Author's Note: Sorry for that super horrible action scene. But anyway, I hope you are enjoying our fanfic so far! Do I have anything else to say? Well for one, I seriously do not know how long this story will take me/how many chapters it will be. I just kind of go with the flow you know? First, I think of what the first chapter will be about. Then, the rest just all comes together like a super easy puzzle piece. I kind of know a bit from House of Hades, so I might add Jason's and Nico's friendship in it. I can't help myself! Anyway, sorry for the errors, and I'm sorry for inaccurate information in this chapter! Happy reading! Adieu!
~Lynn~
Chapter Two
"Percy!" Annabeth ran up to him and tackled him.
"Jeez, Annabeth!" Percy laughed. "I wasn't even gone that long!"
Annabeth got up and examined Percy. "Is that monster dust?"
Percy pushed himself off the ground. "Yeah, there were monsters chasing them. A whole lot of them too." He gestured towards Amitola and Lynn. "That's Amitola, and that's Lynn."
Annabeth nodded towards them. "I'm Annabeth, nice meeting you guys."
"Uh, hi I guess." Lynn gave a nervous smile. "I'm Lynn."
Annabeth smiled back and glanced towards Amitola. "Then, I'm guessing you're Amitola.
"Actually," Amitola flipped her hair. "I'm Loki."
"O-kay?" Annabeth looked slightly confused.
"Just call her Amitola." Lynn rolled her eyes.
"Alright, I guess." Annabeth chuckled a bit. She turned to Jason and the others. "Shouldn't you be taking them to Chiron?"
"Oh yeah," Percy agreed. "They might be slightly overwhelmed about Chiron though."
"Who's Chiron?" Lynn tilted her head sideways.
"The activities director here," Annabeth answered. "And, don't be surprised if you find Chiron with horse legs."
"What?" Lynn's eyes became wide, clearly shocked and confused.
"Horse legs?!" Amitola exclaimed. "Did he get plastic surgery or something?"
"What?!" Lynn stared at Amitola as if she grew a second head.
"Huh?" Annabeth tilted her head to the side.
Amitola shrugged. "It can happen."
"Where'd Nico go?" Jason turned towards Annabeth, who frowned and shrugged in response.
"Looking for me?"
They all whirled around once more to find a boy whose name was apparently Nico. He wore a black skull shirt and dark denim jeans. A black Stygian Iron sword clung to his side, and his dark bangs covered his face. He had very pale skin, but really dark eyes.
"Will you stop doing that?!" Leo complained. Nico only rolled his eyes.
"Woah, Emo kid," Amitola whispered to Lynn, who laughed at the comment. Everyone turned and stared at them with a confused look on their face.
"Nothing, nothing," Lynn mumbled, trying to stop herself from stifling another laugh.
"O-kay," Annabeth confusingly commented. "Well, we should get going to Chiron. Nico, you coming?"
"Sure," Nico replied nonchalantly, shrugging.
They all walked together down Half-Blood Hill towards the main part of camp. There were many people wandering around, talking and just hanging out, practicing in what looked like a sword arena, practicing archery, riding pegasus, et cetera. Most of the people waved at their group. Some just smiled at them as they walked by.
"So many people…I don't like it," Lynn whispered to Amitola, who was staring at the archery practice.
"Oh! Can we do archery?!" Amitola pointed at the archery arena and started jumping around Lynn. "Can we, can we, can we?!"
Percy glanced at the archery arena and back. "Sure, but we should go see Chiron first. He'll happily greet you guys, and he'll explain Camp Half-Blood."
"You know, I just remembered that we are across the country!" Lynn nearly yelled.
Percy nervously chuckled. "Yeah, forgot about that. Shadow-traveling can get you places so fast you forget, right?"
"Shadow-traveling?" Lynn narrowed her eyes.
"It's what Mrs. O'Leary did to get us here," Percy answered. Lynn nodded as she processed the answer.
"You know, I wonder who your godly parents are," Jason directed at Amitola and Lynn.
"We'll see when the time comes," Percy reassured.
Annabeth nodded. "They'll most likely be claimed during the campfire."
"Claimed?!" Amitola wagged her index finger and her head side to side. "I ain't nobody's man."
"Please don't talk like that ever again," Lynn informed. "It annoys me to the bone. We have English class for a reason."
"I hate English class." Amitola made a face.
"Well, excuse me." Lynn just rolled her eyes.
