Hey guys! so there was this one story that I posted on a different account a while ago and I forgot the password to it so I couldn't update it. I know that next to nobody read it but I'm uploading it again anyways. This was my first fanfic just saying. I'll try to update regularly!
Disclaimer: Sadly I don't own PJO or I would be way richer than I am now.
I didn't think it would happen. Never in a million years. She warned me once. Then twice. But though I tried to ignore it, it sat there and grew its roots deep in my skull.
For a fourteen year old, I've faced some pretty scary things in life. I'm not talking about the kind of scary where they hold a gun to your head and ask for money, but close. Monsters and enemies hold their knives to your throat, but they ask for your defeat or your life or sometimes even your mercy.
I bet I'm confusing you now. I'm a half-blood. Half Greek god, and half mortal. One of my parents is a Greek God. For me, it's my dad. Being a demigod makes me twice as many times more vulnerable than a god or a mortal. For a while, I thought I was in the safest place in the world for people like me, Camp Half-Blood. I didn't know how wrong I was. It is the safest place, next to Camp Jupiter, but not to me.
Let's start from the beginning, the morning the Argo II left to Camp Jupiter.
We blew kisses and waved our hands as Annabeth Chase, Leo Valdez, Piper McLean, and Jason Grace took off to the Roman camp, Camp Jupiter. See, until recently we hadn't known another Roman camp existed. They're like us, except half Roman god.
Anyways, the group mentioned were meeting up with the Hero of Olympus, Percy Jackson. I've never been too close to him, but enough to know he was a good guy. I wasn't there for the Titan War, either. Back then, I was still in Glenwood Prep. Academy.
"Do you think they'll make it? I mean, they have that Great Prophecy and all. Plus, imagine all the monsters they'll attract with Jason and Percy," Joana whispered to me. Joana was a daughter of Tyche, and man was she lucky. She was one of the many demigods, like me, that came after the Titan War when Percy made this huge wish.
"They'll make it. They always do," I replied thinking of all the stories Annabeth told us about her boyfriend.
"Yeah, I guess. Hey, I'll see you later," she said spotting her new boyfriend, Alex, who was a son of Hephaestus. Should I repeat how lucky she is?
I nodded at her and headed back to my cabin. Cabin Seven isn't anything spectacular. There's a sun mural on the side and a bunch of lyres inside. Our dad, Apollo, is the god of music, poetry, medicine, and he drives the sun chariot. I've never met Dad, but Will said that Annabeth said that he's pretty 'chill'.
"Hey, Will. What's up?" I ask my brother when I came in.
"Practicing some healing hymns. There's a war coming, you know. Chiron says Gaia's rising. You should be practicing, too," he says to me. Will's like that. Being the cabin councilor, he's like our big brother. Even though there's about six people older than him.
"I will," I promised dismissively. "Which hymn?"
"That one," Will replies pointing at the text in a very antique looking book. "Could you sing that last part?"
I did exactly what he told, but automatically blushed when I sang a little off tune.
"Work on that B flat there, Carissa," he advises. I don't realize something's wrong until I take a good look around the room.
"Where is everybody?" I asked.
"Archery range. Apparently some Ares kid challenged our cabin to an archery contest," he said still looking closely at the text.
"Um, why?"
"Well, you know Kayla? Of course you do, she's your sister. Anyways, she claimed that if he were a true Ares child, he should be able to use any kind of weapon," he explained. I rolled my eyes at Kayla's antics. She's so cocky sometimes. "You should go practice too."
All day, I spent my time down at the archery range shooting arrows with my siblings. Chiron said we could have the day to ourselves since we pretty much spent most our time working on the Argo. The day went by normally with the sing along songs and dinner.
That's when it really started. When everything went completely wrong.
It was that night when we were all inside our cabins ready to sleep. Will cut out the lights and we all went to sleep. It was the dream. The dream that changed everything.
I dreamed I was underground. Roots hung like chandeliers and down the side of the cavern. In the middle of the room was a woman. She could've once been beautiful, but her dress was torn, cheeks caked with dirt, and dead flowers weaved into her hair.
"Who are you?" I breathed out. I feared the answer.
"My dear child, you do not know?" she replied, yet her lips didn't move.
"Gaia?" I gulped. Why would she come see me? I didn't have anything.
"Child, you have more than you know," she said amusingly. What did that even mean?
"Look Dirt Face, I don't-" I couldn't even finish my sentence. I wasn't sure what happened next. Dirt lady started asking me questions but my memory of that was a swirl of nothingness.
I woke up with a startle, hoping I didn't give any information away. Will always told me what happened at councilor meetings, but other than that, I didn't have anything else.
I guess I was wrong, because I woke up on the beach with some angry faces staring down at me.
The next chapter will be longer... hopefully