Hello. I am posting this on my last day of summer vacation. We all new it was going to end, but I decided to waste it all on writing. JK I love writing for you guys. Please REVIEW. Wow that sounded desperate. Anyway, enjoy chapter 4! :)
Mare's P.O.V.
It was amazing I thought to myself as I looked out the window of the taxi, which I found out is a car that one person drives many people to and from place for a fee. We left the bright lights of the city and entered a more foresty area. We got dropped off at a view of a hill with a big pine tree at the top.
"Pull out your sword." Ross said. I did as he said, but I didn't see any need to. It was made from bronze with a black handle and it was really heavy. To be honest I prefer my wand as a weapon instead of the sword because it was smaller and all you had to learn were words and hand gestures. I felt my back pocket and felt my wand, I had brought it just in case I was somehow better at magic then sword fighting which I thought was impossibly.
I followed Ross up the hill copying the way he held up his sword. Once we past the pine tree at the top of the hill he lowered his weapon and stored it and I did the same. I looked around at my beautiful surroundings, a valley with strawberry fields and forest, a big four story house painted blue, and many other things.
"Welcome to Camp Half Blood." Ross said putting his hands on his hips like he just achieved something great. I saw something in the corner of my eye it was like a glimmer of something I looked at the pine tree and saw that from one of its branches hung a golden hide. I pointed at it and asked, "What is that?" Ross again looked at me like I am stupid.
"Obviously you have never learned anything about Greek mythology so obviously you wouldn't know what the golden fleece is." He said frustrated.
"For your information," I said, "I know all of the Olympians and I know what the golden fleece is. I just don't know how you got it." I said frustrated at him because he still thought I was completely stupid. He probably didn't realize it, but the book I was reading on the plane ride was all about Greek 'mythology' which took me a long time because of my stupid dyslexia. I waited a little bit with no answer and I followed him down to camp. As we passed through the strawberry fields and I saw children around my age tending to them and a teenage boy playing read pipes I was shocked when I saw that the bottom half of his body was covered with fur and he had hooves instead of feet, but I recognized him as a satyr.
Ross took me into the big blue house and introduced me to a charizard? no centaur he was a centaur.
"Hello I am Mare Naomi Potter." I said to the man horse.
"Hello Mare I am Chiron activities director here at camp" Chiron said. Then he turned and looked at my brother and said, "Please escort her to your cabin." My brother nodded then asked me to follow him. Wow that was a short intro.
We walked past a group of kids playing volleyball, then a couple of kids running around. We came up on a climbing wall when I saw lava squirt out towards a kid. I pulled on Ross's shirt, pointed at the wall and said, "We got to help them something is shooting lava at them maybe it's a monster." He took one look at my horrified face and started to laugh. I looked at him confused and he just said, "You're defiantly a newbie little England. See that is how the climbing wall is supposed to work this whole place isn't just a summer camp it is also a training boot camp for us demigods." I didn't like the nickname, but everything else sort of made sense because when we continued to walk there was an arena and an archery range.
We walked into this sort of courtyard with houses in a U shape around it. Each one looked completely different, one was grey with pieces of coral on it and another was marble with peacocks and pomegranates on it. Ross led me to one that was completely pink, we walked up the steps to a blue and white checkered deck. We opened the pink door and I was looking in on girls who were as pretty as me probably prettier and extremely handsome boys all staring at me. The inside was painted pink and the beds were baby blue, and next to each bunk bed was a chest that said a name on it. Ross cleared his throat and said, "Everyone meet our sister Mare." They all clapped then one girl walked up to me,
"Welcome Mare I am Christina counselor of the Aphrodite cabin. "She pointed at a bunk with only one chest underneath it and continued, "That is going to be your bunk tomorrow you'll chest will be there so you can put your stuff in it, but for now just put your stuff on the top bunk, and please after that let us give you a makeover." All the girls nodded and started rummaging through their stuff pulling out makeup bags and clothing. I didn't want to admit it, but I was actually excited to get a makeover.
I quickly lifted my trunk on to my bunk and almost a split second after I was attacked by hangers and makeup brushes.
