Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Camp Andromeda

                When I woke up I saw Jenna right next to me and Tucker with his back to me. And Brad sitting on the bed right next to mine.

                 "Where am I?" I said looking around. Tucker turned around and Brad looked around Tucker to me. Brad gave me a smile and I returned it.

                "Oh, good. You're up. So what do you remember?" Tucker asked sitting on the side of my bed.

                "Um, I just remember Tammy trying to attack us, you killing her, us flinging ourselves off the fence, us running, me falling and knocking myself out. Any more questions?" I asked sitting up.

                "Uh, no that’s about it." Tucker said looking at Jenna.

                "Good, my turn for questions. Wait, did you ask questions already?" I asked Brad.

                "No, we’ve just been sitting in silence since we got here.” He replied.

                "Okay, first of all where are we?" I asked looking at Jenna for the answer.

                "Camp Andromeda." Jenna said simply

                "Ok then, what are you?" I challenged.

                "Don't you mean who are you?" Tucker said looking confused.

                "No, I mean what are you? I already know who you are, but I just know that you aren't human."

                "Ok, I am a satyr, and Jenna is a tree nymph," Tucker said looking at me then Jenna, and then Brad.

                "Oh," I said because that was all I could say.

                "Can you get up? Both of you." Jenna asked getting off of Brad's bed and Tucker got off of my bed. I swung my legs out of bed and tried to stand up. When I got to my feet I collapsed.

                "Brook!!" Tucker said with shock in his voice. He came and helped me onto the bed.

                "I have to try again," I said. Tucker shook his head and tried to hold me down but I got out of his hold and stood up. This time I didn't collapse, I stood perfectly straight. Then Brad tried and almost the same thing happened to him accept I caught him and lifted him. Then his legs supported him.

                "Ok, now that we know you can stand, can you walk?" Jenna said.

                I took my first step and was fine; Brad copied me. He also seemed to survive. Neither of us collapsed but we occasionally stumbled.

                "Come on. Let's show you around. It is a big camp." said Jenna taking my hand and dragging me to the door. Tucker did the same with Brad and we went out the door. The first thing that came to my mind when I stepped outside was wow. There were about 40 HUGE cabins and kids still building more.

                Suddenly a sign came up over Brad's head.

                 "Um, what's that?" I asked pointing at it.

                "Oh, Brad, your father has claimed you; you are a son of Hermes." Tucker said smiling.

                "What?" Brad and I both said at the same time.

                "Brad, you're a demigod. Your father is Hermes. Congratulations!" Jenna explained. "I wonder who your parent is Brook." She said looking at me with a curious expression on her face.

                And as if on que a sign came over my head.

                 "Oh, um, you're the first daughter of Poseidon." Tucker said staring up over my head. I looked up and saw it was a trident.

                "Um, cool? Did you say the only daughter?" I asked not taking my eyes away from the trident.

                "Yep, why?" Jenna said looking at me.

                “Does that mean I have brothers?" I asked hopefully. I didn't want to be an only child.

                “Yeah, you have 3 brothers. Troy, Jason, and Victor. Troy is 13, Jason is 17, but is still younger than you, and Victor is 19." Tucker said. "Come on I'll take you to meet them."

                "Ok, but what about the tour?" I asked looking around.

                "Oh, they will take you on that, and Jenna can you take Brad to Hermes's cabin so he can meet his family?"

                "Yep, come on Brad. Let's go." Jenna said taking his arm and dragging him away.

                "Ok, I'm coming," Brad said turning around and walking with Jenna.

                "Ok then, let's go." Tucker said leading me the complete other way.

                "Pushy," I said catching up with him so he wasn't dragging me.

                We came to a HUGE cabin with Greek writing on the front. I could read the Greek perfectly. I mean I have taken Greek classes, but now it just came naturally, as if I had been born speaking Greek.

                "This is my father's cabin?" I asked.

                "Yes, now follow me." Tucker said walking up the steps and through a curtain.

                "Guys there is someone you need to meet." Tucker said from inside.

                "Ok!" Three guys said from inside with a hint of excitement in their voices.

