A/N: Oh, my gods, I feel so awful for not updating in forever! I promise over Spring Break I will update more! Only one more week! Here is the very first back in camp chapter and I hope you enjoy it! This chapter is dedicated to grimbutnotalways, who has reviewed faithfully every chapter even though his character still hasn't gotten a chance to shine, I hope I wrote him the way you'd imagine!
Chase's POV:
The gates were closing around me, faster than before. Around the gates, rings of raging fires were swirling. There was absolutely no escape, I was a goner.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
My eyes flashed opened and my breaths were heavy. I turned to my side to examine the source of the noise, it was my alarm. I absolutely hated demigod dreams; they took your fears and created the worst possible nightmares you could imagine. I quickly got out of bed and looked around. My three other half siblings, Samantha, Janelle, and Jacob were still asleep. The Eris cabin was small, as there were only 4 of us, and I was okay with that, I think having to many siblings would be overwhelming.
I headed to the shower for my normal morning routine: shower, get dressed, brush teeth, and eat breakfast. As soon as I was done brushing my teeth, I headed towards the dining pavilion. It was a perfectly sunny day at camp, yet with no news of the quest, it was as if an ominous cloud was above everyone's spirits. I immediately spotted Cesar with his robotic arm, already eating at the Hecate table. He gave me a slight nod, and then went back to his food. I was about to look for Connor, when I remembered he was off on his quest.
I was already becoming bored of this. Everybody seemed so sullen and morose since the quest had been given out. Either everybody was nervous that we would lose five of our best campers, or they were jealous of the fact that they got to take a trip into the real world. I, personally, was neither. I knew Connor was good enough to take care of himself and the full group, and I wasn't exactly jealous to be sent off into the real world.
"Hey, Chase, you're later than usual." My sister Janelle said to me as I sat down with a plate full of food.
"How did you get here before me?" I asked. When I last checked she was still asleep.
"Unlike you, I don't take five hours to get ready." She replied with a laugh.
Janelle was one of the most troublesome of my siblings, coincidentally, also the one I got along with best. We both have similar backgrounds as we both were orphans, and got in trouble with the authorities...a lot. But unlike Janelle, I never actually got sent to Juvy...
With her red and black hair, tattoos, and biker style attitude, Janelle literally was the daughter of Eris, through and through. My appearance was slightly more toned down, I just had plain blonde hair and no tattoos but we both had the same brain, wired for trouble.
Trouble…that's what this camp needs…
With a plan in my head, I ate breakfast as fast as I could. I only had a couple classes today so I had the perfect amount of time to set up my "idea".
First class, Greek. Cecilia "Ceci" Kat, a daughter of Athena was in charge of teaching us today. Unlike most Athena girls, she has brown hair and grey eyes, unlike the typical blonde. She's a totally nerd and pretty nice, but there are a bunch of rumors out there about her twin sister siding with Kronos in the Titan War, but there is no hard, solid proof.
She droned on and on and on. Until she finally said, "Ok, μεγάλο μάθημα, αλλά είναι το τέλος της έκτης τάξης, μην ξεχάσετε να σπουδάσουν!" I sighed, I translated it somewhat easily Ok, great lesson, but it's the end of class, don't forget to study!
I laughed, as if I had time to study, there is so much more to life than just textbook stuff.
"Hey, Cec." Ryan Blaze said as he planted a kiss on Ceci's forehead.
"Hey, Ry." She replied picking up her books and taking off her reading glasses.
Hmmm, Ryan Blaze, what was familiar about him. Aha! He was a son of Zeus, Riya's sister. I wonder if Riya has contacted him with any information on the quest yet. I wondered if he had any news on Connor. I'm usually not one to talk to people out of the blue, but this was majorly important!
"Ryan!" I called out.
He looked confused for a second, and then figured out who had called him. I think he figured out what I was going to ask him because he jogged over to me with a very serious expression, unlike his usual smile.
"Have you heard anything from the quest?" we asked each other at the same exact time.
"Uhh, wait what did you say?" he asked me.
"Did you hear anything from the quest?" I repeated.
"Ummm, no." he replied running his hand nervously through his hair. "I was kinda hoping you had heard something."
"Maybe Cesar knows something…" I said hopefully, even though I knew he knew nothing.
Ryan obviously sensed that Cesar didn't know any more than we did, so he said, "Hey Cec, come over here." He said motioning to his girlfriend.
She walked over to us, then asked, "What do you need, Ry?"
"Do you think you could search through Daedalus's laptop for any information on the quest?" Ryan asked her.
Daedalus's laptop. That computer was legendary. It was donated by an old camp hero, Annabeth Chase, another daughter of Athena. Her only request when donating it was that it be kept in the Big House for everyone to use. Unfortunately, the only ones with the attention span long enough to dig through that computer, were Athena kids. I for one, only use that computer for video games.
"Yeah, sure." She said with a smile.
