Thalia looked at Annabeth, clearly wanting her to explain. Annabeth rolled her eyes.
"Ok. Do you guys-"Taylor cut her off.
"What the hell was that thing?" she yelled.
"Well it was-"she started but Taylor cut her off again.
Taylor turned to me, "And when did you learn to fire a bow?"
"About a minute ago."
She glared at me, and opened her mouth to say more but Blake put his hand over mouth.
"Thanks." Blake nodded.
"No problem."
"Anyway, do any of you know about Greek Mythology?" she asked. We all nodded because we had just learned about it that year.
"Ok. Well the myths aren't myths. The Gods are real." I felt like jumping up and down in joy, but that might have looked strange.
I tuned out the rest of the explanation because I already knew what they were going to say. I started to wonder whose kids we were. The only problem was we all had two parents. There was no way for me to tell if it was their mom or dad that was a god. I just decided to go by personality and looks. Well it was obvious that Phil was a child of Athena. He had the blond hair, gray eyes, and the brain of one. Blake might be a son of Hermes with all of the pranks he pulls. Taylor…I have no idea whose kid she could be. Maybe Ares with her temper…A whistle made me jump and lose my train of thought.
"What was that?" I asked
"Yeah," Blake agreed, "What was that?"
Annabeth looked at us weirdly, "Did you not listen to anything I just said?"
"Oh, yeah, of course we did." Blake lied
"Well I said I would call some Pegasi to take us to camp."
I grinned. I'm finally getting to go to Camp Half-Blood! I looked at Blake to see him having the same grin. Dark shapes started coming out of the sky. At first I thought it was just some birds but whenever they got closer was when I saw what they actually are. Six beautiful Pegasi swooped down and landed right in front of us.
"Wow…" Phil breathed.
I walked to the nearest Pegasus. It was a Palomino and had a white mark on its forehead and on its legs. It kind of reminded me a lot of the horse that Link uses in Zelda, but, you know, with wings and it's not brown. It nudged me and neighed.
"Huh, looks like Celestial likes you." Annabeth said.
We all mounted the six Pegasi right as the teacher broke the branch and made it through the door.
"Stop!" he shouted, "Get off the go-karts!"
"Go-Karts?" Thalia asked, "Well that's a new one."
He ran to stop us but the Pegasi flew over his head.
"What the heck!" he yelled, "How did you get giant hummingbirds?"
I shook my head at the man. How did it turn from go-karts to hummingbirds?
"How long until we get to camp?" I yelled over the wind.
"Well we're in Georgia and Camp Half-Blood is in New York so…a couple of hours." Annabeth answered me.
"Or an entire day…" Thalia grumbled, holding onto her Pegasus tighter.
"Well I brought my DS so I'm ok." I said, pulling out the little blue rectangle.
"How did you fit that in your pocket?" Taylor asked.
I showed her the inside pockets in my jacket.
"I have my spare too, hey Blake, wanna have a Pokémon battle?" I asked holding up my other DS.
"Heck ya!" he shouted, grabbing the other DS, "Prepare to lose!"
Blake was pouting when we got off the Pegasi. We had an epic Pokémon battle but his Torterra was no match for my Typhlosion! I was smiling smugly as I walked past him.
"What was that you said before? Oh yeah, 'Prepare to lose' you should practice what you preach." I told him
"Shut up…"
"You guys fought for the entire time on the ride here and you just now won the battle?" Taylor asked, incredulously.
"Your point?" we both asked.
She rolled her eyes, "Nothin'…"
We had landed just outside the camp by Thalia's Pine. The Golden Fleece was glittering in the sun, and I was surprised. I thought the Golden Fleece was smaller than that. The Pegasi flew over us and to the stables, eager to eat and rest probably. When we passed the tree I caught my breath. The camp was amazing. The sun was setting making the sky an orange color and the ocean shine and casting an orange-y glow on everything. There was Greek architecture everywhere, and there was an arena dotted with kids with bright orange T-shirts. The U of cabins had a huge fire in the middle, the hearth I think. Some people rode horses back to the stables, too. There was a huge blue farmhouse which I guess is the Big House. What caught my eye, though, was the archery range. There were only about five people there and I could hear the thunk of the arrows hitting the targets from here, which should be impossible. I suddenly got the urge to take off the bow on my back and fire from here. Before I could do that though, Thalia spread her arms wide, as if asking for a hug (which she will probably never do) and said, "Welcome to Camp Half-Blood!"
"It's awesome!"
"Is that an archery range!"
"Are they sword fighting! With real swords? Cool!"
"Do you have a cooking class?"
We all looked at Phil strangely.
"What?" he asked defensively.
"Nothing." I turned to Annabeth and Thalia, "Do we get a tour?"
