This story takes place after The Percy Jackson series and The Heroes of Olympus doesn't exist. Please Review!

Chapter 2:

ELI

Eli was completely confused. He was just being attacked by a giant three headed dog, and now he was at some sort of camp with a bunch of blonde haired guys and girls who all had bow and arrows in their hands. Two of them stood out the most. One was some guy named Tyler Ryde who seemed like he was smiling every second and the other one was some girl with a pointy nose, pale skin, and a white headband pulling back her long blonde hair.

"What's your name?" Tyler asked with all of the other kids standing in a circle looking at Eli.

"I'm Eli Rowland. Ah, I was just being chased by a three-headed dog, but what's going on? What is this place? And who are all of you guys?" Eli shouted.

"Okay, calm down." Tyler said with with a half a laugh. "There is a lot to explain. You're at a camp where demigods go to stay safe from monsters like Cerberus. That's the monster who was just attacking you."

"Wait, why couldn't the dog get past the forest, and what do you mean by demigods?"

The girl with the white headband pushed Tyler to the side. "You are the son of a Greek god or goddess. You'll probably find out soon."

"Who are you and what will I probably find out soon?"

"I'm Rachel Minnie and I'm a daughter of Aeolus. The gods usually claim you around the time that you first get into camp. When they claim you they usually just put their symbol above your head."

"Wait, so we're supposed to be children of gods? And who's Aeolus?" Eli asked the girl.

"Ya, I know it sounds weird, but just accept it." Tyler said.

"Aeolus is the god of the winds. I'm the only child of Aeolus at this camp. Everybody else here are children of Apollo." Rachel said.

"I've heard of Apollo before. Who is he?"

"He's the god of the sun, music, healing, and a bunch of other stuff. What else do you want to know?" Rachel asked.

"Um, what is this place and what do I have to do?"

"This is Camp Half-Blood where demigods are protected from monsters and are trained to be heroes. You will probably get someone to show you around the camp and stay at the Hermes cabin until you find out who your parent is." Rachel said.

"Why the Hermes cabin?"

"Because he's the god of traveling," Tyler said, " So they basically take in the demigods who don't know their parents."

Then, every one, standing around Eli, stared at him in amazement while Tyler smiled.

"What?" Eli asked. He then looked up and saw the gold light above him with a symbol of the sun. There was also a bird flying around it. It looked kind of like an owl or maybe an eagle. "Oh."

"Looks like we're brothers." Tyler said. "Let's bring you to the cabin and pack your guitar in the music room."

"You have a music room?"

"Ya, but it's only in our cabin because Apollo 's the god of music." Tyler and Eli started walking away from everyone else while Rachel was making them continue their archery practice.

"What was that bird in my symbol?"

"What?"

"Nothing. So you're saying that my dad's Apollo?"

"Ya. The sun's his symbol. Now that you're here I'll have to show you around. We'll first get you set up at the cabin. Then I'll show you around the camp, and hopefully we'll be done once it's time for dinner. Oh, and you defiantly have to meet Chiron. He's basically the camp counselor. He's a good guy. He trained a lot of really famous heroes too, like Hercules."

"Wait, who is he and how's he still alive then?"

"He's a centaur which is a half horse half human, and he can live forever as long as he trains heroes for the rest of his life. There's also Mr. D. Be careful around him. He's one of the twelve Olympians, and he's not very nice."

"Wait, you have a god at camp and it's one of the really powerful ones?"

"Yup."

"Oh. I thought that you guys wouldn't see the gods that much."

"We don't, it's just that he's being punished."

"For what?"

"I don't know. Someone probably got him mad and he ended up doing something stupid. I actually think he was chasing a nymph or something."

They then reached the cabin. It seemed like it was shining compared to all of the other cabins. They walked in and there were a bunch of bunk beds everywhere.

"Here take this one. No ones sleeps here."

Eli put his guitar on the top of one of the bunk bed in the right corner of the room.

"Is everyone at the archery place?" Eli asked.

"Ya, well, all of the Apollo kids. We kind of have a thing with archery."

"Where's the music room?"

"It's that room right there," Tyler pointed to a door on the left side of the room, "You can go check it out real quick, and then we should go and get you a weapon."

Eli went over to the room and flicked the light-switch. It was a recording studio. It had all of the professional gears in one room, and then another room with every single instrument you could name. There was even an electric triangle!

"This is sweet!" Eli said.

"Ya, you can check it out after dinner. Let's go and find you a weapon." Eli turned around and followed Tyler out the door. They walked to this giant arena. They went inside it and there were a group of kids practicing. Two of them were in the middle teaching. They looked pretty tall. They were probably sixteen or seventeen years old.

"Who are those two?" Eli asked.

"They're the sons of Zeus. They're the best fighters in the camp. You'll get to meet them at dinner."

