Author's Note: Hello, this is F of AFincorporated. I do not own any characters from the PJO or HoO series's.
ATTENTION, IMPORTANT: THIS IS THE SEQUEL TO "CASPIAN DAUGHTER OF POSEIDON" AND "CASPIAN BOOK 2: THE BATTLE OF ECHIDNA". READ THOSE FAN FICTIONS BEFORE THIS ONE OR YOU WILL BE SUPER CONFUSED!
Casper's POV~
I opened my eyes and sighed. It was still three days to the last day of school, and I had a math test today. I rolled out of bed and stumbled into the bathroom of my dorm. I glanced in the mirror as I ran my fingers through my black hair, making it stand up more then it already did. I had recently cut it short to my ears, with the front long to my shoulder. There was bags under my sea-green eyes.
I dressed in camo cargo pants, black tank top, and denim jacket. I hesitated, then pulled open a small drawer built into the headboard of my bed, taking out a golden chain necklace. It had four gold charms on it; a javelin, a sword, a dagger, and a shield. It was a gift from my father, Poseidon, the god of the seas. The necklace was magic, and could change those tiny charms into actual weapons.
Oh yeah. I'm a demigod, which means one of my parents is a greek god. My names Caspian.
I pulled on my sneakers and yawned. I had to tiptoe again to avoid waking my roommate and best friend, Ella. She was still snoring away, long blond hair spread over her pillow like the princess in a fairy tale. There was streaks of red and blue in it. Her twin brother, Biron, was my boyfriend. He was tall, a few inches taller then me, with the same blond hair and blue eyes as his sister. They were both children of Hermes.
I sighed in anticipation of seeing him and my brothers in three days when the school year ended and I went to camp half blood. I couldn't wait.
I lifted my messenger bag off the floor and was about to go when Ella sat up. "Time to go? Just a sec." She said, stumbling into the wall a couple of times before waking up fully and getting dressed. She put her hair in a ponytail and wore a white t-shirt, boots, and jeans with tears on the knees.
We walked down the hall, past other dorm rooms to the cafeteria. We had donuts and milkshakes and then headed outside to our first class, latin. The Roman demigods from Camp Jupiter spoke it a lot, so I had thought it a good idea to learn some.
"Cas? Cas?" Ella waved one hand in front of my face, making me jump. "Earth to Cas. Do you read me?"
"Sorry." I said. "Just thinking."
A mischievous grin flitted onto my best friends face. "No doubt thinking about seeing a certain blond boy that may or may not be related to me?" I swatted her on the shoulder.
"I was actually thinking about…. You know, that problem." Ella's face darkened. She knew what I meant. All year, we had been getting reports from camp about monster attacks and weapons being stolen and Tartarus being spotted all over New York. Two summers ago, Tartarus had taken on a physical form and risen to the mortal world. Then last summer he had recruited Echidna and we had gone on another quest to fulfill a prophecy.
"Oh, we can work on that over the summer." Ella waved her hand as the smile returned to her face. "For now, lets just enjoy being normal."
That day at lunch, Ella was going through the process of telling a story she had already told me twice when Jessica Brown approached our table.
I'm seriously dyslexic and Ella is ADHD, neither of which is unusual among demigods. Jessica Brown was a burly tenth grader who loved to rub it in our faces whenever we didn't bow down to her. She had stringy oily brown hair and wore bright orange lipstick like she had just eaten a bunch of Doritos.
"Hey morons." She called. I tensed up. I had tried all year not to lose control. See, as a demigod I have special abilities inherited from my godly parent. A lot of demigods had inherited skills. Ella was the daughter of the god of thieves, so she could pick any lock and hijack cars. My older brother Percy could control the water, and I could control the ground, because Poseidon was the god of earthquakes. I had had some close calls that year, getting to mad or embarrassed and causing little quakes, but nothing anybody else had really thought anything of. I didn't want to break this streak so close to the last day.
