Daughter of Ares
'This is your home-away-from-home, Jacob. Welcome to Camp Half Blood.'
I could barely hear Thalia's words. This was to good to be true. All the activities going on below me should have been illigal. I mean, a rockwall with lava? Really? And there were all the kids fighting down below.
Then, I saw her. She was fighting, no doubt the best fighter down there, and while the other kids were adorned with armor, she was wearing a tie-die t-shirt, skinny jeans, and uggs. I furiously messed with my hair, although i subconciously knew that, know matter what i did, my curly red mop would always be un-fixable. To my well-hidden joy, she smiled and called to the fight, 'allright guys, good fighting, take five.' then, with her dirty blonde hair falling out of its ponytail, she ran up the hill with incredible speed. 'hey hunters, long time no see!' and she gave the timid blonde a hug.
Suddenly, it seemed like the sun was magnified by ten, and everyone in the valley and atop the hill stopped. 'well, that explains it. My brother always had immunity when it came to my arrows.' Artimis said, and she smiled at me. I slowly turned to Thalia, and she smiled as well.
'Jacob, you've been claimed. not many kids get claimed when they first come into camp.'
'Claimed?'
'That means that your godly parent has claimed you as their son or daughter. i had to wait several weeks to be claimed by my dad. I'm Kaylinia, daughter of Ares,but my friends call me Kaylee." The fighter girl smiled and held out her hand. I shook it.
'so, who's my dad?' I asked, and Thalia and the hunters rolled their eyes. I knew they wouldn't tell me, so i looked up myself, and i had a golden orb with a harp-type thing. Hadn't my demon gym teacher called me 'son of music'? I struggled to remember who the god of music was. 'Apollo?' I asked the crowd of girls around me. The hunters and Artimis nodded in exact time, but Kaylee was a little behind.
Then, if i thought that my day was already strange, a man on horseback(or at least i thought) joined our little group. As he came closer, i realized with a sick feeling that he was ATTATCHED to the horse. Kaylee turned to me,'Chiron is the instructor. And, yes, he's a centaur. You can stop staring now.' Following her orders, i glanced at her and noticed her eyes were like kaleidoscopes, they were contantly changing color, so i couldn't tell if they were hazel, like mine, blue, grey, or green.
'Hello Artimis,' The centaur bowed,'Hello hunters, Kaylee, and-' he paused, and stared at me.
'Jacob Scotts.'
He smiled through his beard, brown and thinning. 'Ahh, im assuming you're new to the camp?' I nodded. 'Have you been claimed?' I opened my mouth, about to answer, when Kaylee butted in.
'He's the son of also survived one of Artimis's arrows.' Chiron turned to Artimis, good naturedly, and asked,
'Are you trying to kill my campers now?' Thalia laughed, and the other hunters joined in.
'girl's, let's not bother Chiron and his campers anymore. Good day Chiron, good day daughter of Ares, and good day Nephew.' Artimis and her hunters waved goodbye, and they were gone in a flash.
'Kaylee, why don't you take a break from babysitting the Athena cabin and give jacob a tour.'
Incredulously, i stared at her.'Babysitting the Athena Cabin?' she blushed.
'I'm just leading them untill their captain, Annabeth, comes back.'
'Where is she?'
'Oh, her boyfriend, Percy jackson, went missing, so she's all 'wah, wah, my boyfriends missing, i HAVE to go find him!'' Kaylee informed me. ' So i'm their temperary captain untill she returns.I personaly think that the Chiron should've chosen a member of the Athena Cabin, but whatever.'
She turned and began her desent down the hill. Looking over her shoulder, she yelled, 'You coming?' And well, i didn't want to keep her waiting, so I dutifully followed. The hill was illuminated in golden sunlight as the sun started to sink, and there was the sound of kids laughing, and the smell of strawberries in the air. Suddenly I knew. I was home.
