Up to me, mornings in Camp Half Blood are really different from the mornings in Brooklyn. Even though it was summer, my favorite season of the year, and the weather forecaster had said that temperature would reach at around 43˚ Celsius the whole month, it didn't feel anything like this here at Camp Half-Blood all. In fact, you could easily say that it wasn't hot at all. From time to time, a really cool breeze blew, making all the trees rattle, and my brown-blond hair float lightly all over my face, blocking my eyes from seeing clearly, and pinching the back of my neck. Even though the sun was bright up in the sky, you didn't feel the heat upon your skin at all, either, which made me think wether you could tan in here. Another strange thing was that in the shade, you didn't feel cooler, and even when you jumped inside the lake, which I did a couple of times just to try it, the water was exactly the same temperature as outside!
Mike, my new chatterbox friend, came to me early in the morning to wake me up. After handing me a piece of cake, and a glass filled to the very top with bright orange, orange juice which filled the room with its sweet scent of freshly cut oranges, and telling me that I had been late for breakfast, he told me that I needed to go to the Big House immediately to find Rachel.
"Who's Rachel?" I asked confused. He looked at me, smirking a bit. This made me feel a bit uncomfortable, and I guess that he understood that from the look I had on my face.
"The girl with the stained bluejeans, ya man, don't ya remember her?" He said, seeming upset. A quick flash of memory burst in my mind, and then in the sing-song voice I had when I remembered something, I said,
"Oh, that Rachel! The pretty girl eh?" He looked at me like I had just said something funny, a look that I got quite often from the higher grade bullies at my old school in Brooklyn. I hated that look. All it did was bring bad memories to me.
"Ooh, I can certainly see romantic songs right here, not that I can tell the future!" He exclaimed, and that was when I realized how my comment on her sounded like. I blushed, and I could feel heat building up inside me, and bursting out of my body through my red, now, cheeks. Trying to calm myself down, I started singing a song, one of my favorites. When I calmed down, Mike came to sit next to me, smiling widely, his eyes staring me as if I was mad. Then, speaking in-between his teeth and his wide smile and while his arm landed gently on my left shoulder, he reminded me of the reason he was here.
"Seriously now, you gotta go to Rachel. Chiron would be very mad at me, and seriously, I don't wanna see him angry, oh no! Believe me, no one wants to see this dude mad! He also mentioned that it was really imperative and really important. So, If I were you, I would go right away!" He said, then with a big leap he got off the bed.
"Don't you ever say good morning? Let me get dressed and I will meet you at the Big House right away" I said, remembering his abrupt entry inside the cabin, while I was gently asleep. I wasn't quite the morning type, and with so much rock music, chit-chat and laughter going all around inside the cabin, it just made things worst for me.
"All right dude. Don't ya get me mad. I will smack ya in the face if ya do, so you'd betta watch out. I understood ya not a morning type, but ya know, I bet that you can do better in the morning if ya try. Da ya have any idea were da Big House is? If ya get lost just ask somebody. Just don't go away. It is really important. It is actually so important that Chiron told me to tell it to ya! Quick, I'll be waiting for ya in the big house! Don't ya dare be late! I warn-"
"OK! OK! Go and I will be there in less than fifteen minutes!" I interrupted unable to hear more. He thankfully left, letting me alone in the cabin. I hadn't noticed that all of the other kids had left. I quickly got dressed not bothering to look around the Apollo's cabin.
It took me much more than fifteen minutes to arrive at the Big House. The reason is easy to tell, but not to good to escape punishment, cause as far as I heard from this Cheron guy, whatever his name is anyway, I bet he will quite angry with me if I'm late.
Well, here's the reason. Rememberer previously when I said that I have a very strong attraction of bad luck? Well, it is quite true, and unfortunately, it still works as good as it did years ago! As soon as I walked out of the cabin, and into the hordes of people, I got lost. I tried looking over the big height ranges of kids to find were the Big House was, but since this camp was so huge, covering billions of hectares of land, I had no luck. I thought to myself that probably the Big House would be in the middle of the camp, but, as much as I tried to find it, I had completely no luck on my side. And I mean it, cause when I finally got my courage and asked some old kids who I thought, and seemed to know the place pretty well, everything got destroyed again.
