A/N: Sup. I wrote this story like a year ago and reading back I see how much of a child I was..I like it. Love ya guys for reading.
PS-I totally don't own God of War or PJO if i did then Athena and Kratos would have a kid that went to camp
Chapter 3: Orientation Film and Almost Getting Disintegrated
Apparently in this camp you have to watch an orientation film. I have been avoiding doing so by basically hiding underneath a rock, avoiding Chiron and Dionysus, and just not talking to anyone who would bring it up. Unfortunately, with my luck I ended up doing all three at once.
So here I am talking to Memphis, while walking through the strawberry fields that are right next to the Big House's patio where Chiron and Dionysus play cards. Him—being obnoxiously loud as usual—said, "Wait. Haven't you seen the orientation film?" and there goes my cover.
"Uh," considering I do not even know what a 'film' is makes it really hard to make up a lie.
Chiron just happened to over hear and looked over at us. "You haven't seen the film?" he asked.
"I heard from Connor that it is horribly cheesy," Again, I did not know what the word 'cheesy' was, but I assumed it was not good. And then again, I should not really trust Connor either, but I had really no other choice.
Chiron sighed, "Even though that is true, you still have to watch it," he played another card, and then shook his head.
Dionysus looked triumphant, "I win, again," he grabbed some golden drachmas off the table.
"Well Memphis, take her to watch the orientation film,"
"Ok, sir,"
He led me to this special room and sat me down. He ordered me not to leave until the film was over. To make sure he locked the door after him. So now I sat in this dark room as a little projector thing started to flicker as an image appeared on the wall in front of me.
Hello and welcome to Camp Half-Blood!" some high-pitched girl's voice exclaimed. The volume was on all the way up was not helping my ears that were going to become deaf in a matter of seconds. Somebody in the background grumbled something. "Oh, was that too loud?" she whispered back probably thinking that we could not hear her. Her whispering is basically like me talking normally.
There was more background talking—basically telling her to be quieter. Eventually she got the message and she spoke again. "I congratulate you! You're Half-Blood and that means you have one human parent that you may have been living with is human. Your other parent is a god or goddess! Now isn't that exciting?" her smile was going to break her face, or at least I hoped so.
"No," I grumbled.
She kept bobbing her head like a little bobble head. She also looked a bit different from this time frame I was in. "Now this place that your kind friend guided you here to is Camp Half-Blood as I said before! This is place where Half-Bloods—like you—train to become great heroes. You know like Hercules, Perseus, and Theseus from Greek Myths! If you haven't figured it out yet those myths aren't really myths! They all really happened! Isn't that exciting?" small little pictures appeared around her of all those heroes.
"Did you not already ask that?" I asked in the same tone.
She smiled, "That's what I thought! Now I'm sure you've met your camp advisors, Mr. D and Chiron, and you want to know something about them? Mr. D is really a god,"
"No!" I gasped.
She nodded as if she were having a conversation with me. "And Chiron is a Centaur! He has trained all the great heroes, and maybe he'll train you! Now at Camp Half-Blood we have some rules," she got smaller as the other half of the screen turned white. Words started to appear on the white part. "Number one, do not kill camp members. Number two; do not purposely maim other camp members. Number three; do not disrespect the gods in such a way that they will vaporize you. Number four; do not disrespect the camp advisors. Number five; just don't disrespect anyone. Number six; do not steal other cabins' magical items unless you want to be tortured by the cabin for the rest of your time here. Number seven; do not think that you are a child of a god means that you can act like that. Number eight; do not tell humans about your true identity. Number nine; do not give permission to monsters to come onto camp property. Number ten; do not destroy camp property…." I eventually zoned out of her constant jabbering. She was officially the most annoying person I had even met. "Number ninety-six; do not try to ride Chiron as a pony—"
"FOR THE LOVE OF THE GODS I THINK WE HAVE ENOUGH SENCE NOT TO DO THAT!" I shouted. I grabbed the chair I was sitting on and was going to throw it through the wall. Anything to make her stop.
Until she said, "And the last rule you are not allowed to throw any chairs through walls," she chuckled. I swear that she was watching me. I started getting that feeling I was being watched and made me feel really creeped out.
"Now that I have told you all the rules you are allowed to walk camp freely! I can't wait to see you again when you find out your godly parent for another orientation!" for once in my life I felt blessed to be an orphan with no hopes of finding out who my parent was.
I ran to the door and started banging on it. "I believe if you do not let me out now there will be no more orientation films for a while!" I warned. No one came. "I WARNED THEE!" I turned my back on the door and the lady was still talking.
"I can't believe I forgot to tell you about the rules of the games!" exclaimed the most painful voice in the world. Electricity flew out of my body and attacked the screen. It blew up, and I have to say I was pretty happy about that. Although, it did cause an explosion…
Immediately Memphis opened the door. His jaw dropped when he saw the screen, "What did you do?"
I walked past him, shoving him into the doorway. "I warned you!" I grumbled in huff and stalked out.
