Emma
I stood atop of the hill looking down at camp half-blood. To the two other campers I was standing with I seemed calm and collected. On the inside I was freaking out.
Three hours ago Chiron had told me that Rachel Dare had given a prophecy to Bailey Dowzell, Mr D's thirteen year old son. He then told me that he required a child of Apollo and a child of Athena to accompany him on the quest. I was the child of Athena. At first I was excited, I had wanted to go on a quest since I had arrived at camp four years ago. But then I remembered that the last campers that went on a quest never came back and that was nearly a whole year ago. If I'm honest thinking about the previous campers scared me, what if the same thing happened to us.
I turned to look at the two boys standing with me. We were a strange trio for a quest. Theo Mendoza was a son of Apollo and one of the nicest people at camp half-blood; he got along with everyone even the kids from the Ares cabin. He had been at camp for almost eight years and according to Chiron he was one of the best archers the camp had had in a long time. He looked like a Latino god with his dark wavy hair and golden eyes that shone like the sun, literally.
Bailey on the other hand was a different story. He had only been at camp about a year (he was an all year round camper) and kept himself to himself. He joined in with training but never capture the flag and anytime someone did talk to him he always answered very carefully, almost like he thought they would start beating him up if he said the wrong thing. He wasn't particularly tall for his age and had messy dusty blond hair and deep purple eyes. He was very skinny meaning his camp T-shirt looked like it was two sizes too big. Mr D was also very protective over him; his son's name was the only one that the god actually got right.
"We should get going." Theo said as he started to walk down the hill towards Argus and the car. Bailey followed him but I didn't move. I didn't want to say goodbye to camp. I knew I was being silly, Chiron wouldn't have sent me on the quest if he didn't think I was capable. But still, not knowing what the prophecy actually said made me nervous.
"Emma, you coming or not?" Theo shouted to me. I looked to see him and Bailey standing by the car. Theo had a massive grin on his face like this quest was the best thing that had ever happened to him. Bailey on the other hand was looking at the ground like the grass was the most interesting thing on the planet.
I sighed and put all the scared thoughts to the back of my head. "Yeah," I said my excitement starting to come back. "Let's do this quest." The three of us and Argus climbed into the car and set off on the start of our journey.
By the time we reached New York it was dark but it didn't mean the streets were any less busy. I wondered where Argus was taking us; we drove through the whole city and were now driving down a road in the middle of nowhere. When we finally stopped it was almost midnight and we were still in the middle of nowhere.
"Where are we?" Theo asked Argus as we climbed out of the car. He didn't say anything and drove of leaving us with no clue as to what to do next.
We all stood in silence looking around looking for any clue as to where we were.
"So what do we do now?" Theo finally said.
I was about to say we should set up a camp for the night but then we heard something roar behind us. It was so loud it shook the trees. We all turned round to the direction it had come from, I could hear something very large and very angry running towards up.
"I think the best thing to do right now would be to run," I said.
"Agreed," Theo said. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Bailey nod.
The three of us ran into the forest that stood on each side of the road. We were just inside the tree line when I glanced back only to see the Minotaur burst through the trees on the other side of the road.