Noel Likiki

In the Near Future

I sat down in front of the younger campers. It was a night where they were restless. Tucker, a 5 year old son of Ares, sat on my lap. They wanted me to tell a story. I had the perfect one in mind. I hushed the children and started my story. "I was miserable. My best friend, Lina, had just gone on a quest and died. Her body was brought back by her father, Hermes, and we set her shrine, a blue embroidered with electric blue birds with a cadeceus in the middle, on fire. Now it was Valentine's Day, her favorite holiday. She loved the feeling of love in the air. But i wasnt feeling it. Thinking about her...I couldn't without breaking down. Lina was my best friend. We did absoloutly everything together. Now, maybe i should stop talking about her. It's getting me emotional. I'll tell you what I did that first Valentine's Day without her..."

Valentine's Day, 2013

I stood up, putting on my camp shirt and a pair of jeans. I was a year round camper. I walked outside, my sword on my hip. It was only a week after Lina was killed. I wiped off my eyes and put my chin up. I gripped her necklace which Chiron gave me, a leather band with an electric blue bead. Blue was her favorite color. I walked over to the small river in the camp and soaked my feet, sitting on a large rock. "hi there!"

i jumped and turned. There was a boy my age with brown hair and beautiful blue eyes standing there. "um...hi. who... who are you?"

"Zach Erikson. Son of Soter."

"god of safety?"

"yep. and who might you be? im guessing a child of Aphrodite?" Zach had a gleam in his eye like he was saying something within that.

"uh... no..Im Noel Likiki, daughter of Euterpe." my face was red.