Jason had just been taking a nice nap, high in a tree, closely hugging Piper. It had been so peaceful. Yet, of course, the life of a demigod was never peaceful for long. Suddenly, the demigods had been woken up by someone screaming at the top of their lungs. Jason sighed, Piper groaned. They climbed out of their tree. It was then that they heard the screaming again: 'I don't know who you are! Get away!' Jason turned to Piper. 'I don't recognize that voice. Maybe it is a new demigod and their satyr?' Piper nodded. 'Let's go take a look.'
Three people were standing in the middle of the forest when Piper and Jason arrived. There was a very muscle bound girl, a tall boy who looked like Jason and a small and thin person of whom Jason couldn't tell if it was a boy or a girl. The girl was staring ominously at the boy, who looked angry. The third child looked at the two others, with concern in their eyes. Piper shrugged and walked up to them. 'Hello. Welcome in Camp Half-blood. Are you three knew?' She asked. The boy and the girl turned to her. 'This is camp Half-blood?' The girl asked. 'Doesn't look like it,' the boy added. The third person looked like he had no idea what camp Half-blood was.
Jason walked out of the shadows as well. 'We can show you Chiron.' Everyone seemed to know that name, even the child who didn't know what Camp Half-blood was. 'Show us then,' Muscle-girl said. She looked like she would attack Piper and Jason if they'd do something wrong to her. Piper smiled and walked back to camp, swiftly followed by the others.
'Can you tell us your names?' Jason asked. The boy who looked like him was the only one who answered immediately: 'My name is Perseus.' Jason and Piper turned their heads towards him and then to each other. The look in their eyes screamed: 'That is impossible. What is this magic?' The girl rolled her eyes. 'Atalanta.' Piper just looked like that explained a lot. All four of them turned to the last child. He shook his head. 'I am not telling you people. It might send someone after me.' Some of them shrugged, others just walked further.
As soon as they walked out of the forest, Chiron came galloping towards them. 'Piper, Jason... Oh, Great, I see you two got the last three?' Jason looked concerned. 'The last three?' Chiron nodded. 'All my students from Ancient Greece have been teleported to the present day. I can't explain why, but probably Hecate has something to say about it. We'll try to fix it and send them all back.' Atalanta, Perseus and the other kid all got weird looks on their faces.
'We will trust you, Chiron,' Perseus eventually said. The other two nodded. Piper shook her head. 'Does Mr. D know about this?' Chiron face turned into a frown. He turned to the other three demigods and to Jason. 'Jason, why don't you lead these three guests to the arena?' Jason nodded. Chiron pulled him in closely. 'Make sure no-one tells them what they are going to do in their further life. They shouldn't know.' Jason nodded understandingly, while Chiron walked back to Piper.
'Piper, I already told the others, but it isn't a good idea to mention our usual camp leader.' 'Why not?' Chiron hesitated. 'Well, you know how Dionysus used to be a demigod?' Piper got another weird look on her face. This is going to be an extremely weird day, she thought. 'I understand. Yet, er... Where is he? On Olympus? It has to be weird to see your past self walk around in your workplace, I mean...' Chiron took a deep breath. 'I might have panicked slightly and locked him in his bedroom. I'll tell him when I have put everyone to their training.' Piper nodded, trying to process all the information of the last ten minutes.
They arrived at the arena, where a group of about fifteen people had gathered. Piper ran over to her siblings and to Jason, while Chiron got a piece of paper out of the pocket of his jacket and address the group of old demigods. 'So. I am going to put you all in a line of how old you all actually are. And all of you, modern and old, I am going to have to ask you to not talk about any stories you've heard about heroes, or even gods. I am going to try to remove this from your memories when you go back to your own time. Yet, just to be save, please understand.' The whole camp nodded, making it look like a wave went through the crowd.
'So. The first one starts on the right, and everyone who I call after that stands next to the person who's name I called before them. So, Dionysus, Asclepius, Perseus, Actaeon, Peleus, Telemon, Atalanta, Cyrene, Phoenix, Bellerophon, Theseus, Heracles, Jason, Oileus, Ajax, Achilles, Patroclus and Aeneas.' The demigods made a messy row. Chiron nodded, clearly content. 'Alright. Now, newer demigods, please make groups of your godly parents. Except, er... cabin 12, cabin 31 and 27, I suppose. Older demigods, please join your newer siblings and go through with your training while I try to figure out how to send you back.'
The demigods, new and old, did, and after that training continued almost as usual. With the difference that Cabin 12, cabin 31 and cabin 27, the children of Dionysus, Hercules (Or Heracles) and Asclepius, were told to help Chiron with figuring something out, and there were a bunch of demigods who had previously seemed to only exist in stories.
Jason wasn't bothered by his siblings. Herakles seemed to be more annoyed than anything else, Perseus was nice. They were also strong demigods, who could easily take on opponents. Dionysus was weaker than the others, which was weird for a son of Zeus, who were mostly expected to be strong. He seemed to try to find something else to fight with throughout the whole training session. Jason decided not to say anything; He knew about his usual camp leaders' mind controlling powers, and had also read The Bacchae. Dionysus would certainly find a way to fight, somewhere along the line.
Complications appeared as soon as Jason decided to fight with thunder, while flying. He flew up into the sky, and made a huge thunderbolt crash on a training dummy. He landed, and looked at his brothers. He hadn't expected a few of the greatest demigods of all time to look at him with absolute disarray in their eyes. He smiled awkwardly at them. 'Yeah, um, son of Zeus, y'know?' He awkwardly said. 'How... Did you?...' Perseus eventually managed to say. Jason swallowed a lump on his throat. 'I don't know? Dad's powers?'
