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The Amelia files
This has not been an average day. Amelia thought as she screamed for her little sister to run, dragging a knocked out crazy goat lady up a hill to safety, or at least I hoped.
"RUN KATY!"I screamed, tugging Harriet's unconscious body away from the hydra that was trying to kill them. It was tearing at the plant blindfolds Harriet had summoned using wilderness magic, trying to slow it down. The last of the ivy was torn away and it spotted me. I screamed and pulled, but it was as if I was pulling a bag of cement bricks. I closed my eyes, waiting for the end, but it never came. I slowly opened an eye. The hydra had dozens of arrows sticking out of its chest, legs and neck(s). It disintegrated into a yellow dust that blew away in the breeze. On the hill the archers that had killed the hydra stood, one holding Katy. Despite my emotional and physical exhaustion, I ran up the hill and kicked the blonde girl that was holding my precious little sister.
"OOOOOWWWWWW! WHAT ON OLYMPUS WAS THAT FOR!?"The girl said, setting Katy down and inspected her knee, then looked at me. Her grey eyes widened.
"Bianca?! You're alive!"the girl said, then hugged me. Hugged me. "how is this possible? You were killed-"
"Ummm…Blonde girl? I'm not Bianca, whoever she is. I'm Amelia Rossi. And that is my sister you were holding!"The girl quickly let go and looked at me.
"So is that why you kicked me Bia-Amelia? Are you sure your name is Amelia? You sure look a lot like Bianca."My name is Annabeth."
'Yah. I have been Amelia for 14 years. Where am I anyway? The last thing I remember was a fricking hydra crushing Harriet's car and nearly KILLING ME AND MY SISTER!"
"Calm down! You are fine now, thanks to the Apollo cabin." she turned around and introduced me to a blonde haired kid standing behind her. "This is Will Solace from cabin 7, the Apollo cabin-"Annabeth started, but I cut her off.
"You have said the Apollo cabin twice now. What is an Apollo cabin is this a sick joke or something? Are you all in on Harriet's joke? And Katy, get over here! I don't want you to be kidnapped by these psychopaths!"
"Amelia, this may sound crazy, but it is the truth. The god and goddesses are real. You know, the ones in your old mythology textbooks? They are real, and are now in America. The only way you and your sister could of gotten past the camp boundaries is if you were half bloods, a child o the Olympian gods. This isn't a prank or a joke. Your mom or dad is one of the Olympians. And I am not a psychopath, neither is anyone here." she said, and looked at me, as if to see how I would react.
But I didn't scream or cry or kick her again or do anything like that I just stood there, one hand gripping the back of Katy's shirt, in shock.
"Seriously? You're not kidding are you? This has gone way too far to be a joke, and you would have to be some pretty sick people to lie to a little five year old."
"Nope. I am totally serious. Soon your godly parent will claim you; even if you are to old…my mom is Athena, goddess of wisdom and battle. And will here's dad is Apollo. Bianca,-sorry, Amelia-which parent do you live with?"
"Well…. I don't know Katy lives with her mom and dad, and… I thought they were my real parents until, on my 13th birthday, they told me they adopted me.-"I said ,and for no reason, started to cry right then and there. Annabeth just stared, and Katy clung to my leg. After a minute of crying, I pulled myself together. Don't show weakness in front of Katy. Be strong. My mind said. I pulled myself together and wiped my tears, and then realized twenty people were staring at me like idiots. Talk about embarrassing. I realized all the kids were wearing the same orange t-shirt with the words Camp Half-Blood printed on them, though some accessorized it with anything from jeans to a maxi skirt. And …was that a knife?!
"Ok Amelia…let's get you and Katy to cabin 11. Will, will you escort them? I need to get Harriet to a healer, maybe to get some ambrosia." she left and Will smiled.
"Come on. I will get you guys settled down." he said "come back here Katy!" he yelled, and ran down the hill.
