I heard the cabin door open and looked over my shoulder. It was the other Sophie, from the Athena cabin. She was another good friend.
"Sophie?" she asked. "I couldn't help noticing you've seen a bit… unsettling ever since you came last week." I bit my lip.
"It's nothing," I replied a little too quickly. "Really." Sophie looked at me questioningly.
"It certainly doesn't seem like nothing," she said, and then she sighed. "I'm a daughter of Athena. I can tell something's up."
"I don't want to talk about it," I said, suddenly very interested in my feet. I knew that the fountain was probably starting to freeze over again, and tried to concentrate on getting it to melt. Again.
"Well, if you need to talk about it, I'm here," Sophie said with a wink. Then she left.
I looked at the fountain. It had started to freeze over, and now icicles hung on it. Surprised, I shut my eyes tightly and opened them again, but it was still frozen. Sighing, I concentrated again, but it didn't work.
I headed towards the woods to Bunker Nine. Leo was the only one who knew about my powers. Once, he saw me at Half-Blood hill, and I had been trying to keep the ice under control. After I had explained everything, he just nodded and smiled, then melted the ice with his fire. His fire wasn't normal. It could actually melt it.
I found Leo working on the Celestial bronze sphere. He was still trying to find all the features of the Archidemes sphere he had recovered while on a big quest last year.
"Um, Leo?" I asked cautiously. I knew when he got into something, he could be easily surprised by the littlest things.
"Hm?" He asked without looking up. "Who is it?" He turned.
"It's me," I answered, then lowered my voice. "I accidentally froze the fountain in my cabin."
"What? How do you freeze a fountain? I mean, I know that your dad is Poseidon and all, but like, ice? That's new," he said, still tinkering on the Archidemes sphere. I sighed.
"Leo, you know what I mean!" Leo grinned
"Yeah, yeah, I know. Just messing with ya," he said.
We headed back to Cabin 3. But Percy was already there.
"Hey Leo," he greeted. Then, "Why're you here?" My eyes widened, and I could see icicles crawling down the roof outside the window. The temperature dropped about 10 degrees, and if it wasn't before, the fountain was now completely frozen.
Leo put his hand on my shoulder, which reassured me a bit. "Sophie told me there was something wrong with the fountain and brought me here to fix it," he said. Percy nodded.
"'Kay. Well, I have to head over to the arena now." Percy left.
I relaxed and the temperature went up. The fountain didn't seem quite as frozen before. But Leo looked worried.
"You really need to keep your powers in check," he said. "Things could get out of control."
I nodded. We headed over to the fountain. Leo summoned fire in his hand and held it over the ice.
"Anyways," he said. "Do you know what's causing all this snow? I mean, because you have these powers and all… I really hope it's not Khione again. I might accidentally burn down Camp Half-Blood and that'll cause a little extra paperwork." He grinned. I returned it with a smile.
"No, I don't. Anyways, if it was Khione, she probably would have tried to kill you already." I had heard about Leo defeating Khione 2 years ago. When you return from a quest, the story spreads like wildfire.
Soon, the ice was melted.
"Thanks, Leo," I said. He shrugged.
"It was nothing."
I looked outside to see if anyone had been watching. There was the strange boy with a cane, the one I had seen dancing down the sidewalk. He was staring right back at me.
Jack Frost PoV
The girl had seen me. The one that had froze the fountain.
Elsa and I were still trying to figure out the place we had snowed on last night. We could tell it was no normal place.
Some places and people seemed to shift their appearance. Once, I had thought I had even seen someone with goat legs.
The place, the "camp", as we called it had about 30 cabins. Each one was strangely personalized. One had flowers and plants growing outside, despite the snow. One had stones with strange carvings outside the door. As far as we could tell, the people who camped here weren't normal people either.
The girl, for one. She had frozen the fountain and made icicles grow. I was sure of it. The boy that was in there with her, too. He had had flames dancing against his palms, and it had not left a single burn.
Anyways, when I looked at her, I could tell she could see me. She made full eye contact, and she froze as if in either fear or surprise.
Just who was this girl?