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(creating blueprint)
Since I have no solid pic yet, allow me to highlight key points!

First off, you have a large pine tree on the hill, only half-bloods can cross into the valley that the camp lies in. About 200 yards from the tree, is a large 3-story blue house, known as the Big House. About 20 yards from that is the dining pavillion. A large forest covers teh sides of the valley and takes up a good portion. In a clearing not far from its edge is a horseshoe shape of semi-large cabins. Each cabin is for an olympian, and each camper is assigned to the Hermes cabin until their olympian parent claims them.

I'm sorry, I will hopefully have at least a rough outline up by tomorrow.

Dain sat next to the mess hall. "Not much to do here right befor the new campers come in," he said to himself. He had a new book and wanted to read it, but sadly he had to practice with his dagger and went to the armory where he could practice.


((do we have any onhand staff?))

Dain fought a three headed dog in the center of the arena. It was one of Cerburus's pups but even at such a young age it was still large. He barly doudged the left head as it bite at him, but what he had not expected was the front right paw comeing up and swating him on the shoulder. It hit him squarely and nocked him to the ground, then the center head bit at him and the left paw slamed down. Thinking quickly he jumped into the beasts mouth right before it bite him. Staying away from the sharp teeth he drew his dagger and stab the roof of the mouth where he estimated where a major nerve was. The beast yelped and he jumped out, lucky to be alive.

Dain's mind was raceing through the many books he had read on dogs, magical and otherwise. It also raced through the books of Chi and inner power. He was skeptic of these things but he also knew they had some merrit.

His right shoulder was bleeding from a small cut from when he was nocked down, but he didn't feel pain, he was focused on winning.

The dog pounced almost as soon as Dain gained his footing, intent on revenge. Dain rushed the beast and caculated where it would land and stood and waited for it to land. Just as it did he ducked under he slashed at the beast's belly. What he needed was a sword, he knew but his dagger would have to do. But in his closed mindedness he didn't gess where the feet would land. After he cut open the dog's belly he stooped down on his left leg, breaking it. The adrinalin suprest the pain but it was still sharp enofe for him to notice and make him yell out in pain.

When the beast lifted its foot and released him he painfully pulled it out of the way of another slam and rolled out of from under and grabed the tail and pulled himself up.


He wasn't doing to well and he knew it would take a mounth to heal and he couldn't finish it this badly hurt. He swalowed his prided and said, "I give. You win mighty pup of the gaurdion of Hades."

He started to limp away towards the nearest exit and the medical tent. A girl around his own age was stand at that exit and he nodded a "hello" to her as him limped by.

Dain smerked and said, "Naa, no need. I just need a splint and I'll be fine." He held his cut shoulder more to stop the bleeding than out of pain. Being injured was nothing new to him. His old life on the streets of New York City has full of such pains.

Smiled and rolled his eyes, amused as he watched the girl get draged away. "Hmm Clear. I'll make sure to remeber that name," he wispered to himself as he walked towards the nurses office. On the way he found some good sticks and made a splint by useing them and rags from his shirt.

Dain nocked on the door to the medical wing of the Big House and a sprit opened the door. "Oh my, looks like Dain is back agian!" she yelled and let him in, "Realy you should be more careful Dain. How many time have you been in here this year alone?"

"About once a month, sometimes more," he replyed smileing.

"Hmm looks like your gana stay out of the arena for al least another month or two."
"Just fix me up then tell me how long."

"All right your the patient"

After that they gave him a cast, some crutchs, and used a salve to heal up the cut faster.

Clear slumped against the tree, crossing her arms and giving her half sister, Kaci, a glare. "You're such a brat, did you know that?" Kaci laughed, but didn't reply, mainly cause of a fight she hadn't seen til now was on the other side of the hill, the side monsters and mortals shouldn't enter, though Heaphestus's golden bulls were terrorizing a few of the Ares campers who were on patrol before Demeter's.

Clear jumped to her feet, now standing beside Kaci, they had patrol alone, but it would be easy for just one of them to take out the two bulls. an unspoken agreement happened, and Kaci tore off for one bull and Clear for the other. "Go!" They both shouted to the Ares campers, who quickly left the fight to the stronger two and ran for the Big House for treatment of injuries. They both had pretty much the same technique, Clear and Kaci, crushing the two bulls with vines they grew from the ground.

Minutes passed as the small fight began to close with the bulls falling to the ground as crushed peices of metal. Kaci's bull had managed to run up behind Clear and send a horn through her side and tearing a large hole through her. In Clear's distraction, the bull she had been fighting tore off in being blind and hit Kaci, pinning her to Thalia's pine trees. But now, both bulls were crushed and in a pile at the base of the hill, and the two injured demeter daughters were leaning against each other, back to back and laughing slightly, "Two hours until the ares kids are supposed to take patrol back, but I think with these injuries, they wouldn't dare keep us out here for two hours." Kaci smiled a toothy grin as she fell to the ground, sppearing to have broken ribs. Clear smiled, dragging Kaci up off the ground and pulling her to the Big House. A few wood nymphs quickly jumped from the forest and took Kaci and Clear's places in patrol for a bit.

Stumbling into the Big house, Kaci and Clear found their way to a few chairs, collapsing into them. Chiron walked up moments later, laughing a bit, "You two, you'll end up dead. the few times I see you in here, you're in worse condition than Dain." Clear coughed, smiling evilly, her light hazelnut locks fell in her eyes. Kaci sighed, leaning against the wall and closing her eyes. "At least we don't come in as often as he does." Clear nodded in agreement, too much pain to speak now. Both Clear and Kaci were handed necter from chiron, who was still shaking his head and muttering that they were foolish half-bloods who would end up dead one day.

Clear was out first, her side bandaged up and her arm in a sling. Clear hadn't even noticed she had shattered her wrist, which was now in a cast, but the now piercing pain though her right side said differently. The pain held tightly to her, even after the ambrosia and necter, and the pain pills didn't even help. Groaning, Clear began to stumble back to her cabin.

Kaci couldn't run, so instead she was gliding across the grass, landing next to her sister with a grin. Both of them had their torsos wrapped up, but you couldn't see the bandageing underneath the bright orange Camp Half-Blood shirt Clear wore and the yellow one Kaci wore. "So, who was that? Sorry to drag you away, but we were already late."

Landing on the edge of the dock over the pond that was in the center of the horseshoe cabin ring, Clear smiled, "It doesn't matter, he's from the Athena cabin, so I doubt I'll be seeing him again." She shrugged, groaning as she moved her arm. Kaci sat down next to her, both of their feet danging in the water. Kaci kicked Clear's shin, somehow untieing the laced-up sandals and the slid off Clear's feet and into the ponds. Both laughed, Clear doing the same to Kaci. Nyriads tossed their shoes back up, the shoes landing on the dock next to the two girls. "Why do you say that? You never know."