"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! It's a monster!" I screamed.
"Amber, hide in the closet with Venus, I think it's called a sphinx." Evandro said calmly.
"Who cares what it's called, it wants to eat us!" Venus, my best friend said.
I woke up suddenly. I still had a scar from my encounter with the sphinx, at 5.
I'm Amber Kalico, by the way. I'm 15, tall and slim. I have short red spiky hair, pale skin and blue eyes. I'm a demigod, daughter of Iris, the rainbow godess. This gives me some really cool powers, like shining, being able to change colors and flying for up to 5 minutes! I'm the only demigod in my mom's cabin.
I love my cabin! It has coloured glass windows, like in churches and I painted the walls the color of the rainbow when I first got here, at 6 years old, with my friends, Venus and Evandro.
Venus is a daughter of Aphrodite. She has gorgeous long blond hair that curls slightly at the bottom, and clear blue eyes. She's funny, fashionable, witty and athletic. She also has the weirdest nail do I've ever seen, it's very... original I guess.
Evandro is a son of Hades. Black hair and eyes, tall, strong and intelligent. Yes, I have a crush on him. He's a year older than me, but he's very mature.
At camp I like to go pegasus riding (I feel right in the sky), and I'm good at sword fighting and archery. I love chopping up the dummies, they deserve to die for being such a horrible shade of brown! All the Aphrodite cabin agrees with me. I'm ok at canoeing and swimming, but I'm lame at climbing and footracing. I could of died falling into lava more than once, but luckily I was saved by Maia, my favourite pegasus. She's a black and white paint.
Now that you've been introduced to my life at camp, it's time to start the story!
I was in the arena chopping up dummies and wishing I had a real opponent when Evandro came in. He had his serious face on, but that's quite common.
"Want to duel?" he asked me
"Sure, but don't whine when you lose!"
"I don't think I'll lose as long as you don't cheat like last time!" he replied
"Nobody said it's against the rules to change your shorts to a transparent color. It wasn't cheating, I didn't force you to run back to your cabin." I replied, recalling the last duel we'd had "Besides, the Hermes kids would've done something much worse!"
We laughed and he smiled that adorable smile that he rarely does.
"Booo! Get on with it and chop him to pieces Amber!" Connor Stoll shouted from the benches., where he was sitting with Travis, holding an evil looking device. I noticed his hand was on the lever.
" Run!" I shouted as he pulled the lever down. We did, and just in time! A bucket of purple paint that was on top of a flying chariot flipped over and the arena floor we'd been standing on seconds before turned into a pool of violet.
"Ha, missed" I mocked the twins."Nice color though!"
"Don't be so fast to cry victory!" yelled Travis, pulling another lever.
I looked up and saw about 20 chariots around the arena and more above it, each with a different colored paint in it. Whoops. I skidded to the left, narrowly avoiding a splash of green. "Where's an umbrella when you need one?" asked Evandro, jumping aside to avoid turning red.
"We don't have umbrellas, Zeus decides when it rains remember? But maybe if you raised the ground above us..." I said, avoiding a blue splash.
"I'm son of a god of the underworld, not the godess of earth!" he forgot to move and was covered by black paint.
"Score!" yelled Connor. Of course, he had an umbrella. I got and idea. Maybe we could just flip this prank back to them... I started running towards them, jumping from side to side to avoid paint buckets. I probably looked like I was playing basketball without the ball.
Evandro, guessing my plan, started running too. By then half of camp had gathered around the arena. I jumped on to Connor, while Evandro tackled Travis and we grabbed the umbrella. We ran out of the arena, to the cheers of lots of people and we sat and watched as Connor and Travis got covered in paint (I'd taken the lever as well). Then the Aphrodite cabin arrived and it went on for half an hour, until we ran out of paint. It was hilarious!
One thing's for sure though. This is going to be a dangerous summer.
I had no idea how true that was when I thought it.