Hey Fanfiction! This is my new story! It's basically going to be The Lost Hero, nut with Reyna instead of Jason as the main character. A few minor changes were made, and the love triangle is pretty whacked up. Give it a try, if you dare!

The Lost Heroine

Chapter 1

Reyna

Reyna was having a rotten day, even before almost fell down the Grand Canyon. She woke up in a school bus, sitting next to a girl with choppy brown hair and color changing eyes. In the seat in front of her was a boy with dark curly hair and elfin features. He was constantly drumming the seat, playing with the zippers on his coat, or playing with a screwdriver that he pulled out of his sleeve.

All around her, kids around her age, possibly fifteen or sixteen, where sprawled out listening to iPods, talking or sleeping. Reyna looked out the window and stared. She saw vast miles of sand, dirt, and rocks. She was in the desert, which was odd, because Reyna distinctively remembered being by the ocean for most of her life.

"Reyna, you okay?" the girl asked, looking slightly concerned.

Reyna stared at her before finally responding, "Do I know you?"

She was cut off by a short teacher, who seemed to be some kind of coach, judging from his running shoes, workout pants and neon orange polo shirt. A whistle hung around his neck and he held a microphone in his left hand and a baseball bat in his right. The man may have been intimidating, if he wasn't five foot zero. A student a couple rows ahead of Reyna called out, "Stand up, Coach Hedge!"

The 'Coach Hedge' character scanned the bus for the offender, but stopped when he saw Reyna. He stared at her for a few seconds, and then glared. Reyna instinctively stared right back, looking for a challenge in his gaze. Instead, the coach looked away then cleared his throat. "We'll arrive in five minutes! Stay with your partners and don't lose your worksheet. If any of you cupcakes causes any trouble on this trip, I will personally send you back to campus the hard way."

He picked up the baseball bat and swung it like he was hitting a home run. Reyna looked at the girl next to her, "Can he talk to us that way?"

The girl shrugged. "Always does. This is the Wilderness School, 'Where kids are the animals.'" She said it like it was a joke the two had shared, but it was lost on Reyna.

"This is a mistake," Reyna tried to explain. "I'm not supposed to be here"

The hyper boy from earlier turned around and laughed. "Yeah, right, Reyna. We've all been framed! I didn't run away six times and Piper isn't a chronic car thief."

The girl blushed. "I didn't steal them, Leo!"

"Oh, sorry Piper, I forgot what was your story again? You talked the dealers into giving them to you" Leo raised his eyebrows at Reyna like, Can you believe this?

"Well, anyways" Piper interrupted. "I hope you have your worksheet, because somebody" she looked pointedly at Leo, "used mine for spit wads last week. Why are you looking at me like that? Do I have marker on my face?" Piper asked.

"I don't know you" Reyna responded coldly.

Leo grinned at her. "Sure, I'm not your best guy friend ever. I'm actually his evil clone from Krypton, in case you were wondering" Reyna raised an eyebrow, looking perfectly confused.

"Valdez! Is there a problem back there?" Coach Hedge yelled from the front of the bus.

Leo winked at Reyna and grinned mischievously. "Sorry, Coach! I was having trouble hearing you. Could you use the megaphone, please?"

Hedge grunted, like he was glad to be given an excuse to use it. He held it up to his mouth, only to sound like Darth Vader. Everywhere, kids cracked up. He tried again, only to say, "The cow goes moo!" Kids howled with laughter and the coach shouted, "Valdez!"

"Leo! How did you do that?" Piper questioned while stifling a laugh.

"But really, guys, seriously," Reyna pleaded. "What am I doing here? Where are we going? How do I know you?"

Piper's eyebrow's knit together. "Reyna, are you serious? Should we tell coach?"

"Don't worry, Pipes. She's getting back at us for the 3 am wakeup call on Saturday, right?" Leo questioned at the end, upon seeing Reyna's blank face. "Did you hit your head, Reyna? Do you really not know who we are?" Leo asked.

"It's worse than that. I don't even know who I am"

IAMALINEBREAKNAMEDSCIPIO!

The bus dropped the off in front of a red stucco building that seemed to be in the middle of nowhere. Maybe that's where they were: The National Museum of Nowhere. Reyna hadn't paid much attention to what she had been wearing on the bus, but she looked down to see a purple T-shirt with a SPQR logo on the front, faded blue jeans, black and white running shoes, and a thin black windbreaker.

"So, relearn your life 101 for the amnesiacs. We go to the 'Wilderness School'" – Leo made air quotes with his hands. "which means we're 'bad kids'. Your family, or the court, or whoever, thought that you were too much trouble to keep around, so they shipped you off to this lovely prison- sorry, ;boarding school'- in Armpit, Nevada, where you learn valuable nature skills like weaving daises into hats! And for a special treat, we go on 'educational' field trips with Coach Hedge, who keeps order with a baseball bat. Is it all coming back to you now?" Leo asked Reyna.

"No." Reyna glanced apprehensively at the other kids: maybe twenty guys, half as many girls. None of them looked like hardened criminals, but she couldn't help but wonder what they'd done to get sentenced to a school of delinquents. Reyna wondered what she'd done to get here.

