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Chapter Three – Camp Demigod
"What? Where? How?" I spluttered, sitting up and looking at the weird teenagers in what I hope was a confused look. "Where's Kat?" I whisper this. The teenagers looked at each other and didn't respond. "I said," I stood up, suddenly angry, "Where is Kat?!"
The teenagers looked frightened by my burst of rage, I heard them mutter things to each other; "We shouldn't anger her, who knows what she can do!" "How'd she get through the border?" "Did you see that? She just popped out of the ground!" "What if she's one of Gaia's monsters?"
"Ahh, so they talk!" I exclaimed in annoyance, "Not to me, obviously, but to each other. It's totally like I did not just sink into the ground then wake up to find myself here!" I say this very sarcastically. "And it's totally not like I just asked a question about my sister and none of you answered me!" I was on a roll now. "Oh, and I do not know where the hell I am, and why I just sank through the ground!"
The teenagers all looked quite scared now. They backed away from me slowly, as if I were some animal that they didn't want to fight with. Alright, being angry wasn't going to work, then I would try to be soft.
"Look," I said, using a softer tone, "Could you just tell me who you are and where I am?"
They all looked at a girl with red hair and blue eyes, like she was some sort of leader. Said girl stepped forward to talk but was interrupted by a loud booming voice.
"You, my dear, are at Camp Half-Blood" The teenagers parted so that the owner of the mysterious voice could come through, and what an owner indeed. It was a centaur! A male one too. I had thought that those were just myths and stuff, but then again, my day hadn't gone exactly normal. "And these are the campers!"
The centaur gestured to the campers, who stood up straighter when he looked at them. He was there leader, I noticed.
"And, ah, where is Camp Half-Blood?" I was resenting asking the question, fearing the teenagers would think that I was silly. Geeze, Lis. You've been here for five minutes and already you're worrying about what they think of you, I thought to myself. But the teenagers looked at me as if this was a perfectly reasonable question. "Like, what country?"
The centaur's face turned to a look of sympathy. "We are on Long Island, California, America." I gawked. America?
"Y-you me-mean, not England?!" I almost shouted and cried at the same time. I heard murmurs among the crowd that had formed; "Well, that would explain the accent." "How'd she get all the way from England to here?" "She sank through the ground and ended up here, half-way across the world?" I was wondering about the last to questions myself.
"I know this must seem very confusing for you," the centaur assured me, kneeling down on one of his horse legs to help me up. "Aya, would you please make a rainbow for me?" The girl with red hair and blue eyes, the one who I thought was the leader, nodded and concentrated really hard. Then, suddenly, a huge spray of water magically fell over us creating a perfect rainbow.
"Get this over with quickly, please Chiron, I can't hold it for long." I realised two things in that moment. One, that this girl, Aya I think her name was, was controlling the water. And two, the centaur's name was Chiron.
Chiron took a gold coin-looking-thingy and tossed it into the rainbow.
"O, Iris, goddess of the rainbow, please show me the English news for yesterday." It half-amazed me and half-freaked me out that there was a centaur standing in front of me and talking to the rainbow. But what amazed and freaked me out even more was when the rainbow slowly turned into a news show that I knew so well, The English News.
"John Welsh's daughter Elizabeth Allison Welsh and step-daughter Katja Jade Welsh have gone missing. John Welsh and Jacinta Welsh are baffled and claim that they didn't notice any strange behaviour for either the girls in the days leading up to their mysterious vanishing. The girls were last seen at school, where Elizabeth was just expelled. If anyone happens to see either of these girls please contact this number." My dad's phone number appears at the bottom of the screen along with a picture of me and a picture of Kat.