I do not own the characters or the setting. And I apologize for any discrepancies or differences between my story and the actual books. This was just something fun for me to write. Please enjoy. :) Also I did come back and change the age of my character because apparently I didn't think that through well enough. Oops. Sorry about that.
My life was pretty normal before I got the phone call. My mom and I lived alone. She worked as a mechanical engineer at a big science laboratory. I myself was still going to school, being twelve at the time. I was going to school, getting in trouble, and working in my own little homemade shop. My mom was pretty supportive of my dreams of being just like her. She even understood when I got in trouble at school. See I was ADHD and dyslexic. It was sometimes hard to concentrate in school. My mom refused to put me on meds. She thought they would dull me and make it hard for me to be creative.
It was a great set up, just me and my mom.
Then came the phone call.
I was getting ready for my last day of school. A bit impatiently to be honest. I really couldn't wait for my summer to start. I had so many ideas for my summer vacation.
In the other room my mom was getting ready when the phone call came.
"Yes, this is Cecil Ebony."
I heard a lot of 'mm-hm, 'oh', and 'that sounds wonderful'.
When she hung up she looked excited and proceeded to tell me about a summer camp that was all about engineering. "Charlotte, this could be a wonderful opportunity." Apparently, my headmaster from my school had submitted me into this camp. That sounded a little strange considering my principal hated me. I mean I was in his office all the time for one thing or another. But I let that slide. I was too excited about what this camp could entail.
A representative from the camp would be coming by with pamphlets and then taking me to camp. When the person came, he introduced himself as Gleeson Hedge. He was a shorter man. A little pudgy and smelled strangely like a petting zoo I had been too. He apologized and said he had been in the stables helping take care of the horses.
I was excited about the engineering side, but I was also excited about the camp side. There was canoeing, horseback riding, games, campfires, sing-alongs, and archery etc. When he was finished explaining all the things to offer my mom looked sold.
My mom and the man discussed a time to come back and pick me up. My mom helped me pack and we talked excitedly about this new adventure. Before I left she made me promise to write her as often as possible.
Gleeson Hedge stood at our front door waiting with a smile. "Alright Charlotte, are you ready?"
"You can call me Charlie." I said returning his smile.
And that's how my stay at camp half-blood started. But something bad happened that year. My mom got in a car wreck. She was coming to pick me up. I remember that day vividly. I was so excited to tell her all about the cool inventions I made. I remember when Chiron came to my cabin. Everyone was getting ready to leave, but froze when they saw his face. He only said my name before I knew. I just knew. I cried for a week. Finally, Chiron sorted out all the legalities and that's how I ended up a full timer. It differed so much from my first day.
I remember my first day. Almost as well as I remember that last day that summer. My trip to camp half-blood was long. We started by train and then something exploded. I remember we were only twenty miles away from the camp.
"We only have to reach the camp border," Gleeson kept saying.
At this point I was terrified and scarred. I was really regretting my decision. Why does he keep talking like this?
I remember when the café exploded and I thought that was it, I was going to die. All these scary monsters kept following us and trying to kill us. They kept talking about how good I would taste and how their boss would be happy when I was dead.
We ran and ran and perhaps borrowed a car. And by borrowed, I mean- I hotwired the thing. Something my mom taught me… Made me wonder about what my mom liked to do in her free time. But right now, I had bigger things to deal with. When we came close I saw a group of kids were waiting on a hill. They were wearing armor, like they would have in Rome. Later I discovered it was all Greek. One of them grabbed me and Gleeson and pulled us past a tree with a golden- What was that? The golden fleece?! Like the one from Greek myths?
Once we got past the tree I felt instantly ten times safer. Maybe it was because of the dragon and the kids killing off the monsters or maybe it was because of this border that Gleeson had been talking about.
The kids finished the monster. They were all older than me. The strongest one came forward. "Charles Beckondorf. You can call me Beckondorf." He offered me his hand to shake.
"Charlotte Ebony." I took his hand, "Everyone calls me Charlie."