Wait…how did Katy get loose?! I never took my hand off her the whole time! I looked down to see her shirt in my hand. That sly dog! She must have used my crying as a distraction to escape! But that means….she has no shirt on! And I ran d own the hill after her.
*SCENE CHANGE*
"What was that for? You scared me half to death!" I scolded her once will and I finally caught up and put her shirt back on. Luckily no one saw her shirtless, but then again she is only five.
"Dwid you swee all da fun stuff? Swee all the pwetty strawberries? i want some! They look yummy!"She said.
"What? Oh.. Wow."I said. A sprawling field of strawberries stood before us, shining red in the sunlight. When the field of strawberries ended, a horse stable stood. Beautiful horses…..hold on a second….those were not horses-those were pegasi! Two campers were leading a regal spotted one and a pure white one out of their stalls.
"Alright…now that we have that under control, we had better head over to cabin 11, they will be expecting us." Will said as I slowly drew my eyes away from the majestic creatures.
"Yah…. Let's get going."
I needed about twenty more eyes to see everything. As we walked to cabin 11, we passed a volleyball pit (not all that interesting) an armory, the camp's store, a working forge (interesting….and dangerous. Kinda like this whole camp. And the people in it.) And a battle arena (as I said before, dangerous).before we finally got to a circle of buildings that I assumed were the cabins, but they were all so different looking. One looked like it was carved out of sea stone; one looked like a madhouse, music blaring and a stuffed boars head hanging over it. Instead of walking into any of those, will lead us into what looked like a normal cabin, brown paint ,made of wood, even with a weird staff hanging over it, it was regular compared to the cabin next to it, which looked like one of the forges we had just walked by. It was made of brick and had several smokestacks sticking out of the top. We entered a room of about 17 kids sitting around, playing cards, throwing darts at a dartboard, and one was even squirting chocolate syrup into a shampoo bottle.
"Hey Caroline? Cristina? This is Amelia and Katy, get them settled." Will said.
Two girls set down their hands and got of their bed. One had long blonde curly hair that was pulled back in a ponytail, but was so long her curls reached down to her waist. she also had strange eyes, a mixture of grey green and yellow.
The other girl had shoulder length red hair and deep brown eyes, yet wild, as if she were ready to pants me in a moment's notice.
'Suuuuure Will." The blonde said. "Regular or undetermined?"
"Undetermined for now Caroline, but soon, hopefully, she won't be."Will replied, eyes shifting nervously at all the kids not staring at him.
"Oh. That's cool. I'm Cristina and this is Caroline. And you had better not be looking at my cards Jacob Clark!" redhead said to a blonde boy looking sheepish on the top bunk.
"Sorry Cristina." he said, and set her hand back down
"Sorry you did it, or sorry you got caught?" she snapped back at him, then caught my eye.
"You are undetermined? That's cool. So, which one of you is Amelia?"Cristina asked.
"That would be me." I said.
"OK….hi Amelia. Can you room underneath Connor Stoll over there, he is the one putting chocolate syrup in….wait…...is that my shampoo bottle?! CONNOR!"
Connor quickly hid the bottle behind his back.
"What are you talking about Cristina? This is-"he brought out the bottle from behind his back.
"OK, fine, you caught me."
"Are you still mad at me for winning that game of Uno?
"Yes! You totally cheated! You had a green nine, not a blue nine!"He shot at her.
Instead of being ashamed of being caught cheating, she fired back with
"Yah! I did! But I caught you cheating five times, and that's just when I caught you!"
This continued for a little while until Caroline tapped her on the shoulder.
"Ummmmmm…. Cristina? Two new campers? Undetermined? Waiting to be given beds?"
She looked at us and blinked.
"Oh yah! sorry! This isn't over Connor, but I need to place these two."" Amelia, you can go to the bottom bunk over there-"she pointed to a bed in the far corner of the room."-and little Katy over here-"she smiled at Katy "can sleep with me for now."
"Cristina? Actually, can i-"I started, but Cristina cut me off.
