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Chapter 4: Damned Orientation Videos

"Long Island dead ahead!" Grover yelled with excitement, "Well, not dead cause Long Island's a place and it can't be dead and…Long Island!"

"Okay Blackjack. New kid on board, let's land slow this time okay? I know it's not your thing but…Whoa!" Next thing I knew we were diving a hundred feet an hour onto the ground. I couldn't help but scream my lungs out while Tyler screamed next to me. Percy stayed calm, like he was used to it while Grover let out a girly shriek.

"Oh yeah Blackjack! Diving down to camp. Perfect welcoming gift." But all I heard was Tyler's annoying screams. I was sure we're gonna die before, at the last minute, we stopped in mid-air, just a few centimeters above the ground and from death. I stopped breathing for a second but soon my shock turned into anger.

"WHAT WAS THAT FOR!DID YOU REALIZE THAT WE ALMOST DIED OH MY GOD WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS TYLER WILL YOU STOP SCREAMING." Tyler clamped his mouth shut, "Sorry…Baa…"

"Blackjack enjoys scaring newbies. He thinks it's entertaining." The Pegasus let out a few sharp Neighs, as if he was laughing at us panicking. "He says the satyr screams like a wood nymph."

Okay. I had to laugh at that, even if I had no idea what a wood nymph was.

"Wait, why are you the only one who understands it?"

"Who me?"

"No. My imaginary friend Bob."

"No need for the sarcasm... I'm the son of Poseidon, god of the sea, inventor of horses. I can talk to horses. Makes perfect sense right?"

"Right." I said, "Teenage boys talking to floating ponies. Perfect sense."

"Come on guys, Chiron is waiting."

"I'm not even gonna ask. Come on, Ty." I jumped out of the carriage, pulling Tyler with me. We walked up a relevantly steep hill .We passed a tall pine tree before we got to the entrance, which caught my eye. There was a thick sheet of gold on one of it's branches, which I found odd, but after what I've been through today, I'm still expecting to jot up in my bed breathing hard and going "Oh, it's a dream! Phew."

"Thalia's pine." Percy introduced to me, "You'll find out soon enough. Come on, hurry up now."

I stopped in front of the entrance of this so called "Camp" and squinted at the words on the sign. It was written in Ancient Greek. The words floated around again, as usual, but in my surprise the letters started rearranging themselves, until they're lined in an English sentence.

"Camp Half-Blood…" I whispered, outstand on how I can read so clearly without my dyslexia getting into my way. "Dude, I swore it was Greek…"

"And it was." Tyler added in, "Your brain is hardwired to read Ancient Greek, that's why you have so much trouble in reading English. You are half Greek god."

"Half Greek god." I muttered under my breath, "Right." I continued making my way into camp, following Percy and Grover into a house. It was gigantic and painted white and blue.

"The Big House."

"What a creative name."

"Chiron is waiting to meet you."

"Why does he want to meet me?"

"Don't know. He's been meeting all the new campers lately; maybe you're another special one. Like me!"

"Yeah. Cause you're reaaaaal special, Percy. Talking to ponies, very special indeed."

"You don't even know."

Percy, Grover and Tyler went into the Big House and I followed, not so eager on knowing who this Chiron guy is. His name rung a bell though, like I've heard him before. I hope he's not one of those crazy mythology people. We entered what seems to be an office. Many photos were pinned on the wall and there was a computer on the desk, along with a mug of coffee.

"Greetings, demigods and satyrs!"

I stand corrected.

The man that stood before me wasn't a man at all. He was…what're they called? A centaur. From head to torso, Chiron was a normal middle-aged man, but from that part on, he had the body of a white horse. His voice was normal, his face was normal, and ignoring the fact that he was half horse this man was perfectly normal.

"I'm not going to harm you, child," he said, must've realized how shocked I looked when I saw him, "but if you like, I can sit myself back in my wheelchair, make you more comfortable."

