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Camp Half Blood Campers' Correspondence a Year Later-[Arthur Caraval to Lucy Caraval]
Dear mom,
Camp is sort of weird, but in a good way. I show up and I've got this little lightning bolt floating above my head and every acts all crazy and then I get shown to the biggest, fanciest cabin I've ever seen in my life with this other chick and we get the thing all to ourselves until she goes and invites the whole rest of the camp in. Well, that I don't really mind because most of them left after the first night and the others are kids who didn't get claimed yet. And some of them actually clean up after themselves.
They've got Activities here that I'd never heard of before, like Gorgon grappling, and Pin the Tail on the Minotaur, long distance lava jumping, and skeet. I was learning strategies for how to keep my balance on a hydra's back yesterday. They got a hydra out and everything. At the end we weren't allowed to leave until we teamed up and pinned the thing down with a rock so the next class could use it. It was awesome and terrifying all at the same time. The Hermes cabin was good to have around with the Hydra because they're so many of them and they're all good at different things. Olympia, the chick in my cabin, rocked at everything. I think she had some training before she came to camp. She only got here this year, same as me, and she's a bit older, but she already knows how to wreck all these monsters. This one time, the carnivorous ponies got loose in the stable and were scaring all the other horses and the Pegasi and stuff and Olympia just, one by one, leapt up on their backs, grabbed them by the neck and forced them down and lassoed they feet and dragged them back to their stalls. We're using them for the chariot races now.
They announced that there'd be chariot races! Dionysis said they'd be continuing them from last year. He said they might be useful for later, but then he got bored and didn't finish what he was talking about, but we think there might be a triathlon or something with the chariot races later. We're making a chariot. We're actually building it. We're turning it into our Arts + Crafts project. We've got some of the unclaimed Hermes kids in our cabin helping us out with it. Olympia invited me to race with her which is awesome because Olympia's super strong. Like, it doesn't even make sense how strong she is. She's like Hercules reborn. Olympia invited the Hades cabin to do some full armored sparring with us during a free. There were other cabins in there too, but eventually it just got down to Olympia and this kid, Nico, who's the head of the Hades cabin. It clearly wasn't a fair fight because Olympia was busting his ass, so she let him get away with all this stuff. He summoned this hellhound and Olympia punched it in the nose and it went flying into Nico. She forfeited the matched because her gauntlet had broken onto her hand and she couldn't get it off, but Nico's sort of a big hero at our camp and she didn't really want to beat him. There was this chick from the Iris cabin that kept asking me about them. She was really annoying.
Next period is classic projectile weapons, which I rock at. Talk to ya later, mom.
From Arthur
Zeus Cabin – Cabin 1