Charlie

When Chiron held out her hand for us to go in we proceeded. Carter started to go first, but I stopped her. If anything was waiting to jump us, I would take the fall. Can't have my crush getting her eyeballs sucked out of her head or something crazy like that.

"Chiron, what is this place?" I asked.

This place was crazy! Large shields with elaborate designs hung on the walls. Huge columns were fallen over onto the ground, like on the outside. A huge table stood in the middle. It had twelve seats around it. The table was bigger than any normal mortal table, and I think I knew what it was for. Larger curtains and drapes were scattered around and ripped to bits. I could now see up close the ancient dishes. I knew this was an ancient Greek temple.

"Tis an ancient Greek temple child." He replied. Now did I call it, or did I call it?

"But how did it get here, and why?" questioned Carter. Her sword was now lowered, off guard. Her eyes seem to glow like blue crystals in the dark and dank room.

"I would never have thought anyone would ever find this, but of course two of my most curious pupils have discovered it." He looked at Carter and she blushed. Yay, I found someone as curious as I am. "This children, is where the Gods would come and meet once a year at camp." His voiced echoed in the large sanctuary, and his hoofs went "clop clop" whenever he took a step on the old marble floor.

"Why would the gods need to meet here?" I asked.

"Well, to check up on things. Many years ago, before any of you children were born, this palace was built. The gods would come and I would report about how things were going, and how may campers we had."

I looked at him puzzled. "How long ago?" I questioned.

"Oh, I have lost count." He chuckled. "At the least, four hundred years."

Carter and I's jaws dropped.

"FOUR HUNDRED YEARS?" I hollered, astonished. Carter looked over at me, and grinned. I must have turned seven different shades of crimson.

"I wish I could see in this darn place." I retorted.

Carter's eyes it up and she bounded over to the torches on the walls, and then yelled "I got it!" she held up her sword and I hollered "DUCK!" Chiron and I hit the floor just as she hit the button on her sword. When we came up from behind a large seat, all the torches were lit, and half melted.

"I gotcha covered." She said and smiled.

I smiles and she looked at me with beaming eyes.

"Well, there is no more to see children; we must go before the gods get angry with our small offering." He ordered.

"Come on," I said and nudged her to the doorway. "Let's go back to camp before everyone else wonders where we are."

She smiles and followed me out the door. She took my hand, and even though I knew the way, she didn't let go. I looked down at our hands and smiled, and she did the same. We went down the steps, and I realized we still didn't have on our shoes. We made our way to the bottom and began our long journey back to camp.

"Hey Chiron?" Carter asked. Chiron was a few feet behind us, walking along the beach, as were we.

"Yes child?" he replied.

"How did you find us anyway? We walked in the water. There is no way you could see our footprints." She explained.

"Yes I sure couldn't. But you see Carter; we centaurs have very good smell. Add that to our good sense of direction and our speed, and you have your answer." He finished.

"Oh, I hope you're not mad at us?" she asked.

"Of course not, but sometimes curiosity is what can lead children like you astray. You might want to watch that." She looked back and he smiled at her.

"Yes sir." She agreed and smiled back.

We walked down the sand for a minute longer, before a boy came running up the beach.

"Chiron!" he yelled. The boy finally reached us and I could see his face. He was pretty tall and muscular. He had wavy chocolate colored hair, and he had forest green eyes, with small specks of dirt like brown. He wore a camp half blood t-shirt and Nike tennis shoes. He looked to about fourteen and had fair toned skin.

"Davey what is it child!" Chiron ordered.

"Wait wait!" I interrupted, "Who are you?"

"I'm David Thorn, son of Demeter." He was a bit shy to me, but I would open him up eventually.

"Oh, hi I'm new." I said back holding out my hand. You have to be polite to win people over.

"Your name is new?" he asked

"Oh, no, I meant I'm new, my name is Charlie." I laughed a little bit.

"Oh, nice to meet you." He shyly shook my hand back.

"Enough small talk children, what is it Davey!" asked Chiron wildly.

"Oh yea! All the Pegasus got loose! It's a stampede back at camp! You must help!" he said sacredly.