"Ok, well the three of us started together last semester. You and Piper over here are best friends and dorm mates, while you and I kind of hit it off. Really well" Leo winked and Piper rolled her eyes.

"He's kidding you know. You two aren't actually dating, unless there's something I don't know about that dies with your amnesia?" Piper turned and looked at Reyna.

"No, I have a feeling that I would remember going out with a Latino elf" Reyna joked.

"Now I know that you need help. You never joke! The great and solemn Reyna, making a joke, a decent joke at that too!" Leo pretended to run and scream in terror.

"Leo Valdez! You're my partner. Now get away from these loser girls and come tell me I'm pretty!" some girl cried out in a nasally, high-pitched voice. The girl dropped back to join the trio. She wore jeans and a pink tank top and enough makeup to look ready for a Halloween party.

"Look Isabel, I didn't want to be your partner. Let's just get this over with" Leo grumbled, trying to look anywhere but his partner. Eventually, she dragged Leo off to who knows where.

"I hate that girl. Look at me, I'm Isabel! My jeans are so tight you can see my underwear through them and my boobs practically hang out from my shirt! I can't figure out how to add, so I'll make out with every guy I see instead!" Piper did a horrifyingly good impression of the girl that had dragged Leo off.

"Wow, that was spot on" I told Piper, suppressing a grin. "Come on, let's head inside" I told her, and for some reason, giving a command felt natural, good even.

The Isabel girl turned around and looked at Piper. "Hey, Piper, does your tribe run this place? Do you get in free if you do a rain dance?"

Before Piper or Leo could stop me, I walked right up to Isabel and punched her square in the jaw. "How dare you insult Piper! Everyone here could all make fun of you and your vampire makeup job, but we have the self-control not to. So is your excuse just being an idiot? Or do you not know when to pick your fights? Because I would be glad to teach you that this was the worst battle to choose" Reyna tossed her braid behind her as she walked away, her eyes storming with anger.

Piper grabbed her arm. "Hey, it's okay. You didn't have to do that for me. If they knew who my dad was, they'd all bow down and scream 'We are not worthy!'" Piper told me, chuckling to herself. "And besides, I like to fight my own battles"

Reyna nodded, but she also knew that she had just had to do something about that Isabel girl. A boy with a superman haircut and blindingly white teeth walked over to Reyna and Piper. "Hey, Reyna, what you did back there was pretty cool. I could reward you for that great deed" The guy winked at her and tried to put his arm around her shoulders. In response, Reyna flipped him over her shoulder and kicked him in the ribcage. She and Piper walked to an empty spot on the catwalk to start on their worksheet.

Storm clouds seemed to build up only on top of the school group, as everywhere else, the sky was clear blue. "All right, cupcakes!" Coach Hedge yelled. He frowned at the storm like it bothered him too. "We may have to cut this short, so get to work Remember, complete sentences!"

Reyna wondered why highschoolers needed to be reminded to use complete sentences, when she felt a piercing headache. "Piper, I'm going to go talk to Coach for a sec, okay?" Reyna asked, as the migraine got worse and worse.

Before Piper could answer, Reyna was already a few feet away from Coach Hedge. "Did you do this?" the man asked her.

Reyna took a step back. "Do what?" It sounded like the coach had just asked if she had created a thunderstorm.

The coach glared at him, his beady little eyes glinting from under the brim of his cap. "Don't play games with me, kid. What are you doing here and why are you messing with my job?"

"You mean… you don't know me?" Reyna asked him, feeling bewildered. "I'm not one of your students?"

Hedge snorted. "Never seen you before today."

Reyna was so relieved; she almost wanted to cry, almost being the key word. She was in the wrong place. "Look, sir, I don't know how I got here. I just woke up on the bus, feeling like I'm not supposed to be here. I don't know who I am. I don't have any memories. You've got to help me." Reyna pleaded.

Hedge studied her like he was trying to read Reyna's thoughts. "Great," he muttered. "You're being truthful. Look, kid, I don't know who you are. I just know what you are, and it means trouble. Now I got to protect three of you rather than two. Are you the special package? Is that it?"

"What are you talking about?" Reyna cried out.

"An extraction team is on their way. They're coming to pick up a special package, but they wouldn't give me details. I thought to myself, Fine. The two I'm watching are pretty powerful, older than most. I know they're being stalked. I can smell a monster in the group. I figure that's why the camp is suddenly frantic to pick them up. But then you pop up out of nowhere. So, are you the special package?"

The headache got worse. Half-bloods. Camp. Monsters. Reyna still didn't know what Hedge was talking about, but the words gave her a massive migraine- like her mind was trying to access information that should've been there, but wasn't. Reyna stumbled, but Hedge caught her. "Whoa, there, cupcake. You say you got no memories, huh? Fine. I'll just have to watch you, too, until the team gets here. We'll let the director figure things out."

"What director?" Reyna said. "What camp?"

Suddenly, lightning crackled overhead and the wind picked up with vengeance. Worksheets flew over the edge and the bridge shuttered. Kids screamed, stumbling and grabbing at the rails. Lightning cracked, setting a nearby cactus on fire.

Bye! Happy Easter (unless you don't celebrate Easter)!

~Nerd and Proud