The Mysterious Quest

Chapter Seven: Departure

                             We all stood together at the entrance to the camp, knowing that this might be the last time we see the camp and all our friends and counsellors here. I thought about my parents and how I have almost no thoughts or memories of them, I looked at my friends, wondering what was going through their heads. I met eyes with Eliza who flashed me a smile, to which I returned one half-heartedly. There was a long while of silence before Gothwood shattered the peace and tranquillity, "Campers of Camp Demigod, please say goodbye to these brave heroes, but remember, this isn't a goodbye for good". Nobody said anything, and the silence was very awkward and strained, so, I spoke up to stop the awkwardness. "I would like to say thank you to all of you for bringing me into Camp Demigod" there were a couple whoops and cheers from the crowd of campers, but that was about it. "Well, goodbye I guess," I said, and this time the whole crowd started cheering. I took one last look at the camp and the people and satyrs and headed off into the unknown. Nobody dared to say a word for the first 15 minutes, so I should probably tell you where we are going during the silence. Camp Demigod is located in British Columbia in Canada. The so-called 'quest' that we were going on was a retrieval type mission, you see, when Camp Demigod was first constructed, the original creators hid a message inside of a full titanium casing, which was supposed to tell the fate of the chosen one. The thing is that the titanium casing was hidden on a mountain. We had to climb that mountain and retrieve the casing, bring it back to camp, and Gothwood would a machine that cuts the titanium, revealing the message. Out of nowhere, a hellhound jumps into the air and little Ethan fires ad arrow, piercing its heart. We all jumped out of shoes and drew our weapons. I didn't know what weapons the two Ethans and Griffith preferred using, but now I do. "Everybody, draw weapons and stay alert!" I yell to our group. Everybody drew their weapons, we kept walking towards our destination, just not as fast and we paid more attention to our surroundings, the smallest noises drawing all of our attention to the source of the sound. Just as we were beginning to calm our nerves down a little bit a bunch of dracaena, hell hounds, laestrygonian giants, and the Minotaur burst out of the woods, almost giving me a heart attack. Which I assumed was leading this not so merry band of monsters. "What do you want" I growled, immediately realizing that none of them could respond. All they responded was with roars of and screams and then they charged us. "Everybody watch your back and call out if you need help!" I yelled to my group of 'friends'. Ethan started firing arrows left and right piercing the monster's hearts, leaving behind only a mere trace of dust. "The rest of you take on the smaller monsters Eliza and I will take on the Minotaur!" , "Heard!" they yelled back. Eliza and I looked at each other and grinned. I have known her for years, and I have trained with her almost daily since we arrived here, so we practically know each other's moves and what we will be doing."You go left I go right!" Eliza yelled to me. "Remember, we trained for this!" I responded to her, "We can do this" I said this more to reassure myself rather than her. Right as we were about to reach the Minotaur the stench of rotting meat started to burn my nostrils. We stopped in front of him, and him being the giant 8 foot tall half man half bull beast with two battle axes. To be completely honest with you, I had no clue how we were supposed to take it down. "Nice fighting with you," Eliza said to me, "Ditto" I responded. (A/N Hmm, where have I heard that before?) "Go behind it I'll distract him" I looked and Eliza and I saw worry flash through her eyes, "Are you sure? What if you get hurt?" , "I'll be fine, don't worry" I flashed a grin to her, although it was fake. She stiffly nodded and tried to sneak by, keyword tried, and failed. "RUUAGAAGA!" the Minotaur charged Eliza, swinging his axes wildly, "Eliza!" she ducked under the swing of the Minotaur axe, which swung just above her head, chopping a nearby tree clean in half. "Hey beef breath! Over here" I chucked a small rock at the Minotaur, "Yuuuugh?" the Minotaur turned slowly towards me and Eliza scampered towards the woods, almost invisible under the shadows of trees. The Minotaur charged me, a giant man-eating monster charged me, and all my brain could process to say was, "Uh oh" At the very last second I rolled to the right, turned around and stabbed the Minotaur in the calf, "AUAUUAGHH!!" the Minotaur turned and yanked my sword out of my hands. Now we had a raging Minotaur with my sword stuck in its leg. I cursed under my breath. I glanced towards the main group of friends who had done a good job fending off the monsters. Until I saw a dracaena pulls her bow back and shoot an arrow. It played out in slow motion, the arrow gliding through the air, straight towards Griffith. Griffith turned towards the arrow and a look of shock barely managed to come out before the arrow effortlessly pierced through his chest armour and his chest. I watched in horror as Griffith's body dropped down to the ground, his spear falling to the ground as well. The rest of the group made a circle around his body, defending it with their lives. Although I badly wanted to go over to them and help them out, I had a bigger problem on my hand, the infamous Minotaur. "Eliza, I could use some help right about now!" I yelled into the darkness of the woods. As if on cue, Eliza jumped from a tree onto the back of the Minotaur, and put one clean stab through the head of the beast, which dissolved, leaving my sword to clatter onto the ground. I ran and scooped it off the ground, my face grim. Eliza and I sprinted towards the group, all of which were cut somewhere and were panting from exhaustion, we finished off the last of the beasts, before sitting down. We buried Griffith in the woods, his spear next to his grave. We had to keep pushing forward though. We set up camp in the woods, luckily big Ethan had found a clearing near a stream. The two Ethan's went in one tent, Eliza and I in another, and Derek on his own. Eliza and I had first watched, it was a silent night, not in the creepy sort of way, but more of a peaceful way. I was reminiscing about how much stuff has happened to me since I came here. In only one week I have learned how to fight with a sword properly, learned that I was a freaking demigod, met Eliza, Derek, Kyan, and a bunch of other people who were also demigods, and fought a Minotaur, no sorry, the Minotaur. It's almost like I have started a whole new life, which I have. When I was a normal kid, I was never on the popular side, I was always the quiet kid and I never made many friends. Except for Eliza, she was my best friend since second grade, when she fell and scraped her knees I gave her a band-aid and helped her up. Since then we became best friends, yeah we had a few rough moments when we got into some fights, or instance when I snapped at her in my cabin, but other than that, I was thankful for Eliza. So when we realized that we were apparently 'demigods' we came here together. "What are you thinking about Jake?" Eliza asked me, breaking the silence, "Oh, nothing" I looked at her, she smirked. "Jake I have known you for six years, I know when you are thinking or not" I blushed. "I was just thinking how much my life has been accelerated in terms of action and excitement". "Yeah, it is weird to think how the Greek gods are real and we are descendants from them like my mom is Athena the Athena" Eliza said. "My dad is Zeus like that's so wei-" a snap of a twig from behind us stopped my sentence. Eliza and I drew our swords. "BOO!" Big Ethan yelled while running at us, "AUGH!" Eliza and I screamed in unison. "Ethan you little!" Eliza chased after him while laughing and Ethan was running away screaming bloody murder. Little Ethan tapped my shoulder, "Anyways, it's our turn on watch, you and Eliza go sleep", "Okay, finally someone sane around here" he grinned. "Oh I'm not so sure about the Jakey" I turned and glared at him. "1. Don't call me that, 2. You better keep good watch, because if I die it's all your fault", "No promises Jakey" Ethan responded. I huffed and went to find Eliza.