He turned around, "You blew up the screen! You know we have to repair that! And that costs MONEY!" he yelled.
I turned on a pin to glare at him, "Well I am sorry that you have to spend money on that horrible monstrosity! I did a bunch of people a favor!" I exclaimed throwing my arms over my head. "It would be more fun to crawl out of Tartarus than be stuck watching that—I would know!"
"And how would you know? Just explain to me how you know? Have you been to Tartarus? I bet you have!" he huffed. He did not know how right he was. He was breathing hard and obviously really angry. He took a couple steps so he was right in my face.
I bit my lip so I would not scream at him about how I had been (another long story for a different time) there. Unfortunately, it would not help me if I just ripped off his head right here, right now.
I shook my head and stepped away. I ran away from him, away from everyone that had begun to surround us. My thoughts drifted and I felt that I should have come here. It was a mistake. My personality clashes with all of theirs way too much for anything to work. Also, when I am angry I rant about the truth. With being so close to a god, that habit, and the fact that I get angry a lot is not a good combination.
I did not belong here. I may be a half-blood, but I am not a demigod. I am an outcast that does not belong here, or really anywhere. I am stuck in a time not of my own and I need to get back to where I belong. Back to Crete or Athens would be ideal, or even my own time would be wonderful.
"Hey, Althea, you ok?" Travis broke my trance. He was sitting on the snow-covered ground next to the creek.
I sighed and shook my head and sat down next to him. I for longed to go into the river, but the water was off limits. Along with the sky and underworld. It was wise of me to stay out of the specific territory of the gods. Especially territory of the big three. I pulled my knees up to my chest.
"I'm guessing you aren't ok, what happened?" he asked. He had concern swimming in his deep brown eyes.
I sighed, but gave into his brown eyes and told him—of course leaving out the fact about how I blew up the screen. "I do not like being told what to do, and all those rules were just…"
"Overwhelming? Yeah, I feel that way too. Too many rules to follow, but then so many to break…" He smiled. I smiled too at his mischievous mind. Right now he was probably planning how to break a rule. It was something I liked about him. He was not afraid to defy people. Something I did a lot.
"True," I looked down at the water again. I felt sad. It was so close yet I could not touch it.
Travis seemed to notice my stare, "Why don't you go in? Sure it's cold, but," he put his legs in, "It's nice." He was clenching his teeth. I laughed as his eyes widened and he jumped out. "Goodness that's cold!" his legs were all wet. "The things I do…" he grumbled jumping up and down. "Can we go back to the cabin?" he shivered.
I rolled my eyes, "Sure," but then I looked in the water. Just one time would not hurt right? Nah. I was about to put my legs in when Lee came up from behind, "Hey guys! You aren't going in the water. It's FREEZING," his sudden appearance scared me and made me pull back.
"Yeah, I guess I should not," my face dropped. I was about to get up when Lee's eyes widened while he was looking up.
"Oh no," he muttering grabbing both of arms really tight. "LETS GO!" he began pulling us away from the creekish-river.
"What?" but then I realized why we had to go away. Above us was a blinding bus that was going to crash right into where we had been sitting. We ran a good distance before the bus crash landed into the river/creek. "Uh…" I honestly had no idea what to say. I have seen a lot of things in my life, but I do not thing anything were really like this.
"Dad?" Lee questioned.
Ah…no… my eyes widened. Apollo was the one who had this thing, but then what about Helios? Oh, wait… Never mind… Something had happened in between me and Helios that ended quite badly for him.
I bit my lip. Dionysus may have not recognized me, but then again he did not spend a lot of time with me planning how to overthrow someone. "Lee, you can go ahead," I muttered.
He yanked on my arm again, "No I am not leaving you behind," his eyes were filled with determination. "Why don't you want to go over there? Just come on. Travis is coming too, right Travis?"
Travis was pulled from his daze, "Uh, sure thing,"
Reluctantly he pulled us both to the sun bus. The doors opened and many young girls began getting out stumbling about. Percy, some satyr, Thalia, some kid, and Apollo, followed them. I gulped when I saw Apollo. He looked the same he did many years ago, well I different wardrobe, but you know what I mean. He went and walked around the van inspecting the damage that it had caused. I would be apart of that damage if it were not for Lee pulling us away. I would be dead, but I would probably just crawl out of Hades if I had to.
Everyone who was on the bus seemed a bit dazed; they stumbled around trying to regain their balance. We walked up to them—well I more or less got dragged.
Everyone greeted everyone, except for me. I stood there awkwardly with no emotions playing out on my face. Percy gave me a weird look, "Althea, you look like you've seen a ghost. Are you alright?" he joked.
If you consider me a ghost, then yes. I nodded.
Then Apollo turned around and looked at us. He smiled when he saw Lee, "Lee, my boy! There you are," he ruffled his hair. Lee smiled. He looked so happy to see his parent. It made me jealous. To feel so loved by a parent, to have a parent be proud of you. Those are things I will probably never have.
