Luna Pov
Everyone filed in pushing and shoving. There were no cliques, but not everyone was friendly, not mentioning anyone, but Clarisse could scowl a little less, if she doesn't she's going to have wrinkles by the time she is 25. Luna caught Percy's eye from across the room, he was sitting at his own table minding his own business. He winked at her smirking a little. It seemed that his conversation with Chiron hadn't gone bad but it still annoyed Luna that they were keeping something from her.
Nobody payed Luna any attention from where she stood staring at them. It had been only a little bit since she had gotten here but her identity as Percy's Twin had spread like wildfire thanks to the Apollo cabin boys. And they all seemed to find it unbelievable, stupid even. The fact that she was 19 made it even more laughable, how the hell had she stayed alive for that long? Was she the god's favourite demigod? And her personal favourite, if Percy was powerful how powerful was Luna? Oh, they had no idea. Every demigod here was going to be thrown into a world of shadowhunters, a race of half angels who could probably whoop their sorry little arses.
She really hated to interrupt everybody's happy lives with her presence but she had to, in fact without her the world would probably burn. She smiled, what happy thoughts. Turning her head slightly so she could hear the incoming sound of Chiron's hooves she waited. When the sound got to loud to bare she turned her head away and walked to the back of the mess hall where all the sounds wouldn't be so loud. She stepped carefully, making no sound. She passed undetected by the large mass of demigods and leaned against a large pine, resting her shoulder in the nook of some bark, as if one could get comfortable leaning against a solid mass of prickly wood.
Chiron stood out the front staring at the children in front of him, slightly sad that he would be saying goodbye to some of them soon. Luna realised this as she brushed up against his consciousness a power the rune on her left shoulder gave her. After studying most of the people she realised most of them where couples; Katie and Travis, Clarisse and Chris, Will and Nico and Leo and Calypso in the corner. That's what annoyed Luna the most, she was invading these people's lives, their happiness, and maybe she should just leave them alone and fight the army by herself.
Hearing the train of her thoughts, Percy turned his head and looked at her subtly shaking his head. She sighed. She was the reason these people were in danger, but she was the only thing that could save them. Ironic, much. Chiron started to talk about her and how he wanted them to make her feel welcome, wow, she didn't want to make friends that would just mean more people to care about.
She knew Chiron was going to go on about how she wasn't normal and about her special 'Powers,' which really she couldn't care less about what the campers all thought. She turned around and started walking towards the woods where her house was. She had built it only recently and it had all her weapons stocked in it. But she wasn't worried about the Hermes cabin finding it and stealing her stashes of stuff, she had drawn a runei9 on some trees surrounding her house which meant the area inside the trees was invisible and anyone who walked into it would be transported to the other side of it, like Idris.
After a few minutes she could see her house, it was the base of a tree large and round and it grew up into a tree a few hundred metres tall. She opened the door and headed straight towards her bed falling on it and wrapping herself in the soft sheets feeling like she laid upon a cloud which given her Poseidon powers she probably could. After laying there for a while her eyelids started to droop and her brain went into shut down mode allowing her a dreamless sleep one of the best sleeps.
PJOTMIPJOTMIPJOTMIPJOTMIPJOTMIPJOTMIPJOTMIPJOTMIPJOTMIPJOTMIPJOTMIPJOTMIPJOTMI
Luna woke up feeling revived and fresh, she didn't really need the sleep but it was her escape from having to think about the future and what it held. She stood up and walked over to her table a large thin oak that held 6 people, it made her depressed because really only 2 people ever sat at it, but it had sentimental value so she kept it.
After getting ready Luna headed out towards the mess hall where (seen as it was nearly breakfast time) everybody would be there soon. She sat down at the Poseidon table and thought silently about what she was going to tell the campers. It was complicated, she didn't want to tell them too much or it would danger their lives but if she told them too little she would probably underestimate her and if they did they would probably die. And even though she wasn't going to tell them everything what she was… or had to tell them still made her feel uncomfortable and a little scared. Since… as a long as she could remember (which was an actual lie, she just liked to think of it like that) she had been a locked book, actually she had melted the key and burned the book, but hey however you want to see it.
