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Chapter 3
Apollo opened the door for Ari and smiled. "Ariadne is a very pretty name." "Thanks, but please call me Ari. It's much better."
Apollo shook his head. "I have to disagree. Ariadne is a beautiful name. It suits you better." He jumped in the drivers seat and started driving. "Your name is Greek, did you know that?" "No I didn't." "It means utterly pure." Ari blushed wildly at that. "Like I told you," Apollo said smirking at her blush, "it suits you."
Ari looked out the window. When she turned back around she looked very confused. "Where are you taking me?" "It's called camp half blood."Ari looked more confused at that. "half blood? What does that mean?" "It means that... well it..." Apollo sighed. He was awful at explaining this. "You know, how about you just watch the video when you get there."
Apollo looked back at Ari, but what he saw made him freeze. She was giving him her version of the puppy dog eyes. The ones that use to get her anything she wanted from him. The ones he was powerless over."Please."
Apollo sighed again. He seemed to be doing a lot of sighing today. "Do you know Greek mythology?" "Sure," she said, "like Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, the fury's, the min..." Apollo put his hand over her mouth. "Umph." "Sorry, but I had to stop you," he said, removing his hand, "names have power."
"That's alright," said Ari, still able to taste him on her lips. "But yes you are correct with all of those. Are you familiar with the Greek gods?" Ari nodded her head. "Well they still exist and move around to wherever has the most power. Right now that's America. This is where you come in."
"Ok," said Ari, trying to keep an open mind about this. "Well just like in the myths the gods, uh, well I guess you would say "hook up" with mortals and have kids. And well, you're one of them." "No way," Ari exclaimed, "that's not possible." "It is very possible Ariadne. And I am willing to bet 100 drachma, uh dollars that you have ADHD and dyslexia and you have never met one of your parents.
Ari turned pale then blushed that he knew all of the stuff that was wrong about her."Oh don't be like that. All half bloods are like that. What mortals call ADHD, we call your battle reflexes. Without them you would probably die," Apollo flinched at that, "Also they say you see to little. But you see to much. More then humans can see.
Ari thought back to the time when she was in 2nd grade and during quiet reading time she saw a girl walk out of a tree and waved at her. She told her teacher what she saw but her teacher yelled at her for making things up and the other kids started making fun of her until she transferred schools.
Apollo could see that she was starting to believe him. "And dyslexia, that's because your mind is hardwired for Ancient Greek. You will find that reading it will be easier or as difficult as reading english, also you will be able to understand it when you hear it." Ari looked at him in disbelief. "That's not true." "It is true." "No it's not!" She noticed that both of their tones changed. Apollo smirked at her.
"I just spoke Greek didn't I?" "Yes you did," said Apollo a little breathlessly. Now she really reminded him of his Ariadne. Ari looked at him and smiled. "Ok, I believe you." So who is my godly parent?" "I honestly have no idea. I guess we will both find out when you are claimed." "When will that be?" "Whenever your parent feels like claiming it happens after you do something to prove that you are their child. Sometimes it takes years to get claimed, but I will make sure that you do quickly."
"How can you do that?" Apollo smiled at her. "I have my ways." Ari looked like she was going to question him, but Apollo said really loudly "we're here." Ari looked out the window and saw that "here" was at the bottom of a hill. A little up ahead she saw a strawberry field but that was it.
Apollo hopped out of the car and opened Ari's door for her. "Are you coming?" Ari climbed out of the car and started walking up the hill next to Apollo. They got to the top and Ari noticed a pine tree a little ways away.
"Where are we? This is the middle of nowhere!" "Ah, your still letting the mist deceive you." "What do you mean?" "Look and see, really try to see." Ari rolled her eyes but decided to indulge him and look again. Apollo pushed her past the pine tree and all of a sudden she could see.
It was a camp.
There was a climbing wall spewing lava, a lake, an amphitheater, and cabins. Lots of cabins. "Welcome to camp half blood," Apollo said smirking at her amazed expression.
A guy riding a horse came over to them. Wait scratch that, a guy who was part horse came over. "Lord Apollo," the horse dude said, while bowing, "to what do we owe this pleasure? "Wait Lord Apollo?," said Ari but Apollo continued, "I ran across a demigod and decided to bring her over.
The horse dude smiled at Ari. "Hello dear, my name is Chiron, What's yours?" Ari opened her mouth to speak but Apollo beat her to it."This is Ariadne." Ari grimaced. Great now everyone here will be calling her that.
"Hello, welcome to ca..." "Why didn't you tell me that you were a god!?" Ari interrupted. "I thought you figured it out." "Well I am still trying to wrap my head around the whole Greek mythology thing."
Apollo was about to rebuttal but a girl walked over to the three of them. "Ah," said Chiron thankful for the interruption, "Ariadne, this is Annabeth, she will show you around camp."With one last glare at Apollo, Ari left with Annabeth.
Apollo watched her leave then looked back at Chiron. "She is very special to me." Chiron looked between Ari and Apollo.
"She is your Ariadne isn't she?" Apollo nodded. "Don't worry Lord Apollo, I will look after her."
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