Chapter 1 (Memories return)
The winter got rougher and the camp lost many more campers to Monsters, Kronos and in some cases they just disappeared out of thin air. Gary's team was spread thin. Emma and Friedan were in San Francisco watching over the rebuilt Mt. Oryths.
Cookie, Jasmine and Tabbitha were on a secret mission in Boston, Steven and Cody were somewhere in Tennessee trying to find potential recruits. Jordan, Graham, and Kelsey were working non stop Security on Olympus, while Gary, Melody, Sara and Savanna worked with Chiron back at camp for the war preparations.
Savanna was trying to maintain a boarder around the camp from monsters that may try to attack, Melody and Sara worked with the Athena and Ares Cabins on potential battle plans to defend the camp. There were sketches of the camp scattered all over the floors and desks of both cabins there were Ariel assaults, under ground attacks even some head on assaults either way none of the plans would help unless the camp had the numbers.
Gary was training every newcomer he possibly could even though there weren't many he was very busy, mostly just to keep himself occupied.
A dark threat was growing in his mind and a vivid memory. It didn't seem like a memory it was like a bright white flash then a girls image filled his mind and disappeared all at once.
He had taken over the archery training for the day while Chiron was working on some finance issues. It was a younger Apollo kid he was much smaller than the bow they use for practice but the Hephaestus kids were working on traps and mechanisms to help for the upcoming battles. So the boy was struggling as it was not to mention it was snowing hard. Gary wore a black and red plaid dress shirt with a black jacket.
"Gary? Gary look out!" Shouted the student he was teaching as an Arrow sailed straight towards him he ducked at the last second pulling himself out of the trance quickly.
"Okay Bobby training is done for the day." Said Gary walking away he was very distracted. The boy looked at him wondering what was wrong, he decided not to ask instead he put the Bow on the rack and trudged back to his Cabin.
Gary walked around camp aimlessly somehow he found himself in front of the big house and knocked on Chiron's Door. The old Centaur rolled up in his wheel chair.
"Ah Gary my boy what..." he looks at the confusion and sorrow on the boys face.
"What's the matter?" said the old man shuffling the boy inside.
"Chiron... its time," his eyes were drowned in sorrow as if he were forcing himself not to loose control of his emotions. If Gary looses control he could start a blizzard in seconds.
"Time for what Gary?" The boys eyes were flaring blue "oh... That," the centaurs face looked uneasy but he held his thoughts back from the boy.
"I'll call Sara so we can discus the situation." The elderly Centaur left Gary alone in the room as he went to retrieve Sara from the Athena Cabin.
Within minutes Sara enters the room at break neck speed with Chiron close behind she was wearing one of those purple buttoned down jacket with the small belt wrapping around her waist he had on matching winter gloves and boots with a pair of blue jeans. When she got the snow off her boots she slammed the door shut and started yelling " Gary what's the matter, what did you need are you okay?."
"Sara I think its time, the memories are getting stronger and I can't repress them any more." He said standing up.
"What are you talking about?" She looked confused " what Memories?"
"The ones about Jamie." He said.
Sara's face froze like she didn't have any words for what he was saying, there eyes were fixed on each other. Though they could communicate through thought, they didn't, the news was too shocking, Gary was half expecting to hear her booming voice in his head but nothing happened.
"How about we discus how your going to get the others to remember." Said Chiron breaking the silence.
"Yah I can't return their memories without them being here it's impossible," she started pacing around " Honestly it would do more harm than good, plus were stretched out too thin the War has us all over the country."
"So what your saying is, is that without everyone here you can't fix everything?" Asked Gary.
"Well I don't need everyone just the ones who's memories who have been effected, like Savanna, Melody, Kelsey, Cookie, Friedan and Emma, even Cody would have to be here." Sara looked down at the floor.
"Wait a minute what about Charlie wouldn't he have to be here?" Asked Chiron,
"What if the memories were locked away forever when he died?" finnished Gary.
"No I designed the repression to get weaker if one of us died since they each had contact with her in their own way." Said Sara looking into the fire. "It wouldn't be fair if I designed it any other way, everyone has their own friendship with her some were stronger than others."
"Not to mention Free Will probably plays a part in it." chimed in Chiron.
"Exactly, the memories are only repressed they know her but they just don't know they do." Said Sara.
"Could you reverse it one at a time then?" Asked Gary. "What if we grabbed Melody and Savanna and you returned their memories first making the repression weaker on the others so you don't have to call them back here away from their missions."
"It could be dangerous." Said a voice from behind they all turn around to see a beautiful woman with Flowing brown hair and grey eyes she looked so much like Sara, Gary looked back and forth between them. " The Power to manipulate Memories has to be done delicately, Gary do you know why your Memories have just now started to take presidency?"
"Lady Athena, I haven't even given it any thought." Said Gary now thinking hard.
"Don't hurt yourself, I am no stranger to the powers of friendship and family, but I want you to think Sara have you suffered any kind of head trauma recently somewhere within the last six months?" She was being very quizzical.
