Chapter 2

Our First Time at Camp Half Blood

We finally left Olympus and now we are in New York in a cab, yellow as the sun, heading down to Camp Half Blood but of course we hit some traffic so we sat there. We just can't wait to get there. When we finally got out of traffic we headed down to Long Island but the next thing we knew there was a Drakon right behind the cab with its green scales that looked very old from different battles like they were battle scars and I could even smell its breath. The Drakon smelled of garlic and something else that was quite disturbing and it looked very hungry. I told the driver to go as fast as he could but he wouldn't, so Steven said that he would pay him double and the next thing I knew he went as fast as he could.

The Drakon just wouldn't give up, it chased us all the way but when we saw the camps borders we all got excited even though there was a Drakon right behind us. All of a sudden three people came out of the Big House with swords and spears and they had killed the monster but I knew that he would be back for monsters never really die they just reincarnate in time. When the cabbie dropped me off, Steven paid him and we introduced our self's to the three people that saved us and it turned out to be three great heroes Percy Jackson son of Poseidon, Annabeth Chase daughter of Athena, and Nico Di Angelo son of Hades I told them that I was a son Poseidon of and he was the son of Zeus.

Just like that we were part of their group which made Steven and I feel good because we were friends with some of the heroes that have helped win the battle against the titans. When we got to the Big House which was a three story farm house that over looked the camp, there was a man in a tigers striped shirt and was drinking diet coke and the other man was in a wheelchair they were playing piccolo a card game. The man in the tiger shirt looked up and his nose was beat red and he was a little bigger then what he should be, then he said what do you want. The man in the wheelchair cut him off and said that I we were the new kids and that my name was Brenden Field and that I was a son of Poseidon and his name was Steven Doig and he was the son of Zeus.

When we left the house we saw two boys running out the camp store with their pockets full and Percy just smiled and said "Conner and Travis are at it again". We also saw a gang of girls grab one of the new kids and bring him into of the girls bathroom and he came out with his face wet and he smelled and we already knew that he had just been dunked by Clarisse La Rue and her gang of sisters who were all children of Ares. We knew about Clarisse because she was another hero that fought in the battle of the Titans. Then she saw Brenden and me and the girls started after me but Percy and Nico got into their faces and told them to back off and they drew their swords to get them to stand back, but Clarisse said "just wait till capture the flag" so we left.

We both said thanks and they said "no problem we don't like it when our friends are picked on". By the time we got done with my tour it was dinner time because they eat early so they can sing songs and dance at night. Our meal was steak, grapes, bread, and corn we were supposed to scrap some of our meal into the campfire to worship the gods. When we finished we headed to the amphitheater to sing some songs and dance. When we finished we headed back to our cabins to go to sleep, my cabin was a beautiful green and blue and Steven's was a golden in the moonlight and in the daytime. The next morning I found Annabeth outside my door so I said "hi" and she said "hi" back and I asked if she needed anything and she said that she had my schedule of my activities so I said thanks and she asked if I would help her give the schedule to Steven and I said sure.

It turned out that we all had archery first so we all went to the field and the man in the wheelchair that we had met on the porch was really Chiron who was a centaur and he was in charge of the archery so we began and we both turned out to be pretty good at it. Then I headed to the arena for training and Percy was the sword trainer. He said I was up to fight him and everyone said good luck with a sarcastic look because he was one of the best sword fighters in the camp so we began. First he jabbed but I deflected it and stabbed at him and to my surprise I had got him but that didn't stop him he keep coming and I kept at it and soon he gave up and some just mumbled beginners luck but one girl said that I did really good and I knew that she liked me a little.

Later I learned that her name was Gabby Holmes and her sister who was Machala Holmes, and their father was an artist which caught the eye of her mother, Aphrodite the goddesses of love. I had a hour before my next activity so I just walked around the camp and it was beautiful with the smell of strawberries in the fields and the salt from the ocean and the creek, as I was walking to the big house we saw Clarisse standing there and I knew that we were in for it then all of a sudden she had Steven and me by the collar, we struggled but her grip was too strong for both of us then she brought us in the bathroom and I knew we had lost but then Percy burst into the bathroom and summoned a wave of toilet water to splash in her face and she found herself on the ground sopping wet.

We knew that she would chase after us so we ran until there was no sign of her or her gang. I gave him a tour of the camp and told him to meet me at the arena so he left and I went to the armory to see one of my old friends his name was Eric Mansfield that had lived in the same building that Steven did before his mother died. Steven later asked if he could make a spear for him that could have a lightning emblem on the tip that would send a little shock down the others blade to lower their defense and make it easier to take them down but it would still have the same effects of a regular spear, and a shield that had a lightning emblem that has a power that would send a shock trough the attackers weapon so their hand and wrist would go numb.

I asked for a sword that had a power that would send a little blast of water that would confuse the person and make it easier to take him down and plus a wave going down the middle of the blade. He said that I had to wait for a little bit while he made it. When he came out with what I had wanted, so I thanked him and left. When I got back to the arena I gave him his weapons that I had made especially for him and I showed him mine he was quiet impressed. After that we ate lunch. We still had time because we both had the same schedule so we just practiced at the arena with our new weapons he was just as good as Percy. We headed over to the stables for Pegasus riding then we headed over to the lake for canoeing.

When we finished it was dinner time so we ate and then Chiron made an announcement that it was time for capture the flag and everyone cheered. We teamed up Poseidon, Zeus, Apollo, Dionysus and Hades vs. Ares, Hermes, Demeter, and Athena. We grabbed our weapons and got on our sides. Percy, Steven, Nico, and I were our guards. Everything seemed fine until I heard a twig snap and I turned toward the sound and I found an Ares person and I charged I took him down with ease with a simple hit with my shield he went down from being numb. Then I heard Nico fighting someone along with Percy so Steven and I went to work we took down two more people but then all of a sudden we were surrounded by several others.

We saw Annabeth walk right by us and was just about to grab the flag but Steven and I got an idea we started to attack the people we took them out one by one they fell soaked or numb. We had stopped her just in time to save the flag and capture her. As Steven guarded her I made sure no one got to the flag. I could hear the buzzer ring and Steven smiled and said "looks like we won". Since we won our cabins didn't have to wash the dishes so we all went to bed. The days passed and after a while we all got used to it, more kids came to camp, Steven became better with my spear and shield, Machala and Steven started to date, Percy and I spent more time together, and I became better with a sword. After a while I started to date her sister Gabby.

Steven and I went to Rachel our new oracle and Steven received the prophecy 5 shall go, 3 will come back with victory, 1 will abandon the others when they are most needed, the other will try to kill another when they become jealous, and one shall remain under the control of a memory that holds them at the others will. It seemed to me that this prophecy will haunt me till it is over.