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Chapter 3: The Horse Whisperer

The camp was beautiful and jaw-dropping at the same time. I couldn't believe this whole other world has been covered by the mist. And been odly turned to a strawberry farm. I saw a strawberry field, full of fresh, ripe berries. I saw a couple of kids making bushels of berries grow more faster. I saw an older saytr, he had long horns and grayish hair for his goat side of his body. He was playing with his set of reed pipes, the plant reacted with them, making them to grow, too.

Fern noticed me staring and explained, "Not all of this is for free, we pay our expenses by selling these strawberries to restraunts in New York."

Lots of kids stared at me. I never like to be singled out, being stared at. I was always surrounded by my friends back at school. But here, they all looked at me like I was a freak, but most looked like they hit the jackpot. They must have known of the golden blood. I bet when I'm asleep they're going to inject my blood and sell it on ebay.

I elbowed him, "So, what's it like being the first saytr to bring back a kid who has ichor."

"It's cool, but I wish I could be like him."

"Him who?"

"Grover Underwood," Fern sighed. "He brought back four demigods of the big three! Thalia Grace of Zeus, Percy Jackson of Poseidon, and Nico and Bianca di Angelo of Hades! He's the chosen one and found our god, Pan. He also has the power of Pan, panic! He's now a member of the Council of Cloven Elders, a lord of the Wild!

I huffed, "Pfft, demigods of the big three, please. I have golden blood. I'm rich, I could die, but I'm rich!"

He said sarcastically, "Yeah, sure."

"Hey, you know I had to drag your furry, smelly hind across America!"

He rubbed his bottom, "Yeah, I know."

He showed me 12 houses in a U- shape like in my dream. There were a couple of others at the side. He told me the 12 were for the Olympians, the others for the other minor gods. He then showed me Cabin 11 where I would be sleeping. It looked more like the usual log cabin summer camps have. It was pretty worn out, it didn't look like anyone tried to repaint it. By the door is a picture of a caduceus, the symbol of Hermes.

In it was a place where boys should live. It should've been cozy, except for the fact that dirty laundry was all ove the floor. Deoderant and empty hair gel containers were trashed everywhere. Bunkbeds filled the room, a campfire with a chimney was at the end of the room. A bunch of guys look up and smiled. They look like a typical troublemaker or theif. They all look different, and pretty cute. Fern told me this is the Hermes cabin. I went inside, everyone watched me.

Fern introduced me, "Cabin eleven meet, Alexandria Olympia."

One of the guys asked, "Regular or undetermined?"

Fern answered, "Undetermined."

"What is that suppose to mean?"

One of the guys closed the door behind me and leaned on it, trying to act all cool.

"If you were a regular, that means you're our sister and off-limits."

He had blue eyes, and curly brown hair. He had a mischevious grin that I imagined Hermes have. Then another guy put his arm around me. He looked exactly like him, then it hit me. They were twins, that would be a good title for the two, The Theiving Brothers.

"But if your an undertermined, there's a chance you'll be from another cabin and single."

The one with his arm around me said, "I'm Connor Stoll and this is Travis Stoll."

Travis said, " A lot of the undetermined girls left to their cabins. Hermes hasn't sire any girls."

I shooked my head, "No, no! I am not living with a bunch of boys."

Fern explained, "Hermes is the god of travelers, messengers, the works. So naturally you live here until your determined."

Connor's eyebrow lifted and gave me a smile, "Living, sleeping, who cares. Boys, we hit the jackpot."

Everyone cheered. I pulled his arm off of me. I started to back up against the door.

I laughed unconfortably, "Your kidding right?"

Travis and Connor exchanged looks and Travis asked, "Why not? It'll be like the Red Cross."

Connor said, "We'll give you 'bout 20% if the profit."

Fern moved them away from me, "Come on you guys, she'll die if she gives you her blood. And she won't have any donars for a blood transfusion."

The twins shrugged and said they were only kidding. Everyone in the cabin groaned.

Connor asked, "So, which one, mom or dad?

I stated, "My mom, Madelyn Olympia works as a teacher in HBSD. Theodore Olympia, my dad, works as an archeologist."

Travis shrugged, "Guess your adopted."

Connor grinned and showed me my wallet. I gasped and checked my pocket.

I grabbed my wallet from him and said, "You theif, that was in my back pocket.

Connor showed his hands and said, "Sorry, it's in my blood."

Travis tapped my shoulder and I turned. He held my book, Mythology- Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. He browsed into the book and whistled.

