Introduction
Hello, Hi, sorry this is kind of not the best time for me to talk to you, because you see I’m kind of under siege. You see I’m Greek and on accident somehow one of our people must have fired at the Romans and they are not too pleased with us. So right now we’re all holed up at Camp Halfblood trying to survive and either negotiate with, or defeat the Romans, whichever comes first. We sent only our best and brightest to Camp Jupiter to try and give off a good impression but that means, now we’re missing our leaders Perseus Jackson and Annabeth Chase, and Chiron and Mr. D are indisposed in a manner of speaking. So we’re all on our own. Our best weapons (over the years swords and the like tend to get a bit damaged) are aboard the Argo II (a ship built by one of our campers, Leo Valdez) which all of “The Seven” (It’s part of a prophecy, I’ll get to that later), flew away in. And you know, that’s fine and great for them, but we happen to be right on death’s doorstep. We won’t survive long enough to rejoice if they manage to save the world.
Hades, we aren’t even organized. After our war with the Titans last year, (woot woot for Greek power!) we started to rebuild and recognize all of the children of minor gods (I happen to be one of them) at camp, so we’ve got nearly every god covered and we are all just getting used to our new arrangements. Most of us are just worried about our friends and family. We already lost so many of them and don't think that we could handle losing anymore. I have a little brother and sister who are only six years old here at Camp Halfblood. Now there’s a chance they wouldn’t reach 7.
Oh, gods I just realized how terribly rude I’m being. I’m called Elvire Colette Tremblay-Lachance. My friends refer to me as “Elle Trick” for short. I hail from Tadworth in Surrey (some people think my accent throws people off considering most halfbloods nowadays are from America), though I’ve lived in Las Vegas primarily for quite some time (My mom moved us there seven years ago when she got a job as the weather girl). I’m 19 years old, and I’ll be 20 on the next winter solstice. I’ve been attending Camp Halfblood since I was 13, when my mother was killed in a car accident, shortly after giving birth to my little siblings: Jean-Pierre and Jeanette (Who both now go by “Jacques” and “Joli” because they liked the sound better). At camp I spent most of my time in the Hermes Cabin. Though, quite recently as my father would have it I’d be sorted into the house of Aeolus. There are always four children of Aeolus to represent the four seasons, My older brother, Geoffroi is Summer, my little brother and sister, the Equinoxes and I of course am winter. If all goes well me and my siblings are set to be immortalized as our Father’s helpers and become representatives of the seasons. (Yes that is different than the winds) When I’m not at camp for half the year, Jacques and Joli attend first grade and I’m a writer, and dance in my free time (that’s not often so therefore I’m not exactly a prima ballerina). I used to be a backup singer, but let’s be honest I’m not the kind of person who likes to hang out in the lounge of a casino (nor am I a world class singer). What do I write about? I would like to write my own poetry book, but I’m stuck writing the death notifications in the newspaper. We haven’t actually seen Geoffroi for some time….. about 6 years actually…
But enough about me! This story is about our miniature World War III. We know that most of the people in charge (praetors or something) went after the seven, so now half of them might be dead and we would never know because uncharacteristically they don’t feel like answering there iris messages, and now the Romans after Camp Halfblood. Right now all of the counselors are in charge and have formed a committee. We all try and use everyone’s talents to first and foremost, get some food (we’ve got a lot of mouths to feed and no new deliveries, you can’t expect us to only eat strawberries for the rest of our lives), then first aid, then weaponry. And after we’re all stocked up. We have Clarisse (head of Ares) in charge of our battle plans. I’m not great friends with her honestly, but I trust her to a degree. I know she wouldn’t screw around in times of war. Our ultimate goal is to reason with the Romans and try to send word to the seven, but first we have to get ourselves a bit of leverage.
Let me paint you a picture of what’s going on.
Romans: Well we aren’t really sure how many there are but there are five cohorts, and we think there’s about 40 Romans per cohort, so there are about 200 active members. Not to mention all of the former members who decided to give a hand.
Greeks: 10 children of Ares, 6 children of Dionysus, 7 (kind of useless) children of Aphrodite, 5 from Demeter, 6 from Athena, 7 from Hephaestus, 5 from Hermes, and 8 from Apollo.
In terms of minor gods we got: 3 children of Aeolus (the four winds and such), 2 chidren of Iris, 2 children of Tyche, 3 children of Hypnos, 1 child of Nike, 2 children of Erebos (darkness and shadow), 1 child of Nyx (goddess of night), 4 children of Hektate (magic, witchcraft the night, etc.), 1 child of Aristaeus (god of bee-keeping, cheese-making, herding, olive-growing and hunting), 3 children of Harpocrates (god of silence), 1 child of Palestra (goddess of wrestling), 2 children of Aceso (goddess of healing wounds and curing illnesses), and last but not least 1 child of Herse (the goddess of morning dew).
That brings our grand total to…. 80 demigods.
A lot of us are mates from when we were in the Hermes cabin but separation can drive others apart. Right now The Children of Hektate and Harpocrates aren’t on speaking terms, well the children of Harpocrates don’t speak much to begin with, but you get the point. Kelsie (daughter of Palestra) and Clarisse are in a row, with Kelsie constantly trying to find flaws in her plans which of course isn’t helping. Pollux and his brothers (Dionysus) are in a full out prank war with the Hermes kids. I wish I could say that I was being more mature than them but I froze Connor Stoll’s feet together yesterday… Apollo naturally likes to stir the pot so they started to fight with the children of Athena. All the while we are being attacked from the outside by the romans.
And the only groups that can actually get along are that of morning dew, and cheese-making. Good luck to us.
