Sometimes I feel like the gods despise me. No literally, they despise me because I'm the son of Helios. Let me start from the beginning. So, I was just a kid when my demigod powers started to go haywire. I was 12 years old when it started; my hands were getting hot because I was mad with my teacher; she gave me an F for not turning in my assignment in before the bell; I didn't even notice that my hand were steaming; then right before my eyes; my desk set on fire! Burning everything with it! We evacuated the school and my teacher blamed the fire on me! She said I pulled out a box of matches from my backpack and set my desk on fire! I didn't know what she was talking about? I exclaimed that I didn't and told my principal to check the camera tapes for evidence of my innocents but that didn't help my case at all. What they saw was me pulling out a box of matches from my backpack but what I saw was that my hands were steaming with furry and rage.
Now let me tell you how the first day of me knowing that I was a demigod about. I was found by a demigod that was on a quest when I was 13. He finished his quest and asked me what I was doing alone and I answered with disgrace "I'm a freak! I don't deserve to be in the city or anyone! Just start running away now! Everyone does." He replied with certainty "You're not a freak, you're just like us." I questioned him "Like you? What do you mean?" I thought he was playing a prank on me but he just said "Stand back." I took three steps back and right before my eyes; he summoned a weapon in his hand. I exclaimed "How did you do that?!" "I'm a demigod like you; just misunderstood from mortals that can see through the mist." I was wondering what the mist was but he already knew what I was thinking and said "I'll explain later but right now I need to protect you." Protect me I thought. Protect me from what I wondered. He said to follow him and I did until we got to this sort of camp that had all these people that were attacking dummies, riding winged horses, and summoning weirdest things and etc. He told me to stay put and don't talk to anybody and I did. He went off to this huge house or cabin and left me alone on a log. I wondered what was taking him so long because 20 minutes passed by but then a stranger sat next to me and started to talk to me. She asked "Hi how are you? Which god is your parent?" I didn't know what she was talking about because I didn't know that there was more gods than one. "Umm... what are you talking about? I didn't know there was more than one god?" "Well of course their be more than one god! Ha ha, you're so funny!" I didn't know what she meant by their would be more than one god. "No, really, what do you mean more than one god because the only god that I know is in heaven." She blushed and said with concern "You don't know what I'm talking about don't you?" I shook my head and she looked embarrassed. She was about to say something but cut off by the man who saved me. "Brooke! What are you doing to him!" He exclaimed and Brooke argued "Nothing! I was just talking to him about what god was he from!" I said sort of afraid "Should I go or something?" The man who saved me yelled at me no and I just shut up that point on. Then Brooke yelled "Don't charmspeak him Jake! He was just asking a question! You can speak." My mouth just opened and breathed in a gulp of oxygen like I held my breath. Jake yelled at me "Come with me!" My body couldn't help it but to follow him.
Brooke started to follow me after a few seconds and whispered in my ear "What age are you?" I answered "13. Why?" She answered in a whisper "I'm 13 too! I asked you because you looked like my age." She did look like my age but I was about 11 centimeters taller than her. When we got into the huge house; I saw someone in a chair and got up to look at me. He started to ask me questions like how old am I, what type of music that I like, etc. "Umm... who are you?" I was so brain dead. The guy that was asking me the questions answered "I am Apollo, god of music and suns. My jaw dropped and Brooke giggled a little. I don't know what was up with that girl. I think she thinks that I'm funny or something. "What? Are you my dad? What is going on?" He replied "No but sorry, I am not your father. If I were, you would be claimed right now but no you are not. The reason that I'm here is because you have a unusual type of energy lies in you. I thought it was fire which it is but you are not my son." I was sort of disappointed because I loved music and the sun thing, I don't know.
"Then who is my father? When will I be claimed?" He answered "I don't know but I know he will claim you tonight. Now I must go; I have business to intend to." He left in a flash of light and nothing was there but a message that said "He will claim you." I wondered who was my father but Jake said "Brooke take him to the unclaimed cabin." "Can he stay with me in the Aphrodite cabin? The unclaimed cabin is getting too crowded." "Fine just get him out of my sight." I felt a little offended from him when he said that but was I going to do? Punch him in neck? Likely not.
"Come on then! You don't want to sleep on the floor." I started following her and looked around to see demigods training, talking, and relaxing. When I walked by them; they would stare at me and exchange whispers. Brooke and I finally made it to the Aphrodite cabin and she opened the door and told me to relax near the bed next to her bed. I fell on the bed and relaxed on it like she told me to. "What's you're name?" "Zach, why am I here? Why did Apollo say their is a great energy that lies in me?" She didn't answer at first but then said "There is a prophecy that a child that has the great energy will save the world from terror." My skin turned pale in a second when she said that. I was shaking hard but then what interrupted my cowardliness was a hand on my back. Brooke put her hand on my back and said with a silky, soft, voice "Don't worry about it; everything is going to be alright; relax. My body became less tense and the color of it came back. "Dang it! I used charmspeak again!" Hours past until it was time for dinner in the mess hall that wasn't at all a mess but a elegant palace with tables.
Everyone was split up into tables by what god there parents' are. What was surprising was that there was no server but these some kind of wind spirits that would get you anything that you wanted. I ordered a and a slice a of pizza with pepperoni. I was about to eat but Brooke said stop because I was post to sacrifice some of my food for the gods. I just went with the flow and sacrificed my food to the gods and then started eating at the Aphrodite table. I could here people arguing about someone getting a certain god. "No! He's going to be the child of Hephaestus!" "No! Apollo!" "Hello! He said he wasn't his dad!" "He was lying!" When we were finished with dinner, we all went to a camp fire. This reminds me of a book that I read before but I don't remember the name. We (well some people) all sang camp fire songs but when we got finished and everybody started going to their cabins, I tripped on something and fell in the fire! Everybody gasped and some started in tears but I was still alive. I started getting up in a daze, I didn't even realize that I was in the fire still because people were starring at me in shock. I was confused but then when I looked down; I saw the fire still glowing, and I figure appeared right before me and I said questioning "Hephaestus?" "No my son, I am Helios!" I didn't know any god like that but people started to gasp and saying how is he still alive. Then Jake spoke "You're post to be dead!" "Do you really think a god would disappear just like that son of Hermes? No, I am him, I provide life for me and him. Now I shall go but before this." Something was going on with the fire! It started floating in the air and then started circulating me from legs, waist, and upper body. My legs became bulkier, my arms had more muscle, my abs became a sic pack, my chest more bulkier, my face (what the girls said) became more gorgeous, and I felt more powerful. The fire flashed and synced in my body; everybody was in aww. Mostly the girls. everybody was whispering in front of me but then Jake silenced the whispering by telling them to go to their cabins. I was relieved but I knew there would be Aphrodite girls going nuts for me when I get to the cabin.
When I got to the Aphrodite cabin, I saw girls blush and try to act cute in front of me but I went to the bathroom to look at what happened to my face. My hair was black that the tip of it was slightly pointed up, my eyes burned in flames in the circular part of my eyes, and the rest was rest. When I got out of the bathroom; there were girls wearing make-up and dresses looking beautiful that I thought I was sweating. I needed some fresh air, so I stormed out of the cabin and went to the camp for site. I wished I didn't come here but I remembered that my dad put the curse of handsomeness on me and tons of girls on my back. I cursed at my dad in Ancient Greek that I thought I would never use.