They then kept walking to the end of the arena where a bunch of weapons were placed up on the wall. There were swords, spears, bows, and even guns. Tyler reached out and grabbed one of the bows. He then handed it to Eli.

"Here try this." The bow felt good. It didn't seem to long or short. Tyler then handed him an arrow. "Aim for that target." He pointed to a wooden target on the other side of the arena. Eli put the arrow on the string and slowly pulled it back with one eye open. He concentrated on the target and then plucked the string. The arrow flew across the room and pounded on the top part of the target.

"Nice." Tyler said with his huge smile. " I wasn't even expecting you to hit the target."

"Thanks."

"Alright just keep that until we get back to the cabin."

"Where are we going now?" Eli asked as they walked out of the arena where the kids continued training like Eli and Tyler were never there.

"Were going to Chiron where he'll talk to you about the camp."

"What about Mr. D?"

"He'll just ignore you."

"That's good."

They continued through the camp. Eli wondered what would happen to him here and how long it would take him to adjust to the knew life at camp. While on the way to Chiron they passed by a rock climbing wall, basketball court, and a group of really cute girls. Tyler said they were daughters of Aphrodite and that he shouldn't even try to go after them.

They stopped in front of a giant blue barn where a man was playing cards with a goat-human thing.

"What do you want?" The man asked while sipping his Coke.

"This is a new camp member, Mr. D." Tyler said.

"Just talk to Chiron." Mr. D said waving his hand to the door. He then went straight back to his game of cards with the human-goat.

They walked up the porch and into the house. Inside was a man reading a book.

"Chiron." Tyler said. The man then got up except with four horse-like legs that made him three or four feet taller than both of them.

"Yes? Oh, hello Tyler. Is this a new camper?" Chiron asked.

"Yup. He just got here about a half an hour ago and we found him being chased by Cerberus."

"That's strange. Cerberus is controlled by Hades. Why would he be out of the underworld?"

"What?" Eli asked.

"Hades is the god who controls the underworld and he's suppose to be protecting it, including keeping his eyes on Cerberus, but I guess he has been busy lately." Chiron said.

"Busy with what?" Eli asked.

"Nothing. Let's-"

"Chiron… does this have to do with Artemis missing from Mount Olympus?" Tyler asked with the first frown Eli's seen from Tyler.

"What? What's going on?" Eli asked.

"Nothing is going on. Eli, Tyler is talking about the goddess Artemis. She disappeared from Mount Olympus randomly and no one can find her. So far the Olympians have gotten Hestia to take her place until she comes back."

"A goddess missing. Isn't that a pretty big deal?" Eli asked.

"You don't need to worry about it. We need to get you ready for camp. If that's your only pair of clothes you can go to the store and get a camp shirt and jeans for free. Just follow Tyler, and he will show you everything you will have to do. It's almost time for dinner so you two should get going." Chiron said.

"Alright, thanks Chiron. See ya." Tyler said.

"Thanks." Eli said. Then they walked out of the house, passing by Mr. D without saying a word.

They walked back to the cabin and everyone was back from archery practice. It was awkward for Eli walking by all of them. They were all introducing themselves to him, but he couldn't remember their names. John, Brittany, Pete, Jacob, um… Veranda? Eli thought to himself. Once he got to his bed he sat there looking at his bow. It didn't have any design to it or anything special. It was just a regular wooden bow. He looked up and noticed all of the people leaving. Then Tyler walked over to him.

"Let's go. It's dinner time!" He said with his huge smile.

Eli hopped out of his bed and followed Tyler outside. It was nice outside. The sun was half gone and there was a cool breeze so it felt like it was a summer night instead of spring. A tall skinny pale guy walked up to Tyler. He had a face that made him look like he was never up to any good. He also had short curly brown hair and crazy eyes.

"Hey, what's up Tyler?" He asked while slapping Tyler in the back.

"Hey, Dane. Yo, Eli, this is Dane Banner. He's a son of Hermes. And, Dane, this is my new brother, Eli."

"What's up?" He said to Eli while giving him a head nod.

"Hey." Eli said back.

"Ya, Hermes is also the god of thieves, which is most of what Dane inherited. So, be careful."

Eli looked at Dane and Dane gave Eli a wink. After that they got to the mess hall. There were about twelve tables and a line of food. There was also a bon fire going in the middle of the place. Tyler, Dane, and Eli walked straight to the line of food. They got in line and grabbed plates. A tall dark skinned guy with a buzzed cut, cut Eli in line, and started talking with Tyler.

"Whoa, you cut Eli." Tyler said. The guy then turned around and Eli saw his face. He looked kind of like a penguin.

"Oh sorry, Eli. Here go in front of me." He said with his deep voice.

"No, It's alright."

"Thanks. I'm Chimp Johnson." He put his hand out and Eli shook it.

"Is Chimp your actual name?" Eli asked.

"Yup. Isn't it the best name ever?" He said sarcastically.

