure if she was impressed by how careless he was or not. "Uh- that's not my name, sir." She swallows nervously. The man seemed to roll his eyes at her mentally. Percy tried to get the man's attention again. "I'm trying to find whoever's in charge so—" Grover quickly interrupted him. "Wait, wait, wait! Percy, um. Mr. D, Camp Director." He pointed at the bearded man in the sunglasses. He didn't look like someone in charge of an entire camp... honestly she would have trusted Mr. Brunner, or well now Chiron more than him. She was still getting used to the fact Mr. Brunner was Chiron.

Thinking about what his name implied made her realize that he had probably mentored every other demigod in the greek myths at some point. From Achilles and Patroclus to Jason and Herakles. It was daunting to think that she was just like the demigods in the stories she grew up loving. She felt especially a heartbreak for Achilles and Patroclus, knowing how their story ended the fact she knew it was real made their ending worse. She still wasn't trusting whoever this Mr. D was though.

Grover sighed. "Mr. D, this is Percy Jackson and Eurydice Ramirez." He introduced them nervously. The man looked at him in annoyance. "Yeah, Grover I heard them the first time." He muttered. Percy interrupted looking annoyed. "Yeah, but did you?" She winced. "Maybe we shouldn't start picking fight with anyone Percy—" She muttered carefully to him. Grover pulled Percy away from the man. "She's right. You really don't wanna start anything with this guy." He warned him.

Percy scoffed. "He's starting with me!" He pointed at the guy as Grover stopped him. "Percy. The D is for Dionysus." He warned him nervously. "Oh my god." Eurydice's eyes went wide as she stared at the man. "That's Dionysus?" Her eyes were wide in confusion. "I'd always thought that he'd... y'know. Look... different." She whispered, wincing as Percy seemed to realize what they meant. "Wait, what do you mean by Dionysus? You mean the god- like the god Dionysus?" He stares at the man in equal shock.

"No way..." He whispered to the others slightly. "Yes!" Grover hastily confirmed with a nod as Percy looked at the man again. "Excuse me. your Highness?" He said to the man attempting to be respectful. She had to bite down on her lip to stop herself from bursting out into laughter. Grover had an exasperated look on his face as she tried her best not to laugh. Mr. D's eyebrows narrowed as he looked at Percy, then at her. "Oh." He eyed them curiously.

Percy continued nervously. "I think my dad may be around here somewhere. I don't know how to ask for him. I don't- I don't even know his name." She immediately winced, he didn't seem to have gotten the memo that their parents were on an entirely different plane. Which made the fact that Mr. D was here at all... confusing. The dirty blonde continued, the amusement in the Camp Director's face growing. "But I think I should see him. I just..." He trailed off. "I think I really need that right now. Can you help me?" He asked.

She could barely hide her confusion as Mr. D sat up straighter at his seat in the table, setting his can of diet coke onto the table. "Actually..." He started. "I think I can." He smiled at him. "Son." She could not hide the confusion on her face as Grover immediately face palmed from beside her. "What the hell?" She whispered in confusion. She didn't see the resemblance at all. Unless... he was messing with him. Oh gods, he is messing with him!

Percy blinked. "Dad?" He sounded so confused. Mr. D just smiled like he won the lottery. "Yes. Peter." The man grinned, as Percy shook his head at him slightly. "It's Percy." The older man grinned. "Exactly." He said. "Now before we get to know each other there's something very important I want you to do for me, okay?" He asked the boy gently. Oh wow, he was seriously a bad actor. How did Percy fall for this? She was just currently too dumbfounded to speak right now.

Percy nodded as the man started to grin even wider. "In the galley. There is a bottle of 1985 Château Haut-Brion. Will you go fetch that for me?" The man batted his eyes innocently. She nearly laughed, but everything in her was holding herself back from doing so. "Is that really all you have to say to me?" Percy asked him in confusion.

Grover quickly interrupted. "Hey, um. Mr. D- even if Percy was-" The man interrupted. "Uh. uh. uh, bup!" He stopped him. "Grover, quiet, please." He told him. Eurydice tried to hide her laughter. "Uhm. Percy I dont think that's your—" The god in the hawaiian shirt interrupted her now. "Ah, ah. ah! Shut up Elsie, Elise or whatever!" He reprimanded her. "Do you really wanna interrupt your friend meeting his dear old dad?" She blinked in confusion. "Quiet, please! This is a nice moment. Don't ruin it." Grover looked completely done with the man.

Mr. D pointed at another building. "The galley is right down that path. Grab that bottle and I'll talk to you about whatever you want." He continued. "You know, uh.." He trailed off. "You! Uh, me. who cares!" He said. Grover inhaled slightly, knowing he couldn't say anything to offend the god. She heard the clacking of hooves as Chiron arrived, it turned out that his wheelchair was his hooves after all...