"Go away, Jessi." Ella sang. Jessi is what she calls Jessica.
"I heard you two are going to a camp for loser freaks this summer." Jessica crowed.
"What's it to you?" I snapped. "And although somebody with your low cranial capacity might not be able to comprehend it, you're the only freak here." I go out of my way to use extra big words around Jessica.
"Say it again." Jessica growled, grabbing me by the front of my shirt. She was twice my size. "I said, say it again." She might not understand what I said, but she knew it was an insult.
"Put her down." Ella said, but one of Jessica's cronies stepped forward and he shut up.
"I said your a freakin moron that smells like bad eggs. Your so ugly babies cry around you." I said angrily. I knew I shouldn't, but Jessica just got under my skin. If I was about to get beat up, I might as well get something out of it.
"Apologize." Jessica spat. She really did have bad breath. "Now."
"Keep dreaming." I spat. Dumb right?
Jessica raised a fist to punch me, but a friendly familiar voice carried all the way across the courtyard.
"Back off, Brown." A pretty blond girl walked over casually. My brother Percy's girlfriend, Annabeth.
"She called me a- a- Say it again." Jessica narrowed her eyes at me.
"A cranially challenged freak?" I suggested helpfully. I really needed to learn to keep my mouth shut.
Jessica struck, punching me in the nose. I saw stars. If I crossed my eyes, I could see my own nose. It looked crooked to me. "You did not just do that." I growled. The ground started to shake below me. Girl's scattered on the campus, and dove under picnic tables in fear.
"Cas, stop it!" Ella shouted. "Relax!" I tried, honest, but I couldn't stop the shaking. Jessica dropped me and dove under our picnic table. "Lets get out of here!" Ella shouted, grabbing my hand and pulling me through the building and out onto the street, away from the school.
"I can't stop it!" I whimpered. A tree fell somewhere nearby. "You have to knock me out!" She looked shocked.
"Are you crazy?" She shouted. Electrical wire tumbled to the street, a car had to swerve to avoid them.
"Trust me!" I pulled my shield off of my necklace and made her take it.
"Fine!" She slammed it into my head and I crumpled to the ground, unconscious.
Ella's POV~
As soon as Cas's eyes rolled up in her head, the shaking stopped. I reattached the shield to her necklace. I pulled Cas down the street to a park just a block away. Thankfully, the new reporters that were gathering didn't see us, or things would have gotten even worse.
There was a large fountain in the park. It wasn't always on, so I sent up a thanks to the gods to see that the chubby babies circling the fountain were pouring water. I laid Cas in the water, and immediately her eyes flew open. Because Cas is a daughter of Poseidon, water heals her and she can breath underwater and not get wet, along with the whole earthquake thing.
"Ow." She said.
I burst into laughter, but quickly pulled myself together. "What was that, Caspian?" I only call her by her real name when I'm pissed, which she knew.
"I couldn't. It was too powerful. I lost control. I'm sorry." She sat up and climbed out of the fountain, perfectly dry.
"We need to go to camp." I said. "So much for graduating."
"We almost made it a whole year." Cas said encouragingly, but I knew she had been looking forwards to an entire year too.
I searched my pockets for a golden drachma. "Got one." I pulled out the emergency coin I keep in my shoe. I tossed it into the spray from the fountain. "Oh Iris, goddess of the rainbow, please accept my offering." The drachma disappeared. "Show me Annabeth Chase and Percy Jackson." I knew we should call camp, but Annabeth and Percy would know what to do.
The image in the mist changed to show a young couple walking through the college at Camp Jupiter. There was a blond girl with gray eyes. She was laughing, and holding the hand of a guy that looked a lot like Cas. He had dark hair blown to one side, and sea green eyes, and he looked like Cas because he was her older brother.
"Percy! Annabeth!" Cas called through. They turned, and immediately looked worried. We didn't usually call them unless it was important.
