The Trials Of The Gods

Chapter 1

To Camp

Hi. I am Tilden Branch, your narrator for this story. If you think this is fiction, you are amazingly stupid and/or ignorant. No, i'm not being rude or sarcastic. I am just being truthful. Anyways, the horrible beginning to my story is about to start. Get comfy or whatever because this will be entertaining. It all started back late last Spring. I woke up at about 5:00, hearing some kind of a scuttle and a screech. I had a bunk bed, which allowed me to make a little fort out of the bottom bunk. I pulled the blanket I used as a makeshift bed curtain back, seeing absolutely nothing. I tried to go back to sleep, but of course I couldn’t. As soon as I lay down, the blanket started moving back. I grabbed the sword my aunt gave me for my birthday and unsheathed it. The thing pulling back the blanket was my mom, but she was different. She had green eyes and wings. I recognized the monster from books I had read. My mother was a harpy.

“I'm a half-blood”, I said in amazement and terror.

“Yes you are,” she replied with a creepy voice, “ You thought that there was no monsters attacking you even though you use electronics all the time. You're lucky it’s just me after you”  she said.

“ Shut up.” I said as I lunged.

I missed and ran outside. I had a desperate idea, but I prayed to whatever god there was that my plan would work. When I got there, I found my weapon. I picked up my 22 rifle and aimed. I didn’t like using guns, but I was desperate. BANG. I opened my eyes to see a pile of dust right where my “mother” had been standing. Once I got over the shock, I took a deep breath and went to school.

When I got there, first I took a deep breath from riding my bike for twenty miles(about 32 kilometers) and practically wasting an hour of time getting to school. I took a long drink from my water bottle. Ahh refreshing, I thought. I took my trumpet up to the band room. There, I met my friend Brett Goins. It may not seem weird, but Brett hates band with a passion.

“ What are you doing here?” I asked.

 

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“ Look, we need to talk. You're a demigod.” He replied.

“I know. I just killed a harpy this morning.” I said.

“WHAT??? Have you killed any other monsters? Ever?” He yelped.

“ Not yet.” I said with a small grin.

“ Good. What did you use?”  He asked. I told him the full story of how I killed my ‘mother’.

“ Holy Hades. Well, instead of using a gun, why don’t you just use this?” He said as he threw a wallet at me.

“First of all, This is a wallet, and second, why does it have a Hogwarts symbol and a Camp Half-Blood sign? I understand the Camp Half Blood symbol, but a Hogwarts symbol? Why?” I asked.

“You are a wizard as well as a demigod. There are other demigods in this school, but they don’t have wizarding capabilities. Oh, and here.” He said as he threw a wand at me.

“ Thirteen inches, made of redwood, dragon heartstring source,” Brett said,

“Now, for the sword, you just imagine that you are holding the sword and there you go.” he said.

“Question one, who are the other demigods? Question two, how long have you known that I’m a half-blood?” I asked as I summoned my sword.

“The other demigods are Dylan Daugherty and Dean Culp. I have suspected that you are a half-blood for two of three years. And yes, I am a satyr.”  He answered. As I stared at my sword I said,

“Now this is my style.”

At that exact moment Dylan Daugherty walked in to put his trombone up. He saw I was holding my wand and my sword and started to walk away

.”STOP!” I yelled. We explained the whole situation and he just started to freak out. We told him that the crazy thing was that I was also a wizard. “ Am I a wizard and half-blood too?” He asked.

“No, I am the only one in existence.” I replied.

 

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“ Now we need to get Dean.” Brett said.

“He’s at basketball practice in the gym.” I said. When we got there we explained the exact same stuff to him.

“Here are your weapons.” Brett said as he threw a slap bracelet at Dylan and a flashlight at Dean. Dean’s worked the same as my sword. With Dylan’s weapon, he had to slap it in his opposite hand and it would appear. Brett left for the bathroom and left the three of us alone. All three of us had brown hair, Dylan was the only one with brown eyes instead of blue. Dylan and I were pretty medium sized and a little bit fat. Dean was the opposite. He was short and skinny.

“Well, I’m going to go take a shower.” I said as I headed to the locker room. After that, we started to head to Camp Half-blood.

Halfway through the journey, I started screaming because I had bad feet. We decided to set up camp and I took the first watch. All I did was recite my favorite songs because I couldn’t listen to them on my tablet until I got to camp and they put a chip in my phone so I could use technology. I listened to the crackling of the fire and thought of all the times I had actually done this, sleep in a tent or sleep around a fire since I had been in Boy Scouts for six or seven years now. I ended up getting no sleep. Luckily, it turned out that I didn’t need to sleep since I rested my

mind while watching for monsters. We hiked another ten miles before resting again. This time I got to rest while Dean stood guard. I had a dream that uncovered some things while confusing me even more that night.

