Why was he here, of people it had to be him. I don't hate him, but boy did he make me mad. No scratch that, I nearly hated him, but I couldn't truly hate him. And to think I was having such a good time, and I already have a few friends, but he just had to show up. I was walking through the forest, taking my sweet time, if he wanted to talk he should be willing to wait all day. But I reached an empty spot, surrounded by trees and with a small beam of sunlight shining into it. I walked to it, I figured he would be here.
"What do you want?" I asked out loud a little mad. No answer, but he was here, I knew it. "Where are you, I was busy." I said looking around. Still nothing, only the sounds of trees swaying back and forth, but I knew why he wasn't coming out. "Please come out...dad." I muttered out. I hated calling him that, but it was true. Then out of the shadows like a ghost, Erebus came out.
He was tall like me, and he had a lean muscular build, but still skinny just like me. His hair was long and thick with a lot of knots in it, and went to the middle of his back, and the color of a black hole. His eyes were sunken in and had bags under them, and they were just as dark as his hair. His skin was pale, like white smoke, like he had never seen the sun. He looked like the boogeyman from Rise of the Guardians, if he grew out his hair for a few thousand years. But that's just his mortal form, I've seen his true form...it's awful. But he had on a black overcoat with a dark grey button up under it with black slacks. And to top it all off he had a black tie, like a businessman from the underworld. When he saw me he smiled, revealing his black teeth.
"Ah Blake my baby boy." He said smiling. His voice sounded like Heath Ledger's joker, high but not to high, and deeply intimidating. "Hey Erebus." I muttered. He frowned. "You could call me dad you know." He said. I hate when he acts like just a poor dad, it made me so mad. "Gods what do you want!" I yelled at him angrily while stomping my foot to the ground. I was tired of his games, he did this all the time. But I noticed when I stomped the ground, the dirt around me turned black, Erebus smiled but didn't mention it. I hated it when it happened, but he loved it.
"Calm down, I'm just seeing how your doing at the new camp." He said calmly. He stroked the side of a tree, and it turned solid black. "No your not, your here for a reason." I told him. His eyes narrowed, like he was trying to say something. "Fine, you're right, I have a friend who made me an offer regarding you, but he will ask you personally...eventually" Erebus said with a smile. I looked at him at him carefully. "What friend?" I asked him backing up. "Oh no one, you'll find out soon enough, now go, and keep your weapon close." He said smiling walking up in front of me.
I forgot about those, my 14th birthday present. I rolled up the sleeves to my leather jacket and looked at the bracelets. They were black as night and fit comfortably around both of my wrists, I didn't even feel them. I threw my hands down like I was throwing something at the ground, and the two spikes came out in between my middle and ring finger. They were about a foot long each, and were like a spike. Solid black like the bracelets but theses had a black mist coming off of them. "They still look great don't they?" Erebus asked me holding my arm and admiring them. I snatched my arm back. "Yeah sure Erebus, now can you go?" I asked him impatiently. He rolled his eyes. "Fine, but know I'm watching and it's only a matter of time before my friend comes by, keep an eyes out." Erebus said with a smile. Then he fell back and landed in a shadow caused by a tree, and he was gone.
I wanted to hate him so much, he has done some messed things, but compared to some of the other primordial gods he wasn't that bad. But still, what he did to mom is unforgivable. But a friend of his coming to camp, I didn't like the sound of that. I threw the spikes at a tree in anger, but they disappeared when they hit it, still felt good though, and they left black mist coming off the tree.
But I'll worry about his "friend" later, I decided to head back to camp, I didn't want people to know I was gone. I moved some bushes and I was back at the archery range, but no one was there. I looked around, but no one was in sight, I just heard a loud noise coming room the lunch pavilion. "Great." I muttered to myself. I walked to where I heard all the noise, and sure enough the pavilion was filled with every camper, they were all eating different kinds of food. Must be lunch.
