A/N so i changed this chapter a bit to make it flow better. thats all. enjoy :)
Chapter 1: aly p.o.v
I wake with a jolt as the school bell rings you know I really hate school. I look up to see Caitie is staring at me smirking "fall asleep again Aly?" I punch her arm "oh shut up." As she rubs her arm with mock pain we both laugh. We wait for the teacher to call our row and immediately after she does we race each other to the classroom door. "Wait right there you two!" Mrs. Galley shouts and we stop in our tracks. I look at Caitie "what did you do now Mrs. always threatening to shoot other students?" she punches me and laughs "that's you missy!"
Mrs. Galley looks at us with a strange smile "well, well, well, if it isn't the girls of the Sun and Moon in the flesh." Caitie and I look at each other in unison I can tell what she wants to say without her even saying it. "Oh s***" I say for her and the glimmer in her eyes suggests I was right. Our hands instinctively reach towards our necklaces…. Oh and for a little fill in in case you were confused, Caitie and I are what you would call half-bloods. Half-bloods meaning half god, half mortal. I am the daughter of Apollo and she is the daughter of Artemis. No one knows how caitie was born from a maiden goddess but her and I both know. Artemis got lonely with her hunters and men still repulsed her so she created caitie out of the moon and sheer will or whatever, it's weird. So basing off of this she has earned her nickname "moonchild." we both have magic necklaces that were given to us by our parents that transform into bows with unlimited arrows… I know cool right. She can use the moons power to command and befriend animals with ease. And I can basically shoot blazing sun beams at people. It makes them explode it's awesome. Oh almost forgot now where were we. We reach towards our necklaces and rip off our charms and they instantly morph into bows mine with the power of the sun and hers with the power of the moon.
Mrs. Galley's arms expand into thin leathery wings and her face contorts to large black eyes and a mouth full of slobbering fangs. "FURY!" I shout to Caitie and we get out our special celestial bronze tipped arrows. She comes flying at me and Caitie we jump out of the way seconds before she claws us to ribbons we look each other in the eye and fire in unison piercing the monsters heart and evaporating her to the depths of the underworld. Our bows shrink back down to charm size and we reattach them to our necklaces. "Just another day in paradise." I say to Caitie as we sprint down the hall before anyone comes to see what the commotion was about. We make it outside and I summon our pegasi. My Pegasus Eclipse lands gracefully and dips her wing to let me climb on. Caitie's Pegasus Luna lands a few seconds later and does the same.
We take off and fly into the clouds. When we are out of danger from being seen b those annoying mortals we slow. Our pegasi level out and fly smoothly just over the cloud cover, if you are wondering how we are able to do this it's because our parents blessed us with the ability to fly as high as we like without running out of oxygen or getting cold so that's what we do. Luna dips a wing and playfully nips eclipses flank then veers away. I urge eclipse to retaliate and she dives underneath Luna pulls in front of her and then springs up right in front of luna's nose causing Luna to rear back and flap her wings to balance herself, she playfully strikes out a hoof at her sister and banks to fly next to her. Caitie and I lay back on our horses to soak up the sun. Then I carefully lean over to play with the clouds, it never gets old feeling the cloud rush between your fingers. I feel eclipse tense her wings to dive and I know we are almost back home so caitie and I sit up and grip our horses manes. The two pegasi give each other a challenging glance that I know means they want to race and I squeeze eclipse with my legs to encourage her to do so. She folds her wings and dives Luna right next to her. Caitie urges Luna faster and she pulls ahead speedily, caitie was always a better rider. But that's ok I am a much better shot. When we near the ground our horses spread their wings and flap to level out we land on the hill gracefully and dismount.
"Camp half-blood" I sigh happily. We walk our pegasi back to their stall's laughing and talking about our school day. …" so then Derrek says, well maybe you should grow a butt!" we both burst out laughing at the stupidity of our class mates. When we reach Eclipses and Luna's stalls we brush them off and put them away. "Well it seems you too had an eventful day." A deep rumbling voice sounds from behind us and Caitie's face lights up. "CHIRON!" we scream and run at him with our arms outstretched we cover him in hugs and then leap onto his back. "So how was your day Chiron asks us "oh we just killed our algebra teacher nothing new" Chiron just looks us and rolls his eyes. " I don't think I'll ever understand you two" and Caitie just gives him a cheesy smile. As we ride to the big house we see a bunch of campers run to the front of the camp carrying swords and such. I jump off Chiron's back and stop one of the campers that are running to the edge of the camp and it happens to be Sam (son of Apollo (my half brother) and out of the corner of my eye I see Caitie blush and tuck a strand of hair behind her ear. Caitie has had a crush on Sam since 5th grade, she's never had the guts to ask him out but I think he crushes on her too. *I ship it* I look up to him and ask what is going on.
