When Willow and I walked into the cabin the first thing we saw was a bunch of people. A couple bunk beds were there but they were all taken so people had to use the floor. Seth walked in and plopped himself down on a bottom bunk.
"Listen up everyone! We have two new campers that haven't been claimed yet! This one is Willow and that one's Lilly. Now get them a sleeping bag!" Seth announced.
"Fresh out boss, I'll go steal a few more though," a short girl said.
"S' ok, they can go without for now." Seth handed us both a pillow and blanket, "Hope you like it here."
"Like it? I absolutely love it!" I enthused.
"It's alright," Willow agreed.
I still had my bag in the car and I didn't know what I would do with it yet. Being in a cabin full of thieves, I decided I'd just leave it there.
"How about you come with me and I'll give you guys a tour of the camp."
It was a medium height, muscular guy that appeared to be thirteen. He had green eyes and black hair and was strangely pretty even though he was a male. Possibly a child of Aphrodite?
"That sounds cool," Willow agreed.
"Yeah, sure," I absentmindedly said.
The door was open and I was staring hard at something. I didn't know what it was until I heard screaming.
"MONSTER!"
Most of the people in the cabin jumped up and ran out the door. I watched as they attacked with their swords and defended with their shields. They were all working together like a mechanical arm to defeat the raging monster. Someone managed to stab the thing and it exploded into a pile of greenish-yellow ash. I walked out and approached Seth who helped defend against the horrifying monster.
"What was that?" I asked.
"That was a hellhound," he replied.
"How did it get in?"
"I'm not sure. Someone might have summoned it or it came from the woods by itself; which I doubt."
"On the way here, which by the way took almost a whole day, no monsters attacked us. Do you think there's something going on?"
"I have no idea, but that does sound odd. You might want to talk to Chiron about it."
A conch horn sounded and people started to come out of their cabins and head to the mess hall.
"Breakfast time, we better go to our table."
The two of us headed to our assigned picnic table with a cloth over it and the other cabins went to theirs. I sat down next to Willow with my leg hanging over the edge and Naiads came out of the water and served us food. Just like in Percy Jackson, everyone lined of at the fireplace and dumped some of their food in. I went up and burned a delicious looking orange slice. As I did that I prayed to the gods, Hermes or whoever my parent is, can you please claim me so I can have a home? Then I went back to the table and ate.
After we ate, Willow and I snuck away to be the first time in awhile. We were walking around in the woods and finally found a creek. Next to it was a huge flat rock and so we sat on it. For some time we didn't talk, I just skipped rocks while she hummed.
"Lilly?"
"Mmmhmm?"
"Is this real or am I in a nightmare?"
"I was wondering the same thing for a while, except a dream instead of a nightmare, and then I realized that this is definitely real."
"That means that my gods don't exist."
"I think they probably do, it's just that you so happened to be a child of a Greek god instead."
"I suppose you're right."
"Ever since I got here I got a wider view on things. I think that all gods exist and people just think that you can only worship one or a set of them. From now on I worship all gods."
"That's a nice way to think about it. So a totally different subject: I think Seth is cute."
"My possible half-brother? He's got to be only fifteen."
"Yeah well, I'm only sixteen."
"You're going to be seventeen in a month and half though."
"Ok, ok, I just thought I'd tell you. Do you think anyone here is cute?"
"Yeah, all of the Aphrodite cabin. You know I don't date."
"Oh sorry, I forgot."
"Yeah right, you just wanted to know how deep my dedication went," I accused sarcastically.
"Ok, you're right. You caught me read handed," Willow said putting her hands up playing along.
"Who do you think your parent is?"
"I've narrowed it down to a god."
"Which one?"
"Not a single god just a god because I feel the most repulsed my father. I love him and all but I don't really have a fatherly connection with him."
"And with your mother you do? I personally think you a daughter of Apollo."
Just then a glowing scale appeared over Willow's head.
"I know who your parent is now."
"What? How?"
"Look up." She looked up just before it disappeared.
"Who's that? Who's the scale?"
"Goddess of revenge and balance?"
"Um… I don't remember."
"It's Nemesis."
"Why claim me now?"
"Maybe it was a horrifying thought that you were Apollo's daughter."
"Maybe…" And we both started laughing. Once we stopped Willow suggested, "Let's go tell Chiron."
"Good idea."