                "Come on in!" Tucker shouted to, obviously, me. I started walking up the steps but hesitated. Did I really want this? I sighed and continued to walk up the steps and then through the curtain. "Brook, I'd like you to meet Troy, Jason, and Victor. Victor, Troy, Jason I'd like you to meet Brook. She is your sister." Tucker said coming to stand next to me.

                "Wow, wow, wow. Since when do we have a sister? I mean when did she get here?" Troy said looking at me with confusion written all over his face.

                "She got here two days ago, and she has been your sister since she was born."

                "Wait I got here two days ago? I was asleep for two days? Even you can’t sleep that long." I said staring at Tucker.

                "Well yeah, and neither can you. You hit that rock with full speed.

                "Oh, well that makes me feel so much better," I said sarcastically to Tucker.

                "Oh, well welcome to the family, sis," said Jason.

                "Yeah, welcome to the fam." Said Troy.

                "Don't worry, Tucker; we'll take good care of her." Victor said walking forward and offering me a hand to shake, and I shook it.

                "Ok, Brook I will see you later." Tucker said backing up and walking out the door. "Oh, guys by the way she needs a tour of the camp." he said and then slipped out of the cabin.

                "I'm not doing the tour, I can’t I have archery in like five minutes." Troy said going to grab a bag of arrows and a bow. "Peace," he said and left.

                "Oh, um sorry Brook we both have sword training with Athena's cabin, maybe later." Victor said with real sympathy, unlike Troy.

                "That's fine," I said to Victor.

                "Are you sure? I mean I feel really guilty leaving you here with me being your older brother and all." Victor said

                "Yeah I'll be fine, trust me," I said.

                "Ok, well we are going to be out till seven, see you then. Bye," Jason said walking out the curtain.

                "Bye," I said watching Victor go out as well.

                After they were gone I looked around the cabin for a little. Then I got sick of being indoors so I went outside. I figured that if they weren't going to give me a tour I would find someone who would. There were a lot of campers there and I was a little afraid to ask for help so I kept walking. I was looking around when I walked right into a really cute guy. "Oh, I'm sorry," I said backing away a little.

                "It's ok, um are you a new camper?" The guy asked.

                "Um, yeah. I'm Brook." I said.

                "Oh, I'm Eric. Do you need a tour guide because you look a little lost?" He asked.

                "Yeah I do, all of my brothers had someplace to be."

                "Who are you the daughter of?" Eric asked.

                "Um, Poseidon," I said to him.

                "Oh, well wow the first daughter of Poseidon, that is awesome," He said looking at me. "Well it would be my honor to be your tour guide," He said "Come on," he started to walk away. "Man I think you are the hottest chick here."

                "And judging by that statement I can tell that you are single." I said looking up at him.

                "And you are right." He said looking down at me. He was about 6’5; he had kind of shaggy, black hair, and deep green eyes.

                "Um, who is your parent?" I asked looking around

                "Hephaestus, the god of metal type things," he said and when he said that I couldn't help laughing at the hand motions he had done while saying that.

                "So that is the arena," he said pointing at a big building. "That is the pavilion where we eat all our meals. That's the archery field. And that is the stables."

                "Wow," was all I could say. After about another half of an hour we finished the tour ending at the sword/metal/storage house.

                "Do you want to choose a sword?" Eric asked when he saw me staring at the building.

                "Kind of, yeah I do." I said "Can I?" I asked looking at him.

                "Yeah come on." He said taking walking forward. I ran to catch up with him.

                 As he pushed open the doors I saw about maybe a thousand swords. I saw one that really caught my eye. I ran forward and picked up the sword. It felt perfect in my hand. I swung it around a little and then knew it was the one. "This one, this is the one I want." I said turning around to face Eric.

                "Wow we have only been in here for about a minute and you already have the one you want. That is amazing. Ok then let’s go you can have it. Wait can I see it really quickly?" he asked me.

                "Um, sure," I said walking over and handing it to him. He looked at it for about a minute and then looked at me.

                "I made this sword two days ago." He said.

