Heroes of Olympus: Next Gen

Grace

You would expect the sword fighter to be my brother right? Wrong.
See, I'm the one that got my dads qualities. The sword skills, the sea green eyes, his sense of humor, and yeah, the power over water thing from my grandfather Poseidon but it also urks me that my brother has it too, cause we bicker all the time about who's stronger. (Which it's obviously me, but don't tell him that.) From my mother, I got her blonde hair and her pride. It may not seem like much, but when I need to talk to someone, my mother is always there because she's literally the best mom ever.

Today was my (and my brother's) 14th birthday. Mom and Dad told us that they had a surprise for us at camp half blood. (The Greek camp) Uncle Leo and Aunt Calypso sent Sammy and Festus (the bronze metal dragon) to take us to camp half blood to meet them there.

We waited what seemed like forever outside the Pomerian line because we thought terminus would get mad if he saw Festus land inside and didn't wanna take any chances. Sammy Valdez, finally appeared from the clouds waving.

"If you think that dragon is landing inside New Rome, you are certainly mistaken!"
We turned around seeing Terminus, the God of boundaries with his usual scowl on a statue with only a head and torso, but with no arms.
"You can relax your arms, Terminus, we're outside the line."

Terminus made an even uglier scowl, which I didn't know was possible, then started ranting about arms.

"See what you did?" Luke said "Now he's not gonna shut up!"
I contemplated that for a minute then shrugged my arms.
"Eh, it was worth it."
My brother shakes his head and we both turn our attention to Sammy who's already off Festus, running toward us.

He slammed into us giving an uncomfortable group hug and then backed away.
"Happy Birthday to the Jackson Twins!" Sammy says, with a huge stupid grin plastered on his face.
Both of us groan. "Should we take Emily and Marie?"
"They're already there. Uncle Frank turned into a dragon and flew them there while Aunt Hazel went through the labyrinth."
"Ok then, I guess we should get going." I said.
"Right" my brother agreed.
We all said hello to Festus and hopped on, making our way to Camp Half-Blood.

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When we broke through the clouds, we saw the famous Long Island sound with the sweet smell of strawberries from the hills. But most importantly, we saw the Athena Parthenos standing tall, and proud in the center of the camp.

Sammy led Festus to a clearing to land for us to get off after our long journey from Camp Jupiter.

When we got off, the rest of the gang came to greet us and wish us a happy birthday. Emily and Marie came up first.

Emily had the eyes of aunt Hazel, and had the shape shifting abilities of Uncle Frank which helped during battle, while Marie had the more magical gifts from her mom but was a beast when it came to normal battles.
We did the exchange hugging thing and was wished happy birthday.

Bianca Di Angelo came up to greet us next.

Bianca, isn't a typical demigod. Her parents are uncle Nico and Uncle Will. They always wanted a child with their blood and powers but couldn't. But her grandfather, Apollo, when he was mortal during a punishment by Zeus, he spent a brief time with them when they were still teens and saw how much they loved each other -same sex or not, Apollo didn't care for stuff like that. So he created a gift for them by molding her out of clay, and her own dads's blood. she was named Bianca though, after uncle Nico's sister who died during an early quest of my dad's.

Bianca gave me and and Luke a huge hug.
"Happy Birthday you guys! I'm so excited that you both are turning 14! But this also means that monsters can smell you more than ever now, so be careful 'cause if not, I will shadow-stalk you!"