I FIND AN OLD FRIEND
Alyssa's POV
Annabeth and Percy decided to give Angie and I the grand tour. They led us out of the house and annabeth gestured toward it.
"This is the big house. It's where the infirmary, the kitchens, and Chiron's office is."
They showed us all of the cabins. There were twenty in all, each one represented a certain Greek god or goddess, and houses all of the children of that god or goddess. My phone vibrated in my back pocket and I pulled it out. Annabeth bit her lip.
"Umm you probably shouldn't use that. When a demigod uses an electronic device, it's like telling every monster in a five-mile radius where you are."
She shrugged. "You should only use it for emergencies and don't let Chiron know you have that."
She winked at me.
"Wait a second," Angie said. "No phones?"
Percy shook his head sadly.
"No phones." he confirmed
I thought Angie was going to scream or explode right then and there. But she didn't. She actually took it very calmly.
Angie is not the type of person who could live for an hour without her phone, so I was very surprised.
"So anyway, you guys can hang out in the commons area until your godly parent claims y-"
Annabeth stopped and gasped. hanging above Angie's dirty blonde head, was a glowing pink dove.
"What? is there something in my hair?" Angie asked and started searching her hair for the problem.
Annabeth closed her mouth. "No, you've been claimed. By Aphrodite no less."
I wracked my brain, trying to remember who Aphrodite was.
"Isn't she... the goddess of love?" I asked
"Well yeah." percy confirmed
He turned to Annabeth
"I'll take Angie to see Piper. she loves new Aphrodite campers."
Annabeth nodded. Percy grabbed Angie's hand and led her away, with hardly any struggle.
"So, we'll hope you get claimed tonight at the campfire." Annabeth said. She thought for a moment.
"I guess I'll introduce you to my friends." Annabeth said slowly
"Luckily, Frank, Hazel, and Jason are here."
"Are they usually not here?" I asked
"No, they go to camp Jupiter, the roman equivalent to camp half-blood."
We moved all over the camp to meet the crew. First we went to cabin one. the Zeus cabin. Annabeth knocked and a soft male voice asked "who is it?"
"It's Annabeth and a new camper." She said.
The door opened and a tall boy maybe about seventeen answered. He had blonde hair well-toned muscles but he had an icy stare. it probably had something to do with his ice-blue eyes.
"Alyssa, this is Jason Grace, son of Jupiter." I stiffly held out my hand and he shook it gently.
I hadn't met many boys. Most people at school ignore me. It's usually just Angie and I. Well I did have a friend named Leo that went to my school. He was one of my best friends. I could really be myself around him.
I loosened up a bit.
"I'm Alyssa." I said
"Jason" he replied with a small smile.
He sat back in his chair and kept working on whatever he was doing. "Nice meeting you Alyssa!" he said over his shoulder.
Annabeth showed me where Percy's cabin was but I didn't need to meet him again.
We decided to visit the Aphrodite cabin. When we walked in, I saw Angie talking to a native american girl with choppy chocolate brown hair with little braids and feathers down the sides. Her eyes seemed to change colors.
When she saw me, she came over to me.
"Hi, you must be Alyssa. Angie's told me about you. My name is Piper. Piper McLean."
"McLean?" I choked. "like, Tristan McLean?" I asked
Piper stuck her tongue out.
"I don't usually like to broadcast it but, yeah."
I sucked in an intake of breath.
"So, you're Angie's half-sister?"
Saying it out loud made it so much weirder.
She nodded. "Yep."
"Well pipes," Annabeth said. "We'd better move on."
We headed out the door of the Aphrodite cabin.
We stopped in front of a red cabin, lined with barbed wire. The ares cabin. Annabeth knocked on the door and a brown-haired girl with a brown tank-top, camo pants, and a green bandana.
"Clarisse, I'm introducing Alyssa around camp. So, this is Alyssa."
She gestured towards me.
"And this," she stuck a thumb towards the girl.
"This is Clarisse, daughter of Ares."
The way Annabeth said her name, I would guess they didn't like each other too much.
"Can we talk to Frank please?" Annabeth asked as sweetly as she could. Clarisse stuck her head back inside. I heard her shout "Frank! get over here! It's Annabeth and a new kid!"
I heard heavy footsteps and the largest boy I had ever seen walked out.
"Hi, I'm Frank, son of Mars." he said.
He was probably about six feet tall with bulky muscles and a black military-style haircut. Although, he had the strangest, babyish face. He looked maybe Chinese but he had a slight Canadian accent.
"I'm Alyssa." I said simply.
He shook my hand, wich was an odd sensation since his hands were almost twice the side of mine, and he was about a foot taller than me.
"Well, now we'd better go meet Hazel." Annabeth said.
"Would you give her this?" He asked
He held out a little purple box with red ribbon.
"It's her birthday."
"Of course." I said before Annabeth could say anything.
He dumped it into my hands.
I waved goodbye and decided that Frank was cool.
We stopped outside of cabin thirteen, the Hades cabin. When I walked in, I felt an odd rush of air as if a fan was blowing in my direction. I shivered.
"Are you okay?" a girl asked.
She was African American with dark brown hair. Although it had a gold tinge to it. Her eyes startled me. They were amber-colored. Like gold. My eyes were silver, hers were gold.
She turned around towards the bathroom and shouted; "Nico! we have visitors!"
A minute or two later, a boy came out of the bathroom.
He looked a lot like me. He had the same black wavy hair, the same olive skin. His eyes were very dark though.
"I'm Hazel." the girl said
"Nico." the boy said quietly.
"Umm Frank wanted me to give you this." I held out the gift.
"He says happy birthday!"
"Aww, thanks Alyssa!" she opened it, and it was a gold necklace. The pendant looked like a boat with seven kids on it. Each kid had a different colored gem on what must be their heart. They were even heart-shaped.
Hazel gasped.
"Oh my gods this is amazing! Did you guys make this?" She asked Annabeth.
"Yeah." Annabeth replied. "We wanted to make something special so we took some gold and gems from the box you gave to Frank..." She smiled
"Hope you like it!"
Hazel put it on with a little help from Nico.
"I love it!"
"Good. We'd better get going." Annabeth said.
"Mmmmkay. See you at dinner." Hazel said, still examining her necklace.
"Last stop." Annabeth said as we headed to cabin nine: Hephaestus.
She knocked on the door, and someone said "come in."
We walked in and the first thing we saw was a vaguely familiar head of curly black hair. The boy looked up. My eyes widened.
"Leo?" I asked incredulously.
His eyes widened too.
"Alyssa?"