When we were done Travis and Connor brought us to Chiron, he was standing with three campers, one was a African American guy with big muscles, the other two guys looked to be related, they probably belonged to the same cabin, they were blond with blue eyes and were carrying a bow, and a quiver full of arrows.
"Chiron we brought the fugitives."Connor said.
"Mhm... fugitives. That's a good way to put it." Travis said.
"Connor, Travis be nice, now go were you have to." Chiron said. Connor and Travis ran off. "Kids, this is Lee Fletcher, Will Solace and Charles Beckendorf. And this is Stephanie Archer, Aaron Archer and Evan Gagnon." We all said hi and Chiron continued. "Each of you new campers are going to be shown around by one of these three campers. So, Lee take Steph, Will go with Aaron and Beckendorf go along with Evan. So go ahead." We all walked off.
"Just so you know I'm the head counsler of the Apollo cabin and I'm gonna give you a full tour of camp."Lee said.
"Cool."
"You sound nervous."
"Uh well you know."
"Ha ya... I do know. But don't worry, your undecided right?"
"Ya I just got here last night with my brother and my friend."
"Don't worry you parent will claim you soon, and everything will be a lot easier around here. I on this way." We walked out of the mess hall and walked around camp.
"This place is pretty big."
"Ya well there's loads of stuff to do. You wake up and go to breakfast and have your cabin inspection. There's an Ancient Greek class, lunch prep, store check, stable cleaning, strawberry picking, armor polishing, oh we gotta get you some armor too. Theirs archery, javelin throwing, sword practice, monster assault and Greek mythology classes. Theirs, weapon making, rapid riding, tracking skills, wrestling and volleyball. You have time write letters to home, clean up your cabin, laundry, wood-chopping and firework making. Then you have free time, you can go to the beach ,remember your sunscreen, discus and javelin and all that kind of stuff, you can go rock climbing and canoeing during that time. Then dinner, and tonight we play Capture the Flag then we have campfire sing-a-long with my cabin, the Apollo cabin."
"Wait, did you just say Capture the Flag?"
"Yeah, its very popular with our age group."
"Well I knew that, but i have just the slightest feeling that its not like regular middle school Capture the Flag."
"Not unless your middle school plays with deathly weapons, monsters and you can become severely injured?"
"Um no, just regular old capture the flag with regular kids and regular flags."
He laughed. "I wanna show you one more thing in here." I realized we had walked almost all the way around camp and the sun was getting lower in the sky. Lee brought me in to some horse stables.
"Wait. These... these hor-horses have wi-wings..."
"Ya, there Pegasi , or Pegasus if your talking about just one. But we just got two new ones, Hercules and Achilles." Lee showed me a pure white Pegasus with a twenty foot wingspan. He had what seemed to be black dots on his neck in the shape of the Hercules constellation. "Hercules took quite a liking to your brother, according to this note board about him. But Achilles here hasn't found anyone he likes a lot yet." I looked at the next stall. There was a pure white Pegasus, with wings as large as the other and they looked like a eagles wings. On the back its left ankle was black to its shin, were it faded to gray then to white. The horse looked at me.
"You can pet him you know, just reach your hand out and see what happens." Lee said. I slowly reached my hand out. Achilles locked eyes with me.
"The Pegasus it staring into my soul and its creeping me out." I whispered. Lee laughed. Then Achilles took his head and pressed it against my hand.
"I think he likes you, here give him this." Lee handed me a sugar cube. I held it out to Achilles. He sniffed it, then gently took it out of my hand. He flapped his wings his and flipped his mane.
"Is that good or bad?"
"Are you kidding me, that's amazing!" He smiled. "I hate to say this but, come on, I gotta show you the cabins and get you some armor." He led me out of the stables after writing something on Achilles's note board. We stopped in the armory and put in a order for my armor and headed for the cabins.
"Now this just might be the weirdest assortment of buildings you might ever see. Lets go to the goddesses side first, Barbie dream house is actually the Aphrodite cabin. This one with the owls carved on the door and looks kinda like a school is the Athena cabin. The silver one Artemis's cabin."
"Isn't Artemis a virgin though?"
"Ya, but we have it here for respect, and theirs the hunters of Artemis and they stay there when they come around. So moving on, this one with the flowers one it and the grass roof, that's the Demeter cabin. This marble one is empty too, the Hera cabin. Now the gods side, this marble ine is Zeus's cabin one camper lived here, but that s another story. This blue one, thats the Poseidon cabin, its empty too. This ugly blood red one it the Ares cabin, this greenhouse like one is the Dionysus cabin, this gold one is my beautiful cabin 7, the Apollo cabin and then of course the Hermes cabin. And here, are statures of the Gods and Goddesses." I gasped, right in front of me was a statue of Fred with the Python.
"Lee did you say you were head of cabin 7?"
"Ya how come?" I handed him the note and showed him the Ipod touch. "Well, turn it on!" His eyes were full of excitement. I turned the Ipod on. There wasn't anything special there were the apps like Google and blah blah blah. But there was already a game on it. "Play the game!" Lee said.
"Your crazily excited about this aren't you."
"Well duh!" I touched the game and there was a flash of yellow light and then I was holding a bow. It was white and had curled tops and had gold spiraling down it. It kinda looked like a white and gold candy cane. Lee and I just stared at it. "We gotta go to the archery range REAL quick. But first, we need to get you a quiver and some arrows."