"She seems like the smart kind, probably Athena."

Connor pointed out. "But this thing's in English."

I looked at them, "What do you think? I'll have the Spanish version?"

Fern explained, "Demigods can't read English, they have dyslexia. The Greek blood in them is used to ancient Greek."

"Then I can't be a demigod, I'm in a private school."

Travis looked into my book, "She has to be a demigod, mortals can't get past the boundaries."

I tried to grab my book back but he tossed it to Connor. I went to Connor and he passed it back to Travis. They started to play football when I cleared my throat. They stopped and I showed them two familiar belts. They looked down and at that moment their shorts dropped to the ground. Showing there were red heart patterned boxers. They blushed as red as their boxer hearts. We then traded the belts for the book. Everyone in the cabin was cracking up. I was pretty proud of my first impression.

Travis mumbled, "I knew I shouldn't have wore my heart boxers today."

I slapped the twins on the back.

"Maybe we really are siblings, then I could mess with you as many times as I want."

They grumbled back to their bunk beds and went under the covers.

Fern then showed me other places like the mess hall, ampitheater and the battle arena. Fern showed me a huge warship. He said that Leo, that guy who helped when I came to camp, is the son of Hephaestus was the one constructing the ship. But he doubts that I'll ever get to meet him, since he practically lives there. They were planning to use the ship to go to Greece for the Great Prophecy.

We went inside what looked like stables. In there were such beautiful pegasi. One was truly unique, it was the color black. Then something happened to me that scared me half to death.

"Can anyone feed me an apple?" Spoke in my mind.

I turned to Fern and asked, " Did you say something."

"No, why?"

"Sorry probably nothing." As he went farther in the stables the voice was in my head again.

"Hey lady, over here."

I looked around and asked, "Where?"

"Prettiest horse to the left," said the black stallion. I went over to it and marveled.

"Wow, I speak horse."

"Nah, you probably realated to Poseidon."

"No way, I have a dad."

"Poseidon's wife then?"

"If my mom is Amphirite, I won't be a demigod."

"I don't know how you can understand me, but can you hand me an apple?"

I got an apple from a bucket and fed it to the horse. Fern then finished the lecture he "thought" I was listening to. (Sorry Fern.) And led me out to the stables.

When he was showing me other stuff, I saw a couple, holding hands.

I asked Fern, "Aren't all the Gods related."

He explained, "Gods don't have DNA, so when you date domeone else from a different cabin, it doesn't count. But you could never ever, date someone when you're from the same cabin."

He looked at the direction I was facing. Then he started to run to them. I tried to stop him because the couple might want some alone time. When Fern got there he introduce me to them. The boy had blond hair and striking blue eyes. He was tall and very athletic. The pretty girl had long brown braided hair. She had a deep tan, she reminded me a bit of a native american.

"Alex, this is Jason, son of Jupiter and Piper, daughter of Aphrodite,"

"Isn't Jupiter the Roman version of Zeus?"

Jason then told me, "There is a Roman version of this camp and I live there."

Sure why not, if there is Greek mythology there should be Roman, too.

Piper shook my hand, "Welcome to Camp Half-Blood. It would be cool if we turn out to be sisters."

"Yeah, same here."

Fern showed me the forest, he warned me not to go in there alone. It looked like Yellowstone times ten. I bet it was filled with nymphs and well monsters.

Fern said, "Can't wait until Friday, you'd better show them what your made of."

"I already did, you know, the blood thing."

"No, I mean metaphorically. We're going to have our traditional capture the flag."

He then showed the archery range, the Apollo guys wanted me to stay and watch but Fern made me move on. I saw this huge ampitheater, where Fern said we'll have sing- alongs. We went by the canoeing lake where we saw a bunch of naiads playing by the water. I saw Fern watching one of them, but then walked on to give me the rest of the tour. Something bugged me with this new life.

"The manticore, how is it still alive? I was thinking that other demigods must have killed it before me."

"Monsters don't really have souls like you. They reform and can come back, sometimes a whole lifetime."

"What do you mean, souls like me? You have a soul too, right?"

"I don't really have a soul like you nor the like a monster. Saytrs get reincarnated into a plant, most of the time a flower. But if I'm change into a laurel, I'm considered lucky."

I hugged that saytr's life out of him.

"You are not going to die, not in my watch. And you'll be lucky enough to be turned into a laurel after your life with Lily."

