I am Milo Peterson, am a normal city boy at the age thirteen. My parents left when I was two and ever since I have to put up with being a foster kid, or you could say foster teen, I’d rather it be that. Anyway, I never got to meet or remember my parents, all the foster manager said was I landed on their doorstep at exactly midnight, I don’t know how it was exactly at midnight but it was.

I go to Minderson Hall which is my school, it sounds like a haunted house thing or something but it’s just a normal city school. The principal’s name is Mr. Minderson or as I like to call him, Wayne.

It’s the last day of summer and me and my foster friends just got back from Iceland, I’m lying on my bed reading my book, I think about how much fun it was in Iceland…but then I feel a cold breeze through my window and I look outside, I think of my parents and tried to imagine were they are, I think about how nice it would be if I could feel their warm welcoming hug or a huge but nice kiss on my cheek, all of the sudden I start to feel water, tears run down my cheek, I hide under my blankets as my eyes grow heavy and then I sway to sleep. The next morning I wake up to a cheerful, sweet smell…WAFFLES! I JUMP out of bed tumble into the shower, get out put my clothes on while running and splat right in my chair with a white plate with an enormous golden/brown checkered pancake in front of me. The next thing I know is I am slouching in my chair with honey sticking on my mouth and full as heck.

After that I pack up my backpack, brush my teeth, and then brush my hair. I walk to school with my best friend Kaden Hull, but I like to call him Kade. So we get to school and right at the playground is Carry Cornpick, Carry is the biggest bully in the world. She was hanging out with Tessa and Camila. They were talking about wrestling and bully stuff that I never heard before, but when I walked passed her with Kade Carry screamed “ Weirdo alert, weirdo alert “ I starred cold blooded at her( I know this is kind of over reacting but I do that sometimes) we starred at each other until the loud annoying bell- RING, RING, RING! We both jumped and headed for the hall.

The first day of school sucked, we didn’t know where to go so we either followed someone you know or just ran forward hoping you’re lucky. I went for number one and I followed Kade but I did have a sense he was trying to follow me to. Finally I remembered that my Mrs. Kye the foster director told me that my room was upstairs at room 32. So I told Kade that and he remembered to that he is in the same class than me, we walked upstairs and found room 32. The teacher was at her ugly desk sipping coffee. She looked like a human form scorpion. (Not actually a scorpion but she kind of looked like one.) We found our seats in the front of the class and put our backpacks on the floor, I looked at the whiteboard and it said “Mrs. Flodd” that name kind of scared me but it looked like the teachers name.

Mrs. Flodd walked up in the front of the class and said in a very weird voice “Hello, How do you do?” that sounded like an old western accent, I don’t know why. She talked a little about herself and I felt it was going to be a LONG year. She handed out a math assessment and we started working on it, it was pretty easy for me. After that, we did morning meeting, it was just introducing ourselves ad getting to know each other. Then we went to recess, me and Kade just sat at the tables and talked about the teacher. We also talked about how Kade got crutches and how annoying it was.

After school the school bus picked me, Kade, and Aydan the new kid at our school, now we’re best buddies. The school bus dropped us off at Aydan’s house and we had a playdate. We were playing soccer on his lawn until his mom had the idea of going to the pool. So we got to the pool and started swimming, when I jumped in the pool I had a bad sense something was going to happen, my stomach got tied in a not so I sat down for a minute. I looked up into the sky and suddenly felt shaking, it got harder and harder until the water in the pool splashed in the sky. I looked up to see a twenty foot tall handsome man starring at me. “I am Poseidon, mighty earth shaker, God of the waters. You are in danger, monsters are coming, go to half-blood hill. I give you a map of the trail you must follow, meet Chiron, and train for war,” Poseidon said. SHOCK. That’s all I felt, he handed me a map that had a glowing golden point on it that said you are here.

I ran to one of the closest changing room and sat on the chair. I looked at the map some more and found that it had three parts missing, one in the middle, two in the corner, and three in the other corner. And from the golden point it had a path, the path that Poseidon was talking about. All of the sudden someone slammed on my door and crept under it, it was Kade, but with no crutches, he suddenly pulled off his pants and instead of skin, THERE…WAS…FUR!!! And he had the most polished hooves. “We have to go,” said Kade. He juked open the door and pulled my hand, we ran into the forest right next to the pool, about ten trees down we stopped. We sat down on a tree stump and I stated to blurt out questions: What are you, who- I am half goat half man-or boy. He snatched the map out of my hands and looked at it. ”NO WAY!! The ancient map of Poseidon. ,”said Kade.  “The ancient map of who,” I asked. “The ancient map of Poseidon! The god of the sea, one of the three brothers, and the mighty earth shaker. ,” said Kade. After that I asked him another motherlode of questions. He told me about the Olympians and the three brothers. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. “Who are my parents,” I asked. “GODS,” Kade said. He took out a bag of dust and flicked some in my face.

 All I could remember was going to sleep. I woke up in a hospital bed, but I was in a barn house Kade was talking to a man in a weal chair they were saying the words “Hermes” AND “undetermined” and then I remembered what Kade told me all the Greek gods. Then the man in the weal chair jumped out and turned into a hoarse but he was still human from waist up. “HELLO, I AM CHIRON.,” He said. Once again I was in shock.