I walked down to it, I noticed Nick sitting at a table separated from the others along with other kids, but they all looked a little older so I figured I wouldn't be allowed to sit there. So I looked around and saw Johnny, Holly, Finn, and the two guys I met earlier, Benjamin and Bethany. I walked over to them, and yet again I walked into an argument, great.
"The CGI was dominant and it had a better cast then those old crappy movies." Benjamin said looking at Johnny. Johnny slammed his fist on the table. "The prequels were the worst thing to happen to Star Wars, who likes Jar Jar!" Johnny yelled. "I love Jar Jar!" Benjamin yelled back. "For the love of all the gods will you guys shut up!" Holly said annoyed. Johnny and Benjamin both sat down with there arms crossed. Finn was just calmly eating his food, or his buffet I should say. I saw the remains of two burgers, a few empty bottles a snapple near him, a big empty plate with just a few fries on it, an empty milkshake glass with a straw coming out of it, and half an apple pie. But all he had left was half the apple pie.
"Hungry big guy?" I asked him sitting down. When he saw me he smiled. "Just a bit." He said laughing. He had a big grin, but I didn't blame him, the school me, him, Holy, and Johnny went to had awful food. But Holly looked up and saw me, and she smiled. "Hey Blake!" Holly said in her usual loud voice. I waved, I liked to be quiet, but Holly practically yelled whenever she talked, so whenever she said hi I would just wave.
"Blake, question." Johnny said right when I sat down. I sighed out loud. "What?" I asked him closing my eyes. "Star Wars, original trilogy," Johnny was saying, but when he said that Benjamin gave him a look. "Or the prequels?" Johnny asked me still giving Benjamin the dirty look. "Never seen any of them." I said bored. I never saw the point in movies, I know a lot of people like them but for me it's just fictional characters that will never affect me, but that didn't mean I tried to make not fun for others. But The look Johnny and Benjamin gave me, they acted like I just said I didn't know what New York was. "Oh lord." Holly said under her breath.
"You've never seen….Star Wars." Johnny asked me silently. "No, but I'm sure it's great." I said hopefully. "I need to go, I can't right now." Benjamin said as he stood up. "Yeah, I'm there with you, see you guys later." Johnny standing up as well. Then they both walked away, looking at me with an unbelievable look.
"That happened." I said watching them as they walked off. "Eh, they'll get over it, but that's not important, what did you need in the forest?" Holly asked me. "There was a, umm, a turtle!" I said quickly. I bit my tongue though, I was an awful liar and I always had been. Holly and Finn looked at me weird. "Okay then, well I hope it's okay." Holly said looking at me weird. I smiled awkwardly, only a few people knew about my dad being Erebus and I didn't want to make that list any longer. "Well anyways, you wanna come with me to pick a weapon, Peter is bringing me there." Finn asked me. Honestly, I wasn't that hungry, and I didn't anything better to do. "Yeah, I guess." I told him. He smiled at me. "Sweet." He said in a chill voice.
Not gonna lie, I admired Finn a lot. He was the definition of a gentle giant, rarely getting violent. I was friends with him before I really started talking with Johnny, mostly due to the fact that we shared a room together. He got mad at a few things, Fortnite gamers, people who complain about rich things, and bullies. And I've seen him get mad at all these, and it's always satisfying to watch. But other than that he couldn't hurt a fly.
The rest of lunch went by quickly, it was mostly Holly talking about gods know what and me and Finn smiling and nodded. I think she was talking about Leprechauns when I saw Peter walk up to me. "Ready to go Finn? He asked him cutting off Holly. She grumbled under her breath, but stopped talking. "Yeah, and Blake is gonna tag along." Finn told him. I nodded at him when he said my name. Peter smiled. "Great, do you need a weapon?" He asked me. I shook my head, but I didn't tell him my current weapons. Peter shrugged his shoulders. "Just follow me then." Peter said. I nodded and me and Finn stood up and followed him to get Finn a weapon, just a normal day at camp apparently.