Fern blushed a bright red. "Thanks."

It was starting to get late.

Fern said, "You need to go back to your cabin, dinner's starting."

Inside the cabin everyone was playing, laughing with each other. Everyone tried to ask for my blood but I turned them down as if they asked me to go out with them. They all looked the same with the average theif. It was pretty scary knowing that they might steal your stuff. I sat on my bed as I amusingly watch them play pranks on each other. Travis and Connor noticed me alone and sat next to me, one on each side.

Travis smiled, "You look lonely, we-"

"-were only joking," Connor finished.

"Yeah sure."

I put my hands behind my back. I pressed on my ring and glanced back to press on the image of the cadecues. I then pressed on an image of two ropes with hooks at the end. Then I felt the ropes on each side of my hand.

Travis put his arm around me, "You're making us feel bad-"

Connor took Travis' arm off of me and put his arm in its place, "-even if you got even with us."

I hooked the ropes to their boxers without their knowing. I then tied it to the windowsill.

I smiled sweetly at the two, "If you stop flirting with me, I won't need to do it anymore.

Travis held his hands up and said, "Woah, sorry.

They stood up and walked away from the bed. The ropes then pulled them back, and they fell to the ground, bottom first. They still haven't noticed and when they tried to get up, we heard them scream at the worst wedgies in their lives. For maybe I had the privileges of pulling the ropes, quite harshly. Everyone in the cabin laughed, suddenly we heard something rip. We all looked and the hooks held a piece of their boxers. Everyone were practically rolling on the floor, laughing. The Stoll brothers looked at each other miserably.

"Why, why! Travis cried. She's so hot-"

"-but acts like the devil!" Connor whimpered.

They then crawled into the bathroom with a change of underwear. A short time after that and the cabin calm down, we heard the sound of a horn or conch shell. Connor and Travis appeared at the front of the door. Travis was supporting Connor who looked like he needed a medic.

Travis hollered in a weak voice, "Eleven, fall in!"

We all then followed Travis walking like a cowboy from the wild, wild west. We walked towards a hill to the mess hall. It looked like an open cafe only it's more like a temple with no roof. There were many tables, I thought we could sit wherever we wanted. But everyone in cabin eleven fit into one table. I had the honor to sit next to the groaning Connor and the whimpering Travis. I saw cabin eleven kids passing on the news of the Stoll brothers. Before you knew it everyone knows the story on how I wedgies the twins, single handedly. Everyone gave me thumb-ups, winks and mouthing words of praise.

Chiron stamped his hoof to get everyones attention he then said, " To the Gods!"

Everone raised their empty glasses and yelled, " To the Gods!"

Then, nymphs came with platters of food. To me this looked like a whole chain of buffets that teamed up and turned to a big, huge buffet. There was the whole food pyramid: poultry, desserts, vegetables and ect. Everyone then started to line up at a big fire.

When it was our tables turn, everyone got the best portion of their plates into the fire then mumbled an offering. I followed everyones example and put in a slice of ham and prayed to the 12 olympians, since I have 2 parents and I don't know who my "real" parent is. I just hope they like sharing.

When we got back to our table, everyone started to speak to their glasses. The glasses suddenly fill themselves with the drink they asked for.

I said to my glass, "Oreo milkshake."

The glass began to fill itself with the drink. When everyone finished, Chiron pounded his hoof again.

Mr. D then announced, "We'll be having capture the flag with Athena and Ares leading this Friday."

Everyone cheered with excitement.

"And we have a new member, Kassandra- I mean- Alexandria Olympia, the golden girl."

Everyone looked at me and I blush at the comment.

We then went to the campfire, to sing campfire songs. They were pretty bad, I heard some demigods became music artist. Why can't they sing those songs? Everyone ate s'mores by a colorful fire. It was very big and I notice grow higher and higher the more everyone laughed and smiled. A lot of kids wanted to give me their s'mores since they wanted my blood. I just told them to turn into a vampire and maybe we could agree to something.

After that, we went in the cabin. I went to my bed that was near the bathroom. Someone set out my bottomless pit backpack, nothing was stolen I think. And a gymbag full of toiletries that I hope wasen't stolen. I went into the bed and thought to myself. This will get a whole lot of getting used to.

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HELLO, how's the chapter folks? First day of Camp Half-Blood and already Alexandria's pretty popular. I hope I got some of the characters right, if you want me to add a character from the book to here. Just tell me, I'll be more than happy too. Later!!!

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