The entire ride to where ever they were taking me was ALMOST completely silent. Annabeth was not speaking, and Percy didn't initiate a conversation, so I tried to keep my mouth shut, but I was just SO confused! These people I barely knew were taking me to an unknown place. What do you expect? I kept on asking where we were going, but Annabeth just answered with an ambiguous "You will know soon enough."
We drove for a little bit longer before the car stopped moving. When Annabeth stopped next to a seemingly unimportant forest, I was, again, confused. If I were the one driving, I would have passed right on by without a second glance, so why was Annabeth stopping right here?
Then, Annabeth got out of the car and walked into the forest without looking to see if we were following. It was as if she didn't care about us. I mean, she doesn't know me, sure, but what about Percy? Ru-ude.
Luckily, Percy seemed to know where we were going because he smiled at me and motioned for me to follow him. I needed to follow him because Annabeth had the keys to the car and I had no idea where we were (sadly).
It was darkish out, but I could still see where I was going, so I carefully stepped through the forest behind Percy, who avoided every stump and ducked every twig. While he knew exactly where he was going, I was completely lost.
I thought, 'finally' when we came out into a clearing.
I looked around and saw a big sign made out of wood saying "Camp Half-Blood" in ancient Greek. I was extremely confused. I mean, I believed the whole half-blood thing, but why was I going? I didn't think that I was all that special.
"Come on Kaden, I'll explain everything when we get inside camp's boarders." Percy smiled again charmingly and I nodded before I could even think of an answer. He just had that affect on me.
He walked in and a shiver went through my body from just watching him. He smiled encouragingly and I complied immedietly.
I walked towards the arch of wood and put my body through. I felt like I went through a sheen of warm water and a weight lifted from my sholders. A tension I did not know I had before dissapeared. My entire body felt lighter and I didn't fight the smile that formed on to my face. The only way to describe the way I was feeling was... free.
I oppened my eyes, realizing that I closed them, and I saw a blur of colour. There were fuzzy outlines in the shape of people, all different. There were bright reds, dark purples of different shades. Even a pure white! This did supprise me, but what really shocked me was that I could also see the electricity and power coming from everyone and everything.
Even with my tensions removed and my light desposition, I was feeling a bit dizzy.
Off to my right I saw a fuzzy dark green outline that shone with power. The energy buzzed happily around it. It looked familiar and trustworthy.
The dizzyness suddenly became more apparent before it was too much and I blacked out. The colours and the energy dissapeared when darkness overcame me.
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When I awoke again, the first thing I saw was a pair of sea-green eyes starring worriedly at me. I also saw a thin dark green aura drawn around him, but I chalked it up to the concussion.
"Hey, Percy. What happened?" I winced when I sat up to speak to Percy. My head still hurt terribly from what happened. I felt a bandage around my head that I assumed was white gauze(1).
Apparently Percy noticed me wince because his eyebrows furrowed further and he frowned at me. He bombarded me with questions like "Are you okay?" and "Can I do any thing for you?" Seriously, I hadn't lost my leg or something like that.
"I'm fine Percy! Geez!" I huffed with a pout on my face. Percy laughed at my antics and stood up, streaching out the kinks from his back before answering my previous question. "You've been out for… I don't know, 15 hours or so. We got to camp around 7:00 and it's… 10:03 now so, ya. 15 hours."
I frowned, "Did you stay here all night?" He smiled sheepishly, " Yeah, how'd you know?"
I chuckled before replying, "You cracked your back like it was the most satisfying thing in the world. If you sit in a chair for 15 hours, your back cramps up. It's 2+2 Percy."
"You're right." He laughed. "Come on Kaden, I think you can get up by now and I'm pretty sure which god or goddess will claim you." He put emphasis on goddess when he spoke, making me the slightest bit suspisious.
"Claim me?"
"Yeah, when your godly parent puts a glowing sign over your head that holds the symbol of their powers or what they represent. For example, a lightning bolt for Zeus" Percy answered my question enthusiastically, but his demeanor changed to a proud glow before saying, "Or a trident for Posidon. But, you probably know the rest, right?"
I nodded my head before speaking what I was thinking at the time, "Me? The son of a god or goddes? I don't know." I said doudtfully. He smiled reasuringly, "Come on!"
Percy helped me up because I was still quite unsteady and we headed out of the hospital thingy.
He carefully guided me down the steps of the hospital tent, now that I could see it from the outside.
I admired the scenery and the people fighting with swords as Percy led me to where ever. 'Maybe I trust him a little too much. Maybe I need to be a little more suspisious of him'. My thoughts about Percy were interupted, for the time being, (hehehe) by a half man half horse. Watching two people fight and critisizing their every move. A cenutaur.
"Chiron! Over here!"
Chiron, apparently, turned his head toward Percy and his scowl instantly softened into a contagious smile. I noted that the aura around him was a light blue, but I ignored it like I ignored everyone else's. I was just denying what had happened.