"When we battled Nessus he flung us into a solid brick wall I landed head first, for about a week I wasn't able to read minds or control memories clearly but since then my powers have been fine."
"Yes but in that week your powers started losing their grip and unlocked something inside all of your friends, they all remember specific things about Jamie but don't know it yet,"
"Come to think of it Savanna has been Reading a lot Lately." Said Gary.
"If I'm not mistaken she did that with Jamie when they were younger." Said Athena.
"Yah, and Melody's been wearing her hair longer than usual. Jamie always told her that her hair would look nicer if it were long." Said Sara.
"Yes Each of them have had their own Experiences with her so they'll remember her differently. Even if they are very subtle the smallest things can bring their memories back." Said Athena.
"But how do we unlock the rest of their memories without them all being here?" Asked Sara.
"I'm sure just by the mention of her name they should remember without you having to dive into their minds my Child." Said Athena.
"I thought that could be dangerous?" Asked Gary.
"Yes but sometimes danger may be what you have to overcome to get where you have to go. I'm sure you of all people will understand that." Said the Wisdom Goddess.
Gary was in shock he had said the same thing to Sara about their quest into the underworld it seemed like so many years ago, he had warned Sara that danger would have to be overcome for success and now Athena was telling him the same thing.
"I think we need to call the others on Iris Messages to tell them could you get a hold of Josh, Cody and Jasmine, tell them the news I'll Call Kelsey, Emma and Friedan then we'll tell Savanna and Melody together." Said Gary.
"I think that is wise, a word of warning you may not get the results you think they have had their precious memories of her tampered with which can be an invasion of privacy to many you have to be delicate with how you bring the news up." Athena said, then with a wave of her hand she glowed grey then disappeared. Chiron and Sara went to the back room to use the fountain to contact Cookie, Jasmine and Cody.
Gary trudged through the snow to the Poseidon cabin to get a message out to Kelsey on Olympus. The cabin was small and empty mostly because it only had one camper in it which was a young boy named Percy, he was off on winter vacation with his mother. Over at the fountain Gary rubbed the golden coin he had in his hand.
"O Iris goddess of the rainbow accept my offering, Kelsey Limpert Daughter of Aphrodite On Olympus." Said Gary tossing a golden Drachma into the rainbow. The light shimmered than showed a beautiful girl she wore a white shirt with laced sleeves and a pair of light blue jeans her blonde hair was tied up in a bun but she had two strips of hair on either side of her forehead, one was longer than the other. Her eyes were a beautiful sea green that trapped Gary in them for a moment.
"Kelsey? Hey Kelsey are you there?" Said Gary making her jump apparently she was looking in a mirror because she looked like she was trying to fix her hair.
"Oh... Hi Gary what's up?" She asked.
"Oh I need to talk with you for a moment, but first how are things going on Olympus any action since I left last week?"
"Nothing we couldn't handle, Jordan and Graham are doing their sweep of the city now, there are a lot of monsters around but like I said its nothing we can't handle."
"Well that's good, it's very quiet without the team here." He looked down like he didn't want to tell Kelsey what he had to tell her.
"What's wrong Gary? I can tell when something is on your mind you bite your cheek when you think about something." She said flirtatiously.
Gary looked up and told her about everything that is happening he explained first about his own memories flowing back then about how he and Sara decided to repress the memories but as soon as he mentioned Jamie's name he noticed that a kind of mist filled her eyes then left like the memories were flowing back her eyes grew brighter and then her face got red in anger.
"Why is it that you only bring her up now? You know we wanted to go after her the moment she was taken..."
"Kelsey let me..." Started Gary but her face was so threatening he stopped talking.
" why would you do that..."
"Kelsey let me ..."
"Shut up its my turn to talk... I'm coming back to camp with the boys and were going to talk about this when I get back." She was so mad she started to shake.
"No Kelsey you need..." Before he could even get the rest out she swiped her hand through the image and they were disconnected.
"Great now she hates me, I can only imagine Emma and Friedan's Reactions." Said Gary to himself. He repeated everything he did to get in contact with Kelsey but instead he got in touch with Emma and Friedan, after he told them the news they took it a lot better than anticipated they were a lot more forgiving than Kelsey but still insisted that they come back to camp to figure out what to do to save her.
"No Emma we need you two there to keep an eye on that Mountain, it could be our foot hold in the war please stay there you'll be kept up to speed when we figure anything else out." Said Gary.
They reluctantly agree and disconnected the message. He sat down on the bed on the opposite side of the room. After cooling himself down emotionally He left the cabin and walked back into the big house to find Sara waiting for him.
"So how did it go?" She asked.
"Emma and Friedan took it well they do remember her but they wanted to come back, don't worry I convinced them to stay in San Francisco." Sara looked into his eyes "and, how about Kelsey?"
