Carson Taurus

I hate Halloween. Everyone is always so happy! Except me. As I said, I HATE Halloween. Some people ask me why. Some people look at me like I'm crazy. The only people who understand are my friends at the orphanage.

Yeah, I'm an orphan. I don't know what happened to my dad, but when I was 3, my mom died in an earthquake. I miraculously survived. Now I'm stuck here. Yay. Every Halloween night, guess what my bros and I get to do? We get to go from neighborhood to neighborhood making money for the orphanage by picking up candy wrappers that spoiled rich kids leave behind. As I said, I really, really, HATE Halloween!

But one Halloween morning, this all changed. I was getting our trash bags ready, when I heard a loud crashing sound. I looked out the window and saw... a Hydra?! Assuming it was just my imagination, I rubbed my eyes, pinched my arm, and looked out the window once more. It was still there! I quickly ran out the emergency exit to see what was going on, but nobody else seemed to notice that there was a giant, fire-breathing monster in the middle of the road. At least, that's what I thought. When I turned around, I saw a blonde girl (about 20 years old) running toward the monster with a trash-bag and an engagement ring on her finger. She saw me staring at her and screamed, "Close your eyes!"

"What do you...?" I started.

"Just do it!"

"Okay, sheesh!" I said, covering my eyes, then staying in that position for about a minute.

"Okay, now you can open them."

"Cool, thanks," I replied, uncovering my eyes.

My mouth dropped open. In front of me was a huge Hydra statue. I gawked at it, and then at the girl.

"How... Wow," I was speechless.

"Yeah," the girl smirked. "Medusa's head did that. Anyway, I'm Annabeth, and you must be the new demigod."

"Wait, what?"

"Half-mortal and half-god."

"You mean... My dad was a god?"

"Well, if he's the one you have never met, then yeah."

"Yeah. I mean, yes he is the one I've never met."

"Cool. Anyway, I know a place that you could be safe in. No monster could ever get you there."

"And if I don't go?"

"You won't survive long enough to become an adult."

"Oh, that's nice."

"Yeah."

"Okay, I'll come."

Annabeth looked surprised, like she wasn't used to people trusting her so easily. "Really? I mean, great! Follow me."

"What about my friends?"

"Don't worry, Hazel will take care of it. She's a mist master."

"Mist?"

"You'll understand later."

And so I followed her to a blue car with hoof-prints on the hood and an extremely good-looking dark haired guy behind the wheel. When he saw Annabeth, his face lit up.

"You're alive, Wise Girl!" he exclaimed.

"Yeah, thanks for letting me know, Seaweed Brain. Glad someone clarified that for me." Annabeth replied coolly.

"Ha!" Then he looked at me as if just noticing that I was there. "Who's this kid?"

"Um... I'm Carson. Taurus." I said slowly. I felt like I was being judged.

But luckily, this guy wasn't that judgmental. He just shrugged and said, "Cool. I'm Percy. Annabeth's fiance. Hop in."

And so we drove, and drove, and drove. Yay. After 2 whole hours, we stopped in front of the woods.

"Follow me," Annabeth said, as she headed into the woods. "We're going to Camp Half-Blood."

I followed, not saying anything. After a while, we got to a gorgeous campsite, with a huge sign that said, "Camp Half-Blood." A super pretty girl named Piper, with choppy brown hair, maybe Native American, wearing matching rings with Annabeth, greeted me and brought me to a big, but cozy, cabin, where I met the Chiron. You know, from the Greek stories. He explained everything to me. Turned out, I have an immortal god as a dad.

After that, I went to the Hermes cabin, where I was gonna stay 'till my dad claimed me, which didn't actually take that long. The next day, around the campfire, I was claimed by ZEUS! The Zeus! Everyone gawked at me in surprise before Jason, Piper's fiance, another son of Zeus, and one of the seven who had saved the world not too long ago, told everyone to give me some space.

He gave me a short tour of the camp, and showed me our cabin. Then, we celebrated Halloween. At first I tried to get out of it, because, you know, I hated Halloween, but he made me go out and get some candy. Then, I helped him prank some people, but unfortunately, we got pranked (badly) by the Stoll brothers, and Travis's girlfriend, Katie Gardner. Let's just say, there was a lot of fire, fake puke, and real spiders.

Anyway, now I don't hate Halloween as much. I can kind of see why everyone loves it now. And even if I will never totally LOVE Halloween, I definitely love Camp Half-Blood.

Again, thank you so much for reading this! The next chapter is now out! I appreciate constructive criticism, but no flaming please. If you like this, please follow/fav or write a review, and if you don't, please let me know what I could do to make this a better story. Again, thank you so much!