(A/N: Hello, readers! Sorry I haven't updated for a long time. I was busy writing my other story. You can check it out if you want. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter.)

Chapter 6: Arriving at Middle-Earth

Point of View:

James Star

I was having a nice sleep until a voice yelled, "James, wake up!" I groaned and covered my ears, "In the next five millenniums." The person growled and dragged me off the bed. I opened my eyes and saw Jennie.

"Can't someone else wake me up?" I muttered. "You always yell."

"I had to yell at least five times," Jennie said, with an angry face. I smiled and asked, "Are we going to Middle-Earth?"

"Obviously, but you're late. Hurry up and go to the camp van," Jennie ordered, leaving the cabin.

"Yes, ma'am," I said with a mocking tone. I got changed into my orange camp T-shirt and jeans. I packed my clothes, my leather armor, my weapons, and ambrosia and nectar. I shouldered my pack and walked outside. It was burning hot, but luckily, I was the son of Apollo and the heat didn't effect me. I started towards the camp van. While I was walking, a boy, about twelve years old, appeared in front of me. He had muscular arms that had scars and burnt skin all over it, and big hands. He must've been a son of Hephaestus.

"Hello, are you James, son of Apollo?" he asked.

"Yes, and who are you?" I asked.

"I'm Mike, son of Hephaestus," Mike answered. "I wanted to welcome your sister, Kyra with these gifts I made." Mike was blushing slightly which made me grin, "All right, what are the gifts?" He handed me a bow's handle, a film canister, and a tiny dagger like mine.

"The bow handle has a button on the side. If you press it, a bow appears," Mike said. He showed me the button, which I pressed. All of a sudden, a bow appeared. I smiled, slightly impressed at his skill.

"This is a film canister that can turn into a quiver. It will never run out of arrows. Open it up and a quiver appears." I opened the cap and a leather quiver, full of arrows appeared. I was now fully impressed.

"And this is something like your dagger," Mike explained, pointing at the tiny metal weapon. "I think you know how to use it." I nodded and said, "Thank you, friend. I will give her your gifts." Mike started blushing madly. I walked away, smiling a sly smile. I started to search everywhere for Kyra, but I could not find her. As I was searching, I met Percy.

"Hey Percy, do you know where Kyra is?" I asked.

"I saw her in the archery range, and I think Katie is here," Percy said with a sly grin.

"Sure," I muttered sarcastically. "Anyway, thanks." I ran to the archery range and found Kyra there, shooting targets. She was now a skilled archer and shot many bulls' eyes. I cleared my throat which made Kyra turn around. She smiled and walked towards me.

"Hello brother, what brings you here?" she asked.

"A camper here wanted to give you welcoming gifts," I answered. "His name is Mike, a son of Hephaestus, and about your age."

"Nice time to welcome me," Kyra muttered sarcastically, which made me laugh. "Anyway, show me them." I handed her the gifts and explained to her everything that Mike had said. In her hands was her new bow and new dagger.

"Now I have your kind of dagger," she said happily.

"Hmm, I don't think he knows everything about my dagger. Throw it," I ordered. She threw her dagger, but unlike my dagger, it didn't come back.

"What's wrong with my dagger?" she asked curiously.

"My dagger comes back to me when I throw it," I answered. Kyra shrugged and started to shoot the targets. She mostly got bull's eye.

"I like this bow," she said with a smile. "James, I'm going to stay for a while, you can go to the van if you want." I nodded and walked away. But before I did, I said, "I think he likes you."

"What?" she asked. She must've not heard me.

"Never mind," I muttered with a smile. I exited the archery range and started my way to the camp bus. While I was walking to the van, I bumped into a girl. She fell down and I stumbled backwards.

"I'm very sorry," I said, running over to her. When we looked at each other, we recognized each other.

"James, I'm so glad you're here!" Katie cried. She hugged me and kissed my lips. I kissed her back and smiled, "I missed you, Katie."

"I missed you, too," she murmured in my ear. Then, a conch horn was blown.

"It's time to go," I said, helping her up. We ran to the camp van and entered. We met Percy and Annabeth sitting in the back seat, who moved over for us to sit.

"See? I told you Katie was here," Percy said with a smirk. I ignored him and sat next to Annabeth. Right before Argus was about to leave, Kyra ran into the van and sat in front of us.

"What took you so long?" I asked.

"I forgot to pack up," she said sheepishly.

"Wow Kyra," I muttered. She punched my arm and ignored me for the rest of the ride.

After a long ride, we arrived at Central Park.

"Why is he dropping us off here?" I muttered. "It's going to take days for us to arrive at Middle-Earth." As everyone was getting off, I asked, "Argus, why aren't you taking us to Middle-Earth?" He took out a piece of paper from his pocket and wrote, "Chiron said so." I sighed and nodded, "Thanks anyway." I stepped off the bus and Argus drove away. I sighed and sat on a bench.

"How are we going to get there?" Jennie muttered.

"We can use pegasi," Percy suggested.

"We don't have enough pegasi, Seaweed Brain. Think," Annabeth muttered.

"No, we will use pegasi, along with Ilios and his horse friends," I said, jumping off the bench. "Great idea, Percy."

"But why should we use the pegasi when you can get two hundred horses?" Percy asked.

"Because the archers will shoot from above, right James?" Annabeth asked, before I got to answer. I nodded.

"Percy, call twenty pegasi," I ordered. Percy nodded. While he was contacting the flying horses, I was whistling a tune. It was a different tune then the regular one. Anyway, after a couple minutes passed, about two hundred horses and twenty pegasi appeared. The Apollo cabin mounted their pegasi, but there were no pegasus for me.

"I guess I forgot Kyra was in the Apollo cabin," I muttered. But Kyra heard me and yelled, "You tease me and now you forget me, too, huh?"

