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Camp Half Blood Campers' Correspondence a Year Later-[Axel Rhodes to Gus Rhodes]
Hey Gus,
You wanted to know what's going up so I decided I'd just write a letter like everybody else. I really want to call this place lame, but it's still the best place for me, even if I do have some terrible memories from it. I guess having a cabin to call your own helps, and not having to have to do everything with those lame-ass Hermes kids. I remember thinking that I wanted to kill them, but after I actually did, it lost a lot of its appeal. I can't figure out who I killed, either. Their memorial only has names, and I never learned those. Some of these kids here, they're way too young, but I guess they don't have a better place to go to, either. They let us do whatever we wanted on the Andromeda, but there's nothing like Camp Half Blood if you're looking for a good chariot race. Competition in good fun is more enjoyable than real competition for some reason. Our cabin's testing out 2 chariots at the moment. We technically have a 3rd, but we only just found out that Byron, our returnee, got this chariot going with this huge returnee Hephaestus broad, Vienna, without even telling us. That ticked good-old Clarisse off a bit so when we all thought that she was going to team up with her boy toy, Chris, she changed her mind and apparently wanted to kick his ass more, so she's teamed up with Mark and Thor promised he was an ace spear thrower so I've got him in my chariot. Hannah's sorting the horses out for us. She annoying in a hilarious way. She keeps trying to pick a fight, but then all I have to do is look at her and she backs off. Her and Rupert. Nothing scares Natasha. I'm thinking of bailing and letting Sherman or Donovon drive if Clarisse micro-manages us anymore. She's determined to kick both Chris's and Byron's ass. I don't doubt we'll beat Chris, but I'm pretty sure she scared of Byron. Not real scared. I don't think anything could scare Clarisse at this point, but she really, really doesn't like losing. Too bad the Greeks didn't have gunpowder. I'd totally snipe them out on a hill. If Clarisse actually wins this thing, I'm done with camp and I'm joining the military. She's trying to be all secretive about the tricks her chariot's got, but Clarisse sucks at subtlety. It's got the classics: spear-launchers, wheels with retractable spikes, grappling hook. My chariot's got all that too, but I never doubted the classics. They banned anything designed specifically to trip up the horses this year, since they complained, which means no bolas or dropping spiked balls, but they let us keep stuff for wrecking the wheels. I don't know how they're going to be able to tell the difference between stuff aimed at wheels and stuff aimed at horses' feet, but whatever. As long as I get my flame-thrower, I'm cool. Clarisse was so ticked when she saw that I had a flame-thrower. She gets so red when she's angry. It's amazing. Then she tries to kill me. I made friends with Chris, though, so usually I just bring him up and she gets all confused. I'm thinking of painting his face on my chariot, just to see what happens. I think it would give me an edge.
Hey, I'm thinking of growing a beard. What do you think? Think that'll look tough? Not that I need advise in looking tough, I just respect your opinion. Kind of.
Axel
Ares Cabin – Cabin 5
