Chapter 2: Moon and day
A loud rap on the door awoke Nicki from her doubts. She got up and knocked back telling her aunt she was up. The sun poked through the windows and played peek-a-boo behind the clouds. Nicki grabbed some clothes an old bright blue shirt with a Popsicle on it with a bite out of it saying, love at first bite,in orange. Then she put on some blue shorts to go with it.
"I'm out Aunt Jamie!" she said as she came down the stairs. The smell of waffles and real syrup wondered into her nose. As she stopped to look at a picture Nicki cursed under her breath. She had dyslexia it wasn't the worst case and if she tried hard enough she could make out the simple words like, if anything said 'hi' or 'she' and 'he' but anything else she was lost.
"Nicki food is ready!" Nicki turned and ran down her stomach growling ready for the food. As she took her seat Nicki saw a bright flash of white and gold. 'Nathan' was sitting across from her.
"Morning, Nicki! Aw, come on why you so down? You need a haiku!" Nicki looked around waiting for her ADHD to kick in she wasn't sure if the haiku was a good thing or not. Her aunt groaned as she made another batch of waffles,
"No, enough. I can't believe Nicole deals with this! Why does she even visit? No haiku." Nathan frowned and then smiled,
"It's okay; she doesn't know what she's missing!" He said. Nicki got curious, why didn't anyone like his haikus? They couldn't be that bad, right?
"Come on! I love haikus! I'm not so great myself but come on!" her aunt looked at her but rolled her eyes,
"Fire away Apo- Nathan." Nicki looked to her aunt, what had she just almost called Nathan?
"As the sun looks,
Over you and protects,
A child of sun." Nicki stared at him, it was amazing. She smiled,
"That was great Nathan." He smiled and finished eating as if it was nothing at all. Nicki's aunt sat down and nodded to Nathan,
"Tell her, she knows about camp. I told her." Nicki thought back to camp, it had to be a joke. No god was real. It was a trick to make her go that was it.
"Nicki, about camp," He paused and sighed,
"Nicki, camp is filled up and it is still under construction. You can't go." Nicki gasped, sure she didn't like the idea but she did like camp.
"So there are no real gods?" lightning flashed outside and thunder rumbled, Nathan smiled,
"Come on now you're making dad mad," he bit his lip after the last statement. Dad.
"Your dad?" Nathan smiled,
"Yah, Nicki you think the gods aren't real. They live down two blocks away and up 600 floors. And you have been talking to a god for the past two days. My name isn't Nathan. My name is Apollo." Nicki face palmed him. This was not happening.
"No. Nothing is real my family just died over the course of two months and you say you're a god. Ha, if I wanted a miracle I would go up to 600th floor of the empire state building and ask for Zeus myself." 'Apollo' or Nathan, Nicki couldn't tell which she wanted to call him, shrugged,
"The gatekeeper doesn't mind, just ask for an audience with Zeus he'll ask Half-blood if he can't smell you already and say okay." Nicki screamed,
"This is all wrong!" She got up and ran off, and upon seeing her room she relaxed a bit not much. Seeing the sun and the color blue calmed her all the time.
Jamie sighed and looked to Apollo,
"We tried didn't we? Oh well, all half-bloods are the same are they not?" Apollo shook his head,
"Most are told in battle before they are taken and aren't told by a god. But all the monsters did keep their oath to kill all family members before hunting down the child." Jamie sighed,
"Why her family?" Apollo shook his head,
"Easy for satyrs to find and well, it helps that no one else like younger siblings blurt it out you know." Jamie nodded and looked to the stairs,
"I better talk to her." Apollo shook his head,
"Nah, she's coming with me tonight. Arty will be leaving the area soon." Jamie gasped,
"But she doesn't know where she's going!" Apollo shrugged,
"Her loss we have to move tonight or no camp or hunting at all."
Nicki curled up in her blue bed and cuddled her sun and moon pillows. More lightning flashed outside and a flash of silver and gold flew through the sky.
"What?" She asked herself as she got up and was still holding her sun and moon pillows. She could see they were chariots, old Greek chariots. A young girl of 12 was riding the silver one while… was it 'Nathan' 'Apollo' on the gold one? They kept riding around then they were gone. Nicki got ready for bed and fell on the sheets ready to pass out.
"Nicki?" 'Apollo' 'Nathan' said as he walked into her room. He smiled; her aunt had chosen the best room for her.
"Get out of my room, you stupid freaking god of everything." 'Apollo' 'Nathan' raised his hands in protest,
"You are calling me Hermes now? He may be my little brother but he's gonna be pissed, watch those names Nicki. It's time to ship off. Your gonna go hunting for a few months." Nicki didn't even look up as she grabbed the moon pillow and threw it straight at him and hit him-right in the wrong spot. 'Apollo' 'Nathan' groaned and fell down,
"I surrender. Just get up." Nicki got up and started laughing.
"Out then!" Apollo got out and let Nicki get ready; she came out with two suitcases' and a backpack.
"You have done archery before?" Nicki nodded,
"Best at my old summer camp." Apollo smiled.
"Good cause your hunting today." Nicki was walking down the stairs wondering what happened if you called a big god like Zeus stupid if you would be killed in one lightning blast or would Hades have to you know take you down and kill you in the Styx.
"Wait, hunting? Do they hunt and half-blood?" Apollo laughed,
"Er, nah. You're going with my sister for a while because of the no space thing at half-blood." Nicki thought about who could be 'Nathan/ Apollo's' sister.
"Artemis? I'm staying with her?"
A/n: Hey guys! Hope you are enjoying this fic! Is it obvious who her godly parent is? Cause I think so. And I suck at Haikus so if Apollo's was good, oh well its kinda a key line in the story. And yes Nicki is a half-blood so she has ADHD and Dyslexia but her case isn't as bad as let's say Percy's is. But Nicki is very strong nevertheless. Oh is anyone afraid of Artemis? Or her hunters?
Just asking…
Nicki is also a good writer and I will have chapter's that are Journal entries because she's gonna do a journal while she's with the hunter's.
That's all! If you guys have an idea to help make it better then pm me or ask in a review.
"The click is mightier than the type because with a key board everyone is hurt with a mouse click the block causes them to forget." –Copyright ME! Does anyone understand that it means no flaming or your blocked if you say nicely
For example
"I really do love this story but there are a few things to work one such as grammar.
(Shows bad grammar here) and then the fixed version
(Fixed grammar)
Other than that it's very good. This has a nice plot line but I don't understand why her family was killed so close together in a short period. I know it kind of said why but if you could please say it more clearly it would be nice. Nicki is a borderline of Mary-sue only because of that though. She's alright otherwise. Good story keep it up."
Anything like that I just reviewed my own fic because I bet a lot of people will say that. I hate doing flamer warnings and stuff but you guys don't understand what it's like or there's too much of it. Sure flamers have a right to flame if it's all bold(unless stated a mistake in the processing program and they say that in a note.) All CAPS and bad spelling like chat speak never do chat speak unless your typing a text someone got like;
Nicki smiled as she saw the text left by Nathan on her phone;
'c u soon. 3 u.' anyone reading this that isn't happening I just chose those names cause I wanted to but other than that no chat speak like
They said hi and she was all
'u look so icky in those colthes'
WRONG! It says in guidelines NOT to DO that. And please try not to do Mary-sues Gray-stu's. I swear I have taken the test at least about 7 times on all my ocs and none were positive Nicki was the least of them all. So flamer's don't flame if they aren't because no charter is perfect and neither is the author.
Enough ranting… chapter 3 soon.
~Daina Solo
