CHAPTER FOUR
The camp and really weird things
I was glad that we went there, it looked like a huge door frame made of quartz and in the middle it said ''Στρατόπεδο ετεροθαλείς'' I was able to understand it perfectly it said ''Camp Half Blood''. I can't believe I can read gibberish and not English?
There was a hill we were standing on and the view was great, lots of houses, a lake, a big fire place, a forest, a huge field like an arena, some sort of old theater, a soccer field, a wooden-Stone House next to some fruit fields, and a mountain wall.
The driver started running down hill and Carlos took some wood from behind a tree and got into it and as from my perspective he was skating on ground downhill, that was awesome I wished I could do it but I had Sky in my arms now, she was now resting and knowing we are safe at the camp, she told me if I could carry her. And again I have no problem carrying someone down, mostly if it's a girl, so yeah I said yes.
I had to walk all the way down with her in my arms, when we got close to a big house, some people ran out terrified and concerned looking at me and Sky in my arms as if some dangerous accident had happened to her but I saw Carlos and the driver so I knew they explained what happened with the Cyclops and I don't know what was the other thing, I didn't get its name.
Sky started to get up and some people took her to some house I think it's the infirmary. The weirdest thing just happened I saw a man that from the waist down he was a horse and Carlos didn't have pants on, he only had goat furry legs and hooves for feet.
The man with the horse body came to me and said smiling, ''You must be Danny Ross I presume?''
I just stood there with my mouth wide opened seeing this man, he looked like a centaur I thought. He was tall since he had horse legs; brown skin including his horse part, his hair was dark and short to look as a school teacher and had a bow on his back like he got back from an archery lesson.
The man said, ''I'm Chiron, teacher of great heroes; it's my life's duty to train every half blood, as you may know Hercules, Aquilles, Perseus, and many other great heroes that lived to save the world.''
I closed my mouth, stood confused, and said, ''What is this place?''
Chiron said, ''Before another questions involving this place or what we do here let's call your parents, so they know you are here safe and sound.''
My eyes wide open; I said, ''Oh my parents, I almost forgot about them, they must be worried why I didn't go home.''
Chiron told me to follow him into the big house to look for a phone. As usual they get a call of me saying I did something bad or something I wasn't supposed to do, but this was much different, Chiron was in the phone talking to my parents telling them that I was chosen to be in this camp and that I had lots of potential waiting to be unleashed and that this camp was going to make me realize who I was and what I could do, then he handed me the phone expecting me to talk.
It was on speaker and I could hear them both. Jerry said, ''Danny do you want to stay in the camp?'', Kate jumped in and said, ''Or would you like to stay home with us for summer'', well I wasn't going to say no but I really wanted to stay. I said, ''I'll stay and try to have fun and I promise I won't cause trouble to anyone'', with that they pretty much believed me. I intended not to cause trouble this time. I really meant it this time.
Jerry said, ''Ok, we can't tell you not to stay or go since it's your choice and'' Kate interrupted, ''But we want you to be really happy and we love you''. Jerry said, ''Well, that's settled you will stay and enjoy this summer camp and call us if there's any problem. Don't forget to call us every week.'' with that I handed Chiron the phone and he kept talking about activities and lunch, dinner, breakfast, a camp sing along at night, a canoe lake and more fun stuff, then he hung the phone and told me to go with him to a big cabin with lots of kids inside.
Chiron said, ''This is cabin 11, the Hermes cabin; we put all newcomers here unless we know who your godly parent is''. I stood there thinking, did he say godly parent? As in a god?
I was way too tired to complain of any kind or ask what godly thing he was talking about. Chiron said, ''Tomorrow pass by the big house, many road signs lead to the big house. I will instruct you with all you need to know, but for now rest.'' And with that he left me in a big cabin with lots of beds in the floor. Some campers came to me and said I could stay in the corner since it was empty and no one had taken the spot.