Apollo turned his attention to me, "And who is this pretty little lady," he grasped my hand and gave it a small kiss. It gave my hand a sun kissed glow. That must be where the saying comes from.
After a pause Lee answered for me, "This is Althea, she is new here,"
"Ah, a new demigod. Apparently a new mute demigod," he mused. "Now, sweetie, why do you not talk?"
I shrugged, "You do not need to speak for a conversation to exist,"
"And you also don't need emotions?" he smiled. I now have a blind spot because of his teeth.
I smiled, "I have emotions, but do I really need to express them over-dramatically like every other person?"
"Wise, but you don't look like an Athena's kid. Do you know your parent?" he asked. His sunglasses were covering his eyes, but there was a hint of suspicion to his voice that was easy to pick up on.
I shook my head, "No, sir,"
"Sir," he seemed interested in that small fact. He shook his head, "There's only one person who calls me sir, but that's impossible," his smile faltered, but then returned. "I will see you again soon," I do not know if he were talking to me, Percy, Thalia, Lee, or someone else. I just hope that he was talking about someone else.
We stood there and watched him leave. The girls—now I have to refer them as the Hunters apparently—left to go to their cabin. That left Percy, Thalia, Lee, that kid, that Satyr and myself standing there. Travis had left to do whatever he was going to do. I recommend not trying to keep up with what this boy does. If you do, you will get a headache from all of his mischief.
Percy had a distant look in his eyes, and then he looked at Thalia. "Come on, we need to talk to Chiron about…Annabeth,"
Oh no. Something must have happened to Annabeth… I did not ask any questions because both of them already looked pretty down. Then, Memphis bumped into me. He still seemed upset about our fight we had had earlier today. He looked at me with a blank stare, "Chiron and Mr. D want to talk to you," he told me.
I groaned, "Is it about blowing up that…thing?" it was hard to call something so painful just a thing.
"Probably," and with that he left with an angry expression.
Thalia gave me a look, "You blew something up,"
"When I warn you of something, you better listen," I warned.
She nodded and seemed to take that into consideration, "Well, why don't you just come with us. We need to talk to them too," we walked to the Big House. Inside were Dionysus and Chiron. The satyr took the kid to go watch the orientation video, although I do not really know how he will do that. We sat down and Percy and Thalia began explaining about what had happened about how Annabeth is now MIA (Missing in Action), how they met Artemis, about the two new half-bloods, and about the monster that could destroy the gods.
"Well I don't know what it could be. Maybe Typhon—" I began shaking my head.
"No," I muttered. "That is too powerful. Typhon is a gigantic monster-titan; I know the gods can be unobservant, but not blind. They would notice if Typhon had escaped," I explained.
Dionysus looked slightly offended, "Unobservant," he grumbled, "But I do have to agree with the child. We would notice such a thing,"
Then I thought of something, "The monster. Could it be possible that the monster is not actually a monster, but a person? A person with such power to destroy the gods?" it was going a long shot to suggest such a thing. If they were to catch on whom I was projecting it would be dangerous for me to be on the same planet.
Chiron looked quite intrigued, "Interesting idea, but I think she would have mentioned a person not a monster,"
"But if a person is so horrible, could they be considered a monster?"
Dionysus and Chiron shared a look between themselves. They were considering my idea. "It seems possible, but I still doubt it," Chiron shook his head as if he needed to get the thoughts out of his head. "Now what do we do about Annabeth?"
Percy looked at him like he was crazy, "We launch a search effort to find her,"
Dionysus shook his head, "No, we already lost enough campers, so what we lose another," he shrugged. "Too bad for Annie,"
Percy got this look in his eye, "You don't even care about any of us; the less, the better. You are just taking out your frustrations out on us because you got banned from Olympus!"
Dionysus looked like he was going to rip off Percy's head, or blow him up—whatever he's in the mood for. Then the kid and the Satyr running in saved him, though. "Hey what happened to the movie screen?" the goat-kid asked.
Chiron sent me a glance, "Why don't you explain, Ms. Althea?"
"You see, I do not like…movie screens, and the fact that the film was absolutely horrendous led to my conclusion that it needed to be terminated," I explained on the spot.
They seemed to buy it, "How did you destroy it?"
Now that was a bit harder. "Well I took out my trusty arrow, and then took my trusty chair, and then I threw them both at the screen,"
"Is that the best you can come up with?" Dionysus looked bored as usual.
"Oh I can come up with much better. Unfortunately that is the truth, sir," I locked eyes with him in order to try and convince him. He judged me up and down. He noticed that I was not it all tense, or contains any of the actual qualities that a liar would possess.
He shrugged it off. Chiron then added, "Why don't you guys go tell all the campers tonight we will have a friendly game of capture the flag with the Hunters tonight?"
"Friendly," Thalia scoffed.
Then we left without another word. Now it was time for a 'friendly' game with the Hunters.