"Transferred?" I exclaimed, a little too loud, "What the heck does that mean?" In case your wondering what I'm freaking out about, I just received the worst news in my life.

I was in the Big House, fist clenched in an effort not to fly across the table and kill someone. Next to me was Raiden who sat in silence and next to him was Nixie big gray eyes wide, starting to water up. They seemed to be taking it better than me. Across from us was Chiron in his wheelchair and an uninterested Mr. D sipping a soda, staring off into space to avoid any eye contact. At least Chiron seemed somewhat saddened and disturbed by this shocking news. He stroked his beard in thought as he relayed the news, "The gods have decreed that all children of the Big Three shall be sent transferred to a new special school to avoid problems." I bit my lip and shook my head, utter despair rattling my bones. I just wanting to hit something, preferably alive.

Chiron sighed deeply, "Look you three, I know this is hard. Especially you Zeke. You were born here and lived here your whole life." I stiffed, trying not to cry. Camp Half-Blood was special to me. It was my only home. And me leaving it…was beyond hard. Seeing my distress, Nixie took my hand under the table and squeezed it sympathetically. We weren't dating or anything…she was just a really good kid.

Chiron chuckled, "Trust me, if I had the choice, you guys would never leave. I am too sadden about this. You guys have come so far…but we cant disobey the gods. Unless you want to die a painful death, we better listen to them."

We all nodded, laughing nervously, then falling silent again. Raiden suddenly asked, "But why? Why would they send our cabins away? We have done nothing wrong. Well…maybe the Hades and Poseidon cabin goofed up," His critical eyes flicked to me then Nixie, "But Zeus cabin has no faults!" I glared back at him. Here he goes again with the 'Zeus is the best!' crap.

Before Chiron could answer, Mr. D put down his soda and growled menacingly, "If you know what's best for you little girl, I wouldn't question the gods."

"I wasn't questioning them!" Raiden retaliated angrily, "I was just asking a quest-" But she was stopped when Chiron who politely raised his hand for her to stop.

"Raiden, that reason is classified. Not even I know! Though I have a few theories. May I share them Mr. D?" Chiron looked a Dionysus who just grunted and snapped his fingers for a new soda that appeared in his hand. Chiron smiled and continued, "It may be that because of the increase of campers and…mayhem. The gods, not wanting another thing to worry about, want to decrease the population of campers."

"Good theory Chiron," Mr. D said, clearly not that really impressed, "And that is part of the reason. You little brats have been getting out of hand because of all the minor gods' children flocking to us. Not enough food, pranks galore, unorganized activities. Sends a chill through my bones." Mr. D's voice was sarcastic, "With you, hoodlums gone, maybe things will die down."

I couldn't take it anymore. I stood up quickly, chair falling behind me and glared angrily at Dionysus, "That's ridiculous!" I cried furiously, letting my temper spiral out of control, "You gods are just lazy, stupid, crazy fools who rather just make rules randomly so you wont have to get your hands dirty! And plus, its all the gods fault any way! Just seeing someone pretty on her and having a kid, thinking nothing about it! You don't care about us or any of your children! Go to Hades with your lazy butts! I couldn't care less!" I finished my rant, fury pumping through my veins, making me see red. But then as I saw everyone's shocked face, oh gods, I went to far. Way, way to far. Like, outta the park to far. Rule number one of the imaginary demigod handbook-Never insult a god. Well…I just insulted every single god and told them to go to Hades. Crap. There was an awkward silence as Nixie, Chiron and Raiden stared at me, fearful eyes wide and scared for me. I was scared for myself.

Before I could even defend my self, Dionysus some how teleported to me and had grabbed me by the collar of my orange shirt and hoisted me three feet in the air, cutting off my breathing. I'm sure it looked ridiculous: Me, an athletic 16 year old, at his prime being pulled up into the air by a fat man wearing tiger print. I heard the sky outside rumble madly and booms of thunder sounded through out the camp. Apparently, Zeus had heard. If I was outside, I would be in a pile of ash right now.

I tried not to look into to his eyes, which I knew held terrible images of drunken people and madness. I have been in this position before but never this scary. "Ezekiel Brenton, you may be the son of Hades, but that does not give you the right to just say what you want and me to just turn the other cheek. You have a lot of nerve insulting us gods. We have our reasons. It's best you don't interfere. We have too much on our hands to deal with some unappreciative, bratty teenage boy who cant control their emotions!" Dionysus's voice was different. It was more than threatening it was…scared and desperate. Like a secret that couldn't be let out no matter what.

Mr. D threw me harshly on the ground and just to my luck, I landed on the chair I discarded. In a blink of an eye Dionysus was back in his seat sipping his pop like nothing ever happened. I stood, shaken and my back hurt from the fall, but didn't sit down. I was too furious, too confused. Chiron opened his mouth probably to say to calm down and sit but I interrupted him with a question.

"What is this special school anyway," there was bitterness in my voice, enough to make Chiron flinch.

"Hercules's School for Special-Case Demigods. Located in Arizona. You leave on Saturday morning." Special-Case. I thought to myself. What an insult. And Arizona? Sorry, I'm not good with hot days.

