Chapter 3
Charles took him around the camp to a huge wooden cabin; however there were other small cabins around and all of them were very different in many ways. However the cabins were irrelevant to him, his attention was fixed on all the kids of all ages in this camp, their aura was way bigger than the one of monsters and all of them had different colors. He was only thinking on making experiments with them, however he knew that right now this kids would be able to beat him in a fight.
When they entered the big cabin or as Charles called it the ´Big House` he found himself looking at many trophies and pictures of other people of different ages, he noticed that in most of them there was an old man in his fifties, with brown hair, a beard and deep brown eyes that seemed full of experience and of knowledge.
"That is our camp director, come you will meet him soon." Charles said while entering on a room, inside the room, everything was full of old furniture and on a table there was the camp director and a middle aged man whose aura was the strongest and biggest Perseus had ever seen.
"Perseus this is our camp director Chiron and Mr. D." Charles said before bowing to the man called Mr. D, Perseus seeing the boy doing this followed his example, earning an surprised look from the god and the director.
"I suppose you must be the Chiron from the myths, the teacher of heroes, however I'm not totally sure who Mr. D is, a god perhaps?" Said Perseus in a polite way to not anger any of the men in front of him.
"I'm very impressed Perseus, most people don't recognize me or Dionysus the first time." Chiron said with a kind smile and the god nodded while looking at his opponent on the card game to see of he could win the game or not.
The moment Perseus heard the name of the god he knew he had been right to bow, he heard on his books how gods were very strict and he didn't want to see if it was true. After Chiron explaining Perseus about the gods, which he already knew about, and about the activities of the camp, why he was here and where he would life for the next couple of months, Chiron called in a beautiful brunette girl in which she should be 12 years old and she had a orange t-shirt and shorts and was told to guide Perseus around camp.
Perseus learned that the girls name was Sofie and she was one usually the main guide for new people on camp and it seemed like she had lots of friends in the camp, she showed Perseus around and told him which activities he would be able to do, she also took him to the Hermes cabin, the place in which he would be sleeping and she gave him an advice.
"Hide anything of value you have, in the Hermes cabin the like to take things from the newbie's, its like a tradition to them." After that she went back to her daily activities, but first he told him were the armory was, because he would need a weapon and an armor for the capture the flag on 3 days time.
"When you are inside ask for James, he is the counselor and will tell you were you sleep, but first hide your things." And she left, Perseus was looking for places to hide his things, he knew that he had many things to hide, but if you are the god of thief's son, you are bound to be good at it right? So he decided to go the forest to hide it.
Perseus really liked the forest, it had all he needed and he was sure he wouldn't care to sleep in here instead of in the Hermes cabin, however he couldn't, so he followed the a route full of trees for 10 minutes until he ended up on a beautiful place where there was a small lake and a water fall, the place was hidden by a deep forest and would be difficult to find unless you knew the place, he also liked the caves that were under the water fall. He took out one of his notebooks and ordered 10 shadows to go around the cave and to cover the whole place, after 20 minutes everything was covered in shadows so Perseus ordered them to come inside of him and when all of them were inside, he knew all the places in which his souls had been and what living beings they had found, so he decide that this would be his ´Secret Place`. He went as deep inside the cave as he could and he left his most important belongings on one of the bags and he covered the bag full of souls of dogs and cat that would protect it if anyone tried to take it.
Perseus finally arrived back to Hermes cabin; he was sweating a lot for using so much his powers for one day and had decided to take a nap until the dinner started but he only had 2 more hours, so he went inside the cabin and asked a couple of guys in there to see who James was. He was doing sword fighting.
Perseus had decided to wait outside until James came, so he went to a clearing full of grass, and using his backpack as pillow he took a nap. A girl waked him up 2 hours later, she told him it was dinnertime so he quickly thanked her and went to dinner. When he arrived he saw that almost everyone was having already dinner so he seated on a small corner for diner and took a small steak with some carrots and potato for dinner and for the drink some water.
