How the Dove was joined with the Hammer
I can't explain how it became but it was like it just was a thing that had always been there. It was the largest impact a person could feel such as rain and wind mixing and clashing together just to form a giant hurricane, the one storm that could never be tamed. The impact happened when I came to Camp Half Blood.
I had always known I was different then other children, my whole life was running away from monsters. I always sensed children's feelings and love for people, when crushes came in fourth grade, my head would impound with this vast majority of girly, loving thoughts inside of my head. I would come home crying and ranting how my head hurt, from all the vast feelings of love stuck in my head. One day near my twelfth birthday my father finally told me who I was and who my mother was. I ran screaming out of the room. I would refuse to believe it. Greek mythology? Really? My father was a stressed stylist, he owned at least six salons in California. I was originally from there, but we moved to New York for a six month plan with one of his sponsors.
I was always wondering why my older sister Cristy would get so much more popularity in school then I did. Sure I was pretty, but I had ADHD, who would want to have a conversation with me. But then unfortunately when I turned twelve my sister was eaten by a giant snake, and big surprise there, it was after me! My father hated the fact that I was in danger every minute of my life, so the summer of my sixth grade year he drove me to Camp Half Blood.
I still remember it as if it was yesterday. He pulled at the bottom of a hill and pointed.
"Up there is the place your mom always wanted you to go to."
"You mean Aphrodite?" I rolled my eyes, her again. He turned from the driver seat.
"Silena we talked about this, it has been coming." His stormy blue eyes showed no remorse.
"Why do I have to go? I'm fine."
"Your not fine your sister was eaten!" He screamed at me, tears sprung to his eyes. "You have to leave Silena if you didn't mean the world to me I wouldn't send you away. But you do, I'm sorry." He put his hand on my knee, he got out of the car and helped me out.
We stood in awkward silence, I hated saying good bye. I was horrible at it. I felt tears trickle down my cheeks, and I threw my arms around his skinny body. He tightened himself around me. I felt the moisture of his tears on my hair.
"I love you." He whispered, then he swallowed.
"I love you too." I pulled away, looked one more time into his eyes and backed away. I looked back as I ran up the hill, but unfortunately Aphrodite didn't favor me.
I walked to the top of the hill, it was pretty cool. Their were tether ball courts, volley balls nets, archery fields, and a stable. A giant farm house stood in the middle of the camp. The scent of strawberries got to me. A giant green forest stood with giant evergreens, oaks, others that I couldn't identify. A sparkling beach sat at the edge of the small patch of the haven. I almost was up at the top of the hill when it happened.
When I felt a monster coming, three things usually happened; I feel an invisible hot exhale on the back of my neck, then a horrible feeling at the bottom of my stomach, and finally an act of surprise on my behalf. But now nothing happened the feeling at the bottom of my stomach settled but nothing happened. I reached out of my backpack and grabbed my celestial bronze knife. I had received it as one of the only presents Aphrodite ever gave to me.
Now I took a shaky breath and then a tremor shook me and the ground. It happened again landing me straight on my butt. Ow! I screamed in my head. There were cracks coming out of the road then it burst. The road cracked into one giant gap and the monster slithered out. The monster was a poisonous snake most likely the one that had killed my sister. I screamed, I hoped the campers would hear me. Someone, anyone!
The snake was a giant replica of the deadly Coral snake. It slivered around me its pink tongue came out then back in, out, in, out. I watched it for what seemed like eternity. My heart pounded, a person in a fifty mile radius could have heard it. I leapt up and jumped on its back. And I banged on it with the back of my knife. It looked dazed for a moment and then began to become enraged. It kept trying to bite my leg which was dangerously hanging over its side. I pulled it up and stabbed my knife into it's head. It fell onto the ground it's black intelligent eyes were blank. But all snakes eyes were blank.
I screamed, and started to cry when I saw it had bitten me.
"Help!" I screamed, but it wasn't worth it. I was going to die. I fell to the ground, my world spinning and my eye lids drooping. Then I was in darkness.
I awoke to a soft hand gently putting my hair back behind my ear. I saw a girl my age; she sat down near me on a wooden floor. Her hair was a beautiful blond and she had a tan pigment of skin. Her eyes were down but I saw they were a stormy grey. She stunned me and I gasped. She looked up and smiled.
"Well hello there sunshine." She laughed when I cocked my head.
"Your Silena right?"
"Yeah how did you know?" I yawned and saw a giant cast over my leg. It shot painful shocks up my leg, I winced with pain.
"You OK, should I get Chiron?"
"Chiron, what? No I'm fine."
"Here, drink this it will make you feel better." She handed me a tall glass of a drink that was orange and iced. I sipped it.
"Oh my Mother in Olympus that's good! It tastes like my Aunt Carleen's tuna casserole."
"That's Ambrosia for ya, it makes you feel better."
"Can I have some more?"
"No you'll barely stand that amount."
"What do you mean?'
"Ambrosia is the food of the gods, if we demigods have to much, we'll burn right into ashes."
"OK, now I don't want any of that stuff ever."
She laughed,
"By the way I'm Annabeth, Annabeth Chase."
"Silena Beauregard but you already knew that."
Annabeth smiled,
"I'll be back." She walked out of sight and around a corner. I steadily got up and limped over to the balcony, I saw I was in the giant farm house that I had seen from the top of the hill. I saw shrines of all the Greek gods, trees surrounded each one. It was beautiful, I saw campers playing volleyball a few were kicking a soccer ball around. Further back down by the white sanded beach two kids raced on what appeared to be pegasi. I saw the Statue of Liberty out in the distance of the sea. I wondered if my dad was back at our pent house in Manhattan or if he stuck around to watch me die.