"I'm getting outta here," I muttered and stomped towards the door. Nixie stood and gave a little smile to Chiron and quickly went after me, to make sure I didn't burn the Big House probably. Raiden stood slowly, "Thank you" he said in a trembling voice and joined me and Nixie and the door. Chiron sigh like he was defeated. I secretly felt sorry for him, sorry that he was the one who told us, sorry that he had to deal with our (my) outrage and uncertainty. I opened the door and held it while Raiden and Nixie filed out. I went to follow them, then stopped and turned my head to Chiron. Nixie and Raiden gave me odd looks as they noticed my lack of movement.

"Chiron…one last request," I insisted, "Since we leave on Saturday morning that leaves us one last day to play Capture the Flag, right?"

Chiron smiled warmly, obviously seeing where this was going.

"So, to make our leaving…special-case, how about a little three on three for CTF? Poseidon, Zeus, and Hades verses Athena, Ares and Hermes."

Chiron's eyes sparkled with interest and approval, "It's a done deal."

Raiden cut in, displeasure clear in his voice, "Zeke, that's suicide. And no amount of proving our worth will let us stay."

I chuckled darkly, "I know. I just want to go out with a bang." I gave a little salute to Chiron and closed the door. I closed the door. I heard Mr. D mutter "Good riddance" before leaving the Big House and heading down the hill to my cabin, Raiden and Nixie following behind me, obviously worried about my plan.

I walked down Half-Blood Hill with Nixie and Raiden. It was dusk, Apollo's sun chariot almost down for the day. The sky was a bit more cloudy than usual, but probably Uncle Zeus was just warning me not to be rude again. The whole camp was mass chaos of course. Kids lighting stuff on fire, reasonable satyrs trying to calm wild campers, love-struck boys and girls chasing daughters and sons of Aphrodite and Eros. We arrived at the lake, the hotspot now a days for test out your powers. It's always fascinating, to new campers and old, to mess with your abilities that come with being a demigod. Normally, because of the overpopulation and increase in chaos, we are forbidden to use our powers but rules were meant to be broken of course.

I could barely hear myself think over the random explosions and screaming. Fire was pluming into the air by some wild kid of Hephaestus, the blaze shifting form from dragons to fiery butterflies of doom. I saw Raiden narrowly miss a golden arrow that was being shot through the congested crowd. I watched it fly until it hit a target way up on a tree top on the other side of camp. Raiden cursed under his breath and investigated the place for anymore random, flying arrows.

"This is worse than I thought," he mumbled, smoothing back his perfect, greased black hair like it was messed up, "No order or any reasonable thought in this camp anymore! It's like a bunch of wild monkeys!"

Me and Nixie rolled our eyes. Personally, we enjoyed the mayhem but Raiden, being the stick in the mud he is, always gives us grieve when we join in the festivities. As we walked, a boy wrapped in vines being chased by a kid of Demeter's, called my name, indicating for me to join him and his friends. I wanted to, really, and just forget what just happen and have fun. There's nothing better than creating a giant fissure in the earth and having undead warrior come up and chase little new kids around with all the camper staring at you in awe. No, I'm not a show off. I just like attention.

I waved to the poor kid, who was now on the ground, being attacked by the whole Demeter cabin, and shook my head, hoping my smile wouldn't show my true feelings. I quicken my pace to the cabins, hoping the fun sounds of the lake would fade away and not tempt me to join. I had two half-sisters to break the bad news to and they would be mad if I delayed it any longer.

I got to the cabins and walked down to mine. People who were in their own cabins waved at me excitedly. They looked confused when I didn't wave back but I didn't care. I'm sure they would soon find out.

The sun had gone down, making the shadows of Camp Half-Blood spooky and mysterious. I breathed in the summer air, smiling at the cool satisfaction, and suddenly I was devastated. It wasn't long till I could never experience this again or just for a while. Until I escape from Hercules's School for Special Case Demigods of course.

I finally reached my cabin. It was just to the left of Hera's at a slight slant. I always loved the way it looked. Black marble walls with big columns and Greek fire on the sides that never went out. There was a skull on the door that gave it that eerie touch. It was perfect for Hades's children.

Raiden and Nixie caught up to me finally. Raiden didn't say anything, which was unusual for him, and just patted me on the back and jogged back to Zeus's cabin, the biggest one of all the cabins. I felt sorry for him. He was going to have to break the news to ten kids, which is a lot in Big Three demigod standards, while Nixie and I only had two other kids in our cabin. Poor Raiden.

Nixie was suddenly standing beside me. I looked down at her, observing her face. She was very pretty, big gray-blue eyes, dark skin, soft expression. She noticed me staring and frowned, "What are you looking at?"

I looked away, embarrassed, obviously. But she laughed and give me a quick, small hug and started towards her cabin.

"See ya. And good luck," she called back waving her hand, her black hair flowing freely as the subtle breeze swept across Camp Half-Blood. Gods I'm an idiot, I cursed myself as I watched her disappear into Cabin 3. Getting my thoughts straight and slapping myself I headed up to me cabin and got up the skull steps and pushed open the door. It was dark in the cabin, the bone-constructed beds were barely visible in the dark. I flicked the light on near the door and was instantly tackled down. There was a knife to my throat and I couldn't move with the person on top of me, curses and threats streaming out of her mouth.