Chapter 5
We went back to the tables. Everyone seemed to be deep in thought. When we got back to the tables we resumed our dinner. No one was talking so I thought I'd start a conversation.
"Was that the new camper?" I asked Beckendorf the cabin leader.
"I think so," he said. "Grover was supposed to bring him to camp."
"What happened?" I asked.
"They must have been attacked by a monster."
"A monster?" I asked.
"Oh," he said. "That's right, you're new. Monsters like the Minotaur, or the Sirens."
"So by which one were they attacked?" I asked.
"It was the Minotaur." One of the other kids said. "He had it's horn in his hand."
"That's pretty cool." I said.
"Not if you're actually fighting one." Beckendorf said.
"Anyways." I said. "What do we do besides training with swords and stuff?"
"Well since you're a son of Hephaestus I could teach you how to build some stuff and how to use the forges."
"That sounds awesome." I said. "What else do people do here?"
"Some people go on Quests."
"What are those?" I asked.
"It's when you need to do something outside of the camp." He said, I looked at him very confused. "You go to the Oracle and she tells you what's going to happen in a riddle."
"What does the Oracle look like?" I asked.
"I've only seen her once," he said. "She is a mummy. When she speaks a prophecy green smoke comes out of her mouth." Then I realized, Ms. Kensington, my humanities teacher was the Oracle.
"I think she told me a prophecy." I said. "In my school I had a teacher and she did that exact same thing."
"What did she say?" Beckendorf asked. I tried to remember, of course it was difficult to forget.
"She had said. If you stay at Kando they will find you. You will go to camp, were you shall train. You will live in the shadow of Poseidon's son. You will go to the layer of the beast accompanied by two." Beckendorf looked at me, for a while he didn't say anything and then he said.
"We need to tell Chiron."
"Tomorrow." I said. We finished our food and went over to the cabins. The Hephaestus cabin. It was a lot bigger than the Hermes cabin. In the back of the cabin there was a whole extra room which was dedicated to forges and building things. The rest of the cabin was bunk beads. I had trouble sleeping because of the whole Oracle thing, but I managed. Beckendorf woke me up. I looked around and everyone else was still asleep.
"Come on Alex," he whispered. "Get up."
"What time is it?" I mumbled, still half asleep.
"About seven." He answered. "Now come on." I got up and dressed myself.
"We need to tell Chiron about the prophecy." I followed him to the big house. Chiron was standing outside. We walked over to him and he greeted us.
"Hello Chiron," Beckendorf said. "We need to tell you something."
"Go on." Chiron said.
"Alex here has just told me that the Oracle has spoken to him."
"What did she say?" Chiron asked. I told him what she had said. Chiron seemed deep in thought.
"We won't discuss this now." He said. "Percy is our main concern right now."
"I understand." Beckendorf said. Chiron looked at me.
"When your time comes," he said. "You shall lead this Quest. I nodded my head. "Speaking of Percy." He said. "Here he comes. You two run along now." I saw Percy walking around getting a tour from the girl that looked like Nichole. Then he walked in the direction of the big house and we moved away.
"What do we do now?" I asked.
"We can practice some forging." He said.
"Let's do it." We walked back to the Hephaestus cabin. We walked into the Forge room. Beckendorf started teaching me some ways to forge. He said because I am the son of Hephaestus I should be able to learn this in no time. He told me about the magical items that some of the campers had.
"Could I make a magical item?" I asked.
"You could make something like it." He said. I suddenly had a great idea.
"Could I make a sword that turns into a bracelet when I press a button?" I asked. Don't ask me how I got that idea but it seemed like a cool idea.
"Sure," he said. "It would take some time though. You might be able to finish it before the capture the flag match."
"Awesome." I said. I started working on it.
"We should practice your sword fighting so you'll have a reason to have a sword." Beckendorf said.
"Sure." I said, not sounding very convinced about the sword fighting. We walked over to the sword arena. As we walked through the cabin I could see some of the other campers getting up. When we got to the Arena Beckendorf took out a sword with his initials carved on it.
"Which sword should I take?" I asked.
"Let's see." Beckendorf picked up a sword, he then passed it to me. As he let go and I grabbed on I almost dropped the sword. "That one's a bit heavy, I guess."
"Yeah, just a bit." He picked another sword. This one was a bit better. "Good enough I said.
"Alright, let's start the lesson." I wasn't the best at sword fighting but I wasn't the worst. Half way through our lesson Nicole walked into the arena with the girl that looked like her. I guess she was also a child of Athena.
"This is him." She said.
"Hello, I'm Annabeth."
"Hi."
"Would you want to be on my team for capture the flag?" I felt honored. Someone wanted me on their team, this was great.
"Of course, that would be awesome."
"Well I'll see you there then." Nicole and Annabeth left and Beckendorf started swinging at me with his sword again.
That was Chapter 5 please review and let me know what you think of the story so far.