The Children of Athena

chapter 8: on our way

Chapter 8

Adam stood on the opposite side of the opening the three cyclops and Lizzy next to him.

"what the hades?!" (just being here for a day and Amanda had picked up some of the things they said.)

"chill all of this was a test to see where we can start training you. These are some of my brother Tysons friends. And yes my brother is a cyclops. And with some help from the hecte cabin we made it seem like Lizzy had already killed on and also with their help they made sure anything on that table couldn't kill anything. But now it can the magic has worn off. With that sword you can kill monsters AND demigods. Chrion thought it was be a good and different way to train demigods. Please we didn't want to do this." Amanda didn't know what to do she felt relived that Adam and Lizzy were okay but a little mad that she was tricked into this. Amanda choice to ignore this and keep on training. I mean her life depended on it right?

"its fine, lets just keep training okay?" Amanda gave them a small smile to reassure them. Something she was really good that. Hiding her true feelings.

"awesome! Okay so it was clear you used very good tactics, what where you thinking?" Lizzy asked as they all sat down. Amanda grabbed a water.

"well, to be honst I'm a big mythology nerd. So I knew that cyclops where big but that also made them clumsy too. So if I moved left and right he would soon fall and I could stab him in the back." Amanda soon didn't feel mad at them. They were training her so she wouldn't die on this quest. They meant the best for her, right?

"This is great. Now let's get physical." Lizzy said with a smile on her face.

Adam and Lizzy trained Amanda HARD. By the time they were done with her, she was covered in sweat, her ponytail was a sloppy mess, she was out of breath and her hand was red from holding her dagger for too long. When a demigod with brown hair and fair skin came running in, that's when they stopped. Amanda was pretty sure she was an Aphrodite child. The girl told them about how Chrion and Mr. D had found a track onto where this person may be. They all ran back all the way to the big house. Where Mr. D was sitting on a table playing cards with josh, who seemed very scared. When Mr. D saw Amanda, Lizzy, and Adam he shooed josh away who waved and ran as fast as his little goat feet could carry him.

"Hello Izzy, Arnold, and who are you?" Mr. D looked Amanda up and down.

"Amanda, sir." From what Amanda heard that Mr. D was the wine dude himself and that he never remembered anyone's names that by now no one even bothered to tell him the right name. Lizzy and Adam just rolled their eyes when Mr. D called them the wrong name.

"Sir. I like it. Anyway we have found out where this person took your fellow camper. I personally don't really care but since Athena cared enough to come her I guess it was is importance. we had the hermes cabin try to find out anything and they did. They found that someone crossed the line into camp the day the girl was taken. So we know it wasn't a monster. Be it could have been a god or demigod."

"so it could be any of us? Great. Just great." Lizzy muttered under her breath. Adam stepped on her foot, which was a mistake. Lizzy kicked him. Amanda stepped on both of them. The message was clear: knock it off. Now.

"so where shall we start, wine lord." Amanda gave a mini bow. Adam rolled his eyes and Lizzy gave a fake gag. Amanda didn't care. She had dealt with many grown ups to learn to be the perfect kiss up.

"well as you saw on the note in the coner there was a picture of a spider. Well we asked around and each camper that saw different type of spider. The type of spider they feared the most. We may think that Phobos could be the one that took the girl and left the note. He could be working for ares as well. Anyway Phobos loves to hang out in California, san Francisco. You three will go tomorrow morning. Now go!"