"No questions or complaints? Good. Go ahead and get settled, because I have a card game to win. Caroline will get you two camp T-shirts, then you can shower and hit the sack after you meet Chiron." And with that she went back to her bed, hitting Jacob for looking at her cards again.
"Oh! Caroline! Before you leave, get them some toiletries to. And get Katy a little blankie or something."
Caroline nodded and left. A bucket of cold water splashed all over her head
"SSSSSSSSSQQQQQQQQQQQQQQUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEEE!" she squealed, and a boy who looked identical to Connor ran in.
"CONNOR! TRAVIS! I WILL GET YOU FOR THIS!"
Connor and his twin (whom I assumed was Travis) gave her a fluffy brown towel.
"Sorry Caroline. I meant that one for Cristina, but here, go ahead and dry off." one of the boys said(Connor? Travis?) And handed the towel to her. Caroline took it and started to dry her face off, then screamed and threw the towel at them, and both boys erupted in laughter. Her face was now covered in a brown goo.
"EEWWWW!" IS THIS…. CHOCLATE SYRUP IN THE TOWEL?! I WILL GET YOU…..but for now-"she wiped some of it off her face and licked it-"I will just settle for eating this." And walked casually out the door, her face still covered in the stuff.
The entire cabin erupted in laughter, even Cristina and Katy. I have to admit it was kinda funny.I sat down on my bed tentatively. If I was sleeping below a prankster of this level, I had better watch out.
*SCENE CHANGE*
"I wanna live in da barbie house Amewlia! Can i? can i? Pweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze? Katy begged,jumping up and down, tugging on my arm and giving me bambi eyes.
"No is Aphrodite's cabin. Unless you get claimed by her, you are not allowed to go in, much less live there."I told her. We had just met with Chiron. When he showed us his true form, his centaur form,I just stared. But katy, being five and obsesses with Barbie and my little pony,get this, sequealed and asked for a pony ride. Way to go immortal centaur, asks for a pony ride. Check that off your bucket list. But luckily Chiron was cool about it and just laughed, then told us to hurry to dinner or our food would get had to walk back through the cabin circle, so naturally katy has to point out everything.
"AWWWW!Cain I be in that one then?"katy said, and pointed to one covered in peacockes. "Barbie Island Princess has a peacock. I wanna live there!"
"No! Katy! We are going to miss dinner at this rate, so hurry your little butt along or we are both gonna starve!"
Katy looked at me an filled her eyes with (totally fake) tears that reflected in the moonlight. That is what she does,start to fake cry,say a few tings, and bam!gets whatever she wants. it seems like im the only one who can say like I am the only one who can resist her fake it was a new barbie dreamhouse or the newest equestria girls movie, she got whatever she wanted.
"Come on!"I grabbed her wrist and finally got her to dinner. I looked around for anyone I recognised.
"Hey Katy! Amelia! Over here!"
I looked around and saw Cristina and Caroline waving at us from across the room. omehow with the table being so crowded and us being at least half an hour late,Katy and I managed to find two seats right next to each sitting infront of me,and caroline right beside her.
"Fanks Cwistinia!" katy said, smiling.
"Yah,your welcome! i was the one who reminded you wouldve had to eat on the floor! Caroliine said, clearly still upset from the whole water-dumped-on-head-and-chocolate-towel-thing.
"Fanks Car-o-line!be happy!dey are seaving chwicken today,my favite!"katy said, and seaved herself at least five jumbo-sized pieces of chicken.
Even though I was thinking 'how is she suppost to be happy?she just got pranked-twice!-and humiliated infront of her entire miracualasly,as dinner went on,her mood seeemed to lighten, just because my five-year-old little sister told her to.
"Hey Cristina?do you see anymore green beans anywhere?" I asked, not seeing looked around for a bit then said,"nope. Ask the Hesphastus cabin,right behind you.i see at least two platters of them behind you, and I am not even looking hard."
So I turned around and asked for girl I asked,Nyssa,was cool and gave me a platter of them.
