Allen needed to walk across the plaza the houses were standing around, to visit the Demeter Cabin. Cabin 4 looked lively as plants grew all around it. You could see Children of her sprouting flowers to decorate the Cabin. Dan himself was sitting against the cabin walls as he sunbathes. A Gardener hat made out of Straw on his head.
"Dan?" Allen called out and Dan opened his eyes and smiled "Allen, there you are! Come let's go somewhere more private, i have questions to ask!" Dan said excited and stood up. He walked forward and lead Allen to a bench near the Forest and sat down. "So i heard you are the Reason why a new Cabin exist, even more one with no number on it!" Dan said with stars in his eyes.
"Yes, my Mother used certain ways to let it happen." Allen answered unwilling to spread of his mother threatening Zeus, who knows if such rumors spread, that maybe a random lightning bolt might strike me? Like whoops my hands slipped!
"Your Mother? Do tell me who your Mother is! She must be strong!" Dan asked. "Achlys" Allen said the name carefully, but instead of shock or horror, Dan seemed more interested in it. "Achlys the Goddess of Poison and misery? Cool! We really needed someone with skills in poison since a long time ago! You know the worst death are the ones from poisonous/venomous monsters! Even if you dodge and only get scratched by them, it could still mean your death!" Dan explained.
"I don't want to even talk about the Air heads of the Apollo cabin, who study medicine, they themselves only found expensive and painful methods to get rid of poison in ones body. It's really barbaric you know? There was one guy from the Ares Cabin, he got stung from a Beatle type monster and a guy from the Apollo cabin, made him burn the part that was stung, only for the Poison to explode once the Flame got to close! That poor guy laid in the Hospital wing for three months after it! He still has a huge scar on his side!" Dan told Allen vividly.
"Dan, are you sure you are the son of Demeter and not Aphrodite, since you really seem to like gossip?" Pete asked as he came out from behind one of the Trees. "Shut up Pete! not my fault that we can rarely leave the camp, so every new news are important to me, to not get bored, gossip or not!" Dan defended himself with crossed arms.
"What happened to the Apollo guy actually? I mean the one from the Ares Cabin must have been mad?" Allen asked and Dan seemed to light up and gave a 'See he is interested' look at Pete. "They are dating!" Dan said and Allens mouth dropped open and Dan clapped "I had the same reaction! Apparently the Apollo guy was so embarrassed that he nursed the Ares guy 24/7 till he was fully healed. This somehow ignited a spark and now they are lovers since like two years!" Dan explained and Pete rolled his eyes.
"Anyway Pete, how come you are here?" Asked Dan, smelling possible gossip. "I saw you both leave and decided to follow, since i didn't have anything to do." Pete explained and sat down on the Ground. "Weren't you and a few others invited to decorate the Aphrodite Cabin with flowers?" Dan reminded Pete. "I was there, but after they couldn't decide on which flower to grow around Thier windows, i left. Since i was to tired from Thier infighting." Pete said and stretched his arms a bit.
"I can understand, this is why I mostly use gossip to distract them and simply decorate it how i like it! While i also get a lot of new gossip on the side!" Dan said with a proud expression, wanting to shove it into Pete's face that Gossip had it's use! "Do you guys have a schedule? i didn't get one and was freed from it, since Mr.D didn't want to be cursed by my mother if anything happened to me." I asked and Dan just grabbed a piece of paper out of his pocket and gave it to me.
Unfolding it, i looked on the Schedule, "It's almost time for dinner?" i said and pointed to it. "Oh then we should hurry! before we are too late!" Pete exclaimed and took my and Dan's hands and pulled us along.
Arriving we saw multiple tables already prepared and some people already sitting on Thier Cabin Table. Dan and Pete said goodbye as they sat down with the Others of thier Cabin. A bit sad, i looked for my Cabins table and found it quickly, it was a black wooden table, with Crystal lights on it, similar to the ones in the Cabin. Soon the Signal for the Dinner time sounded and everyone took some food and offered some of it to Thier godly parents into a fire, before going back to Thier Table and eating.
Allen did the Same and took quite the amount of food, but offered half of it to his Mother, the flames turned black for a second and a smell similar to freshly baked bread came from the flame. Returning to my Table i ate alone, something i was used to, but also sad about as i saw the others talk and laugh. I quickly ate everything and returned to my Cabin, only to realize that i still had Dan's schedule.
Smacking himself on the forehead and calling himself a idiot he quickly walked to the Demeter Cabin. Though as he arrived he didn't see Dan. "Excuse me, is Dan here?" Allen asked a Girl that was just leaving the Cabin. "Dan? no he must be at the Strawberry fields, he always goes there after dinner to take a nap." She said and pointed into directions of the Fields, i thanked her and walked to them.
He needed to walk past the Arena and Forge and arrived at the vast field of strawberries and saw Dan laying there, his farmer head protecting his face from the sun. "Dan!?" Allen called out and walked over "Allen! i didn't expect you to be looking for me? What's up?" Dan said only moving his hat slightly to look at Allen. I took out his schedule and gave it to him. "I forgot to gave it back to you!" i said and Dan laughed.
"You can keep it, we have more than enough schedules in the Demeter Cabin. Not even mentioning how you can simply grab one from the Big House. There is an entire crate filled with these!" Dan said and shoved the schedule back towards me. "You should try to make some friends, with others your age as well. The best way to make long lasting friends are in the Arena or the Training grounds, though the Training grounds might be the better place, since you are as thin as a stick." Dan commented and I just rolled my eyes, not that he could see it.
"I only arrived today, naturally i don't really have friends yet!" I defended myself. "Yes, yes, how could I forget! Anyway isn't like i made about 20 friends my age shortly after arriving." Dan said it in a sarcastic voice. "20? your Cabin?" Allen asked a bit hurt since he is alone. "Nope the Aphrodite Cabin, my father was a model once. This was enough to gain a lot of attention from them." Dan said proudly.
Allen held back the urge to slap him and turned around and left, throwing the Schedule on to Dan's face before going to the Big House. Arriving there he took a fresh schedule and walked home, thinking about what Dan said.