I Meet a New Camper
"Percy! Oh, thank the God's you're ok," Annabeth said, almost suffocating me with a monster bear hug. After she let go and I caught my breath, I noticed that the entire camp was staring at me almost like I had gone on a dangerous quest and had just gotten back, which had happened a lot.
I looked at Annabeth and asked "why is everyone staring at me?"
"You..." she gasped, trying to hold back tears, "you have been asleep for 3 days."
I looked at her, waiting for her to say "just kidding" but she just looked at me with so much relief in her gray eyes. I then saw someone move in the crowd and come up to me. He was wearing a black jacket, a black shirt, and a skull ring. He had gray skin and black hair, and looked at least 12. It was Nico.
"You were more dead then asleep," he said.
I stood up and looked at him as if he was joking, but he was dead serious. "What do you mean?" I asked.
"Your life force was starting to die while you were asleep, and was keeping you from waking up."
I almost forgot that Nico was the only son of Hades the god of the underworld. One of the pros of that is he is able to sense someone's life-force. I was so confused and then I remembered my dream about the kid with the two swords. I told Nico and Annabeth about my dream, and they looked confused and scared.
"I have never heard of weapons like that before," she said. Nico looked like he was trying to remember every weapon he had ever seen. I did not want to tell them that he almost killed me and knew who I was, or his bizarre powers. I told them about his attire and Nico shuddered. He looked at me, almost like he was scared of me.
"Percy," he started, "you may be in danger."
I wanted to know more but before I could ask a man (well, almost a man) walked into the cabin. From the waist up he looked like a middle aged man with a bushy brown beard, and from the waist down where his legs should be were horse legs instead.
"Chiron," Annabeth said.
I remember how Chiron found me when I was young and helped me train to fight the Titans. But this time he looked like he was lost for words. "Percy," he said, "you are awake and in one piece."
I knew that there would be no more explaining when Chiron was here, so I just told him what I told my friends. He looked at me the same way Nico did, almost like he was planning how I was going to die. He looked at Nico and Annabeth. "Children, let me and the boy have some privacy, please."
They didn't want to go until I convinced them that I would be fine. I shook Nicos hand and gave Annabeth another hug. They walked out of the cabin and Chiron shut the door behind them. It was kind of awkward to be alone with a centaur even if I knew him for what seemed like forever.
"Percy," he said, "you are about to embark on the most dangerous quest you have ever taken."
I looked at him and said, "More dangerous than fighting the Titans?" He nodded.
I jumped. How any threat could be more dangerous than the Titans? Chiron knew what I was thinking and said, "Percy, an old prophecy was made before the Titan war began. It stated that you and someone else must stop the darkness from taking over the world."
I remembered what the boy said to me in my dream.
"This is what the world will become if we don't stop him."
"The only problem is we don't know who the other one is." I had an uneasy feeling that I knew the guy I was supposed to work with. We finished talking and walked out of the cabin into a big open area lined with other cabins.
Let me say now that I love this place even though I have had many near death experiences here, but in the end Camp Half Blood was the best place for demigods to live, train, and survive. We continued to walk to the big house when all of a sudden I was followed by someone big and strong. The next thing I knew I was being hugged by a big Cyclops.
"Tyson," I managed to say.
"I thought you dead."
"No, just a long nap." I said.
I did not want to scare him. You see, Tyson is my half brother; he and I have the same dad. He is a little slow, but has a big heart. As I was getting up I noticed that someone was standing in the trees his arms crossed and staring at me. He looked like the guy from my dream, but that can't be possible. I looked back and he was gone.
We made our way to the big house and entered, and there sitting at a round table with some satyrs playing a game that looked like poker was one of my least favorite camp directors. He looked up and gave me a sarcastic smile.
"Well the great hero finally awakes."
Mr. D, or Dionysus, is the camp director and a big pain in the neck, he always mistakes my name- on purpose, I think- and never shows any interest in anything. I always wanted to hit him but I never did, mostly because he could turn me into a shrub. Behind him was a boy playing the game and playing it well. If it wasn't for the bizarre attire he would have looked exactly like the guy from my dream. He looked at the satyrs and gave them a sarcastic grin. He placed the cards on the table,
"Strait flush," he said in a southern accent.
The satyrs cursed like he had done this so many times before. He looked up and when he saw me he jumped. I wanted to ask him what that was about, but Mr. D stopped me.
"As you can see, mister Piper Masson,"
"Percy Jackson," I corrected. He gave me an evil look and continued.
"As you see, we have a new camper." The kid stood up and walked over to me and Chiron.
"My name is Jolt," he said, "son of the Muses."
