On my thirteenth birthday my mum told me to get in the the car because we were going somewhere special. I didn't find this unusual because my mum somehow comes up with a birthday surprise every year. But this was different she had made me wear an orange t-shirt with Camp Half-Blood printed on it in black letters. So I covered it up with my favourite brown, baggy coat just so that nobody thought that I was weird.

After hours of sitting in the car bored we arrived at a camp. Then my mum handed me my luggage, said goodbye and drove off. I was greeted by a woman with brown hair and stunning multicoloured eyes.

"Hi I'm Piper and this is Lulu she will be your guide today," Piper explained . I looked at the girl who was supposedly Lulu. She looked like a barbie doll with her long blonde hair and bright white teeth but her eyes were a muddy brown. At first I didn't notice them it was almost like she purposely tried to hide them with all her makeup and brightly coloured clothes.

"So what exactly is this place?" I asked

"This is Camp Half-Blood a place for all half bloods to be safe," Lulu replied.

"What is a half-blood?" I asked again.

"A half-blood or demigod is half human half Greek or Roman god but if you talked to that weird Hecate kid he would say that a half-blood is a wizard or witch who has both magic and muggle heritage," She explained slowly.

After Lulu had shown me around we went and sat down for dinner. It was well to say the least strange the drinks would change with what you wanted and at the end everybody scraped the last of their food into a fire as a sacrifice for the gods. Then we all sat around a campfire and sung silly songs about a grandma going off to war.

A bright light appeared above my head and everyone started whispering and the camp director gasped sarcastically.

"What is it?" I asked my third question of the day.

"All hail Alice Venn daughter of Dionysus!"

"What, who, you mean the wine dude," I asked confused.

"Do not call me the wine dude," the grumpy camp director said slouching in his lawn chair.

"Wait your my dad?" I asked again.

"Unfortunately yes," my newfound dad groaned.

"Why didn't you claim me earlier?" I asked.

"Well I thought.... Nope I just couldn't be bothered." He replied.

I stormed off to my new cabin mumbling to myself. The cabin was stone with grape vines wrapped all around it. The roof was a beautiful pinky white marble with carved vines and bunches of grapes. On the inside the moonlight was streaming in through the purple curtains, a bowl of ripe, juicy, purple and green grapes sat on a ornate gold and marble table in the center of the room. Light shined on the two gold and birch wood beds with white sheets with gold and lilac embroidery in swirls. I flopped onto the left bed and fell asleep.

In the morning an old brown car was parked outside the gate. A ginger tired looking woman in comfortable clothes stepped out the car and started talking to Chiron. A boy with dirty blond hair and a pale girl with very bright ginger hair, who looked about my age, stepped out behind her. I walked up to them.

"Hello Alice, This is Cady Longton and her children Atlanta and Theseus they are children of Hermes," Chiron said.

"Welcome, I'm new here as well, is it Atlanta and Theseus like the myths?" I asked trying to be nice although I didn't like the look of the boy.

"Yes, their full names are Theseus Heracles and Atalanta Circe Longton!" their mother said excitedly.

"Whilst your here Alice why don't you show these two around?" Chiron asked

"Sure, you two come this way so it must be great having such cool names," I said trying to be friendly.

"Nope its awful mum is a lunatic she makes us eat Greek food like feta cheese and we're lactose intolerant," Atalanta groaned.

"Atlanta that's awful you must be happy to be here," I said honestly not caring but I still found it bad.

"Call me Ally, posh people call me Atalanta, normal people call me Ally and my friends call me Lanta or Lalla," Ally replied.

I finished showing them around and was tired of Ally groaning and Theseus talking on and on about his favourite K-Pop groups.

"The tours over why don't you two go to your cabin?" I asked wanting some alone time.

"Sure but I don't appreciate a girl who is my age telling me what to do," Ally said before walking off with her brother.

I walked back to my cabin. I sat down on my bed and picked up the framed collage of pictures of me and my mum. I wondered how my mum had fallen in love with this jerk and why she hid the fact that my dad was a Greek god and the the god of wine no less. I put the dark metal framed collage down on my bedside table and started reading my favourite book Frogspell it was a book that I hadn't read since I was nine. It was about a boy who made a potion that turned people into frogs and saves a prince from an evil witch. I had finished all three books in an hour and a half. I headed down for food.

After the meal we all went down to the camp fire. I saw Ally chatting with all the other Hermes campers whilst Theseus sat in silence reading a magazine. A girl who looked about Piper's age with long curly red hair was sitting next to Chiron. If she was there yesterday I didn't notice he. Also sitting very close to Piper was a small, slight man with wild dark hair and a cheeky smile. It was a normal camp fire until the red haired girl stood up and started breathing green smoke and then said:

The owl, vine and caduceus,

Will travel blank,

To find the the sword of Midas,

And when they return,

Enemy turned friend will attack us,

Evil will start to wake,

As friend of the moon,

And heir of Poseidon,

Will meet with another chosen,

The lost goddess,

Finally,

The owl, the vine and the caduceus,

The enemy turned friend,

The friend of the moon,

The heir of Poseidon,

The lost goddess,

And the son of thieves,

The heroes of light will arise

"A child of Dionysus and two children of Hermes arriving right before this prophecy is spoken," said the man next to Piper

"Your right Leo, the vine must be Alice and since a son of thieves is mentioned Atalanta you must be the caduceus as for the owl, Lulu I think you should go," Chiron deduced.

"Wait go where NOW!" Ally and Alice said in unplanned unison.

"Go west and not now tomorrow morning," Chiron calmly replied.

Everyone went back to there cabins. The next morning I was up earl. I packed my bag and headed to the big house.