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July is Flash Fiction Month! I’ll be sharing short short stories here through the month of July. More notes at the end of the story.
There’s always a stir when a new camper arrives, and for a long time Annabeth, Thalia, and Luke’s grand entrance to Camp Half-Blood was the most exciting thing to ever happen. Then this Percy Jackson kid showed up.
New arrivals are always exciting, and there was a lot of speculation about who Percy really was. He settled in the Hermes cabin with the rest of us for a while, but we would gossip about him whenever he was out of sight.
“Did you see what he did to the bathrooms? He’s probably Posedien’s son,” I said.
My friend Dani scoffed. “Come on. You know the Big Three can’t have kids anymore.”
Then, when he, Annabeth, and Grover all went off on their quest for the stolen Master Bolt, I had a hunch they were going in the wrong direction. Hermes was the god of thieves, after all. It would make sense that he had some hand in this. “What if it was someone from our cabin?” I suggested. “I like Luke, but he’s got a chip on his shoulder and he’s crafty enough to do it.”
“Gods,” Dani sighed. “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard, Cassandra.”
IYKYK.
For those who don’t know: In Greek mythology, Cassandra was cursed by Apollo to give true prophecies, but no one would believe her. I’ve since been converted to a Percy Jackson fan, and thought it would be funny to have Cassandra as a camper. I thought about doing a vignette for each book in the first series, but it would all be kind of the same: “I bet that at least part of the Great Prophecy is about Luke.”
“Oh my gods, Cassandra, you’re such a liar.”
Overlooked Books 
Interesting. I’ve never read the Percy Jackson books. But I hear they must be good; there sure are a lot of fans for it. Rick Riordan must be doing something right. 🙂
I like how you incorporated the Cassandra myth in here. Must be horrible to constantly speak truth and not be believed.
I saw a comic, once, where she figured out a way around this: She told people that Apollo would satisfy a woman that night, and the people brushed it off, denying it as true. That made Apollo embarrassed. LOL!
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I’d read the first one a few years ago and decided it wasn’t for me. Then last year I binge read the first five for work-related reasons and actually really enjoyed them.
I almost added a little bit about Cassandra and an Apollo camper being weird around each other but not knowing why, but I didn’t want to dilute the humor too much.
I remember that comic! Nailed it. Cassandra.
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Ooooo, I love seeing flash fan-fiction being posted, it’s always so fun, especially when I remember some of the source material. Funnily enough, I used to eat through the Heroes of Olympus books when I was younger, and for some reason never got the idea to go back and read the original Percy Jackson series, lol. But this is really nice! I like the idea of a character whose not participating in the main events of the story commenting on them from the side. Nice use of the Cassandra mythos here, though I do feel bad for her, I couldn’t imagine being in her shoes. Poor Cassandra. Nice work!
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Thanks! I haven’t read any of the other books in the series yet.
Of course, now I’m thinking about other Cassandra stories…probably with her growing more and more exasperated until she declares herself the next Big Bad. Of course, no one believes her.
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this is excellent! I wish I remembered these books better. I read the entire series in college, I think, my brother was the perfect age for Percy Jackson.
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Oh, poor Cassandra!
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