"Chiron will explain everything," Annabeth stated. Her gray eyes glistened in the sunlight as she examined the new recruits. Her blonde hair was pulled back in a loose ponytail, and some loose hair fell around the sides of her face. She wore a similar orange T-shirt like Percy and Leo, but it wasn't covered in monster dust, so the shirt was finally legible. It read: Camp Half-Blood.
"You mean the guy that got plastic surgery?" Amitola mentioned.
Lynn rolled her eyes. "I really doubt he got plastic surgery."
"Like I said: it can happen."
"Okay, Amitola," Lynn sarcastically replied.
"Loki!"
"Where?!" Leo frantically started to look around. Nico and Leo were engaged in some kind of conversation before.
"Nowhere," Lynn and Annabeth snapped.
Jason cleared his throat which got everyone's attention. "We're here," Jason informed.
The seven of them stood outside a huge two-story building. It was painted baby blue with a white trim, and it had a few steps leading up to the front porch. It had two windows on the first story of the building out on the front, and three windows on the second story out on the front. It had wind chimes that hung from the low ceiling that was overhanging the front door, and a railing surrounded the front porch. There was also a wooden rocking chair on the front porch.
"Woah, this looks like one of those old houses you see in those black-and-white movies," Lynn commented.
"Interesting…" Annabeth trailed off.
They approached the front door, and Percy knocked on it three times. A man opened the door, and he looked like he was in his mid-40s or mid-50s. He had short, wavy brown hair that went to half of his ears. He had a chocolate brown beard and he wore a red coat with a white shirt underneath. He had dark brown soft, caring eyes and he looked as if he were just relaxing in the baby blue building. And, Amitola and Lynn guessed that this was Chiron that Percy and Annabeth were talking about, because his lower half was that of a brown horse.
"The plastic surgery guy!" Amitola exclaimed.
"Um, no." Lynn narrowed her eyes at Amitola.
"But—"
"No."
Annabeth stepped up. "Hello, Chiron."
"Hello, Annabeth," Chiron greeted. "How is your lovely evening going?"
"Good, thank you." She stepped to the side and gestured at Amitola and Lynn. "These are the demigods you sent Percy, Jason, and Leo for in California. I just thought that they should drop by and you should explain a few things to them."
"I'm Loki!" Amitola protested.
"Just call her Amitola." Lynn tried her best for a smile.
Chiron softly laughed. "Hello, Lynn and Loki."
"See, he calls me Loki." Amitola elbowed Lynn.
"No one wants to, Amitola."
"Chiron obviously does! Right, Chiron?" Amitola began elbowing Chiron with a mischievous smile. "Right? Right?"
Chiron chuckled. "Why don't you ladies come inside? I'll explain everything to you. Percy, Annabeth, Jason, Leo, Nico, would you like to join?"
"Nico?!" Leo whipped his head around at the fourteen-year old in the back. "I thought you left!"
"I wanted to see how long it'd take you to realize I'm still here." Nico smirked. Apparently Emo kid actually had a sense of humor, it seemed.
"You little—"
"Anyway!" Annabeth clapped her hands together, abruptly stopping Leo. "Let's go join Chiron and help explain Camp Half-Blood for Amitola and Lynn. Okay?"
They all mentally agreed as they walked in after Chiron, Amitola, and Lynn. Lynn still didn't get over the fact that Chiron had horse legs. Amitola continued to think Chiron had plastic surgery.
"Please, have a seat," Chiron offered, gesturing towards a few chairs surrounding a ping pong table. "This is where I usually hold meetings with three demigods about to go on a quest and the cabin leaders of each cabin."
"Around a ping pong table?" Lynn awkwardly asked as Amitola picked up a ping pong racket.
"Lynn! Lynn! I challenge you to a Pokémon duel!" Amitola raised her ping pong racket and pointed it at Lynn as if it were a really sharp sword.
"A ping pong duel," Lynn corrected.
"Sh-h, Child."
Lynn only rolled her eyes and she took a seat next to a very happy and excited Amitola.
"I think we should start with Chiron's horsey legs," Leo suggested.
Annabeth rolled her eyes. "Have you guys heard of centaurs?"
"You mean those things in the video games that my sister and my brother play where they're half-human and half-horse and they fight with a bow and arrow?" Lynn tilted her head to the side.
"Close," Annabeth replied with a small smile.
"First part, no. Second part, yes." Percy answered. Lynn only nodded.
"Well, that's what Chiron is," Annabeth stated.
"Yes, indeed." Chiron nodded. "And, if you ladies haven't found out already, we are at a place called Camp Half-Blood. We teach demigods how to fight monsters, handle weapons, et cetera. So, you may have taken the hint that you ladies are also demigods."
