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Chapter 2

Josh POV

As I unpacked my things, I couldn't help but think about the way Bayleigh's hair swayed when she walked, or the way she would sort of tilt her head when she looked at you. Dude, snap out of it.

Anyway, when I was finished unpacking my things, I went over to the dinner area. There were assigned dinner tables, and, being unclaimed, I sat with the Hermes cabin. Everyone got up and walked over to a nearby fire. I couldn't see what they were doing, but all their faces looked deep in concentration as they did so. Chiron was standing next to me so I asked, "What are they doing?"

"They're putting a portion of their food in the fire."

"Um...Okay." Creeps.

"Aren't you going to?"

"Sure." I walked over to the fire and scraped some of my food into it. As I walked back over to the Hermes table, everyone started staring at me. I mouthed the word, "What?" to Chiron, who was also in awe.

"You're claimed," he said, as if that explained everything.

"Um...to who?"

"Zeus. Look up." And there, right above my head, was a lightning bolt.

I tried to think of something to say but all that came out of my mouth was something intelligent like "Whoa."

Bayleigh came over to me. "Well, now we know what you can do," she said to me.

"Yeah." I was still staring at the lightning bolt above my head. An object floating over your head will do that to a person. "What can I do, exactly?"

"Well, Zeus is the God of the Sky," Bayleigh began, "So basically you control the sky. Like rain and wind and stuff."

"Cool." I watched as the lightning bolt faded more and more, until I was just staring at air. "So what do I do here? I mean, I probably don't just sit around all day."

By this point, Chiron had walked off to pry someone from the Ares cabin off someone from the Aphrodite cabin, so only Bayleigh was left to answer. "You train. With knives and swords and bows."

"Oh, my." I laughed.

Bayleigh POV

"Oh, my." Josh laughed. His laughter filled the air with the sound of bells. I made a mental note to try to make him laugh more in the future.

"Yeah, so breakfast is served at nine, lunch at noon, and dinner at seven. You can get up as early as you want, for training. But you don't have to. Yu are not allowed to skip breakfast, as Chiron and Mr. D think it's the most important meal of the day. Figures. It's basically the only thing they agree on. Most of the Aphrodite cabin go back-"

Josh cut me off. "Who's Mr. D?"

"The camp director. Anyway, so you can't skip breakfast, but you can go right back to sleep after it. Mostly the Aphrodite cabin go back to sleep, for their 'beauty rest', or whatever it is they call it." I paused for a breath.

Josh took this as an opportunity. "So when does training start?"

This kid was confusing me. "What do you mean?"

"Like the teachers and stuff. The trainers. When do they start, you know, training?"

Haha. This kid thinks we have personal trainers. "We train each other."

"Oh."

"Yeah. We challenge each other. Hold on, let me get Chiron so he can give you a sword." I went off to find Chiron. I finally found him talking some sense into the person from the Ares cabin. "Hey, Chiron. Josh needs a sword."

"Alright, let me go get one from the attic." And with that, Chiron went off to find a sword for Josh.

He came back about five minutes later, a sword in hand. He handed it to me. "I trust you will give this to him?"

I nodded. Then I went back to Josh. He was still standing in the same spot I had left him in, staring at his shoes. "Here." I thrust the sword out to him.

He read the inscription on it. "Windbreaker. How ironic."

"Yeah."

"What's your called?"

"Riptide."

"Oh. So all the swords are named after the demigod's parents?"

"Yeah, mostly. Alright, let's get started." I made a quick jab towards his sword, trying to unarm him. He got frightened, however, thinking I was going to hit him, and had back away. Not that that didn't work, too.

The fight was on.