CHAPTER SIX

New friends

That was amazing seeing them running like that; they were like lightning fast if you blinked you might miss the whole thing. Everyone was impressed by the speed they both have.

You know what happened, Carlos took the fall for Ashlyn and he got hurt a bit since the speed was intense and the stop was sudden, he fell and got hurt but saved Ashlyn from getting hurt. They rolled like 3 feet until they stopped rolling and hit a tree but Carlos was the one that suffered the damage.

He was holding Ashlyn in his arms to his chest making sure she didn't hit anything and he did. Carlos was half conscious with this hurtful moaning, when Ashlyn realized what happened, she kneeled and puts Carlos in her lap and tried to make him come to his senses.

Ashlyn was really worried about what happened to Carlos, she kept saying she can't live without him and she couldn't bear to lose him and he was everything in the world for her. Even I knew he has gotten up from worst like when we got hit form the Cyclops but I wasn't going to ruin her moment.

Carlos went to his senses when Ashlyn was doing mouth to mouth knowing that he needed air and he was exhausted. He got up and made a really long stare at Ashlyn, he was frozen for a bit.

Ashlyn said nervously, "Sorry, sorry, I'm very sorry it was just that you where…''

Carlos kissed her and it took a couple of minutes till one of the campers started coughing ""heehemm'' to get their attention which made them stop. Ashlyn blushed and her cheeks turned a bit red and Carlos was smiling a lot. Carlos got up and offered his hand to lift up Ashlyn; she got up thanks to Carlos.

Carlos said looking at the group, ''Campers now that you know what to do, you better get to your places and try to do the same thing.''

One of the campers was very dumb or very funny and said, ''Do we need to kiss our running partners?'' Everyone laughed, they all got the joke.

Carlos gave him the '' really did you had to say that'' stare. Carlos said, "No, just get to your places".

They did and waited for the whistle, and so did I. The whistle blew and I ran as fast as I could but the tree nymph was very fast and by very fast I mean she just walked 4 yards and turned into a tree, and I was very tired I lay down. Carlos looked at me like I didn't even try.

He took a piece of wood and marked something, I think it was the test and I failed.

Sky walked to me and gave me a water bottle, I drank the whole bottle, and it made me feel better.

Sky said, ''Well, we know you aren't very good at running fast''.

I got up and Sky said, ''We need to get to the next class and take the other test.''

I nodded and walked with her, to the next class. She told me it was crafts class at the Hephaestus cabin with the cabin leader George Martin and that he was a genius at crafting weapons and machines that worked almost fine, we got in the classroom and I saw the same kid that I saw this morning talking to Chiron and showing him some sketch.

George said, ''Hi, I'm George Martin leader of Hephaestus cabin, to all of those newcomers that are here, today's class is to build a small robot of any kind, any size, height, it should be able to move hands if you move them manually and it shouldn't have any circuits, and no motor. It's a simple project that anyone can do.''

Well I sat and took over some metal parts; I don't know what they are so I tried putting screws and try to unite the separate parts. It ended badly I made a big waste of nothing, literally. It was just metal parts one over the other and somewhere longer and somewhere smaller.

George went to see my thing, he just stood there I think, trying to analyze what I did or what that thing was. He smiled and said nicely, ''Well, I see you aren't one of Hephaestus' sons, but you do have some artistic elements. Is that a small visualizing big metal waste?''

I was surprised he wasn't mean, not even bad, not even disappointed for what I couldn't do, he was just nice and calm. In other words some would say educated.

George Martin was 5.6ft tall, had short dark hair and he had his hair like a university student. He wore a polo shirt, it had stains on it, must be because he works on a mechanics cabin and he works with lots of tools. A pair of all terrain shoes and long pants with lots of pockets, they were almost filled with screws and tools.

I asked him, ''Aren't you disappointed I couldn't even make a simple robot?

He replied with a sad smile, ''No, you have different talents, you just need to know what they are, but if you were from the Hephaestus cabin and you didn't know how to build a robot I would be disappointed.''

I said, ''Wow, thanks man. Hey I'm Danny by the way.''

George said, ''Nice to meet you Danny, I'm George martin''. He shook my hand.

George said the class was over since everyone finished the assignment. Sky took me to another class but this wasn't a classroom, it was a huge arena, it was round to do battle practice and do obstacles but I didn't see any.

When we got closer to the campers we saw someone in the middle saying battle tactics and showing sword movements. Sky said he was Andrew Williams, leader of the Hermes cabin, one of the best swordsmen in the camp.

Andrew Williams was 6.0 and he wore jeans with a green blank t-shirt, he just looked as ordinary as anyone can be, but of course that's never the answer. He was way fast with the sword. Then I thought isn't Hermes like god of speed? Well I was right for once, he really was Hermes' son, and he had the speed resemblance doing some attack against a dummy.

Andrew said, ''Hello fellow campers and newcomer, today we are here to test the battle arena with some sort of upgrades as you may say, so it will be more harder to survive and harder to keep on going.''

I thought he was joking since I didn't see anything. I saw George coming this way with a remote in his hand adjusting a few things.

Andrew said, ''Is it ready to fire it up?''