"No time to lose. Run children!" ordered Chiron.

We frantically ran back to camp. Carter and I were hurrying so fast that we couldn't hold hands, which was sad for me. Davey was like a freaking lightning bolt! He was almost as fast as Chiron was going (which was slow for his speed). I was impressed with him.

When we reached the beach Carter and I didn't even bother to slip our shoes on. We ran straight to our cabins and grabbed our swords. I got "Achilles" from under my bunk and ran to meet Carter outside. As we looked around we could see the chaos. Pegasus were running and flying everywhere. Anywhere I looked I saw flashes of pink or green or yellow.

"Let's go to the forest, I'm sure some will be there!" she ordered. I didn't even say anything, I just ran. My feet hurt from running on the hard ground in bare feet, but I didn't care. We bolted straight through camp. I looked around and half bloods were going crazy trying to calm the wild beasts.

Suddenly I heard yelling. "WAIT FOR US!" I looked behind us and up came Davey, and a new girl.

She looked like a wild fighter (not in the bad way). She was running just behind Davey.

"Come on Luna!" he yelled behind him. "I'm only a couple of feet behind you, you twit!" she yelled back. "Well no need for the harsh names." He spoke calmly. I laughed. Carter and I stopped to let them follow us. Luna had short black and blue hair, black on the bottom with awesome blue on top. She looked wicked (in the cool way and not to worry I didn't have a crush on her). She wore a tie died camp half blood t-shirt. It was died black, of course. She also wore baggy ripped jeans and torn up converse shoes with writing on them. Her nose was pierced, and it didn't look bad. You know how some people look creepy with piercings? Well she didn't look bad with it. She wore almost black lip stick and her eyes were almost black as well.

"Who's the newly?" she asked casually when she saw me. They had now reached us on the hill before the forest.

"Luna, this is Charlie, Charlie, Luna." She introduced us to each other.

"Hey," she said while popping a bubble with her gum. "my names Luna."

"Cool name." I replied.

"Thanks," she said casually, popping her gum again.

"Who is your Godly parent?" I questioned.

"Hades." She said looking at her black painted fingernails.

I looked over at Carter in shock. How Hades if he had taken the oath.

"He, uh, broke the oath," she explained timidly.

I looked at Luna, and she nodded. "yup." She said popping the P.

"Well let's get on with it then," said Davey.

We proceeded into the woods, on the lookout for any Pegasus.

I noticed Davey didn't have any weapon.

"Dude, where's your weapon?" I questioned franticly. We didn't need anyone getting hurt like Carter had.

"Oh I got it." He whispered. The woods were half dark and quite eerie now.

I didn't even tell anything, I just held out my hands and wavered towards his empty hands.

He smiled evilly, and then went for his shark tooth necklace. I didn't get it at first, until he ripped it off. He whispered to it "tempori" he said. I had token Latin in school, and I could tell that meant "it's time". Suddenly it started to change. Before I knew it, his necklace had transformed into a large spear. It had painful looking spikes on the end.

"Dude that's so epic!" I whispered a bit too loudly.

"SHHHH" hissed Luna. Carter just looked at me and smiled.

"What's its name?" I went on quieter.

"Its name is ember bark." He said and smiled while looking at it.

"That's nothing compared to MY weapon." Luna said smiling wickedly. I was scared she would pull out a battle awe or something, but instead she pulled out a knife from her pants (don't ask me where she kept it). The knife had a black design creeping up the blade, with skulls no doubt. The handle was black as well. It had a name engraved in the blade. It read "dolore" which meant "painful" in Latin. I didn't want to cross blades with her.

She flipped the knife, smiled, and then held it in an attacking position. Of course we weren't going to hurt and Pegasus, but what if a monster attacked? At least I knew we were safe with Luna around. Carter had "Acantha" in hand and I had my weapon as well. We marched farther into the woods.

Suddenly, I heard something ruffle in a nearby bush. We all jumped, except Luna (of course, she was brave). We turned towards the rustle, and then nothing happened. Luckily they were all thinking what I was thinking (don't trust it). We stood there motionless, until it finally came. Out of the bushes creped a large, fang barring, hell hound.

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