A/N: Keep reviewing. Ok so in this chapter there is a bit of action at the ned but no monsters. There will be a bit of romance through out the story.
Chapter 2
The Apollo Competition
We went up to the front desk and the man said immediately; "Hi Odysseus, here's the key to the 600th floor."
He knew who I was because I would always want to stay downstairs and help him at the front desk whenever Chiron took us here for a field trip. We took the elevator up and when we entered Olympus the first thing we saw were campers doing activities. We looked for Chiron and found him near a market stand that was being used as the stables for the Pegasus.
They had everything we had at camp but it was twic as big. Stabels had over a hundred Pegasi, the Arena was three times bigger than any I had ever seen. there was even a garden like at camp, but now it had grapes, strawberries, pinaples (No they do not grow on trees) and a small section for flowers. There was a new rock climbing wall too. not only did it spurt out lava but it also had a waterfall and the rocks sometimes fell on perpose, only to be reconected after the person falls. in the center of it all was a huge, beutiful fountain.
"Odysseus, Eli!" exclaimed Chiron, "So good to see you two."
"Hi Chiron," I said, "Is Violet around?"
"I think she's… Ah, there she is over there."
I looked to where he was pointing and there she was, right next to the fountain. I then looked to the person she was talking to and saw it was Joseph. Chiron instructed Eli that the competition for the Apollo cabin was tomorrow and showed him where to sign up for it. He went to go do that and I walked up to Violet.
"Hey Violet," I said as I gave her a hug.
"Odysseus!" she hugged me back, "You're finally here! Joseph will you excuse us one second."
"Sure," he said.
"Oh my gods you came at the perfect moment I need help," she said as she walked me over to a nearby fountain.
"Why, what's wrong?" I asked.
"Nothings wrong," she said, "Hey you're over that thing about last year. You're not still mad that I liked Joseph last year?"
"No," I lied, "Why?"
"Well," she said, "He just asked me to be his girlfriend."
"What!" I nearly shouted, "Like just now?"
"Yea," She said.
"Then why do you need my help?"
"Well… um… I'm not sure if I want to be his girlfriend. I mean I think I might also like someone else…and I just want to know if you think I should just say yes or ask that someone else to say something."
"I'm sorry what did you say?" I wasn't completely sure what she was trying to say. I mean I had an idea but I wasn't sure.
"Gods," she said and she walked away.
Joseph came up to me and said; "Well?"
"Well what?" I asked.
"Well what did she say?" he asked.
"She's just not sure if she wants to be your girlfriend."
"Oh please," He said, "I just wanted to make it official, we've been practically dating all summer."
"Maybe that's not what she thinks." I said.
"Hold up," he said, "You don't… You don't like her too do you?"
"I never said that."
"Yea but I bet you're thinking it."
"Uh, not really."
"I can prove to you she likes me. You may not know this but she won the competition to lead one of the quests and I'm sure she'll pick me to go with her."
"Good, can't wait."
It was getting really stupid so I walked away. There was a lot of girls cheering so I went to go see what was going on. A bunch of girls were gathered around a girl with long luscious blonde hair a beautiful brown eyes.
"Belle I can't believe you get to lead one of the quests." said one girl.
"Well, I do," she said, "After all I did do way better than all of you."
It was harsh but none of the girls seemed to take it to offence. The girl named Belle looked familiar but I didn't know where I've seen her before. John came running out of nowhere and shouted; "Yea! That's my girl!"
He ran though the crowd and hugged the girl named Belle. I then remembered where I saw her before. She was the child of Venus I saw John kissing last year.
"John," I shouted out. He looked over and led Belle over to me.
"Hey Odysseus," he said, "This is my girlfriend Belle. Belle this is Odysseus."
"Okay, don't care." She said she was beautiful but a complete snob. Sort of the was John was when we weren't friends.
"Hey have you seen Christian?" I asked.
"Uh... yea he's over by the targets."
"Kay thanks." I said and I walked to find out were the heck the archer targets were at. After a few minutes I finally found them, there were about a thousand tagets and arrows went zipping toward them almost evry second. I saw Christian just about to leave.
I waved and he saw me. We walked toward each other until we met.
"Hey what's up?" he asked.
"Umm, nothing I guess."
Horleus came by and stopped when he saw me. We hadn't talk for a while.
"Hey Horleus," I said.
"Hey Odysseus," he said, "You'll never believe this. The sword training you gave me came in handy. I'm leading one of the quests."
"You are!" I said, "That's amazing. Jeez how many have been chosen so far?"
"Only the Apollo cabin hasn't. Here I'll fill you in," said Christian, "Violet won, a girl named Belle Amour won for Venus, Peter won, this kid name Nathan won for Dies, who's Roman for Hermera, goddess of daylight right?" I nodded and he continued, "oh and that girl Luna won for Nyx."
"I still can't believe the pre-immortal gods and goddesses like Nyx have children," I said, "They're probably more powerful than the Big Three."
"That might be true," said Horleus, "Luna is a pretty good fighter and she gets even better at night."
I caught up with everyone and followed some Athena and Minerva kids where we would be staying. I followed them through the throne room and into Athena's bed room which was huge. There were sleeping bags spread all over the floor and I set mine down. The room had blue curtains along all of the walls and the carpet was bright silver.
The next mourning most of all the campers went to the arena. The competition started and it wasn't what I thought it would be. All of the Apollo kids were at ends of the circular arena and when the whistle blew they started to fight.
They ran around and fought each other randomly and I couldn't see where Eli was at all. Suddenly there was a flash of light and I looked to see he had blinded five kids and dismantled them while they couldn't see.
Someone was about to jump him from behind but he spun around and knocked them to the ground with the end of his spear. He dismantled them too and the battle went on.
It kept going and from what I could tell, once you fall over, you're out. There were four kids left including Eli after about ten minutes of battling and Eli and this one girl took down their opponents.
Before the girl even knew what hit her Eli boxed her up on a solid light box. He stole that idea from me the previous year. When she tried to touch the light was she just got burned. When she recoiled from the burn Eli opened a door to it and hit her to the ground.
Lupa came out and congratulated him for being the winner and the crowd all cheered for him.. Violet, Horleus, Belle, Luna, Nathan and Peter walked up to join Eli. They were all fourteen. Lupa lead them to the throne room and we all went on to our daily activities.
A/N: Next you'll see the prophecy, and like I said I changed it a bit but it doesn't affect anything. What you're really going to find out is who is joining who on the quests. Please Review! You know that blue button down there that says "Review Chapter" please!
