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The Adventures of a Lovesick Idiot: Blessed Quartz

Calypso woke up groggily from her long slumber. Despite the fact that the beds in the guest rooms of the Big House weren't very comfortable, she hadn't slept much in the past few days so a chance to rest was literally a gift from god.

She was really for her first day at Camp Half Blood. The night before, Chiron had told her that first, she would go to the Dining Pavilion for breakfast, then she would go to the Swords Arena to see what kind of sword skills she had, have lunch, test her specialised natural powers, have dinner, go to the sing-a-long campfire, go back to sleep and then wake up for another day of misery that is her life.

The goddess didn't have an official Camp Half Blood shirt yet so she just threw on her usual loose, sleeveless dress, her headband and white flats over the singlet that she was already wearing. She exited the Big House making many twists and turns, passing a drunk-looking man gambling with himself.

She stared at him for quite a while but he didn't seem to notice her so Calypso decided to slowly walk away, making the least amount of noise possible.

As soon as she made her way out of the Big House, Calypso realised that she had a second problem. She didn't know her way around campus.
But fortunately, that problem was solved when she noticed many campers in bright, orange shirts converging towards a single point around 200 feet in front of her.

'Thank goodness…' she thought, 'There goes that problem.' With the general directions in her head, she walked towards the Dining Pavilion.

After a delicious meal of toast, orange juice, slices of chicken and yoghurt, Calypso thought that she was ready for anything. Maybe even three hours straight of sword practice.

She was escorted to the Swords Area by Chiron and the drunkard. Personally, Calypso wasn't very sure if allowing Dionysus near so many weapons was safe. For heaven's sake he was drunk! He shouldn't even be allowed at an institute of education (technically, summer camps do count as education institutes)!

The sword in her hand felt so heavy. Calypso wasn't sure if a sword was even her weapon of choice. A dagger would serve the purpose far better and Calypso was pretty sure that even a bow and arrow would be more suited to her.

She slashed at the cotton-stuffed dummy, barely holding up her sword with both of her hands.

Chiron was sitting on the side critiquing her work.
"That's great Calypso, but could you try to hold with one hand? We need to leave that other hand open so you can use a shield or something."

The goddess grimaced. It wasn't her fault that she had really under-developed arm muscles after spending over five thousand years on a remote island that didn't even exist on Earth, was it? She tried to hold her sword up using only one hand but Calypso found that she couldn't raise it very high at all.
"I'm sorry, but do you have a lighter one?" she asked, giving up on trying to lift it.

Chiron shook his head solemnly,
"I'm afraid that what you're holding right now is the lightest sword we have designed for females. You'll have to use that one."

Calypso accepted the facts and used a single hand to lift the heavy sword, gripping it with all her might. She tried to strike the dummy again but the blade never hit the target. It was simply so heavy that it clattered loudly on the floor.

The centaur sighed and trotted over to the shed to fetch another weapon.
"How's this one?" he asked holding up a machine gun (the one that Piper almost got).

"It's not my style…"

"This?" he tried again with a golden sword with intricate designs on the handle.

"That looks even heavier than the one I just had," she said, "So it's kind of redundant…"

"You make a good point," he agreed, thrusting the sword back into its sheath and putting it back into the shed. "Why don't you come over here and pick for yourself?"

Calypso hurried over to the shack of corrugated iron and peeked inside. The selection was huge! There were many swords, curved scythes, bows, arrows, slingshots, guns, celestial bronze bullets, Greek fire launchers and even something unidentifiable that looked like a wok (Chinese cooking device/pot).

She picked up a copper-coloured pair of stilettos lying on the ground.
"What are those doing here?" Calypso asked curiously.

Chiron snatched the shoes away from her and put them back on the ground where they once were.
"Be careful with those! They once killed a whole monster army with that piercing sharp heel of theirs! Don't you dare play around with those. They're weapons of mass destruction after all…"

Calypso was petrified after his explanation and left the stilettos alone. She picked up a clear blade by its handle and turned it around. It looked very much like a jagged piece of glass in a triangular shape, a foot long.
"How does this work?"

He looked surprised at her choice.
"Well… That's very rare… I'll get Mr D to explain this one," he said gesturing to the man drinking from a can of Diet Coke.

Mr D looked up from his drink and tried to catch up with whatever was going on around him.
"Yeah… yeah... That's Blessed Quartz," he explained. "Can I get back to my drink yet?" he asked impatiently.

Chiron gave him a disapprovingly look.
"Explain it in more depth, will you Mr D?"

"Fine," he sighed, "Blessed Quartz has been blessed by the gods. Is that good enough?"

Somehow, Chiron managed to gather up his courage and glare at a major god.

"Fine, fine," Mr D complained, "Blessed Quartz is just like Imperial Gold and Celestial Bronze but it's even rarer because gods don't like wasting their time blessing precious rocks. Just remember that they only wound immortals and monsters. Happy, Chiron?"

"Very. Now Calypso, why don't you try wielding your weapon?"

Calypso raised her right arm and struck at the very tattered dummy. She beamed like a light globe.
"It's perfect."

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