How Alex got to camp half blood and how she met Clara

I was begging my mom for weeks to let me get a cat. I was volunteering at the local animal shelter, so I already knew which one I would pick if I got one. She was a orange and black cat with a white tummy and neck. She had a black nose in which it was shaped in heart form, and had sparkling blue eyes that captured my heart. That was the first thing that caught my attention about her. They were so big, almost human. She was a 5 month kitten so she was still small. Everyday I would come in she would start meowing at me till I pet her. No one gave her a second glance when they saw her, because she was the runt of her litter. Her siblings were all adopted in the first week they were there. I gave her a name, Artemis, because I always have loved the Greek gods and their cultures.

Everytime my mom came to pick me up I would plead to get the kitten. Except today. Tori, my sponsor who worker who trained me, contacted my mom about how much of a bond I have with Artemis, and she convinced her to let me keep her. I was elated. I finally could take Artemis home! We stopped at the pet store to get some things for her. We got a deep purple almost black bed, with a collar that had little suns and music notes on it cause it was adorable. When we finally got home I brought Artemis up to my room. She curled up in my lap when I laid down to go to bed for the night.

I awoke with a start. There, on the side of my bed was a human figure. I fumbled around for the light switch to make sure I wasn't imagining this person. She was a human with dirty blonde hair, and the same sparkling blue eyes Artemis has. I didn't scream or call out for help, I just sat there staring dumbfounded at her.

“Well look who’s up,” She purred.

“Who are you!?”, I demanded quietly so I wouldn’t wake me mom.

“Well I’m Clara Paige, or as you know me Artemis,” She pauses “I was going through your binder and saw you know something about the greek gods.”

“So you were my cat, and then you came alive to go through my belongings, then ask if I know about the greek gods?,” I pause.. all at once I say, ’And yes, I know about the greek gods. I know about ten percent of all the gods. So I know a little..”

“Do you know who your father is?”, She ask me like it was the most casual question out there she could ask.

I never knew my father.. my mom told me some about him. Like he didn't want to leave but he was forced to. He never meant to have a kid. He loved my mom very dearly and once he sent me a gift. I was elated that he thought about me. All it was, was a simple hair clip with a skull on it. With a note in it saying as long as I had it, it would keep me safe. He didn't put a name.. all it said was, ‘Through love and death I will always love you, love dad’. It was the only thing I ever had of him. Except for this one picture. It was him holding me on his shoulders when I was about a year old.He had this brilliant grin on his face. My mom always told me that was the best year of his life, the year he spent with us. She never told me anything else. Not even his first name.

“No,not really. Why are you asking anyway?” I ask very confused.

“Well your dad, has come up from hell itself to come tell us to go get you. I wanted to do it personally because you, me and I guy you know from your school, jason, are assigned a quest to hell and back to retrieve “

“What me? It can't be me. They don’t even exist!”

“They do and you have to come with me if you want a chance of living” Clara says getting up and starts towards the window. I get up and reluctantly follow. That's when I looked out the window. There waiting on my roof was two pegasus. One gold and one silver. She jumps out the window and hops on the gold one and I follow. Here we are, off to camp half blood.