Child Of The Moon Ch.3
Camp
"Wow!" was all I could say. That's how wonderful the pavilion was. There where long tables with flags stating a Greek god or goddess on them. The man in the when chair said he would be right back in a more 'comfortable' form which I assumed was a four wheeling wheel chair but to my surprise when he came back from the waist up he was wearing Greek battle armor, but from the waist down he was a white stallion! Emma pushed on the bottom of my jaw which I just then noticed was hanging open.
The man (or is it horse dude) obviously noticing my confusion introduced himself. "I am Chiron trainer of heroes for so many years I lost count."
Of corse I just had to go and say something stupid, "you are a horse dude!"
Chiron laughed obviously used to my reaction."And you are a very powerful demigod!" He replied and laughed "I believe even though it is against camp regulations, should sit with Emma she is very helpful in these situations as our ambassador to the hunters, and after diner and campfire I wish to talk to you."
"Ok" I said stupidly, and went with Emma to a table with a flag that said Artemis on it. Soon more campers filed in, looking curiously at Emma and I and some kids most likely from the Aphrodite cabin gave Emma dirty looks. (Which I think is about the whole not dating thing.) Once everybody was there Chiron slammed his hoof (foot?) three times on the granite and began with announcements.
"...capture the flag on Friday..." That got a lot of cheers, "...and finally we have a new CAMPER" he put emphasis on camper "her name is Johanna Jones and she is currently unclaimed, we hope to see her claimed by the end of campfire this evening or at most the end of capture the flag tomorrow!" He boomed everybody clapped obviously happy I wasn't a hunter (I had a feeling they didn't get along). "Now eat!" and with that a bunch of plant people started giving all of us empty cups and plates and just when I was wishing for my dads home hade grilled ham and cheese sandwiches one appeared on my plate and I know it was his because it was cut into a heart like he always dose for me.
"Wha..." I stared with astonishment at my plate.
"Oh ya, the food and drink magically appears in your cup and on your plate you get what eve want!" She said like it was the most normal thing ever!
"Um I want Barks root beer." I said and my glass filled with the dark liquid, I took a sip and made a face, "caffeinated not diet!" I complained and my glass magically emptied and refilled with a new dark liquid. I took a sip, "that's better!" Emma stifled a laugh she knew me so we'll but how much do I know about her? Was she actually my friend?
"Ok I know what you might be thinking, that I was never your friend, but that's wrong. I was your friend the hole time, and we'll I became a hunter after I met you, that's why I'm usually away, it's not just I live on the other side of Portland and that I have gymnastics, it's that I went with Artemis and her hunters on missions, I have only been a hunter for a year ever since I moved from the house next to you to across town. And I got my most favorite assignment, keeping an eye on you! So ya now I'm immortal, but I have a friend outside of the hunters!" I didn't kin what to say, she is actually my friend, but I kind of expected that because we have been friends since I was in pre-k and she was in first grade.
"Ok so what's all this about?" I tried saying through a mouth full of grilled ham and cheese sandwich but it came out like this 'ohay, go fuats agl, with abouth?' And she laughed, and not the type where it's an older kid making fun of you, but a old friend who knows how to translate through food.
"This is camp half blood, it's in the Long Island sound-"
"Wait! We where in Portland!how can we get across the country in so little time!" I panicked, how could I have been out for so long!
"Oh don't worry, you where only out for an hour, we used moon travel to get here. Oh wait I should probably tell you about moon traveling, it can only be done if you are in the light of the moon or have a moon ring, which you now have." She explained.
"Ok... So what all dose this ring do?" I asked completely baffled about all of this.
"It dose a lot of things it will change into any weapon you want, let you moon travel, make you invisible, and a lot more." She said like it was the least ridiculous thing ever!
"So what, I just have to find out all the functions myself?" I wondered allowed.
"That's Artemis's orders. All who get a ring keep the ring and learn how to use themselves. It's the only way to learn how to take care of yourself." She sounded distant and distracted when I noticed a commotion just outside the pavilion. A fight.
"I'm going to stop this."I could see Chiron unable to get through to the fight and someone had to do something! Emma tried to stop me but she was too late, I ran through being fast and strong enough to get through the crowd of people shouting fight over and over, when I got to the middle of the crowd I couldn't believe wag I saw, I girl with jet black hair fighting a girl who I knew all too well. The girl who was fighting the girl with jet black hair was none other than one of my best friends from Portland. Johnie Daly was right in front of me surrounded by skeletons and a jet black sword in her hand. The person she was fighting was flying a foot off the ground with a spear that was sparking with electricity in her hand. The two at first glance looked like they would get along really well with each other. Johnie had blond hair with black streaks in it, wore all black had black lipstick on, had bright red fingernails, and black eyeshadow on. The other girl had black hair, a oriented camp shirt on, ripped skinny jeans, black combat boots and silver eyeshadow on. But if you looked closer you could see the fact that they where glaring at each other with such hatred that you could tell that if they had to choose between stoping a war and killing each other they would kill each other.
"STOP!" I shouted and everybody froze, I heard a few mumbling things like 'what dose she have to do with this?' And 'what is she thinking she will die for sure' but I didn't care, I marched up to Johnie and said "What the heck are you doing!" Johnie looked too surprised that I was here to keep the skeletons here and they crumbled into the ground, the other girl obviously as surprised as Johnie fell onto her but not concentrating enough to keep herself in the air. All Johnie could say was,
"She started it." Completely confused.
" I don't care if Abraham Lincoln started it! You shouldn't try and kill people! Even if you are trying to be all scary at school, no doing all this! I have been through too much today to listen to you bickering with ANOTHER person on your list of people you don't like! So either you two get along or so help me I will slam booth your heads together!" I just had to get that out there, I can put up with her bickering with everybody at school, because they are idiots, but ruining my first night at this place was going too far, and I couldn't let them skewer each other either!
"Wait. You know each other?" Spoke up the girl with black hair.
"Yes we do this happens to be one of my best friends from my home city, and who are you?" I said with a tone of authority that I had no idea ware it came from. The girl straitened herself up obviously offended.
"I am Taylor Daughter of Zeus, and she is a daughter of Hades and she stole my sword!" She said with an English accent.
"I did not! Why would I want something as useless as celestial bronze! I have Stygian iron! I wouldn't take a celestial bronze sword if it was shaved down my trachea!" (Johnie is a science nerd trachea means the pipe that connects your mouth and nose to your lungs.) Lightning started flashing around Taylor. But before it could become a fight again I intervened.
"How about you search the cabins for it? To see who stole it unless someone wants to confess." I looked pointedly at all who came from the Hermes table. That's when something unexpected happened, Artemis appeared in the pavilion. Everybody gasped and kneeled except me, and I wouldn't kneel ever, because even though I could tell it was Artemis she looked twelve. I'm not kidding I know I said she looked thirty when I saw her last but now she looks twelve!
"Now, now no more kneeling." She said waving everybody back to there feet, "I just came by to see how Johanna was doing and to do this," and with a flick of her wrist, everybody was bathed in a silver light like boon beams, and staring over my head, and when I looked up I almost screamed. There was a moon and bow floating over my head, it looked like a flat holo graphical image, and well after that all people could do was stare at me, as Artemis sneaked away and disappeared into the night.