*Thank you all for reading my Story, Please leave reviews and comments. The next chapter will be up Thursday the 22nd.

Chapter 3
The daughter of Night
(Sean)

"Wow look at this place!" I said

"It's your new home, the only home for our kind, the only place that's safe" I turned to face him I saw so much love for this place in his eyes, so much pride.

"Jason, show Sean around the city, go to the infirmary first, and tell them that Sean has a couple broken ribs." I stepped forward to stand next to Jason and winced at the reminder of my injury.

Jason nodded and started walking. Jason showed some cool places on the way to the infirmary, for one I saw I think 6 temples across the valley and they were beautiful to look at. Then we started to walk around the training grounds, he showed me this rock-climbing wall that randomly shoots arrows at you, and spikes shoot out of the walls, to sum it up it's sweet. Then there was the arena, it was an exact replica of the Coliseum in Italy. Then we walked into the city part of the actually city, it was like a small town look with a lot of different stores and shops, down at the end of the road were houses and a college, it was a small community really. The building I saw people keep going into was the leaning tower of Pisa like in Italy, which was the eating lounge I assumed because there was a sign saying what the specials were, tonight was pizza. Then Jason stopped in front of a tent and walked inside.

The first thing I saw was 16 beds and 4 of the beds were being used. I also noticed a statue of a man with a staff and snakes going up the staff. All of a sudden, a girl with blonde hair with a bag on her side, when she saw us she immediately smiled, ran up to Jason, and hugged him.

"Jason, you're back from Arizona, that's great, do we get to know why you had to leave or is it still a secret?"

"Yes, and no, you know how it is" Jason had a sad look when he said that.

"Actually I don't, but I know better to ask twice, so who's this?"

"Sean, nice to meet you." I shook her hand and winced a bit. Before she could tell me her name, Jason interrupted.

"Sean's why we're here and who I brought from Arizona; he got tested and broke some ribs according to Lupa."

"Alright, come take a seat and take off your shirt please." She said calmly enough. Jason stepped outside.

I followed her over to one of the beds and sat down and took off my shirt, and saw the sides of my chest were purple. Probably not a good sign.

"Wow, what happened?" she asked me, she put her right hand on my chest and I winced.

"I fought one of the Hippoi Diomedios." She looked at me doubtful and then nodded. She pulled out of her handbag a drink, handed it to me, and gestured for me to drink it, I did what she asked and it tasted like Pepsi. Which was nice to have some caffeine, but I didn't know how she knew I loved Pepsi.

"Have you ever fought a monster before?" I shook my head and looked up at her.

"No, why?"

"Well, that's just a dangerous monster to pick for someone with no training at all; Lupa must think you're very strong." She stared at me like a science project. This was uncomfortable.

"Umm, what did I just drink? It tasted like Pepsi, but I'm guessing it wasn't." she smiled. She started to apply this cream on my ribs. At first, it hurt but after a couple of seconds, it felt nice. She started to sing a little melody and it was beautiful, I forgot my question and just listened. While I was in a trance, I started noticing she was turning pale and beading with sweat on her face. She looked at me and smiled again.

"It's healing magic, nothing to be worried about, anyway you should be good in a couple of hours, only one rib was completely broken, three more were fractured though. Must have been a good fight."

"I got lucky"

"Demigods don't have that." She said seriously, which was somewhat sad. She grabbed my shirt and handed it to me.

"Thanks, am I all fixed up?" I put on my shirt.

"You're good to go; will you do me a favor and tell Jason I need to talk to him later?"

"Yeah for sure, thanks again." She smiled and I walked out to meet Jason, who was talking to a person with a black robe, when Jason saw me come out he smiled and faced that person.

"I'll talk to you about this later." Then walked towards me, meeting me half way. I saw the black hooded person walk back down the hill towards the temples.

"What was that about?"

"Nothing, she wants to talk to me later about some stuff."

"Yeah, so does umm, what's her name? The girl that just fixed me up."

