Chapter 1- Meeting Cortana

Nico's P.O.V.

I was walking around the border of camp, like I usually did on nights I couldn't this night was different, I just had to find out how. As I walked I soon saw a pale light, very faint. As I stepped closer I realized I was looking at the faint figure of a girl, just about my age. (15) She was leaing against a tree and clutching her side in pain, her pale blue eyes screamed, fear and help, like she was having a nightmare. Her entire body was brusied and covered in cuts and scars, her usually almost white blonde, shoulder length, straight hair, was colored by her own blood. Her clothes which were all torn up, she was wearing light blue jeans and a white t-shirt. She was very pale, but I figured it was because the loss of blood. And her skin glowed in tha faint moonlight.

She was in horrible condition, in an hour tops she would be dead. I knew I had to do something, Shadow traveling would waste to much of her energy, and she would be dead upon arrival. But if I carried her.......we were at least a mile on foot to the Big House, and thats too risky. I sighed, but called Ms.O'Leary, the camps hellhound. She bounded out of the woods, the girl, started backing the hellhound carefully. I shook my head at her. She glared and shook her head violently. I sighed, but grabbed her, she looked like, if she wasn't so weak, she punch me so hard I'd be in the camp's hospital for a week.

I sighed and gently set her on Ms. O'Leary who sniffed her curiously. I hopped on and kept her steady, and Mrs. O'Leary bounded on towards the Big House.

Moments later, the girl looked sickly from the ride, and we were at the Big House. I hopped down and the girl practically fell into me, she looked like she would puke.

I quickly led her to Chiron, who stood up from his wheelchair. Interrupting his card game, he revealed his half-horse form, the girl looked un-suprised, if nothing else, I was positive she wanted to pet him.

Chiron hosited her into his horse back, along with me. While Mr.D mumbled something like, "Great, another brat here at this miserable camp."

Moments later, the nurse rushed in, and started treating the girls wounds, she had many scars, and a huge deep gash right on her side. After a bit, she fell asleep.

Ever since the war three years ago things have been good, Annabeth has her dream, she is working on rebuilding Olympus and she's making a exact copy of the cabins, because we're so overcrowded now that the Satyrs has been bringing newly claimed kids, thanks to Percy.

I even get a cabin. And Grover, the Satyr is happy, fufilling his dream, cleaning up pollution and planting more greenry. And Percy is living happily at camp, being the new expert swordsman and everything, he even had Annabeth as his girlfriend.

And basically everything was good. I sighed as I slowly drifted off to sleep....

Annabeth's P.O.V.

It was early in the morning but Chiron informed me that a new camper. And I was supposed to watch her and guide her around camp, which I did with everyone. I still had a few cabin's to finish, but with my whole cabin helping, they would be done at the end of the day.

The nurse escorted me to the room the girl was staying in. I slowly opened the door, The girl was awake, but not up, she was staring at Nico, who was still sleeping, with confusion in her eyes. She heard me open the door and looked my way. She looked well rested, but really bored.

"Hello." I said softly. She said nothing so I entered and stood beside her.

She cleared her throat. "Hello." She had a small british accent, but her voice was nice.

"Hey, mind telling me your name? I'm Annabeth, the camp's architect." I stated proudly.

She gave me a puzzled look, like she was surprised at my acomplishment. "Yes, my name is Cortana, nice to meet you Annabeth." She said with a soft smile. I returned it.

She tried sitting up but groaned quietly. "Stupid injuries, I'm all stiff, and dying to get out of here." She mumbled. I smirked.

"Don't strain yourself, I know it really sucks when your in here with nothing to do." I said. She sighed.

"So can you tell me about yourself?" I asked. She nodded.

"Well, I love music and sports, but my favorite is Ice skating. I don't care for warm weather, but I love cold weather. I ran away from home when I was fourteen, I lived in London at the time, so it took me awhile to get here." She said.

"Parents?" I asked. She frowned and looked down, I knew I had reached a touchy subject.

"Well.....I don't know my mom at all and my father.......Well, he uhh.....passed when I was seven and so I live in foster care." She said barely over a whisper.

"Yeah I know how you feel, I never knew my mom ethier and I ran away from my father at age seven, and I arrived here." I told her, she seemed to cheer up at that.

"Anything else?" I pressed, it bothered me not knowing all about this girl.

She sighed. "No." She anwsered.

"Sorry I'm being pushy, I'm a child of Athena, so I hate not knowing things." I said.

"You mean like that Greek Goddess?" She asked. "Yep." I answered. "Alright I told you about me, so now I need to learn about you." She countered. I smirked.

"Alright you got me, Well, I love architechture and monuments, I love reading and learning, and building stuff." I told her.

"Nico was mumbling something about a boy named Percy, and then you came up, do you know him?" She asked. I smiled imagining him.

"Yes, he's my boyfriend." I anwsered. She smiled. "I see." She said. Soon the nurse came in to do a checkup on her.

"Alright deary, you may leave now, but please take it easy." She decided after she was done.

She sighed in relief with a silent "Yes!". I grinned and helped her up as she eagerly hopped down from the bed, her clothes were all torn up.

"Come on, we're getting you some new clothes." I said, gragging her towards the gift shop. Once there she quickly changed into some comfortable light blue jeans, white sneakers, and an orange camp half-blood shirt, she brushed her newly cleaned and blood free hair.

"Better?" I asked. She nodded. "Better." She agreed.

"Alright, want me to give you the tour?" I asked, she nodded.

We explored the climbing wall, the volleybal courts, the mess hall, the cabins, the beach, the river, the Big House, and pretty much everything. She was amazed by my work I'd done on the place.

"So who's your godly parent?" I asked her.

"Ummmm, Shiva." She anwsered. (Goddess of Winter)

I racked my brain, I'd just finished that cabin earlier today. It was beside Hades and the Aphrodite cabin.

"Ahh yes, you're lucky, I just finished that one today." I said. I led her two it, it was a white cabin, it had icicles hanging from the roof and frost covered everything, of course they'd last all year long, even a few frost covered flowers in the flower pots. Inside was light wood flooring, there was two beds, one on each side, all had white sheets all with snowflake patterns, and the place was always cold, like feezing, but Cortana paid it no mind, there was even small piles of snow it the corners, on the back wall was a water fountain statue, it was stone polar bears on a glacier, one was squirting water from its mouth, making a rainbow, and their was a few golden dachmas in the pool of shallow water, there were also few books on mythology and ancient greek on the shelf.

She looked around the room appreciatively, and smiled at me.

"I love it!" She said. I could tell she was tired, so I said my goodbyes and she plopped herself on the bed, drifting off to sleep.