The Next Generation: The Beginning

Time skip a few weeks.

Mia's POV

After the first week, I started training with Joey and then joined the class/group he was in and I'm getting better, although I'm better than him in archery. I also love to ride the pegasi. The one that now belongs to me, is a jet black mare with golden eyes I named Eclipse. Anyway, this week I'll be participating in my first capture the flag game! I was sitting at the Hades table eating a peach, thinking about who I should be allying with when a girl came over to me.

"Can I sit here?" She didn't seem scared, which was nice, and I nodded.

"My name is Helen Blackstone. I'm from the Hecate cabin." She seems nice, I thought to myself.

"I'm Mia Solace-Di Angelo, Hades cabin." We started talking about our lives, then we got into books, Harry Potter (a mortal series not many people I know have read), music, and our different types of magic. After a while, it looked like a light bulb went off in her head.

"Oh, can my other friends come over?"

"Sure!" I figured if they were friends with her, they couldn't be too bad.

"She gave a thumbs up and three other girls came over. One had wavy black hair and tan skin, the other looked almost Hispanic with darker skin and brown hair and a mischievous glint in her eyes, and the last with honey blond colored hair that was curled around her shoulders with a bounce in her step. I turned my attention to the first one.

"Oh, hey Mia! What's up?"

"Izzy?! What are you doing here?" Helen looked confused.

"Wait, you two know each other?!" I smiled.

"Isabella is my cousin- Her mom, Hazel, is my godmother. But what are you doing here?"

"Yeah, my parents dropped me off here for a bit- they want me to train with you guys for a while."

"Cool, you could stay with me!" The brunette cleared her throat.

"Um, hello! I'm Maya Valdez, Hephaestus cabin."

"And I'm Zoe, Hecate cabin."

"Cool! Nice to meet you." We started talking and we all got to know each other pretty well. After a while, I brought up the Hades thing.

"I actually got kicked out of school for accidentally raising some skeletons from the underworld." Maya's mouth was open.

"You can raise the dead?!" I nodded. I was worried she was going to get scared and leave.

"That. Is. AWESOME!" I let go of a breath I didn't know it was holding. "I wish I could do that. All I can do is build stuff and set things on fire." Her hands lit up in flames on the last words.

"I can shapeshift into animals and raise cursed gems," Izzy said.

"I'm smart and can talk to owls."

"I can do magic," Helen spoke up too. I took a deep breath before speaking.

"I can shadow travel, heal, kill ( which I only know because I killed a flower once), raise the dead, and I can tell if someone dies." Everyone was speechless. We talked for a while more, explaining what we could do. Then we split up- Maya and Isabella have to go unpack. Helen left as well, something about writing a magic book- but we all promised to meet up for pizza in my cabin tonight. I ran to the Hades cabin and cleaned up (how did I pass inspection?). That's when Audrey and Jason came over. Someone knocked on my door.

"Come in!"

"Hey, Lil sis!" Jason loved to call me that because I'm the only one he's older than. He wrapped me in a bear hug from behind, lifting me off the ground.