I stepped back a bit. I've read about the primordial gods, they're like the gods of other gods, like Gaia and Chaos, and the one that controls darkness is his dad. "Oh." Is all I could muster out. Chiron rolled up next to me and put his hand on my shoulder. "Now, the reason I tell you is that you both have a similar problem, both your dads don't have children very much, and you both have lost your mothers." Chiron told us. I nodded, Mom died protecting me, and I feel like Blake didn't want to talk about his mom, to be honest I didn't either. And looking at his face, I could tell I was right. "Okay, but like, in the nicest way possible, how, how did a primordial god have a demigod child?" I asked Chiron. "Well, we don't know, but we're sure Erebus is his dad, the sign came on his head the minute he stepped into camp, then we sent him to school with Johnny so he wouldn't have a few friends and wouldn't feel like an outcast." Chiron told me. But I knew the main reason, Chiron was afraid of what Blake could do and wanted to make sure Blake didn't have a reason to kill us all. He wasn't going to admit but I had a good way of reading people, and that's why he did it, I'm sure of it. "But he's just like you, and since we don't have permission from Hades he'll be staying with you in the Hera cabin, me and Mr. D need to talk about somethings, so you to go have fun until activities start tomorrow." Chiron said. I nodded and stepped out, with Blake following me. Right when I stepped out I heard Mr. D talking about Dick and Nate sharing a cabin, I was starting not to like him.
As I was walking I couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable, I knew how scary and big Erebus is, it made my back shiver, like a thousand bugs crawling down it. "You don't have to hide it, I scared Mr. D and Chiron at first too." Blake said with a sad tone to his voice. I stopped and looked back at him, and his face looked sad, like my first time at camp. "You might not get it, but I know the feeling, I used to be homeless so people being scared of me isn't nothing new." I told him. He looked at me weird. "You were...homeless?" He asked me with a concerning voice. "Sure was, I ran away from my orphanage and for a few years was homeless, until I found Camp Half-Blood." I told him. "Oh, well sorry about that, it must have sucked." He said as a matter a factly. "It wasn't that bad, I didn't have to deal with lousy neighbors." I said with a smile. He laughed a bit, I noticed that his teeth were white and straight, a dentist's dream come true. I hadn't seen him smile yet, but it was nice to make someone smile.
After five minutes of us talking and me filling him in on people to know at camp we arrived to the cabins, they were a bunch of kids outside the cabins talking and meeting with friends and siblings. I noticed Lacy bringing stuff inside for the salon, like metal wall decorations of hairbrushes and a pair of scissors. David was setting up swords on the walls of the Ares cabin in the shape of an X, along with a metal skull. I also saw the Demeter kids watering plants outside, they had flowers, vines, and venus fly traps that were like 6 feet tall, might even keep the Hermes kids out. And then my cabin. Made of white pearl and had two pillars on the outside, people seemed to avoid it, and to be honest I didn't blame them.
"There it is, my cabin." I said with a frown. We walked in front of it and stopped, just looking at it. "Well, it sure is something." Blake said hopefully. "Whatever you say man, let's head in." I said as I walked up to the door.
We both walked in, and when I opened the door I noticed how dark it was, someone must have shut the blinds. "Is it normally this dark?" Blake asked me looking around. "No, the thing is that I'm the only one who stays here, until now." I said motioning to him. He nodded. I walked up to one of the windows and opened the curtains. Light instantly came in the room illuminating the whole place. The light shined off the polished marble of the Hera statue, the white beds looked brighter. The whole place smelled like a new car, honestly I couldn't stand the smell, but I can handle it. Or maybe I could get something, like maybe a hamburger and leave it a drawer to make the place smell like a normal cabin, or maybe I shouldn't...I'll bring the idea to Blake later.
"Cabin sweet cabin." I said. Blake looked around with big eyes. "It's super nice in here, nicer then my house." Blake said looking around. I looked around, but to be honest it wasn't my favorite cabin. "It's alright." I said. I walked over to the couch, correction, my couch. Scratch that, another correction, my bed. It was the same, white leather with big cushions. But I didn't care for the cushions, I tore them off and saw the pull out. I smiled and pulled it out and I saw my bed, with the light blue sheets. I put my bag on the bed and sat down. I saw dust come out the bottom when I sat, and I heard the sound of something crushing, probably the mattress because it was so old. But I loved it.
"This is so comfortable, why sleep on the pull out?" Blake asked me sitting on one of the beds. "Eh, to comfortable," I said pointing to the beds."-this mattress is soft and also hard, perfect for me." I said as I fell back on my back. "Fair enough, well what else is there to do around camp?" Blake asked me. "Oh, let me pull out the brochure we have here at Camp Half-Blood." I said sarcastically. He rolled his eyes. "Thanks, but what is there to do, I'm new here." Blake told me sitting on his bunk. I would have said another smart comment, but I knew the feeling of being new. I sat up and looked at him.
"Well, today is more of a free day because no activities are happening, but tomorrow we'll be doing things like sword fighting, rocking climbing(I didn't mention the lava to him), archery, rope courses, and three meals a day, simple stuff." I said. "Great, well what can we do today?" Blake asked me. "Well, I know a few people might be at the archery range, so let's go there then." I said. Blake nodded and stood up. I stood up and stretched my back out with a loud cracking sound, the bed was comfortable but not good for my back. But Blake didn't seem to care, so we both walked out.
The cabins were the same, the only difference is I saw three of the Hermes kids being chased by the two of the Athena kids who had green slime on them, I connected the dots in my head and let them sort it out on there own. And I was ready to go to the archery range, it's probably where Bethany is.
