Only a short chapter and also quite boring, but I think its necessary to just describe the camp, so that I can get all that out of the way, I wont have to spend time droning on in future chapters about the décor of the Apollo cabin or the flowers in front of the Demeter cabin. She may also even properly meet Nico,but im not promising anything )
As I came to I started to notice little things around me, the softness underneath me, the bright light above me and the hushed whispers beside me. I began to focus on the voices, trying to catch their conversation.
"When do you think she will wake up?" a male voice asked. It sounded vaguely familiar.
"Soon, I just want to know more about her, after all she is my sister." Another familiar voice said, but familiar enough to be my brother? I don't think so, I don't have a brother.
Then memories of the previous day came trickling back into my mind, the sword, the beast, Apollo, Poseidon and Percy.
Oh god; or I suppose now I should say gods. Oh gods.
I felt like I need to get up, to discover my new life, talk to my new brother and just generally get on with things.
I tried to open my eyes, succeeding after my third try, almost blinded when I managed, the light was extremely bright. After a few minuets I managed to make out shapes on the edge of vision, 2 shapes.
"Eve, how you feeling?" I made out the voice to be Percy. My brother.
"Well, okay, considering what I have just found out." Only a tiny bit of sarcasm in my voice.
"Do you feel up to moving? Would you like to have a look around camp?" he looked quite eager to show me around, maybe he wanted to bond or something?
"Yeah, come on. Lets go now." I was actually looking forward to seeing what the camp would be like, if I was going to live here. Let's hope it is good.
Swinging my legs over the side of the bed I began adjusting my clothes, where they had got rumpled during my spell of unconsciousness, once I was satisfied that I had straightened my nirvana t-shirt, black skinny jeans and made sure I was wearing both of my black converse I turned and looked at Percy expectantly.
"Okay, lets go" he started walking towards the door.
"Have fun you too, stay out of trouble, I would avoid the Ares cabin." A voice came. I jumped nearly 3ft in the air. I hadn't noticed before who the other person was, or should I say centaur. It was Chiron; this time I didn't feel a mind blowing shock in his presence I just felt the urge to poke him. Yes, I am slightly special.
Percy laughed before motioning me toward the door, I obliged, and we walked out onto the porch of the house I had seen before. From here the view was amazing, to the right was a tree, a big tree with something golden hanging from it's branches and something coiled around its base, I looked closer.
"Holy shit! Is that a dragon!" I felt a hysterical giggle crawling up my throat, when Percy nodded and smiled at me, my mind automatically jumped into thoughts of all the things I could do with a dragon. We could have barbeque, fly around shouting about how we would save the princess, and test to see if he could handle alcohol better than an ogre. My mind was whirring; this is going to be so fun.
Straight in front of us was a clearing, easily the size of 3 football pitches, dotted all over where what looked to be miniature houses, all decorated different, one had flowers on the roof, one had weapons all around it and barbed wire to decorate one even looked to be made out of pure gold. Beyond that there was a beach, small but there, with a huge lake. Around the same area there were various things including stables a climbing wall, which spewed lava! A building that looked like a temple and a few other buildings. Off to the left of the tree were fields and they looked to be growing strawberries, when the breeze picked up you could smell it in the breeze. Surrounding all of this was a forest, it was never ending. And in some areas at the edges you could see shadows lurking, prowling for prey.
We were walking towards all this, probably going to see cabins, it was a nice walk, the breeze toying with my long black hair, the sun warming my tanned skin, my eyes, the colour of the sea after a storm, bright chips of blue sparkling with light, taking in everything around me.
After a few minuets we reached the cabins, from here they looked even more amazing, all varying, none that even remotely resembled each other.
I started wandering between them, Percy following and pointing out which god each cabin belonged to as I marvelled at them.
The Zeus and Hera cabins were both large, empty looking and magnificent. Zeus's was white marble with columns and seemed to buzz with the energy of thunder. Hera's was daintier, homey, with the same materials; there were peacock feathers in a vase in one of the windows, a porch swing in front of the cabin. It made me feel like I was welcome; it was just like a home should.
Next we went to the Apollo and Artemis cabins, skipping Poseidon's for last. Percy explained about Artemis`s oath, how the only people to ever stay in her cabin where her hunters. The handmaidens of the goddess, their one catch was to swear off boys. Forever. The cabin was faded silver in the daylight, but I had a feeling that in the night it would glow like a full moon, just as its goddess personification does. The Apollo cabin was made of what looked to be pure gold, with laughter and music coming from inside.
Next was Ares, it was intimidating at first glance. It was fiery red, covered in barbed wire and lethal looking weapons and a boars head hanging over the door, lopsided. Then Hephaestus, his cabin was made out of what looked to be all types of scrap metal, with clanking sounds from within, little automatons and various inventions littered the area around the cabin.
Then we came to the Aphrodite cabin, I was tempted to run away, it was pink and the smell of perfume permitted even solid walls. I quickly ushered us on to the next cabin. Demeter, it was quaint, there was a grass roof with flowers growing, the smell of fresh strawberries hung in the air, and it was made of logs and had more plants growing everywhere. Next we came to Hermes, which looked pretty normal, apart from the various things thrown around carelessly all over the outside of the cabin. It even had a letter box; I think that was meant as a joke.
Our next stop was Hades, and I have to admit of all of them it was my favourite, so far, it was my sort of thing. The black exterior looked to be made entirely of obsidian, with torches of Greek fire on either side of the door. If you looked close enough into the obsidian it was as if you were looking at thousands of souls, swaying and screaming to and invisible melody. We also went to other cabins, such as: Dionysus, hecate, Morpheus and a few others. There were so many that it was impossible to look at all, so we agreed to go to the Poseidon cabin.
When we got there I literally froze and stared, it was beautiful.
The grass seemed to stop a few meters away from the cabin, in its place was sand, the cabin itself was made of various rocks, all jutting out and uneven, they resembled coral and other things found in the sea, with jewels and shells encrusted in.
The inside was even nicer. It was a huge space, bigger than you would think from the outside. The walls were blue and seemed to move, as if they were crashing waves, from the ceiling sea creatures swayed in an invisible current. In the corner an amazing fountain rested. Water fell from it gracefully into the basin, continuously, in the basin were coins. They were golden drachma, and Percy explained that if you throw a coin into the fountain and call on iris then you can talk to whoever you want, it was called an iris message.
It was only 5oclock Percy said, but to me I felt like it was time for bed, I was about to lie down on one of the beds and take a nap when there was a knock at the door. Percy had just gone out, said something about finding Annabeth.
So I got up and walked over to the door, cracking it open to see the guy from before stood there, Nico.
"Err, hey." I said, wonder what he wants?
"Hello is Percy there?" oh, yeah of course that's what he wanted.
"No, sorry. He said something about going to find Annabeth." I told him. Resisting a huge yawn.
"Oh, okay. Well no worries. We haven't been formally introduced. I'm Nico di Angelo, son of Hades." He stuck out his hand.
"Evangeline Hathaway, but call me eve, daughter of Poseidon. Nice to meet you." I put my hand in his and we shook, his hands were icy cold, like death. But it wasn't scary, it was sort of soothing. He held onto my hand for a second before letting go.
He was about to say something else when a horn blew, I didn't know what that meant but he seemed to. "Ah, dinner, come on I will show you where to go. Chiron will probably formally announce you." Wow, that settled my nerves.
I can just tell dinner will be eventful. Yay.
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