                "Are you serious?" I said looking at the sword and then at him.

                "Yep,” he said watching me stare at the sword.

                "It's amazing." I commented.

                "Thanks, come on you got your sword now let’s go find you some armor. You will die without it." Eric said walking toward another door.

                As the doors opened I saw two teens freeze and look at the door. One of them was looking at Eric and the other at me, it was kind of freaky.

                "Hello Victoria, Evelyn." Eric said calmly. I had frozen to because I had no idea what to do.

                "Eric, what are you doing in here?" one of the chicks said.

                "Well Victoria I was about to ask you the same thing." Eric shot back." And I am here to help Brook get some armor."

                "Who's your parent? Nemesis? Hermes? Who?" Victoria asked looking straight at me.

                "Actually, it's Poseidon," I said and I knew she was not a nice chick. She was one of Ares’ kids, both of them were.

                "Oh," she said kind of going pale, or maybe it was the lighting. Then she pushed past Eric and walked out of the armor room. Evelyn did the same but when she past me I had started walking and she tried to trip me but I did a handstand and went over her foot. As I got into the handstand I could see both Evelyn and Victoria staring at me. I fell into a bridge and then just lifted myself up like it was as easy as breathing. I glanced behind me when I was walking normally again and gave them a smirk.

                "What was that?" Eric asked when I caught up with him. He had stopped and watched them go to make sure I didn't get hurt so he saw it all.

                "What do you mean? The handstand? Oh, that was nothing." I said starting to walk again.

                "Ok then," he said turning and walking with me. We walked through the room and I found some stuff that fit me. In about five minutes we were out of there.

                "So what did you do like for an after school activity?" Eric asked as we were sitting on the beach.

                "Um a lot, do you want to know all the things I did?" I asked and he nodded. "Ok then, so I took dance for 10 years, gymnastics for 10 years, and archery for 3 years, singing for 1 year, and fencing for 3 years." I said “Oh and piano for 5 years.”

                "Wow, that is a lot of things." he said. Suddenly Jenna came up behind me.

                "Brook, come with me!" she said breathing hard.

                "What is it?" I asked standing up.

                "Victoria, she is a-"

                "I know who she is I ran into her earlier. Continue."

                "Well she ran into me and Brad and well she took him into the girls’ bathroom to put his head underwater for a really long time. You need to help him."

                "Ok let’s go!" I said and Jenna took off running, taking all of my stuff and ran after her to help Brad. Suddenly Eric was running next to me.

                We came to the girls' bathroom but Evelyn was blocking the door. When she saw me she moved away from the door because she was scared of me, wow real daughter of Ares. I ran inside and saw Victoria's shoes and Brad's legs. I walked over there and tried to concentrate on getting the water to go back down the pipe.

                 Soon Victoria said, "Where the hell did the water go?" Her head popped out of the stall and looked straight at me. "You," was all she said. I could tell that she had let go of Brad because she came totally out of the stall and stormed past me.

                "Brad, are you ok?" I asked slowly walking over to the stall.

                "Brook, hey thanks." he said getting up. His face was completely dry and he looked still scared. "So, how has your day been?"

                "Good, come on let’s get you out of the girls' bathroom." I said taking his arm and leading him out. When we got outside Eric, Jenna, and Tucker were all leaning against the wall waiting.

                "Brook, what did you do?" Tucker asked when we came out.

                "Um, I don't really know honestly." I said.

                "Ok then, come on. She might come back." Tucker said starting to walk away. We all followed him and I walked with Eric and Brad was behind us. "So Brook, did your brothers give you a tour or do you still need one." Tucker said from right on my left.

                "Oh, god!" I said jumping closer to Eric. "Tucker don't do that to me, you scared the crap out of me." I said stepping into where I was before. "And no they didn't give me the tour but I got one." I added.

                "From who?" Tucker asked.

                "Who do you think genius? Eric gave me the tour." I said hitting him lightly on the back of the head.

                "Psh, I knew that." Tucker said rubbing the back of his head with his hand.

