Chap.4.
|lios
This was all super weird. "I'm Ilios, that's Cora. Is this Camp Half-Blood?" "Yes, this is Camp Half-Blood." Ilios realized she didn't know what a half-blood was. "Umm, Chiron what is a half-blood?" "Sit down, and let's talk." They walked over to a large house with a porch, on the porch was a table, they sat down around the table. The table had some strange game set up on it. "A half-blood or a demigod is a child of a mortal, along with one of the greek Gods." "THE GODS!" Cora screamed. "What the heck!" Ilios exclaimed "Yes, the gods. How about I start at the beginning." and with that Chiron told them about the gods and the wars. "Wow, demigods have a crazy background," Ilios said. "Yeah, I hope we don't end up like them," Cora commented. "Well most demigods end up with a tragic life, but we'll see what happens to the both of you," Chiron said, a little creepy, but ok.
"Oh, I almost forgot to tell you about claiming," Chiron explained claiming to the two girls. "So, claiming is basically your parent putting a glowing sign on your head to show you are theirs. That's really all you had to say Chiron." Ilios commented kinda rudely "Oh, I'm sorry that was kind of rude. It's just you should know already that most demigods are ADHD, so they can't really pay attention that long. See look at Cora, she's staring at the distance." Ilios didn't really know why, but she felt that she had to defend herself. "Huh, what were we talking about?" Cora asked "Claiming." Ilios said her and Chiron were trying to explain claiming to Cora, but a bell rang. "What was that bell for?" Ilios asked "That's the dinner bell." Chiron said finally, they got Cora's attention, but now they had to go eat dinner.
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Well life could not get weirder, or so Cora had to pretend. After living with Poseidon for a decade (but not aging) she got used to it, but Cora didn't remember that a whole lot. But yeah, apparently, all the greek gods were real and not just Poseidon which was what she originally thought, there were monsters, and her and Ilios were half-bloods. Well she was definitely not telling Ilios her secret today, or really any day soon probably. Cora felt like her mind was literally about to explode. "Come along. You two will sit with the Hermes children for dinner. Then, you will come to the campfire for the singalong, there I will introduce you to the camp. Any more questions?" Chiron asked them. "Um, no," Ilios said. "One more thing, when is dinner?" Cora asked. "And is there bacon?" Ilios added. Chiron laughed and said, "Normally bacon is at breakfast, but it will appear if you ask for it. And that bell that just rang? Yes that was the dinner bell. Follow me to the dining pavilion, please." Just then Chiron got out of his wheelchair, and STOOD UP! HE WAS PART, HORSE! He must have seen their faces because he said, "Oh, I'm a centaur. Part human, part horse. Are you coming?" "If there is food…. Yes." Cora said.
The dining pavilion was huge! It was so big Cora didn't know how to describe it. There were so many tables with a bunch of kids ranging from ages 5 to 18. "That is the Hermes table over there," Chiron said. "I will see you at the campfire." and with that Chiron went up to the table with another dude. "Um, well let's go meet some Hermes kids," Ilios said. "Yeah," Cora responded. They ate at the far end of the table a bit away from the other kids. After about fifteen minutes two kids came over and sat next to them. "Hi, you don't look familiar, so I'm guessing you just got here. My name's Travis Stoll and this is my brother Connor." "Um, hi I'm Cora and this is my sister, cousin, ish-related person but not really related so I guess we're just great friends who are practically sisters, um, person, named, Ilios." "... Your sister, cousin ish-related person but not really related?" Connor asked, confused. "Yeah. Like, we were adopted by two sisters which made us cousins, then Cora's mom got really sick and ended up, um, dying, so my mom adopted both her and her other adopted brother…so yeah. It's confusing." Ilios replied. "I can tell," Connor said. After fifteen more minutes of talking, Travis said that they should head to the campfire.
Cora felt like the walk took forever, but it could have been her ADHD talking. Once they got there Chiron gestured for the girls to sit in the front row. "Hello everyone. I'm sure you've noticed the new campers, and if you haven't, then don't worry they have only been here for a few hours." Chiron said. He started talking about some other stuff that Cora didn't pay attention to. Then Chiron said, "I would like the new campers to come up by me now." Ilios and Cora got up out of their seats and went to stand by Chiron. He quietly asked what their last names were and they told him that they didn't really want to give out that much information about themselves, which he said was definitely fine. "Campers this is Ilios and Cora. They arrived earlier today by direction of Lord Apollo, and-" Chiron was cut off by the campers gasping and pointing above the girls' heads. Cora looked up and saw the image of a skull and bones. She noticed that Ilios had a picture of a sun above her head. When Cora turned her head to face Ilios everyone stopped whispering and stared at her hair. Cora looked at it and saw that it now had raven black streaks in it and the ends were starting to turn raven black too. Then Chiron seemed to recover from his shock and said, "All hail Cora, daughter of Hades and Ilios, daughter of Apollo."