"Dakota wants to talk to me?"

"Yeah, she didn't say why" Jason nodded and looked past my head, I turned to follow his gaze and it was Lupa walking towards us. Jason looked back at me.

"Alright, let finish the tour up" I looked back and Lupa still coming this way.

"Come on your gonna love the bunkers" I ignored Lupa and followed Jason down the road to the 14 Bunkers.

Jason showed me the 14 bunkers; they were all colored and decorated differently and in a giant U shape.

"The 12 Olympians each have their own bunker for their children and the last two on the end are the 2 minor god bunkers one for girls, and one for boys"

"Which one is mine?" I said with excitement.

"I'm sorry, were not sure who your dad is. For now you can stay in my bunker if you want, there is a lot of room." Jason pointed towards his bunker. It was at the very end of the field, it was a huge building, and quite beautiful, in the center on the front was an eagle made out of gold.

"Bunker 1"

"Thanks man, but why doesn't my dad just show himself, if he's a god, he could appear anytime. Right?" I must have sounded annoyed because the sky rumbled.

"Sean, don't question the gods, it's not smart." Jason said.

"Oh my bad, so anyways, how does this whole thing work, when do people usually find out?"

"Most are given some sort of sign around the camp fire, but if not tonight; soon"

"Okay, so can I put my stuff in your cabin now or later"

He looked down, grabbed one of my bags for me.
"Come on man lets go" he smiled and walked towards bunker one and I followed.

We walked up the steps and into the bunker and first thing I saw was a marble statue of a man with a golden eagle on him, it was cool looking. The statue was Jupiter for sure, he had the strange look of leadership, he looked confident, strong, a great leader. The statue was in front of the door entrance and next to 4 coat hangers and was next to a corner to the left of it. To the right were the 4 hooks and then a hallway with one door in it. The walls are all painted white and the trim was all gold. The ceiling was portraying I think the actually sky above. The background was blue like the sky today and I felt you could feel the actually wind currents in the sky, just staring at it. Jason walked in the living room first and it is breath takingly big. The room was huge, on the right side of the room is a huge three-part couch, and in front of the couch is a marble fireplace with a gold mantle above it. In the middle of the room are some stairs and to the left of the stairs was another statue of Jupiter. Then on the left side of the room was a big open space with marble floor, which is different to the middle and right sides, which is white carpet with golden accents. The marble floor space kind of looked like a dance floor. Behind the dance floor, area was a counter with four stools and on the other side of the counter was the kitchen. Jason immediately dropped my stuff on the carpet and jumped onto the couch lying on his back.

"It's good to be back." He said

"How long have you lived here?" his face went dark again, like in the car.

"Since I was two, I don't remember a lot of my past."

"So where should I put my stuff?" he smiled again as if nothing happened and got back up and started to walk up the stairs.

We walked I think 6 steps the turned right and walked 5 steps up and there was a railing over the side looking down into the living area on the right side, on the left side was six doors. Jason walked in front of the door second closest to the stairs.
"This room is mine but, any other you can use until your dad sends a sign."

I walked to the room closest to the stairs and through my stuff down. The room had a queen size bed with white sheets, white pillows and the ceiling was just like the rest of the house with blue skies with moving clouds. Just when I looked, a little lightning bolt hit my head and I laughed. I turned to face Jason and he smiled and looked at me curiously like Dakota in the infirmary.
"Thanks man, I would hate to be in the minor gods cabin with no one I know."

"Your gonna fit in just fine" he put his arm on my shoulder.

The next hours flew by. I set up my room and took a nap in my bed, and then Jason woke me up and said that it was dinnertime.

We left the bunker and walked to the leaning tower of Pisa, we in and it was 2 rows of 7 long tables, and a really long table in the back of the cafeteria. Like I saw earlier in the day it was pizza night tonight, which was great. Jason and I were in line for the pizza, and then I saw her.

