A/N: I just want you all to know I'm using WordPad to write this story and its stupid and doesnt have spell check... so if I missed something then sorry!
Aaron had brought me down to the infirmary were Chiron cleaned out my cut and wrapped a bandage around my arm, which was throbbing with pain. As we were walking to the Amphitheater a very unattractive girl came up to Aaron and I.
"I see you got your cut bandaged." She said. "I'm Clarisse La Rue, daughter of Ares and creator of you bloody arm."
"Good for you." I said, giving her a dirty look.
"Look, you little sunflower, I don't know how you weaseled your way out of fighting anyone of us on your way TO our side. But I plan to figure it out."
"Sunflower? Is that the best you got Meathead?"
"Watch yourself Sunflower!" She said. She stared at me like she was going to shoot laser beams out of her eyes before leaving.
"At least she didn't call you a pansy." Aaron said.
"Not helping." I said. Aaron shrugged. When we walked into the Amphitheater all I saw was a massive fire pit surrounded by sections of bleachers that had different color banners at the top of them with something written in Greek on them. I looked at the flags and read some of them. A rose colored one that read Aphrodite, a green one that read Demeter, a gray one that read Athena, and so on. Aaron and I walked to the one that was a golden yellow and read Apollo on it. We sat down in the front row and waited for everyone else to come. Once everyone showed up Chiron came over and tossed a torch into the pit, and it blazed to life. I saw some of my half siblings with guitars and they began to play. They started singing a song about their grandmother going downtown to get some armor. I didn't understand it really, but the fire seemed to be reacting. The louder we all sang, the taller the fire would get. Tonight, the fire was at least a good 15 feet tall and glowing bright yellow. Evan came over and sat down next to me, elbowing me in the process. After a while campers were beginning to leave the Amphitheater, heading to there cabins. We stayed around till the fire shrunk to 4 feet tall, but still glowed yellow. Lee came over and sat down next to us.
"You know, the color that the fire glows depends on all of our moods." Lee said.
"Why?" Aaron asked.
"I dunno, why does it grow higher when we sing louder?"
"You really think I know."
"Nope."
"Good cause I don't"
"Children, you should be heading back to your cabins for bed." Chiron said, pulling a marshmallow out of a bag and popping it into his mouth. "You know, these are terrible for me to eat." He said, putting another marshmallow in his mouth and walking away. "But there so good." He mumbled.
"Come on." Lee said. We stood up and walked out of the Amphitheater, our little group separated to go to our cabins, Evan going to the Hephaestus cabin and Lee, Aaron and I heading to the Apollo cabin, glowing a faint gold in the moonlight. Lee opened up the door and let us in.
"Welcome to the Apollo cabin." He said.
One wall was a bookshelf that was full with CD's, bunk beds lined the other two walls, and on the back wall had posters from bands and movies. In the middle of the room there was a tree, yes a tree. A laurel tree to be specific. There was a small circle of soil surrounding it with bricks at the edge of it. The rest of the floor was hardwood, the two visible walls were painted a sky blue.
"Thats were you two will sleep, you pick top or bottom, if you can't we can flip a coin or something." Lee said, pointing to a bunk bed that had the beds set up like an L. The top bunk went along one of the painted walls, while the bottom one stuck out, tucked under the top one a little.
"I call top." Aaron and I said at the same time.
"Oh-Kay, looks like were flipping a coin." Lee said. "Anyone got a drachma?" He asked. Something golden flipped through the air to him. "Thanks. OK, heads or tails?"
"Heads." I said
"Tails." Aaron added. Lee flipped the coin in the air, I crossed my fingers. Lee caught the coin and flipped it down on his hand.
"Heads." Lee said. "Steph gets top bunk." Lee tossed the drachma back in the direction were he got it. Aaron and I walked to the bunk.
"How do you always win." He said.
"Not sure, maybe you should pick before I do."
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"You always pick after me."
"Touché." He said. When we got to our bunk our duffel bags were already there. The stairs to get to the top bunk doubled as storage, plus we both had trunks to put some extra stuff in. I tossed my clothes in the top two steps while Aaron to the bottom ones. I made a note to write a letter to mom and ask for some of my stuff. We sat around, a speaker playing music overhead. After awhile we were all in our pajamas, and lights out was at 11:00. I climbed under the covers took one last look at the Apollo cabin, and shut my eyes.