Chapter 1! Yeay! Please comment! I enjoy constructive critics.
“Hazel!!!!”
I sat up so fast I bumped my head on the ceiling of the bunk bed.
“Rise and shine, sleeping beauty!” One of my brothers said, walking across the room and opening the curtains. I yawned and followed him with my gaze.
I had two brothers and they were twins.
At least they didn’t look the same.
Felix and James, that were their names. They were 17 while I was 15. They always treated me like a kid.
“It’s already 7 o’ clock!” James said while getting dressed.
I groaned and stood up. No sense complaining. Camp rules.
You see, we live in this camp for … special children. One of our parents is a Roman God. Yeah, like Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto for example.
There are around twenty cabins, each one for a god, well their children actually.
My mother is Nox, goddess of night. Nice, eh?
So this camp is for training. Castra Heros, it’s Latin for Camp Demigod.
We normally have to stay until we’re 22, we never leave. Not even on vacation or so. We aren’t allowed contact with our families and know nothing about the outside world.
Well, unless you go on a quest, that is.
Once you’re 22 you can become an instructor here, teach the younger and all that, but not many demigods want to do that.
The conch horn blew and we went outside.
All the cabins are arranged around the big hearth.
Before all the campers go to breakfast we assemble here.
Lupa, sort of our chef here, is the goddess of wolfs, the one that took care of Romulus and his brother. Romulus was the founder of Rome. And now she trains us. If you can call it that way. Normally she keeps out of our affairs and simply gives orders from time to time.
Now she stood in front of us, 300 campers, and scanned the rows.
“Jason isn’t here.” James whispered to me.
I frowned. Jason was the only son of Jupiter and our Praetor. Normally the Praetor didn’t mingle in the army, but Jason was kind of the leader for everything and he was the head of our Legion.
First I thought that James was joking but I looked over to where Jason normally stood and found his place empty.
“Go on, pups.” Lupa said after a while and disappeared.
Now that was weird. Just appearing out of nowhere and then without telling us anything going away again.
So all the campers shuffled along to the dinning hall.
Each cabin had a table, and at the Nox cabin we were only three.
“Where is Jason?” I asked my brothers and looked over to the Jupiter table, exactly like a lot of others kept doing.
James and Felix shrugged.
“How am I suppose to know?” James said and swallowed his scrambled egg.
If one of the campers disappears it normally because they managed to run away. But Jason had grown here since he was two, I could hardly imagine him running away, but still, he would be considered a deserter, and we wouldn’t be allowed to search for him.
“I’ll talk to Reyna.”
Reyna was Jason’s ex girlfriend, a daughter of Fortuna. They broke up after the Titan war last summer but stayed friends.
After breakfast we had sword training.
Each cabin trained by them selves, but if one cabin was not big enough they joined the Cras Interdem and I, along with my bothers was in it.
The C.I. was more fun than the others because every one had different powers according to their parents, it was amusing to see duels when Reyna for example stole all the luck of her opponent and he simply tripped and lost.
“Hazel!!!!”
I sat up so fast I bumped my head on the ceiling of the bunk bed.
“Rise and shine, sleeping beauty!” One of my brothers said, walking across the room and opening the curtains. I yawned and followed him with my gaze.
I had two brothers and they were twins.
At least they didn’t look the same.
Felix and James, that were their names. They were 17 while I was 15. They always treated me like a kid.
“It’s already 7 o’ clock!” James said while getting dressed.
I groaned and stood up. No sense complaining. Camp rules.
You see, we live in this camp for … special children. One of our parents is a Roman God. Yeah, like Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto for example.
There are around twenty cabins, each one for a god, well their children actually.
My mother is Nox, goddess of night. Nice, eh?
So this camp is for training. Castra Heros, it’s Latin for Camp Demigod.
We normally have to stay until we’re 22, we never leave. Not even on vacation or so. We aren’t allowed contact with our families and know nothing about the outside world.
Well, unless you go on a quest, that is.
Once you’re 22 you can become an instructor here, teach the younger and all that, but not many demigods want to do that.
The conch horn blew and we went outside.
All the cabins are arranged around the big hearth.
Before all the campers go to breakfast we assemble here.
Lupa, sort of our chef here, is the goddess of wolfs, the one that took care of Romulus and his brother. Romulus was the founder of Rome. And now she trains us. If you can call it that way. Normally she keeps out of our affairs and simply gives orders from time to time.
Now she stood in front of us, 300 campers, and scanned the rows.
“Jason isn’t here.” James whispered to me.
I frowned. Jason was the only son of Jupiter and our Praetor. Normally the Praetor didn’t mingle in the army, but Jason was kind of the leader for everything and he was the head of our Legion.
First I thought that James was joking but I looked over to where Jason normally stood and found his place empty.
“Go on, pups.” Lupa said after a while and disappeared.
Now that was weird. Just appearing out of nowhere and then without telling us anything going away again.
So all the campers shuffled along to the dinning hall.
Each cabin had a table, and at the Nox cabin we were only three.
“Where is Jason?” I asked my brothers and looked over to the Jupiter table, exactly like a lot of others kept doing.
James and Felix shrugged.
“How am I suppose to know?” James said and swallowed his scrambled egg.
If one of the campers disappears it normally because they managed to run away. But Jason had grown here since he was two, I could hardly imagine him running away, but still, he would be considered a deserter, and we wouldn’t be allowed to search for him.
“I’ll talk to Reyna.”
Reyna was Jason’s ex girlfriend, a daughter of Fortuna. They broke up after the Titan war last summer but stayed friends.
After breakfast we had sword training.
Each cabin trained by them selves, but if one cabin was not big enough they joined the Cras Interdem and I, along with my bothers was in it.
The C.I. was more fun than the others because every one had different powers according to their parents, it was amusing to see duels when Reyna for example stole all the luck of her opponent and he simply tripped and lost.
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