"Percy! How are you?" He questioned cheerfully.
"I'm fine, but you remember Kaden right?"
His nice smile faltered slightly and waryness settled in. "Ah, yes. Are you alright? You gave us quite a scare when you fainted like that."
"I'm fine." Was my curt reply.
"Are you sure? Do you want something to eat?" He asked with genuine concern.
I opened my mouth in preperation to reply when my stomach made a very loud grumble.
"Well, there you have it!" Chiron exclaimed with a hardy laugh.
Both Percy's and my smiles matched Chiron's, albeit a bit strained on my part. "That would be a definite yes, then." I agreed with him and all three of us started to walk towards what I assumed was the cafateria.
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The food was great. We had these gold rimmed plates that filled with your favourite food and a goblet that was always full of the best tasting drink.
Chiron explained that we usually had eat with our half-brothers and half-sisters that share the same godly parent, but Percy and I missed breakfast so we could eat together.
"So what makes you believe that I, of all people, am the son of a god or goddess?" I said doubtfully. I was in serious denial.
"Well, if the fact that you're dyslexic and have ADHD doesn't tip you off maybe the fact that you can get through camp's boarders might tell you something." After seeing my confused look Percy went into a deeper explination, "Okay, let me explain this differently. Every demi-gods brain is wired differently than mortal brains. The dyslexia makes reading ancient Greek easier, but reading English harder. The ADHD makes us super observent and always ready to fight. The thing about camp's boarders is that only half-bloods, gods and magical creatures like nymphs and cenutaurs can pass through. Titans and mortals can't." Percy looked smug that he could explain it so well.
After the explination Percy told me, I finally started being smart and paying attention to the whole glowing people thing. "Are all half-bloods able to see the colours around people too?"
"Uh, no? What? Chiron! Chiron! Where are yo-?" Percy abruptly stopped and stared over my head in deep thought.
"What? Is there something on my head?" I questioned him, but he wasn't answering.
Chiron finally came over after hearing Percy yell for him and his eyes followed the same path as Percy's.
"A lightning bolt through a rose. What does this mean?"
At that moment a loud CRACK went through the skies and a young looking man with dark brown hair and frown wrinkles came down from the sky on a lightning bolt and situated himself in front of everyone. He was at least 20 feet tall. The people sword fighting and messing around heard the arrival of Zeus came over to see what the comotion was all about.
He found me and smiled. He didn't look bad smiling, but it looked like he hadn't smiled in a long time. I saw everyone else crouch on one knee and bow, so I did the same. I looked up and saw that he was frowning.
"Kaden, stand up. I'd like to greet my son with a hug." I hesitantly stood up and looked at his face.
"That's better." He then shrunk down to a normal sized man and gathered me into a suprisingly warm embrace. Zeus broke apart from me and reluctantly looked towards everyone else. Chiron took this as an opportunity to speak.
"Zeus, if you are the father then why did Kaden have a lightning bolt going through a rose. If he is the child of you and Aphrodite, why is it that he is not immortal?"
Zeus' frown returned and he went into an explination.
"Actualy, Kaden is a quarter-blood and is not the child of Aphrodite. He is in fact the child of the half-blood, Micky, and I. He is 3/4 god and 1/4 human. It just so happened that he didn't get to be immortal. Every five quarter-bloods, two are mortal. That is why I forbid the gods to have sexual relations with half-bloods. She and I were soul mates so I broke that rule. But it gave me Kaden, so I have no regrets."
With that a shocked silence came over the camp, for about three seconds before total chaos broke out. Momentarily, Zeus was forgotten and everyone shared their opinions about me. They gossiped on how I was going to be favoured over everyone else. But I didn't even know the dude. Even if he was my father by blood, I didn't grow up with him and he did not take care of me.
Chiron finally got everyone to quiet down.
"Kaden is staying no matter how many vote him out. Zeus has come down from Olympus to greet us. Be respectful!" Chiron boomed. Once everyone stopped their chattering, Chiron spoke again. "Now, Perceus Jackson, Annabeth Chase and Kaden, please follow me. Zeus would you like to come or do you need to return to Olympus?" Chiron politely asked my father to follow us while Percy, the blond chick and I got orders. Meanie. I was quite childish at times.
"Unfortuately, I have to return to my duties on Olympus," he said to Chiron before turning to me, "but I will come back to visit you my son. Goodbye!" In a flash of lightning he was gone and Chiron yelled out our names again.
When blondie finally got over to where Percy, Chiron and I were, the cenutaur lead us to his cabin to, I don't know, talk about important stuff.
When we finally arrived Chiron placed a serious face and closed his eyes in concentration. After a few seconds, Chiron opened his eyes again asked me, "What colours?"
"Well... Percy has dark green around him and you have a, lightish blue colour surrounding you. Let's see. And Annabeth, you have a border-line firey red to pink. Does that help?"
"Yes, anything else?" Chiron replied.