We walked past the cabins and by some of the rope courses, and I saw the archery range. The range was right next to the forest, gave it a nice view and some arrows were sticking out of the trees near the range, probably for practice and better targets. But I saw two people in front of, it looked like Bethany and Holly, the girl I met earlier. But looking at Bethany, she hadn't changed at all. She had her red hair let down like usual, it always glistened in the sun, the only difference was that she just looked older. But it looked like she was in a heated argument with Holly, battle of the redheads style.
"It's a ranged weapon and a melee weapon, way more useful!" Holly yelled holding up a spear. The spear had a wooden handle and a metal tip, tied together with rainbow duct tape, nice homemade weapon. "But it's hard to move around and is too long, not practicable!" Bethany yelled back. "Mine can retract its size, so that makes no sense!" Holly yelled back. They each had weapons drawn and were at each other's throat, someone was going to be hurt. I ran up to them quickly. "Woah woah woah let's calm down!" I said stepping in front of them with my hands up. "Move Nick, I'm busy." Holly said. "Good to see you Jack, but we'll talk later." Bethany said gritting her teeth. "Look, Bethany, the bow is great for ranged, and Holly, the spear is fantastic for up close combat." I said trying not to let them kill each other. But when I said that they both gave me a mad look, and I knew I made a mistake. "You know her?!" They both asked me simultaneously.
"Look, it's the first day, let's all calm down." I said. Holly snorted under her breath, but she shrunk it down to a small key-chain and clipped it to the belt loop of her jeans. Bethany put her bow on her back as well. "Great, now what happened?" I asked them. Bethany stepped forward trying to keep her cool. "Well, I was practicing my archery and Holly came up and mentioned something about my bow that was a little mean so I poked fun at her spear, and things escalated from there." Bethany told me. Holly didn't say anything, so I figured that Bethany was right, or Holly just didn't care. "Well, it's over now so let's chill." I said. "You're right, sorry to get off on the wrong foot, we'll be besties from now on, right?" Holly asked Bethany happily. Bethany rolled her eyes and walked away.
It was quiet for a moment. "Well that happened." I heard Blake say from behind me, I forgot he was there to be honest. "Oh hey Blake, didn't see you back there." Holly said with a smile. He awkwardly waved, but he still looked a little happy though. "She explained it, I was just walking around alone, Finn and Johnny are off doing something stupid." Holly said rolling her eyes. "Well let's find them, Johnny probably has something fun to do, or stupid, either way sound interesting." I said. Holly nodded. We started to walk, but I looked back and saw Blake staring at the forest. "Blake, you good?" I asked him. He waved me away. "I'll catch up, see you guys later." He said not taking his eyes off the forest. "Okay then, we'll be with Johnny and Finn." I said. He nodded. I then walked off, but Blake looked worried, hope everything is okay.
Me and Holy walked up to the cabins. It was pretty easy to find them, Finn was 6'10, but it looked like Finn was talking with three people and Johnny was just a spectator behind him. He was talking with Harley. Harley was the Hephaestus cabin leader, he was 6'0 and was pretty buff, probably due to the fact that he was working at the forge since he was like seven. He had short curly brown hair and hazel eyes with tan skin, he was also really tight with Johnny. And honestly he looked like the evolved form of Leo. He had on a white T-shirt with a lot of black spots over it and it had holes in it, but it was hard to tell with the apron he had on. There were a lot of tools on the pockets of the apron, like hammer and stuff like that. And there was a girl next to him, Becky. Becky was the Athena cabin leader. She had brown hair that was the color of tree bark, and it was pulled back into a ponytail and she was rather sort, maybe 5'4. She was also pretty skinny, but I spared with her last summer, she was much stronger then she looked. We were pretty good friends, and it was good to see her. She was wearing a camp shirt with a long sleeve white shirt underneath, along with jeans shorts and a dagger strapped to her thigh. And then David was there, no introduction needed.
"Look at him, born to be an Ares kid." David said swing his warhammer at nothing particular. "No, his hands are huge, made to work the forge!" Harley yelled at him. "Look, he's not stupid like an Ares kid and his hands are soft unlike you Hephaestus kids, he's tall and smart, definitely an Athena kid!" Becky yelled at both of them. "Hermes?" Johnny asked to them. "Shut up Johnny!" They all yelled at him at the same time. He rolled his eyes and walked to the Hermes cabin, he looked a little sad but it's Johnny, he'll be fine.
But Finn looked so confused, it must be hard being his size. I leaned over and got next to Holly's ear. "Let's save him." I whispered to her. She looked up at me and nodded. We both walked up the the four. "Hey guys." I said smiling. "Oh hey Nick!" Becky said smiling. She walked up and gave me a hug, one of the things I liked about not being homeless is that I have friends. "Hey Becky." I said. She let go and turned back to Finn. "Hey Nick, question." Harley told me without saying hi. "What's up man." I asked him giving him a high-five. He smiled but then got back to the question. "Is Finn Athena, Ares, or Hephaestus?" David asked me interrupting Harley. I acted like I was thinking. "Aphrodite." I finally said. They all laughed, except David, he was to cool to laugh apparently.
"Well how about we wait for someone to claim me instead of arguing please." Finn asked us with a calm voice. Becky sighed. "He's right, I bet he'll be claimed at the campfire tonight." Becky said. Harley and David nodded. "I got stuff to build anyways." Harley said as he walked off. "Yeah, see ya." David said. Becky looked around, like she was trying to find something to do. "I, ugh, I got something to do, see you guys later." Becky said smiling. And she walked off, leaving us alone. "So, what now?" Holly asked me. But before I could answer, I heard a bell. "Well, that's lunch, so that's what we'll do." I said. And then we started walking to the lunch pavilion, the smell was practically dragging me to the area.