"She didn't take it so well she is on her way back now I didn't even get a chance to explain she disconnected to quick." He looked at Chiron with a look of helplessness.
"Don't you worry, Kelsey will come through when you explain about Ananke and the law behind what happened." He said reassuringly.
"It doesn't surprise me that Kelsey overreacted the way she did, her and Jamie were really close, if it weren't for Jamie she wouldn't be as open minded as she is now." Said Sara.
"I know but it's still not right that we did this to them." He said to Chiron "how about Josh, Jasmine and Cody how did they take it?" He asked.
"They are also on their way here mostly because they finished their missions but they were all furious especially Cody he thinks he's a failure because he couldn't protect her." Said Sara.
"Well, now for the hard part, now we need to tell Savanna and Melody." Said Chiron.
"Yah that's going to be tough but it has to be done Sara we'll do it in my Cabin, Chiron could you join us there just in case things turn...Negative." Said Gary.
They all met up in Gary's cabin it floated in the air looking like a giant cloud held to the earth by a golden chain the inside was roomy it had a living area where three couches and a couple of recliners all around a coffee table, apparently the cabin had grown since the last time Chiron and Sara had been inside.
The Hermes cabin had been over flowing so Gary offered his cabin as the resting place for the unclaimed demigods it had just over fifteen members now all of which were out practicing. With the exception of Savanna who sat in the living area waiting for them with Melody on the couch while Gary Sara and Chiron sat on the other right across from them. They all explained everything to the girls as soon as Jamie's name was mentioned their eyes were surrounded by a light mist then it faded slowly, they both were more than Unpleased they were infuriated it was so bad that if it were possible they would have caught fire.
"Why did you even think you could hold this from us?" Screamed Melody.
"You should have trusted us not to try to go after her we would have followed your orders." Said Savanna.
"You know what," started Gary. Chiron shot him a look of warning.
"The only reason we repressed your memories is because of what you just said, all of you were right there when Ananke warned us not to go after her but every single one of you ignored her endless warnings so Sara and I decided until it was time that the memories would have to be repressed no matter the price you can go on hating us but it's what we had to do." As He said it, his eyes were red as if he were about to start tearing up from the guilt then the door opened.
"Is that why you did it?" Asked Kelsey barging in apparently she had herd every word he said.
Gary jumped almost out of his seat by her sudden appearance but calmed down when Jordan and Graham came inside.
"Hey Gary what's going on Kelsey said something about an emergency? " Asked Jordan.
Gary got up and patted the boys shoulder and sat everyone down he walked up the steps leading to his room then disappeared inside for a few minutes then emerged carrying an old box he handed it to Savanna handing her the key to unlock it.
"Open it." He told her.
When she did she dropped it. The box itself wasn't extravagant it was a normal black jewelry box, it didn't even have much weight to it. Melody picked up the box and took out its contents it was a golden Locket shaped like a golden rectangle it was engraved Jamie H. The summer girl. It had a scratch along it like a monster had tried to take it.
"Where did you get that?" Savanna asked.
"The day she was captured, it fell off her neck, I ware it on every quest I go on just in case I found her." Said Gary looking down at the floor.
"You were waring this when we went after Tabbie and the Boys, I had it in my hand." Said Melody
"Yes, you did" Sara Replied.
"How come my memories didn't return then?"
"Because my Repression Power was too strong at that point." said Sara.
"But wait a minute who is Jamie to you Gary?" Asked Graham.
"She is my Cousin, Daughter of one of the other Wind Gods we never got the chance to find out she never displayed any powers before her capture." He replied.
"And her parent never came forward when we asked them, they said 'when the time comes Jamie would give us something.' But we can't even begin to think what they meant." Said Sara.
"So where do we start looking?" Asked Jordan.
"Honestly I have no idea, but Melody could I see that?" She handed Gary the necklace and he opened it up and took out a folded up picture it had Gary, Savanna, Emma, Charlie, Sara, Friedan, Melody, Kelsey, Josh and Jasmine on it they seemed to be taking a group Photo they were all extremely young the picture was taken at least six or seven years ago. Jamie was about Savanna's height she had shoulder length dirty blonde hair her shirt was camouflage like a hunter would wear. (Not Artemis' hunters, mortal people) she wore a pair of blue jean shorts and a pair of cowgirl boots her face was nice and beautiful she had her arms wrapped around Gary's neck playfully like they were really close. He showed it to every one, Graham gasped so everyone looked at him.
"What's wrong Graham?" Asked Meldoy
"I...I saw her on the street today just before we left the city I gave her directions to Central Park." He looked at Gary who was too shocked to say anything.
"Are you sure it was her?" Asked Sara.
"Yes... Granted the girl in this picture is a lot younger than the one I talked to today but it was her, her hair isn't blonde anymore it's brunette now and it's significantly longer, she also has a scar on her hand."
"Like she was cut by a blade?" Asked Kelsey.
"No...," "... like she was scratched by a monster." Gary replied, cutting Graham off.