Chapter 24

Luna POV

I sat on my bed in my mother's cabin laughing with the hunters. Me and Zoe had moved in a few days earlier which had caused a little unrest in the hunters as to whether or not we would get Artemis in trouble because she was married. But after I said I had taken oaths against revealing that information things kinda calmed down. Also the hunters really seemed to be in awe of the aura Me and Zoe got from 'the blessing of Artemis' because it was much brighter than their's. I had to stifle a laugh as they gawked because it's actually our natural aura that we were born with, we just weren't suppressing it any more.

My little sister Zoe was currently past out on her bed which she was sharing with Melissa after finally coming down from another sugar high. This wasn't really a problem because they were both so small they each just took one end of it with room to spare.

"I still can't believe she got away with what she did to Apollo." Phoebe said when she saw me looking at Zoe.

"Yeah but look at how cute she is." I said "At home Zoe always had to ask my mom for stuff because my dad couldn't say no when she gave him those puppy dog eyes.".

"I can believe that." Phoebe Laughed. It was getting late so I laid back in my bunk, I couldn't tell you how great it was to be back in my Mom's cabin. Sure I got more space in the Poseidon cabin but it's just so empty.

'It's good to be back.' I thought.

'Was that Luna?' a voice that sounded a lot like Sam's said.

'What's he doing so near to Mom's cabin at this hour.' I thought 'He may be her son but we're still in the past.'.

'Luna what are you doing?!' the voice said again. I was getting ticked at Sam's carelessness so I got up to leave. It was a miracle no one else was hearing him.

"Where are you going?" Phoebe asked.

"I'm just taking a quick walk." I said.

"But it's almost curfew." she replied.

"Just make it quick." Thalia said effectively ending the discussion, have I mentioned how much I liked her knowing I'm from the future.

I made a beeline for the Ares cabin where Sam would probably have gone, but instead he was heading straight for me from the Ares cabin. 'Luna what are you thinking?' he said but his voice felt more like it echoed in my head rather then came through the air.

'What am I thinking? Why the heck were doing lurking around Artemis' cabin so late!' I shouted back.

'I wasn't the one out late I've been in the Ares cabin for the last hour you can ask any of them, the real question is what were you doing by the Ares cabin!' he shot back.

'Excuse me but I was...' I said.

"Um what are you two doing?" someone said causing both me and Sam to jump. I turned around to see who it was…it was my dad

'What the heck was that for!' I snapped.'You scared the Hades out of me.'

He just stood there and pretended like he could hear me which was infuriating so I started shouting at him to answer but it did nothing. "Okay you two are going to need to speak and not just wave your hands and glare at me." he said.

'What does he think I've been doing?' I asked looking at Sam.

'I don't know maybe he's gone deaf from listening to uncle Apollo's music or something.' he replied.

I stifled a laugh but something did catch my eye when he spoke I heard him but his lips didn't move. I kept talking to him but put a hand over my mouth, even though the two of us were having a conversation not a single word was actually said. My dad was still giving us a funny look so I pointed to his palace and he seemed to get the message.

Once we were inside I spoke which felt weird, for the first time in my life I actually had to focus on using my mouth to talk. "A-ap-apparently me and Sam can talk to each other telepathically." I said.

Dad of course gave us a funny look and said "And you're just finding this out now?".

"W-well when I finally got my demigod powers they didn't exactly come all at once they've been showing up one at a time over the past few months, I guess today was the day this one decided to kick in." Sam said. We spent another two and a half hours just trying to figure out how to keep our minds separate before going back to our cabins.

Clarisse POV (just after Sam left)

"What's going on with him?" I asked more to myself than anyone else, the cabin was mostly empty anyway. All of my cabin mates except Jess, Mike and another named Davis had decided to go to the Roman camp for the summer to train.

"I don't know." Jess replied as he changed the bandages on Davis "Ever since the whole ant hill thing he's been keeping to himself more and more.". I nodded in agreement.

"So what happened to you again." I asked Davis, he had just arrived earlier today on the Argo 2 from Camp Jupiter once they thought his 1 ½ month old injuries had healed up enough.

