Chapter 10; Athena's mark

Lucas's POV

I stopped running away from Maya and found Farkle. He had just come back from his tour with Annabeth.

"Hey, Farkle, how was your tour?" I asked him, he turned to me and smiled.

"It was great, I love the architecture of all the buildings and the facilities are amazing." He answered.

"Yeah, Annabeth designed them all. She's a great architect, one day she wants to rebuild Olympus." I nodded, I walked with him over to the buffet to get some lunch. Today it was hot chips with lamb souvlaki (barbequed meat on a stick), and pita bread (flat tortilla bread) with a side of Greek yoghurt.

"So where do I sit, I know I haven't been claimed yet, so I have no idea who my godly parent is?" He asked me as we neared the fire pit.

"All unclaimed demigods have to sit at the Hermes table. Can you do me a favour and watch Charlie Gardener for me? He was chatting up Riley before." I asked, craning my neck to try and see if Charlie was behaving . I showed Farkle how to scrape your food as a respectful offering to your godly parent to show how thankful you are.

"Zeus," I whispered, scraping off some chips and a souvlaki.

"Who do I say?" Farkle asked. I was about to tell him to say Hermes but at that moment a transparent owl appeared over Farkle's head. The campers all stood up and applauded. Farkle looked around in astonishment, wondering what he did to deserve such affection.

I picked up a mirror from the Aphrodite table next to me. "Could I borrow this for just one minute?" I asked the pretty girls. They giggled flirtatiously and nodded. I resisted the urge to roll my eyes. These girls are always so sickeningly dumb and malicious. I passed the mirror to Farkle. He looked at it quizzically and went pale.

A clang wrung out as he dropped the mirror on the floor in surprise. I picked it up and gave it back to the Aphrodite girls. Luckily it wasn't damaged, or they'd have my head on a silver platter. Or worse, I'd have to repay them by going on a date with one of them, ugh. I turned back to Farkle, who was swatting at the symbol over his head. Jason was holding his plate.

"It's alright, you've just been claimed by your godly parent. Athena, the goddess of wisdom." He stopped swatting the owl and it faded away.

"Oh, so that explains why I never found my birth certificate!" he laughed shakily. Chiron stood up and held his arms out to silence everyone.

"Farkle Minkus, son of Athena." Chiron announced. Everyone clapped one last time before sitting back down and going about their business. Farkle nodded to the Aphrodite girls.

"Sup pretty Ladies," he said in his signature way, they scoffed rudely and picked at their nails. I turned Farkle away from them.

"Trust me, they're like that to everyone who isn't muscularly toned or completely attractive. Not that you aren't any of those things, just that they don't see it yet." I tried to make him feel better. He scooped his food into the fire pit after getting his plate from Jason. Mumbling 'Athena'.

I lead him over to the Athena table and introduced him. I would have left him with Annabeth but she's gone to have a nap because tonight she's on fleece duty. Chiron did apply for a monster to come and guard the fleece but nothing wanted anything to do with us.

I can't blame them. We basically spell out trouble. Instead of having a monster guard the golden fleece the campers take shifts. Mine is on Tuesday night.

After lunch Riley, Maya, Farkle, Zay, Percy, Jason, Piper, Leo, Thalia and I were all going to train with an assortment of weapons to try and see which one we're the best at before we choose our weapons for our quest.

Jason has his coin/sword, Leo had a variety of painful devices in his tool belt, Piper has her dagger, Percy has his pen/sword, Annabeth has her dagger and her Yankees cap, I have my Bracelet/Lightning bolt and my Bow and arrows, Zay has his javelin spear and Thalia has her spear and her shield but the others have nothing. I'm thinking a dagger for Farkle, maybe a spear or a sword for Maya and for Riley?

I can't imagine Riley with any weapon, she would never hurt another living creature. Oh, that reminds me, I have to show Riley the bay window. I think there is only a bay window in the Zeus cabin. There's one in the room next to mine.