p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I woke up in the infirmary of Camp Half-Blood. Chiron was staring gravely next to me. I momentarily freaked out, and made a mental checklist. I had my weapons, all of them, and my hood and cowl were still up. My wounds were almost healed, a dip of fire should fix that, and finally I looked at Chiron. "You didn't let anyone in." It was a statement, not a question. He just gravely looked at me, before finally answering. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""You shouldn't be here. Not with your identity."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I came here to face my fears. I'm too tired of running from them."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I understand. But it won't be easy. The gods already know you are here. Especially," He lowered his voice to a whisper, "/spanspan style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"her./spanspan style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I'm going with all of them to meet her. She thinks I'm living a peaceful life, free of everything. She needs to know the truth."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I will hold a meeting after the campfire."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Thank you Chiron." I finally said. "Now if you excuse me, I would like to spar some campers." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I allowed the smallest hint of a smile to show on my face. He had an even smaller smile on. Damn you Chiron, How can you always have a smaller smile than me! I yelled in my thoughts. On the outside however, nothing had changed. Cool as a Cucumber. I grinned at these thoughts, and enchanted my hood, so only people I trusted could see my face. The only thing other people would see was my smile, the rest of my face covered by shadows. I walked to the arena, seeing Percy, Annabeth, Jason, Piper, and Nico standing there. Great, they all are here, should make my job easier. I slowly veered off to the side, unseen by all except for Nico. Guess I should've seen that coming, he stopped watching the campers, and backed up into a shadow of a tree. I quickened my pace, barely, and then jumped silently into a tree. I then saw Nico turn up right where I used to be, and looked around bewildered. I chuckled silently, before jumping down, unleashing my hand knives (I'll just call them those atm) and held one up to his throat, and with the other one I clapped over his mouth, preventing a scream. I grabbed his sword, and slid it into my jacket, and removed my hand from his mouth, but stayed behind him with my knife to his throat. "Why were you following me." I just barely whispered. Too bad for him I already know the answer. "I was curious." He replied. The little tremor in his voice told me he was lying. Well, I scared him, which was the only thing I needed. I removed my hand from his throat, and backflipped over his head to land right in front of his face. I tossed his sword back to him. "Stygian Iron, Eh? Well look who became Hades favorite son." I grinned. He replied, saying "Why do you hide your face?" I allowed a small chuckle and said "Maybe I'm just ugly." Then I sobered down a little. "You of all people should know that some like to hide." I then disappeared in a whirlwind of flames, and appeared right in the middle of the sword arena. All the campers looked at me in shock. Not my fault I like dramatic entrances. "Hello. I killed Kronos yesterday. Anyone want to battle?" Percy, Annabeth, Jason and Piper looked at each other before Piper raised her hand. I grinned and said "Ooh, a little warmup?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"She knew I was joking and replied "Don't judge too soon, weird misty lady."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Weapon of choice?" I asked. "Dagger." She replied. Well, her death. I grabbed my 12 throwing knives. 6 in one hand, 6 in the other. 5 in between each finger, and one curled in/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"my fist. She circled for a moment, and charged. I let her get close, before dodging each attack she made. We got close to a sparring dummy, with its cloth head ripped off, and I made it my target. I backflipped over Piper's head, and in midair twisted and threw my knives. They pinned her shirt and pants to the dummy. They sunk in up to the hilt. Jason stared for a moment and yelped. He ran over to Piper before trying and failing to yank the daggers out. I walked up, and said "I suppose I win?" She nodded, and looked down. I continued. "Nice Job with that underhand slash though, almost caught me." She smiled. I shoved Jason away from the knives he was trying so hard to undo, and snapped my fingers. They all returned to their sheathes across my shoulder, and I shook Piper's now free hand. "Good Game." Then turning to everyone else, I said "Next?" From then it was easy. Annabeth was very good at analyzing my weapons, but then I unleashed my ninja stars, taking her by surprise, and cutting through the concrete along with pinning her to the floor. I think they all freaked out whenever I snapped my fingers, because the weapons just returned to my sheath. With Percy, I mowed him down with my bow, and with Jason, my hand knives worked well. The lightning and water did nothing, You should've seen their faces. After each one I would shake their hand, and reply "Good Game." In a bored tone. They all just looked more bewildered. It is so fun to tease demigods. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I walked into the mess hall at dinner. I grabbed some food, and was the first to walk up to the brazier. I gave all of my food and said, so softly "Hestia." I took a pomegranate to eat, and ordered red diet coke. Percy likes blue, I'm sticking with red. I drank and ate, and then immediately left, leaving the hushed campers. I walked over to the campfire and tested my abilities. I unfurled my palms and covered myself with fire. All of my clothes were element proof, and boy did that take a lot of convincing to my parents. I willed all of the fire to hit the logs, and began the campfire. Only then, did I sit in the flames. The fire washed over me, healing me. There are two types of fire. One that burns with anger, destruction, and angst. The other /spanspan style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"one is healing, soothing, and calming. Fire reacts to how you feed it, if you feed it with anger and madness, it will hurt you as much as anyone else. If you control the calm fire, it can hurt and heal. But to control fire, you must have controlled emotions. I waited for the campers to find me, freak out, and let the quest begin...I am Hestia's Champion, Daughter of the 16 most powerful Gods. