Revan examined the cabins at the front looking at the designs and trying to figure out who's they were. The first one I assumed was Zeus's by the eagle designs and the faint smell of ozone, along with the fact it being the biggest and bulkiest of the cabins. With white marble columns in the front. The bronze doors shimmered almost like a hologram, so that from different angles lightning seemed to flash across them. He always did seem to have a big ego. Though the thing was I swear someone was living in the Zeus cabin. 'Didn't the big three have a pact not to have children?' I thought to myself. Then I remembered all the monsters and contacts in the Greek world going nuts over someone or something. Must have been a demigod child of Zeus. 'Thomas, no, Ted, no, what was the kid's name it begins with a T. Thalia that was the girls' name.' I thought to myself.
The next one was Hera judging by the peacock design. Pomegranates and flowers were garlanded on the walls. Hera, now that was a name I was all too familiar with. She seemed to enjoy trying to screw demigod lives over indefinitely. Though mostly only children of Zeus, occasionally my operatives could've sworn they saw her meddling around when on missions.
Then we both stopped at cabin three first one on the left. It didn't seem to be all high and mighty like cabin one but long low and solid. The walls seemed to be made of a rough gray stone embedded with coral and seashells. The stone seemed to have been cut from the ocean floor. We both came to a stop before the door of the cabin and Revan poked it open slightly using his ever present cane.
The interior smelled like the sea when Revan and I traveled on ships and stood low to the ocean letting ourselves just stare out at the horizon. Always good times. Then a feeling of loneliness came over us both. I looked inside to see the walls glowing like abalone. Six empty bunks with silk sheets turned down, though there wasn't a trace of any living thing inside.
Poseidon cabin, but why did I feel drawn to it? I'd find the answer later for now though we still needed to look around. Revan closed the door and we walked towards the other cabins.
Number five was a bright red like fresh spilt blood on a battle field and it seemed like someone just took the buckets of the blood and threw it on the cabins walls. Barbed wire was around the roof and a stuffed boars head hung over the door way and its eyes seemed to follow us around. Not creepy at all. Ares cabin. His children were a rowdy bunch but good fighters; I'd been witness to it in the Pacific Ocean on the carrier Olympus.
That was a bloody month. But anyways back to the cabin and its inhabitants. The kids inside were big and rowdy and probably had a touch of crazy in them. Boys and girls arm wrestled each other and rock music blared so loud we could hear it outside of the cabin. The loudest girl and person in general of the cabins inhabitants looked about thirteen or fourteen. She wore XXXL camp half blood t-shirt under a camouflage jacket.
She seemed to stare directly out at the two of us and gave both Revan and me an evil sneer. She in a way reminded me of Nancy Bobofit but that this girl could actually make me sweat, also she was bigger and tougher, and meaner looking than Nancy, her hair was long and stringy and brown colored.
Revan looked at her and an evil looking smirk which from the time I spent around him meant that he had just found a challenge and he was going to beat it and then some. Last time he got that kind of smirk he had destroyed an army and obliterated a city single handedly. Oh so not good.
I nudged Revan and we walked away. "Well looks like this could be fun." Revan said happily. "Revan try to not destroy these people's minds we just met them." I said quietly. "But that's no fun. We all need a bit of excitement in our lives." He still had that grin on his face. "I don't think excitement includes drowning the entire camp by blowing up a dam and then nearly getting killed ourselves in the process." I said remembering the events that led me to be weary of that smile.
"Come on you got to admit that was fun." He said nudging my arm. "Fun. Fun, you think it's fun to fight through an entire Russian armored division, navigate our way through a war torn city, nearly get shot by our own guys, climb a mountain, fight through a forest then across a dam twice as large as Hoover dam, blow up said dam and nearly get killed by the current and the debris carried by the current?" I asked recounting the details of that particular mission.
"Yeah." He said nodding his head. I shook my head and looked down. We were all going to die. "Oh look its Annabeth." Revan said. I looked up and sure enough the blond haired girl was standing there. Well not everything was so bad.
Annabeth was reading a book in front of the last cabin on the left, numero eleven as Revan called it. Dumb ass bastard. But still like a brother to me and reliable in most situations. When we reached her she looked over us critically, 'she has the makings of a decent assassin.' I thought to myself.
I looked at what she was reading and saw the title in ancient Greek, well good for her. The book's title was Ancient Greek architecture by Athena well at least she had the basics down for demolition, maybe a spot on the demo squads or a combat advisor I'd figure it out later. I had been reading ancient Greek and could speak it fluently after years of practicing along with Latin, German, Spanish and mandarin and I could stumble through French well enough to not insult someone intentionally.
The cabin we stood in front of reminded me most of what a normal cabin would look like. Though it could've had a new paint job and refurbishing as the brown paint was old and peeling off. Over the doorway was a caduceus, never figured this as a medical center.
Annabeth ushered us towards the door. When we walked in we were greeted with the sight of hammocks hanging from the walls and sleeping bags on the floor, and bunk beds pushed against the walls. Now it kind of reminded me of a Red Cross center for refugees fleeing from war.
Revan and I had seen enough of these on our way into the war torn countries. Revan and I stood in the doorway and looked over all the kids lounging about as they too stared at us. Revan and I both knew this routine by heart. We all were sizing up the others in preparation of a fight. Revan's hand inched towards his jean pocket as did mine.
