'So, pets are now allowed in Camp Half-blood, for some reason. Don't come to me when they start to ruïn your pillows and your cabin starts to smell bad.' Dionysus sat down again after the last announcement, while the campers started cheering. The Demeter cabin was especially excited; they had told Chiron about the idea of every cabin being allowed to have one pet, and now it was real. The pet didn't even have to be your parents' holy animal, it could be whatever your cabin wanted!
Yet, complications immediately jumped up. The Apollo cabin was one of the fullest cabins in camp, with eighteen children in the summer. Apollo was the god of a lot of different things, and a lot of his kids had only gotten one of those abilities, and every single one of them wanted the pet to be an animal that would fit (or even help them with) their own special talent. Will wanted a little snake, because of the logo of doctors. 'We can't do that! The Asclepius or Hermes' kids probably already got that,' one of his siblings complained. 'We should have a cat or a parrot, so we can do something musical with them and get millions of views on YouTube!'
Kayla wildly shook her head. 'Than we don't have anything that shows our dad is the god of archery. Will frowned. 'What do you want us to have that has to do with archery? A dead deer?' Kayla smacked him. 'Don't be so mean.' Within seconds, Nico stood next to the table. 'Kayla, I don't appreciate you smacking my personal ray of Sunshine.' He pulled Will from his chair. 'Come, Will, we are going to go to my table and then we can talk about what animal we want.'
Percy knew exactly what he wanted: a few seahorses. He could keep them in his fountain, which he could still use for Iris-messages if there were seahorses in them. He could get two, so they could build a family. He jumped up from his chair, so excited that he didn't even notice the leftover macaroni on his plate. He ran towards the sea, desperate to ask his dad for a few seahorses.
The entire Hecate cabin came with the same idea: 'guys, lets have owls, they fit magic.' Well, the entire Hecate cabin minus one. Terry, a son of Hecate, said 'toad' instead of 'owl.' His siblings turned to him, just staring. 'Why a toad? Owls are so much better!' lou asked eventually. Terry turned to her. 'Because Owls are Athena's holy animal. The Athena cabin will think that we try to suck up to them.' One girl shook her head. 'No. And even if they think that, owls are still better than toads. What reputation will that give our cabin?'
The Demeter kids chose to have chickens. They built a pen outside of the cabin, and everything was fine for a short time. It was around the same time that the Iris cabin got a really funky coloured Gecko, which looked like Iris herself had send it to them (Or, to the pet store Butch happened to be passing by). They called the gecko Skittle, even though both Nico and the Dionysus and Hypnos cabin thought it was dumb (The cabins considered each other neighbours. The Iris, Hades and Hypnos cabin were actually neighbours, and the Dionysus cabin became close to the Iris-kids after a certain incident).
Will and Nico had chosen a skeleton-dog. Will was scared of it at first, but warmed up to it after some time. It was a cute, cuddly animal, even though it was dead. The Hypnos-children got a pet sloth called Mickey. It mostly just hung on a branch in the cabin. On the other side of the branch would be food, which it would eat when it wanted. The Dionysus cabin got a black cat, which they called Panther Caesar Velvet T'Challa. It was a ridiculous name, but Sheila and Pollux had decided that the names fitted perfectly and they could not be persuaded into changing it.
It was then that the chickens started to cause trouble. One of them picked through the pen, and ran off. Her sisters quickly followed. The Demeter cabin had Ancient Greek at the time, so they didn't notice. Their neighbours, which was just the Athena cabin, were also busy at the time, and therefore couldn't stop it. In no-time, the chickens had either gotten into somebodies cabin and were now eating the chocolate bars, or got eaten by Panther Caesar Velvet T'Challa.
There was one chicken who got into the Big House, and in a very crazy way, which no-one could tell anybody about because no-one saw it, Seymour the panther head ate him. When Chiron walked into the Big House, he was greeted by the sight of feathers on the floor, blood on the walls and floors, and Seymour with some scraps hanging around his mouth. It was then that Chiron declared that birds were illegal as Cabin-pets.
The Ares-cabin had first said that having a pet would be stupid, but then they decided that they could get a tiger. They called the tiger Slaughterbeck, but soon after that they learned that tigers aren't very good pets. It first started to hunt on other pets, but it didn't take long before it started to hunt on campers.
The Aphrodite girls had just been sitting by the lake when the tiger had sneaked up on them. A few of them jumped into the water, but that didn't work. The tiger fixated on one of the girls, who stood frozen by the side of the lake. Luckily, that was the moment Dionysus and Chiron came running up to the scene. Dionysus controlled the tiger, which slowly walked back from the girl. The daughter of Aphrodite burst into tears. Chiron comforted her, and later at dinner announced that felines were also illegal now - at least, if they have all their limbs. Seymour was still legal.
The Dionysus cabin didn't like that, because it meant that they had to send Panther Caesar Velvet T'Challa away. It turned out to not be much of a problem, because Chiron gave them permission to bring it to Pollux' mother's house. It took them about three days, because of a small problem with a monster on the train to South Dakota.
It tipping point that made pets illegal was when Chiron realised that the Hecate cabin had had an owl and a toad the whole time. In less than a month, pets had gotten legal and illegal again. Most pets were brought away. Except for Mickey and Skittle. Mickey was hidden in the stables, and Skittle was secretly kept in the Iris-cabin. Yet, it changed address every now and then. Sometimes the gecko would be in the Hypnos cabin, sometimes in the Hades cabin, and every now and then in the Dionysus cabin.
If this chapter is a bit weird, I am sorry for that. I was ill when I wrote it, so it is possible that I wrote dumb and weird things because of my fever. The certain incident with the Dionysus, Iris and Hades cabin will be uploaded this monday.