He replies that there is barrior activity and new campers are coming. I look back at Caitie and whisper, "well, well, well if your mother could see you now, blushing at a boy, I wonder if I should call her up and tell her". She looks at me shocked, "you wouldn't!" "I think you are underestimating my character" I reply laughing. She punches me and we split up. I follow Sam to the barrior while Caitie gathers other apollo campers because some of them may be hurt. As I run I see that one of the 3 girls has curly brown hair and it kind of reminds me of a boy named Nico.
Sydney p.o.v
My legs are burning as I run for my life… the half man half bull thing is just inches behind us just then I see a swarm of campers run in from all sides and cut off the half man half bull thing, I keep running as fast as I can, pushing caitie and Emily in front of me. When we run under a huge pine tree I feel and odd zing and I suddenly feel safe. I don't know why I just do. We keep running until we collectively stumble and fall at the top of the hill gasping for breath. It's hard to believe that just moments ago I was running for my life now I'm sitting on a lush green hill with a bunch of kids holding weapons around us. I look at the others and the all look confused
I get up and pull Kaitlyn to her feet then I walk to the others to make sure they were ok when I see some sort of half man half horse thing walking towards us with a girl and a boy that looks a year or so older than the girl. The brown haired boy from earlier runs up to the other boy and hugs him "Sammy… you survived" the brown haired boy says slapping Sammy's back "no dean I died and this is a figment of your imagination" Sammy laughs. "Wait… wait… wait hold up what's going on here and what is that" I say pointing at the half man thing.
"Ok I'll explain everything you need to know." The girl says she's tall with dark brown hair with purple highlights draping over her shoulders, her hazel eyes gleam from under the lock of hair falling over her face. "I'm Aly by the way" she says. She turns to Sammy, and just then another girl runs up behind us and stands next to aly. Aly turns to her. "Caitie can you show those two around" she says gesturing at Kaitlyn and Emily. "Sam, go make sure that, Minotaur is taken care of and you," she says looking at me. "Follow me." she turns and walks off and I follow her to the front steps, she stops abruptly and turns around and I almost bump in to her. "This is called the big house" she informs.
We set off again but now she kind of walks with a bounce in her step like she's skipping and she's humming a tune I've never heard before. "What ya hummin?" "It's called carry on my wayward son… I've been here about 16 years so my seniority allows me to have special privileges like an iPod for example" she says holding up a purple iPod. "Caitie has one too but hers is blue." We walk in silence for a little and eventually she plugs her ear buds in and listens to music. While she walks she fingers a strange necklace. After the big house she shows me the cabins, the training area, the dining pavilion and the woods. This place is strange I see weird creature covered in flowers everywhere and people with goat legs chasing after them. The cabins are situated in a a big U and I see campers milling about them, cleaning or practicing or just plain having fun. We turn and walk toward a huge stable with regular horses and pegasi. I see a solid black one playing with an older camper with sea green eyes and I smile. She shows me the stable and I meet her Pegasus eclipse and im mesmerized, I want a Pegasus but I don't want a cheesy normal one I want skeleton one with red eyes and bat wings. After a while we walk back to the big house to wait for the others and I begin to like this girl, she's kind but sarcastic. Nice but just dark enough to be interesting. She's kind of like me except I take dark to a whole new level.
Caities p.o.v
We walk to the stables last and I show them the pegasi " you know… once you earn up enough seniority you can ask your godly parent to send you a Pegasus and they will usually oblige if not ask me I can hook you up" I say and I wink at them. I hear a small voice behind me "who owns the one with purple wings and halter. I turn around and see the small girl behind me with ginger hair. "Oh that's Eclipse Aly's horse" I reply as I turn around. I have already shown them all around camp, the ginger loved cabin 3 but I told her that was the Poseidon cabin so she probably wouldn't be there.
As we walk out of the stable I see Aly and the fluffy haired girl from earlier. I look over my shoulder at the two girls. "Hey I almost forgot to ask what your names are" the dirty blonde haired girl that is the same height as me speaks up first "I'm Kaitlyn, what's your name?" "Oh hey that's cool my name is Caitlyn too but I go by Caitie" I respond enthusiastically the shorter girl; the redhead speaks up next "I'm Emily." "Now that we have introduced ourselves we are going to meet back up with Aly and then try to figure out who your godly parents are ok?"
They nod their heads in agreement and we sprint towards Aly and I can see that she is fingering her pendant. "Aly what ya doin?" she sees me and instantly drops her hand and looks startled. "You were thinking of your dad again weren't you?" I whisper sympathetically. "Yeah… maybe I'll fly up and see him sometime." She whispers in response. "What on earth are you two whispering about?" I hear the girl Kaitlyn call from behind. "Dead puppies!" Aly replies with a laugh. I hear the conch shell blow to signal dinner and turn towards Aly. I guess we'll find out their godly parents tomorrow. We walk towards the dining hall me and Aly punching each other laughing with Emily, and Sydney taking in all the sights and sounds of camp half blood. When we get to the dining hall Aly and I walk over to the Hermes table. "You guys will sit here until you're godly parents claim you." I tell them "I already know who my dad is" Sydney says…" he's Hades".