"No, that's fine. It's not like I haven't been through weirder things today." Chiron smiled and nodded while all the other greeted him. Percy and Tyler started explaining on what happened on our trip here while Grover cut in occasionally as I stood there, watching a boy, two satyrs rambling on flying pegasi and monsters to a centaur. I tried not to laugh at the whole situation, but it was utterly ridiculous and surreal. I started wandering off around the room a while later, looking at Chiron's book collection and boom box. I also looked through the pictures on his wall, it seemed to be pictures of other kids, all wearing the same orange t-shirt that says "Camp Half-Blood" in Greek. I saw Grover along with an amber hair colored girl, I also saw a picture with Percy and another girl, with blonde hair, a bit darker than mine and tan skin. She has grey eyes yet they shine so bright. I assumed that this was Percy's girlfriend, since they looked so happy together in the picture, and I couldn't help but smile at how cute it was.

"Hey, what's your name?" I heard Percy ask.

"Who, me?"

"No. Your imaginary friend Bob." He started mocking my tone from before.

"Well, then. If you know his name's Bob then why did you have to ask?" I shot back, laughing afterwards. "Alena. Alena Rose."

"Tell me, Alena, how old are you?" Chiron asked.

"Fifteen."

"Pretty old to be claimed, dontcha think?"

"But I thought I made them swear…" Percy said, "On the River Styx." He looked up to Chiron, like he was expecting an explanation from him. Chiron just simply looked down, but didn't answer Percy's question. It seemed like he had a pretty good idea what the answer was, though. "Tyler, why didn't you escort her to camp earlier?"

"Well, she wasn't this seriously attacked before."

"Oh, so she was attacked before and you didn't bring her here earlier?"

"She didn't tell me!"

"Uh, I still don't get the point of this. Can I go home now? Or call my Grandmother or…?" I walked back to the group, taking my cell phone out from my pocket, surprised that it didn't fall out among the action. "Cell phones aren't allowed here. It attracts the monsters."

"Oh, yeah. Great. Monsters." I mumbled as I stuffed my cell phone back into my backpack.

"But the camp has a barrier, so we're safe…You still don't believe you're a demigod, do you?"

"No, I don't."

"Yes, you do. After all these things, monsters attacking, how could you not? You're just denying it. I'm a demigod, too. I'm standing right in front of me. The camp is full of demigods, and you're one of them." I stood still after he said that, because it's true. I know perfectly well that I'm a demigod, and all of this is real. I can't deny it, but I don't want to be one. I don't want monsters attacking my family. I don't want to be in New York and I don't want anything to do with these people. I just want to go home and live a semi-normal life in a small town in Texas. Go to school, graduate, go to college and get a job.

Not meet a satyr, get attacked by a monster and end up in New York, finding out your dad is a god and die.

"It's natural, Alena." Chiron comforted, as if he was reading my mind. I guess it was normal for him, having demigods come in is office, not believing everything that's in front of them. I mean, how could they, anyway. "Why don't you take a seat and we'll show you the camp orientation video, then we'll show you around."

An orientation video.

"Just when Nico's in camp, too."

"Should I ask?"

"Nico di Angelo. He's the son of Hades, he helped me save Olympus and the world and all. No big deal."

"But I thought the three gods agreed on not having demigod children? Zeus, Poseidon and Hades."

"Sometimes, gods break the rules too. That's why Zeus wanted to kill me more than a few times. Nico… We'll, I'll let him explain that when you meet him. He's not usually around, lives with his dad in the Underworld."

Yes, a kid who's probably my age living in the Underworld with his dad, the god of the dead and souls and darkness and all that. I wasn't even surprised by then.

"Does that mean he's dead?"

"What? Nah! He just likes it there, I guess. You'll get to meet everyone soon enough. But right now, watch the orientation video. It'll help."

I sat down at one of the stools in front of the screen as Chiron trotted over to turn off the lights. "Chiron?" I asked when he walked back, "Are you really the Chiron who helped defeat Kronos? And trained Hercules?"

"Well, depends which era you were talking about. A year before, Percy led the whole camp in war with Kronos, right here in New York. Pretty unforgettable, that was. A demigod defeating the Lord of Time…" I turned to Percy is shock, "You defeated Kronos?"

"Not me." He said, blushing yet having a shamed face, "Not exactly. I had help, and some sacrifices that meant too much for me to repay…" his eyes shifted and he looked down, "Just watch the damned video, you overly curious blondie."