I was trapped in a brick room while others laughed at me. I got really mad and made the walls disintegrate. When I saw all the people that were laughing I was one, surprised at how many people were there, and two, angry at all of them. I shot fire out of my left hand while shooting water out of the right. I flew some of them up in the air as I covered them in stone. I summoned dead to trap some and help me destroy some of the jerks(I would like to call them worse but i am not allowing myself to) that laughed at me. They were chopped, petrified, burned to a crisp from fire that shot out of my hands, and torn in half until they were all gone. Then I woke up.

 

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When I woke up, I told everyone about my dream.

“ That is pretty mysterious, but do you think you could do all that?” Brett asked. When I tried to do all the things from  the dream, I could. We all watched in

amazement. Apparently that brought attention to a lot of monsters because five cyclops came out to attack us. I stayed back to fight and try out my new powers. I

crushed two of them with rock from my fire and water powers combined. The other three, I threw in the air as I flew up with them. I shot them away from the camp as

far as possible, but trying to exert that much force made me automatically pass out.

I was falling. I knew I was falling. Probably to my death, but yet I did nothing. A guy called Jason Grace saved me by stopping my fall with his air-controlling powers.

“It’s fine, i got this.” I yelled down as I evened myself out.

“ HOW THE HADES CAN YOU DO THAT?”He yelled as i flew down.

“I honestly have no idea other than I could be the most powerful demigod of all time.”  I said as I proved it by riding on waves and shooting fire into the air.

“WHAT? WE ARE MORE powerful than… my gods!”  Jason and another guy called Percy Jackson said. As Percy emerged from the Poseidon cabin, my eyes grew wide. I loved the Percy Jackson books. I thought a stupid thought, but as a redheaded girl named Rachel came out and said something that shocked me more than finding out I was a demigod, I knew I was right.

“STOP! HE IS THE ONE FROM THE PROPHECY! THE PROPHECY OF TWELVE!”

“Th- the prophecy of twe- twelve,” I stuttered. “ I'm sorry but I'm no hero. But I might know who the twelve are. They are Percy, Annabeth, Leo, Frank, Hazel, Calypso, Nico, Jason, Piper, Dean, Dylan, and, I guess myself.”  I said as a bunch of godly symbols appeared over my head. I counted eight symbols.

“ What is this,” Chiron said as he came over. “Oh no.  Please don’t be what I think you are.”

 

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“ The Big Three, Athena, Aphrodite, Ares, Hephaestus, and Apollo. Those are all my godly parents. I am the half brother of everyone on the seven from the

second great prophecy.” I said, but nobody noticed Dylan’s godly symbol until he screamed.

“Sweet!” He said as a glowing trident appeared above his head. “ I’m the half brother of Percy Jackson.” He said.

“Well, that settles it, I will be staying in the Poseidon cabin.” I said. By the end of the day, we had all figured out who was who, and we even got Hazel and

Frank from Camp Jupiter. Dean’s godly parent was Athena which did not surprise me. I also saw a couple old friends from my school. It was Harmony Martin and Dominic Arnold.

“ Hey Tilden!” They both said in unison. They looked at each other as if they were thinking, What the Hades was that?,

“Anyways, we are both children of Hades.” Dominic said. I noticed that Harmony had a Hellhound.

“How did you get that?” I asked.

“I found him in a free dogs box. His name is Bane.”  She said.

“HEY DUDE! LOOK AT THIS!” I heard Dylan yelling from across the camp. I slowly slumped across until I met him at the lake. He was holding a huge crab in his hands.

“His name is Johnny. He is a coconut crab.” Dylan said.

“Why does everyone have a pet other than me?” I asked myself.

“Hey, you need to come with me Tilden.” Annabeth said.

“Please, call me Tre(Pronounced Tray). All my friends do anyways.” I told her.

“Anyways, you need to get the twelve demigods you chose for you're quest. We’ll meet you at the Big House.” she said.

“On it. You’ll need to get the seven, Calypso, and Nico though,” I told her. “ Dylan! We need to get Dean, Domonic, Harmony and us up to the Big House.” I told Dylan. After we got that and got to the Big House(the main building for the camp), we were met with Rachel, the seven, Calypso, and Nico.

“He is Chiron! He has to be!” I heard Rachel arguing with Chiron as we walked in.