Christina's P.O.V
Right after I talked to Mare I ran towards my chest that said my name in fancy pink lettering. I quickly opened it up then grabbed an outfit and my makeup bag. Me and my sisters huddled together to choose the order of outfits Mare is going to try on then decided what makeup to give her. We got out of our huddle just as she turned around I gave her the first outfit and told her to go change. When she came back we sat her in a chair and started doing her makeup. When we backed away she was wearing jeans and a silk pink top with her hair curled and down with pink lipstick that matched her top. She was wearing blush and a cream colored eyeshadow and was wearing cream colored flats. Me and my sister looked her over and went back into a huddle.
"I think this is her." One girl said. We all nodded in agreement.
We turned around and I said, "We are good."
Ross's P.O.V
I couldn't help feeling bad for Mare, but I did agree that she could use it I mean she had the same features as my sisters, yet no makeup. Though what did you expect from a cabin full of children of the goddess of beauty. It is hard to be a guy in this family. Me and my brothers observed from our beds the chaos that our sisters called a makeover.
Mare's P.O.V.
I looked at a mirror and I liked the way I looked, but I thought they could have done no makeup and I was defiantly going to change into tennis shoes, but I don't think my sisters would allow that. I heard a loud horn in the distance then Christina said, "Come on, that's the conch shell we better get going to dinner to introduce people to Mare." Before I went out the door I slipped my wand into my back pocket, just a habit. We walked out of the cabin in a line and followed Christina to this building with an open roof that had pillars and a marble floor with picnic benches. I sat at the table with the rest of my siblings right next to Christina.
Chiron stomped his foot I mean hove and everyone went silent.
"I would like to announce a new camper Mare Potter daughter of Aphrodite coming from England and is are first PureHalfBlood." The horse man said. Everyone cheered though it sounded sort of confused because I don't think they know what a PureHalfBlood is, well guess what, it's me. Nymphs served us food and as soon as we got the food people started lining up in front of the fire with their plate I followed as they dumped a portion of their food into the fire and whispered the name of their godly parent and I did the same. As we did so the fire gave off a weird smell, but it was nice to.
We went back to our tables and continued to eat. I didn't really get a chance though because Christina spent all of dinner introducing me to all my other half siblings.
"That's Briana, Aria, Caleb, June, Octavia, Mavin." She pointed at a different person when she said their name.
"So what is a PureHalfBlood anyway Mare." Said a girl with blonde hair, and brown eyes known as Aria.
"Well our mom is a goddess and my dad is a wizard." I said as I pulled out my wand to show everybody.
"Cool." A kid with black hair and my same blue eyes named Mavin. I slipped my wand back in my pocket and finished my food.
Christina's P.O.V.
"Mare can you do anything with that magic wand?" I asked.
"No not really that's why I am here instead of at Hogwarts, which is a wizard school back in England." Mare said in her English accent.
"Why do you still carry your wand though if you can't do magic." Caleb asked. He did have a point, but I think maybe she could do some magic maybe she could get me the new season of clothes.
"I just like to have it around. It makes me feel safe I guess." Mare said.
"I think it's time to head back to the cabin. Ohh maybe we can do Mare's nails." Briana said. Briana is my identical twin sister though people can easily tell us apart because I prefer not to be constantly flirting with other campers unlike some person I know cough cough. So we all funneled back to the cabin and Mare decided she was just going to go to bed and read. We were all shocked, but were fine with it and gave her a book in Greek.
"I don't know how to read ancient Greek," she told us and we all rolled are eyes.
"Are you dyslexic." Ross asked and Mare nodded.
"Well so are the rest of us because our brains are wired to read ancient Greek not English. Now just read the title out loud." I said with a voice that said obviously. She looked at me like I was playing a joke on her, "Fine," she said, "Greek's Gods and Goddess. What how did what." Mare said astonished I gave her a look that could only be read as I told you so.
Mare's P.O.V.
I immediately flipped to the page about my mother. It was difficult to read, but so was English. I read until curfew not just about my mother, but about all the gods and heroes. That night I dreamt about tomorrow because apparently we are going to have a capture the flag game, I don't know what that game is, but it sounds fun. I was also told that my cabin doesn't play in those games which made me a little upset, but Christina said I can play with the Athena cabin and she also said that I will find out why my cabin doesn't play.
That's the end of this chapter.
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