Cali, a demigod, and a Huntress of Artemis…
I though nothing was ever going to be normal in my life, that I was right about.
I'm 5'4, 14 years old, and have very short light brown hair, its cut into a bob cut that is way shorter in the back and in the front I have part bangs but the sides got to my chin. Every one is always calling me beautiful. My eyes are also a piercing dark blue that seem gray sometimes.
"Calika Marie Mason!" Mom hollered. The reason why? Well, I kind of triggered the alarm clock to go off at five a.m. I love to play pranks on people. Mom says I was just like my great grandpa. Whoever he was, then I would have loved to meet him.
"Yes mom?" I said sweetly stepping into the room, partly giggling.
"Cali, why must you always scare or annoy me every single moment of the day!"
"Oh, why must you always be a grouchy pant in the morning?" I asked cheerily.
"And, why are you always up at five in the morning? You know how I feel about that, and especially waking me up!" She buried her face back into her pillow, moaned the fell straight back to sleep.
"I guess I'm just a morning person." I sighed. Mom's Christmas party exchange must have been pretty heavy. Right now, she was pretty hung over, from that supposedly small party. HAHAHAHA! I took her laundry and put it away.
A knock came to the door. "I'm coming!" I hollered to the downstairs front door. I sprung over the railing, about 13 feet off the ground, and rushed over to the door. I opened it up and a man barged in the door.
"Where is Shellie?" He said in an urgent tone. He looked to me. "Oh, you must be the maid. Well, keep Cali in her room until three today, you know we won't want her seeing me…" He chuckled.
"Uhrm and why is that?" I said cockily.
"I've already told you empousa!" Then he swatted me to the ground.
"Hey, I'm Cali!" I told him with a snotty voice. "And what's an 'empousa'?"
His eyes went red; hair turned to fire, and got a bronze leg with a hoof at the end of it. He hissed at me, "Now I'll just have to get you first."
"Ahhh!" I screamed and ran up-stairs into my mom's room.
But she wasn't here. I saw the window open and some blood on the window pane. Scared, I ran over and peered out, only to see that she was not to be alive any more. "Oh no…" I whispered to myself. Tears started to run rapidly down my face. Sobs started to consume my whole body. I sank to the floor weeping over the sight of my mother's blood, and her being taken away in a car by the flaming haired man.
What was happening? My mom had been kidnapped and now I might never see her again. And now I was alone. Where was I to go?
As if to answer my question an envelope appeared at my feet. Huh? I picked it up, and inside it said:
Dear Cali Mason, We are so very sorry of the fate of your mother. But now that you are alone, you are not safe. We advise you to come to Camp Half-Blood. Get here as soon as possible or you may end up worse than your mother. Here is the address: Contact Information: Just go there and a satyr will be there to pick you up. - Mr. D
Mr. D., Camp Director
Chiron, Activities Director
Half-Blood Hill, Farm Road 3.141
Long Island, New York 11954
I didn't know what else to do so I packed all my things into the u-haul that my mom was going to use to move her $12,000 statue of a buffalo. I then called my Grandma and told her that my mom wanted to send me to a camp at Long Island. But I lived in Manhattan. She was suspicious but I persuaded her.
Arriving at Long Island I saw a boy about my age with a red cap on, holding up a sign that had my name on it. "Hi, umm, I'm Cali." I said to the boy.
"Hhhiii!" He bleated. "I'm Grover, sorry." His cheeks flushed pink.
"Did you just bleat?!" I asked in a suppressed tone.
"Oh ya, I'm a satyr. With horns and everything. Haven't you heard of us?" Grover said while taking of his cap and pulling up his sweats to reveal tiny goat horns and furry legs.
"Whoa!" I stumbled backwards into the u-haul.
"Hey, it's ok, just come with me." He said, looking very embarrassed.
"Uhuh." was all I could get out.
Grover got in the drivers seat of the u-haul and turned on the engine. "Aren't you too young to be driving?" I asked.
"Actually, I'm 28 in human years, but satyrs grow slower than humans do." Grover to goat boy explained.