When the dinner ended all of them had to give a portion of their dinner to the gods, however he didn't knew to which god offer to, so he offered to all of them a little, when all of them had sacrificed some, they all went to the camp fire and were given 4 marshmallows, and they did songs. When the fire was dying down and all of them were tired, Chiron rose from his wheelchair.
"Demigods. Today we have to welcome a new addition to the camp, Perseus White." He waited to the people to digest the information. "As you might all know, this Friday we will have capture the flag, so rest well this days and train! Goodnight." And after that all of them went back to their cabin.
Inside the cabin Perseus found James, so James gave him a sleeping bag and told him to sleep on the floor for the night.
"I'm sorry you have to sleep In the floor, However Hermes cabin is always full of people and we don't have enough space for the people. Tomorrow I will bring you some towels. However never go out in the middle of the night, or you will be eaten" He said while preparing his bed like if what he said was normal.
"Thanks but there is no need for you to bring me towels or anything like that, I already have some of my own. But Sofie told me that I would need some weapons for the capture the flag game, when should I go to the armory?"
"Tomorrow after breakfast we go to the armory, ok? And after that I can teach you the basics of sword fighting." James offered while going inside the bed.
"Yeah thanks, that would be great."
The next morning James went with Perseus to the armory to chose a weapon for Perseus.
"Ok Perseus you can chose any weapon you want, but you will need to take care of it in your own, I suggest you take a sword or small knife, when you get older you can get a bigger weapon." James said while looking at some shields around the place.
Perseus had been looking around for some weapons around and had decided to use a spear, he was looking around the spears they had until he came to the last four, one of them was huge and had a very thick blade, another one was small and had a long blade, the other one was a little bigger but had a thicker blade, and the last one was a little smaller then the first one and was way thinner, the blade was long, like a large knife and it looked like if it was made of plain celestial bronze and olive wood, it was very simple but in his hands it felt a little too heavy but it was alright to him.
"I think I will take this one, and for the armor I will take that one, the plain one." He told James meaning the plain armor that they had been looking a minute ago.
"Ok I am not that good at spear, but I can teach you a couple moves so that you can start with it, however I suggest you go to the Ares kids class, some are pretty good at spear fighting."
The next 3 days were always the same for Perseus. At 5:30 he went jogging to the cave he found (of course he asked Chiron to tell the harpies to let him go out at 5:30 to train) he spent the next 1 hour and 30 minutes practicing his powers and trying to find some animals to take their soul and make them guardians, then he took a swim on the lake to get fitter on the body for 1 hour, then he went to breakfast and had 2 hours of spear fighting with the Ares kids, and 1 hour of sword fighting with James and then lunch, then study for 1 hour of his work in the school and 30 minutes of strategy, then another 30 minutes to know monsters and then 1 hour of craftsmanship with Hephaestus cabin, then he did rock climbing for 30 minutes and then 1 hour of exercises, After that he had dinner and then he practiced with dummies spear throwing and hi swords man ship.
The other campers were surprised by how much dedication and seriousness the kid took, he didn't care about social live and even thought he wasn't a prodigy at the spear or sword, he made that up by all the hard work he took. If he made one mistake at a technique, he wouldn't stop until it was perfect. Also he was always writing on his black notebook after hearing a trick or learning something and he wrote it on a weird language, however people could see that this kid on a couple of years could be a good fighter.
Today was capture the flag for Perseus, personally he didn't care about this stupid games, however they could give him great experience on fighting and on what the other campers abilities were.
Perseus changed his routine slightly today he was going to instead of experimenting with his power, hunt some nature spirits. He had heard that they could control nature and that most were very kind to campers, however he didn't care about that at all. He had learned that once he mixed a soul with his he would absorb some things from the person; for example, when he absorbed the Dracaenae his body became more flexible and his physical strength had increased even thought he looked the same, so he wanted to see what would happen if he absorbed some, also he didn't like the nature spirits that were around his cave, he felt like if they were observing him and he didn't like that.