Flin's Short Story
By: HestiaAbnegation11
A/N: This takes place six years before the story begins, Flin is 11 and so is Jezebelle!
I yawn as I wake up that morning, glancing around, there is supposed to be a few demi-gods arriving today. I quickly put on an orange Camp Half-Blood t-shirt. I was brought two years ago, and already had two beads on my necklace. The first one is a trident, the symbol of Poseidon, my father, and the second is a hearth, the symbol of Hestia, the first day I encountered her. Making my way towards the Big House for breakfast, I hear screams and shotus. The whole camp gathers toward the entrance. "Wonder what that is about…" Amber, an Apollo girl mutters next to me.
Then I see it, a huge cyclops chasing two kids, one, a girl with a ragged single braid flowing down her back, and another, a tan boy with dark black hair, both running towards the entrance. "Asher, come on!" The girl shouts, as the boy turns back and thrusts a dagger at the cyclops. The whole camp is just standing there. It sickens me, they won't help two kids get to camp. They both look around my age too.
They make it within the barrier of Camp and the archers from the Apollo cabin fire arrows into the cyclops. It falls with a thud, and the girl and the boy hold each other close, as they walk into cam together. "What are your names?" Chiron asks, walking forward, looking at the two of them.
"I'm Asher, and this is Jezebelle," The boy announces, looking at the crowd of people with a little bit of malice. Ares cabin most likely. I am not so sure about the girl, maybe Athena. In that case, I had better stay away.
The crowd is starting to disperse, walking away, but I stand next to Amber, looking at the new recruits. Danielle from the Nemesis cabin is looking at them a little strangely as well, as if she sensed an unbalance or something. "Would someone get these people food and water?" Danielle shouts hoarsely, and I immediately run to get toast and water for them. I hand them to the girl, and she smiles at me. Maybe Aphrodite.
I smile back at her shyly before turning away and walking back to my cabin. I spend most of the rest of the day there, just watching the water ripple through the sand. "Chiron said that you should show me the weapons." I hear a voice from the doorway of my cabin at about 3:00 in the afternoon. I turn back and see Jezebelle standing there.
"All right." I say, and get up. I lead her towards the weapons cache just outside of the cabins, which there were a lot of them now. She follows me silently, and when we get there I hear a little gasp as she takes in all of the swords, knives and bows.
"There's a lot to choose from." Jezebelle says and I nod, and I finger my knife that I chose a few years ago. Along with a trident, of course.
She moves towards the bows and the knives, and she picks up a glowing green knife, and I see that it has the words 'Hebe' on it. "That was once the goddess Hebe's." I say and immediately she drops it, knowing that she probably shouldn't have it. Then she takes in the swords, and tries to lift one. But, it doesn't necessarily get off of the ground, so then she goes back to the bows and picks out a pure white bow with a sheath of arrows.
"Nice choice." I say and Jezebelle grins at me.
"You'll probably get claimed at campfire tonight sometime," I tell her and I can tell that she is relieved, because she is probably being eaten alive with curiosity.
"What cabin are you in?" Jezebelle asks me curiously.
"Poseidon. God of the sea and earthquakes," I inform her and she looks a bit surprised, but then she recovers and nods, like she gets it now.
"I'll see you at campfire then," Jezebelle says, and I smile at her before walking back towards my cabin. I dangle my feet over the edge, as I see the Ares cabin members with the boy from earlier, Asher was it? I feel bad for him, Ares cabin isn't very forgiving. I spend some time watching them, reading a book and swimming before it's time for supper. I only have one other half-sibling named Oceana, and she is a few years older than I am.
"Ready to go, Flin?" She asks me when I am reading a book.
"Sure." I say and we walk together towards the Big House, and I realize that I forgot to eat breakfast this morning. Oops. Oh well. I eat the thing that they call a cheeseburger, though I don't know if it exactly qualifies. I finish quickly and we walk down towards the campfire.
Jezebelle and Asher are standing at the bottom, ready to be chosen, while the rest of us are higher up. "Want to have a bet?" Someone asks me, and it's Adrian from the Ares cabin. I shake my head no and they keep pestering me until Oceana says she'll gut them if they don't go away. She hates them just about as much as I do.
"Welcome heroes, and I would like to introduce Jezebelle and Asher, our two newest students." Chiron says, and then stops as he sees a sign glowing above Asher's head. A book with a sword across it. Athena.
"Athena cabin has gained one more," Chiron says, nodding slightly towards the left of him, and a girl with round glasses stands. She ushers him towards them and sits down. Asher sits on her right, and no doubt he is worried about Jezebelle's result.
A bird glows above her head now, and they are all scared by it. I don't know why. It almost looks like…a peacock. "Hera cabin has gained one." Chiron says, ghostly pale. There are gasps, and mutters and I see the Zeus cabin look at her more, inspecting her. She quickly sits back down, Jezebelle is embarrassed.
"That concludes campfire tonight." Chiron says, and I see people try to shove Jezebelle to the ground, no doubt they don't respect Hera. The Queen of the Gods, it's all snapping back into place now, they all hate her. Especially the Athena cabin and the Zeus cabin. Oceana says to me that she is leaving for a week, she's going to see her family in Trenton, and I nod.
I go back to my cabin, and start to fall asleep when I hear the creaking of boards on the floor. "Flin?" I hear a hesitant voice, and I see Jezebelle standing there, looking at me nervously.
"Yeah?" I say, sitting up in bed.
"Why did they all try to hurt me?" She asks in a small voice, sounding littler than she was.
"Hera is the Queen of the Gods, and this is her first demi-god child ever. Period. Sometimes Hera can be a bit…difficult, so people don't respect her much around here." I tell her and she nods a little bit and sits in a chair beside my bed.
"I wish they would treat me better." Jezebelle says, her hands rubbing together, and I instantly feel sorry for her. I get up, and lead her over to the edge of my cabin, and stretch out my hands. "What are you doing?" She asks.
"Just watch." I say, and water begins to trickle into my hands. I lay my hand on hers, and she shivers as the cold water runs over her arm and then she giggles as it twists onto her neck.
I look at her, really for the first time, she has bright green eyes that come to life as she laughs, a brilliant white smile and pretty golden locks of hair. I know I have just made a life-long friend. "Why am I not getting wet?" She asks, confused for the first time.
"Because when I do this to people, they don't get wet. It's a Poseidon thing," I shrug and she smiles.
"Can I stay here for tonight? There's this freaky statue of Hera in my cabin," I cut her off, I can tell that she is about to start rambling. "Yes, of course."
I grab a few blankets from Oceana's vacant bed and a pillow from mine. I don't know if Oceana would be okay with another person in her bed, so I position both of us onn the floor. I can tell that she wants to say something, but she won't, she's too kind. "You can have my bed, if you want." I tell her and she politely declines. Which leaves us both on the floor. It's like some sleepover, and we are both close to each other as we fall asleep quietly.
A/N: This is the first one-shot, and if you are an avid reader of Falling Stars or The Fallen Star, I would suggest reading this, because it will provide in depth things to each character! I will try to do a lot for all of the characters, there will be A TON of chapters on this. And to IronFistRocks, would you like me to do Danielle's myself, if no one takes her? I would be willing! Thanks everyone who participates! I will think of a prize for the winner…