Hermes' mission of messages
Chapter 4-A level-up in friendship
Nyssa
Nyssa felt stupid. Really? She scolded herself, Tug Louise's shirt? This was a natural move for her. Whenever she sees someone who needs a friend or whoever she wants to make friends with, she does something weird. Nyssa's just happy that Louise actually agreed to be her friend. Most of the kids, especially mortals, just ignored her after doing whatever she was doing.
She reached her cabin and went inside. She wanted to finish on the beds she promised Cabin 11 right now, even though it was almost light's out time. But half of her just wanted to rest. Being the temporary head counselor of Cabin 9 was practically no joke. All the kids in the cabin all had equal responsibilities, but Nyssa had to do more. She had to act like a leader. Nyssa looked at Jake Mason, who was singing some kind of a tune, and just sighed. Jake Mason was basically supposed to help her be in charge of the cabin and their siblings , but instead, he rested in a wheelchair with a full body cast. He got the cast when he was trying to fix that bronze dragon that their half brother Leo found. So for now, she had to do most of the work.
She sat on her bunk, thinking about Cabin 11 and anything related to that cabin, when suddenly she heard her name being called by some of her siblings. She stood up and walked over to the voice. The voice came from her half brother, Shane.
Nyssa asked, "Uh Shane… what's wrong?" as she looked at a laptop, which looked like it has been smashed.
"Well, I don't know what happened! Somehow I attached the correct wires together but it still doesn't work." Shane admitted, then he whispered, "Is it because of the Curse of Bunker 9?"
Nyssa shook her head, "No! of course not! Don't believe that!"
Shane said, "Anyway, I saw you making friends with Louise, that girl who just got claimed. So what are you going to do to… well level up your friendship?"
Nyssa was shocked, "Well…. I'll think about it. But just don't worry about that "Curse" thingy, ok?"
Shane nodded. Nyssa did think about what he said. She did want a long friendship with someone else outside her cabin. She did have friends outside her cabin, but she wasn't that close to them. She looked over at the three beds she promised to give to Cabin 11 and then a few minutes after, she fell into deep sleep.
The next day, she woke up to the bright light rays of the sun passing through Cabin 9. She looked at her alarm clock. It was one of her work of arts (as she like to call them). It was a traditional alarm clock with normal features. The only thing different is that she attached a miniature cuckoo bird on the top of the clock to replace to normal bells feature. It makes a lot of noise.
Nyssa looked at the clock. It was 7:18 am. Breakfast was 8 am. She sighed. Her cabin was usually the last to reach the dining pavilion for breakfast. Nyssa knew that the best breakfast was served to the first group of demigods (meaning to say the first cabin group) who reaches there. Nyssa reckons that her cabin is the laziest cabin in her opinion (right after the Hypnos cabin. Nyssa doesn't even know if they can even wake up without the distractions of putting them back to sleep easily.)
Plus, cabin inspection is just when everyone was off to eat breakfast in the dining pavilion. She looked around her own cabin. It looks like a mess, with all the bits and pieces of spare parts and handfuls of sawdust everywhere. She never actually saw the cabin neat for more than 10 seconds. Every time she actually got her siblings to clean up their mess, one of them would eventually start another project and it goes back to square one.
She wanted at least today to have a perfect start in the morning. She grabbed her alarm clock, which was placed on her work table nearby (each kid of Hephaestus has their own work table, of course made by themselves), and started activating the alarm to 7:25 am, which was approximately 1 and a half more minutes later. She realized the switch. The silent timer she built in started whirring away. She kept on muttering to her siblings softly "I'm sorry guys!".
After a while, a sound of a rooster from the cuckoo clock. Nyssa then heard groans and moans from all over the cabin. Nyssa's youngest brother, Harley, also complained, "Nyssa! Why should we wake up early?" He smoothened his pillow and almost went back to sleep. Nyssa stood up and went near Harley's bunk, and just snatched his pillow and little Harley's head fell straight on her bed's mattress.
"Ow!" he groaned, "what's that for?"
Nyssa explained, "Guys, I want us to be the first in the dining pavilion."
"What about that?" Christopher, another one of Nyssa's brothers, asked. "We get our breakfast right?"
Nyssa announced, "Well, I heard that whichever cabin peoples, I don't really know what to say in place of cabin peoples, anyway, would reach there first, they each get a secret-recipe muffin, specially made by the nymphs."
Everyone sounded amazed. "So," Nyssa concluded "If we get there first, we get the muffins."
Everyone nodded in agreement. One kid even shouted out loud, "Yeah. 'Cuz every time I notice, the Hermes kids gets them each morning. And I heard some of them bragging that the muffins tasted delicious."
Another one replied back, "That's because they sneak into the kitchen and gets some. "
Then, all the demigods started making a lot of noise. Nyssa raised her hand. Suddenly, the whole cabin was silent. That's what she liked about being head counselor, even if she is temporary. It was a little easy for her to control the cabin with that kind of title.