Don't mind me I'm just a time skip till morning! Here, want a cookie? (::) (::) (::)

Eliza's POV Guess you weren't expecting that huh?

I woke up because of some stupid bird who wanted to sing its little heart out, which I wasn't very happy about. "Hmmph" I moaned and laid back down on my pillow snuggling into it. Wait... why was my pillow hard? Why was there a heartbeat coming from it? I opened my eyes and gasped. I was snuggled in Jake's chest, our legs and arms tangled together. I blushed profusely, but I laid back down, not wanting to get up. After a little while, I started to stand up to get on with our day, but Jake pulled my back down and muttered something incoherent. I tensed up, he must have felt me tense because he awoke. We made eye contact and he and I both blushed, our faces as red as tomatoes. We both muttered a quick sorry and got out of our tent, and I went into the forest to get changed, "What just happened" I said to no one in particular while putting on my belt which carried my sword sheath. "What a weird morning" little did I know, someone was following my footsteps, they pulled out a knife then...

End of Chapter

MWAHAHAHA, take that, and that! Ouch, a cliffhanger to the FACEEEE. Sorry not sorry about that cliffhanger. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, remember to leave feedback on whether I should add this or not that or whatever, etc. I might not be able to post chapters that frequently due to a new school that I am going to, but I hope you enjoyed it. Keep your stick on the Ice, PEACE.

-Maroon

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