“I’m back. This time, I win.” With those words written there. On the ground of the Camp’s sword fighting arena. Written in my handwriting, in my blood, Percy’s blood. the gods blood. I get the idea that i’m missing something here. As in, I get that there is something, someone is not telling me.

“Who is Omega?” I ask the only reasonable question zooming around my head. I look up at Itch questionly. He meets my eyes. I see he has something to say.

“We’re not quite sure.” Is the only answer I get.

Itch and I head to the big house where we plan to see Chiron. At this point he's the oldest person around, he might have the best clue as to what exactly is happening. To me and the camp.

I feel something odd. I’m not really sure what the feeling is. Fear? Discomfort? Neither of those things I am very familiar with. I've never really been pushed to my boundries like this. I was always in charge. I was the one making other people feel discomfort. I was the one people feared. High school was a dangerous place with me around. I only realise now what a tyrant I actually was.

I’m knocked out of my thoughts when I hear someone calling my name.

“Charlie.” The person says soundly slightly irritated. I look up to see Itch frowning at me. “Are you okay?” He asks suddenly concerned.

“Yea.” I reply not wanting to discuss it.

Truth is. I don't feel okay. I feel sick. Why would I do that? What's happening to me?

We walk into Chiron’s office. The old horse is standing over his desk on all fours, flipping through the pages of a book. I get a glimpse of the cover as he quickly shuts the book and slams it back onto the bookshelf. ‘Anti-heroes of the 19th century.’ Whatever that means.

“Charlie.” He nods towards me. “Itch.” he acknowledges.

“Chiron. I assume you know why we’re here?” I say with tight smile.

“Yes. That is why I called in Percy, Piper and Annabeth too. I think that you will need their experience with this sort of stuff…”

Seconds later the door opens and the three demigods walk in. Percy swaggers in first. Annabeth follows him in and he places his arm around her as they stand next to each other. Piper walks in with a slight smile on her face.

“Soooo?” Itch says awkwardly.

“Most of you would have heard the story of Troy, The Trojan war.” Chiron starts. “Well there’s a part that no one heard. Helen Of Troy, she was in fact a Demigod. Daughter of Aphrodite to be exact.”

“So I’m related to my favourite hero of the trojan war?!” I exclaim quite happily.

“Yes, Charlie you are. But Paris and Menelausweren’t the only two in love with Helen. Zeus was.”

The room goes silent. People all take a moment to gather their bearings as they process what they just heard.

Zeus was in love with Helen?

“Zeus was the one who helped her escape when paris killed Achilles and was fatally wounded. He believed that if he saved her life, she would fall in love with him. But after she lost Paris Helen was devastated. She was pregnant with Paris’ son and refused to love again. Zeus was angry. He killed thousands of soldiers and made the war last alot longer than it should’ve.”

I’m not so sure how to feel about this. Zeus has made some stupid decisions over the years but THIS?

Chiron opens his mouth as if he wants to say more but a loud siren stops him. The siren wails loudly across the whole camp.

Kids screams become louder as the six of us in office all realise that something truly bad must’ve happened or be in progress.

Percy is the first out the door. Hot on his heels in Annabeth and Piper. Itch looks at me like he’s going to tell me to stay inside but before he speaks I race out and he has no choice but to follow.

I get outside and what I see makes my heart drop to the bottom of my stomach. This is bad. This is very bad.

Notes

Yay update!

-Chelsea