Hello, Hi, sorry this is kind of not the best time for me to talk to you, because you see I’m kind of under siege. You see I’m Greek and on accident somehow one of our people must have fired at the Romans and they are not too pleased with us. So right now we’re all holed up at Camp Halfblood trying to survive and either negotiate with, or defeat the Romans, whichever comes first. We sent only our best and brightest to Camp Jupiter to try and give off a good impression but that means, now we’re missing our leaders Perseus Jackson and Annabeth Chase, and Chiron and Mr. D are indisposed in a manner of speaking. So we’re all on our own. Our best weapons (over the years swords and the like tend to get a bit damaged) are aboard the Argo II (a ship built by one of our campers, Leo Valdez) which all of “The Seven” (It’s part of a prophecy, I’ll get to that later), flew away in. And you know, that’s fine and great for them, but we happen to be right on death’s doorstep. We won’t survive long enough to rejoice if they manage to save the world.
Hades, we aren’t even organized. After our war with the Titans last year, (woot woot for Greek power!) we started to rebuild and recognize all of the children of minor gods (I happen to be one of them) at camp, so we’ve got nearly every god covered and we are all just getting used to our new arrangements. Most of us are just worried about our friends and family. We already lost so many of them and don't think that we could handle losing anymore. I have a little brother and sister who are only six years old here at Camp Halfblood. Now there’s a chance they wouldn’t reach 7.
Oh, gods I just realized how terribly rude I’m being. I’m called Elvire Colette Tremblay-Lachance. My friends refer to me as “Elle Trick” for short. I hail from Tadworth in Surrey (some people think my accent throws people off considering most halfbloods nowadays are from America), though I’ve lived in Las Vegas primarily for quite some time (My mom moved us there seven years ago when she got a job as the weather girl). I’m 19 years old, and I’ll be 20 on the next winter solstice. I’ve been attending Camp Halfblood since I was 13, when my mother was killed in a car accident, shortly after giving birth to my little siblings: Jean-Pierre and Jeanette (Who both now go by “Jacques” and “Joli” because they liked the sound better). At camp I spent most of my time in the Hermes Cabin. Though, quite recently as my father would have it I’d be sorted into the house of Aeolus. There are always four children of Aeolus to represent the four seasons, My older brother, Geoffroi is Summer, my little brother and sister, the Equinoxes and I of course am winter. If all goes well me and my siblings are set to be immortalized as our Father’s helpers and become representatives of the seasons. (Yes that is different than the winds) When I’m not at camp for half the year, Jacques and Joli attend first grade and I’m a writer, and dance in my free time (that’s not often so therefore I’m not exactly a prima ballerina). I used to be a backup singer, but let’s be honest I’m not the kind of person who likes to hang out in the lounge of a casino (nor am I a world class singer). What do I write about? I would like to write my own poetry book, but I’m stuck writing the death notifications in the newspaper. We haven’t actually seen Geoffroi for some time….. about 6 years actually…
But enough about me! This story is about our miniature World War III. We know that most of the people in charge (praetors or something) went after the seven, so now half of them might be dead and we would never know because uncharacteristically they don’t feel like answering there iris messages, and now the Romans after Camp Halfblood. Right now all of the counselors are in charge and have formed a committee. We all try and use everyone’s talents to first and foremost, get some food (we’ve got a lot of mouths to feed and no new deliveries, you can’t expect us to only eat strawberries for the rest of our lives), then first aid, then weaponry. And after we’re all stocked up. We have Clarisse (head of Ares) in charge of our battle plans. I’m not great friends with her honestly, but I trust her to a degree. I know she wouldn’t screw around in times of war. Our ultimate goal is to reason with the Romans and try to send word to the seven, but first we have to get ourselves a bit of leverage.
Let me paint you a picture of what’s going on.
Romans: Well we aren’t really sure how many there are but there are five cohorts, and we think there’s about 40 Romans per cohort, so there are about 200 active members. Not to mention all of the former members who decided to give a hand.
Greeks: 10 children of Ares, 6 children of Dionysus, 7 (kind of useless) children of Aphrodite, 5 from Demeter, 6 from Athena, 7 from Hephaestus, 5 from Hermes, and 8 from Apollo.
In terms of minor gods we got: 3 children of Aeolus (the four winds and such), 2 chidren of Iris, 2 children of Tyche, 3 children of Hypnos, 1 child of Nike, 2 children of Erebos (darkness and shadow), 1 child of Nyx (goddess of night), 4 children of Hektate (magic, witchcraft the night, etc.), 1 child of Aristaeus (god of bee-keeping, cheese-making, herding, olive-growing and hunting), 3 children of Harpocrates (god of silence), 1 child of Palestra (goddess of wrestling), 2 children of Aceso (goddess of healing wounds and curing illnesses), and last but not least 1 child of Herse (the goddess of morning dew).
That brings our grand total to…. 80 demigods.
A lot of us are mates from when we were in the Hermes cabin but separation can drive others apart. Right now The Children of Hektate and Harpocrates aren’t on speaking terms, well the children of Harpocrates don’t speak much to begin with, but you get the point. Kelsie (daughter of Palestra) and Clarisse are in a row, with Kelsie constantly trying to find flaws in her plans which of course isn’t helping. Pollux and his brothers (Dionysus) are in a full out prank war with the Hermes kids. I wish I could say that I was being more mature than them but I froze Connor Stoll’s feet together yesterday… Apollo naturally likes to stir the pot so they started to fight with the children of Athena. All the while we are being attacked from the outside by the romans.
And the only groups that can actually get along are that of morning dew, and cheese-making. Good luck to us.
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