The Daughter of Memory and Time

Chapter 1

Camp Half-Blood was as cheery as ever. It was late and everyone was eating at the Dining Pavilion. Dionysus and Chiron were seated at the head table, talking quietly and the demigods were seated haphazardly around on assigned picnic tables for each cabin. The general chatter and laughter was a welcome thing after a long day of training. Some retired early after eating and only a select few were still sitting and finishing up.

Chiron slowly got up and tapped a knife against his glass of wine and said, “Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase and Grover. When you are finished, I would like to see you on the Big House porch steps please.” The three nodded their heads and quickly finished up, got up and after disposing their cutlery and plates, they walked up to the house, not saying a word, for there was nothing to say, they knew something was up and they will wait for Chiron to inform them of what’s going on. As soon as they got to the house, they climbed up the two porch steps and sat down and waited for Chiron to finish eating.

 

They didn’t have to wait long for the centaur. The centaur walked up to them and stopped a few feet from the steps. He seemed to be gathering his thoughts, and then said, “The Oracle has spoken to me and said that you three are going on a quest to find a lost script. She didn’t go into much detail about it, but, the location of it is close to the border between Minnesota and South Dakota. She said your best bet would be to try Minnesota first and see what you can find. I don’t know how long it will take to search for this, but hopefully it will not take longer than a month at most.”

Percy and Annabeth looked at each other and with eye contact alone they knew they were going to take this quest no matter what. Grover was nervously chewing on an aluminum can but nodded that he would go also.

“There is one more thing, you will also have another member in your quest. She is a demigod, same as you. She is the daughter of Mnemosyne, goddess of memory and time. She doesn’t get many visitors but I would be careful and keep my guard up when approaching her house. Just watch yourselves around her, she can have quite the temper.”

“Are you serious Chiron? A Titan’s daughter lives here? Are you sure she can be trusted?” Annabeth asks.

Chiron, guessing that Annabeth and possibly the boys would be suspicious of the Titan’s daughter, answers “Yes, I am serious. Yes, she does live here, same as any demigod does, except she stays here all year round, guarding the place when all the campers are gone for school and such. She doesn’t bear any hostility towards us or any demigod, well, like I said, who doesn’t upset her. So, yes, Annabeth, she definitely can be trusted.” All three young adults seemed to relax after what Chiron said.

“Now then, should we go and meet her?”

All three nodded and with that, Chiron led them from the steps of the Big House, past the forge and the armory, after walking a little bit more, they came upon the woods closest to the camp. Gesturing for them to follow, Chiron led them almost a good way into the woods before stopping. Behind a couple of trees, and very well hidden too, was a small cabin. No one seemed to be around. The three demigods and centaur slowly walked up to the cabin, while doing that, one of them must have tripped a wire or something because a bell started going off.

“What the hell? Where did that bell come from?”

Everyone was looking around and had their weapons out. They heard running footsteps coming towards them.

Running, running, running could be heard and some loud pig noises too. Suddenly, a young woman burst through the brush, looking behind her every so often as if she was being followed. A few seconds later a huge boar came through what was left of the poor bush. Percy and the others watched in amazement as the young woman turned around, without any fear whatsoever, and with deadly accuracy, threw a throwing knife at the huge boar, hitting it between the eyes.