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The son of Poseidon, his brother, and the unclaimed girl wandered cluelessly into the bland cabin of Hermes. It was packed with kids and most of them were just chilling, looking crammed and uncomfortable. As the three walked in, all those near the cabin door stopped and stared at the new arrivals, trying to decipher their godly parents, meanwhile the trio looked awkward under all the stares.
"Unclaimed or claimed?" someone yelled towards them.
"Unclaimed?" Jason called back with uncertainty.
There was a round of groans but two kids walked forward to them. They appeared to be twins Percy's age and had a mischievous glint in their eyes and had a sly grin on their faces.
"Hello there," the slightly taller one said
"And welcome to the Hermes cabin." The other finished.
"I am Travis Stoll, and this is," the taller said
"Conner Stoll at your service, we are the cabin counselors for this cabin."
"Percy Jackson, that's Jason, Piper's over there." Percy replied bluntly, bored with all the introductions.
"Well since you will be staying here for a while, you guys can stay over there," Travis gestured toward a corner where no sleeping bags were scattered. "We'll get you supplies in a minute, but you can put your belongings over there for now." He finished.
"thanks." The son of Poseidon said making his way to their corner.
As they struggled to jump over others belongings piper said.
"You guys are sure organized, aren't you?" she said sarcastically.
"Well sorry, but we haven't been cabin counselor for that long." Travis called from where he stood before.
Jason turned around towards the twins. "What do you mean? What happened to the old one?" he asked curiously. Everyone in the cabin that heard the question froze and looked at Jason.
Conner scratched the back of his neck nervously.
"Well his name was Luke and he well…" he tailed unsure of what to say.
"Ask Annabeth later." Travis said quickly. "Anyway drop off your stuff and let's head to the armory to get suited up for capture the flag before dinner starts." He changed the subject.
The three new comers quickly dismissed the subject for later and followed the leaders outside and to the arena.
The arena stunk. Like a never been cleaned after years of sweat and blood stench. It was not pleasant but the kids quickly got used to it. They made their way around the ring where a heated duel was going on, and through the seats that were set up around it, they made it to the back wall where a large arrangement of armor was set up.
The armor varied from bronze, iron, celestial bronze, to silver, they also had designs from fire print, Greek symbols, to different god's symbols. Most of the used armor squeaked and was large so when Percy picked one out and plopped it on Jason he had to hold it up so it wouldn't fall over Jason to the ground.
"Hmmm… well I guess this isn't the one." Percy said removing his brother's armor.
"Yah, I guess not." Jason said laughing at the predicament.
They both started to rummage through the assortment of the Greek body protectors. After about ten minutes Jason lifted one up in awe. It was a slender chest plate, connected with shoulder plates and chain to protect his sides. Lightning bolts and Greek words were imprinted into the iron chest plate. Jason hastily held up the heavy armor but with the help of the twins they lifted it over his head and he shimmied into it. It fit a little loosely but would work its purpose.
"Alright, just wear this helmet and your good, for this game we are on the red team." Travis handed Jason an iron helmet that only showed his eyes and mouth, it had red hard hay like strands sticking out the top like a miny horse mane helmet.
"Thanks guys." Jason said happily testing out his armor by whacking himself with a lone wrench. Piper then got suited up into a bronze over sized outfit that looked the same as Jason's except hers only had Greek symbols on it.
"Okay Percy let's find you something." Conner said looking up to see Percy already suited up. He wore a silver breast plate and chain shoulder and side connecters. It was plain except for the gold trimming on the edges. "Alrighty then, nice choice. Here's your helmet." Conner handed him his matching to Jason's helmet and Percy stuck it in between his arm and chest. Just then a long gong like bell sounded over the camp.
"Diner calls, come on. To the dining hall." Travis said making a superman pose, pretending to fly his way to the dining pavilion. They fallowed and were lead to a large outside concrete piece in the valley that had columns holding up beams to connect them, giving a nice clear sky view. Percy, Jason and Piper were lead to a very crowded table, everyone crammed together with no elbow room.
"Come on; hurry before the seats are all taken." Conner said rushing off to one of the only vacant seats left. The three scurried forward to investigate the seating arrangement but barley any room was left. Percy turned to the table and saw them shuffling down the bench, making just enough room for himself.
"Well what are you waiting for? Come sit down." Travis said, patting the seat next to him.
"But what about Jason? Or Piper?" Percy questioned.
"They look fine to me." Travis countered looking past Percy towards the ground. Percy turned around and saw Jason sitting on the floor near the cabin table with Piper sitting close by him; they were both giggling at something Jason must have said. Percy shrugged and settled down at the table. Soon some nymphs brought out plates and cups, the plates had roast beef and vegetables with some potatoes or something while the cups were empty. A plate was given to everyone at the table, including Jason and Piper.
Then everyone got up.
"Where are you going?" Percy asked one of the twins.
"We need to sacrifice the best portion of our meal to the gods. They like the smell of it." Conner replied. Percy followed in suit and got in line to feed some of his food to the fire pit in the front of the pavilion. The kids before him dumped their juiciest piece of meat, the ripest vegetable, even the most flavorful piece of fruit.
When Jason was at the hearth he scraped his potatoes into the fire and mumbled some prayer to his father. Piper tossed her grapes into the pit and thought about who her mother was, praying it wasn't one of the pathetic goddesses. Next was Percy, and unlike the others he didn't send good thoughts to his dad, no he thought about the unnoticed gods, the ones like Hades and Hestia, Nemesis and Hecate, and many others. The flames engulfed the ¾ of his meal that he put in, and the fire grew bigger like the gods felt appreciated for once, happy.
Percy stumbled back to his seat and ate his already almost empty plate of food. He grabbed his cup, expecting a water dispenser somewhere near but then he noticed what the others were doing. They looked at their cup and said what they wanted and the liquid magically filled the cup on its own. He thought about the coke he used to drink back when his mom used to cook for him, he thought about how she would put blue food coloring in it to make it blue and the cup in front of him filled with the blue drink. He then silently thought to himself until the grief voice of Chiron brought him back to reality.
"Great campers, welcome all of those who are new." He paused for the applause of others to calm down. "Now today we have a special game of Capture the Flag, the Hunters of Artemis have joined us tonight." A round of claps were spread. "So Campers versus Hunters. Meet up at the creek after you finish your meal." There was a big commotion, but for Percy and Jason they didn't know who the hunters were, or what they were capable of. They had a big surprise in for them.
I love you guys. The reviews made me so happy. Anyways you can still vote for a story I should write but I wrote the first chapter of the fifth option yesterday. It was the one about Kronos abuseing young Percy, and distant relatives coming back into his life, ya well its called Foster Homes. Check it out and I will probably write a couple more stories that had a lot of votes.
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