Demigods: Summer

Well, I have a lot of time today so here's another chapter. This one is the Apollo kids' time to shine.

Thank you guys so much for your feedback from the last chapter!

To Vapor, yes I will use Lara, just in a later chapter, okay?

Danni Anderson's POV

I spun and spun and spun. I kept my arms poised in the air above me and I stopped spinning. I bowed to an imaginary audience and graciously accepted their flowers and applause. And then, I stepped back onto the platform the Hephaestus kids built for me and pirouetted and gracefully danced across the stage, when a head of black hair popped around the corner.

Aiden caught me off guard so I fell off the platform on my back. When I got back on my feet I was coughing. "Gods, Aiden! There's this new thing, it's called knocking. Maybe you should try it!" I shout and smack the back of his head.

"Haven't heard that one before…" He mutters sarcastically. "Jeez, Dan. You gotta lay off the dancing. Just get out once and a while and chill. Ya know?" He tells me laying back on his bunk.

I cross my arms, stubbornly. "I do to know how to chill. It's just that I choose not to."

"Well, it's not your choice anymore." He grabs my arm and pulls me outside the cabin. "It's time for dinner anyway. Did you hear? There's a couple of new kids!"

Now, he's got my attention. "Really? What cabin?"

Aiden shrugs. "I dunno. I heard it's a girl and a guy. Connor told me that the guy is in Hera's cabin."

"Hera? She never has kids! That's her husband's job!"

"Doesn't matter. Its prob'ly not true anyway, you know, the Stoll brothers do that a lot."

I roll my eyes. "I still can't believe that you fell for that unicorn trick."

"Hey, that looked really real." He said defensively.

"It looked like a donkey with a paper horn." I tell him.

Aiden let go of my wrist. "This is why I don't talk to you a lot! You just make fun of me! You're just jealous because I have imagination." He says with mock anger, imitating Queen Bee Lissandra Lexington.

I laugh and race him to the Apollo table. And of course, with my nimble dancing feet, I beat him easily. I scan the tables looking for an unfamiliar face. And I spot a girl with dark black hair at the Poseidon table, laughing with her new siblings.

"Aiden! Look!" I gesture towards the always empty Hera table which wasn't so empty today. There sat a boy, about 17, and had messy black hair. He was all alone and I was tempted to go over and comfort him.

"Wow. Poor guy… Hey, you wanna go talk to him?" Aiden asks.

I nod and say to my sister, Allia. "Allie, you wanna say hi to the new kid?"

"Sure!" She immediately gets up from the table, tugging my hand.

We walk across the lawn to the Hera table. I said hi to Silena and Lara at the Aphrodite Table, Malcolm at Athena, and when I stopped to say hello to Nyx at the Hades Table, Allie gave Nico a flirty wink and a wave. He was distracted and only nodded in her general direction. He was too interested in watching the new girl to notice my sister.

After greeting everybody, Aiden got impatient and dragged us to the Hera table. He plopped down on the seat beside the boy while Allie and I slid into the seat across from him.

"Hey, welcome to Camp Half-Blood! I'm Aiden Blues and these are my sisters." He greets the boy.

He looks up and nods.

We exchange nervous looks and we know each other so well we can read each other so easily, it's like we're having a conversation.

Allie scrunches up her nose. This guy's boring. Can we leave?

I shake my head and tilt it toward the boy. Give him a chance. Maybe he's shy.

I dunno… Maybe Allie's right, we should leave. Aiden shrugs his shoulders.

I roll my eyes. Fine. You guys can leave, but don't come running back to me when you aren't friends with the new guy.

Allie and Aiden shrug their shoulders wave good-bye. As Allie takes a head-start Aiden follows her shouting to me, "See ya, sucka!"

"So… what's your name?" I start awkwardly.

The boy looks up again and says, "Derrick Gonzalez." He glances to the side and back at me. "You?"

"Danni Anderson. So how's camp treating you?" I reply.

"Just fine. Thanks for asking." He looks away again.

I follow the direction he's looking at and find that he's peering over at the Zeus Table, where Jason Grace and Lissa eat. "T-that's good. Where did you live before this?"

"Maine. Turns out my best friend is a satyr and he brought me here." Derrick says, like the conversation is finished.

But it's not finished unless I say so. "What do you say about me showing you around tomorrow?"

Derrick looks at me and responds almost immediately, "Sure. Sounds good."

I smile. "Great. Tomorrow at 10. I'll meet you at your door."

He nods and returns to his meal and I go back to my table.

Aiden and Allie pounce on me. "How'd it go? Did you get anything out of him?" they ask frantically.

I raise my hands in a type of "whoa, Nelly." Gesture and tell them. "His name is Derrick Gonzalez and he's from Maine. He's a bit shy, and I think he has a crush on the Bee. And I'm s'posed to give him a tour of Camp tomorrow."

"Really? He's crushing on the Bee?" Allie squeals.

"Who cares about the Bee! Why is he a child of Hera?" Aiden asks.

I shrug my shoulders, "I dunno. But there's only one way to find out, though." Aiden and Allie know what I'm talking about.

"The Stoll Brothers."

Think I did well. Tell me what you think. And as for drama, that comes in later chapters because right now I'm introducing the characters and their personalities and all that other crap. So, for now, I'll squeeze in humor and action and whatnot.

Hope you enjoy the story! I won't be able to update everyday like this (it's only because I had a free weekend) but I promise I won't leave this story behind. My usual update margin would prob'ly be 3-15 days. Just to let you know. So don't expect too much out of me. And if you do get a chapter in under 3 days it's prob'ly because I'm writing it in the dead of night under a pile of blankets.

Anywhoo, have fun!

-Dr. Asian -.-