(Greeks)
It was early in the winter, and Hailey and Darcy, and the rest of the gang, were getting ready to head over to Camp Half-blood, unlike Jared, Santiago, Taylor, and Austin, who were going to Camp Jupiter. It's been two months since the appearance of that strange creature thing, and still Taylor hasn't found the courage to ask Hailey out, Santiago, son of Vulcan, said 'that knowing that they were Greeks was bad enough, any more interaction would prove shameful to the camp.'
Meanwhile, Darcy, Daughter of Poseidon, she had long black hair, and had blue eyes; she had very limited freckles, and had very little evidence of weeks' worth of tanning; she kept to herself for the most part. Was hoping that someone would ask her to the Christmas Prom, Hailey, Daughter of Athena, was also looking forward to someone asking her too. But that would only slow them down, and make them more venerable, it seemed like yesterday, that Darcy was slow dancing with William when the beast attacked her, if it weren't for Hailey, she wouldn't be here today. Darcy has become a more fearless leader, but how can they go from Iowa, to New York, in one piece?
"Alright let's do a roll call," called Darcy
"Hailey," called Darcy
"Here," said Hailey in here sarcastic tone of hers, she had short, red hair with black highlights, she had grey eyes, and pale skin, and always wore cloths that teenage model would ware, she was fifteen, and was also a fearless leader, but is more easily distracted than Darcy.
"Ginger," called Darcy again
"Here," said Ginger, Daughter of Ares, she had black hair and eyes, and wore camouflage, she was thirteen.
"Luke, Isaac," called Darcy
"Here," boasted the twins, they were Sons of Apollo, they had blonde hair, and had a child's face, and they were twelve turning thirteen this year. They wore western were, like long sleeve button up shirts, skinny jeans, and leather boots, oh and a sombrero.
"Abigale," called Darcy
"Right here," called Abigale, also a daughter of Apollo, she was nine, turning ten in the following summer. She wore blue snow pants, and a thin coat.
"Kayla," called Darcy
Kayla was a shy girl, she was a daughter of Zeus, but wasn't fearless, she had puffy black hair, and had an adorable smile, she had a decent tan, and was eleven, she was also tall. She wore sweats, sneakers, and a grey hoodie.
"And Savannah," called Darcy
"Here," called Savannah, she was thirteen, turning fourteen, she had medium sized hair length, she always died it, and right now she had light brown hair with red high-lights, her dad was Hermes. She wore jeans, and a thin sweater
"Alright now let's get everything in the car, Ginger; get all of the weapons in the trailer, twins, load your arrows in the trailer too." Called Darcy
"You heard the girl, let's hurry up" Called Hailey
Then from around the bend, Santiago, Taylor, and Jarod, came in. They were wearing camp Jupiter shirts, but were wearing jackets and jeans, each one had different shoes, Santiago had DC's on, Jarod had thick leather boots, and Taylor was wearing sneakers. Santiago had a dark tan, had dark eyes, and a foe-hawk. Jarod was a blonde, but had a tan and brownish green eyes, Taylor wore a hat but was semi-dark brown hair.
"Hey girls, and twins, we were wondering if you needed help," called Santiago
"No were fine, we have all the hands that we need, and we don't want Romans tampering with our equipment," said Darcy
"You sure you guys are fine," Called Jarod in his Australian accent
"Were fine, and shouldn't you be getting ready to head off to camp Jupiter, and where's Austin?" asked Darcy
"Austin is driving the truck over here, and we got a call from our leader requesting that we accompany you guys, and plus, everyone has a flu down there so they asked us to go to another haven of safety till this is all resolved, and its less of a drive to go to 'camp half-blood,' than camp Jupiter, "explained Santiago
"You can come up with all the explanations and excuses, but the answer is still no, you guys stay or go to your camp and that's that." Declared Darcy
An entire Hour later...
The one thing that Darcy was clear about was not letting the boys come along, but here she is, in the truck, listening to Cobra Starship, for the fifth time. Santiago and Jarod were stuck with Darcy while everyone else was in the minivan, she swore that if they heard the track again, that she would open her passenger seat window and let the breeze come in than the sound of the music come in.
She grabbed her cell-phone and dialed Hailey's number.
