First off, can anyone think of another title for this story, I really don't like the one I picked. Also I would just like to say that as this is my first real story, and I am only 14, I realize there will be mistakes. I would therefore appreciate any constructive criticism from readers; especially if my character is becoming a Mary Sue or any character is too OOC.
Hiker Writer has already told me my grammar should be improved, I will try to work on that.

Ch. 3: Gods save us all

On Olympus.

"My children are way better than yours forge-boy" screamed an angry Ares.

"My son defeated Gaea" roared Hephaestus in turn.

"He would never have been able to without my children as his soldiers" shouted the war god as the other Olympians sighed; this argument had been going on for quite some time.

"Well my son is one of the heroes of Olympus, and he led your children" said Hephaestus triumphantly.

"Well, I'm sleeping with your wife and she likes me better!" said Ares smirking.

"Why you...that's it lets settle this with a fight. Whoever wins has the better children."

"Agreed" replied Ares adjusting his sunglasses.

"You do realize that your fighting will have absolutely no effect on your children's merits, don't you?" said Athena glaring at the two gods disapprovingly.

"You're right, they should fight this out." said Ares grinning. "We'll go to camp and set up a tournament, whoever wins is the best."

"What about our children?" questioned Demeter, "mine are better than yours".

"Fine they can participate too" said Hephaestus, still angry at his half-brother.

"This is an extraordinarily bad idea" said Athena, looking remarkably like an owl. "But if we have to do this, we're doing it my way, understood."

All the gods averted their eyes from Athena's glare and nodded their reluctant agreement.

Chris' pov

The next morning was very fun, for me at least, as the majority of my siblings had a hangover. I, being the loving, caring sister that I am, decided to wake them up by banging on my shield with my hammer.

After being chased around for about half an hour and having a bit of sense beaten into me, my cabin and I headed towards campfire for some breakfast. The first thing I did was pour some orange juice on David's head as payback for yesterday, when he up-ended my cereal bowl on my hair.

I was midway through my third piece of toast (hey, all that training burns a lot of calories) when Chiron came up to make an announcement. "Campers," immediately one of my brothers threw a muffin at him (juvenile idiot). Chiron continued, obviously used to such abuse; "today at twelve o'clock there will be an important meeting. Please do not be late." he said glancing meaningfully at our cabin. Honestly the nerve of that centaur!

The Ares cabin got to the arena only 10 minutes late (come on did you really expect us to be on time?), which I'm pretty sure is a record for us. What greeted us was a surprise to say the least.

Standing in the arena were all twelve of the Olympian gods and goddesses, along with several of the minor gods.

My immediate thought was 'Gods save us all', which, when you think about it, is a pretty ironic plea.

Athena was the first to speak. She stepped forward, and, with a gracious wave greeted us. "Good morning campers. Now many of you may be wondering why we, your parents have decided to visit you now, after millennia of neglect." Wow how long did it take her to figure that one out? "The reason" she continued "is because of a slight disagreement between two of us." at this she glared at Hephaestus and Ares. Hephaestus had the grace to blush, my Dad, as I am proud to say, gave her the finger

Athena scowled and turned away "as I was saying, it has been decided that three demigods from each cabin must participate in tasks decided by the gods. I do understand that not all cabins have three occupants, those cabins will have as many participants as there are occupants. The first task shall be announced tomorrow morning. Now, off to bed with you."

Not ten seconds after we had reached our cabin we started arguing about who should be the chosen three. Clarisse was a must, as was my brother Terry, our cabin's best fighter. Now I was not an obvious choice, as I was short, weak (compared to my siblings) and still fairly inexperienced, but I had some prime blackmail up my sleeve.

I realized that I would never be heard above the cacophony so I reached under my bed and pulled out a foghorn, which I blew. The others shut up and glared at me. Unfazed, I turned to Clarisse and said, with my best puppy-dog eyes "come on Clarisse, let me be the third, I may not be the best fighter, but I'm definitely the most intelligent, and some of the tasks may require a bit of brain as well as brawn."

Clarisse didn't hesitate in saying no. However, I was not stopped that easily. "Alright dearest sis, I didn't want to do this, but you leave me no choice. If you don't select me as the third contestant I might 'accidently' let slip to dearest father what you and your little boyfriend have been doing in the wee hours of the night."(I unfortunately walked in on them, shudder, it's just too horrible to think about) Clarisse said nothing, but judging by her glare the whole cabin knew that I had won. So I, being the humble winner that I am, decided to do a little victory dance, while singing my victory song which goes something like this:

"Haha, I won, you lost, I'm awesome, you're a loser. Haha" (and so on)

I just couldn't wait until the first contest was announced.

Leo's pov:

This was going to be so awesome! Our cabin had decided that I, Beckendorf and Nyssa should participate. And I have the perfect plan. I would wow my beloved Christie with my amazing battle skills, and win her heart by winning this contest with my awesome intelligence.

It was an absolutely kickass plan (I was very proud of it)

I know, I know, it was just another introductory chapter, but I promise that the subsequent chapters will be action packed (with some fluff a little further down the line)

Until then; Keep calm and flame on!