                Soon we were all on the beach and I was lying with my head on Brad's chest. It started to get dark fast. It might have been because of the conversation we were having with each other seemed to take up so much time.

                "What time is it?" I asked randomly.

                "Um, almost nine. Why?" Eric asked.

                "Crap, can we get something to eat I am so hungry."

                "Yep we can, come on lets go eat." Tucker said as Eric, him, and Jenna got up. Eric walked over to me and offered me a hand up. Tucker did the same for Brad.

                Soon we were all sitting together eating at a table. A lot of campers where there but my brothers were nowhere to be found. "They already ate you know." Jenna said watching me.

                "I kind of figured. They had sword practice with Athena's cabin and they must have eaten right after." I said turning back to my food.

                Soon we were all finished and so stuffed that we all wanted to go to bed. Everyone wanted that but me. I started walking back to my cabin when Eric joined me. "Can I walk you to your cabin? Mine is right next to yours." He said.

                “I would like that,” I said walking next to him. “Wow it’s kind of chilly,” I thought out loud. Eric took off his jacket and handed it to me. “Oh, I can’t take this then you’ll get cold.” I said pushing it back toward him.

“Brook, just take the jacket,” he said pushing it back toward me.

                “Fine,” I said and slid into the jacket. We kept walking until we got to my cabin and stopped at the top of the steps. “Thanks for walking me to my cabin.” I said starting to take off the jacket. “Ah crap, it’s stuck.” I said struggling to get out of it. Eric stepped forward and his arms went around me to help me out of the jacket. He was looking into my eyes the whole time. His hands slowly went down my arms pushing the jacket down as well. The jacket suddenly fell off my hands and his hands slipped into mine. I didn’t know what to think. I think a thousand thoughts came to mind in that second. Is he going to kiss me? Is this considered cheating if I kiss him back? What is going to happen?

                He stepped so close to me that we were pressed against each other. He seemed to start breathing faster. I started to breathe fast as well. He bent down lower until we were about an inch apart “This might sound really weird and not so common but can I give you a kiss?” he whispered to me. I nodded in response. He bent down lower until our lips met. I slipped my hands out of his and put them behind his neck. His hands did the same to me. Our lips parted a little at the same time. After about a minute later our lips came apart and he smiled at me. “Good night Brook,” he said and kissed my forehead.

                “Good night Eric,” I said letting go of his neck, he did the same. He grabbed his jacket and then stepped back and down the steps and then turned around and walked to his cabin. When I saw him go inside his cabin I turned around and when inside mine. As I walked into the cabin I found Troy asleep in a hammock and Jason and Victor pacing around the cabin. “Hola,” I said when I got inside the cabin.

                “Brook! Where have you been?” Victor and Jason said at the same time looking at me.

                “Um, out with some friends. And when did you become my parents?” I said walking over to the only hammock that was obviously mine and found my stuff waiting there. “Where did this stuff come from?” I asked

                “Oh, um Tucker sent some satyrs’ to your house and had them pick out some clothes plus he sent some water nymphs’ to help with like style and stuff.” Jason said still watching me.

                “Oh, how sweet,” I said. “I’m going to bed, um is there somewhere I can change?” I asked seeing my pajamas.

                “Um behind that door there is a bathroom that you can change in.”

                “Ok, thanks.” I said walking over there.  

                “So what friends were you out with?” Victor asked from outside the bathroom.

                “Um, Tucker, Jenna, Brad, and Eric,” I said while changing.

                “Who are Brad and Eric?” Jason asked right as I was walking out of the bathroom.

                “Eric, son of Hephaestus, really tall, shaggy hair, deep green eyes.” I said.

                “Oh him, and who is Brad?” Jason asked looking at me strangely.

                “He is a friend of mine from when I believed I was all mortal. He is also Tucker’s friend.” I said getting into the hammock.

                “Oh-“Victor started to say when a shining light came from outside.

Chapter 3: You God, You goddess, Then I’m… Wait, what?

 Jason raced over to wake up Troy while I tried to get out of the hammock. I tried to quickly and I fell on the ground and Victor came and helped me up.

