Adventures of Xifos Touskotadi Chap 2

Chapter 2- I get claimed by the god of Deat

After I blacked out I saw a hooded figure, radiating with death.

"My son," it's voice sounded like a thousand souls were talking in a whisper," O you have grown very much!"

"Who are you?"

"Xifos, I am your father"

"You sound like Darth Vader" I explained

"Yes, I've always wanted to say that, especially with Earl's voice, he let me have it you know, in turn him going to Elysium." he said it with a much more cheery tone.

But I didn't care about that.

"Why did you leave us?"

He sighed. "It was for your own good. If the other mortals found out you were my son, well..." He drifted off.

"Why, did you leave us?" I repeated

"I just told you"

"So after all these years, you never even called me, even a greeting card saying 'Hello' would fine!"

"I'm sorry but I was busy torchering Sisyphus and bringing souls to the underworld son, and I was still welcoming souls from the first world war, over 40 million people each with an hour of appointment, and another hour of ceromonies for the veterans, favors from the leaders, promises, do you know how long it took to finish 5 million of them? Over 90 years! I finally finished 5 million! And getting 10 years break."

"But still you could have called my mom."

"I'm sorry, but I'm even busier than Hermes!"

I saw there was no point arguing "Fine, so tell me why you brought me here?"

"You should have died a horrible death, but since you are the son of it's god, I have the power to bring you back to life. You will face many hardships ahead, but remeber, light is not more powerful than darkness, only if you let it be. Wow that sounded corny. Farewell, my son"

I shifted back to consciousness.

***** I could here Nico's voice saying, "So, he's dead?"

Another voice much older and sterner said "I'm afraid so, it was too late when you brought him, not even I could heal him, we would need a God's power to do that."

"I'm not dead" I said drowsily

I opened my eyes too see Nico, a man in a wheelchair and the dude with the goatee.

"Xifos!?" Nico exclaimed

The man in the wheel chair spoke in bewilderment "But how?"

"I don't know" I conveniently left out my dream.

"My child are you able to walk?"

I stood up to prove his theory.But only for 2 seconds, I then fell face-first intothe wooden floor.

"Nico, can you get him some nectar and ambrosia, please?"

Nico nodded and ran to fetch the items.

"This is amazing, only Jason and a few others in three-thousand years have been brought back to life!"

He then remebered me,"Oh, I'm terribly sorry, my boy, my name is Chiron, Nico has told me alot of what you've accomplished, and no hero except Hercules and Achilles themselves are able to take on dozens of giant scorpions and live."

I ignored his compliment, or at least I thought it was a complliment, "The Chiron? The trainer of the greatest heroes in the Greek myths?"

"Yes and no, I am the trainer of Hercules, Achilles and the first Jason, but the Greek myths are very much real, those scorpions are an example."

Just then Nico came in with a glass of ice tea and three squares of what apeared to be rice crispies squares.

"Eat up, my friend."

I bit the squares, they were delicious, they tasted like brownies and strawberries.Weird.I took a sip of the ice tea. It tasted like dark, cold caves. In other words, I loved it. Then after I finished, I felt like I could take on the world.

Then the dude with the goatee came up, he looked the same, except with his bottom looking like a part of a goats. Holy Goat he was half-man half-goat,

"The name is Samiel Fitswhottle Pettelsburg Crownatop Walker Montana Cornwa-"

Nico cut him off "OK Sam that's enough,"He then turned towards me,"Sorry Xifos, sometimes he gets carried away. But we usually call him Sam."

"OK"

"Nico, will you give Xifos a tour of our camp and don't be late fordinner at the pavilon." Chiron then turned to Sam, and Sam whispering to him, I could only pick up "Hyperi-esca-gath-rmy-venge" before I could pick up anymore, Nico dragged me outside.

We first toured the volleyball court where kids where playing volleyball, the youngest maybe 10 and oldest about college age.Then the arts and crafts, Awesome! Then amphitheatre, where we roast marshmellows and sing. Ngeh. Climbing wall with lava? Amazing! Then on to the cabins.

"Each cabin hosts kids of each gods. Like the Ares cabin," Nico pointed to a crudely red painted cabin circled with barbed wires. In it wee a bunch of mean looking kids.

"There use to be 12 cabins but the after second Titan War the gods built more cabins for the minor gods to make them feel more apreciated."

"The second Titan War? Shouldn't it be in the news?"

"Oh it was, the explosions on Mt.St. Helens, freak storms, earthquakes, that stuff."

"Oh"

Then I saw a greek warship

"What's that?"

Nico turned and saw what I was talking about, "Oh thats the ship we're using to sail to Greece"

"Greece?"

Nico nodded. " Yup. We're going to stop the giants from destroying the original Mt. Olympus."

"Original?"

The Current one is in the Empire States Building. Wanna check it out?"

"Sure!"

We took off down the hill.

We were soon greeted by a girl about 15, she was gorgeous, with chocolate-brown hair with uneven strands. She looked of native descent.

"Hey Nico, who's this?"

"Oh, Piper-Xifos, Xifos-Piper"

She smirked "Hey, Xifos, you know your name mean's sword right?"

"Umm, yeah"

"So did you get claimed yet?"

"What? What's claimed?"

This time Nico answered "It means that if you get claimed by a god, you would be their child."

"Oh, then, no."

"Don't worry you'll get claimed at the camp-fire." Piper said with a smile. Somehow it was pretty convincing.

Just then a crane lifting a huge payload of metal broke. A kid who looked like a latino elf except much taller started yelling.

"Hurry up people!Butch, Nyssa, get another crane quick and Coach" he sighed "Stop eating the hull!"

A beefy or goaty satyr stoped eat some sheets of metal. That cannot be good for you.

"Oh c'mon Valdez! I never get to indulge, sides it's your fault for not making sure I wasn't eat ing it!"

They started arguing.

Piper rolled her eyes, "I'd better stop them, see you guys at dinner!" ***** Dinner was awesome! But sadly it had to come to an end. We walked to the amphitheatre for singalong. sat beside Nico and Leo Valdez. Terrifying. But it turned out kinda fun with corny songs. Then Chiron made an announcement.

"Today we have a new camper, Xifos Touskotadi!"

Some of the campers from the Ares cabin cracked up. "Sword of Darkness?"

"Yeah."

Just then the campers looked above his head.

"What? Did a bird poop on my head?"

Then Nico pointed on top of my head.

I looked up and saw a dark shape of a.....Scythe.

Chiron came towards the fire and said gravely

"Hail Xifos Touskatadi, Son of Thanatos, Reaper of Souls, Leutinant of Hades, God of Death!"