The old man clicked his tongue as he approached. "Percy." He nodded at him. Meanwhile Percy looked like he was about to faint in confusion. "Mr. Brunner?" He said to the man in confusion as he approached. Grover interrupted their conversation. "Uh. Mr. Brunner's real name is Chiron. Camp activities director, immortal trainer of heroes, he is—" Chiron stopped him. "Grover, thank you. I'll take it from here." He reassured the boy as he approached her and Percy.

He looked over at the boy. "Oh, Percy. This must be a lot for you to process. Eurydice already had a head start over here. But otherwise she's as clueless as you are currently." Percy blanked out for a second. "Oh. no. It's- it's fine. I mean, you're a horse." He answered sarcastically. "My father won't talk to me unless I get him a drink. Well. this all seems totally normal." He sounded completely done with everything. The old man shook his head at him. "Oh. no, no, no. no. Mr. D isn't your father." He reassured him.

She finally let out a laugh. "See? I was trying i tell you." Percy stared at her in some annoyance. "Seriously?" Mr. D scoffed. "I could be." He muttered. Chiron looked at him annoyed. "Yes, but are you?" He asked him with a narrow of his eyebrows. The god rolled his eyes in response. "Why must you ruin everything?" He asked him with a frustrated look. Chiron groaned in annoyance. "Mr. D knows that Zeus has forbidden him from consuming alcohol. And that demigods are able to do things for gods that gods are forbidden to do." He explained.

"Mr. D was taking advantage of that." Chiron finished with a sigh. Eurydice snorted. A god of alcohol who wasn't allowed to drink any, that was ironic wasn't it? "Don't laugh at me girl!" The god glared at her slightly. Chiron looked at him with a disappointed look, before he turned to her and Percy. "Eurydice, Percy. Walk with me, and we'll start again. Hm?" He motioned for them to follow him.

Grover was about to follow along with them as Chiron shook his head at him. "Uh, Grover. Please give us a moment." He smiles a him reassuringly as he stepped away hesitantly. She winced as she smiled at Grover, trying to tell him that they'd be fine. The two followed Chiron as he walked down the path with them. She stared in awe of all her surroundings as she stared at the fields that looked like they could go in forever around the camp. The camp was extremely large and surrounded by kids all in orange Camp half blood shirts.

She assumed that everyone wore orange because it was easier to find someone wearing a bright colour.. in case of anything. There was a waterfall beyond the fields as crossed paths were situated around the field with other campers littered around the fields. "This is a sacred valley. Humans can't see it." Chiron explained one at a time. "Monsters can't enter it. The world can't touch it." They walked farther, near a large statue of a god she didn't recognize. The camp was huge! There were so many places that she couldn't even begin to explain as she swerved her head around to look at all of her surroundings.

She felt slightly overwhelmed, but the camp was just too beautiful for her to feel scared. "Great care was taken to bring both of you here." He informed them as they watched another Satyr like Grover near a few kids who seemed to be picking strawberries. Strawberries weren't her favourite fruit.. but she can see the appeal of picking them. "And great sacrifice." The horse man continued. She stared in confusion at the turnabout sign reading a few of the gods names. "What are those?" She asked in confusion. The man smiled. "Those are pointing where our activities are located." He answered her patiently.

She nodded in some understanding. She was confused to where they would be sleeping if the cabins were separated by their parents. It seemed like the only way it could work with this many kids at the camp. "There's something I gotta tell you." Percy said to Chiron. "I.. uh. Lost your pen.. sword thingy." He muttered to him, when Eurydice remembered the keychain Chiron had mysteriously given to her. She wondered what that was about if what Chiron had given to Percy was a sword.. then what was hers?

Percy winced. "Hopefully that wasn't your only one." He said. Chiron didn't seem worried and said to him. "Check your pocket." He smiled. Percy sighed. "No, I've- I lost it the other night, on the hill." He muttered. The man repeated. "Check your pocket." She and Percy shared confused looks as the boy rummaged through his pockets. "Unless you surrender it. It will always find its way back to you." He explained to Percy.

She gasped. "That's so cool! Percy!" She smiled at him excitedly. "Magical objects don't obey the physical laws of the ordinary world." He explained to them with a nod. "Your pen, my wheelchair. Eurydice's keychain. They're all a part of your parent's world. As as the both of you now." He informed them with a smile. She grinned slightly. "Wait, so I have a weapon like that too??" She gasped in excitement as she was about to take it out of her pocket.

The older man stopped her. "Ah, ah. Only take it out in your time of need." He said wisely as she retracted her hand back out of her pocket. Chiron spoke again suddenly. "I have something to show the two of you." He muttered to them as he walked fowards. "Twelve cabins. For twelve Olympian gods." He started, as she lolled at the gigantic cabins in awe. A large turnabout was pointing at each cabin and the god they belonged to. "Each cabin is home to the children that god has claimed." She blinked in confusion at those words. Claimed? What did that mean?

She watches as the other campers went along their everyday lives as her and Percy looked around. Percy seemed somewhat relieved. "Great. Which one am I?" He asked in confusion. Chiron sighed deeply. "You haven't been claimed. Percy." He told him. Eurydice stared at him in confusion. "Wait.. so we need to be claimed in order to get a cabin..?" She said nervously in confusion. "What if... we never get claimed." She muttered nervously to the man.