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"strongspan style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"A/N: sorry this was so short! I only had a few moments to do this! /span/strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""You shouldn't be here. Not with your identity."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I came here to face my fears. I'm too tired of running from them."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I understand. But it won't be easy. The gods already know you are here. Especially," He lowered his voice to a whisper, "/spanspan style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"her./spanspan style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I'm going with all of them to meet her. She thinks I'm living a peaceful life, free of everything. She needs to know the truth."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I will hold a meeting after the campfire."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Thank you Chiron." I finally said. "Now if you excuse me, I would like to spar some campers." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I allowed the smallest hint of a smile to show on my face. He had an even smaller smile on. Damn you Chiron, How can you always have a smaller smile than me! I yelled in my thoughts. On the outside however, nothing had changed. Cool as a Cucumber. I grinned at these thoughts, and enchanted my hood, so only people I trusted could see my face. The only thing other people would see was my smile, the rest of my face covered by shadows. I walked to the arena, seeing Percy, Annabeth, Jason, Piper, and Nico standing there. Great, they all are here, should make my job easier. I slowly veered off to the side, unseen by all except for Nico. Guess I should've seen that coming, he stopped watching the campers, and backed up into a shadow of a tree. I quickened my pace, barely, and then jumped silently into a tree. I then saw Nico turn up right where I used to be, and looked around bewildered. I chuckled silently, before jumping down, unleashing my hand knives (I'll just call them those atm) and held one up to his throat, and with the other one I clapped over his mouth, preventing a scream. I grabbed his sword, and slid it into my jacket, and removed my hand from his mouth, but stayed behind him with my knife to his throat. "Why were you following me." I just barely whispered. Too bad for him I already know the answer. "I was curious." He replied. The little tremor in his voice told me he was lying. Well, I scared him, which was the only thing I needed. I removed my hand from his throat, and backflipped over his head to land right in front of his face. I tossed his sword back to him. "Stygian Iron, Eh? Well look who became Hades favorite son." I grinned. He replied, saying "Why do you hide your face?" I allowed a small chuckle and said "Maybe I'm just ugly." Then I sobered down a little. "You of all people should know that some like to hide." I then disappeared in a whirlwind of flames, and appeared right in the middle of the sword arena. All the campers looked at me in shock. Not my fault I like dramatic entrances. "Hello. I killed Kronos yesterday. Anyone want to battle?" Percy, Annabeth, Jason and Piper looked at each other before Piper raised her hand. I grinned and said "Ooh, a little warmup?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"She knew I was joking and replied "Don't judge too soon, weird misty lady."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Weapon of choice?" I asked. "Dagger." She replied. Well, her death. I grabbed my 12 throwing knives. 6 in one hand, 6 in the other. 5 in between each finger, and one curled in/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"my fist. She circled for a moment, and charged. I let her get close, before dodging each attack she made. We got close to a sparring dummy, with its cloth head ripped off, and I made it my target. I backflipped over Piper's head, and in midair twisted and threw my knives. They pinned her shirt and pants to the dummy. They sunk in up to the hilt. Jason stared for a moment and yelped. He ran over to Piper before trying and failing to yank the daggers out. I walked up, and said "I suppose I win?" She nodded, and looked down. I continued. "Nice Job with that underhand slash though, almost caught me." She smiled. I shoved Jason away from the knives he was trying so hard to undo, and snapped my fingers. They all returned to their sheathes across my shoulder, and I shook Piper's now free hand. "Good Game." Then turning to everyone else, I said "Next?" From then it was easy. Annabeth was very good at analyzing my weapons, but then I unleashed my ninja stars, taking her by surprise, and cutting through the concrete along with pinning her to the floor. I think they all freaked out whenever I snapped my fingers, because the weapons just returned to my sheath. With Percy, I mowed him down with my bow, and with Jason, my hand knives worked well. The lightning and water did nothing, You should've seen their faces. After each one I would shake their hand, and reply "Good Game." In a bored tone. They all just looked more bewildered. It is so fun to tease demigods. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I walked into the mess hall at dinner. I grabbed some food, and was the first to walk up to the brazier. I gave all of my food and said, so softly "Hestia." I took a pomegranate to eat, and ordered red diet coke. Percy likes blue, I'm sticking with red. I drank and ate, and then immediately left, leaving the hushed campers. I walked over to the campfire and tested my abilities. I unfurled my palms and covered myself with fire. All of my clothes were element proof, and boy did that take a lot of convincing to my parents. I willed all of the fire to hit the logs, and began the campfire. Only then, did I sit in the flames. The fire washed over me, healing me. There are two types of fire. One that burns with anger, destruction, and angst. The other /spanspan style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"one is healing, soothing, and calming. Fire reacts to how you feed it, if you feed it with anger and madness, it will hurt you as much as anyone else. If you control the calm fire, it can hurt and heal. But to control fire, you must have controlled emotions. I waited for the campers to find me, freak out, and let the quest begin...I am Hestia's Champion, Daughter of the 16 most powerful Gods. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"strongspan style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"A/N: sorry this was so short! I only had a few moments to do this! /span/strong/p
