Cory P.O.V

Today will be my last day with Riley. Even if she isn't my biological daughter, she is still my daughter.

Riley P.O.V

"Mom and Dad I have to go to school! It's the first day of eighth grade!" I yelled. I was all happy. I just put on random clothes and waited for Maya to come.

"Losers, I'm here," Maya said through the speaker box.

"Coming down," I said. I walked down the stairs and saw Maya standing with Farkle and Lucas.

"You know," Maya said. She continued and said, "I don't know how you throw on a random pair of clothes and you still look good."

"I think it's the purple cat that does that," I said laughing. When we were walking out, I saw some random girls looking at Lucas. I was angry. Those girls were looking at my Lucas, but of course he wasn't property. I was still angry. There was lightning trying to hit those girls. I was confused. It was raining, but only on the random girls. I was still angry at them. Something happened. The lake near my apartment had put a wave on them. They were soaking wet. Lucas tried to keep me from getting wet. That movement had stopped the storm.

"Weird," Lucas said.

We were about to walk into the school until the football team walked up to us.

"Friar, you joining this year?" the captain asked.

"No. I think I'm going to try archery," Lucas said. I was yet still confused.

"Oh and there's Riley. Beauty," the captain of the football team, Reece said.

Lucas looked mad, but I looked at him with an "I got it" face. "Reece, those cheerleaders are getting lonely," I said. Maya, Lucas, Farkle and I walked inside the school. Maya and Lucas walked by each other. People would say I was jealous, but I wasn't. They seemed more like brother and sister than boyfriend and girlfriend.

"Farkle, I have a question," I said.

"Cool. Shoot," Farkle replied as he winked at me.

"How are you so smart, you don't even work for it," I said.

"I don't know. It's the same for you. You're just as smart as me," he said. I just shrugged. Our first class was science

Mr. Ceyer said, "Okay guys. If anyone of you is stupid enough, please come up here." By instinct, I raised my hand. "Oh. It's a Matthews. All right come on up," he said while I was coming up there. My father was standing right outside the door.

"Mr. Matthews told me to ask you to put your hand on fire," Mr. Ceyer said. I looked at my father and then back at my teacher.

"You're kidding right, I could die," I said. Mr. Ceyer just shrugged. "Dad," I said.

"Riley. Do this. Trust me." Dad said. I nodded. Mr. Ceyer turned on the blowtorch and lit a piece of wood on fire. I slowly put my hand in the fire. It didn't hurt though. When I took it out, it was still on fire.

"Put water on it Mr. Matthews!" Maya yelled. My father just shook his head and said, "Riley think." Everyone else in the room didn't know what was going on. Farkle, Maya, and Lucas were looking at me. They definitely knew what was going on.

I did as my father told. I thought, "Go away flame." I repeated that in my head 5 times and finally the flame went out.

"Alright class. Write about how she washed off the soap without water," Mr. Ceyer said.

"Wait a minute. Her hand was on fire and you told her to light her hand on fire. Everybody thinks that she had soap in her hand," Maya said. Farkle and Lucas were just as confused.

"I would never tell a student to light there hand on fire," Mr. Ceyer said. Now I was confused.

"Ms. Hart, Ms. Matthews, Mr. Friar, and Mr. Minkus, I would like to see you. Please step outside with me," my father said. We all left to the door.

"I'm taking you to camp," my dad said as we walked to the car.

"Dad, school already started, why didn't take you to this random camp when summer started," I said. My father said, "You weren't ready yet." I was confused.

When we got to the place we were supposed to be, my father told us to go in.

"What about you?" I asked my father.

"I'm not like you. I don't have the blood to enter," my dad said.

"You have the same blood as me," I said. He shook his head.

"Dad! No!" I yelled crying. I couldn't take it anymore. I tried to run to him, but Lucas lifted me up so my feet weren't touching the ground. "Lucas, let go of me," I said.

"No. I made a promise to your father quite a bit ago. It was to protect you. He said this place will protect you. I intend to keep my promise," he said. There was no use, he was too strong.

Lucas P.O.V

I had to pick Riley up. She was still sobbing. It hurt me to see her in pain.

"Four new half-bloods, that's a record," a girl with grey eyes said. "By the way I'm Annabeth. This is my boyfriend, Percy," she said while pointing to a guy with brown hair with green eyes. He came up to Riley first and shook her hand.

"What's your name?" Percy asked Riley. I could tell everyone thought Riley was beautiful.

"It's Riley," Riley said. Percy held on to her hand even when she was trying to pull away. Annabeth saw this, but didn't see this as a threat from taking away her boyfriend. Riley was only 13 and Percy was 18 (I could tell because Annabeth told me). Annabeth was laughing instead. Percy was in some sort of daze.

"Man let go of her," I said. He didn't do anything. I was about to fight him if he didn't let go. Riley gave me another look. I knew what the look was.

"Percy!" she said. He finally went out of his daze.

He moved on to me. "Wow, you look like a Zeus kid," he said to me. "A what kid?" I said.

"Oh you didn't give them the talk yet," he said.

Annabeth started to give us the talk. Not what I expected the talk was going to be like. She started to talk about how Greek gods and goddesses have children with mortals. The kids are called demigods. Riley's face was pale. She collapsed on the ground.

"Apollo cabin can help us with that," Annabeth said. She said something to a Latino boy with curly black hair. "Leo, go tell the Apollo kids to help us," Annabeth told the boy. He nodded and left. "He'll be here in ten minutes with the healers. Don't touch her, they need to help her," she said.

"Ten minutes! No, I'm going over to her," I said. She could tell that I loved Riley. I walked over to Riley and kneeled near her. It was like I was afraid to touch her. She was too pale. I needed to help her so I sat her up and held her.

"Lucas," Riley said weakly. She was awake.

"Yeah," I said to her.

"What's on top of your head?" she asked. I looked up and saw a sun. No, not the sun that was from space. It was like a holographic sun. I looked over at Maya and saw that she had a sun on top of her head, too.

"Uh… What's going on?" Maya asked.

"You were just claimed by Apollo. By the way, you guys can't date your godly brother and sister," Percy said and winked. Maya and I looked disgusted by the last comment, but we were brother and sister.

I put Riley's head on the ground softly and walked over to Maya.

"So huckleberry, I'm you're sister," she said.

"Apparently," I said back. I looked over at Farkle and saw he had a holographic owl on top of his head.

"Farkle, look up," I said. He did.

"Ah! Get it off me!" he yelled.

"You're my half-brother Farkle," Annabeth said.

"By the way, what is this place?" I asked.

She said with a smirk, "This is Camp Half-Blood."