"I love nights like this. Cool and calm I can think more clearly…." Kelly thought as she was leaning back on a tree. She glanced over to see a dark headed boy rolled over in a sleeping bag. Kelly chuckled to herself. "He looks a lot less dangerous sleeping." she thought.
Dangerous was definitely a word to describe a child of Zeus. The boy's name was Chris. His features were very much look Zeus himself with his dark brown hair and piercing blue eyes, that could tell if you were lying to him. He stood around five feet and seven inches being the shortest in the group, but don't let his height distract you, he could take down a Minotaur in less than thirty seconds. His attitude is much like Zeus's too. He is a natural leader, but likes things done his way and his way is not always the right way. So, you would think that being a child of Zeus would make him the leader of this quest, but you're wrong.
Our leader is the kid next to him, Aaron. Aaron is also a son of Zeus. Chris was the first to appear at Camp Half-blood, so he claims to be the original and better child of Zeus. You would think that being half-brothers they would have a lot in common like appearance and attitude, but Aaron and Chris couldn't be any different. Aaron stands at six feet tall towering over Chris. He also has brown hair, but it's longer and curls at the bottom unlike Chris's short straight hair. And he has chocolate-brown eyes unlike Chris's piercing blue. He also wears glasses. Child of Zeus wearing glasses? Weird, huh? But he does. Aaron's leadership is different from Chris's as well. Chris is more like an offensive leader, while Aaron is a more defensive leader. Chris loves to charge straight into battle.
Speaking of charging into battle, we have Katherine, daughter of Ares. She's a relatively quiet person that stays to herself unlike her other siblings who are loud and always picking fights, but when a fight starts she comes alive. She runs into battle like she was always meant to fight on the battlefield and has fought for at least twenty years. She is one of the shortest of her siblings standing at five feet and eight inches with short burgundy red hair that lights up like fire in the light.
Her eyes are brown, but on occasions they glow bright like a fire during battle or when she gets called "the c word". What is "the c word" you may ask, well it's coward. Never ever call Katherine a coward or you'll never be seen again. Well anyways no matter what, she's always wearing her black leather jacket, black leather gloves, and black boots, even in the hottest weather. She's always ready for battle no matter where we are at. Sometimes I wonder if she even sleeps at night. I glance over at her to see her lying on her back with her arms crossed against her chest.
I chuckle again. Her battle face is on even when sleeping. Now one that never has a battle face is Glenn. His face always looks relaxed when sleeping and when he's awake. Glenn is a son of Poseidon. He's one of the most laid back people you could ever meet. He loves to swim whenever water is near even when on a quest. We had to make sure to avoid the water on the way here or he'd never come out. And the guys have to scream for him to get out of the shower too. He has red hair that he gets from his Mom's Irish background and stand at five feet and nine inches. He also wears glasses and has brown eyes. Nothing about him screams "I am Poseidon's son" except when he's near water. Whenever he's near water or in water it's like something changes in him he becomes sterner and acts more like a leader. It's kind of like he's channeling Poseidon. But other than that he's just a regular guy with a seven-foot tall trident. Sleeping next to Glenn is Caroline a daughter of Apollo.
"Apollo….he's the reason we are in this quest…..No. Snap out of it!" I think shaking my head. "Kelly concentrate you're on guard duty!" I let out a big sigh and look up at the night sky. "Hmm, it's not cold enough to see my breath yet." Well anyways, Caroline is the same height as me standing at five feet nine inches. She has curly golden brown hair that goes down her back and green eyes. Also wears glasses like Aaron and Glenn. She's a stereotypical Apollo kid. Always singing or humming. She loves music. Her favorite band is Big Time Rush or Taylor Swift right now. She sometimes sings their songs in her sleep. She's one of the newest, but oldest in age at camp being nineteen years old. She just one day appeared at the camp and was claimed by Apollo that same day. Come to think of it this happened a little before we received the prophecy from the Oracle.
Six shall go on a quest for glory,
The children of lightning, earth, sun, ocean, and everything gory,
The hero that does not fear death,
Shall see someone's final breath,
To find what you seek,
Go to the mountain's peak
The eclipse is the date,
Where Apollo shall meet his fate.
I shuddered. "If you're scared go back to camp." said Katherine not moving a muscle. "So you are awake." "I'm not scared," I replied back "just cold." "Hmm." mumbled Katherine. "Hey Katherine do you even sleep?" I asked. She didn't answer. "I guess she fell back to sleep" Well I guess that's everyone except me. I'm Kelly the daughter of Demeter. I'm five feet nine inches with curly brown hair, brown eyes, and I wear glasses too. I guess I'm a stereotypical Demeter kid. I have a green thumb and can call plants to do what I want. I'm pretty easygoing and nothing really bothers me. I get along with pretty much everyone in the group even Katherine. And I got lucky tonight because my watch was almost over and nothing bad had happened.
SCREECH!
"What the…" I looked at the sky. "What was that?" asked Katherine. I look over to see Katherine standing and looking up at the sky with her gloves glowing bright red in the night. Did I forget to mention that her gloves were given to her by Ares? They are enchanted to transform into any type of gauntlet or knuckles she wants, but her favorites are her battering gauntlets. "Everyone get up!" I yelled across the camp.