"Hailey lets pull over to the next stop, and get either you or someone else to make sure that they don't get away with our stuff." Requested Darcy
"Sure, how are they," inquired Hailey.
"Let's just say, Get Me out Of Here!" yelled Darcy.
Without another question, they pulled over, that's when Darcy cursed in every language, including fish. The number one rule when it came to cell-phones was that you never use it, unless you're in Camp Half-blood. The boys, including some of the girls, except for Abigale, Kayla, and Hailey, went to the gas stations mini mart to get some snacks for the road trip.
"Bloody Mary," said Darcy in a rude tone
"Did they sing that bad?" inquired Hailey in a sarcastic tone
"No, we used a cell-phone in the middle of nowhere, meaning that were venerable," cursed Darcy
"A simple rookies mistake Darcy," said Hailey
They were making their way to the Gas stations were everyone was until Kayla and Gabriela screamed. Darcy and Hailey looked back and saw large Cyclops; running for the kill, inside the Gas station though was a different story...
(Romans)
Santiago was determined to get away with the weapons. He was determined to go to camp with celestial bronze instead of rusted old imperial gold. Why on earth would he go on this trip? Regardless, he had a plan, but until the fifth time singing good girls gone bad, he realized that after Jason observed the Greek camp, and Percy observing the roman, he could do the same, after all, everything he said about the sickness at camp, and the observation was a lie. He could have easily pulled out his sword of fire, and attack the girls until he had the truck, if it weren't for the fact that Taylor, Austin, and Jarod liked the girls. He swore that if he was ever involved with Greeks again, he would remain at Camp Jupiter forever. The others don't get it, Romans and Greeks hated each other, wars, lies, and hurt was the only thing that Romans were good at. Greeks never favored the sour discipline ship, and the Romans never partied unless they won a battle.
Until now, he was leaning towards the side of romans that was until the store clerk took off her turban to reveal a wreath of snakes. Everyone took cover at the end of the isle, Santiago was near the slushy machine, Jarod was by the DVD's, and the rest had covered the ends of the Isles. Santiago pulled out a small necklace with a flaming sword at the end; he snapped his fingers and a long sword of Imperial gold on fire brandished out of the tiny sword that could fit in his pocket.
Jared had already brandished his flaming hammer, but everyone else's weapons were in the truck. He then pulled out a small mirror, he didn't see the store clerk, but it doesn't mean that she wasn't there. Santiago and Jared slowly reconvened were the rest are, only using the small mirror, they heard snakes everywhere, but weren't sure were to attack, Jared commanded that everyone closed their eyes. Jared then pulled out his little mirror. He then looked around hoping that the medusa gave up and would look for other demigods to chew on.
The Medusa shrieked in pain as she ran out into the snow drift, she was on fire, on fire. Did Santiago do it? No he couldn't have, he could wield flames, but had little experience focusing on his target and blasting the target into smithereens. Was it Jarod? No, Jared was a Vulcan kid, but can't handle any form of flame, maybe it was him, maybe. Outside didn't change for the better, in fact it looked worse, and three Cyclops came charging through the hill, their blood shot eyes suggested that they were not in the mood for a pleasant joke. They had large wooden clubs, and skulls for clothing decorations, woven into their tiny loincloth. The girls looked like they were handling the situation, but could use a little help. Santiago and Jared ran outside to follow the battle, while the others sat in dazed as to what had happened, one of them shot the medusa with fire, and it had to be one of them.
(Greeks)
Darcy and Hailey jammed the key into the trailer, to reveal all sorts of weapons; Hailey grabbed one of Gingers swords and shields, because she didn't have any weapons of her own to begin with. Darcy took her small trident necklace and it turned into a large pink and purple shell trident with a blue orb in the center, cushioned by a yellow starfish, she also grabbed her large and thick pinkish purple shell shield. She cursed at the girly weapon selection; she charged out to the first Cyclops and jabbed him in the knee, the Cyclops fell down but the others responded quickly to their fallen comrade.
The second Cyclops, which was pretty large in size, came and grabbed Darcy by the ankle and swung at her, she flew ten yards before touching soft and cold snow. The blood flowed freely from the open cuts; the large bruise on her forehead had her unconscious.
