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Chapter 1 Annabeth
It was a typical day at camp Half blood cum Jupiter, with the demigods practicing their fighting skills or taking an Ancient Greek or Latin lesson. The Roman demigods were mostly engrossed in the former while the Greeks watched their more- defensive-not-offensive warfare. The sandpits were filled with half bloods and satyrs playing basketball. A duel was going on between Clarisse and a roman demigod in the amphitheatre. The archery range and the main house of Chiron and the praetors was empty as Chiron had gone to Olympus for a few days and Jason was in his Zeus cabin. Lares were drifting about, giving advice to the kids.
Reyna and Rachel were sitting across me, their faces solemn.
"Annabeth, I am afraid the Roman campers aren't happy about staying here near long island sound. We preferred our previous location."
"But all of us are getting along quite well! And didn't we come to a pact Reyna? The families of the generations of campers live there, while we the kids in training live here?"
"Yeah but…"Reyna began, only to be interrupted by Butch, the son of Iris.
"We have been through this many times, Reyna," he said, "Please don't start again."
"Just because you have a proper oracle and Chiron doesn't mean you can…."
Rachel sighed, exasperated. "We campers have to stay united as Zeus said in the previous Demigod meeting if you didn't hear," she said, "And he specified we live in Camp half blood."
Reyna's face was red, but she merely nodded, to my relief. She could get really irritating at times.
Just as we were pulling out a pack of pinochle to play, Percy and Jason entered.
"Hey girls!"
"Hi," Reyna said in a bored tone. "You guys want to play?" She gestured toward the cards.
Percy sat down on a couch next to me. "There have been no prophecies now for months. Camp half blood is getting boring."
Jason nodded. "Just what I was going to say."
"I don't believe it," I said, "We are getting a break and you are craving for quests!"
"Yes," Reyna said, "I too want some excitement."
"Well, even I am starting to feel quite normal," Rachel said, "Almost like I'm not the oracle."
I glanced outside into the sunny afternoon. "Today is June 9. We are just eleven days away from the summer solstice. We also have capture the flag today."
"We are playing in cohorts, right?" Reyna asked.
"Yeah, yeah," I said.
To keep up the roman tradition of playing in cohorts, all of us had been sorted. I was in the first cohort with Piper and Leo. Jason and Percy were in the fifth cohort with Hazel and Frank. Reyna always played referee, which kind of irritated me as it seemed as if she wanted to convey she couldn't play such stupid games.
Anyway, I thought this night was going to be as normal as any other night, but I didn't know how wrong I was. How very wrong I was…
The night was cold and the forest still with a strange eeriness to it. The sky was inky blue and starry. Not a sound was to be heard except for the crunching of the leaves. She couldn't afford to be stealthy now. She had to get it before anyone came to know she was out. Hogwarts gave pretty strict punishments to anyone who ventured out into the forbidden forests (which no one actually did) and that too after midnight. Even with Dumbledore gone, that oaf Hagrid might catch her.
She walked through the rows of oak trees and then into the clearing. Another row of trees marked the entrance to a very dense cover. She walked through it quickly, her heart beating with a crazed, frenzied excitement. Just as she crossed it to reach another clearing, the moon shone on her face, exposing her like a deer caught in a headlight. It was pale and beautiful, almost inhuman. Her long lashes shielded her dark eyes. Her dark brown hair slowly inched its way down her shoulder. There was now a leap in her stride.
The moon captured all of her movements, the steady, joyful, leaps and the self satisfied smile. She finally stopped at a smaller, denser, cluster of trees. Then she knelt down, mad joy lighting up her flawless features. As she rose, her fist was balled. She looked at it with the longing of a poor hungry man at a feast. Then she cheered with joy, insane aura lighting up her face.
"I found the resurrection stone!"
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