If you were to say that Riley was upset, that would be an understatement...
"Wake up, Riles." Maya said as Riley's head shot up.
"Maya! Where is everyone!?" Now she was worried, did everyone get taken by one of those hell hounds?
"Breakfast. You're late!" Riley frowned, she was never late before today. And to make it worse, it was her first day.
"Maya! I wanna go home!" Riley missed her old life, where the only complicated things were boys and makeup. Yet, over here, the goal is to stay alive. Also, the boys too...
"You saw a monster, you learned your life is a lie," Maya said, not making Riley feel better. "And sleeping in makes you want to leave?"
When Riley thought about it, it did sound ridiculous. "Fine, I'll go get ready..." She grumbled, half-awake.
"Wait!" Riley waved at her to go on, "I brought you a Camp T-shirt!"
Riley then noticed that Maya had one on and looked through her window. Everyone had one on, except Riley, making her want to wear it even more to fit in. "Thanks!"
It was getting hard for Riley to act as cheerful as she was with her parents and at school. At least, who she thought were her parents. That only made Riley wonder who her mom or dad was.
Maya was approaching the door as she said, "Meet me at breakfast!"
Riley approached the bathroom as she felt upset at how easily her friends were taking this. She noticed Maya was feeling happier than she was before. Lucas was basically pretending to be her friend, so she could get to camp. Farkle was taking everything just fine, in fact, he was relieved.
She stepped out of the shower and slipped on her new, "Camp Half-Blood" T-Shirt, black leggings, and fresh white converse. She quickly brushed her teeth and started walking down to breakfast. She walked in and sat next to Maya.
"Um, Riley" Lucas said, "Only Apollo kids can sit here. You have to sit with the Hermes cabin. The only exception is Annabeth and Percy."
"Why can they sit with each other?" Riley got defensive and hurt, she couldn't even sit with her best friend!
"They went through tartarus together and they even have to sleep together to get rid of the nightmares." Maya said, chowing down a ham sandwich.
How Maya knew all this, Riley didn't know, but she didn't like it. She sighed and went to the Hermes table and thought about whether or not she was going to get nightmares.
Riley managed to sit down at the crowded table and hoped she would get claimed.
"Hi, we're Conner" a boy introduced.
"And Travis" another continued.
"Stoll!" they said in unison.
"Um, hi?" Riley said, confused and relieved that someone talked to her.
"You need to sacrifice some food for the gods, they like the smell." The unison thing was getting strange to Riley. Almost as strange as the Mighty Gods of Olympus liking the smell of burnt food.
She nodded and grabbed food for the gods... and herself, of course. She planned to copy the person- or whatever everyone was, before her.
"Athena" The person murmured as they dumped the food into the fire. Riley didn't know what to do, she had no God to sacrifice to. She decided to sacrifice to Hermes, for letting her stay in his cabin.
"Hermes" Riley then noticed it didn't smell like burnt food, it smelled like brownies.
A horn blew, she didn't know what it was though.
"It's a conch." someone said, reading her thoughts. Riley turned around to face gorgeous sea-green eyes. "I'm Percy. You're the new camper, right? At least, one of them."
"Yeah." Riley couldn't believe she was talking to someone who faced tartarus! Her palms got sweaty, so she hoped he wouldn't put out his hand to shake.
"Camp gets better, don't worry." Were the last five words he said before leaving to the blonde girl, who she assumed was Annabeth.
"Riles!" Maya stood there, "You talked to one of the Seven!"
"Seven?" Riley said, feeling left out and dumb.
"The Seven are the Heroes of Olympus! He defeated Kronos all by himself and was in TWO wars! You also know he made it out of tartarus alive with Annabeth!"
"How do you know all this?!" Riley blurted out in envy.
"Missy told me! The Aphrodite Campers know ALL about their OTP, Percabeth!"
"Oh." Missy. Of course, even her best friend is all buddy-buddy with Missy. What even was an OTP?
"Let's go spar in the arena!" Lucas said, jumping into the conversation along with Farkle. "Wait, you need weapons."
Riley paled, she didn't know how to use a weapon. "Okay!" She said, wanting to stay with the group.
"What are we waiting for! Let's go!" Farkle jumped happily, unlike Riley who wondered how she was going to be able to use a weapon.
Lucas guided them to a shed-looking place. Although, it was filled with weapons instead of garden tools.
"Maya, as an Apollo Camper, you would be best with a bow and arrow." Lucas said as he handed her a golden bow and arrow. "This transforms from a bow and arrow, into a bracelet with an arrow charm."
"Cool." She said smoothly as she put on the bracelet. She didn't win the award of cool for nothing.
"Hmm, Farkle, you seem like the sword type-of guy." Lucas decided as he gave Farkle a bronze sword that had flecks of silver at the tip. "It may not transform into anything, but it's a pretty good sword."
"Riley, I can picture you with a dagger." He handed Riley a silver dagger with a sleek, black handle, "This is a really good dagger, it's also really sharp."
"These weapons can't hurt mortals, only half-bloods and Monsters." Lucas said as he closed the shed, "Now follow me."
He led them to the Arena where everyone was fighting dummies or each other. Immediately Lucas started shooting a target and Maya followed his lead. Maya hit the bulls eye on the first hit.
"How did you do that?" Riley
"I guess it's in my blood" Maya replied.
Riley wanted to try, she hoped this was in her blood. She aimed at the dummy's stomach and hoped for the best. The problem was, it hit the dummy's leg. Dejectedly, she picked up her dagger.
"Don't worry, Riley" Farkle said, putting an arm around her. Riley half-glared at the flirting and was half-thankful for the gesture.
"Yeah, all you need is practice!" Maya said. "Try again."
Riley focused and threw it once again, it landing almost perfectly in the middle.
"See! You just weren't focused!" Maya praised her best friend.
"Hey Riley! Let's spar!" Farkle suggested.
"Maybe later, I'm not sure I'm experienced enough." Riley said picking up her dagger.
"Hey guys!" Look who it is! Missy. Riley stiffened and put on a fake smile.
"Hey!" Lucas and Maya said.
"Hi!" Riley said, pretending to be the perky girl she once was.
"I'm just passing by to give Lucas the ten drachmas I owe him." Missy looked at Maya, "I'm sorry you have to have him as a half-sibling." She joked.
"I know right!" Maya agreed.
"Hey!"
"And by the way," She looked at Riley, "I'm sorry, Riley. Drew just really wants me to be a mini-her."
This, ladies and gentleman, was the first time Riley cracked a real smile being near Missy.
What should I add? Fix? Change? Review if you have suggestions too! Who do you think Riley's parent is?
-The Author Who Shall Not Be Named