Heroes of Olympus: Ragnarok Prophecy - Book I: The Blizzard of Discord

III - The new one

Annabeth POV

I was sat down in Poseidon cabin's porche together with Percy, Leo, Piper, Hazel, Jason and Frank.

After the war with Gaea, we had grown truly close. We had nearly faced death together.

Even though, it was the first time in months we were all the Seven together. Frank had now the fuctions as a praetor and Hazel and Jason also spent lot of time at Camp Jupiter. It's right that we had a magical door to go from a camp to another, but still... Jason and Piper were a bit cold to each other. After all... They had broken up months ago. They had lots of fights, too many. It was the best way to end.

Suddenly, we saw Clarisse coming to us.

"Hey, have you seen the new girl?" The daughter of Ares said

"No, which new girl?" Piper asked

"I don't know" She said "She just appeared, was brought by Chiron to the Big House and now she has headed to Artemis cabin"

"Artemis?" I asked "But she's a Hunter?"

"She didn't seem so" Clarisse said "She had a soccer shirt, jeans and trainers on. Also, she didn't have a weapon" She paused "But the strange thing..."

"What's the strange thing?" Hazel asked

"That even she hadn't a weapon, she was perfectly fine and we all know that now the monsters are starting to appear again" Clarisse said

"With no weapon, impossible that she had arrived unharmed" Percy said "It's strange"

Suddenly, behind Clarisse, Chiron appeared.

"Hello, Chiron" We all muttered

"Hello" he said "Annabeth, can you give Alexei a tour in the camp?"

"Alexei? That's the new girl's name?" Clarisse asked

"Who's her godly parent?" Piper asked

"Yeah and that's a secret" Chiron said

"Her godly parentage a secret?" I asked

"Yeah" Chiron mumbled "And also... Someone had to show her Camp Jupiter too. So agree between you" He left

"Okay, who comes with me?" I asked. Clarisse left and everyone looked to the three Romans who looked between them

"I'll go" Jason nodded and got up.

We both headed to Artemis cabin. I knocked at the door.

"Wer ist?" A female voice asked "I mean, who's it?"

"I'm Annabeth. Chiron has told me to show the camp" I answered

The door opened. A black-haired girl appeared. She's dressed with a soccer white shirt with a wide red line and a logo with a black eagle (I supposed the soccer team is Germany as the black eagle is a German symbol), blue jeans and white trainers. I looked to her eyes, they were sky blue with a little sea green shade.

"Hi, I'm Alex" she said

"I'm Annabeth, daughter of Athena" I said

Jason emerged from behind me

"I'm Jason, son of Jupiter" he introduced himself

I showed her all the camp and explained her everything.

"Well" I said when we arrived to the magical door that connected both camps "And this door is new, it connects our camp with Camp Jupiter, the Roman camp" I ended "Now it's all yours, Jason" I smiled him "Nice to meet you, Alex" I smiled her and left

Alex POV

Camp Jupiter? Roman camp? Why does it ring a bell?

"The same" I mumbled when Annabeth left.

I looked to Jason. So this is him. The child of the sky. Lupa always repeats the thing that him and me are the most powerful demigods she'd trained.

Well, he seems nice. And familiar... Which pushes a new sensation into me. Like saying "he's not what it seems".

"Okay, on we go?" he asked me

I was lost in thought so I suddenly woke.

"Ummm... yeah" I said

We trespassed the magical door and arrived to Camp Jupiter

"Well, this is Camp Jupiter" he said "Actually, we are on the other side of the country, near San Francisco"

He showed me all around, the fields of Mars, Temple Hill and the cohorts. It's strangely familiar and unknown at the same time.

When we were about to enter in New Rome, a statue became alive.

"No weapons inside the Pomeranian Line" he shouted "I'm really tired of repeating it"

"It's the rule. He's Terminus, god of frontiers" he said

"Okay, I can't say it's nice to meet him, really" I said

"I know, he's always that angry" He mumbled, took his golden sword which was on his belt and gave it to a little girl " She's Julia, she helps Terminus. If you have any weapon, you should give it to her" He entered.

I took my golden bracelet off and gave it to her "The jewel turns into a sword" I whispered her and followed Jason.

Seeing New Rome, it was like going back in time. But still, it was familiar.

"You like it?" Jason asked

"Yeah" I answered him "It's like time travelling"

"I suppose" He said "In the original Rome, there's really nothing but ruins, it still seems what it was but ruins"

"Yeah, I've seen it" I said

New Rome was a dream city. Jason said that the retired legionnaires sometimes live here, study in college and have families. Other thing was the Garden of Bacchus, I didn't know if it was in honour of Bacchus but it was a beauty.

"This is Reyna's favourite spot" he said

"Who's Reyna?" I asked

"It's me." A voice said from behind. It was a black-haired girl with brown eyes and was dressed with a purple shirt, jeans and brown boots. "I'm Reyna, praetor of Camp Jupiter and daughter of Bellona" She tended a hand

"I'm Alex" I said and shake hands with her "Nice to meet you"

"Hi, Reyna" Jason greeted

"Hi, Jason" She returned the greet.

I felt a bit like a third wheel. Nothing far from reality.

"Luckily", Reyna had to return to her functions as praetor. As we had finished the visit, Jason and I returned to Camp Half-Blood.

I decided to return to my cabin. I waved goodbye to Jason and fell onto my bed again. I took a book from my bag, a football book, and started reading it.

But a part of my mind still reviewed what had just happened. There was a kid and his father in New Rome that looked at me as if they knew me. But that was impossible.

I had never been to Camp Jupiter before, hadn't I?

Wer ist? = Who is? (German)