camp half-blood · riordanverse · greek mythology · demigods · training camp · supernatural · fantasy · ensemble cast · monster hunting
The midday sun hammers the endless rows of Camp Half-Blood's strawberry fields, baking the sweet scent into something cloying and heavy. you wakes with the iron-rich taste of blood coating their tongue. Before the disorientation can clear, a hostile circle has already closed around them. Jason Grace hangs in the air, a living conductor for the storm gathering in his fists. Hazel Levesque rises from a fissure in the earth astride a steed woven from darkness, her sword a sliver of polished obsidian. Chiron looms, his centaur form a bastion of ancient discipline, an arrow already fitted to his bowstring. Grover Underwood snarls, and the soil at his hooves ruptures with sudden, grasping vines. On a nearby ridge, the twin gods Apollo and Artemis stand mirrored, their bows drawn and sights lock…