THE LEGEND OF CAMP YAWEH
PERCY
We were there, camp Jupiter
You see, after spending a week, okay? A WEEK at school, and we had been called on another mission, apparently worse than Geae. seriously, if they kept getting more dangerous, they next book would be called "Percy Jackson Vs. very, very, VERY angry Mom"
We walked to the pricipia, where I saw Reyna. I wondered what could be more dangerous than Geae, but whatever it was must've been pretty bad.
"Welcome, Percy and Annabeth" she smiled "I would like to show you something" She led us to the area wit metal bars. I figured that we were going to figure out what was down there.(go figure) Reyna tapped on the right-most bar three times, then spoke a random jumble of words in Latin, and it slowly opened.
As far as underground secret storehouse/dungeons go, this one was pretty nice. Reyna led us over to an old looking piece of machinery. "I thought demigods didn't use technology?" She looked at me as if it was a dumb question, which, it probably was. "this is a magic detector" she said, patting the machine "it can detect large, concentrated areas of magic, weaker areas red, and stronger areas closer to purple, and religious, but little magic in green" she pointed to the screen. It was a map of America, It showed traces of red almost everywhere, with a large purple spot near new York, one near California, and... "There's three!" I said, surprised.
There was a large green spot close to camp Jupiter.
"You see, Percy" Reyna said " you knew about the Greeks, and the romans, but, as the most powerful religion of it's time, there are.." She paused.
"The Christians" She pointed to the green spot "that's camp Yaweh" Annabeth looked surprised.
"Did Chiron know about this?" She Asked "Probably not. only the countries that Immediately knew about Christianity know about Know About camp Yaweh. That... kinda just includes Rome..." "So, why are you telling us this?" Asked Annabeth "The Silibine books" Said Reyna. "There is a prophecy, and, well, ever since we defeated Geae, the Christians, well, they have been more active, agitated, but, we keep an eye on them, so, mostly the prophecy" "Okay" I said "let's hear it" She bit her lip "I, I can't. It mentions after the prophecy, that it is only the right of the... what was it?... Vistasolvetude, or something" "so... I guese that means we have to find them, huh" I said. "yes, and I've prepared transport for you, whenever your ready" me and Annabeth looked at each other. "we're ready" we told her.
"then lose no time, you must make haste to meet the Christians!"
We arrived at the camp via eagle, lucky not to be shot out of the sky by several manned anti-aircraft turrets that had trained laser targets on us, as if to say "hello! we are going to kill you now!" the eagles dropped us of at the entrance, where three people waiting for us at the entrance, one wearing a starched olive green uniform with several medals pinned on, with very light skin, blonde hair and teal eyes, one wearing mostly regular clothes, fair skin, hazel eyes and dark blonde hair, and one wearing purple robes, with dark forest green for the seams.
He Had Imposing brown eyes, with very dark brown hair. you'd think someone who looked like someone
regal would look more serious, but he was smiling, like we were old friends he was meeting for lunch. "There you are!" he said kindly "My name is Carter, and welcome, to Camp Yaweh!'
He gestured for us to follow him. we did so.
"Would you like your official tour now or later?" he said. he was acting more normal now. "now would be good!" said Annabeth, before I could even respond. "What was that all about" I asked her. "Percy, the architecture around here, it's, it's amazing!" I had to agree. and I don't even like architecture. most of the buildings were tall, with domes, and the sides were a little like steps, each step being fifty feet above the next, mostly with satues of people praying, and, for some reason, shepards.
He led us to the right. There were lots of building over here, and most of them didn't fit with the common style. most of the buildings looked like bunkers with a large brick house for the rear. but in the center was a large building, shaped like a hexagon, expanding towards the top. "this is the center of our military intelligence and command. were you to go inside, you would find a large machine next to the door containing ten slits. each one is for a card bearer to insert their acsess cards. all ten must be in place for the door to open." he pulled out a transuculent lightning blue card with orange around the edge, and the number 129.03256 in the same color.
"I am one of those card holders, my general Deziah is to." he showed us more of the camp, including a city, outdoor pool, hangar, the city walls, mine, and collages. "this will be the last stop before the Capitol building. This is the HOS secret Head-quarters facility" he said, gesturing to a building, shaped like and omega, and matched the color theme of his card.
"What do they do there?" asked Annabeth. We both flinched. For once, Carter was NOT looking calm, he turned and gave us a cold look. I realized I would never want him as an enemy. "That" he said, still glaring "Is why it is called secret" he turned back around, and sighed. "I'm sorry." he said apologetically "we have had many breaches lately, and spies who would love nothing more than to harm us. I should know, they took my mother." he sounded sad "as in, like, abduction?" I asked, but from the way he sounded, she wasn't "well!" he said, happy again "we should ajourn the Vistmalus katura soon."
"Hey, I have a question" said Annabeth. "Love one" said Carter, smiling. "What... What language are you speaking? I mean, it isn't Latin, Greek, or any other language I've heard, for that matter" "Ah" Carter replied "That would be Cartatian, wrote it myself" he said proudly. Annabeth looked at him as if he were some kind of hero. "you, you.. yourself? I've never... I mean, I've heard! always wanted to... Athena would be proud!" Carter looked confused, then regained his composure, and kept leading. I could've sworn he said "I pray for them, lord, every day..." under his breath.
