The Missing Daughter
Thanks for the tips, really. So, I hope this one is free of grammar mistakes and spelling mistakes......
Anyway, Ate is pronounced aaa(as in apple) and tay...so...aa-tay....I guess. So...yeah....
Elanora's POV
"Well, girls," Chiron said, staring them down. "What brings you back to camp...at such a...difficult time.....?"
"Well, you know Aria, right?" Chrysilla asked. Chiron nodded. Elanora looked around the room, searching for signs that time had gone by. It didn't seem that long ago that she and Ariadne, Aria for short, had sat in here, wondering what the heck this crazy half-man half horse thing. But Elanora had come to respect Chiron, and was finally coming to him for help.
"Well, you see, Chiron," Cinnabar continued. "After we......" She trailed off. Elanora looked down in shame as memories of the last time she had been there came back...
"Guys, we have to do something!" Aria shouted. Fire ripped across the center of camp, and kids were screaming. A giant hell hound bounded across the field.
"Guys, there's nothing we can do! Forget it!" Elanora said. Aria sank to the ground by the door, sobbing.
"But we have to. This has been my first real home, and I'm sure it was for you too. But someone let these monsters in, and we have to do something about it!" Aria cried.
"Aria!" Elanora shouted over the din outside. "There is nothing we can do, except leave. This is the only time we can!" Aria looked up, her eyes puffy and tears streaming down her face.
"You're right," she choked out. She rose to her feet. "Elanora is right. We need to go, now." Aria opened the door, and walked out, leaving her things behind...
"After you left camp. Go on."
"After we left camp, we lived on our own, battled when we needed to, and stayed out of trouble-" Cinnabar cut Chrysilla off.
"A pretty hard feat for daughters of chaos and all that," Cinnabar said. She smiled at Chrysilla. "Go on."
"As I was saying, we lived on our own for awhile and tried not to be detected. We ran into Luke a few weeks ago. He let us on to his ship, and he looked pretty badly hurt, so we nursed him to health-"
Cinnabar coughed and Chrysilla blushed.
"Well I helped him, and then one day, he wanted to speak to Aria alone. Obviously, we wanted to know what was going on. We heard lots of screaming and stuff and then it was silent. She was screaming things like, "I would never do that!" and things like, "I can't believe you!" and little snippets. We went down to investigate, but we never made it. Some of his guards caught us. We escaped, but we didn't know how we were going to get Aria back. So we figured..."
"That you could come here," Chiron finished again. Elanora continued to look down at the floor. Suddenly, they heard a scuffling outside. Something banged on the door. they all stared and the door opened, Grover fallen through.
"Guys!" Elanora heard Annabeth whisper. Annabeth popped up from the side of the door.
"Uh, hey Chiron....." the boy named Percy stood up, his hair a mess. Grover stared at them from the floor. Chrysilla giggled.
"Hello Percy, Annabeth, Grover. I assume you heard our little conversation?" Chiron asked. Annabeth gave a nervous laugh.
"What conversation? Psh, I didn't hear a conversation! We just came up here to get our..."
"Foods....out of the oven...." Grover said awkwardly. He stood up and brushed his shirt. "Yeah, we really must go get our food out of the oven now..." I shot him a look.
"I'm not going to act like you don't know what we were talking about. What part of the story did you hear?" Chiron asked gently. They fidgeted and shifted from one foot to another.
"Just bits and snippets," Annabeth lied.
"We really must go and-"
"Bits and snippets," Chiron repeated.
"No really, I'm afraid the ice cream will burn if we don't go and get it soon-"
"So, you heard all of it," Elanora asked.
"I really don't know what you're talking about. Guys, we really need to go now," Grover said, pulling Percy toward the door.
"Grover, give it up. You're the worst liar ever," Elanora remarked.
"So, you heard everything?" Chrysilla asked. Annabeth nodded, a bit reluctantly.
"Good," Elanora said. "I didn't know how to break it to you guys." Chiron, Percy, Annabeth, and Grover looked at the three girls.
"How to break what to us?" Percy questioned.
"How to ask you guys to help us."
x.X.x.
Percy's POV
Percy was numb with shock. He didn't even know this girl, or know these girls. And if they had created that much trouble last time, then why would he help them?
"To help find Aria?" he asked. Chrysilla, Cinnabar, and Elanora rolled their eyes.
"No, to find the Energizer Bunny and finally stop him from banging that stupid drum! Of course to find Aria!" Elanora exclaimed.
"Percy, come on. You have to help us!" Chrysilla said. Cinnabar stepped in front of her.
"Please, Percy. Help us find Aria. For us." Cinnabar half smiled half grimaced and Percy realized that her pupils seemed never ending. "We would be ever so grateful. If you-" Annabeth stepped in front of Percy.
"Annabeth, move," Percy requested. Annabeth continued to stand there.
"Percy, they're working their powers on you, what ever they may be. Snap out of it." Percy sighed and leaned around Annabeth.
"I'll think about it," Percy answered her. Cinnabar's face suddenly lightened and her eyes went back to normal.
"Thanks!" she chirped. She and Chrysilla flounced out of the room, giggling.
"Wait...what?" Percy asked in disbelief. How had she gotten him to do that? Annabeth sighed.
"I tried to stop you..."
Elanora turned to Chiron.