Eli laughed a little. "Who's your parent?"

"Ares. How about you?"

"Mines Apollo, and isn't Ares the god of war?"

"Ya," He then grabbed a slice of pizza and a Monster out of the cooler. "You should have the pizza it's really good." He then walked away to the table with Tyler and Dane. Eli then grabbed his food and went over to their table.

"Alright," Tyler said to everyone in their area of the table. "This guy, over here, is Eli Rowland. He is a son of Apollo and he's a stud." He said with his finger pointed at Eli and his giant smile. Everyone laughed a little, while looking at Eli. Eli felt a little awkward.

"What's up Eli? I'm Bryan Gaff." A short kid with freckles and short dirt like hair said. "I'm a son of Nike." Bryan's voice was so high pitched and annoying that it made Eli twitch. Eli could tell that the other guys didn't like Bryan.

"I have her shoes." Eli said.

"Hey, I'm Zach Knight," A tall guy with short, curly caramel colored hair interrupted. ", And I'm the son of Zeus. I think Ben and I saw you guys at the arena before." He said looking back and forth between Eli and the guy sitting next to Eli.

"Oh, ya. You're the two guys who were training everybody." Eli said.

"Yup." The guy sitting next to Eli said. "I'm Ben Winters and my dad's also Zeus." He had a strong face just like Zach, but Ben had blonde hair that went up a little bit at the end.

"Are you guys like a duo?" Eli asked.

"YA!" Chimp said. "You should see them in capture the flag, in a couple days. They're the most annoying people ever!"

"You shouldn't be talking. You use double axes." Ben said.

"Ya! Burn!" Zach said, and then Ben and Zach high fived. They turned their faces right at Chimp trying to keep straight faces, but failing.

They kept on eating after that. Eli finished his drink so he went up to get a new one. Bryan walked up with him.

"Dude, last weeks capture the flag game was crazy!" Bryan said. "I was, like blocking everyone and then Dane got the flag and… oh ya! Look at that."

"What?" Eli asked.

"Look at her. She's the biggest babe at this camp. She's defiantly a daughter of Aphrodite, but she keeps saying she's not. Aphrodite is the love goddess, if you didn't know."

"She hasn't been claimed? How long has she been here?"

"I think around three weeks. Here lets get in line before anyone else does."

They then hopped in line right behind the girl that Bryan was talking about.

"What's up, Maria?"

She turned around and looked at Bryan. She was a babe. She looked perfect in every way. Her dark chocolate hair began as straight and slowly became wavier as it got to the end. Also she had tan skin and a perfect side bang.

"Hey Bryan. I'm getting some more water." She even has a perfect voice even if it sounded a little shy, Eli thought to himself.

"Me too. This is Eli. He just got here."

She then looked up at Eli and they stared into each other's eyes. It was strange because she had purple eyes. She had to be a daughter of Aphrodite. She was perfect and her purple eyes must have been a mixture of pink and blue or something, Eli thought.

"Oh, hey." Eli said awkwardly.

"Hey, do you now your parent?"

"Ya."

"…Who is it?"

"Oh, um… Apollo."

"Oh, uh, that's cool." She then grabbed a water bottle. " See ya guys." She said while turning around and walking to her table.

"She seemed…nice." Eli said.

"Ya."

"Is she going out with anyone?"

"I don't think so, and she probably won't. She said no to Tyler, Chimp, and the Zeus brothers."

"Interesting." Eli said and then they went back to their table and finished dinner. Eli kept on looking at the Maria girl. He had never seen a girl so cute before. After that they all went back to their cabins. Eli went to check on his guitar when he noticed a guy playing the drums in the music room. He wasn't playing it like it was hard rock or metal. He was playing it slowly and calmly. The guy's wavy blonde hair was bouncy every time he nodded his head. His hair was in the style of someone from the seventies except it wasn't crazy long. Eli then walked into the room.

"Hey…um…"

"It's John Cork. What's up?"

"Nothing. That was a good song you were playing."

"Thanks. Do you like that kind of music? Like classic rock type stuff."

"Ya. I can't stand music now."

"How old are you?"

"Fourteen. How old are you?"

"Sixteen. Do you play an instrument?"

"Ya. I had an acoustic guitar, but I don't know what happened to it."

"Oh, that's yours? It's really nice. I fixed the string for you. You want to play a song?"

"Sure."

They then started playing. They played a bunch of songs for the next hours until they were too tired to keep playing, and they went to bed. It was strange at this completely new place. It was better then the last few days that he had to go through on the streets, but it was more complicated then his old life in Miami. He was remembering the times when he would come home from school with his friends and his mom would be there, with her long shaggy blonde hair and gray eyes. But now she was gone and Eli was on Long Island instead of Florida. He could tell something was going to happen, and he would have to prepare for it like he had to prepare for his mothers death.