What the Hades?
Sophia's POV
So after the thing- I mean the Cyclops- was pulverized, Luna had to explain everything to us; that we were demigods, that we were being chased my monsters and this kind of stuff. We went back to our penthouses. We were neighbors since we can remember and did everything together, but we never imagined we would live this kind of life.
When we were at home, we quickly packed our bags and drove off. I have always packed a lot when I go somewhere. This time was no exception. I know that this most probably sounds like a lot, but I packed 3 bags, but we are demigods, we have to be fashionable, don't we? Once we were out of the house and had written a long letter to our dads to explain I noticed that Jade also had 3 bags. Best friends think alike.
"How can you drive and have a driver's license. You're not 16 yet?" I asked Luna, after we had been driving for 15 minutes. "We satyrs age twice as quickly as you humans…Oh sorry, demigods. I'm still used to calling you humans." "No problem" Jade said, smiling.
We were driving along Long Island, when we stopped in the middle of nowhere. "What have we run out of gas?" I asked. "This can't happen. Well at least not us. Can't we do anything about it? I mean we're demigods." Jade and Luna laughed at this, but then Jade thought it over and said "Sophia is actually making sense, can't we do anything about it?" This just made Luna laugh even more.
"No we're not out of gas. You see that sign over there?" Luna said, once she stopped laughing. "The strawberry one?" Jade asked. "Yes" "What about that?" I said, "We have to go there. So come on!" "We're not seriously picking strawberries" I said. "Just follow me" jade and I followed her down the road. We walked through the thicket, until we saw a big house and other people. "Who are they? Are they demigods too?" Jade asked. "Mhh" Luna carried on walking and said: "once you're past these trees, you safe from monsters. They can't go past this barrier," Luna explained to us. "So where do we go now?" I asked her. "We'll go to the big house and you'll meet the camp director. We entered the big house and saw a centaur. He started to talk to us:" I'm Chiron, the activity director here at camp half blood. I'm a centaur as may already know." "I always thought centaurs were a myth...that's what they said in our Greek class" Jade said. "That's because they don't know about the gods" the centaur informed us. "So what other mythological creatures are there?" "Every single one that appear in myths. I think Luna should show you around camp. Your training will start tomorrow" he said formally. Then he just left. "Okay, awkward" I said. "Are all the people that work here mythological creatures?" Jade asked, she was getting more interested by the second. "Only our head of security Argus. He has millions of eyes. And was made by Hera." Luna said, as if this was completely normal. "OK let's get this tour started."
We walked out and Luna showed us around. "There is a climbing wall, stables, an armory, arena and of course the cabins." "The cabins?" I asked. "That's where you sleep with your half-sisters and half-brothers" Luna explained. "But how do you know which god is your parent?" Jade asked. "You will find that out when you're claimed" "How does this happen? And when does this happen?" Jade asked making this her 142 stupid question today. "Oh, you'll see soon enough and stop asking soooooooooooo many questions. Come on I'll show you the armory." Luna said as we walked past the cabins. There were lots of cabins varying from the large, dark, gothic one (that I guessed must have been Hades' cabin to a rainbow color cabin that actually had a rainbow on top and mist spreading around it with pictures in the mist. From an ugly red cabin with barbed wire on top to a perfect, pink cabin that looked like Barbie's dream house including pink flowers on the windowsill. "Let me guess that's the Aphrodite cabin or has Barbie come to life and lives here?" Jade asked with a look of disgust when we passed the pink cabin. Luna burst out laughing and Jade and I joined in. "It's the Aphrodite cabin, home to the girls and boys who are future models and fashion designers." Luna explained. "I doubt that that's my mom." Jade said.
We walked to the armory and went inside. Inside there were all weapons you could imagine; small ones, big ones, sharp ones, blunt ones. I looked around and found a spear. I took it and found that is was perfect for me. "You like this spear?" Luna inquired. "Yeah, it just feels right in my hand." "That's strategist, a spear from Athena."" This belonged to Athena, the goddess. You're joking!" I said awestruck. "Yes." "Awesome." "Yeah totally, tell me where I can find weapons' of Ares or Zeus, they must have the best weapons." Jade said, full of enthusiasm. "Well this half of the armory belongs to Ares weapons; due to the fact that he is the god of war he has a lot of weapons. He gets a new one for every battle and sends his old weapons here. Unless they are so cool that he wants to keep them. Then he keeps them at home in his own weapon room, which is at least triple, the size of this place, or maybe four times this size... I really don't know." "Whoa that is so awesome!" Jade exclaimed. "Are there any guns here?" "Yeah this wall is devoted to his many types of guns. Right now his favorite gun is a bazooka. As if on cue a new bazooka appeared in thin air. "Nice!" Jade exclaimed picking up a type of gun that looked small enough to be carried around without people noticing it but lethal enough to kill anything with one shot. "Can I have this?" Jade asked. That was so typical Jade. "Sure why not." Luna told her. "Now that you both have a weapon, let's finish the tour."
We walked out and Luna showed us the rest of the camp. Our "tour" ended at the climbing wall. It was already late and it was time for dinner. We walked back to the dining pavilion. Because we hadn't been claimed, we had to sit at the Hermes table. There was bread, cheese, grapes and there was a barbecue. The food was absolutely amazing. Opposite of me, sat a boy called Alex, from the Hermes cabin. Jade and I talked to him. "So how are you enjoying you're first day of camp?" he asked us. "I love it here it's so awesome, my life used to be kind of boring, so this is like so awesome. I mean being allowed to kill monsters and having gun is cool enough, but knowing that my mom is a goddess is so cool, no wonders I never saw her." "Wait, mother are you sure your father isn't the god in the family?" "Yeah, why? I mean he lives with me in New York. He's a famous movie producer; maybe you've heard of him, his name is Dan Sparks." "Yeah I have and he definitely isn't a God. Weird from what you said earlier I would have guessed that your dad was Ares, the god of war, but now I have no idea who it could be." "Oh man, being a daughter of Ares would have been cool... Hey does Ares have any immortal daughters that are minor goddesses?" "Uh no, not really." "That sucks!" Suddenly a breeze came and everything turned silent, not even a leaf was rustling. In the distant I heard a noise, which was getting louder every second. "Monster," I heard somebody whisper. I saw Jade's face light up in anticipation; I could just see that she was yelling YES! in her head. As for me, I was scared stiff. The noise turned into a hooting of an owl. There came a white owl flying out of the forest, flying straight towards me. I wanted to shriek, but no sound could escape. The owl landed on my shoulder. "I think somebody has just been claimed!"