Dionysus shook his head. It looked weird; The Dionysus Jason knew already had pretty long and curly hair, but the younger version had a really wild haircut. Chiron had tried to pull it into a ponytail, but as soon as the centaur had walked away the future wine-god had pulled the hair-tie out of his hair again. He started speaking: 'We can't do that. Or, well, maybe they can. I seem to be pretty weak anyway.' He said the last sentence in a slightly bitter voice. Perseus and Heracles shook their heads, too. 'I can't just summon thunder, or fly around,' Herakles added. He sounded offended, like he couldn't believe how this younger brother could do cooler things then he did.
Jason breathed deeply. 'Well, maybe demigods get stronger the more children our parents have. I mean, Heracles seems to be stronger than Dionysus, at least...' Jason decided that that comment probably didn't help. He picked up his sword again. 'Let's just train with our hand weapons, shall we?' He asked, shrugging, trying to not look scared.
Anaes was a bit of a bore, Piper noticed quickly. He could hold up a weapon, but he didn't talk about anything interesting. He seemed to not be interested in talking to the girls, only to the boys. Piper rolled her eyes. A sexist sibling, great. That was something else than a sexist nephew.
Percy felt kind of weird, and it wasn't because of the sword wound on his right foot. Bellerophon was a nice dude, but kept dropping things on the floor - like a very sharp sword, straight on percy's foot. Percy knew Bellerophon's' name meant 'he who killed such and such,' which is why the epithet 'the blameless' had been added to his name. Percy smiled by the thought of being called after someone you accidently killed, only to get the epithet 'but he didn't do it on purpose.' He sighed. At least Bellerophon meant well. Theseus, however, was just kind of a huge brat.
Theseus was the most ADHD person Percy had ever met, but that wasn't the thing that made him a brat. Percy knew from experience how annoying ADHD could be. The problem was that Theseus constantly getting distracted by everything meant that he didn't notice when he did something stupid. During the kanoë training, he had kanoëd over the kanoë of one of the Hermes kids, who had fallen into the lake. While the child had been brought to shore, the old son of Poseidon had jumped into the water himself, to check what the vines on the bottom of the lake were, oblivious to the crying child with a bleeding gap in his arm.
When it had been their turn for sword training, Percy had ran into the same problem as Jason. The new son of Poseidon was able to cause earthquakes, make huge waves and breath under water, while Theseus and Bellerophon both didn't have all of these superpowers. It wasn't like the children of Zeus, where the older kids didn't have any powers, though. Bellerophon turned out to be a stellar equestrian. He could also talk to horses - quite fitting for the original owner of the pegasus. Theseus was able to create tiny waves and he could breathe under water, but seemed more interested in slapping people around with a sword.
At some point, Theseus stabbed Bellerophon a little to hard - and the kid dropped to the floor. Percy decided that that was the point to maybe stop training. He put the swords away, and he and Theseus carried Bellerophon to the infirmary. They put the groaning demigod on a bed. Will came running to the bed. 'That... That is a very bad wound. Percy nodded at Theseus, who had been distracted by the shelfs with bandages. Will opened his mouth, but was stopped by a graceful figure softly pushing him out of the way. 'I am Asclepius. Let me heal the child.' Will nodded, and took a step back.
Asclepius put his hand on Bellerophon's' chest. He said something in ancient Greek, and immediately the boy shot right up. His shirt still had bloody spots, but the wound had completely vanished. Percy gasped. 'Miracle,' He heard someone whisper in the infirmary. Yes, it really was a miracle.
It was at that moment a horn sounded. Someone threw a new shirt to Bellerophon, and the rest ran over to the pavilion. When Percy walked inside, he saw that Chiron had taken the entire Dionysus, Hercules and Asclepius table away. It was kind of eyebrow raising. At some point, the demigods were going to notice the cabins, right? Percy sat down at the Poseidon table, which was right next to the Zeus table. Theseus and Bellerophon also sat down, while Perseus, Hercules and Dionysus joined Jason.
Percy leaned back in his chair. 'Hey, Jay-Jay, how are you doing?' Jason sighed deeply. 'I don't know. We had to pick strawberries, do archery and we had sword training. Hercules was the only person who could actually shoot arrows. I had some sparring matches with him and Perseus. Dionysus was just the referee - he isn't much of a physical fighter. Perseus and Hercules kept squishing the strawberries, but that also wasn't much of a problem because said non-physical fighter just made more of them grow back. That is a little summary of my day. So, how was yours?'
Percy let his shoulders hang. 'I didn't really like Theseus from the old stories, you know, with the leaving girls on islands and kidnapping the queen of the Underworld things. He is annoying to hang around with, even I have more knowledge of what goes on in my surroundings. He just doesn't seem to care. Bellerophon is a nice guy, but... how shall I put it?... Very clumsy, that is the right way. He is very clumsy. To clumsy for his own surroundings.'
Jason nodded sympathetically. 'Let's hope Pipes had a better day. Leo didn't have to worry about this, I guess. Neither does Neeks, and Will seemed to be fine... I mean, Asclepius is a nice dude, from what I've heard... I just hope...' What Jason hoped? We'll never know, because Chiron stepped in to make the announcements in still-locked-in-his-bedroom Dionysus' place (Chiron had to do to much in the day. He didn't have time to go get his colleague out of his prison. It just surprised the centaur that he hadn't broke out yet).
'Campers, there will be capture the flag tonight, like every other friday. I would appreciate it if all the new campers explained to the old campers what that is. Also, the kanoë races will be stopped, because of a certain... incident. Now, you can start eating!' Chiron tried to end his speech on a positive note, but it didn't really work. He sat down, and everyone started with their food.
Percy looked at his brothers, who had already dug in. He just couldn't get a chunk of food through his mouth. The prospect of playing Capture The Flag with these old people was... unsettling, to say the least. He was afraid of how that would play out, if he had to be honest.