"Well?" Annabeth said "Go on." Ushering us in. "Percy and Revan Jackson meet cabin eleven. Cabin eleven meet Percy and Revan Jackson." She said introducing us. "Regular or undetermined?" Asked one of the kids. "Undetermined."
Every one in the cabin groaned. What a warm welcome. Sarcasm intended. "That spot over there is for you two Annabeth said pointing towards a spot in the left corner near a window. Good a somewhat defensible position with an escape route.
Then a good looking chick came forward. She looked about nineteen and looked pretty cool; she was tall muscular but not overly so, short cropped sandy hair and a friendly smile. She wore an orange tank top cutoff sandal, and leather bound necklace with five different ceramic beads. The only bad thing about her features was a thick white scar that ran from just beneath her right eye to her jaw, just like an old knife slash.
Revan stood there and looked her up and down. Just like he always does when he sees something he doesn't like, and he was almost never wrong about these feelings; she was hiding something and we were both determined to find out.
"Now come on guys." The woman began. "Give them a chance at least." A chorus of fines and mumbled replies ensued. "This is Luce, Luce this is Percy and Revan." Annabeth said. Her voice sounded weird now like it had an underlying tone…oh…damn. I looked to her to see she had the faintest tinge of pink to her cheeks.
Oh damn.
Revan looked between the two with wide eyes. Well damn this might be a better place than I thought. Finally Annabeth seemed to snap out of…Whatever that was, I don't even want to know, and yet I did know. "She's your counselor for now."
I raised my eyebrow at her. "For now?" Questioned Revan. Oh we already knew what was going on but better to play dumb and keep our knowledge to ourselves. We didn't trust them much. After all knowledge is power and we liked to hold all the cards a force of habit if you will.
"You're undetermined." Luce started to explain. "They don't know who your parent is so they put you in here. Cabin eleven takes in all the undetermined as Hermes is the god of travelers." She said all this with a low lying tone of anger. So I had a crazy half brother, a radical, a love struck blonde in love with said radical, and maybe a god.
Well this should be fun. Revan and I nodded our heads slightly and walked over to the corner and set our stuff down. We both sat down our backs to the rest of the cabin. I put the Minotaur horn in my pack and zipped it up. Then I remembered Hermes being a god of Thieves. I nudged Revan. "Hermes is a god of thieves, set it all up." I whispered. Revan nodded his head an evil smirk slowly forming on his face.
We fished around our backpacks and began setting up 'Security measures'. Thom just called them death traps. He still hadn't gotten over it. I looked over my shoulder to see the other kids eye us and our stuff just waiting for a chance to take it. I smirked at them. They would try and they would fail epically.
We stood up and made our way out of the cabin. A few of the kids smirked at us thinking they would get our stuff. When we walked out we saw Luce leaning on the cabin wall.
"How long we going to be in there?" Revan questioned her. "Good question." She said 'Until you're determined or claimed by you godly parent." We nodded our heads before I looked in the window and spotted two kids with brown curly hair creeping towards our stuff. I smiled and Revan and I stood on either side of the doorway.
Luce and Annabeth who had just shown up looked at us like 'What the hell are you doing?' We just smiled at them and put a finger to our lips. "You guys might want to see this." I whispered. They looked at us even more questioningly. Then booooooom! Colored dust and paint flooded out the door way.
The two girls jumped back in surprise of the blast. Out of the doors came the campers that were inside coughing and absolutely covered in paint. Revan started to crack up and I cracked a smile. The last two out were the two we saw trying to reach into our stuff. Revan Grabbed both by the back of their shirts and lifted them about three feet in the air.
"So care trying to explain to me why you about to go through our stuff?" I asked standing in front of the twins. They once had brown hair but now it was a tie dye of colors and their eyes had a mischievous glint in them, but now they held fear and a little awe. "Um…." They tried but failed to come up with an excuse.
I sighed and motioned Revan to put them down. "Next time will be much worse. So who are you two?" I said as Revan put down the two paint covered twins. "Conner and," "Travis Stoll," They picked up each other's sentences. "Sons of Hermes." They finished chorusing the last bit together. I cracked a smile again at the way they acted.
"Well just make sure it won't happen again, or you can see if Revan follows his pattern of making each trap deadlier than the next." I said pointing to Revan who smiled down at the two kids evilly. The twins nodded their head and Revan put an arm on both their shoulders. "We're going to have so much fun together aren't we boys? Touch my stuff again and I'll rip off your arms and beat you to death with them savvy?" Revan said the first part like a happy go lucky child and the last was in a hushed whisper that promised pain and a lot of.
The two twins nodded their heads extremely fast. "Good now what to now?" Revan asked out of the blue. Well looks like we already scared the wits out of one cabin we had what eleven more to go, be afraid be very ,very afraid.
The rest of the cabins inhabitants backed away slowly from the four of us. "Come on Revan, we have lots to see." I said Revan smiled and put the two brothers in a headlock and dragged them after us. "Oh and by the way there are still booby traps in there if you're curious." I called out over my shoulder. The campers looked at the cabin slowly as if they expected it to explode.
Which if Revan was as predictable as he was; he probably would make it on the tenth try someone tried to get into his stuff. Oh well sucks for them.
Before I could take another step Annabeth had grabbed my arm and tried to drag me away. "Come on Percy I'll show you the volleyball pit." She said. "Don't wanna." I protested. "Well you're coming with me anyway." She said as she dragged me though I allowed her to take me with her. I looked over to Revan to see him smiling at me.
I was so going to kill him when I got back.