"I'll call Cesar, and we should all meet up at the computer to see if we can find anything useful." I offered.
"Ok, sounds good. Meet you in 5 minutes." Ryan said.
Ceci just nodded at us quietly. I guess she was kinda shy. She then turned and said, "Oh yeah, and Mr. Keldheart, next lesson, pay attention." With that she turned on her heel and walked toward the Big House, leaving me quite speechless. I didn't think she had it in her, oh well, time to find Cesar.
Finding Cesar isn't exactly an easy task, if you know what I mean. Even though his robotic arm stands out in a crowd, he disappears as easily as a chameleon…
I'm a pretty fast runner, so I took a quick jog around camp. He wasn't there. My next idea was to check the Hecate cabin. It seemed like a good bet, considering he was a son of Hecate.
I poked my head in the cabin, but didn't dare step in. All the magic in there could easily make anybody nervous. Cesar noticed my head in the doorway and waved.
"What are you doing here?" he asked me furrowing his dark bushy eyebrows.
"Well, we are going to go do some research on Persephone's daughter and other stuff, you know, for the quest." I replied motioning him to follow.
He looked intrigued and somewhat curious as he cautiously got out of bed and put down the piece of metal he was tinkering with. We both jogged towards the Big House, only to find Cecila typing away like crazy on the computer.
"Hey guys, what did we miss?" I asked as I pulled up a chair and sat next to the screen.
"Well, right now Cec is racking through the Olympus chat rooms and tabloids for any gossip on information on Calla. But we have to be quiet to Cec can concentrate." Ryan said as he pulled up another chair for Cesar.
"And print." Cecilia said hitting the print button on something. Cesar picked up and looked at it.
"What is it?" he asked turning the picture.
"Demeter posted the only know picture of her only granddaughter on her page on her Olympus wall." She replied with a grin.
"We should probably send this to the group." I said.
"Done." Ryan replied. "I already sent it to Riya's Htablet."
"Htablet?" I asked raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah, a Hephaestus tablet—untraceable by monsters…" He replied. "I got it for her for her birthday."
I nodded still confused. Yikes this Hephaestus technology came out every day!
"Oh, just got a reply." He said showing us his tablet. She says:
"Thanks for the pic, big bro, but Chiron already gave us a copy of it. Miss u all! Everyone is currently alive :) I try to give you guys news when I can! IM me soon!
- Riya
"Well at least everyone is alive." Cesar said in a monotone, yet optimistic voice, if that is even possible.
"Well what are we waiting for, let's Iris message them. Cesar can create a rainbow and I have a drachma right here!" I says as I patted my pocket.
Cesar snapped his fingers and a misty rainbow appeared right next to screen I tossed in my drachma as I said, "Oh Iris, goddess of the Rainbow, please accept my offering. Show me Connor Jones, son of Hermes." I said.
"—and Riyanna Karma, daughter of Zeus." Ryan added in.
"Leave me alone, Connor." I could see Riya say as he followed her up the stair of…WAIT STAIRS? OF A HOTEL! What in Hades was going on here?
"Or what?" he replied with his signature smirk.
"Or I'll slap that smirk of your face!"
"Hi guys…" Ryan said awkwardly.
"Heyyyy guys…" Riya said blushing bright red as she realized all of us were on Iris message.
"So guys, any new info?" Riya asked us as she sat on the stair above Connor, as he promptly walked up two stairs to sit above her.
"Umm, sorry…no…but we promise to keep researching!" Cecilia said.
"No problem!" Riya replied much more cheerily than she had to Connor.
"So, Chase, Cesar, cause any trouble lately my friends?" Connor asked with a wicked smile.
"Not yet, but I do have a plan in mind." I replied.
Cesar looked at me skeptically.
"Not now, I'll fill you in later. At least not when Miss Goody-two-shoes, daughter of Zeus in listening." I said with a wink.
"Heard that, Chase, and just so you know, Janelle and I are tight, I have more than one way to get revenge, so you better watch your back, Mr." she said with her blue eyes glinting.
"Chill out, babe." Connor said putting his arm around her shoulder.
"If you want to keep your arm, I would suggest moving it away from me." She said smiling sweetly as she stood up. "Oh and if you want to keep your tongue, I would suggest stop talking."
"She's just playing hard to get." Connor said to us as I winced in sympathy.
"I'm not playing hard to get try: unattainable." She said rolling her eyes. "Ry, Cec, take care okay, I'll try to keep in touch, okay bye!" she said as she moved out of the frame.
"She'll be fine." Connor said to us. "She's just been acting all crazy after we—"
A knife whizzed right past his ear, it was easy enough to guess where it came from. "Uhh , nevermind, I gotta go, bye now!" he said as he too, disappeared.
"Well, that was fun." Said Cesar.
A/N: Well, what did you think? Did you like the Back at Camp chapter? Please review and tell me what you've thought, see you guys soon!
