Well, so far today, neither Gorgons attacked or, the mess hall messed up my food. Sadly, the archery contest was today. Of course, Aphrodite's little gossip clan spread the word and now, the entire camp is going to watch. Including the nymphs and the satyrs. Ash kept trying to tell me that I was going to do fine but, I was going up against Gina.
"Um, hey mom. If you could uh, help me today that would just be fabulous you know?" I prayed awkwardly, hoping she wouldn't laugh at me. "Look, I even left you some bananas and an apple." I gestured to the bowl of fruit in front of me. "So uh, if you could that would be awesome and you would mom of the day. And you get fruit! Good deal huh?" I grinned and stood up, waiting for some heavenly light or something to ascend down upon me or . Only a tiny breeze. A swift knock came at the door. "Enter my humble abode!" I called out, putting the bowl of fruit on the dresser. Ash stepped in, kicked the door jam in and looked at me. "Yes oh,mechanical one?" I sneered at him.
"What are you doing Luna?" He asked, twining a piece of brown hair around his pinky. Ash arrived the same day as me, bloody and dragging suitcase behind him. He was six something, so taller then me, brown everything else. His hair, skin and eyes all different shades of brown.
"Can't you see I'm busy with my new hobby?" I cried at him, throwing my hands up.
"Which is?" He asked cautiously, peering around for the Gods's know what.
"Duh," I snapped at him," fruit placing!" I pointed to the bowl of fruits. Ash arched is eyebrows at me. I starting to laugh, and he soon joined me. "But seriously, don't touch those." I warned him, "Those are for mom." He sobered and nodded. He walked over too the fruit and studied it.
"You were praying weren't you?" He asks me softly. I nodded and he sighed. "Luna you are going to do amazing!" He cried, throwing his hands up. "You wanna know why?" He asked me, turning to look me straight in the eye. His eyes were like two different browns swirling to make this intense color. I nodded and swallowed. "Because, you are Artemis's daughter! You are a direct descendant from the goddess of the hunt! And bows and arrows! It is your DNA to be amazing a archery. That is why you will do great." He grew very animated and then back to serious. A smile spread itself across my face faster then jam on toast.
"Has anyone ever told you that you should be a motivational speaker?" I asked him, Ash tilted his head in confusion. "Because now, I wanna kill some Gorgon butt." He laughed at me and shook his head.
"Luna there are no Gorgons, just Gina. Pretty sure she is easier then a Gorgon." He pointed out. A cluster of campers walk past, they all peered into my cabin and the whispers started almost as soon as they saw Ash and I. I stuck my tongue out at them and waited for the cluster to past before I continued.
"You never know Ash. A pack of Gorgons could attack in the middle of the competition. Crazy things happen." I pointed out. Ash laughed and fell onto my bed. "Get up you lazy mule." I laughed at him, pulling on his wrist. Ash was stronger so of course, he didn't budge. "Ugh, fine just lay there like a dead whale. I'm gonna go kick some Gina butt." I waved my hand, grabbed my bow and quiver and started out the door.
"Wait Luna." Ash was up in a second. He took a giant step so he could loom over me. "I'm coming. Takes a while for lazy mules and dead whales to get up." He smirked, his voice soft, like a breeze. I nodded and continued out the door. Ash kicked the door jam into the cabin and the door flapped shut. We wandered down to the archery range. Hordes of campers were scattered around it, satyrs and nymphs wandered around the groups. Charon and Mr.D stood a bit to the side. Charon was a centaur and Mr. D was Dionysus but, was banished here by his father Zeus.
Gina stood with the other Apollo kids, a yellow and orange cloak wrapped around her shoulders. I had two crescent moons painted on my cheeks. Thomas, the head of the Apollo cabin stood in the center of the range. Ash followed me to my area. Thomas nodded at me. "Okay ladies the rules are as following," Thomas boomed. He already had a loud voice but, when he yelled it was terrible. "you are to shoot three arrows. The one with the most bulls-eyes win. If there is a tie then, you will each shoot one more arrow." Thomas explained, Gina and I nodded. "Ready, set begin!" Thomas hollered, the camper's cheers rang loudly.
Gina quickly shot a bulls-eye I pulled out an arrow, set it and pulled back. I tested the wind, the resistance, all of it. I lined the arrow up and shot. It sailed through the air and struck the center of the target. I picked up another arrow and got the same result. I looked over at Gina and saw she was also on her last arrow, her second one had also been a bulls-eye. She was sweating now, and she was fumbling. Her arrow kept slipping. I turned away and knocked my next arrow. I shot, halfway through the arrow's flight, a slight breeze caught it, sending it into the nine ring. I looked at Gina's target, she had hit the eight ring.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we have our winner! Luna was won with 29 points!" Thomas boomed, trying to shout of the crowd. They wern't cheering but whispering and pointing behind me. I turned to see mom leaning on my target.
"Hey honey."