"Uh, what are demigods?" Lynn asked.
"Super fucking cool bad-ass people!" Amitola cheered.
"I wasn't asking for your answer."
"Well too bad."
Jason smiled in amusement. "Demigods are half-mortals and half-gods. One of the parents of a demigod is a god or a goddess. You guys are probably missing a parent, right? Unless you're in Percy's case, in which he's got a step-dad."
"I have a step-dad," Amitola informed. "I quote lines from Spock to my step-dad and he stares at me like school actually teaches me things."
"Oh my God, Amitola!" Lynn laughed.
"Again with the Spock!" Leo exclaimed. "Tell Will that I am not Vulcan!"
"VULCAN!" Amitola screeched, jumping from her chair and pointing at Leo. "IT'S SPOCK!"
"Here we go again," Lynn muttered under her breath.
"'Why would a Starfleet admiral ask a three-hundred-year old frozen man for help? Because I am better. At what? Everything. Alexandar Marcus needed to respond to an uncivilized threat in a civilized time, and for that, he needed a warrior's mind—my mind—to design weapons and warships. You are suggesting the Admiral violated very regulation he vowed to uphold, simply because he wanted to exploit your intellect. He wanted to—'"
"Stop! No one wants to hear Star Trek quotes, Amitola," Lynn interrupted as Amitola pouted.
Her pout suddenly changed to a grin. "How about Loki quotes?! 'After all this time, now you come to visit me brother? Why? To mock me? I—'"
"No! Nothing! No quotes, please!" Lynn begged. "I just want to know why we're across the country!"
"Loki will tell you!" Amitola cheerily replied. Lynn only slapped Amitola's arm in response.
"'Hitting does not solve everything,'" Amitola quoted. "Quoted from Loki!"
"Oh. My. God." Lynn sighed exasperatedly.
"Getting back on topic." Annabeth raised an eyebrow at Amitola. "Usually at the campfire that we have on most nights, a symbol of a god or a goddess will appear above your head. That means that that god or goddess claims that they are your other parent. Like for example, when Percy was claimed, a trident appeared over his head. That meant that he was the son of Poseidon."
"Why is everyone using me as an example?" Percy sighed.
"Because you're Percy." Jason laughed.
"There are twenty cabins for twenty gods and goddesses. Cabin one is Zeus, and the cabin leader for Zeus is Jason." Annabeth gestured at Jason who sat across the ping pong table from her. "Cabin two is Hera, though she doesn't have any children, so no one can be the cabin leader for cabin two. Cabin three is Poseidon, which Percy is cabin leader of. Cabin four is Demeter, and the cabin leader is Miranda Gardiner."
"I get it!" Lynn smirked. "Because Demeter is the goddess of harvest, and Miranda's last name is 'Gardiner', as in a gardener."
Amitola and Leo burst out into laughter.
Annabeth stared with an awkward expression across her face, before continuing again. "Cabin five is the Ares cabin, and Clarisse La Rue is the current cabin leader. Cabin six is the Athena cabin, and I am the cabin leader for cabin six. Cabin seven is the Apollo cabin, and Will Solace is the cabin leader. Cabin eight is Artemis' cabin, but since she doesn't have any children either, her Hunters use that cabin when they visit. Thalia Grace—Jason's older sister—is technically the cabin leader for cabin eight.
"The Hunters are a group of women gathered by Artemis who fight alongside and with Artemis against monsters. They are granted immortality, but they can die in battle. The Hunters are a group of women that are made up of both demigods and mortals. If they pledge their allegiance to Artemis, they join the Hunters and that's when they are granted immortality."
Percy glanced at Nico for some strange reason, and Nico looked as if he was trying to hide a look of forlorn.
"Cabin nine if the Hephaestus cabin, and the current leader for that is—"
"Leo smokin' hot Valdez! That's me everybody!" Leo announced to everyone around the ping pong table. "And I am literally hot."
Annabeth rolled her eyes. "Yeah. Anyway, cabin ten is the Aphrodite cabin. Piper McLean is the cabin leader for the Aphrodite cabin."
"Piper is the one that Leo mentioned before when Jason offered you guys a hand," Percy explained.
"Oh-h." Lynn and Amitola simultaneously said.