Hailey had already killed the third Cyclops, and was rearing for the second. She slashed at the air causing the Cyclops to dodge the oncoming blows. The first one limped towards Darcy to finish her off, already Hailey was preoccupied with the second Cyclops, by that time, the rest of the demigods have already come to join the battle, grabbing their equipment, the twins grabbed their bows and arrows, Ginger grabbed her favored spear, Kayla grabbed her spear with ten thousand volts of pure energy, everyone else just grabbed a sword and shield.
The twins grabbed a bottle of water, and their medical kit, and ran out towards Darcy. Meanwhile Darcy got up and began limping towards her trident and shield, if it weren't for her somewhat shattered shield; her skull would have been ripped out. She crawled now towards her shield in hopes to defend her with what little she had left. By the time the twins had got there, Darcy was getting up, they tossed her a bottle of water, she chugged the bottle and threw it aside. By now, she was charging in for the kill, the Cyclops began to limp away, even though Darcy was easy to heal, she still had a limp as well, the two twins began laughing at the sight of two injured people running.
Hailey had already finished the second Cyclops and had found the charred remains of the medusas head, the last Cyclops was laughing too, but not because of some joke, but a sinister laugh, like this was expected this failure. The dust that was supposed to be the dead Cyclops, were already reforming on the spot, the medusa still had a little of her head the face is charred but not obliterated. Hailey then grabbed the head and ran up to all three of the Cyclops, taking the head to the entire Cyclops. They froze but they still talked, one of them cursed and blamed gulger for the failure, the first one's name was gulger, the second was ashtire, and the third was filfer.
Darcy inquired what the deal was before she passed out, Santiago and Jarod took over the interrogation.
Meanwhile...
Hailey cursed at her mother anytime she was alone or in thought. She remembered the first time she made contact with her, she was beautiful, she told her that she needed to go to camp Jupiter, even though she was a Greek, she would need to go to the roman camp. Then, two weeks later she was founded by the Greek camp, every night she dreamed that her mother was getting more and more furious every night she stayed, then after a while, she tuned her out, her voice is still in her head, telling her that she didn't belong there, even though she was one of them.
She wanted more than anything to belong, whether it was her with her mother, with her friends, and even with her dad. She wanted to feel like their wasn't an invisible boundary, that there was some physical, mental and emotional connection, but it was like as if anyone she knew, was just a figment in her imagination. Then Santiago and Jarred came along, and then she felt a sense of relief, like her long search for wanting was there in her eyes, whenever she was with Santiago or Jarred, even both, she felt at ease. She was known for going out with a lot of guys, but these two were different.
That when she saw her mother.
"Hailey, you've found some Romans, but you need to go with them now, to camp Jupiter," said Athena
"You never tell me why, unless there's a reason, which there isn't," said Hailey
"First rule about gods, you never question there command." Said Athena
"I'm questioning, and unless you tell me, I'll just keep going to camp half-blood," said Hailey
"Fine, I'll tell Rachel dare, then we'll see what to do about your arrogance, and I'm not Athena, I'm Minerva," she said, then she vanished. Minerva, who the (bleep) is Minerva?
Meanwhile...
Darcy falling asleep was somewhat unexpected. She hoped to show everyone that she wasn't a leader that failed, after all, she caused everyone to blow there position, she caused the attack just because of how annoyed she was with the boys, now they're stranded in a snow drift, fixing a turned over car, interrogating three cyclops that refuse to cooperate, and freezing in general.
Darcy found her self, in a dark space, she saw Hailey, and another women, they were talking, Hailey looked frustrated, and the women wasn't helping either. She heard Athena, and camp half-blood, that's when it clicked, Hailey was in the Athena cabin, so that women was Athena. Darcy was jumping, waving, and yelling, trying to get Hailey attention, but Hailey just kept going. then all went dark, and she heard a loud thunder crack...
(Romans)
Santiago and Jared got nothing out of the Cyclops. They just kept arguing over who did what, apparently none of there comrades were of any use. After five minuets of pointless yelling, Santiago and Jared gave up on the interrogation and went to fixing the car, Hailey and the twins were busy tending to Darcy, the fearless leader. Santiago wasn't a jerk, but didn't believe in weakness, maybe everyone should reconsider who should be in charge. After all, she did pull the "cell-phone stunt," which almost got everyone killed.