Chiron looked at her sadly. "It can happen. But I am sure your father will claim you, Eurydice. Whoever he may be." Percy looked confused still. "Well, when do I get claimed?" He asked. Chiron winced. "Well, the gods reveal their design in their own time, not before." He explained. "Your father might claim you tomorrow, it might be next week. It might be—" Percy interrupted him. "Like what you said before. Never." He sounded frustrated at the fact that his father would reject him even more.

She winced, touching the side of Percy's arm softly. "Hey- it's okay Perce." She reassured him, but he ripped her hand away. "Even now, he still wants nothing to do with me." He muttered angrily. "What am I'm even doing here? There's no place for me here! I bet Eurydice is gonna get claimed before me." Chiron sighed at his time. "There is a place for you. Here..." He motioned towards the cabin in front of them. "Hermes, god of travelers." He said. "His cabin is home to both his own children, and the unclaimed." He muttered as they walked inside of the cabin together.

There was slight chatter of the other campers in the Hermes' cabin as they stepped inside. "Everyone, everyone!" He addressed the cabin. "Wait- wait a minute." Percy tried to stop him.
But instead the man only clapped his hands together to address the cabin. "Everyone, your attention please." The campers in their cabin went silent as Chiron spoke, staring at her and Percy. "This is Percy Jackson and Eurydice Ramirez." Chiron put his hands into the two children's shoulders. "I trust you will see to whatever they need." He smiled, and as soon as he had finished the campers in the cabin went back to what they were doing before.

She sighed in relief, at least getting new campers wasn't that big of a deal for them. Chiron looked at the two of them. "I know you feel powerless right now Percy. But you're not, all will reveal itself in time. For you as well Eurydice." He smiled at them reassuringly as he left the cabin. Finally leaving her and Percy alone together for the first time since, well. Everything.

She and Percy silently walk towards the center of the cabin, she's surprised that their bags were already there waiting for them. Percy kneeled down to open his bag in confusion as Eurydice held her own in front of her as she stood up, just observing it. Percy sighed to himself as he pulled out some blue candy out of his bag. He looked sad, maybe it made him think of his mom. Sally would always go out to get him blue candy. Sometimes Percy would even share the ones he got sent to him from Yancy with her.

She turned around to hear one of the older callers whisper something. "That's the kid, I think hes the one who killed the Minotaur. And his little girlfriend I think, people are saying she saved him." She turned her head around to look at the campers in confusion. For a second she thinks she forgot to breath because of how stunned she was. Seriously why did they say that out of all the things they could have said.

Percy didn't seem to be paying attention until the last minute when the leader of the group of guys walked towards them. It looked like they were around to pick a fight with Percy. She blinked as she watched the boy stand up and accept his fate. "Look, if you're gonna give us a hard time. Just do it tomorrow, could you spare my friend at least?" He asked with a sigh as he motioned over to her. The leader of their group was an older boy with dark curly hair wearing a grey long sleeved shirt under his orange camp half blood t-shirt.

He was obviously handsome, for being the kids of gods a lot of the kids here were surprisingly attractive. Not that she even cared about that, it was just something she noticed. After observing a lot of people for a while you could pick up a thing or two. Even if it was an inference at best. The older boy's face turned soft in concern. "I heard what happened to you on the hill. And I just..." He trailed off. "I want to say I'm really sorry." She was pleasantly surprised that he was being nice to them.

He was probably one of the first people at camp who actually sought them out without having any questions. She finally remembered the girl from earlier and her long pretty braids. She shook her head quickly, shooing the thought away as soon as possible. Percy and her slightly relaxed when they realized the older boy was friendly. He smiled at them softly. "I know what you're going through. Believe me." He sounded so earnest that she wanted to believe him. Percy seemed to be thinking the same thing as they exchanged looks.

Luke quickly offered each one of his hands for the two of them to shake. "I'm Luke." He smiled, shaking Percy's hand first. And then hers. "Percy." Her friend introduced himself to the older boy quickly. She relaxed slightly as she shook Luke's hand. "I'm Eurydice." She smiled at him. "That's a pretty name." He said to her, and she smiled. "Oh, thank you Luke." She muttered in some embarrassment. She had always gotten weird questions about her name, not many people said it was pretty. She decided right then and there that Luke wasn't that bad of a guy.

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Uploading this chapter as I'm waiting for my sister to walk to the bus with me! This chapter could have been called something else entirely but I wanted to reference the pjo lightning thief muscial. (Also if you guys were wondering who would have played Eurydice in the musical it would have been Mariah Rose Faith Castilias or Eva Noblezada there's no in between.)

My roman empire is that Mr. D does canonically care for the demigods but doesn't wanna be hurt when they end up dying because they always die
:(( Which is why he calls all the kids by the wrong names. Next chapter is capture the flag! Be excited. We had our first annabeth cameo and we got introduced to Luke! I hope you enjoyed <33