Nico Di Angelo and Alex Eleen The Third War Chapter 1: I find something shocking.
I was just walking around looking for half bloods, and it was boring. Maybe; shadow travel would be a quicker and better way of travel.
"There's a good one." it was a boulder's shadow, it was dark, and round too, and easy looking. I stepped forward into the shadow and concentrated hard on getting to Times Square. I closed my eyes, and I was there next to a park bench. On the bench sat a girl maybe 13 or 14, and she had her face in her hands. She looked miserable. She was brown haired and it looked as if it had been electrocuted and she didn't bother to brush it down, had fair skin, and freckles. Immediately I felt sorry for her she looked just as I did when Bianca died. I went up to her and knelt down, "Are you okay?" I asked. She looked in-between her now parted fingers, her eyes were a startling storm blue, and it looked as if she had lighting around her pupil, which was pitch black, it felt as if she could see right through me, I felt shocked, literally. I had the feeling that she wasn't human. "No, I'm not my family sucks, I have nowhere to go, and I always have this annoying feeling that's someon- no something is watching me." She said. I expected her to cry, but she didn't she seemed really tough. Maybe she was a demigod, ill ask her. "Do you have ADHD, and or dyslexia?" I asked. "Yes why, who are you? I'm Asorsra Eleen." She said. She had a Texan accent. Cool. "My name is Nico Di Angelo, and I think you might be a demigod." I said. "I knew it" she murmured. She knew but how! Oh well, I'll take her to camp. "So would you like to come to camp, it's the only place you'll be safe and I'm pretty sure the monsters will be here any minute. "Okay" she said, her eyes shining with the sun. I helped her up, she was tall, and slim had a maroon long sleeve shirt on, and basketball shorts. She seemed very tom boyish, and she looked like she was always on guard. She would be a good fighter, whose kid is she? "Alright so we are going to shadow travel, it's where you…pretty much travel through the shadows I'll spare you the details" I said sounding stupid. I had this weird sensation that I really wanted to please her as if my life depended on it. "Ok, so how am I going to do it, I'm not a child of Hades, I think." she said sounding concerned. "Oh that's ok, we're not Ms.O'leary is." I told her. I fished the whistle out of my pocket and blew. A screeching claw on chalkboard sound echoed across the park. There she was a mastiff the size of an elephant, one of the biggest hellhounds I've ever seen. And that's saying something, being as I am the son of Hades god of the dead. "Oh my gods…" Asorsra whispered. "Well hop on." I said sure that I would have to bribe her just to get on. But then she walked over with a huge grin on her face and climbed on like you would climb in to bed. This girl had guts. "Okay lets do this." I said when I was on. I closed my eyes and imagined Thalia's tree. And projected my thought to Ms.O'leary who barked joyfully, and jumped into the nearest shadow. Asorsra was still as if savoring the feeling, like it might be her first and last time doing it. Asorsra was very interesting, she was tough as if she had been through a lot and wasn't going to deal with it anymore. She acted like she didn't have any friends and really didn't want them. She kinda reminded me of me. I thought that we would probably be good friends, if we bothered. Then we were in front of the camp. Asorsra slid of Ms.O'leary "Whoa…" she said as she looked over Camp Half-Blood. "Um… thanks by the way, and you can call me Alex my middle name is Alexandra and Asorsra is kinda strange and hard to pronounce so just call me Alex." Alex said. "Ok, let's get you down to camp and wait for you to be claimed." I said. She nodded looking slightly nervous for a second, but then she nodded a bit more fiercely and looked determined. We walked down together I felt that every time I got close to her that I was somewhere very powerful like if I touched her I would be seriously hurt. Maybe she was Big Three material, but it was doubtful. When we reached the dining pavilion where everybody was eating, I went up to the front. "Guys, this is a new camper her name is Asorsra Alexandra Eleen. She likes to be called Alex. Sh-" I stopped because something was starting to shimmer above her head. She's probably a daughter of Apollo. But then the shimmering came into focus, it was a clear as day, a lightning bolt. This girl was a daughter of Zeus. Then I remembered the eyes and the shock, and not being afraid of heights. It made sense! Why didn't I notice the powerful aura for what it was? Alex looked up at it too and gasped, she looked confused like she didn't think about it anymore than I did at first. Then she looked around at everybody. "Thanks…" she told them just loud enough for them to hear and walked down to her table. The nymphs gave her some food then she did the regular offering to the gods. She looked at the cup, deciding what she wanted and told it something. It looked like ordinary soda, then she told it something again, and it turned bright yellow. I walked over to her because she wasn't eating. "Well you're a daughter of Zeus huh?" I asked her. "I guess, but I don't know…" she said. "What did you choose for a drink?" I asked curious. ", yellow." She answered. "You know im gonna go on to bed do you want to come with?" I asked. "Yeah, I'm not hungry." She said getting up, she took a swig of her drink, and we started walking down to the cabins. "Its to dark to give you a tour, we'll have to show you in the morning." I said. "Ok, so when do ya'll wake up in the morning?" she asked, her accent made her more intimating for some strange reason. "7:00" I said. She nodded. "So whose child are you?" she asked sounding casual. She believed it all, like she had suspected what she was. "I'm a child of the Big Three too, but I'm a child of Hades." I said. "Oh, well I hope you don't take out your fathers grudge out on me because of my dad, 'cause you know the whole 'you have too stay in the underworld' thing." She said. I laughed, which surprised me I haven't laughed in a long time. "No way I wouldn't do that. Well here you go, cabin 1." I said. We had arrived at the cabins. "Thanks for everything Nico, it means a lot. I thought I would never be able to sleep again. 'Cause those monsters. I traveled all the way from Texas, to New York, and I was so tired. If you hadn't found me I probably would be sleepin' with the dogs, literally." She said. "No prob' just get some sleep." I said. She nodded and walked in and closed the door. I walked to my cabin and lay down and listened to Alex shuffling around next door. She had a backpack which had clothes in it im pretty sure. But she didn't have any toiletries, I felt guilty. I heard her open the door and close it, it sounded like she was heading toward the showers. Oh well, she seemed plenty powerful. Wow, another daughter of Zeus, there is three now that we know of. But Alex had a different aura then Thalia or Jason, it seemed…stronger. I listened to the monsters out in the woods and fell asleep.