Hey! I am running out of ideas for the story. Please reveiw! :)
There is a huge disaster that I am blamed for
The next day, something happened to the campers. The Athena kids rushed out of their cabin and gave me a group hug. Everyone seemed to think of me as a movie star. At breakfast, I scraped some crepes into the fire and thanked my mom for the gifts and for the magic she must have worked to make everyone like me. I saw Zack at lunch, and wondered, since he was still my friend before Artemis worked her magic, what would he think of me now? The Ares campers even asked me for a challenge in the arena sort of nicely. I guess there is only so much a mom can do.
I noticed something about my new weapon. With melee and ranged combat, I'd be pretty hard to beat. I walked into the sword arena and saw the Ares campers talking in the middle of the arena. I looked around and saw some people in the stands. There were some Athena campers, a few Apollo kids, and Zack. An Athena girl was talking to him animatedly. when he saw me come in he said something quickly to the girl and he walked down to me.
"Hey, um...where'd you get the bracelet?" he asked.
"Oh! Ok, um, you remember last night, when we went down to practice by the creek? Well, after you left, this girl came out of the woods on the other side of the creek. I thought she was either a dryad or a monster, but she told me she was my mom, Artemis." I told him.
"Artemis! In this camp! Huh!" he exclaimed. I continued. "Anyway, she gave me this and told me a secret about my staff and the bracelet. See, my staff turns into a bow and arrow when I whisper her name to it, and, when I want it to, the bracelet turns into a shield." "Wow." he said.
"Hey, Natalie, get over here!" Danielle yelled. "I gotta go." I told Zack. He told me to be careful and walked back up to his seat. I went over to the Ares kids. They decided that I should fight Danielle. Well, actually Danielle decided I should fight her, everyone else was just too scared to say anything.
So, Danielle and I went at it. She lunged, I parried. I thrusted, she blocked. And it went on that way for about 10 minutes. I thought about using my bow and arrow, but with her flailing around like a maniac, it wasn't safe. She swiped with sword horizantally and I knew I wouldn't be able to block it so I did exactly what i did during capture the flag. I ddropped to the ground. She must've had built up alot of momentum behind her swing because she kept going and spun in circles until she lost her balance and fell to the ground. I retaliated quickly and grabbed my staff. "Artemis." And in a flash of light, my bow was in my hand, along witha quiver of arrows on my back. Danielle had gotten back on her feet, so I notched an arrow and pointed it at her chest. She gulped and walked back over to her cabinmates, admitting defeat.
I put my bow and arrows away and hooked my staff in the holder on my side. Zack, the Athena and Apollo kids, and Chiron came over to me.
"Congratulations! No one has beaten Danielle since she came here, which was about 4 and a half years ago." he said. Instead of congratulating me, Zack gave me hug. I was surprised, but it wore off after one of the Athena girls yelled, "Group hug!" Then I was just squished.
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Zack, Cedar, and I were walking to the dining pavilion after archery lessons when Zack told a cheesy joke that caused us to laugh uncontrollably.
"How long does the chicken work?" he said, "Around the cluck!" It wasn't very funny, but it gave us a good case of the giggles. And that is when our problems began.
We heard a loud roar and a loud scraping noise. We turned around tofind where the noise was coming from and saw a huge, shimmering lion fighting Peleus (the gaurdian dragon) on Half-Blood Hill. Peleus' scales were protecting him from the lion's claws, so I thought he would have the upper hand, but then I noticed that the lion's fur was deflecting Peleus' strikes as well. This, clearly, was no ordinary lion. After all, lions don't run free throughout New York.
And then it hit me. This was the Nemean Lion.
And then I saw what they were fighting over. A young girl was lying, unconscious behing Peleus. He was protecting her.
"Aim! Fire!" It was the Apollo kids. They were doing their best, but the arrows bounced off the lion's fur. But, luckily, he was momentarily distracted. Peleus hoisted the girl up onto his back and looked at us for help. I didn't know what to do, but Zack did. "I, Zack Spencer, give Peleus permission to enter camp!" The girl came with him so she was a half-blood.
Jeremiah (one of Hephaesus' children) carried her back to the Big House, while the Apollo kids got rid of the lion. Zack stayed back to calm down the other campers while Cedar and I went to the Big House to make sur e the girl was going to be okay.
We took turns spoon-feeding her ambrosia and nectar. Zack came in a little while later with Chiron.
"Zack, Cedar, could you give Natalie and I a moment alone?" he asked. "Um, yeah, sure, Chiron." said Cedar. Zack agreed and left with Cedar.
"Natalie, I wanted to tell you that the lion wasn't after our little friend here." He gestured to the girl on the bed, "He was after you. But, more importantly the Nemean Lion's presence has never been felt here and the distortion in the Mist's density has corrupted the Oracle. I will ask Zack to tell you about the Oracle later. The Oracle is disintegrating because of it. And the gods are blaming you."