(Avery Willows,14,Female,Hephaestus)
Lilac,My dearest sister. I volounteered. Now I know what your thinking but I love her to much to let her go into the games.I sit there,stark nude as my stylist
observes me. He 's super hot for a satyr but thankfully he doesn't do anything innapropriate. "Alright,let's get you dressed for the chariot rides". My heart sinks as
he gets me dressed into a silver robe and puts a hat on me.
A hat. But not any hat, a hat with gears on it. I walk out with my stylist, Greene,towards the brown
chariot. My brother Hal Gordans rolls his eyes to agree with me. Our costumes suck. I mean,The Zeus Kids are adorned in gems and the Athena kids are in
beautiful sparkly costumes. The Zeus tributes roll out and the crowd loves them. They'll be getting sponsors for sure.
The Hera tributes are dressed in beautiful
peacock costumes. There's beautiful peacock feathers sewed into their shoes, gloves and any other part of their costume. They will probably get sponsors. The
Poseidon tributes roll out next. They dressed in...pirate costumes. Well it's still better than ours. The girl has an eyepatch over her left eye and a parrot
on her right shoulder. The boy has his shirt open showing his fit, muscley body. Damn it Avery stop perving on him he has a girlfriend! The 2 Demeter kids have robes
embroided out of wheat and every time they move the wheat moves like it's blowing in the wind and it looks really cool. I think those 2 will have sponsors.
The 2 Ares tributes are dressed in black suits and the suits are covered in scary looking spikes. Their costumes kind of look like black lava. They will definantly
get sponsors even if they're costumes sucked. The 2 Athena kids are dressed as silver owls and they look very majestic. The Apollo tributes have greek robes on
and have golden shining bows and quivers. Every so often they pretend to shoot people and the crowd laughs.
They will definantly be getting sponsors. The Artemis
tributes are dressed in fur and look very rich. The chariot lurches forward and I realise Hal and I are being pulled out into the crowd. The crowd starts
roaring and clapping. Why though? Our costumes suck. And that's when I notice it. Our hats have expanded and the gears are turning and projected into the sky are 2
flaming hammers, one from my hat and one from Hal's, which swish around the sky and look VERY realistic.
(Timothy Steel,15,Male,Hermes)
I stamp my foot on the ground. Why can't my costume be as good as the Hephaestus kids? It's hard to believe that just this morning I was reaped to be put into the
Demigod Games. The Aphrodite tributes roll out in costumes made from dove feathers. I straighten my tie. I'm dressed as a pilot and my sister, Tyra, is dressed as
a flight attendant. Our costumes are probably the worst tribute parade costumes this year.
I look at my sister "How are we going to kill these people?".
She smiles reassuringly "We won't have to." As our chariot lurches forward me and my sister join hands and raise them above our heads. As we parade around the city
square people scream and cheer and call different tributes names. I quickly look behind me and see the Dionysus kids in leopard print robes. Eventually all the
tributes pull up at the bottom of a balcony. Zeus stands up and walks up to a microphone. He starts his welcome speech " Welcome! Tributes, we welcome you. We
salute your courage and your sacrifice, and we wish you Happy Demigod Games! And may the gods be ever in your favor." And with that we roll towards our temples.
Along the way we see lots of statues of the Olympian gods. Eventually we pull up to a big temple and on either sides of the door are statues of Hermes, our father.
(Nikki Vanelle,14,Female,Dionysus)
I walk into the beautiful temple marked with the number 12. As I step in I notice a middle aged man with a wine in his hand and a smile on his face. My dad. He steps
forward and gives me and Brandon a hug "Ah my little future victors!". I notice he's looking at Brandon with more confidence. He thinks Brandon has the better chance
of winning because Brandon is 16 and I'm 14. My big brother James walks over to us. He won last year and because he's a victor he's not allowed back at camp.
He gives me and Brandon a sad smile "I'm here to mentor you and make sure one of you makes it out alive. I'll be sending sponsor gifts too you and depending on who
works the hardest and trains the most, they will probably last longer than the other."
Me and Brandon look at each other. We stand there for a few seconds in an awkward before I decide I want to get away "I'm going to have a shower and rub all this
makeup off."
I scoot up the spiral staircase which leads to the tribute rooms.
I walk up to the top and stop in my tracks. There's just a wall and on the left is a blue and on the right is a pink door. A presume that the pink door is my room.
I walk in and am immediantly amazed.
The room is pretty much as big as the Dionysus cabin back at camp. There's a ginormous bed in the middle of the back wall.
There's also a massive TV,one that i've never seen, a big balcony looking over Olympus and a purple door off to the side of the bed. I cautiously open the door and
see a beautiful and massive tiled bathroom. There's a huge spa bath about 5 times bigger than an actual bath, a big shower with lot's of little holes in the walls
and the roof, oh my gods the roof, is moving with clouds and beautiful stars and it actually feels as if i'm under the night sky. I step into the shower and a panel
covered in buttons slides out of the wall. I press one and foam sprays all over me.
I laugh and and start just wiping my hand all over the panel and hundreds of soaps shoot at me, different wax and hair treatments cover me and the water temperature
changes from boiling hot to nearly ice in a millisecond. I'm having so much fun that I don't realise i've been in there for 40 minutes.
I quickly look at the clock and see it's about 8 O'Clock. I quickly dry myself, get some clothes on and rush down stairs to the dinner table.
At the head of the table is my father, at the other end is his wife Ariadne, sitting to the left of my father is James and next to James is Brandon.
Ariadne kind of looks lonely so I go sit next to her. She smiles at me and I smile back. She doesn't seem too bad. My father looks at me "Your down here just in time
because they are about to serve dinner. A couple of minutes later satyrs walk out and serve a beautiful soup which kind of tastes like
butter. It's creamy and is just delicious. For dessert they serve a mouth watering, chocolatey lava cake. I pretty much breathe it in and even have seconds. When
both me and Brandon are done my father says "Alright, time for bed. You don't have to go to sleep but you have to stay in your rooms. If you need anything use
the telephone next to your beds and my satyrs will get you whatever you want." Brandon and I get up from the table I thank the satyrs,say goodnight to my father and
Ariadne and hug James. Me and Brandon climb the spiral staircase and stop at the top. We turn to look at each other "Goodnight Brandon, i'll see you tomorrow." He nods
"Goodnight Nikki." We turn around and walk into our rooms. I sit on my bed and nearly sink into it. It's so soft and cushiony! I lay my head against the pillow.
Today has been a big day but i'm determined to make the most of every oppurtunity I get here. I close my eyes. I can't wait till I get some of that food again.
Well that was a big chapter!
I hope you liked this chapter cos I like it!
I tried my best to include all the costumes which i'm pretty sure I did and I also tried my best to give you an idea of the tribute quarters.
Well I guess that's all I wanted to say.
Here's the list of tributes:
Zeus:Riley Stanford & Dominick Knight
Hera:Isabelle Smith (Hecate) & Andrew Horus (Hecate)
Poseidon:Coraline Shade & Jake Michael
Demeter:Flora Chims & Jackson Hall
Ares:Kennedy Engler & Alexander Cortez
Athena:Jilla Ambers & Emanuel Stone
Apollo:Jenna Archers & Dylan Lawrence
Artemis:Michelle Aswan & Ryker Knight
Hephaestus:Avery Willows & Hal Gordons
Aphrodite:Lucy DeStefano & Fernando Wood
Hermes:Tyra Steel & Timothy Steel
Dionysus:Nikki Vanelle & Brandon Miller