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Chapter Four
The first couple of days went by in a blur. Probably about five new Half-Bloods joined camp in those couple of days. I still hadn't been "claimed" as they call it by my godly parent. Most of the activities were reasonably dangerous which is fine for any ADHD kid. Sword fighting. Archery.(Yess) Making your own weapons. Mostly children of Hephaestus god of forges and fire, hang out there. The last thing is Arts and crafts. At Arts and crafts mostly satyrs and nymphs hang out there but also a few children of Athena goddess of Wisdom. (I thought she was supposed to be eternally maiden or something.) I mostly go to archery with the Apollo gang.
My favorite part about camp is that there aren't very many bullies. Yeah sure a few kids from the Ares cabin and one or two from Aphrodite but other than that it's all a big family. Campers still date other campers because we are not really related on our godly side because they have no DNA but no one would date someone from their own cabin.
Oh yeah, I forgot to describe Camp Half-Blood. To the south-east there is a place called half-blood hill where there is the tallest pine in camp called Thalia's Pine. Some daughter of Zeus had died there protecting her friends but Zeus turned her into a tree to live forever, then the Golden fleece was found when the tree was poisoned but worked it's magic too well and brought Thalia back to life but the pine tree stayed, Blah Blah Blah. (I fell asleep in the middle of Aspen's explanation.) A bit north of that is the Big house. That's where the hospital and extra bedrooms are. There are three stories and an attic. Mr.D (Dionysus god of wine) the camp director and Chiron (Centaur) live there. In the attic there used to be an Oracle speaker of prophecies but now there is a new Oracle who lives in a cave. North of the Big House is where the cabins are. It's a strange combination, about twenty in all for all the gods that we know of that have children. They form a rectangle. As I was saying it's a strange combination because no two god or goddess are alike and the cabins reflect their personality and their symbols so it really is very weird. East of the Big House is where the volleyball and basketball courts are. Children of Apollo like to show off by playing basketball. There is a lot more stuff like the mess hall where we eat, the amphitheater where there are presentations and sing-alongs at night. There are also pegasus stables and strawberry fields where satyrs magically play music to make plants grow. There is a big forest where we play capture the flag with real weapons. (No maiming though.)
In the forest there is also a huge clump of rocks that's called Zeus' fist that is also an entrance to the Labyrinth. (Yes the real Labyrinth created by Daedalus.) Then there is the canoe lake and the ocean. On the beach there is an amazing display of fireworks on the fourth of July. The fireworks move and create old greek scenes. Then the last thing is the fact that all of this is in some valley in Long Island Sound. Yep, Long Island Sound N.Y. Most people here were orange camp half-blood shirts with Camp Half-Blood written in the top, a pegasus flying in the middle and Long Island Sound written in the bottom.
They also wear bead necklaces that we get a new bead for each year, I'll get mine at the end of this year. Here in camp half-blood we still use drachmas, the ancient greek currency. Every once in a while there are demigods that come from a roman camp like ours they are just children from the god's roman aspect. They have purple Camp Jupiter shirts that have laurels in the middle and SPQR written in the bottom. The have tattoos burned into their forearms that tell you who their godly parent is. The roman and greek demigods used to enemies and the gods kept them apart but after a war against Gaea and the giants we became allies and friends and visited each other frequently.
I hope you liked my description of CHB