"Where should we camp?" she asked.
"Where ever you like, Elanora." She turned and began to walk out of the room.
"Not to sound weird or threatening, but things are happening that you couldn't imagine." And with that, she strode out of the room. Chiron massaged his temples a bit before returning his attention to the three other campers.
"Well, we'd better get down to dinner now. C'mon."
x.X.x.
Elanora's POV
"Let's stay in the Aphrodite cabin!" Chrysilla giggled. "They always have the best make-up!"
Elanora and Cinnabar rolled their eyes.
"Or we could stay in Zeus's, Hera's, or Poseidon's cabin tonight! They are so pretty inside!" Cinnabar put in. She smiled in hope.
"Doesn't Hera hate us?" Chrysilla asked her. Chrysilla flipped a lock of the blond, almost white hair over her shoulder.
"Yeah, so? It's be so much fun if she came down here and-"
"No. No way. We can't have the camp thinking we caused chaos. Again," Chrysilla cut Cinnabar off. She frowned.
"What about Artemis's cabin?" Cinnabar suggested.
"Nah, they're coming anyway," Chrysilla said. "How about we stay in Poseidon's cabin? Since we stayed in Zeus's last time."
"Whatever guys, I'm starving. Let's get to dinner," Elanora said, walking toward the picnic tables. Chrysilla and Cinnabar walked with her.
"Well, as you all know, but I am forced to remind you for all the kids who may have forgotten, capture the flag is tomorrow. Yay, fun," Dionysus drawled. Some of the kids at the Ares table cheered. "We have three half bloods returning to camp today, Crystal, Cinnamon, and Eleanor. Yay, whoop. Now eat." Dionysus sat down and some of the kids who had been there when the three girls were there before stared in their direction.
"Hey, Elanora! Where's Aria?" Clarisse shouted from a few tables across. Elanora, for the third time that day, rolled her eyes.
"Whatever, Clarisse."
"Was she too much of a sissy to come? Or did she fall for that traitor, Luke?" Clarisse called. Elanora and Annabeth stood up at this, but Clarisse just chuckled.
"Ooh, I am so scared now."
Chrysilla and Cinnabar pulled Elanora down.
"Don't. They cannot know," Cinnabar whispered to her. She and the two other girls went up in line to put an offering to the gods and goddesses. Elanora scraped some of her fruit into the flames.
"Mom, help us find Aria...." Elanora trudged back through the crowd of kids, not waiting for Chrysilla and Cinnabar. She found Clarisse grinning madly at their table.
"So she did fall for Luke." This was the last straw.
"Clarisse!" Elanora shouted. Kids looked in their direction. "I have had enough of your crap!" All around them, plates began to shake and clatter. Kids tried to hold the moving food down, but the food rushed towards Clarisse instead. Clarisse tried to bat them away, and she put up a fight, but the plates kept coming. When the attack was done, Clarisse was covered head to toe in food. She stood there, stunned. Elanora stormed away as Chrysilla and Cinnabar fought through the kids.
"Elanora!" Cinnabar called after her.
"Wait up!" Elanora threw a hand in the air.
"You know what? I'm not hungry anymore. Do what you want with the remaining food. Eat it, throw it away, throw it at Clarisse, I don't care! She turned around, fire dancing in her eyes.
"No one cares! No one gives a crap that Luke has Aria locked up, and plans to use her chaos for evil! But no! No one cares! It's just a nice, lovely day for Camp Half-Blood, isn't it! We can just leave! We can leave and not help the camp!" Elanora stormed away into the darkness.
x.X.x.
Percy's POV
Kids stared in silence for a second, watching the retreating form that was Elanora.
"Whoa," Percy heard Nico say. Then all was normal. Kids continue to eat and talk. Annabeth slid into the seat in front of Percy, next to Tyson.
"What was that about?" she asked. Grover slid in next to her.
"Did you guys know she could do that?" he asked them. Both Annabeth and Percy shook their heads. Chrysilla and Cinnabar came over to the table.
"Hey, Chrysilla," Percy said. She continued to stare at Elanora. Cinnabar was shaking her head next to her, muttering under her breath.
"Huh?"
"What was that about?" Percy asked her. Cinnabar left and ran after Elanora. Chrysilla turned to look at the other demigods.
"Oh, ya' know...stressed about Aria. And Clarisse ratting on Aria was a big blow...You know what? I should probably get going too. Bye." Annabeth shot Grover and Percy a look, then followed the silver haired girl. Grover turned to Percy.
"Should we go too?" he queried. Percy shrugged.
"Might as well." He and Grover left their empty plates on the table and followed the girls.
x.X.x.
Elanora's POV
"Ugh!" she screamed. Elanora stormed into Poseidon's cabin and slammed the door behind her.
"That little...imbecile...stupid frickin..." she muttered. In the back of the cabin stood a large fountain. Elanora fished a drachma out of her secret pocket and threw it into the mist.
"Oh goddess, Iris, accept my offering. Aria, the ship Princess Andromeda." Elanora doubted it would work, but a dark scene played across the mist. The only lighting seemed to be the torchlight and in the dim light sat a girl. A girl with black hair, dark eyes, and a black, tattered dress. Aria.
Yeah, hope you guys like it. Hope there's not very many spelling mistakes! Please give me some feedback...