"Thanks!"
"Your welcome." She said, and continued her argument with a fellow cabinmate about which technique was the best to get a stronger sword, dip and swirl method,or just dip? when a strong hand gripped my shoulder. A boy was standing hair was black,kinda like mine. His eyes were just like mine to….and his slin tone was the exact same…..who was this kid?!
"Bianca? you are alive? I have missed you so much!"he said
"uhhh….sorry to burst your bubble, but I am not who are you, and why do you look so much like me? Are you my older brother lost at birth? because from whati have heard today, that wouldn't be all that surprising."
The boy just stared at me.
" telling me you are not Bianca?"the boy said.
"Uh…no. My name is I have never seen you before in my lfe." I said."who are you anyway?" I asked him.
"I'm your brother! Nico! Dont you remember me?" he said,desperationcreeping into his voice.
"No. as I said before, I have never seen you before in my life."
By now the entire room was staring at us silent, watching this go down. some people gasped once they got a good look at me,some shook their neibors and pointed at me, one dude even passed out.
"I don't belive it." Nico said, and dissapeared into shadow.i turned back around in my seat and continued eating slowly but surely,the talking started back up and things returned to normal.who was that kid anyway? why does he look so much like me?
"Who was that kid? I asked Cristina,whose mouth was frozen in a perfect "0"
"Well,"Cristina said, snapping out of her frozen-like state"That's Nico, son of Hades. He's kinda a loner after what happened to his sister." She said.
"OK, ill bite. What happened to her?" I asked
"Well…I heard from Caroline who heard from Angel who heard from a styr who heard from-"
"OK! I get it! What happened to her?"I said, practically yelling
"I heard from Tyler-"
"OH MY GODS ON OLYMPUS! JUST TELL HER!" Caroline yelled, drawing stares."I mean….. just tell her Cristina."
" you want me to tell her so bad-"
"I could of told her eighteen times by now, just tell her!"
"If you think you can tell it better than me-"
"What are you guys talking about?"katy said, her mouth full of chicken.
"Well, cutie, we were just going to tell her about-"suddenly her voice stopped working,all of a sudden. Her mouth was still moving, forming words, but no sound was coming out. She stopped, seeing the coufused look on my face and asked me"whats wrong?"
"I don't know. All of a sudden your voice stopped working."
"Huh? What are you talking about?"
"Nevermind."
"Alright up, and the next person to talk will be turned ionto a dolphin. Amy and Katherine Loser just go here and all that, now run of to that stupid campfire."
"That dude said our names wrong" I told Cristina as I walked down to the campfire, one hand gripping the back of Katy's XXXS Camp Half-blood Katy, you have to keep an eye(or hand) on her 24/7or she will shoot off to wherever and never see her again. MASSIVE ADHD in that child.
"Yah, its ok, Mr.D gets everyone's name lets hurry down to the campfire, its Kareoke Friday today,normally all the Apollo kids do it, but Caroline and I are singing "I know places" by Taylor Swift.I am doing the main part,caroline is the echo. Even though Taylor Swift is Apollo's kid,I love love LOVE her music. Did you Justin Beiber is the son of-"
"Ok Cristina!I swear! You have the biggest motor mouth I have ever met! Slow down!" I said.
"Sorry!"
"Oohh! pretty pwink fire! Can I twoch it?" katy siad, pulling agaist my iorn grip on her shirt.
"NO! lets sit down, OK Katy? I said, and yanked her down onto a bench. We roasted marshmallows,sang karaoke,(Caroline and Cristina got second place for their performance, two Apollo kids won)and things started to calm down a little bit,I mean, how calm can things be when you have kids lobbing burnt marshmallows at each other and cristina and caroline complining that they totally deserved to win.
"Yah. Your preformance was way better than Haylee's and Saige's!" I said, my mind not totally focused on the conversaiton. Something was wrong, and I knew it. But what? I was forgetting something.WHERE WAS KATY?!
