Chapter 4

"Meeting the Campers"

After I talked to Percy and Annabeth about the prophecy, I decided to look around, and I've got to say, Camp Half-blood's a pretty cool place. There's nice cabins, capture the flag, an awesome sword fighting arena, and an archery range, amongst other things. Unfortunately, my cousins from the Apollo cabin dominate the archery range, so I have to show them what I'm made of. After all, my mom and Apollo are the "Twin Archers".

So I walked up to what seemed to be the best archer of the group, a blonde-haired dude that looked pretty much exactly like what I'd imagine Apollo to look like. I asked him if I could join in. He kind of laughed at me and said, "Who are you?", and I said that my name is Arrow Jackson. He said that his name was Will Solace.

He then told me that he liked my name, but he never asked me who my parent was, I guess he assumed that Apollo is my dad because my name's Arrow. I then asked him again if I could join in, and he said sure. Then I asked if we could turn it into a competition, and he said "absolutely."

So I rubbed on my ring, and my bow appeared, and he looked so surprised, you should've seen his face! He asked me where he could get one of those, and I told him, "from my mom." He gave me a questioning look, but before he could say anything, I shot one of my arrows into the bullseye.

Then the competition started, I asked him if he could beat that, and he shot an arrow right into the bullseye of the target next to mine. Then we decided to change it up a bit. I asked him if he could shoot upside-down. I did it first, and again, hit the bullseye. He did the same thing and hit the bullseye as well. Then he had the idea to try to shoot it with your feet. We shot at the same time, and I hit the bullseye, but he missed. I then started teasing him and he got pretty mad.

Then he asked me who I was and who my mother was. I told him again that I'm Arrow Jackson, Percy's cousin, and that my mom is Artemis. He looked so surprised, but then he got excited because he was happy to meet his first cousin. He then gave me a hug and said "Welcome to Camp Half-Blood!"

I decided to look around some more, and I saw someone trying to push another person into the water. The person that was pushing the other guy into the water had brown hair and was kind of short. I decided to walk up behind him and scare him. I said, "Boo!", and he turned around for a second then jumped up accidentally knocked the other kid into the water, who was wearing mostly black and had black hair, and then he fell in, too. I started laughing out loud and the brown haired kid just looked up at me and said, "Who are you?" I told him my name is Arrow Jackson. He then told me that his name was Connor and the other kid that he pushed in popped up and told me his name was Nico.

Then Nico said, "Thanks for scaring Connor into the water, but couldn't' you at least make sure that he won't push me in next time?" I told him I was sorry and then I helped him out of the water.

Then Nico said, "Wait, your last name's Jackson? Are you Percy's sister?!"

I then told him, "No, I'm his cousin, though it would be cool to be able to control water and everything."

Then Connor and Nico said in unison, "Wait who's your parent?"

Then I said, "Well his name is Dean Jackson, and he's a neurosurgeon and-" I started laughing,

"No!", They both said. "We mean who's your godly parent?

I then said, "Artemis, Artemis is my mom."

Then Connor said, "Really, Artemis is your mom? I thought she hates guys."

Nico said, "Yeah didn't she vow to never be with a man or something like that?"

I said, "Yeah, she did. I wasn't actually born, my mom created me out of moonlight and shot an arrow into my dad's heart. He didn't die, though."

They both looked at me with weird expressions on their faces.

I then said again, "Seriously, my dad's fine. He's still alive and works in Milwaukee."

Then Connor said, "That's not what I was weirded out about. I mean, you were created from moonlight! That's so cool!"

I then decided that Connor and I might become very good friends, after all I do love a good prank now and then.