Fortitude

Prologue

The sound of rushing water and voices spread around our cabin. Of course, it's filled with a lot of demigods. The sons and daughters of Poseidon, the sea god. Well, for your information, Poseidon has the most number of demigod children, of all the gods and goddesses. I dont know why, but our dad's a god and he can get whatever he freaking wants.

I got up and made my bed because mother always taught me how to dicipline my cleanliness. I did my daily routine, as always. I went outside our cabin and a saw the wide field of Camp Half-blood, a safe place for demigods, like me. There are twelve cabins for twelve olympians, they were arranged in an upside down U, two in the base and five in a row on each side.

Two big cabins, Zeus and Hera's, stood tall and mighty at the head of the field. Cabin 1, was filled with a lot of demigods, children of Zeus. Cabin 2, as usual, is empty for Hera is the goddess of marriage, which means she's serious about that stuff and being loyal to her husband and not having any children except Zeus.

On the left side: Cabin 3, my cabin was the first in line, followed by Cabin 5 of Ares, Cabin 7 of Apollo followed, next was Cabin 9 of Hephaestus and at the end, Cabin 11 of Hermes lined up with each designs that truly defines their godly parent.

On the other side: Cabin 4 of Demeter, Cabin 6 of Athena, Cabin 8 of Artemis, Cabin 10 of Aphrodite and of course, Cabin 12 of Dionysus were lined up.

Those were the cabins of the 12 olympians. However, there were additional cabins: 13 to 20, at the end. A row of cabins lined up. Cabin 13 of Hades was first, then Cabin 14 of Iris, Cabin 15 of Hypnos, Cabin 16 of Nemesis, Cabin 17 of Nike, Cabin 18 of Hebe, Cabin 19 of Tyche and Cabin 20 of Hecate.

Counselors and campers waved at me as I walked towards the Dining Pavilion for breakfast. I saw one of our mentors there standing and smirking at me like she found a prey she's been waiting for. And she went straight to me.

"Mornin', kiddo!" She said. "Breakfast is still unavailable."

"Oh, I can wait, Kathleen." I said. No, I cannot wait. I'm hungry as crap.

She's Kathleen, a champion of Hera, no doubt, she is great at many things like sword fighting, hunting, killing, torturing and everything you can think of that's evil. But despite that she's on the good side.

I do hope so.

So I waited and gazed at our camp's scenery until I notice some campers running towards the Big House. I got curious and found myself running towards with other campers. When I got there, they were gathered in a circle. Lucky for me that I'm tall I can see what they were looking at.

It was our Oracle, standing infront of the Big House. She wore a simple brown dress and she was holding a book. Suddenly, she was surrounded by green mist spiraling around her body, her eyes were glowing green and she spoke with a raspy voice.

Beware the sea half-bloods,
For he is awake and strong and mad.
Seek and keep the godly cage,
To trap and save the creatures' rage.
One shall fall, one shall rise,
And all shall be given a prize.

She fell as a camper caught her and the next thing I knew, a Great Prophecy has been revealed.