I yawn, sitting up and stretching our my arms. I look around to see that everyone but Amber and I were gone. What time was it?

I climb down the ladder and land on the floor with a thud. Amber stirs a little and mutters something in her sleep. I look around and see a clock in the corner of the room. The time says 9:57. I run a hand through my hair and walk over to Amber to wake her up. She moves before I even touch her.

"No, Dad please..." she mutters and rolls over. I furrow my eyebrows.

"Don't leave..." she says. I frown. Did she mean...her dad dying again?

"No...!" She muttered, rolling over towards me. Suddenly her eyes fly open and they are bright purple. She thrusts out a hand and I fall backwards onto the floor with a thud, hitting my hip hard.

"Ow," I groan, getting up and rubbing my side. I look at her again and her eyes are normal.

"Uh, sorry, reflex," she murmurs and stands up, stretching.

"What were you doing?" She asks me.

"You were saying things in your sleep," I say. Amber's face turns a deep shade of red and she bites her lip in that way she does when she's nervous or worried.

"Oh, I was? Whatever, let's go get Max," she says, dismissing it, but her eyes say a lot more than she lets on. I shrug and follow her out of the cabin. We head towards the Apollo cabin and before we get there Max runs out.

"You guys way overslept, but Chiron let it slide since what happened yesterday," Max says.

"What time are we supposed to get up?" Amber asks.

"8:15," Max says. She groans and let's her hair down out of a ponytail, so it flows over her shoulders and stops at her chest.

"You two missed breakfast, so we're going to training now. Will, my brother who you met yesterday, is teaching the class. You two seem to already have weapons, so we can head on over there right now," Max says. We walk towards the training area when a girl with long black hair, blue eyes, and very fancy clothes walks by. She bumps right into Amber, hard, and Amber stumbles a little. The girl stops and turns around towards us.

"Oh, I'm sorry, honey," she says to Amber, putting on a fake pouty face.

"Did I correct your horribly ugly shoulders? They seem a little...broad. Maybe I can push the other one back into place for you?" She says, her voice sickly sweet and cruel. Amber balls her fist and her eyes glow purple. The girl seems unfazed.

"Oh honey, what I can do is far worse than you turning your eyes different colors. I'm sure when we meet again, you'll see soon enough," she sneers, and stalks off, swaying her hips. She turns her head and winks at me, then is gone. I wrinkle my nose, I hate bullies. I look down at my fists, surprised to see them clenched, and I unclench them. Meanwhile, Max is trying to calm Amber down, who is seething, her eyes flickering from purple to hazel.

"Don't listen to her, she's Rose Tanka, daughter of Drew Tanka and Christian Tanka, the world's biggest family of jerks. Drew is a daughter of Aphrodite, and can charmspeak, as can Rose. Christian is a son of Hermes. Rose gets Drew's gene line, sadly," Max says. Amber finally stops her eyes from glowing and takes a deep breath.

"Next time I see her, I will literally rip her throat out," she says. We walk to the arena and Amber keeps muttering.

"Uh, fix your shoulders. Change your eye color that's all? I'll show that little-" she says in a high pitches accent, but Max cuts her off.

"Amber, its better if you just ignore her. She will make your life a living hell, no matter who you are or what you can do," Max says, as if he's speaking from personal experience.

"I don't care Max. Anyway, were here now. Let's train," she says steely calm. Max shrugs, and I clutch the emerald in my pocket. I pull it out and hold it in my hand. Max walks us over to a big box on the side of the arena with armor everywhere. We put it on, and it weighs me down slightly. It feels a little weird, but when we walk towards the arena, I get used to it.

We walk into a group of five other kids, some younger and some older. Will stands infront of us, looking around the group.

"Ah, your here. Everyone say hello to our two new campers, Peter and Amber," Will says. Everyone smiles and waves to us, saying hi. I say hi back, as does Amber.

"This is Lily, Julia, Daren, Ryan, and Jeremy," Will says. "Now we will start. Everyone pick a partner with the same weapon as you," Will says. Everyone picks partners until it is me and Daren. Daren has startling blue eyes and red hair, with lots of freckles. He sticks out a hand.

"Hey, I'm Daren Gilbert. I got here two years ago, I'm a son of Demeter," Daren says. I shake his hand. Maybe this guy was my brother.

"Hey, I'm Peter Labelle. Apparently I'm a son of Demeter too, but I haven't been claimed yet," I say. Daren grins.

"That okay. What's your weapon?" He asks me. Some fighting has already begun, and its Julia and Lily, dagger on dagger.

"Um, it depends actually..." I say. Daren gives me a strange glance.

"...what?" He asks. I open my palm and show him the emerald. He frowns.

"Dude, that's your weapon?" He laughs a little, but it's all humor, not rude.

"What's yours?" I ask. He pulls out a long gold sword, it's hilt covered in green stripes-vines. I concentrate and suddenly I am holding the exact sword.

Woaaaaah

-Amber❤️