 

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“Oh, um hello you five,” Chiron said as we walked in. Rachel spun around surprised. “Dominic, Harmony, you guys can show Dylan and Dean around camp. Rachel and I would like to talk to Tilden in peace.” Dylan and Dean were not so happy to leave me which warmed my heart a little.

“It’s fine. I’ll be ok.” I told them. “ You guys can go on ahead. I’ll catch up with you later.”

“ Hey, he’s just like you Seaweed Brain. Thinks that he’s safe, but is in soooo much danger.” Annabeth said to Percy. I turned around and looked at them.

“ What’s up? Why me alone?” I asked them. When they asked about what had happened before I got to camp, I told them the entire gist of what had happened. They all stared in amazement.

“ Holy Hades kid. You are just like me. You are basically me and Thalia combined into one.” Percy said to me.

“I am as powerful as all of you guys put together. Maybe more powerful than Jason or Percy.” I said jokingly.

“Shut up.” They both said.

“He’s just joking guys.” Leo said. I nodded

“Anyways, we have important business to talk about. We need to talk about you're quest. There is a prophecy, well, I might as well just let you hear it.” Chiron said.

 

Chapter 2

The Prophecy

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“ Ok, here we go.”

Twelve challengers

Shall go away from Greece

Will attempt to achieve prosper and peace

To everyone, monsters and all

Some will fall, some will fail

They will all travel by using a sail

Some makers some breakers

They will be the most powerful team of all time

Some fight some are light

Multikill will prosper least,

All of them, including Rachel, looked impressed. As if she had tried to do that before but failed repeatedly.

“ Was that the prophecy? Why couldn’t the others listen to that?”  I asked.

“ The others would be worried and may not want to go on the quest. It mentions someone can achieve multiple kills at once, which could mean double weapons, do you know who that could be?”  Chiron replied.

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“I can only think of Dylan and me. He has a double sided axe and I have my sword and wand, so we are both viable options.” I said.

“True. There is more we need to discuss though. It says you will travel by using a sail, but the Argo II was destroyed in the war against Gaea.” Chiron said.

“Leo, can you build another battleship? I think it will be a little easier with all of us here to help you.”  I asked.

“Sure, but I’ll need a lot of resources.” He replied.

“That will be easy,” I said. “ Hazel and I can get the celestial bronze and imperial gold. The Demeter kids can help with wood.”

“CHIRON! ATTACK! ATTACK ON THE WEST SIDE!” Someone I didn’t know screamed while running toward the BIg House. “ Oh wow. You have the entire group of heroes here. Hi. I’m Malcolm Pace. Annabeth and, I guess your half brother,” He said to me. “Anyways, we are under attack. There are twenty cyclops, three giants, and two titans.”  He finished.

“Well, let's go.No time to waste.” I said running up to the attack area. As soon as I got there, I noticed that Dylan and some other campers were attacking like, seven or eight cyclops. I demolished half of the cyclops aside from the few that were being attacked. and somehow, with my fire/water mix destroyed a giant! I killed a freaking GIANT! I was so proud.

“Holy Hades kiddo, you're a beast.” I heard someone say from behind me. It was Travis Stoll.

“Makes me think about Bob and Damien.” Annabeth muttered to Percy behind me. When I turned around to look at them, I saw something so heartlifting, I almost cried.

“Annabeth, Percy, look behind you.” I said.As they turned, they both got ready for combat. We had gotten to the edge of the barrier around the camp.

“Don’t kill us! It’s the least you could do for us after Tartarus.” One said. “Damien” I guessed.

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“Yes. we are good giant and titan.” The other said.“Bob” I thought.

“You, Bob and Damien, have permission to enter Camp-Half Blood.”  Percy, Annabeth and I all said in perfect unison.

All of a sudden like a flash of light, Damien and Bob ran over and destroyed the rest of the titans, cyclops, and demolished a giant.

“COFUNDO!” I yelled at the last giant. The spell actually worked. The giant was confused for a couple seconds, long enough for me to hit it with lightning.

“Done.” I said beaming.

“How did he do that?” Bob and Damien asked.

“Oh yeah… I’m as powerful as a god... almost.” I said as we all chuckled a little.

 

Chapter 3

Training Starts

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After we were all acquainted with each other, we headed back to the big house. This time Dean and Dylan were allowed to come too.

“Why couldn’t we come earlier? It seems doesn’t seem that bad. ” Dylan asked Chiron after we finished explaining to them what we had gone over without them.

“ They just needed professional advice.” I joked. Everyone rolled their eyes at me.Dylan almost slapped me, but I blocked it with my hand.

“NO. NO MORE!” He yelled at me. I doubled over laughing.