"Ok," Nyssa started, "So better hurry up-"
Before Nyssa even finished her sentence, everyone jumped out of their bunks and started getting ready. Nyssa was proud of herself. This is the first time her cabin got, well, electrified. Everyone was throwing pillows and clothes everywhere. There was a big line at the bathroom, though Nyssa and a couple of her siblings remade the shower function faster, switching the water temperatures as fast as a click of a pen. Nyssa just silently joined the line.
Within 7:45 am, all the campers in Cabin 9 were ready, most of them soaking. Nyssa took out a hair dryer she made, which instantly makes the hair dry within a minute, and offered to dry her siblings.
Then after a few minutes, all of them headed to the dining pavilion. Once they reached there, the nymphs were already preparing the food. Nyssa spoke up, "Um.. morning nymphs!"
The nymphs smiled and waved.
One of the Hephaestus kids shouted, "FREE-"
Nyssa kept her hand on his mouth and put her finger on her lip to show him to be quiet. Then, she led her siblings to the Hephaestus cabin. All of them sat down and began to eat.
The nymphs came up to Nyssa, and she gave the nymph a security camera. The nymph got happy and placed it near a fresh batch of muffins. It was a security camera, disguised as a timer. The nymphs asked Cabin 9 to work on it, so they could catch anyone, preferably the Hermes kids, who would steal the muffins.
Nyssa started eating as well. She noticed that most of the demigods arrived early and it was just 7:55 am. Usually all of the demigods arrive late, but it felt comfortable to see everyone enjoying the food.
She glanced at the Hermes table and saw Louise coping with her siblings. Louise managed to make friends with Natasha Campbell, another one of Nyssa's close friends. Well, she couldn't go up and sit with them. It was prohibited. So, she had to wait until there was a chance to have a little conversation.
After a while, everyone went back to their cabins to prepare for their activities. Her first activity was 'PEGASI RIDING WITH THE DEMETER CABIN' She got her tool belt with her and headed off to the fields.
Later on, it was time for 'ARTS AND CRAFTS WITH THE HEPHAESTUS CABIN' so Nyssa got the craftshop ready for the other demigods to come. She dug into her tool belt and pulled out a long list of names. She was just scanning for it, until a familiar voice distracted her reading.
"Am I a bit too early?" the voice said.
"Not at all." Nyssa replied, turning her head to the doorway. She saw Louise waving her hand. She waved back. She looked a little better than last night. She washed up, got cleaned and even wore her new Camp HalfBlood tshirt. She was given a satchel to keep stuff in it. But right now, it was overflowing with envelopes and all sorts of messages.
Nyssa offered a seat next to her and Louise sat down. "So" Nyssa asked "How's camp so far? Why did you choose this activity?"
Louise shrugged, "Well, this sounds less dangerous. No, cuz I love making these arts and crafts things –"
"No, but we are providing teaching lessons on how to make weapons."
"Well I don't mind!" Louise commented, reaching for a hammer "I used these tools ever since I was small."
"Ok… so you need any help or something?"
"Maybe… but how about try helping my friend Lucy a.k.a. kid of Aphrodite."
The girls sniggered with the idea of an Aphrodite kid trying to make a weapon without getting blisters. Then, Nyssa went around the craftshop to fix the tools. After a while, demigods started barging in. Nyssa and her siblings started helping around and giving tips (even though it was extremely hard to discipline the Hecate and the Hermes kids into serious work, as they keep messing around with tools and tricking the others)
Next activity, was 'ANCIENT GREEK WITH THE ATHENA CABIN' Nyssa wasn't that good with Ancient Greek, even with the ADHD, she was highly distracted with other stuff.
Later on, it was FREE TIME. Wheewww! She was tired. She laid down on her bunk and started playing with spare bits from her tool belt. A knock started coming from her cabin. She opened it and saw Louise again, with a bunch of messages in her hand.
"These are for you and your sibs, Nyssa" she said with a grin.
Nyssa accepted it and said, "So even if you're a newbie, your sibs gave you extra mail to deliver?"
Louise nodded, "Yeah. The Stoll twins gave like ¾s of their messages to me"
"That seems unfair"
"Well, they better watch out, cuz I have a trick planned up my sleeve." Louise said with a mischievous smile.
"Oooh! Mysterious…." Nyssa teased.
Louise laughed, "Oh by the way, singalong campfire in a few hours. Gotta deliver some more mail!"
The girls waved and Nyssa headed out. It was CAPTURE THE FLAG game in a few minutes.
After the tiring game (in which the Apollo kids won in a fair game, until Clarisse got angry and persuaded the Apollo kids to give their winnings to them a.k.a. Ares cabin), Nyssa headed to the campfire where the demigods were discussing some topic. She hurried and sat down with her siblings.
Author's note: I received my first review! Thanks . Anyway, I didn't describe the activities in detail as the next chapters would (I think in my opinion) would have a little more excitement so yeah Thanks for reading! Reviews would be Appreciated