He drove me down and empty road; I could smell the ocean out my window. Up ahead was a hill with a big pine tree that had some type of golden lion's fur hanging from it. Grover saw what I was looking at. "The golden fleece, Percy claimed it about 3½ years ago. He revived Thalia."
"Who are they? And what is a 'golden fleece'?"
"You should ask Chiron, or even Percy, but Thalia is with the huntresses. Sorry, but I don't know everything, I mean it's their story to tell, sorry." With that we were both silent for the next couple of minutes.
Grover drove the u-haul over the hill and past the pine tree and into Camp Half-Blood. A man in a wheel chair rolled up to us. "Hello, I am Chiron!"
"I'm Cali, and why am I here?"
"You are a demigod, a child of a Greek God. You're here to train and protect your self from monsters." Chiron said.
"How do I train myself?"
"Come and see." Then he motioned for me to come with him to a big house.
I could see kids running about, and stopping occasionally to stare at me with excited faces. I waved, they waved back. Opening my pack while Chiron wasn't looking, and pulled out something. Hehehe. I tossed it over at a cabin with a boar on the door, but the door was open, and the object sailed right in.
The next second I could see bright colorful lights flashing, loud cracks, and tons of loud bangs and kids screaming and hollering at the top their lungs. So I tossed in a few fire crackers.
I burst up laughing. Kids that looked some what like each other ran out and ran towards a cabin that had a picture of two snakes on the door. The kids from both cabins started hollering at each other.
Another kid walked over to us, she looked about sixteen and had gray eyes. "Chiron, what's going on over at the Hermes and Ares cabins? That was pretty funny. And why are you in your wheel chair again?" She laughed.
"I don't know Annabeth. But I intend to find out. Attention Campers!" Chiron hollered. But the cabin children didn't listen they just continued to curse at each other in a language I seemed to understand. Just then Chiron arose out of his wheel chair and was now a half man, half horse. "Settle down, NOW!" And with that it was immediately quiet. "Annabeth, please lead Cali to the dining hall." She nodded. Chiron galloped over to the cabin members. Now I'm seeing horse men, it just keeps getting weird.
"Hi! I'm Cali!" I chimed to Annabeth.
"Hello, are you a new demigod? Who's your Godly parent?" She asked me.
"I don't know."
"Did you see who did that to the Ares cabin?!" She burst out laughing. I joined in.
"No actually, I did it. I love pranks."
"Well then, you must be a child of Hermes."
"No actually, my grandfather was named Hermes. But I never met my dad."
"Oh, you must be a demigod from both sides of the family. What do you like? Or are you are you good at archery?-" She was about to ask more but I cut her off.
"Ohh! I love archery, the first time I got to try one I hit the target! Also I'm really good with medicine when my mom was sick. But she always got mad because I was always the 'most annoying morning person that ever lived' as she would call me. Does that answer anything?"
Annabeth's eyes were wide at how much I stammered on. "Yeah, and it tells me exactly who your dad is." She laughed. "Oh, man, I like people who can be happy and fun, but Percy, he's another thing…" She blushed.
"Ooh…" I teased her.
"You did this!" A girl with dark brown hair, and singed skin hollered at me. She came over and slapped me.
"Hey! Clarrise, you know you're not aloud to do that to new campers!" Annabeth defended me.
"I don't have to listen when she just blew up my cabin!" Clarrise yelled. The she gave me an evil glare. I just started laughing again. Clarrise got even angrier and came over to hit me again. But I caught her hand and she screamed out in pain.
"What?!" I said. "What did I do?!"
"You burnt me!" She showed me her hand, it was badly singed, her skin had already gotten blisters and you could see blood and pink muscle.
"How did I do that?!"
"I have no idea! But you're going to pay! Urrrgh! Now get away from me you Apollo brat!" With that I was back on the ground and she stormed off.
"Oh, it's ok. She's just upset." Annabeth said.
"So, Apollo huh?" I asked her.
"Ya, but I didn't know that they could, actually burn people. What else can you do?" Annabeth asked me.
"I don't know, but I dont think Apollos children can do that... Can they?"
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