A/N: Well... this is going to get interesting. This introduces all of the OC's in the book. Well not all... but most.
Halimeda
I don't know if Celeste was kidding me. If you spent enough time with her as I did, you would think something was up. We knew all about greek myths. Calantha was a disregarded daughter of Apollo. We all hate him for that. Celeste, on the other hand, was an attention seeker and a daughter of Hecate. I was a daughter of Poseidon, born a few years after my half-brother Percy. He didn't know I existed. I was pretty excited for all this, become a goddess! Thing, but once I heard the word torture, I completely tried to shut down Celeste's idea. We argued back and forth, trying to convince each other that we were SUPPOSED to be doing bla bla bla… something like that, but eventually, we hit the six hundredth floor.
"Welcome!" Zeus's voice boomed, and I instantly thought, "Mr. Hippy Zeus is gonna slap us down, onto the ground, and we are going to die, just like that." Fortunately, he didn't do that. Instead, we walked into the grand common room(which was the throne room) and surveyed the different people there.
"Introduce yourselves," Hera said quietly, but her eyes looked like hard ice, ready to kill you if you weren't behaving.
"Cameron, son of Morpheus," a boy with red hair said. He was tiny, kind of like Celeste, although Celeste had way more confidence inside of her and she didn't stutter when she spoke.
"Julian, Son of Hermes," a high pitched voice whispered. The boy looked just like Hermes, and when I looked up, I saw Hermes nodding with approval.
"Aria, daughter of a nymph." I looked over, looking at a tall girl with hard, brown eyes.
"Faelyn, daughter of Iris," a girl with soft blue eyes and short hair murmured.
"Xander, son of Zeus," a gruff voice called out, startling Calantha and I. Celeste looked around, confused.
"OH MY GODS ZEUS!" Poseidon bellowed, making us jump. He looked like was going to explode with anger, and Zeus got paler by the second.
"Ummm... continue with the introductions..." Zeus said uncertainty.
"Michaela, daughter of Aphrodite," a chirpy voice exclaimed, which belonged to a medium height girl, with long curls bouncing down her back.
"Jackson, son of Eris," a small boy said, who had a shock of blonde hair.
"Evita, daughter of Nemesis, and the most amazing person in the universe," said a shortish girl with unnerving dark blue eyes. Everyone shifted uncomfortably as Zeus tried to contain his anger at the arrogant demigod.
"Sierra, daughter of Athena." a clear voice called. I looked over, to see a girl with blonde hair, glasses, and a huge book in her hand.
"Calantha, Daughter of Apollo." Calantha's somewhat eager voice said, as she nonchalantly chewed on a piece of gum that I hadn't noticed before.
"Celeste, daughter of Hecate," Celeste said rather quietly, which wasn't like her because usually she was quite obnoxious. It was my turn next.
"Halimeda, daughter of Poseidon," I announced, making everyone stare.
"POSEIDON!" Zeus yelled, making every single one of us flinch. I even saw the boy that introduced himself as Cameron jump at least 2 feet off the ground. Well, maybe not THAT much, but it was significant.
"YOU BROKE THE OATH!" he stormed (quite literally).
"Well, you did too. And with the same woman!" Poseidon countered. Zeus didn't say anything, and sat back onto his throne.
"Welcome all, and I see that you have signed up to be a goddess, or a god," Artemis announced.
"You will have several tests, each determining what your domain will be and it you stay to be an immortal or not. There are some that will be able to use any power in the universe, or have a natural talent for three or more specific things. These tests require intelligence, speed, cunningness and self-confidence." Artemis looked around as if trying to see if we understood.
"If you fail to become an immortal, and keep in mind we only have eight spaces, then we will throw you off of mount Olympus. Deal?" we all muttered an okay, and the gods sent a servant to show us our rooms. Mine was in between Celeste and Evita. In order, the rooms were Sierra, Evita, me, Celeste, Calantha, Faelyn, Michaela, and Aria in one hallway, and the boys were in another. As I walked down the hall, I heard someone yelling. Stepping closer to investigate, I saw Evita yelling at Sierra.
"Ugh. I keep on telling you! I DON'T WANT TO BE FRIENDS ANYMORE! LEAVE ME ALONE!" Evita screamed. I backed away slowly. As I turned around to leave, I accidently stumbled into Xander, who was walking around the corner. "Hey, uh, do you know why Evita was yelling at Sierra?" I asked.
"Yeah. I do, actually. I traveled with them for a couple of weeks when I ran away from home. They used to be best friends, like really close, but Evita is, well, I guess you could say she's really temperamental. She got mad at Sierra one day, and refused to tell her why. Ever since, Evita has demanded an apology from Sierra, but Sierra doesn't even know why Evita's mad, so she can't really apologize for something she doesn't know she did wrong." I nodded, then slowly backed away. I didn't want to be caught in THAT.
A/N: Paisley wrote this... Don't blame the other two...