At the seventh table on the right side, there was the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. She had black hair going past her shoulders by a couple of inches, a really cute innocent face. Her eyes color I couldn't see from this distance but if it was anything like the rest of her, it was freaking gorgeous. She was talking to some other girls that looked nothing like her and was eating a salad, I wonder who she is. Then I heard a cough and turned to Jason who was smiling.
"That's Hazel," He said amused at my staring.

"Hazel, Daughter of…"

"Daughter of Nox Goddess of the night" he started laughing as if the idea of us did not have a chance.

"Why is that funny" he stopped laughing but kept his smile, then walked forward and grabbed his pizza.

"The Nox girl scares most guys away, she's the first daughter of night in a long time" Now I was curious, I wanted to see how this girl clicked.

"Well, let's see about that." I grabbed three slices and I walked over to her, Jason was close behind enjoying the show, she looked at me as if I was lost puppy.

"Hi can I join you?" I smiled and looked right into her eyes, when she smiled back at me, I felt frozen in time and space.

That corny phrase lost in your eyes made a lot of sense in this moment. Her eye color in simple terms is gold with black on the outer edge but in the center, it really twinkled with many beautiful stars. The deeper I looked the more lost I was, in this millisecond I didn't want to look away but she turned away and looked at her friends, her friends nodded in harmony. She turned back and before I got lost in her eyes, again she said.
"Sure why not, you are?"

"Sean, nice to meet you" I sat down across from Hazel.

"Hazel, Daughter of Nox, you're obviously a new camper here?"

"Yeah I umm don't know who my dad is yet"

"Oh so it's your dad that's the god, well do you like swimming?" she seemed interested in me, and then Jason laughed and walked away.

"Umm yes I do, do you?" she smiled brightly like she was literally a star.

"No sorry, I'm not small talking I'm trying to figure out your God parent"

"oh umm okay then swimming who's that god"

"Neptune, how long can you hold your breath?"

"Not very long, I'm not sure why?"

"So probably not him, do you sing?"

"Umm yeah I like to sing, who would that be?"

"Apollo, do you like archery or sword play?"

"Swords for sure." She smiled.

"Does flying sound like fun?"

"Yeah, but I don't see what that has to do with anything"

"Jupiter lord of the sky, Zombie movies cool?" she was now grinning and her teeth were sparkling like stars, man she was pretty.

"Uh Lupa said I must be a child of the elder three, if that helps?" everyone gasped.

"Are you serious? I was joking around with my friends about the elder three; you are a child of the elder three?"

"What is the 'elder three'?"

"The three eldest brothers, sons of Saturn the titan of time"

"Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto?"

"Do you have any idea?"

"I don't, Jason said I most likely will get claimed tonight at the camp fire." they looked at Jason alone at the table in the front.

"Maybe Jason knows" she was playing with the idea herself.

"No, Jason came and got me out of school and brought me here, he's my friend he would tell me."

Hazel seemed doubtful when I said that, but I was not going to buckle down, Jason was like a brother to me. Then they talked about troubling news of their own.
"Did you guys hear about Gwen? She went on the quest anyway" one of Hazel's friends said.

"Who's Gwen?"

They all looked at me like I was a dumb kid that can't just shut up and listen, but Hazel looked at me with her gleaming eyes.
"He's curious is that a bad thing?" she turned towards me.

"Gwen's a daughter of Mars god of war; she snuck out of camp and went on a quest when Lupa said no to her"

I thought I would not want to get on Lupa's bad side.

"Her boyfriend Bobby went with Reyna and she got jealous and followed them"

She looked sad that her friends were gone. I don't know this girl but I don't like seeing her upset.

"Hey I'm going to talk to Jason but can I see you later at the camp fire?" she nodded and I could have sworn I saw her eyes light up, which made me happy.

I walked over to Jason and sat down.
"So how'd it go?" Jason asked, holding in a laugh

"Great, I made a new friend" he looked at me like I was crazy but then nodded.