I contemplated telling them that I felt a weak pull towards Percy. I contemplated saying that I felt that Annabeth and Percy were connected somehow and how it made me jealous. In the end I chickened out.
"No, nothing else."
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Chiron talked to us a bit more and then explained the living arangements.
"Well, I think that you should stay in Zeus' cabin. You defenitely can't stay with the children of Aphrodite because they will most likely be jealous of you. I also think that Aphrodite won't accept you because you are not her direct child." He didn't let anyone get a word in edgewise before saying, "Percy, show Kaden where to go and help him set up in his room. The rest of you can go back to whatever you were doing." With that, he was gone and Percy was left to help me move in.
"Do you even have anything for me to help you with?" Percy asked while we were nearing Zeus' cabin.
"Nope. You dragged me out of the classroom so fast, that I didn't have the time to get anything." We got to the front steps and Pecy turned towards me.
"Wait. Fuck. We didn't go pack your stuff and we didn't go to your orphanage to tell them you would be gone. Crap..." Percy paused for a bit to think, "Would you like to borrow some of my stuff for now? Hopefully we will get some new clothing for you soon."
Unexplainably, my stomach clenched at the thought of wearing Percy's underwear, but I quickly dismised it like the idiot I was.
"Sure, that would be great. Thanks. I'll wait here while you get it." I smiled nervously at him and down-casted my eyes. I could almost feel the confident smile that seemed to be permenently streched on his face as he told me that he'd be back soon.
Once Percy left, I walked the rest of the way to my dad's cabin and sat on the front steps. Being on the tallest hill, I could see all of Camp Half-Blood. Of course, even though, it was just a blurr of colour, the energy floating around everyone was fasinating. It was new and wonderful. The sparks buzzed around everyone, some calm and relaxed, other angerly swerving left and right. An interesting thing I saw was how some energy would buzz around wounded areas while some would wrap around a sword or shield their holding and everyone had at least SOME energy floating around their heads. Oddly enough, Annabeth had most of her energy bolts floating around her head.
From atop my hill, I saw Percy coming back up, so I stood up and waved him over. His smile widened, nothing new, so my eyes drifted over to what he was holding. It was a messy stack of clothing and behind him was a trail of fabric.
I smirked and yelled, "Ya know, you're dropping." He made an exaterated pout and I ended up picking up everything he dropped.
When we both got back to my cabin, we were exausted and laughing.
"Can we please dump all this clothing into the cabin now?" I giggled. We were playing food fight but with clothing, he lost.
"Fine. If I have to." He said in mock depression, but his eyes held mirth.
"Yes, you have to. Now, come on and help me." I told him and we collected the articles of clothing and we went inside.
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The place was supprisingly clean for a cabin that hasn't been occupied in like fifty years, according to Percy. But hey, this place could have some magical cleaning spell cast on it for all I know.
Inside was awesome. There were bunk beds, but as soon as I wished in my head that they would be big king beads with fluffy comforters, they appeared and the crappy bunk beads dissolved into thin air. After that revelation I changed everything to fit my likings.
After I was done I looked around and smiled in approval. I suddenly remembered Percy and swerved around to see him wide-eyed and open mouthed. I smirked and snapped him out of his reverie.
"Earth to Percy, hello?" I smiled when he looked at me and closed his mouth.
"How did you do that?" My smirk intensifiyed and I replied with a vauge, "I dunno." and left it there.
Once finally got over his awe, Percy mimicked me with his own smirk and directed me to the new mirror I placed in.
My confusion settled on my face as I looked at myself. I saw the odd almond shaped purple eyes. I saw the even tan that covered my entire body. I saw the same old brown hair that's too long because I never bothered to cut it. And I saw the too full lips on my too feminine face.
"Percy, what are you talking about? I look the same as I always have." I gave Percy an odd look by quirking my eyebrows and stared at him.
"But it is different. It's just... it's like... I don't know how to explain it, but it's like I wasn't,couldn't pay attention to you. Like I was drawn away from how you looked. But now I can see your exotic eyes, your deep brown hair and your-" He abruptly stopped and blushed in embaressment. Of course, I was completely clueless to what he was so embarressed about.
He stuttered an excuse and left, leaving me with confusion and questions. Being myself I just shrugged and fell into my new bed ready to fall asleep despite it being dinner time.
I fell asleep to thoughts about Percy Jackson and how great tomorrow was going to be.
Okay, it's crap, I know it, AND it took a ton of waiting for this chapter. Just let me explain, I wrote it right after I posted the last one. I was tired and cranky when I wrote it so I made spelling, gramatic and fact mistakes, so I basicaly rewrote it a day later. Then, I found a bunch of plot errors and stuff like that, so I wrote it again a week or so after cause I was camping. Then, when I finally finished it, I re-read it and saw that it was writen in 3rd person…
I know. What's wrong with me?
Well, here we are. Who cares how we got here! Till next chapter!
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