Cursed Mind

Chapter 3

*Phoenix POV*

We stopped by a lake and it was beautiful it reminded me of my brother's blue eyes. The way the water glittered it was like a fresh batch of bright blue paint. I sat down with Alex and we started talking about our interests.

"So what do you like Phoenix?"

"Well I love to shoot bow and arrow and sing and fashion is one of my strong points, what about you do you have any interest."

"I love to read, sing, play the guitar and piano, and especially running."

We didn't notice Luck and Evangeline had disappeared into the water and were playing in it. I looked into the lake and I had hoped that water was playing tricks on my eyes. Luck and Evangeline are at the bottom of the lake.

"Luck!!!!" I yelled loudly hoping it was just a mind trick.

The girls rush out of the deep water and scream. "WHAT."

"Where are your legs???" I basically yell at Luck.

"Well, we are water nymphs..... Here once we get to camp..." Evangeline starts to say when Alex cuts her off.

"Evangeline explain now and leave out no details," Alex says quickly.

My mind started to wander, my brother used to talk all the time about people and myths. Dealing with water nymphs. I may act tough but I'm not, and I really miss my brother. The way he could make a bad, or crazy day into one that you would love. His regular style his favorites white vans, black jeans, and a white plain t-shirt. His hair always looking like an older version of Justin Bieber. He always carried around a dairy where he wrote everything down, every new style, every word we muttered, and even what boy he needed to beat up for flirting with me. Yes, people treated me as a shadow, but every so often I caught a boys eye.

A sound echoed in the background of my thoughts, as well as myself tuning out Evangeline's explanation. We look in the direction of the noise and see smoke rising from the trees, and not realizing it we see cabins.

"A cabin, hurry!" I yell as I get up and start to sprint in the direction of the smoke.

My words are muffled as my lungs fill with smoke and I try to cover my mouth and nose to avoid smelling the wretched stench.

A huge roar came from where the smoke was and a creature I have never seen before stood before me. Alex ran to my side and we both stood gaping at the beast. I heard a voice yell:

"The Kampê has escaped from deep in the labyrinth, hurry we need weapons!"

The man who yelled that was a half horse! He ran over to us and said "My who are you,? Luck, Evangeline who are these two?"

"Chiron this is Alex and Phoenix, they both are demigods looking for a home, and a place to train."

Alex instantly cuts in for both of us wanting to know they same question as we look at each other. "What is a demigod?"

"Luck and Evangeline please take them to the big house, we will sort this out there. On your way grab Will and Grover, and bring them with you."

"Yes sir," They both replied back and took our hands, and ran away from the battle.

Now, not paying attention to the conflict between a horseman and my friends I watched as kids, and teenagers attacked the beast. With swords, and bows and arrows, and knives. It all looked like something from a movie. We ran past the conflict with high speed and we stopped at a cabin number seven. The sister's Luck and Evangeline knocked on the door, and a boy wearing all black stood at the door, "yes?"

"We are looking for Will is he here we need him to come to the big house, please tell him."

"Of course but according to my doctors note I have to go with him."

"Whatever just bring him." The sisters turn and run towards the woods.

The girls stopped and turned to us and said: " Look see that big cabin, like huge, go there. Wait outside the forests nymphs, don't like very big groups of people."

I look at Alex and tell her my plan in a rush.

"Ok, what if you go to the house and I run to help the battle?" I say to Alex in a whisper.

"Yea I like that, okay hurry oh and I snagged this from the outside of the cabin use this," Alex says and hands Phonix a bow and bag with arrows.

"Okay bye, good luck Alex."

"You to."

I ran towards the battle with the bow and the quivers in a sack on my back. I get to the conflict and bloody teens are all over the place and someone yells "Get back," burning heat of fire everywhere. I grab an arrow and use my bow to line the shot up with the beast's eye. I shot carefully and it hits the target, I run to different sides of the beast and keep shooting when a boy comes to my side. He has blond hair and looks like he is 6'1 in height and has two swords and starts to swing them distracting the beast. He is wearing an orange shirt that says "Camp Half-Blood" and dark pair of jeans. Focus P, don't get distracted, seriously.

After about ten minutes of shooting arrows and more retreating. The teens who are not hurt push the monster back into the tunnels from which it came. Without noticing before the monster had a jewel around its neck, that had dropped, and I ran towards it. The jewel said Kampê, I turned to the boy who ran after me and I said "What is a Kampê?"

He started to explain very carefully. "Kampê was a jailer for the giants, the Cyclopes, and the Hekatonkheires (a.k.a. the Hundred-Handed Ones) during Kronos' rule before Zeus freed them and started the First Titanomachy. Kampê was the first foe that Zeus destroyed with his new Master Bolt."

I started blankly at him and he laughed and said: " Wait, who are you anyway?"

"Me, I'm Phoenix, I just got here I about two hours ago. I have been coming here for about half a week." I explained and he cut me off,

"Why don't I show you around then?" He said and realized I didn't know who he was, "My name is Cyprian, my mother is Nike the goddess of Victory, Cabin seventeen." Cyprian explained.

"Oh cool so how about that tour." I said smiling. For once I'm at a place, I don't have to be a shadow.

"Oh and I love your dress." He muttered. He looked at me and smilies.

I smiled and he took my hand in his as I swung the stuff back onto my back (the bow and arrows). We started to walk around he showed me all the cabins and named each one. We walked to the place where everyone eats, and I gasped, and ran around shouting. I stopped and blushed suddenly embarrassed. He laughed.

"It's okay don't sweat it."

"I've never been in a place like this, I've always been a shadow to my twin but we split ways and anyway this place is huge," I say expecting it to disappear.

"The whole camp eats here at the same time." He says like it's nothing.

Wow, he is so chill about everything, it made me look like a little kid. I really need to stop talking to myself.

"Oh, and we should start to head towards the Big House, it's getting late." He said smirking.

We start walking and arrive in front of a beautiful house that has vines all over. We knock on the door, and it opens all by itself.

"She could be very dangerous to camp maybe.." I hear one voice say as we walk in the room all eyes on us.