A scuffling sound to her left brought her out of her daze, turning her head around she identified what was making the sound a bulky Hephaestus boy who if she had heard right, had given his girlfriend a extremely well crafted wall decoration for her birthday. Luna found that incredibly sweet, but she never gave herself the chance to fall in love, she didn't want to hurt the person who was unlucky enough to fall in love with her. Her eyes followed him across the room until she realised he was actually coming towards her. Her face changed into an unreadable mask just as he glanced at her. She turned around in her chair so she was facing him, "can I help you?" she looked at him wondering I f he would break under the pressure her gaze held.
"I heard some rumours about you." He stuttered out.
"Really?" she asked smiling cheekily.
"Yes… Ummm, yea and I wondered if maybe they were true. Can you really tell the future? Like Rachel." He stuttered out incoherently.
"Yes it is, and I can see that yours is horribly painful." She smiled at him her eyes glinting evilly.
"What, no." His face fell into pure terror.
Her smile faded, and her lip curled. "If you really believe the rumours you're an idiot, I know you are a nice person, and if you stay like that hopefully you won't die in disdain. Now seen as the conch horn will blow for breakfast soon you better be on your way." Just as she said it the conch horn blew. She turned away shutting the conversation down, the boy stared at the back of her head for a while, huffed and then shuffled off. After a while the campers started walking in, sitting down at their tables, one by one noticing the girl sitting at the Poseidon table.
She smirked and silently waited for her brother to spontaneously appear, which took a while. He walked over smiling and sat down across from her, reaching over and enclosing her hands within his. She smiled back and stood up, walking in front of everyone, drawing the attention from everyone and everything, including the white centaur standing at the edge of the hall half standing in the shadows.
She stood taller and lifted her chin glaring at everyone, making people hate her would mean less deaths. "I don't care who you think I am or how you think I got here, the only thing that matters is the fact that I am here and the fact that as of now every single one of you is in danger, and really the only reason I am here is because of that." Her voice ran out strong and clear effectively scaring everyone who could hear it. "An enemy has risen and the only person who can kill them and their army is me, now I don't care how much you think I am crapping you, but if you don't believe me you will all die. I am the only one strong enough to kill them. Now I am not saying you are not strong it's the fact that part of you is human and because of that it gives you an extra weakness and because of that the enemy can kill you easier than it can kill me." She paused looking around the hall letting everything she had just said sink in.
"You may think it is because I am a child of Poseidon but really I am more than that I descend from a race of half angels, and through a chain of events I somehow eliminated all of the human inside me so now I am only half angel half god meaning because of that I hold a power so rare people would kill me and anybody who I care about to get my powers or make sure that I can't kill them." She paused, and stared at Percy wondering if she should go in.
"In the next few weeks I will teach and train all of you for the fight, I don't care if you don't want to I will make you. This means that all of you will be pushed to the brink and every single one of you will be fit and strong." Luna turned around and faced the Aphrodite table, "And you guys, I know you don't fight but I can still teach you ways to survive, and the Hectate cabin I will need your help with something, so stay back after breakfast. Today will be another normal day of training, so please enjoy it." Luna smiled menacingly at everyone at the last bit. She waved her hands and food appeared in front of everyone.
Now being ignored she walked towards where she knew Chiron was hiding, not realising that a very curious son of Hectate followed her every move. Fading into the shadows she came to a stop next to Chiron. "You realise that someday someone will find out the 'chain of events' that triggered you to lose all humanity" Chiron muttered still looking at the campers who all eating looked kind of glum.
"And when that happens I will tell them that that is the past and what happened then is in the past."
"Luna, what happened to you many people couldn't live through, but here you are alive, walking, smiling. You are one of the strongest people I know, and now you are about to sacrifice your life for people who don't even know you, someone that selfless deserves to have their story told and you Luna could have a book." At the last part he turned to look at her an ancient sadness flowed across his face, and it clicked in Luna's mind that the pain that Chiron must go through seeing children die must hurt him, but yet here he was.
"Chiron I know you don't want to see me die but if it will save their lives I will do it, I don't care if they will never know that I will sacrifice my life for them, I care that they will live to see another day. And to me that is something I wish for everyone." The sadness that crossed over Luna's face nearly tore Chiron's heart to pieces, but he honoured her decision to not tell them. Luna turned towards the campers and sighed, she didn't want them to know what she was going to do because then they would pity her and pity in a fight was the worst thing, it made people do risky decisions and risky decisions were something Luna couldn't afford.
Looking at Chiron's face one more time Luna turned and walked away , today she was going to walk around and watch and analyse people get to know them, how the react, how the move, and most importantly how they think. For Luna it was a day of thinking and to her that was boring but because she knew it was important she did it.
