Ella woke to the sound of a fire crackling. This made sense considering she was in the Hestia cabin. Everything was warm and cozy in there, after all Hestia was the goddess of the hearth.

Ella got up and glanced out the window. She saw the rockwall with lava pouring down some of the sides, the sword areana, and the satyrs trying to catch the tree nymphs. You know, typical day at Camp Half-Blood. She looked up and saw the sun. It was still low in the sky, which meant it was 7:28 in the morning. Yea, she had that power, even though she wasn't a daughter of Apollo, the sun god. Ella hated looking at the sun anyway. It brought back too many painful memories, memories of her father.

No, she thought, I can't risk another blackout.

She didn't know why she had blackouts when she about her past. She knew she'd had a painful past, she just didn't know why she had blackouts when she thought about it.

After she got dressed, she decided to take a quick glance of herself in the mirror. Take one look at her and no one would think she was a daughter of Hestia. She had milk chocolate eyes, the same color of her straight hair as well. One section of her hair always seemed to cover part of her face. She wore tattered faded jeans, an orange Camp Half-Blood t-shirt, a light weight gray jacket, and navy blue converse shoes.

Ella heard the conch shell signalling that it was time to go to the dining pavillion for breakfast. On her way to the pavillion, she couldn't believe that there was a camp for people like her. Although, maybe not exactly like her.

After breakfast, Ella had pegasus riding with the Athena and Aphrodite cabins. She loved riding the winged creatures. She caught up with her two friends, Annabeth and Piper, on their way to the stables.

Annabeth had wavy blonde hair with stormy gray eyes. She was a daughter of Athena so she was naturally good with battle strategies. Besides, she had been here the longest with nine beads in her necklace. Each bead represented one summer.

Piper had choppy auburn hair with small braids down the sides of her face. No one could really tell what color her eyes were, but Ella guessed that they were hazel; because they changed color so often. Piper could also charmspeak, being a daughter of Aphrodite. Charmspeak is basically making people believe or do things by using your voice.

"So how has your morning been so far?" Ella asked.

"Pretty good. Annabeth any word on Percy?" Piper wondered.

"Well, kind of. Grover was able to reach him through their empathy link, and told him to stay put. But tomorrow I'm going off to check with the Hunters of Artemis to see if they have any word."

Ella had so many questions about this Percy Jackson. She knew he was Annabeth's boyfriend, and that he had battled the Titan Kronos the previous year. But she wanted to know so much more. Although she decided not to press Annabeth for answers, for fear that the girl may break finally reached the stables.

"After being here nine years, you'd think I would be used to the stench by now!" Annabeth exclaimed.

"Well maybe that's why they have wings," Ella said."To fan away the stinkiness!"

"Actually the pegasus has wings to -"

Piper cut her off and rolled her eyes. "Please Annabeth, we don't need a lecture on how the pegasus got it's wings and their uses, ok?"

"Ok, ok. Yeash."

"But Piper," Ella said dreamily. "they are so tres belle!" (A/N: tres belle means very beautiful in French.)

Piper's face flushed. "Oh shut up Ella."

But the pegasi truly were beautiful. Ella had only seen a pegasus once before, and that was just her first day at camp. This was only her second pegasus riding lesson, but she already had her favorite. She had nicknamed him Eclipse because he was an all black pegasus. She hadn't ridden him yet, but she cared for him during her free time and they had grown very fond of each other. She knew she wouldn't get to ride him today or any other day. Eclipse was for "show only". She heard that some campers thought he was sick, for he wouldn't eat is hay. But when it was just Ella and Eclipse, Eclipse would gobble up just about all of it.

Anyway, the head instructor assigned them each a pegasus to practice with. The first lesson they didn't even ride them. They just went over the safety precautions and all that. Ella couldn't wait to ride! She was assigned Snow White, an all white pegasus. The instructor went over the directions on how to get on. She also announced that there would be no flying today. That pretty much popped everyone's bubble.

Once Ella got on she just couldn't resist. She digged her heals into Snow White's hide and off they went flying so high they could literally touch the sky. She heard the calls of the instructor begging her to come down. But it all sounded so distant, as if she was in a whole different realm; being in the sky. She flew so high she touched a cloud. It didn't feel like what she thought it would, like cotton candy maybe. But this, this was dense and compact and moist. She saw the sun and thought of Apollo and his sun chariot, and she hoped they didn't crash. But she also thought of happier times, when her father would take her down to the stables when she was only five, and had to sit on his shoulders to see the horses. Ella realized her mistake too late. Everything went black, she felt herself falling into her past.

Author Note: Critiques are welcome! Just try to say it in a nice way.

It is not based on Ella the harpie. Ella is a demigod in this story.

I know Hestia is a maiden goddess, but I'm not playing by the rules! Oh well!

Hope you enjoyed! (I know it's kinda slow, bear with me here!)

~booksruletheworld4evr~