"Well on my way back from my recon trip in Texas I fell down some rocks into the fields of Mars.". he said.

"Why didn't you just come through the regular entrance." Jess asked.

"I was kinda in a hurry and really tired, I hadn't slept in like three days." he said.

"Why." I asked.

"On my trip I found something disturbing. The night I found the monster hoard with Eric, a child of Hephaestus who came with me, the entire faction we were looking for was decimated. We had decided to sleep on nearby cliff and in the middle of the night we were woken up by the sound of marching at the bottom of the cliff. There was no moon and pitch black so we had to pull out two night vision goggles Eric had brought. Turns out the group we had been looking for was on march right below us. We started taking some notes on their numbers and species but one of them screaming caught our attention." He explained

"We looked down to see one in the back fall to the ground with an arrow through his neck. The rest of the group started panicking and searching for who had shot the arrow when several more came and put out their torches. This really got them freaked out and that is when this guy walked out of the woods. We couldn't really seem him that well even with our night vision goggles it was so dark. The guy charges right in and starts killing them, as soon as one would scream that the enemy was where they were he would move and attack them from the other side causing even more confusion. It was like he could see but there's no way…" Davis said trailing off at the last part.

"Maybe the guy was blind." Jess said after a minute "If that was the case he wouldn't have to see and attacking in complete darkness would give him an overwhelming advantage.".

Davis snorted incredulously "Name one person who can do that.".

"Mike can." I said "I've seen him do it".

"Yeah he even fought Jake while he was invisible." Jess added.

"Hm, when did Mike first show up at camp?" Davis asked.

"3 or 4 weeks ago I think." Jess said.

"And has he shown any unexplained skills?" Davis asked.

"Well I guess there is some stuff." Jess said "He's great with a bow despite being blind, he beat Jake in a sword fight on his first try, and can even use the blessing of Ares on command.".

"Was he wounded." Davis asked.

"Yes he was, where are you going with this?" Jess asked.

"I ask because this guy who has become generally known as Silver due to the fact most of his weapons are silver and so is the cloak he wears. Disappeared about 3 weeks ago without a trace. We don't think he's dead because from what we understand most of the factions have come to fear him meaning he is probably someone with exceptional skill. Plus if he was dead there should be some celebrating among the factions but there's not. My best guess would be he was badly wounded and came to camp so he could heal in relative safety." Davis said getting up.

Davis walked over to Mike's trunk and opened it "Hey! you know the rules no going through someone else stuff." I said.

Davis looked at me and said "The Olympians have been looking for this guy for over two months and no one knows who he is. Right now Mike is the first person to ever match Silver's description and abilities. If I'm wrong feel free to punish me for it but I need to find out if he is.". As much as I knew it was wrong I couldn't bring myself to stop him, there were just too many mysteries surrounding Mike. Most of the stuff Davis pulled out of Mike's trunk was cloths and Armor so nothing really out of the ordinary.

"What's this?" Davis asked, he tried to pull it out for everyone else to see but whatever it was seemed to be to heavy for him.

"Jess can you come help me with this?" he asked. With both of them working together they were able to pull out Mike's silver swords "See I'm right." Davis said obviously pleased with himself.

"Not quite." I said "Mike got those swords when he got dragged into the ant hill after he got here.".

My brother poked around a bit more pausing after something in the trunk clicked "Then what about these." Davis said pulling out a set of silver throwing knives with Jess' help. "Hidden underneath a false bottom."

"Those I'm not so sure of." I said getting up.

Davis looked around a bit more "And what about this?" he asked pulling out a pure Silver cloak with three buckles across the torso. As he did a small silver charm bracelet fell out. "Oh and of course the bracelet that turns into a bow." Davis said putting the bracelet on his own wrist and pulling on it causing it to changing into a beautiful hunter's bow.

I was so stunned I stumbled backwards "We're going to have to tell Percy or Artemis." Davis said.

"True but not till tomorrow." Jess replied from the doorway "Artemis left earlier today, Percy just flashed out, and Chiron's not due back from his trip till tomorrow. Also Mike is coming this way.". We hurriedly put Mike's stuff back in his trunk and hopped in our own beds just as Mike walked in.