"KATY?!WHERE ARE YOU?!" I yelled above the I saw her, teeterinng on a pile of stones, putting her hand out twards the fire,now a glowing gold.
"NO! KATY! GET AWAY FROM THERE! YOUR GONNA FALL IN AND DIE!"
"No I'm not Amewlia,see?" she said, wiggleing her toes and smiling.
"Ok,just-get away from there. I don't want you to get hurt." I said, my heart still pounding.
"OK!" Katy said and her foot slipped -just the tintest bit- but she fell back twards the fire! She was going to be burned alive!
"NO! KATY!"I screamed.I closed my was dead. Killed by a magic fire. Of all the things she could of died form, that was it. Not hit by a car or did of sickness after living a happy life, but a pink fire."killed by a magical golden fire" her tombstone would say,if there was anything left of her body to bury.
"Amelia? You….youve been claimed!" Cristina said.
"it doesn't matter." I siad."Katy is dead."
"no-she isnt! You saved her!...somehow."she said.
I opened my was still alive! An invisible barrier of-air?magic?( I am assuming the second one)-protecting her. Campers gasped.
"How?" was all I could stutter stepped forward as all the campers bowed.
"Hail Amelia Rossi, daughter of of magic, witchcraft,the crossraods,lady of the mist."Chiron said as katy slid down the barrier,and it promptly vanished as soon as both of her little feet hit the ground.
"Huh?" I said, bewildered. My mom is Heacte?!"
"Yah Amwelia! And you look pwetty! Like a dark princess from Barbie!"
"I do not-"I started, then looked down at myswelf. I had on a long scarlet dresson, reaching down to her feet. A golden sash with a key was tied aroung my waist. My hair was pulled into a pretty bun, sort ringlets framing my later told me my it was held inplace by a circlet of gold with the symbol of Heacte stamped on it. I don't know how to describe it-just pull up another window and look it up. It's the weird maze-ish looking one. you cant miss it.-
The same symbol hovered above my head, casting a firey glow on the said
"Cool!You're Heacte kid! Shame.'Could have been in the best cabin ever!"
"Ours!"Cristina and Caroline said in synch.
"Congrations on the claiming. Look, in about five minutes it will be time to go to bed, so you can get-"Chiron started, appering suddenly by our sides, but was cut off by a collective gasp,then everyone bowing. I turned around to see who had been-
"KATY! GIVE THOSE CLOTHES BACK!" I YELLED. Katy to had had her clothes transformed. No wearing a beautiful blue and pink gown, her once snarled,knotted mess of hair was now pulled into a single ponytail,held inplace by a crystal was she waering….makeup?!Pretty shimmery lip gloss reflected the fires glow,with slight pink and blue eyeshadow and blush be honest, I don't know what was more surprising,Katy being claimed by Aphrodite, or well…Katy being claimed by has never been clean for longer than 30 seconds in her life!but then again, that explains her facination with Barbie.
Cristina yanked my hand and said "Bow!"
"No way am I bowing to a five year old!" I protested, but she yanked me down into kneeling position anyway.
"My mum is Barbie?best. day. ever! Katy yelled.
"Actually, Katy, your mom is Aphrodite, lady of the doves, godess of love."
"AWWWWWW! I want to be a barbie girl, like the song!" she pouted, and everyone laughed and got back to their feet.
"Off to your cabins!" Chiron shouted, and everyone started to head back to their cabins. Unsure of where to go,I just stood there.
"Hey Amelia!My name is Lou Ellen, Councellor of Cabin 20. You will be rooming with us!"she said.
"OK! Cool, but…..where is Katy? I swear, that child is like a-"I started, and Lou Ellen said over the noise;
"The kids in Cabin 10 will watch 's your sister right? "
"Yah. I thought she was my full sister-"
"-But since she has been claimed by Aphrodite, you guys are only half sisters."
"Yah."I replied, and we walked in silence untill we came upon cabin twenty.