She nodded, "Of course! Thalia you take Phil and Taylor and meet Sara, Blake, and I at the amphitheater, ok?"
Thalia didn't look to happy about it but she agreed and took Taylor and Phil toward what I guess is the stables. Annabeth waved at us to follow her. We walked to the cluster of cabins and I tried to see which one was which. Zeus, obviously, Demeter, Athena, Poseidon, Artemis, Apollo…I stopped at the Apollo cabin. I looked through the windows and saw lots of messy bunks covered in lyric sheets, guitars, and various other musical instruments. I looked for Annabeth and Blake. They had just kept walking and forgot me here so I ran to catch up with them before they noticed. Annabeth had started talking about architecture and camp, but Blake and I were only partly listening.
"Can you believe it?" he whispered, "We're demigods!"
When he said 'can you believe it' he made Taylor Swifts "Mine" pop into my head. I'm weird like that, whenever someone says a something that's in a song, the song pops into my head, even if it's a song I don't know.
"No I can't!" I whispered back, "This. is. AWESOME."
"I know!"
"Hey…Annabeth's eyes are all misty…" I pointed out
"Huh…you're right…wait a minute, she's talking about architecture. Listen." he said.
"-and I would make statues for all of the Gods here at camp and maybe even a temple that would have a symbol of each God on it when the light touched it…" she droned on and didn't even take a breath from what I could see.
"Um, Annabeth?"
She kept talking.
"Annabeth?"
Still no answer. I sighed...how am I going to get her to listen. An idea hit me like a dodge ball in the face. I grinned.
"Uh oh. I know that grin of yours," Blake said, then grinned himself, "Whatcha thinkin'?"
"This…Hey Annabeth look! It's Percy!" I said, pointing.
Sure enough, Annabeth stopped rambling about architecture and looked around. Blake and I snickered at how much she loved him but didn't know it.
"Hey…did you guys lie to me." Crap, she caught us.
"Wait, how do you even know about Percy." My eyes widened. I didn't think that she would ask that. I looked at Blake since he was the liar there. He was pale too but somehow was able to make up a good lie.
"Oh well Thalia told us that you were in love with him or something." He said, shrugging.
Annabeth's cheeks heated up and she started stuttering an answer.
"Yeah she's in love with him." I said.
"I am not!" she yelled, her face resembling a tomato.
"De Nile is not just a river in Egypt." I said wisely.
Annabeth scowled, "Just go to amphitheater." And she stomped off.
Blake chuckled, "We pissed her off."
"That's what we do best! Now come on, race ya to the amphitheater!" and with that I ran off.
"No fair!" I heard him yell behind me, "You had a head start!"
I laughed and headed by the basketball court.
"HEY!" someone shouted, "WATCH OUT!"
I looked to my left to see a basketball hurtling at me like a comet. I had just enough time to throw up my left hand. The basketball had so much force it knocked me over. When it made contact with my wrist I yelled in pain. I looked down and saw something white sticking out of my wrist. I gagged and looked away, eyes shut tight. A warm substance trickled down my hand.
"Hey are you ok…oh no you're not. It's a good thing I'm a son of Apollo." He muttered.
I opened my eyes to see a blond haired, blue eyed boy kneeling over my wrist, murmuring a hymn to Apollo. My wrist healed instantly. I blinked. I didn't think it would take that short of time to heal. The son of Apollo looked confused too.
"That's weird…it usually takes longer…the only people it takes that short to heal are…" he looked up at me and my eyes widened. He looked a lot like me. The same shade of blue for the eyes and the same color hair. Even the shape of his face was the same!
"Whoa…" we both said.
"Hey Sara are you o-whoa! He looks a lot like you!" Blake said, stating the obvious.
"Yes, I know that Captain Obvious." I said, glaring at him.
"You're welcome, Lieutenant Sarcasm." He retorted.
I was about to call him some not-so-nice names, but something blocked the sunset from where I was. I looked up and saw a horse above me. Wait, not a horse, a Centaur. Even though I knew about Chiron, my jaw still dropped to see a real Centaur.
"Hello child." He greeted with a warm smile, "I saw what happened over at the archery range, and are you ok?"
"Yeah um…" I looked at the boy in front of me not knowing his name.
"Will." He supplied
"Yeah, Will healed me." I showed my wrist to prove it.
Chiron nodded, "That's go-"he was cut off by a glow coming above my head.
I looked up just in time to see a golden sun glowing above my head before it vanished.
"It is determined," Chiron announced, "Apollo, god of the sun, poetry, music, prophecy, archery, and medicine. Hail Sara Solace, Daughter of the Sun God."
A.N.
and there is chapter 2! I'm pretty sure I have to say this so...I do not own Pjo! I wish I did...if you are confused then dont worry because all will be revealed in the next chapter!