Annabeth continued. "Cabin eleven is the Hermes cabin. The Hermes cabin is where unclaimed demigods go if they're not yet claimed. The current cabin leaders for cabin eleven are the twins Travis and Connor Stoll. Cabin twelve is the Dionysus cabin. If you hear of anyone named Mr. D around here, that's Dionysus. He's the forced camp director of Camp Half-Blood. Zeus sent him here as punishment for chasing after an 'off-limits' nymph. Don't ask. The current cabin leader for cabin twelve is Pollux. Cabin thirteen is the Hades cabin. We only have one child in the Hades cabin, so the cabin leader is Nico."
"No wonder he's Emo," Amitola whispered over to Lynn, who snickered at the comment.
"Cabin fourteen is the Iris cabin, and the cabin leader is Butch. Cabin fifteen is the Hynos cabin. The current cabin leader is Clovis. Cabin sixteen is the Nemesis cabin, who doesn't have any children."
"There was this one guy I knew that was on the opposing side named Ethan Nakamura, who was a child of Nemesis. But…" Percy trailed off, and everyone got the hint of what happened to Ethan.
"Cabin seventeen is—"
"Annabeth I think you should hurry up a bit," Jason suggested. "Lynn looks like she's zoning out."
"I heard my name." Lynn snapped from her thoughts and into the real world. "Sorry, I zone out a lot when Amitola's talking to me."
Amitola gasped. "What's that supposed to mean?!"
"It's exactly what it sounds like."
"Okay, I'll just skip the cabin leaders then." Annabeth nodded. "Cabin seventeen is the Nike cabin—"
"I love that brand!" Lynn suddenly took interest to the topic.
"I know! Those shoes are amazing! And the pants—so comfortable!" Leo agreed.
"Cabin eighteen is the Hebe cabin," Annabeth continued, ignoring the comments made. "Cabin nineteen is the Tyche cabin, and cabin twenty is Hecate's cabin.
"Curfew is at ten o'clock at night. And, if you're not in your cabin by then, the nymphs'll get you.
"Camp Half-Blood is disguised as the Delphi Strawberry Service, and there's magical borders that are enforced by the golden fleece—which was the golden thing that was on the tree that you guys shadow-traveled to. So, you shouldn't worry about monsters too much. Of course, there are some things that can breach our borders, but that's why we train and hone our skills to become better and stronger demigods.
"We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the dining pavilion. Ignore the crack in the middle of the pavilion though."
All eyes turned to Nico, who only shrugged in response.
"You should always contribute a portion of your meal to your godly parent. It's a way to keep in touch with them—since you never really get the chance to—and if you ever need help, there's more of a chance that they'll be there for you. Hestia—goddess of the hearth—takes a small portion of it.
"The strongest demigods are children of the Big Three. The Big Three is made up of Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. They don't have many children because they made an oath that they would never have children again after this huge oracle called the 'Great Prophecy' came out, which is a confusing topic that I won't get into unless you guys ask. That's why the only children that we know of that are from the Big Three are Jason Grace, Thalia Grace, Percy Jackson, Tyson—Percy's half-brother, and Nico di Angelo. And, we're not counting our counterpart camp—the Roman camp." Annabeth made sure that she didn't mention Bianca—Nico's deceased older sister. If Nico minded, then he chose not to do anything about it.
"The Roman camp is located in California, where Roman demigods are taken. Jason used to be from there as well," Annabeth explained as Jason nodded.
"I think that's it," Percy stated.
The Sun was now low in the sky. The black, night sky blanketed the world, and various stars could be seen. The moon was radiating a gentle air throughout the camp, and it glistened against the darkness of the night.
"The campfire should be starting soon," Jason informed. "They might be claimed tonight. Should we take Amitola and Lynn?"
"Campfire?! C-A-M-P-F-I-R-E-S-O-N-G SONG! C-A-M-P—"
"No," Lynn interrupted Amitola's Spongebob singing.
"Campfire! Let's go! Let's go! Vamanos!" Amitola started bouncing around in her seat like an excited little child who couldn't wait for Christmas.
"Okay, Dora." Lynn rolled her eyes and smirked.
"Dora the Explorer!" Amitola cheered as she grabbed Lynn's wrist and they dashed outside. "Where's my purple backpack?!" Then Amitola gasped and turned to Lynn. "Boots!"
"Oh I am not going to be your talking monkey in only red boots," Lynn refused.
"Oh, only red boots." Amitola started wagging her eyebrows. Lynn rolled her eyes, and was soon dragged off by her demigod friend.
The rest stared at each other, and soon briskly followed the running newcomers.
"Bye, Chiron!" Annabeth yelled over her shoulder before hurrying to catch up with the soon-to-be-lost demigods.
Chiron only waved goodbye, with a smile on his gentle face.