It looked like a reguer cabin, but instead the walls were made of stone brick. The grey block that made up its walls and had magical inscriptions all over them. Hyroglifics, runes, encantments and spells were inscribed all over them in many more languages than I could count.
"I heard that if the blcks were dropped, they would explode, causing anyone in a half mile radius to be turned into a tree. Never seen it happen it happened once, but those are only roumors."Lou Ellen siad."Everyone is alredy lets get you into a new change of clothes. You must be freezing in that dress."
"Sure,thanks"and we walked in.
The inside of the Heacte cabin was more unusual that the outside. Everything waws black. Balck walls,black sheents, black pillowcases,the whole room was mostly black, exept for the dark brown dressers, cabnets and bookshelves that dotted the room. Black onyx chandeliers gave off a soft glow, casting shoadows across the room. It seemed very the kids in the cabin had wrapped strands of christmas lights around the bunckbeds, and hung up colorful magazine cutouts of their favorite actors and singers, even seeing the occasional personal photos, some with parents,some neer national land marks, and most were with frieands. Do- it -yourself strips, photos, and polariods(the taylor swift thing must of caught on) hung alongside were two boys throwing a football back and forth between the girls were in their dressers,getting out their nightclothes and toiletries.
"I call first shower!" one girl yelled. She had darker skin,mexican or lation,maybe even caucasion(if I would have to guess)and short black hair,pin straight.
"No way Abigail. You had it first the day bafore. Its my turn!"A blonde girl said, super-curly curls frached down to her when she turned around to yell at her some more, I could see the frekles that dotted her face and her peircing blue eyes.
" way!Its been two days since I got first shower my turn!"rred hair, brown eyes said,then muttered something under her breath I couldn't hear, and suddenlly a water cup that had been sitting oun Reagan's nightstand floated up in the air and promptly dumped all over her head.
"SHANNEN!I WILL GET YOU! COME BACK HERE!"Reagan yelled and started to chase her around the room.
"Calm down children! Reagan then Abigail,then Shannen for her behavior. Is this how you act around new cabinmates?"Lou Ellen said.
"Oh. Hi Amelia. I'mAbigail, and those two idiots are Shannen and black haired girl said.
"I am not an idiot! You are just jelous I got first shower."Reagan siad, dripping on the polished wood floor. Then ran out the door to go to the bathhouse.
"OK Amelia. Lets can choose where ever you want. With only five of us,well, six now, we have tons of only thing we don't have enough of is then again, the Hermes cabin is worst off. They have ,like, twenty kids of something. By the tenth the water must be freezing."Lou Ellen said.
I chose to sleep in my own bed, on the top bunk. Lou Ellen had her own bed, so did Abigail. The two boys and Shannen and Reagan were the only ones who shared. Why? I have no idea. There were three open bunks with nobody in them.
" I will take my shower first,"one boy had short cropped,pale blonde hair and green eyes. Sorta like a kind Draco Malfoy look.(If that was even possible)
"Sure Toby." The scond boy soid, shaggy reddish hair and brown eyes, kind of scrawny looking, like he only eats one meal a day."I got first shower yesterday, so you can go ahead."(that was going to be the first and last kind thing I ever would hear come out of his mouth.)
"See?See girls? The boys are getting allong, why can you not be more like them?"Lou Ellen more like a boy?! I never thougt those words said in my lifetime.
"Suuuuuure Lou Ellen. Whatever"
*SCENE CHANGE*
"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING EVERYONE!" Lou Ellen said loudly.
An even louder response greeted her."UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!"
These were not morning least we had something in common, besides the fact our mothers were an immortal godess.
"Now?! I juz wana sleep." I said, putting a pillow over my head. Suddenly, fell staright through the matress of the top bunk and landed with a sproing on the bottom bunk, heart racing.
"Whodidthat!"I said stupidly, eyes wide.
