Chapter 10 is here (finally). It's been awhile hasn't it. Hope you like it.
Chapter 10-Annora
It was still dark outside when I woke up. I lay still trying not to make noise or wake everyone else. I thought about what had happened the day before. It's so messed up, I thought. I took I leaned over and looked out the window. The sun was coming up. I looked at the clock. It read 7:30. Great, I thought, Can I never sleep in? Whatever. I tried to fall asleep again, but I couldn't. There was a loud knock at the door. Raine and Star grumbled and rolled over in their sleep. I heard a loud thump noise from behind the sliding door, like Damien had fallen out of bed. Catherine climbed down the ladder from the top bunk. She was already dressed and her hair was tied back in a pony-tail. I sat up in my bunk. "What time did you get up?" I whispered. "6:00." She whispered back. "I wasn't sure what time to get up. So, I set the alarm for 6:00 and hoped for the best." "Oh." Was my only response. At least someone had thought ahead. As Catherine opened the door to see who was knocking, I got some of my clothes out of the truck and went into the bathroom to get dressed. Hermes did a good job of packing suitcases. I emerged from the bathroom in one of my favorite pairs of boot cut jeans and a plain black tee-shirt. I walked over to Catherine who was now trying to wake up Star.
"Who was at the door?" I asked quietly as I tied a sweatshirt around my waist. "It was Leo." Catherine answered as if that explained why he had knocked on our door. "Will you help me them up, please?" "Sure." I said. I climbed up the ladder and shook Raine awake while Catherine continued to try and wake Star. After they were awake and dressed, we tried to figure out who was going to wake Damien. "Someone just go wake him up." Raine said. "Let's play rock, paper, scissors to see who wakes him up." Star suggested. "Whoever loses, wakes up Damien." We all agreed to that. On 'shoot', Catherine threw paper and so did Raine and Star. I was the only person who threw rock. "Oh, come on!" I yelled. "This is crap!"
"Just go wake him up Annora." Raine said with a sigh. I walked over to the sliding wall and started knocking which turned into an extremely loud drum roll. "What the hell do you want?" asked a grumpy voice from the other side. "It's time to get up!" I yelled. "Meh." Was his response. A few minutes later, the sliding door opened and Damien appeared. He was dressed in black jeans, black sneakers, and a Death Metal shirt. He pulled his longish rust-colored hair out of his hair. "Any particular reason why I have to get up now?" he asked. Just as he said this, I heard a conch horn blow in the distance. The door to the cabin opened and Leo walked in. "Breakfast!" he said. Leo took hold of Star's hand and dragged her out of the cabin, the rest of the following behind. He let go of Star's hand. "So," he said, "Star, you're gonna come sit with the rest of us Hephaestus kids. Since the rest of you are undetermined, you'll be sitting with Chiron and Mr. D. at the head table. I'm sorry but those are the rules." I shrugged. I didn't care as long as I wasn't sitting on the floor. "See ya." Star said. We watched as Leo and Star jumped into their spots in the longish line of demigods that were walking down to the dining pavilion. We followed at the end of the line, Catherine in the lead. When I scarped a portion of my food into the brazier for the gods, I asked my godly parent (whoever that was) not to claim me last because I didn't want to be alone in the cabin and then asked the other gods, if they were the parents of my friends, to claim them all at the same time so that they wouldn't have to be alone in the cabin either.
We walked to the table and sat down. Raine sat nearest to the edge of the table. Catherine sat next to her on the right and Damien sat on Catherine's right. I had been the last one in line so I ended up sitting nearest the middle of the table. I wasn't happy about that. It made it more awkward for me when Dionysus sat down sat down in the chair next to me. Suddenly, I felt the need to use all of my manners so that I didn't feel like I was being rude. Dionysus chuckled. "Relax." he said. "As long as you don't intentionally insult me, you're not being rude. I am the god of partying after all." He pulled a can of Diet Coke out of thin air and took a drink. I looked back at my plate and finished my breakfast.
When I finished everyone else was still eating. I leaned back in my chair and looked around the pavilion. I spotted Star talking and laughing at the Hephaestus table. I looked over at Damien, Catherine, and Raine. They were debating something. I was bored. I started humming absent mindedly. "Please stop." Dionysus said. I sat back in my chair doing absolutely nothing. I started drumming on the table. "PLEASE STOP." Dionysus said. "Sorry" I said. I leaned back in my chair again. Dionysus went back to his conversation with Chiron. I looked over at my friends. They were still talking about that thing they had been debating earlier. I listened carefully, picking out their voices from the crowd of laughing, yelling demigods. They were trying to figure out who their godly parents were. I stopped listening. Yeah, it was cool that we were demigods and yeah, I was curious as to who my godly parent was and who they thought it would be but as long as I was undetermined, this wasn't completely real. That's the way it seems anyway. It's like how essays don't exist until the night before they're due.
"Are you bored?" Dionysus asked.
"A little." I responded. "But I'm ok with it. It gives me time to think."
He chuckled again. "Most demigods would be bored out of their minds." He said. I shrugged. I looked over to see that my friends had finished their breakfasts now as well. Dionysus walked over and stood between Catherine and Damien. "The four of you will report to the Big House after the conch." He said and then he disappeared in a puff of purple smoke. A little ways away a conch sounded and everyone filed out of the dining pavilion.
Once we got to the Big House, we weren't sure whether to go inside or stay outside. Luckily, a satyr found us and led us to the back of the wrap-around porch. There we found Dionysus and Chiron playing cards. "Ah. There you all are." Dionysus said, not looking up from his cards. The two of them laid down their cards. "Ha, ha! I win old man. That's 100 Drachma Chiron. Come on, pay up." Dionysus said happily. Chiron handed Dionysus a small bag that jingled like it was filled with those 100 Drachmas. The satyr still stood next to us. "Thank you, Helion." Dionysus said to him. "You are dismissed." The satyr bowed awkwardly and run back around to the front of the house. Dionysus looked at us as he collected all the cards. We looked back at him. "The four of you," he said, "need your schedules. Yes?" We nodded. He handed us each a piece of paper with various camp activities and times. "Have fun." He said. The four of us took that as a cue to leave and go to the first activity scheduled: sword training.