"Um hey, I'm like really new here, so could you tell me were the Big House is? I have to go there immediately, as far as I'm informed it is really urgent, so, please can you help me?" I asked. They stared at me and after a while, laughed out loud, their laughters so hight pitched ands out of key, that my ears hurt.
As embarrassment started growing fast inside me, and my whole body started trembling for urn unknown reason, I made up my mind, and I decided that it would be better for me to leave from this place. One thing I was sure of right now anyway. That was that I didn't want to get in any fight with demigods. Especially them.
Throwing a quick look at them to see how they looked like, I found out that they were much different than the blond and kind kids from my cabin. They were four, all redheaded and muscular, even the girl who seemed to be leader of the gang, having complete control over the other three boys. They looked like they were siblings, but if you looked carefully at their faces you would be able to make out many differences. The four kids were all holding a spear and a shield each, making them look like Ares, the Greek god of war, ready to go on a battle. Frightened from them, I twirled around and headed towards the opposite direction, but as I was about to go when the girl grabbed me by the shoulder to speak to me.
"You don't know were the Big House is? Seriously now, I mean even Leo's dragon does, and actually he's not the cleverest thing around here! Man, you'd better get your self a map, if you find one!" I tried not to look at her, as she continued making fun of me. Instead I looked around her. We were in a small, safe-looking battle field. Kids were sword fighting all around the place, while some older kids, probably the best at this kind of fighting, were giving instructions, their faces looking all proud from their good job. There were two flying chariots afloat over us, which I recognized right away since I had seen them yesterday night outside my cabin, while I was randomly staring and thinking about my cabin. There were some other guys too, among them a girl constructing different things, and then joining them together, creating something that looked like a high-tech phone or something. Beautiful girls were everywhere as well. They were planting seeds, spreading rose perfume all over the air, which apparently made the guys angry, and singing ear-catching songs, which I found beautiful. I thought that it was all so miraculously nice over here, when the redhead girl snapped something at me, that made me jump and fall on the soft grass.
"I will tell you were the Big House is, only if you beat me in a sword fight! Lets see if a new, and really dumb Apollo's son can beat a fairly old, skilled, smart, powerful, Are's daughter. By the way, my dad is god of war! Good luck looser!" she said as her eyes sparkled as if she saw a new born puppy, and her fingers formed an L on the front of her forehead. My whole body went suddenly tremulous and I was about to cry from fear. She had got to be kidding me, I thought to my self, not managing to assure myself, but when the other guys gave me a sword and a firm push on my back, that's when my coward personality came out and I started crying. "Don't try to get away baby! Fight!" I heard the quartet of red heads tell me. I had to do it now, I persued myself, prove to them that I was a demigod too, and that I was no baby as they thought!
I ran screaming towards her while she just stared at me smiling a big bright smile. I was about to hit her, when miraculously, all of a sudden, my sword transformed into a wand like, white stick! I stared at it, and she started laughing hysterically.
"You know, there this cool guy called Percy Jackson. He has this pen that turns into a sword when you uncap it, but a sword that turns into a wooden stick. Never seen or heard about these before. I was right again, you are a looser" She said going through the L with her fingers again. I was still very shocked, but then the stick turned into a piano which started playing classical music, immediately calming me down. I wanted to see who did it. Everybody was staring at one direction, silent. I threw my head towards the direction to see a guy half hidden behind a big wooden block.
"Break it down Hannah. You, Toby, come with me." He said. As he moved towards me, I nearly fainted. This guy wasn't human at all. He was in fact half horse, with a long beard! He looked at me, then pointed at his horse back. I think that I had my mouth dropped because he told me in a weird language, probably Greek, I thought.
" Κλεισ´το στόμα σου, θα χαψεις καμία μύγα!" Even though he spoke for certain Greek, I understood every single word he said. It was like "Close your mouth. You'll probably eat a fly" I looked at him dazed and puzzled, and then, remembering what he said, I forced my mouth to close, my muscles pushing it hard, until it closed, my lips now touching each other. "It's a Greek saying. Will you come? I'm Chiron, I will introduce myself better later." I decided to follow him, even though I was still puzzled. At least I didn't go on his horse back!