The Beginning and Right to Stay Challenge

That trip was probably the longest three hours Apollo had ever gone through. Apollo is normally the social, cocky, Mr. Popular kind of guy. But this time, he had turned off the chariot and was out of the car before it even came to a complete stop. It must've been very loud, even traumatic for him because right when his feet hit the ground he got as far away from the group as he could and just paced back and forth for at least an hour. He came back once to whine to Artemis (who had also come to visit) until she gave him Tylenol. Then he just went back to where he was at and fell asleep in the sand.

By the time the contestants unloaded their luggage it was time for lunch. They piled their bags up near a tree and headed over to the picnic area to eat. The chef had made hotdogs and burgers, and everyone started scarfing it down. It was gone in a matter of minutes. They were all just talking and trying to let their food settle, when Chiron trotted in.

After a bunch of fail attempts, he finally got everyone's attention.

"Is everyone enjoying themselves so far?" Everyone nodded. "Good, because all this will come to an end for two of you within the next hour. Follow me outside."

All the campers got up and nervously followed him. They shortly arrived at what looked like a floating set of monkey bars. Apollo must've felt better because he followed along with Artemis and the rest.

"This will be your first challenge and for some of you…your last. We call it hang, simply because that's what you do. You will all climb up the ladders on the sides of the bars and hang on them as long as you can. The only rule is that you can hang on to the bars with your hands only. No hanging upside down! The first two to fall will grab their bags and ride back to camp with Apollo tonight. The person who hangs on the longest will choose the first team, then the first team will pick the second theam, and so on."

He paused and looked at the campers. "I hope you discussed who you wanted for a partner at lunch, because there is no trading."

There were a few "yes's" and "we did's", but mostly everyone just looked nervous.

"Okay then. Get in position, and good luck." Everyone waded through the water, climbed up either of the four ladders on the corners, and grabbed onto the bars. Then Chiron started the timer and they just hung there…


Link to Hang (sorry if the quality isn't great; might be called a different name, we just call it hang:

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*You don't have to watch the whole thing. Hang starts at 0:34 seconds Thanks for reading!

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