Jared on the other hand, has been completely quiet about everything, if Darcy wasn't bad enough as a leader, than Santiago wouldn't be any better. What was Jared trying to hide? Would anyone treat Darcy serious anymore? And what would they do if the car doesn't work? So many questions and things to do, but so little time.
The car wasn't tipped over, but there was plenty of dents in it. Santiago began working, he began pulling dents, polishing the ride, he asked Savannah to steal some parts, he then asked the twins to put Darcy in the mini van, finally he asked Hailey, Ginger, and Kayla to gather soda, chips, cookies, and heated meals for the road trip. He then began putting parts into the engine, finally, he finished the car. On the bright side, she runs like a charm, the engine was good as new, but the ride looks like it has seen better days. Santiago was pretty confident with his work, Jared was already prying pieces from underneath and replacing them with better pipes and bolts.
"Just because Darcy is asleep, doesn't mean that you have to take charge," demanded Hailey.
"I don't recall Darcy telling you that you could be in charge when the leader was busy," explained Santiago
"Also Darcy said 'that you couldn't come,' did she Abigale?" asked Hailey
Abigale had only one leader, Hailey, if Hailey hated school and ditched, Abigale followed. If Hailey were to smoke weed, Abigale would be next to get high.
"Yup," said Abigale in a week tone, if worse comes to worse, Abigale did fear Hailey.
Santiago bit back his tongue, realizing that he had to give in. He then told everyone 'to get in the car,' Hailey drove the mini van, Santiago drove the truck with the twins, the rest were in the last truck. Santiago was sixteen, Jarod was also the same age. What he was worried most about was what would everyone say when Romans went into a Greek camp, should he turn around and go were he needed to be, were he was wanted?
(Greeks)
When Darcy didn't cooperate, everyone looked to Hailey for guidance. When the boys looked to Santiago, everyone else looked to her. She wanted nothing to do with gods, demigods, kids, adults, anyone. She didn't love anyone. If she had a boyfriend, they would be together for a month, and someone better would come along. Bottom line, she hated basically everyone, then she met Jared, wait, Jarod, she meant Darcy.
She promised herself that if one more guy broke up with her, she would quite life entirely.
But there was something about Jared. Like he hooked her to some invisible hook, he pulled, he let it drown, then pulled again. Was he toying with her emotions, was he going to end up like the boys she dated so long ago, were someone better comes, and says bye-bye?
(Greeks/Romans)
everyone was tired, they were just two hours away. Jarod was in the back of the line, driving with the boys, Hailey was driving with the girls, who were singing T.G.I.F, and Santiago drove by himself (the twins pulled a stunt that caused them to be with Jarod,) in the front of the line. Santiago was listening to Hero by Skillet. The lead singer, was talking about who will be his Hero, and what he should do. Santiago thought 'what would happen, if a problem was just to big for even the notorious hero Santiago, if Santiago couldn't do it, who would be his hero?
Hailey was wondering if she loved Jared? He was a nice teen, he had the looks, the body, the personality, but he was shy. He only followed Santiago, after all, they have been through a lot. they bonded, they clicked, and they were both into the same stuff. That's when it hit her, what if she had a party, she could find out more about Jared, and if he's "turned off," by Hailey, then all would be said and done, and she could go back to fighting monsters, teens, and Chiron.
Darcy loved all of her friends, she treated them like sisters, but now, she was the oldest, at least, she is now, not after Josh. Darcy promised herself that Josh was the best friend she could ever have, even better than Hailey. Hailey also loved Josh too, Josh was the older brother, until last Christmas, when he, Darcy started to tear up. 'No one can replace Josh,' Darcy thought. Josh died of an acident, the Apollo cabin was preparing to light up the camp for the holidays, and Josh was burned to death after grabbing one of the cables. He died earlier that weak, his funeral was short, but he was buried outside of the camp. By now, everyone, even Hailey had forgotten, even Chiron wouldn't remember details about Josh. Not Darcy, definitely not Darcy.
well that concludes chapter 1 of possibly 2 or 3 chapters, they do get to camp half-blood, but something goes unexpected. Ahh its another cliff hanger (sorry), R&R