Nico di Angelo, Flowers of Death

Chapter 7

-Ambers P.O.V-

I was baffled. No words could describe this place.

After the hole flipping Percy incident Annabeth took me to meet Chiron. Percy mumbled something about getting some ambrosia and walked away. Nico had then come up to me and whispered in my ear so Annabeth wouldn't hear.

"If I was you I wouldn't go flipping people anymore. Or tell anybody you flipped Percy Jackson." he then turned to leave but looked back at me. He leaned in and whispered one more thing. "see you at dinner" butterflies blew up in my stomach, my cheeks got red and I suddenly felt self conscious.

I walked over to Annabeth who couldn't stop smiling at me. We started walking towards the big blue house.

The hole time Annabeth was talking about architecture and gardens but I zoned out.

On the porch of the big house sat a table with three chairs. One was occupied by a plump man with a loud Hawaiian shirt and shorts. He had a pepsi in his one hand, and cards in another. Across the table from him, sat a man in a wheelchair. He had a beard, and a blanket covering his lower half. The same man from the Iris message.

When he saw me he smiled. Placed his hand of cards on the table and wheeled his chair towards me. The other man didn't look up once.

"Hello, you must be Amber, Nico's, friend" two things happened when the man in the wheel chair spoke. One, I noticed how he said the word friend. Not a sneer but as if it was a joke.

Two, the second he said my name the plump man with the loud shirt, spit Pepsi all over the table. He looked at me with his purple eyes and then loudly declared .

"Stupid bugs always getting in my drink. Be gone or I shall banish you to tartus." At first I thought he was talking to me but then I realized he was talking to some bug, which I couldn't see.

I saw the man in the wheel chair give him a questioning look but the man with the loud shirt waved it off.

"You must be Chiron." I said talking to the man in the wheel chair. He gave me a smile.

"Indeed." he replied.

"It's kind of funny actually" I said trying not to look at the man with purple eyes.

"How so"? He raised an eyebrow at me.

"Oh, well Nico told me your the camp director, or something, and you train us to be Heroes. But you share the name with the great Chiron. Whom also trained some pretty famous heroes. Only he was a centaur"

All of a sudden Chiron and Annabeth where laughing even the other man gave a smile.

"Indeed, but I am Chiron, trainer of Theseus, Achilles, Jason, Peleus, and Hercules." he didn't sound like he was saying it in a boasting way.

"Umm don't you train demigods, I thought Jason was mortal." Again he laughed.

"How much do you know about Greek myths" Chiron asked.

"All of it" I blurted out. Then cringed at my stupid comment. Again everyone laughed. The man with the loud shirt looked at me.

"Well if you know so much, who am I" he asked me. I thought back to all the legends I knew and what Nico had told me about camp.

"Watch out for Mr. D, he dose not like demigods"

I pretty sure this would be Mr. D. I took in his loud shirt. It had vines growing over it and in his hand he held a Pepsi.

"Your dynosis God of wine. I always felt bad about your story." I answered. Chiron nodded in approval, but Mr. D gave me a scowl.

"Good, I suppose Nico explained all of this to you then." Chiron said as he tried to stand up in his wheelchair. I was about to go over and help when I saw his back half start to come out of no nowhere. He grew to the height of a tall man, but kept rising. He was a centaur.

His top half was human while his bottom was a white stallion.

"Annabeth give Amber a tour around the camp. Drop her off at the Hermes cabin, introduce her to the Stolls." Annabeth nodded.

( Time skip to after tour cause, I'm lazy)

"Here we are" Annabeth had said. She had just given me a full tour of the hole camp. Can I just say, wow.

Now we stood outside of one of the main cabins a number on it read cabin eleven. The brown paint was peeled off and it looked run down. Over top of the door was a staff with two snakes circling around it and wings on the top.

"This is cabin eleven. The Hermes cabin. Unclaimed demigods stay here until they are claimed. Which should be soon, I mean your about fourteen. You should have been claimed a year ago." She explained.

Anabeth walked up to the door. She knocked as loud as she could. There was some feet shuffling some screams and glass being shattered. Then two boys opened the door.

They looked identical. Blue eyes, brown hair pointy noses. Only one was taller then the other.

"Hi I'm Traves and this is Conner, the less handsome Stoll brother." he smiled at me while using his thumb to point at Conner. Then Conner gave him a quick punch in the arm.

"Ignore my brother" he said. Annabeth cleared her throat.

"This is Amber, new camper she is unclaimed." Both boys nodded vigorously.

"Well bye Annabeth" they said in unison. Grabbing my arms they pulled me into the cabin, and slammed the door in Annabeths face. Leaving a very startled girl outside.

"Not to tall" said, the one I think is, Conner.

"But not to short" said Travis.

"No muscles"

"But looks fast on her feet"

"Soft hands"

"But quick reflexes"

"What are you doing" I asked.

"Well where sizing you up" they replied in unison.

"Umm. why" I knew that when people size you up it usually means your about to get into a fight.

"Well you took Percy down in three seconds. Percy Jackson. Never seen anybody defeat him. I mean it's all everybody at camp is talking about." my face turned crimson red.

"R-really" I couldn't believe people would bother talking about me. All I did was flip the guy.

"Well duh, hey do you think you could do it again." one of them asked.

"I- um I don't know" I stammered.

"Cause we have a plan" they both looked at each other and gave sly grins.

Uh oh