 I sat up and he led me outside which has a bunch of cabins in the shape of a U. Chiron showed me to a cabin with a stick and two snakes on it. “The Hermes cabin, were we put people who don’t know who their parents are yet. “But Kade said my parents were gods,” I said. Chiron looked at Kade who was nodding. Chiron looked amazed. Kade said it was Hera and Helios the sun god. I was amazed.

 Chiron brought me to a cabin surrounded by peacocks. “This is the Hera cabin,” Chiron said. It felt like home. I walked in and saw a group of people that all looked like me. “This is Milo, he is sun of Helios and Hera, he will be staying here,” Said Chiron. They all looked at me, amazed. I walked through the cabin, they led me to a bed. It was the biggest bed in the room.

We all talked about how I got here and if I remembered what Hera looked like. Then this one kid in the group told me that Hera was married to Zeus and Zeus would get mad if he finds out, like REALLY MAD. I thought about it for a minute and realized he was right.

“Hi I’m Jake, welcome to camp half blood,” said Jake. “Hi, I’m-Milo, “I know,” said Jake. The rest of the day Jake showed me around the camp, archery, volley ball, sword play, arts and crafts, soccer and more.

After that he asked me what I wanted to do, I said I want to do archery first, than sword fighting, and then arts and crafts. We went to archery and had a lot of fun, Jake thought I was sun of Artemis because I was so good, but then he rethought that and remembered that Artemis swore to never have kids. After that we went to the sword arena and also had a lot of fun, I was really good at that too. After Swords as I said, we went to arts and crafts, I SUCKED AT THAT, the only thing that I was bad at was arts and crafts. Maybe I’m more of a sports guy. Jake brought me to Kade because Jake had a class to go to. Kade was playing volleyball with his satyr friends, I decided to join. It was me, Jordan, and two other satyr’s. We started with the ball and Kade served. He was really good at volleyball, I was pretty good myself. He spiked the ball and scored a point.

It was their ball and they were about to serve, but suddenly something hit me, I got so mad before he served I saw a color full bird was charging at him. A PEACOCK! It jumped on him and I felt sorry at that moment. It was doing the same thing I was, one step forward, one to the left, one to the right back. Did I summon it? It started to talk to me. “Greetings god, I am your animal sent by Hera the all mighty, I come to bring you and tell your story. Tell me, were is Chiron,” I didn’t say anything. Slowly I crept to the big house to Chiron, when I got there, I showed him the peacock. I told him everything that he said and like fifty questions. “Why what a surprise, a greeting from the gods. I have never saw one before. I guess I have to send you on a quest. Kade, and Jake will take you,” said Chiron.     

Some people believe in their own god, everyone’s god could be different. But in some different areas they have multiple, or one god. In a lot of places in Greece, they believe in twelve special gods. Zeus, the god of thunder. Poseidon, the god of the seas and earthquakes. Hades, the god of the dead/underworld. Hera, the queen of the gods. Athena the wise goddess of battle technique. Demeter, the goddess of seasons and food. Apollo, the god of music and the nine muses of the sun. Artemis, the goddess of the hunt/animals. Ares, the god of war. Hephaestus , the god of the forge. Aphrodite, the goddess of love. And Hermes, the god of thieves and much more. They have fables of their sons or daughters that are half-blood, half human half god. For example “Percy Jackson” by Rick Riordon. I definitely recommend this 10 book series to ages 9 and up. Years and years ago, the Greeks made stories and myths, Rick Riordon uses these stores in a modern world. There are also books of all those Greek myths the Greeks made if you want to learn more.

Many things have weaknesses. For example, a shark is weak were its eyes are, its skin strong and sturdy but say you had a gun and shot it in the eye. One reason why it is the sharks weakness is it would seriously injure the shark and two, you could reach the brain from the eye and maybe kill it. But for humans it’s different, yes humans have minor weaknesses like if you broke your arm it would hurt if you put enough pressure on it, there is way more reasons to explain but those weaknesses are different for every person in the world. But there is one weakness that all the 7.53 billion people share. I’ll give you a scenario and see if you can figure out what it is. You are in 7th, you go out to P.E and decide to see how fast your one mile sprint is, you ask your coach to time you. You start running and feel your going really slow and going to get  more than 10 minutes. You come back to your P.E coach excited to see one time you got. “Eight minutes,”Said the coach. Your really bummed that you got eight minutes. Two years later in 9th grade you decide to join the wrestling team. Your coach tells you to get a bunch of cardio in the next few days, you remember the day in seventh grade were you got eight minutes but now in 9th grade you’ve learned more and decided to put more thought into it. That day you go on a mile run and set a timer on your phone. While your running you imagined you were racing the fastest person in the world and beating him by a lot. You get back home from the run and stop your timer. You realize that you got 7.32 minutes. You’re so proud of yourself and tell your whole family. You want to get less time than that so you do the same thing for a weak and it goes down more and more at the end of the week you went down to 6.14 minutes. In this story it’s apparent that the human weakness is its mind. You can achieve anything if you put your mind to it and train yourself. If you attempt to do something difficult and think that you can’t do it, you’re just letting yourself down. Think of something you always wanted to try and have never got to it. Dot that thing and think positive about it, you will do better at it and even if you can’t do it you will be proud of yourself for trying.