Annabeth came back with a centaur. That I guessed was Chiron, for some reason I felt a strong connection between the two of them. A father daughter love. Chiron had the body of a pristine white stallion. But the upper part of a man, he looked like he was in his thirties he had a beard and a soulful but yet wise brown eyes. He kind of made me shy. He looked young, but a little bit of my senses told me he was older.
"Hello Silena, I'm Chiron I will be your mentor in the arts of being a hero."
"I know who you are sir." He looked surprised. I was totally mellow and humble. I wasn't freaking out about the way he was part man part horse, or where I was. I just guessed things weren't ordinary around here either, expect for the worse.
"Silena, do you know anything of who you are, and what we are?" He gestured to the camp.
"Your Chiron you taught all the great hero's, this is Camp Half Blood, a place where demigods go like myself to be protected and train. Every demigod here is a parent of a god, for example I'm a daughter of Aphrodite. That's pretty much all I know, my mom told me about it."
"Your mother talks to you?" Annabeth exclaimed.
"Yeah she always does, calls me up on a cell phone and just talks to me, I always tell her, 'Mom get out of my life!'"
They just stared at me like they were pedestrians seeing me as a true demigod. I shrugged and limped back to the chair I had been sitting in.
"Her mom talks to her!" Annabeth stormed, she stomped out of the balcony. Chiron put an arm around me,
"You'll have to excuse her, we have never met a demigod who has ever had a five sentenced dialogue with their parents."
I nodded seeing as how that would upset her. I stared out into the distant forest. "So my dear how would you like a tour?"
"I would love one." I smiled, he helped me onto his back and he trotted down the stairs.
"Chiron, I mean it if you didn't wipe your hooves before coming in the house, I'm going to have your hide!" a pudgy man with a cheetah work out suit screamed at him. Chiron chuckled,
"Always do Dionysus." I studied Dionysus; he had bloodshot eyes and purple under them, he looked at me.
"Great another little hero." He rolled his eyes and walked into a game room across the hall.
Chiron sighed and carried on, he walked out the door and stepped down the porch steps and onto the green grass. Kids raced past us and didn't even look twice. We passed a soccer field and we came to a U shape of eight cabins. I only had to take one look to know it was the order of where the gods sat on the Mount Olympus council. Zeus on the top, Hera right next to it.
"Chiron why does Athena, Hera, and Artemis have cabins their virgin goddess?"
"Respect my dear, Annabeth, who you met earlier is actually a daughter of Athena."
But Athena was a virgin goddess, I made a note to talk to Annabeth about that. He showed me Poseidon's cabin, another near empty cabin. There were some things in it such at a horn of some kind of monster. I noticed a kid in there too. He had sea green eyes and a downcast face I looked in off of Chiron's back. I sensed someone he loved had been taken away from him.
"Percy, are you alright?" Chiron asked, his voice full of concern.
"Yeah, I just miss my mom." I heard a catch in his voice. Chiron nodded and walked in, I had to duck so I wouldn't get hit on the head.
"We'll get her back, my boy." He patted his shoulder and turned around and walked back out. We went around to all the cabins until we came to mine. I saw it was beautiful its walls outside was made of pink crystal quartz. Chiron kneeled down so I could go in; I jumped off not putting any weight on my bad leg. What I saw made me squeal in delight.
"OhmiGod!" I yelped. The walls of the cabin were painted with a rosy color and mirrors hung on the wall. A customized dresser stood beneath each one, a name tag was plastered on each mirror. Various hair products, straightening irons, and of course curling irons littered the top of each one. Crooked posters were pinned on the walls, and the doors, some were on top of each other. They were of "hot" singers and actors.
The beds were different colors depending on the person I was guessing. Bulletin boards hung above each bunk, with a picture of the girl or boy, mostly girls though, who were living in that particular one. I moved my eyes around the room and saw the most beautiful thing of all. A portrait of a woman hung it the center of the cabin. She had glossy, radiant, fiery, hair; red lips that she wore perfectly unlike some people. She had powerful blue eyes like my own. I looked closer in her hair and saw she had little daisies weaved into it.
I touched it, and felt my hand burn with warmth and love. Aphrodite. My mother.
"This is amazing Chiron."
"That's what they all say, come I want to show you the sword arena." I got back on his back and he galloped over to a coliseum shaped building, we slipped in through a door. Two boys fought, a tall tanned one with sandy hair and the other with darker skin, big hands, and jet black eyes. Both sweat immensely the darker skinned one had his shirt off. He looked to be about my age maybe a year or so older.
The tan one looked like he was seventeen or eighteen. He had a scar right over his eyebrow. Big hands boy faked a cool jab at the other boy's side and twisted around and kicked Tan boy in the back making him fall to the ground. He held his sword right to his neck. The other boys in the arena clapped. Percy the boy from the Poseidon cabin sat in the shadows of the building.
"Nice Beckendorf!" Tan boy slapped him on the back; Beckendorf smiled, but didn't say anything. "Charles Beckendorf, nice job, my gods you have grown with the fake out." Chiron praised.
"Thank you sir." He smiled with pride. I looked at him in awe, he amused me. He was quiet but knew how to joke, and he had an impressive smile. He looked at me for a full moment it seemed like it was a place I felt safe. Those luminous black eyes stared at me, mine locked on his. Just for a second I was helpless in his gaze.