The day of the Battle of Manhattan a certain stubborn daughter of Ares was sitting on her top bunk bed at Camp Half Blood staring at the red colored, stained (possibly with blood), peeling ceiling of her cabin absolutely bored. While everyone else from camp was in the city getting ready for the war with Kronos's army, the children of Ares were sitting around at camp. They had chosen not to go to the battle because the Apollo cabin wouldn't give them ownership of the chariot that they had decided was rightfully theirs. Not a very great reason to skip an important battle, but they are Ares children and when does Ares ever think logically.
"Clarisse?" one of her siblings timidly asks, "Do you..."
"No," Clarisse snapped, "I'm not going to go help so why do you keep asking."
Frustrated with her siblings Clarisse glares at the other children of the war god and storms out of the cabin slamming the door behind her. She decides to go for a long jog around camp's borders to clear her head. She thinks about everything that has been happening the last few weeks and everything that has lead up to it. Thinking way back she remembers when she came to camp and found out she was a half-blood. She remembers her time in the Hermes cabin, meeting the wine god Dionysus who is forced to run the camp, her first capture the flag game, and the day when she was finally claimed by her father Ares god of war. A few of her memories made her almost smile remembering them, like when she started being treated like a leader even by her older brothers, but others made her grimace. After her jog she heads back to Cabin 5 and is surprised to see her bunkmates gone. Confused to where they had gone off to Clarisse goes out to look for them.
Walking down the center of the cabins area she wonders to herself about what could be going on in the war right now. As she passes the Aphrodite cabin she smells the familiar scent of perfume. Looking over in the direction of the cabin she sees the door to the pink Barbie dream house like building ajar. Wondering who else would be back at camp besides her and her siblings; Clarisse opens the door to Cabin 10 and walks inside.
Looking around she sees nothing out of place just the usual makeup kit or hair curler. As she turns to leave something catches her eye. Sitting on the edge of her best friend Silena Beauregard's bed, half hidden under the light pink comforter on top of the white satin sheets, was some sort of book. Picking it up and examining the cream colored cover with roses drawn on it and a heart shaped lock hanging off the side, Clarisse decides it's a diary. She turns the diary around and an uncapped silver glitter pen falls out of the prim pressed pages. Even though she knows that she shouldn't look through Silena's personal belongings, since when does an Ares kid worry about things like that anyway, Clarisse opens the diary to see a freshly tear stained paper. Flipping through the diary she finds many entries with various things on them. Some having sketches, colorful borders, or even small smears of nail polish. Not having anything else to do she starts to read the diary from page one.
Dear Diary,
This is my first entry since I just got you. I'll start by saying who I am. I am Silena Beauregard head counselor of the Aphrodite cabin, Cabin 10. The Aphrodite cabin you ask? Well I am a half-blood or demigod, half god and half human and my godly parent is Aphrodite goddess of beauty and love. Well since we are on the subject of love, I have a crush on this boy with beautiful baby blue eyes that sparkle when you look into them and silky golden blonde hair.("Gag," Clarisse thought to herself, "but why does this kid sound so familiar?")He has a scar across his eye, but even that makes him look handsome. His name is Luke Castellan son of Hermes and counselor of cabin 11 (well he used to be), but he's gone from camp now. He is an enemy to the gods and has sided with the titan Kronos. If only he hadn't, then maybe we would've been more than just friends. I hear my siblings coming, so I must go for now.
Hugs and kisses
3 Silena
Clarisse stared wide-eyed at the piece of paper in front of her. She couldn't believe that Silena used to have a crush on Luke Castellan!
This must have been way before she started to date Beckendorf, Clarisse thought. She smiled grimly at the remembrance of Charles Beckendorf, son of Hephaestus and former Cabin 9 counselor, who had died days ago trying to blow up Luke's ship the Princess Andromeda with the help of Percy Jackson son of Poseidon. Silena had been heart broken when Percy had come back alone and had told them the news about Beckondorf. She had stayed in her room refusing to eat, or do anything not believing that he was really dead. It had hurt Clarisse to see her best friend like this, so sad and broken down.
Silena would even… Clarisse closed her eyes and shook her head pushing the memory out of her mind. She then turns the pages of the book to read another entry.
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-WD