The council was amazing. technically, it was called a vista- whatever, but he said we could call it a council. He had led us to this giant palace, which looked like it was made of pure gold. he'd given us a tour there, to. Annabeth had been confused when she asked why we couldn't see the throne room, and carter said it wasn't his to show.
Other than that, though, everything went well. The council composed of five people. Carter, Deziah, The other boy from the greeting, who carter said was an ambassador named William, a girl with blonde hair and freckles named Lucynthia, and a girl with red hair named Ceceilia. They sat on five different chairs, all aligned in a quarter circle. Deziah's chair was on the left, and looked like a military fighter plane chair, William was second to the left, in a spruce chair engraved with crosses and doves. Lucynthia was second to right, in a chair that looked like a silver throne, covered with silk, Ceceilia sat to the right in a chair that looked like an old wicker garden chair, and Carter sat in the middle, on another spruce chair, engraved with scenes of people dancing, and praising something in the clouds. it had dark red satin cushions on the seat, back, and armrests.
"We know you have come here, for the Delicanti vespirdy prophecy" said carter. He was sitting up straight, and looking very regal. "the deli-what?" I said
"The before the end prophecy" said Lucynthia. She looked to carter. "Should we?" she asked. Carter nodded. They all bowed their heads. then, all of a sudden, a blue ring appeared between them all. It looked like blue wind spinning around in a circle. Then they all raised their heads. I didn't notice anything different, until I noticed
Carter's iris's were icy blue.
The heathens, the conquers, the holy unite,
To search the world for the holy light.
The mother be freed from underground,
and the hero to lead the armies be found.
To destroy the evil, the holy's bane,
And to destroy the one with the evil name.
To find and destroy the beast with light,
And free two men from their endless plight.
They all bowed their heads again, and said "We thank thee lord for thy vision, and know that thou shalt supply us our needs. Amen.
"It appears that our camps must authorize a venture" said William "Carter" said Deziah "your battle ship is fully repaired?" Carter grinned "Oh, THIS could be fun..."
I didn't know if I liked the sound of that.
Carter led the four of us to the hangar. Me, Annabeth, and Lucynthia. He slid open a secret stone panel, and punched in a few numbers, and the large metal door opened. He led us to a door, tike a vault door. He stuck his card in a slot, and turned the wheel. the door slowly opened. He pulled his card back then led us
down a large spiral staircase. "It's so dark down here" I said.
CRANK, CRANK, CRANK!
I drew my sword, giving of a bronze glow, and Annabeth drew her bone dagger. Silence. Suddenly, tons of lights went on. I looked over, and saw that the noise was made by...Carter pulling a lever. Annabeth gasped. "It's-" said Annabeth, startled. I looked over. Then, I saw the most awesome warship I'd ever seen. It made the Argo 2 look like a toy ship.
Have you ever played a Kirby game? In most of them, it shows meta knight's ship, the Halbert. This ship was like a mega deluxe version,
with angel wings instead of bat wings, and green for the sides, white wooden boards, and an automated assortment of machine guns, and anti-aircraft weaponry. "This ship is called Cartatia's voyage " he said proudly "It is the ship we will be journing on, so I suggest we get on board" Us three went up the gangplank. We saw Lucynthia biting her lip, then, she ran up after us. Carter smiled. "you guys should get below decks, because I'm going activate hyper-dash" we all went below decks. "next stop, Camp Half-blood" Carter said.
We were below decks now, listening to a hymn soundtrack. "have you been down to the pow'r of the blood? there's pow'r in the blood, pow'r in the blood!"
I shifted in my seat. I don't know if I mentioned this, but the troop carrier section of the ship looked like a movie theater, down to the screen. (Lucynthia had told me it was for mission intel)
"would you over evil a victory win? there's wonderful pow'r in the blood! There is Pow'r! pow'r! wonder working pow'r, in the blood, of the lamb! There is pow'r! pow'r! wonder working pow'r, in the precious blood of the lamb!" I was starting to wonder what was up with sheep. "this is one of my favorites." Lucynthia said "I looked at her "What?" said Annabeth. "the song" she replied " "oh" was all Annabeth said. "Why is it about sheep?" she said then. "Oh, that's easy! you see-"
Carter walked down the stairs. "All good!" he said, wiping his hands on the sides of his tunic. He came over, and sat down next to me. "so, Percy, what's up?" he said.
All of a sudden, I realized something. I'm not sure if it was from him talking to me directly or what. "Carter? how-how did you know my name?" "That's for me to know" he winked "and you to find out" that felt really mysterious, but I believed him, like he really wanted me to find out. "Hey, you know..." I said "Yeah?"
"Reyna said the romans keep you guys in check" "more like Ivisadella, vice versa" there was silence. "also, what does Vistasolvetude mean?" "Servant of Christ" He replied, smiling.