                “What is going on?” Troy said getting out of his hammock. “Oh you’re home,” he said when he spotted me.

                “Yep and we have no idea what is going on.” I said as I ran out onto the back dock. I ran so quickly that I didn’t see the person at the end of the dock or the end of the dock. SPLASH!!! I had fallen into the water.

                “Brook!!!” Victor, Troy, and Jason said racing out when they heard the splash, and of course they didn’t see the person either or the end of the dock. SPLASH!!! SPLASH!!! SPLASH!!! And they all fell into the water as well.

                “Oh, how nice of you to join me.” I said when I could here four people breathing including me. We all swam to the deck and lifted ourselves up. “Well, that was fun,” I said lying on the dock. But by that time my brothers had figured out what the light had come from and were bowing. I looked up to see a man in battle armor looking at me. When I met his eyes I knew who he was. He was my father, Poseidon. I lifted myself quickly and bowed as well.

                “Rise, my children,” My dad said and we rose. “Victor, thank you for making Brook feel welcome, and Jason, I thank you for that as well. Troy, you didn’t seem to welcoming to Brook when she got here. Why is that?” our dad asked.

                “Um, I didn’t want to have another older family member.” Troy said quietly.

                “Ah. Brook, my darling, I have something to tell you, but boys you must swear not to tell anyone about it unless your sister lets you.” Poseidon said looking from me to my brothers.

                “We swear,” all three of them said at the same time.

                “Good, now where is she? Oh there,” Poseidon said looking back at the trees in front of the cabin. Suddenly an owl swooped out of the tree and flew over to us. As it landed on the dock I knew that it wasn’t a real owl, it was the goddess, Athena. And I was right, when she landed she transformed into a beautiful woman. All of my brothers bowed the same time I did.

                “Rise,” Athena said to us and we rose.

                “Now, Brook you need to know who your mother is.” Poseidon said looking at me.

                “My mother? What do you mean?” I asked.

                “This is not easy to tell you, but your mother is Athena.” My father said to me. That is when I collapsed; this can’t be happening it just can’t I thought to myself.

                “Brook? Are you ok?” I heard Jason say. I tried to concentrate on breathing. I soon had the strength to stand up.

                “Wait, if you are my father and you are my mother and you are a god and goddess, that makes me-“ I couldn’t say it, it just seemed too weird. I couldn’t be. “-A...a...a goddess, right?” I said looking at both of them.

                “Yes, you are a goddess, and your name isn’t Brook really. Your name is Pandora.“ Athena said. “Oh and we have a council meeting to go to now,” she said taking my hand and leading me inside to a huge closet that I hadn't noticed before. “I took the liberty of getting you a whole wardrobe of gowns to where. Ah here it is, it should fit you.” She said taking out a nice Greek looking gown.

                “Wow, are you sure it will fit?” I asked looking at her.

                “Yes, it will,” She said handing it to me “Go change darling.” She said pointing to the bathroom. I walked over there and slipped inside the door. I got my wet clothes off and slipped into the gown. She was right it did fit me. I stepped out of the bathroom and walked over to her. “Oh you look gorgeous,” My mom said.

                “Thank you, what do I do with my hair?” I asked.

                “Oh here, turn around.” She ordered me to do. I turned around and she started brushing my hair. Soon my hair was partly in a bun and under it were my brown curls. “Perfect,” she said when I turned back to her. “Ok let’s show your father.” She said leading me outside.

                “Pandora, darling you look beautiful,” said my father when I went to the end of the dock. “Are you ready?” he asked me and Athena.

                “Yes father,” I answered him. He walked into the water. “Am I supposed to follow?” I asked my mother.

                “Yes, come on, I will go this way as well.” She said walking me in the water. When we got under we turned into water molecules and rushed away. Soon we made it to Hudson River and turned back into human forms. We stepped out of the water and found my father waiting for my mom and me. When we got to him we started walking toward the Chrysler Building. When we got there we walked into the lobby and my mom handed the manager a gold coin and he pointed in the direction of an elevator. We walked to the elevator and went inside. My dad hit a weird button that is not on any elevators that I have seen.