"Hmm…what?" Glenn asked rolling over still on the ground while everyone else was up and looking at the sky. "Glenn get up!" Aaron said nudging him with his foot.
SCREECH!
With that Glenn rose to his feet. "What was that sound?" asked Chris grabbing his chained ring. On Chris's right hand was a silver ring with several chains linking it to a connector on his wrist and on the ring were three gems a sapphire, ruby, and another sapphire. He often reached for his chained ring for comfort, but with a good reason. Like Katherine's gloves his chained ring was enchanted to turn into a sword that he used in battle. When it changed it sounded like a bolt of lightning had stuck. His sword had two parts that worked together to form one sword. One half of the sword was straight, flawless in design while the second half started at the hilt and was more jagged and sickle-like. The second half held lightning and was the reason Chris was given the nickname "Lightening Lord" back at camp.
"It has wings. I can hear them." replied Aaron grabbing his sleeping lion heart necklace. Aaron was a big gamer and lucky for him he never needed to recharge his batteries. His necklace transformed into a sword as well. His sword was more jagged on the sides than Chris's and the middle the sword was a little raised with a blue purple color to it and little swirls in various spot. Aaron used wind more than lightning and his sword could make tornadoes and was the reason he was given the name "Wind Master" back at camp.
Caroline pulled out her bow which she kept in her guitar bag. Her bow was pretty standard except for an orb in the middle which she could use to make arrows of light in battle or simply light up a room. "Oh great, things that fly." said Glenn tapping his foot on the ground to make his seven-foot tall trident emerge from the earth. Wait, what he's a kid of Poseidon not Demeter you may think, but Poseidon kids have a little control over the earth as their Father is also the god of earthquakes. Putting and pulling his trident out of the ground and in the ground is about all he can do.
And my weapon of choice is my chakram. I only have to carry one because it splits in half, so I can use it as a short-range weapon too. And because of this my weapon is disguised as two bracelets that after they transformed can snap together to form one chakram.
"You've get to be kidding me they're Stymphalian Birds." said Aaron. "What are those?" asked Caroline pointing her bow to the sky. "Basically they are flesh-eating birds that can use their feathers to shoot at you." replied Chris. "Anything that flies cannot be good." said Glenn. The birds moved into the clearing which the group had set up camp. "Kelly and Caroline you two try to knock down as many as you can with your bow and chakram. Glenn and Katherine watch their backs. Chris, me and you will kill anything that reaches below the trees. Got it everyone?" asked Aaron.
"Got it." replied Caroline. "Right Boss man." replied Glenn giving him a salute. The others nodded their heads. Caroline began firing her arrows and Kelly let loose her chakram.
Katherine turned her gloves into Lion Gauntlets. "I hate listening to orders." she muttered. "Katherine?" asked Kelly turning to see her running to attack the birds. "Katherine! I told you to watch Kelly's back!" yelled Aaron as he swung his sword at a Stymphalian Bird. While Kelly's chakram was in the air some Stymphalian Birds swooped behind her and released their feathers. "Kelly!" yelled Chris. Glenn moved in a twirled his trident blocking the feathers. "That was close." said Kelly catching her chakram. "Yeah." replied Glenn moving to block for Caroline. "Glenn you block for Caroline I'm going to go help Katherine." said Kelly running in Katherine's direction. "Be careful." yelled Glenn blocking some feathers.
"Katherine!" yelled Kelly dodging the birds swooping down. Katherine turned and starting running toward Kelly, but Kelly quickly realized that she was in battle mode and dropped to the ground. Katherine whisked by her killing all the birds in her path with her Lion Gauntlets.
"She could have killed me." Kelly mumbled as she lay on the ground. Another flock of birds swooped down and released their feathers aiming at Kelly. Kelly pulled the earth over her forming a protective shell. "Kelly don't move." yelled Aaron jumping on the shell and striking all the birds at once. He landed a few feet away from Kelly. Kelly released the earth.
"You ok?" asked Aaron helping her up. "Yeah." said Kelly dusting off her pants. She looked up to see a final attack of birds swooping behind Aaron. "Look out!" yelled Kelly. Aaron whipped around, but wouldn't be able to block all of them. "Kelly!" yelled Chris.
Kelly raised a wall of earth as Chris released his lightning from his sword incinerating all the Stymphalian Birds. "Tsk tsk brother I thought you were better than that. Letting your guard down during a fight." said Chris swinging his sword over his shoulder.
Aaron blushed and replied, "I was helping Kelly." "Sorry excuse for a sorry fighter." replied Chris nonchalantly walking past Aaron to check on Kelly. You could see the anger boil in Aaron's eyes, but he just let out and sigh and replied, "At least I care about my teammates," he turned in Katherine's direction, "Katherine what happened earlier? I told you to watch Kelly's back."
Katherine just blankly stared back at Aaron. "Nothing to say? Fine just please do what you are told next time." said Aaron with a big sigh. "We should get moving," said Glenn joining them with Caroline, "I'd rather not attract any more flying monsters." "Right. Alright grab your stuff. We leave in five minutes." commanded Aaron heading back toward the camp site.