"What is it?" Annabeth asked. "Monster attack?"
"Are you guys okay?" Percy asked. "Fire? Earthquake? Tsunami? Hurricane?"
We shook our heads at each. "We're fine, but Cas just totally lost it." I reported. Cas stuck her tongue out at me.
"Well you could have helped."
"I DID help. I knocked you out, didn't I?" Annabeth held up her hands in a stop everything gesture.
"Okay, what exactly happened?" We explained more coherently this time. Jessica Brown, earthquake, fountain.
"This was our last drachma." I told them. "Will you call camp for us?"
"Of course. They can send someone to pick you up. Just wait there until we call back." Percy said. We nodded, and he slashed his hand through the image. It faded. Only a minute later, it reappeared. "Nico will come get you." Percy told us. "Shadow travel is fastest."
At the exact same moment he said that, Nico di Angelo appeared a few feet away, under a shade tree. He seemed to melt out of the shadows. Nico was a son of Hades, god of the underworld. He could summon and control the dead, and shadow travel. At least he could control the dead, until last summer, when the helm of darkness was stolen. The helm of darkness was Hades's crown, that allowed him to control the dead. With the help of Hecate, goddess of magic, Tartarus had stolen it and now used it to control armies of the dead.
"Hi, Nico." Cas said. We had gone on a quest with him last summer.
"Hi. Chiron said to shadow travel you back to camp. What happened here?" He motioned to the downed powerlines and trees, as well as the cracked concrete.
"Earthquake." We said at the same time. Nico nodded.
"Come on then."
As soon as we stepped under the shade tree, we melted down into the shadows. Then we were melting out of the darkness in the basement of the Big House, at camp half blood. We climbed the steps to where Chiron, Biron, and Will Solace were waiting. Nico waved and left with Will.
Biron and Cas spoke quietly to each other. I pretended not to notice that they also held hands. Biron hugged me in greeting, which would have been embarrassing with anyone but my twin brother.
I nodded to Chiron, as did Cas. I was nearly blinded as we walked out into the bright sunlight. It had been cloudy at our school, but was perfectly clear at camp, as always. Dionysus, the god of wine, was sitting impatiently at a card table on the porch.
"Hello, Mr. D." I said. He didn't do anything to acknowledge me, but glared at Biron and Cas until they said the same thing. We sat at the table and he dealt us into the game of Pinochle.
"Caspian, Ella, would you please explain what happened at your school?" Chiron said calmly. Somehow, it didn't sound like a request. Oh yeah, Chiron is a centaur, half horse half man. Probably should have mentioned that. We explained about Jessica and how Cas hadn't been able to stop the earthquake.
I was getting the feeling that Dionysus was listening a lot more intently then he was letting on. "Under the circumstances, I think-" Chiron started. He was interrupted by a chariot landing on the lawn. Several people that I recognized hopped out. Percy, Annabeth, Hazel Levesque, and Frank Zhang. Frank and Hazel had gone on a quest with us two summers ago, and went to Camp Jupiter, where Percy and Annabeth went to college.
"Hi guys." I waved. Cas did too, but she seemed a little tired. Now her friends were here to hear her get chewed out by Mr. D and Chiron.
They climbed the porch steps, and everyone had to greet everyone, and Hazel and Frank were introduced to Biron, and Cas and Percy had to swap expulsion stories. It was a few minutes before everyone was seated again, and by then Jason, Piper, and Leo had arrived from who-knows-where, and we went through the whole process again.
Finally Mr. D shouted for everyone to shut up, and we all did.
Chiron had just opened his mouth to keep talking, when an explosion came from the edge of camp. Campers rushed around grabbing weapons, Satyrs helping tree spirits put out fires, Naiads panicking in the lake. We leaped to our feet as another explosion came from the other side of camp.
"What now?" I shouted.
"How should we know?" Annabeth shouted back, and we all sprinted off the porch to help.