"I did, you had better get up!We have a lot to do today! Pegasus riding at 11:00 and the blob 2-4, and capture the flag today, so make ure to put on some sunscreen or somethin'. breakfast and cabin inspection at eight, so clean it up!Make it tidy!"Lou Ellen said, and the rest of the cabin graoned like the walking dead ready to eat someone's brains.
*SCENE CHANGE*
When we got to the dining pavilion, most of the cabins were there alredy. Cristina and Caroline waved as I sat down at my two pancakes and a few pieces of bacon,I got up and went to go see how Katy was doing.
"AWWWW!You are so cute!" one girl called to Katy.
"Yah!" another girl replied "So cute!"
(I would come to know these two as Anoying Girl One and Anoying Girl Two.)
"Hey Katy!" I said, Then turned to the girl whom I assumed was the councellor, because she was sitting at the head of the table.
"Did Katy sleep ok? Has she been acting apropriately? Has she eaten enough? Make sure someone has an eye on her at all times because-"
"Katy has been great! Are you her sister'Amwelia'? She talkes about you all the seems to adore her!"the councellor said, smiling.
"Really?"
"Yah! The only problem was a minor issue when she woke up Drew at three in the morning, playing on her video game in the bathroom, but besides that, she has been great! And did you know she has charmspeak?" the councellor said.
"No! I have no idea what it is, much less my little sister has it."
"Basically,it is a type of hypnotism that allows the speaker to convince someone else to do or get whatever they want, if you want a dictionary definition."
"Oh!Ok, what was you name again?"
"Piper. Piper McLean."
Thanks, I said, my mind spinning. Katy has never owned a video what was she doing in the bathroom at three in the morning?!
*SCENE CHANGE*
"Off you go!"Chiron said, and everyone got up and started to get together with their cabins,Then set of to wherever their first activity was. Everyone,including myself,in the Heacte cabin started to mave towards the exit,but Lou Ellen told everyone but myself to head down to master archery(and if I hear one compaint about how Toby shot someone again, or that Shannen refused to pick up a bow because it was to 'dirty'I will make everyone run ten laps around the arena!) while Lou Ellen and I were going to pick out a weapon from the armory.
*SCENE CHANGE*
"How about this one?"
"No. Not my style."
"This one?"
"No way. That looks way to heavy! I would fall over!"
Lou Ellen and I had been at this for an hour. No weapon stood out to me, not even an old knife or dagger sitting in the corner, buried under a layer of dust.
"Maybe this one?" Lou Ellen said hopefully, holding up a battle ax.
"Nope"
"OK Amelia. You are to dang picky!"
"I know!I know!"I said, was this so difficult?!"I'm isn't one that really stands out to me!"
OK. Lets look for a few more minutes, then try again tommorow."she said
After five more minutes of 'No Nope No ways'we started to head down to the cabin circle.
"uhhhh….Lou Ellen? the rest of of the cabin is at the archery range. Which is that is that way." I said, and pointed southeast.
"I know." She said.
The rest of the walk was in disturbed by by Lou Ellen telling two boys from the Ares cabin that if they were going to that poor kid, do it in the battle arena! Then we got back to the cabin, she led me to a patch of wall.
"okaaaaaay….i am standing in front of a wall…." I said and my voice traled off. Lou Ellen had opened up a secret door, an entrance into what seemed like another world, like Lucy going into the wardrobe and going into Narnia. I had entered a large cone-shaped dome, celing made of glass in intricate patterns, sending the images casting down to the wooden floor. Beautiful cases linde the walls, reaching higher then io could see. A large round table heald crystals of all sorts of shapes and sizes, the largest being a ruby the size of my head, the smallest a sapphire the size of my pinkie.
"Amazing." Why had I not gone in here sooner? This place was breathtaking.
"Cool isn't it?" Lou Ellen said."It seems more beautiful each time I come in there." She said. "A spell was cast so that no one could see this place. Only those who have been claimed by Heacte can enter and see the room for what it truly someone else manged to find the secret door, all they would find was a storage closet full of pipes and and old gis gis charms." She said.