"No, I thought there were going to be enough," I said, trying to make and excuse. Kyra stormed off to her pegasus and ignored me. I sighed and mounted Ilios.

"Let's go," I ordered. Everyone mounted their steed and was ready to go. The horses started to gallop and the pegasi started to fly.

"Everyone, stay on the road!" I yelled over the wind. Everyone followed my orders and we continued our journey, dodging cars and jumping over crazy J-walkers.

After a long time passed, we arrived in front of a small forest. We entered the forest, dodging trees and hopping over bushes. Finally, we galloped out of the forest and the sun shone brightly. In front of us were a couple miles of grass, with trees surround us. It was a good place for monsters and orcs to attack us. We started to proceed cautiously. All of a sudden, an arrow was shot and one of the horses fell to the ground, crushing the fallen camper. Then, a large group of orcs and monsters surrounded us, growling and hissing with anger. I took my dagger out was ready to fight.

"Kill them!" a Uruk-hai roared. But before the first line of monsters reached us, a volley of arrows fell from the sky. The Apollo cabin came into view and sliced the enemies' heads off.

"Charge!" I ordered. I galloped over to the monsters and sliced at their necks. Soon, the enemies' numbers were low and they retreated. I slid off Ilios' saddle and stood on the ground. I looked at the sky. It was almost night time.

"We make camp here," I ordered. But when I said that, another wave of monsters attacked, this time there was a larger amount. And with them was a big troll. The horses were frightened and stayed back. The pegasi flew up into the sky and the archers were ready to fire. The troll roared and the battle began. I slashed and stabbed and one by one, the orcs and monsters fell. While I was fighting, one of the pegasi fell from the sky, with arrows stuck in its chest. It was Kyra's pegasus.

"Kyra!" I yelled. I ran over to her, killing anyone in my way. Then, a sword appeared out of nowhere and stabbed my shoulder. It went in deep and blood trickled down from my injury. In front of me was a Uruk-hai. I stabbed at the beast but he dodged. He kicked my stomach and punched my face.

"I expected more from you, human," he growled, about to stab me. But before he did, I grabbed his sword and sliced at his neck. He clutched his throat and fell to the ground. I ran to Kyra and knelt beside her. She had and arrow stuck in her chest. I pulled it out and inspected the tip. There was a black liquid underneath the blood. It was poisoned. I cursed and stabbed a hellhound in front of me. Then, the troll, who was stomping on campers, appeared in front of me. It had an ugly face and muscular arms, which had several arrows stuck on them. He took out his spiked club and roared at me. I guess Kyra had to wait. I took out my bow and my special arrow, the Golden Arrow. I hadn't used it in a while. Anyway, I aimed it at the troll's face and released, right before he clubbed me and turned me into a pancake. It went straight between his eyes. The monster groaned and fell down, crushing several orcs. The Golden Arrow appeared back in my hand. I placed it in my quiver and I took another arrow out. I aimed it up at the sky. Apollo, help me, I prayed. I released and the arrow disappeared in the clouds. All of a sudden, twenty arrows fell from the sky. I fell to the ground. Arrow rain drained all the energy from me. Then, a dracaena appeared in front of me and hissed, "Die, half-blood." But before she stabbed me, an arrow was fired and it shot the dracaena in the head. The snake woman screamed in pain and disintegrated into dust. I turned my head and saw Legolas, with and army of elves. The orcs and monsters, whose numbers were getting smaller, retreated. The elves shot their last arrows and killed many of the retreating enemies.

"Victory is ours!" Legolas shouted with a smile. He galloped over to me and said, "How are you, friend?"

"Fine, but how did you get here so fast?"

"I do not know how, but Middle-Earth moved closer to your camp. Now, come. The elf camp is near." I carried Kyra to my horse and placed her on the saddle. I sat behind her and fed her ambrosia. I whipped the reins and followed Legolas.

Soon afterwards, we arrived at Legolas' elf camp. The trees glowed faintly in the dark. All around us were beautiful fountains that sprayed out wine. Dionysus would probably like this. While everyone was staring at awe, Legolas said, "All right, bring the wounded to me." Sadly, forty campers were injured. I handed Kyra to Legolas.

"She is poisoned. You have to heal her quickly," I whispered.

"Don't worry friend, we'll heal her," Legolas said with a smile. "All right everyone, you will find a sign that will say your cabin name. You will sleep in the trees that are behind the sign. Also, cabin counselors will have their own room." The non-counselor campers groaned. I suppose people don't like to share a room.

"The elves will show you your trees," Legolas announced. An elf hopped down from a tree and said to my cabin, "I will show you your cabins." The elf silently walked away and we followed. Soon, we saw our trees. The middle one was the biggest. I entered the middle one and saw that it had one bed. This was my tree. I dropped my bag and sat on my bed. Then, a girl entered my tree. It was Jennie.

"Hey James," she greeted with a smile.

"Oh, hey," I replied. She sat next to me muttered, "Why do you get your own room?" I smiled and patted her head, "Because I'm the counselor." She looked at my injured shoulder and asked, "What happened?"

"Just got injured," I replied.

"Yeah, I can see that," she muttered. "Here, I'll heal it." She took out bandages and wrapped it around my shoulder.

"You always get injured in the shoulder. All the years I've known you, it was always the shoulder that I had to heal," Jennie said. I laughed and said, "Thanks, Jennie."

"No problem," she answered. "Good night." She kissed my cheek and left the room. I climbed into the bed and fell asleep.

(A/N: Sorry it was sort of long. But this is nothing compared to a chapter I read before. It was CRAZY long. Anyway, I hope you didn't think it was boring (because of the "longness") and I hope you enjoyed it.)

-APOLLOxx0909