"Well I never really talked to her, she always talked to my Gwen and Dakota though, maybe she's not so bad, and I shouldn't have judged her, sorry" he looked like he was seriously sorry so I didn't nudge it.

"So when's this campfire going to start?" then we heard a conch horn.

"Soon, come on let's see what this is all about?" he smiled and we left the Pisa.

We went outside and the first thing I see is tons of kids around this giant fire pit and laughing and dancing to music, the guys playing the music were Fauns with pipes and drums. Then Lupa came out on a platform behind the fire and everyone turned to look at her as she spoke.
"HEROES!" Everyone immediately shut up and listened.

"I have a surprise for you tonight, but first we will have capture the flag tomorrow and for tonight entertainment we have Sean"

Everyone looked around and was wondering who I was.

"Sean please step forward!"

I walked up to Lupa and then random people started shouting

"Who's he?"

"Whose Cabin does he belong to?"

Then Lupa gained back Control.

"QUIET! Sean here is a new camper, he has initiation tonight" she smiled her wolf teeth. "In the arena, I'm sure you love watching initiation since we all have gone through it."

Everyone cheered and lifted me up into the crowd I wasn't sure if it was good or bad initiation process, I had a feeling I was not going to like it. The crowd carried me to the Coliseum for my initiation. Jason was in the back of the group and he was emotionless, face of stone. I was scared looking at Jason that way.
"It will be okay I promise" Jason mouthed at me.

I knew it was bad now I had to fight a bad monster or something worse. Then I noticed something on everyone that I didn't notice before, it was a Tattoo 'SPQR'. I had no idea what I meant, but I was guessing it was an honor code or something. Jason had 'SPQR' and an eagle and lines below the eagle. The campers set me down, Lupa lead me into the middle of the Arena, and everyone was screaming.
"Child, You must Fight our 9 Praetors and last for 3 minutes without dying" I unsheathed my sword from my belt.

"Are you serious, 9 against one? How is that fair?" I Shouted

"Fair." Lupa said amused. Then out of nowhere, I saw a 9 kids running towards me, including Jason. Lupa sprinted up stairs into the crowd and Jason got to me first.

"Jason, wait I can't fight you" he swung at me with his sword, I blocked it… barley

"Sorry Sean, the only way I could help is if you were in my Cabin and well no one ever is" he said sadly I seemed like he wanted a brother or another sibling.

"I'm sleeping in your cabin does that count." I joked.

He slashed at me; I rolled over and got back up against a wall. Then this bald dude pushed Jason and tried to stab me. I slashed down on his sword and elbowed him in the face, he fell down immediately unconscious. I jumped over his body away from the corning wall and into the middle again. Then a girl slashed at my legs and I jumped over her sword and kicked her in the stomach, she fell over and I kicked her sword away. At the same moment I kicked her sword away from her, Jason kicked me from behind and I fell down. I slashed at his legs and he jumped over my sword and landed on my sword like a skateboard. I dropped it from the weight of his body. He slashed at my chest, I rolled backwards, and then leapfrog style tackled Jason into the ground. Then something crazy happened, lighting struck down on Jason and me and we both flew.

I heard a growl from Lupa and the crowd went crazy. I landed on the dirt and I saw my sword was destroyed from the strike. I got up, ran, and took that sword I kicked from the girl earlier. I charged at Jason who was perfectly fine from the strike. While charging from the side someone tackled me, I dropped this other sword and wrestled with this beautiful black haired girl with beautiful star golden eyes, Hazel she was smiling and trying to stab me in the chest. I was resisting and rolling from side to side.
"Hey" she said while smiling down on me. "Sorry about trying to kill you and all." She struck down and tried to stab at me again. Man is she hot or what. Nevertheless, I wrapped my legs around her neck from behind and flipped her off me. Slice right next to my head was a sword barley missing my face; I kicked this guy's privates and rolled right into Jason pointing his sword to my throat. I stood up slowly then a growl came from the crowd.
"TIME!" Lupa looked at me with a weird expression and left the arena immediately after.