Claiming:Camp/Monique Cook

Name: Monique Cook (Or Monica; born in 1900s)

Age: 14 (immortal)

Gender: Female

Godly parent: Astraeus/Patron: Artemis

Mortal Parent: Yasmine Cook† (dead)

Personality: Very shy and quite. Quite intellectual for somebody her age.



Weapons: Pipe that turns into bows and arrows

History:

Yasmine Cook was a astrologist who loved the stars and everything in space. She met a male who was also into astrology and his name was Ian. Ian and Yasmine met every Friday to chat. Then they started to fall for each other and soon that led into their relationship. One day, Ian and Yasmine made love and it ended up with Yasmine getting pregnant. Ian left the next day leaving Yasmine heart broken and depressed. Yasmine then gave birth to Monique. When Monique was five though, Ian (or Astraeus) visited Yasmine (when Monique was in school) to explain who he really was. Yasmine was very happy to see him but almost didn't believe him when he told her that he was a Titan. Astraeus then gave Yasmine a pipe to give to Monique when she gets old enough. After that encounter, Yasmine never saw Astraeus ever again.

Childhood:

Monique is a very shy girl and doesn't speak unless needed to or is forced to. She had a rough childhood, basically raising herself since she was 6. Yasmine provided the necessities for Monique to live but Monique had to teach herself everything like how to wash her clothing and how to work a telephone (the old kind). In school, Monique wasn't the popular one but the most clever one out of everybody in her class and others would make fun of her of being too smart for somebody her age. But Monique had one friend, a girl who was also made fun of because of her appearance: Tracey Trent. Tracey and Monique became best friends and often chatted about their problems and found out they had a lot in common like they only had one parent helping them and strange things happen to them all the time.

Monster attack: When Monique was just 12, she had her first monster attack. She and Tracey were walking to her (Tracey's) home when two harpies attacked them. Tracey pulled out a bronze sword from nowhere and disintegrated them in no time. Tracey and Monique ran back to Tracey's home and Tracey told her everything from greek gods to monsters and even saying there might be a camp for people like them. Monique refused to believe it but right after her second monster attack which was when she was 13, (Tracey battled a hellhound and protected Monique) she then saw that believing her friend was her only option.

At age 14, the number of monster attacks for Tracey and Monique were getting larger and larger. Monique and Tracey had another monster attack at this time. The monster attack took place outside Monique's house and her mother, being a clear sighted mortal, saw the two hellhounds Tracey was battling against. Yasmine grabbed the pipe Astraeus gave to her and ran out the door to give it to her daughter. Monique held the pipe in her hands, not knowing what to do with it, but then, the pipe morphed into bows and arrows. Something Monique can use to fight with. Monique then shot a couple of arrows at the last hellhound Tracey fought against disintegrating it completely. Yasmine then fessed up that she knew who Monique really is and who her father was. Tracey suggested to Monique that they should leave soon to go to the special camp that was made for kids like them. Monique packed her things and left her mother with a bitter goodbye. Tracey and Monique then spent a couple of days looking for camp half-blood and in that time, they ran into the Hunters of Artemis. One of their hunters was cornered by a couple of Empousai (three to be exact). Tracey and Monique helped the hunter by disintegrating all of them and seeing that they helped one of her hunters, Artemis asked them if they would like to join the hunt and told them the price they had to pay if they do join. Tracey did not want to leave the company of men behind and declined Artemis' offer. Monique how ever, happily agreed, knowing she won't ever fall in love and recited the oath of Artemis: "I pledge myself to the Goddess Artemis, turn my back on the company of men, accept eternal maidenhood, and join the hunt." Monique was know a member of the hunters. With their help and guidance, they were able to get to camp but they had a surprise monster attack. 2 cyclopes battled Monique and the hunters and Tracey joined the battle as well, but being weaker than the hunters, she got badly hurt and lost a lot of blood. Tracey was about to die when the hunters disintegrated the last cyclopes. She did eventually and Monique was staring at the death scene in horror of loosing the only person she felt close to. Monique decided not to go to camp right now and followed wherever the hunters went.

Many years passed and during that time, her mother eventually died while she lived on. And the year 2014 came into view. Artemis advised Monique to go to camp but she refused, saying that she doesn't want to be in the presence of men. Artemis promised her that it'll be fine and she reluctantly agreed to go to camp to stay there. Artemis and her hunters escorted Monique to camp where she was claimed by her father and stayed in Artemis' cabin.