Yay so here's the second chapter! It's longer because it'll explain all about the Games. Minus the gamemakes and other stuff. But you'll get to read about the history of the Games. Credits to my dear friend Cheska for helping me out to write the history of the Games. Enjoy!
Reminder: I don't know which time to insert this in between the series as long as Thalia, Nico and Percy are there and Percy & Annabeth are not bf and gf.
CHAPTER 2: PERCY
6PM
"Everybody! Please sit together with your fellow cabinmates. This is to be strictly followed tonight! If you do not obey, we will do the necessary punishments. Now, settle!" said Chiron. I quickly become nervous as I remember what Annabeth told me last night. What if they do force me, Nico and Thalia to participate because we finally appeared in camp?
On another note, it's quite insulting how there are a total of 13 tables. One for each demigod group that has the same godly parent. I wish Tyson was here to sit with me. I guess he still has some work to do underwater. I sit alone in my table. Thalia and Nico sit alone in different tables too. It's quite wierd how we have 13 tables when two of them are sure to be empty. Hera and Artemis doesn't have any demigod children. I guess they are there so we can honor them.
The food arrives. We all eat dinner as we wait for the nerve-wracking moment.
After Chiron is done eating, he stands before all of us.
It is time.
"My dear Demigods, today marks the first day of summer! I hope all of you know what that means. Tonight, is reaping night for this year's Demigod Games." said Chiron. Some of the demigods clap. I don't see the point on why are they clapping when some of them could be dead in a matter of weeks.
I glance at Thalia and Nico. They look sort of nervous. I can't tell by their facial expressions if they knew about this before I did.
"Now, now. Settle down. Please have a round of applause for the God of Messengers, Hermes!" As Chiron says these words, Hermes came with a grand entrance. We all clapped our hands but no hands were clapping harder than the children of Hermes.
"Welcome, Welcome! It is an honor for me to be here. Now, before we get to the reaping process, the nine Muses has prepared a presentation! They have come all the way from Mount Olympus. Enjoy!" Hermes says as the Nine Muses suddenly appeared before us. I guess we'll all be expecting a very entertaining presentation by them.
Now I get what Annabeth said last night about every year they explain fully what the Games are. The Nine Muses are here to do that. I learned that The Demigod Games was formed a few years after the Camp was built. The Demigod Games is aftermath of the first Olympian War that happened way back. It turns out that Kronos was the one that came up with this. The practice is still done to this date so that the gods and the demigods know how brutal and dangerous the war was. It is said that it is an honor to participate in the Games. We call the participants, "Tributes". In the first Games one male and female tribute from each godly parent would participate. But after a few years, Kronos decided that gender doesn't matter anymore in the tributes; due to some cabins that have more males than females or vice versa. From that time until now, they choose randomly two demigods of each godly parent to participate.
After they reap the tributes, they get sent to some where in Greece where they would be shown to the world of Gods, Demigods, Titans and other Greek Mythical creatures. Then they get to be trained heavily by their respective godly parent in Mount Olympus. They even get a chance to be interviewed by our very own Stoll Brothers before the Games. Then they get thrown into an arena. According to the Muses, the type and location of the arena changes every year.
A thought came across my mind. If they ever do force me to participate I hope the arena is underwater, then I could probably have a chance…
Who am I kidding? This is no time for thoughts like these.
The Nine Muses finish up their presentation. Everyone claps their hands. Hermes stands at the podium and silences us. There are several sacks beside Hermes. Each sack has their own color. I wonder what those are for…
Hermes starts explaining some more, "Thank you for that wonderful presentation! Now, what you see before you are color coded sacks. Each one represents a godly parent. Light brown for Zeus, red violet for Hera, blue for Poseidon, green for Demeter, maroon for Ares, gray for Athena, yellow for Apollo, lavender for Artemis, red for Hephaestus, pink for Aphrodite, brown for me, violet for Dionysus and black for Hades.
"Each of your names is inside the respectful colored sack of which godly parent you are born from. Your names are written inside small scrolls. At your first year in camp, you get one scroll with your information in your respective sack. On your second year at camp you get two, and so on.
"And now, the time has come for us to select two scrolls in each of the sacks for the honor of representing their own cabin, godly parent and family in this year's Demigod Games."
As Hermes finishes his explanation, he goes up to the sacks. My heart beats so fast and loud right now, I have grown nervous by the minute.
I look over at the table filled with the children of Athena and find Annabeth's face. She looks at me, I can tell by her eyes that she looks nervous too. She smiles at me and I smile back at her. She looks away from me and pays attention to what Hermes is doing. I continue to stare at her. What if Annabeth gets reaped? Then this might be the last time I'll ever get to see her. I might never see that beautiful face again or hear her say "Seaweed Brain" to me.
I shake off this thought. If Annabeth is reaped, she has to win. She's been in camp longer than I have therefore has acquired many skills by now. She's a daughter of Athena, she can do this if she was reaped.
The question that comes across my mind now is: Can I do this if I was reaped?
Chapter 3 might be uploaded in a few days. Spring break is over ugh. Anyway, review please! :)