"But the true reason I brought you in here was to figure out what branch of magic you will follow in your studies at Camp Half and Reagan have Purple magic. They are relly good at making potions and has blue magic, so she has controll over water,but not as well as a child of Poisidon could. Alex and I have red magic. Most dangerous typs, besides necromancing-and-death branch of magic. Red magic is fire and are other types, but are more rare.
"Ok- here we are. Follow me."she said, clutching a back velvet bag emblazoned with the symbol of Heacte, the one that appeared on my head only last night.(Dang. Seemed like forever ago)Lou Ellen lead me up a flight of steps, and the only thing keeping me from falling was a thin metal bar the with of my finger the most safe railing on he planet. Once we got to the top, I thought, if I thought downstairs was amazing, this tops that by 1000%. The beutifully etched glass floor was the most amazing thing and scary thing I had ever seen (I had an incidet in third grade, I fell of the roof of my school, four floors up. I broke both arms and a leg. The only good thing that came out of that was I didn't have to write 'I will not jump of the school roof again' three hundred times, the schools usual punishment for wrongdoings.) but Lou Ellen assured me that it would never break, but I wasn't so was setting up a circle shaped table, a small sliver cut out for an entrance. And placing what looked like orbs of colored glass evenly placed apart so the light caught each of the orbs perfectly, sending shards of colored light across the room. There were five of them. The first was purple, inside was a book with a test tube printed on it. The second was white. There was no image, just a white mist floating around in it. The third was a black one with the image of a dark purple skull with black mist seeping . I hope I am not chosen for that branch of was a turqouise sphere with a clear glittery liguid linside, sorta like a snow globe. A magic snowglobe.I want one.the last one was red orange and yellow, colors shifting and changing like the lava in a lava the last orb was set in its correct spot Lou Ellen said
"Alrighty. If I did this right, all you have to do is close your eyes and spin around once or twice, then bam! You are done!"
"Is it going to hurt?"
" long as I did it right, it should be absolutely painless."
"Whenever you are ready." She said,"Remember turn clockwise!"
So I happened the first time around, nor second, but on the third a sound like rain hitting a roof filled the room,and I opened my eyes. I was facing the white orb, which was now glowing and levitating above the table.
"The orb of the mist has claimed you, which is the first we have ever had in the history of the Heacte cabin. there hasn't been another white magician, so no one will be able to teach you. Sorry about that."
"Its fine! I learn better by reading , who it the mist?" I asked.
"The mist is a what,not a is what sheilds the mortals from seeing how things truly stead of a chimera, they see a chiwawa. Intstead of a hellhound, they see a poodle. Don't ask me how it works. It depends on the mortal, but it sure is usefull!"
"What else do I learn?"
"Well, I read a white magic book thinking it was a red magic book, but you can learn things llike transportation, creating illusions,and shapeshifting. And those are just a few!" she said.
"Is that how you made me fall throught the bed this morning?"
"Something like though I use red magic,(the type of magic depends on the color of the orb that chose you) I still learned bits of magic from the other types. The orbs are called the Mageia, which drectly transletes from greek to 'Magic' in english. But you cannot begin your traning untill you have chosen your enhancement crystal. After that we have Pegasus riding at 11, so I figure you don't want to miss that."
"Yah, I don' are enhancement crystals?Do I have to go through another magical trial I have to go through?"
"Nope. Just pick out a jem from downstairs that you like, and I will fashion it into a anklet of necklace or however you want like jewlery shopping. Staffs also work, but are a pain to carry around."
"Seems easy enough."
And it was. Ten minutes later Lou Ellen and I started to walk down to the pegasus stables to meet the rest of the cabin, my new necklace hanging from my was an everchanging blue. You could blinck, and swear it was more green a second ago.
When we got to the stables, the rest of the cabin was there, admiringmy new necklace, and showing me their bracelets and anklets and necklaces, some more worn and beat up than others. After a little while, I managed to tear away from Shannen, mesmerized by the everchanging color, and went to see Katy.
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