"The goddesses of music," I said.
"Well one of them." We both laughed.
"Well now that you two know each other, you can now show him the camp."
I wanted to punch him but Chiron held me back.
"Come on, I'll show you the whole camp," I said, grinding my teeth.
XXX
I showed Jolt everything in the camp from the archery classes, to the battle arena, and the stables, I introduced him to my pegasus Blackjack, and we finally got to the cabins, where I saw Annabeth and Nico. They ran down to see me, but stopped when they saw Jolt. Nico reached for his sword, but I stopped him. After some explaining they still seemed nervous, but not like before. Annabeth and Nico introduced themselves.
"Sorry we can't stay for the whole tour. Got stuff to do," Annabeth said. She gave me a kiss and walked away with Nico.
My face was blood red. I still couldn't believe that I was her boyfriend. I turned to look at Jolt. He had a sly smile on his face almost like he expected that to happen.
"What?"
"Nothing"
We got to the cabin for the Muses, it was wicked cool. The campers and Annabeth did a great job with this place. It looked like a giant guitar and whenever you entered your favorite song always is playing.
I turned to him and said, "Welcome home."
We entered and instantly country music was playing. We started to laugh.
"Nice place," he said.
I was about to leave when I noticed that Jolt had the same sunglasses the guy in my dream had. I wanted to ask him where he got them but before I could, I was interrupted by the sound of a conch shell. It was the lunch bell, and man, was I hungry!
We walked down to the mess hall and everyone stared at Jolt like when I woke up from my long slumber. I walked up to Nico, who was standing guard and not eating as usual. I never understood how someone could not eat and look threatening, but Nico did.
"Do you ever eat?" I asked.
He just gave me an evil look. You could always sense when Nico was troubled, he was the son of the lord of the dead, so he had seen some creepy things. But when he looked troubled, you knew it's for a good reason.
I sat down at the Poseidon table and was served with some pizza. As we usually do we sacrificed parts of our meal to the Gods. I looked around and saw that Jolt was nowhere to be seen. After lunch, I looked around the camp, thinking "great first day and he's lost." Nico and Annabeth helped me look, but no luck. Then we checked the cabins. We found him in the Zeus cabin, staring at the big statue of the lord of the sky.
I walked in gingerly not wanting to be hit with a lightning bolt. You see me and Zeus are not really that close, mostly because he believed that I stole his master lightning bolt when I was 12. He noticed that I entered and turned to face me "sorry, just looking around."
He looked at the statue and gave it an look like we'll finish this latter.
It was time for the camp to meat around a big campfire for s'mores and for a sing-along with the Apollo cabin. Since Jolt was new and a son of one of the goddesses of music he word be happy about being elected by the camp to sing a song. One of the Apollo campers game him a guitar, and he played the song "Bonfire" by Craig Morgan.
Now I'm not a huge fan of country music but this song was just too good not to know the words. He sang it almost exactly like the guy which was even cooler. After the song every one applauded and cheered for an encore, but he looked too tiered to even pull one of the strings. It was getting late so I told Annabeth and Nico goodnight and escorted Jolt back to his cabin.
"Goodnight," I said to him.
"Let's hope," I wanted to ask him why he word say that but he closed the door. I went back to my cabin and before lying down, I checked to see if there was anything that could make me black out for 3 days, I found nothing and went to bed.
It felt around almost 5 minutes since I put my head on my pillow when I heard a knock at my door, I got up and opened the door to see a man in a long black coat, his face was hidden so I couldn't make out his face.
"So young hero, are you ready to die," the man asked. I didn't have time to think. The man reached out for my neck but he was stopped by a powerful wind. Then out of nowhere Jolt was behind him with a knife pointing to his neck.
"I don't think my friend hear has done anything bad hear sir," he said.
"You betray your commanding officer," the hooded man said.
"No, I'm doing my job but in a different way."
I was now lost, here was my new friend defending me from someone who he calls boss.
"Well you shored have contacted us," the man said.
"Maybe but I know the boss would have killed me on the spot."
"And you don't think I can," the man interrupted.
"If you cord you would have done it a long time ago."
The man chuckled. "Ok I won't kill the boy yet but you most complete your quest with him and his friends."
Jolt looked at me almost like he was filed with gilt. "Deal,"
The man looked at me and said "another time hero" and then he disappeared.
I looked at Jolt waiting for him to explain what the heck just happened, but he just stood there silent.
"We will leave tomorrow," he said "bring the girl and the son of death with you."
I looked at him, "Where?"
He turned around and gave me a sarcastic smile, "To save the world kid, what else."
