My name is Bobby a 15 year old demigod son of Eros, the god of Love and son of Aphrodite and Ares. I found out I was a demigod at one of the worst time to be one. Not that there was a great time to be a half blood. Being a demigod usually means your hunted by monsters on a daily basis. Back then I was shoved into the overcrowded Hermes Cabin. My first summer there, Kronos was rising and a person who had once been the head of my cabin was his lead helper.
Luke, his helper, was on his way using the labyrinth that snaked its way under most of the world to bypass the magic borders around camp, with an army filled with demigods and monsters. I was one of the lucky ones that survived. Then the year after I did my best to help defend Mount Olympus, which is floating above the Empire State Building.
In the end we helped save the world as you know it. Now I'm sure you don't believe me, which is a good thing. If you don't believe me you'll probably be much safer. But anyway this is the story of my first time going on a quest, how I almost died a lot and how I got with the guy of my dreams. Literally, demigods get these dreams with visions of the future and things like that.
So my mom dropped me off at the gates of Delphi Strawberry Service, which is how the camp makes its money and walked up the hill, past the Golden Fleece and its protector dragon Peleus. I walked to my brand new cabin. Luckily I was able to persuade the designers to add a shower, skylights, and a statue of Eros and Psyche his wife. At their feet was a brazier to burn offerings to him. It was awesome.
Thank Eros I was given a special ability, other than dyslexia and ADHD, I could fill people with pure lust, or pure anger. It was quite the entertaining power. It has something to do with the arrows my father shot at people. One makes you fall in love the other leaden ones made you hate a person. I may have used my power to persuade the Athena campers who designed my cabin.
When your father is a god of love and you're a teenager things tend to get very sweaty and fun, with lots of people. I'm a slut. There I said it. But you don't get how amazing it is to get it on after a battle. Now these powers attracted the attention of my godly grandparents, Lord Ares god of war, and the beautiful Aphrodite. They were having an affair in the same building I caused an orgy and then a riot in. It was a fun day.
They were impressed by what I could do and Aphrodite seemed pleased with me talking about how much delicious drama I would cause. Aphrodite then swished her hand through the air and a necklace appeared there. It was a bronze heart on a golden chain. She told me if I pull it apart on the bottom it would turn into a bow, as a gift from my father, and from the top twin saber daggers that curved around my hand.
After toweling off I went out to sword fighting. Since today the Hades cabin was occupied I was to practice with the son of Hades. He was a shortish guy with black hair that was in a mop and chocolate brown eyes. He had a black version of the orange camp shirt I was wearing and had a black sword stuck in the sand next to him.
"Hey Nico." I held out my hand to help pull him up.
He looked at me as if he was trying to decide if I was worth his time. "Where's your sword?"
"Oh I'm fine. How are you? Oh that's cool." I mumbled to myself as I pulled my pendant apart and the two daggers grew in my hands. "Ready?" I ask holding the blades at my sides.
He tore his black sword from the ground as swung it down at my right side. I jumped back and brought my daggers up to deflect his strike. I lashed out with my left and he quickly dodged and slashed out the point of his blade cutting my shirt. I hooked my right blade around hilt of his sword and twisted it then kicked out and swiped his legs out from underneath him. He rolled around and kicked my legs out as well.
He jumped up and brought his sword down next to my head. We were both panting and sweating from the quick intense battle. He leaned down closer to me. "That was fun." His hair was even messier and he had a patch of sand stuck to his cheek. He extended a hand and when I grasped it he pulled me up. An arrow flew through the air and skimmed across Nico's out stretched arm. "Gods." He let go of me causing me to fall and grabbed his arm. I looked toward the woods were the arrow came from and saw a Scythian dracanae standing there aiming at Nico. It let the arrow fly and I slammed my feet into his chest knocking him out of its path.
"Get up." I yelled and charged toward the creature daggers raised. I slashed the curved blade toward its ugly hissing face but it used the bow to deflect me. It snapped the bow up and slammed it into my chest. Suddenly its face went slack before crumpling to dust, Nico standing behind it, black sword in hand.
"What the hell was that about? Monsters can't cross the borders."
"They can't, unless they're summoned."
We ran to the Archery pitch. Chiron saw us coming as he released four arrows at once all hitting their target. "What's wrong?" He asked. We quickly told him what happened when an explosion rocked the camp grounds. Flames and smoke rose from the cabin area. Campers were screaming, the sound of swords clashing together could be heard over the screams.
Chiron galloped across the distance, leaving us trailing far behind him. He screamed something in ancient Greek as he let arrows fly. Monsters were pouring out of the woods and the Ares and Athena cabins were in the heat of battle. The smell of monsters and blood filled the air. I quickly turned my daggers into my bow and notched one of the magically appearing arrows. The arrow hit a Dracanae in the face, dusting it, before it could sink its blade in a descendent of Demeter.
After the monsters were disposed, we were able to take in the damage. Thank the Gods, no campers were killed. There were black chunks of smoldering stone strewn across the area between cabins. Where Hades cabin once stood was now flaming ruins. The cabins next to it had large chunks of obsidian smashed through their walls.