Daughter of Victory
Chapter 2
Everyone stared at me dumbfounded. "So," I started "is this Camp Half-Blood?" I looked down below me and saw a breath taking valley with a strawberry field, sword fighting arena, and some cabins in a strange formation. Then a boy who looked quite like a Latino elf walked into the crowd and pushed his way to the front.
"Hey what's going on," he asked "are we throwing a party? Because if we're throwing a party why wasn't I invited."
"Leo," a blonde girl said with a sigh "she's a new demigod who defeated fifty monsters by herself." "Oh." Leo said amazed "Whoa! Nice wings! They're metal, cool! I wonder how they work…" "Yes this is Camp Half-Blood." She informed me "By the way my name is Annabeth. Come on I'll show you around." "Wait let me put back my wings." I said as I pushed my wings in my back.
As Annabeth led me into the valley, I heard a girl say "Come on, get back to your daily activities." As she herded everyone down the hill, I thought I heard the faintest bit of charmspeak in her voice. "Annabeth can that girl on the hill over there perform charmspeak?" I asked curiously. "Yes she can. How did you know?" She asked surprised. "I don't know," I admitted "I kind of detected it in her voice."
"Interesting." She mumbled. We walked in silence for about a minute. "So…" She started "can I call you Tori; because Victorica doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, don't get me wrong it's a beautiful name." "Yes," I giggled "you can call me Tori." She finally started showing me around camp she showed me the Pegasus stables, the canoe lake, and the sword fighting arena.
Then we stopped. "May I ask a question?" Annabeth asked. "Of course, you don't even need to ask." I told her. "Where did you get that sword, I've never seen anything like it." She told me as she examined my sword. "Yeah my Mom gave it to me when I was ten. She told me I would need it to protect myself when I ran away from the orphanage I lived in." I said wistfully. "I know how it feels. I ran away from home when I was seven. Two other demigods found me, Thalia, who's a Hunter of Artemis, and Luke, who is." Annabeth stopped.
"He must be dead." I thought to myself. "Never mind." Annabeth said. And we moved on. Next Annabeth showed me the cabins. We walked by the Posiden cabin, the Aphrodite cabin, which looked like a giant doll house, the Ares cabin, the Hectate cabin, there were girls running around taking peoples' noses, so we decided to stay away from there.
Finally, we got to the Nike cabin. "Oh wow." I gasped. I was a giant white and gold cabin with a symbol of gold wings above the door way. On the inside it was even more amazing. It had tons of shelves, a few bunk beds, and mural of my Mother.
"Are those trophy shelves?" I asked curiously. "Yeah I think they are, a lot aren't there," she replied, "Well you can do whatever you want until sundown." "Why sundown?" I asked. "That's when dinner is." She told me as she smiled and left. Oh and one more thing Chiron wants to see you
I decided to go see Chiron before I explored Camp Half-Blood. Annabeth told me to go to the Big House, and it was kind of hard to miss. I knocked on the door and a man in a wheel chair opened the door. "Hello I'm looking for Chiron" I said.
"That would be me." He informed me. "Annabeth told me to talk to you; she said you wanted to see me." I told him. "Well anyone who can take down fifty monsters by themselves, with a short sword no less, needs to see me." He said. I blushed "I'll tell you one thing," I said, "I always win. It's a gift and a curse." I sighed. "Oh," Chiron said "I see. Come on let's take a walk."
He stood up out of his wheelchair and suddenly he had the lower half of a horse. "You're a centaur?" I asked dumbfounded. "Yes child, don't act so surprised you have giant golden wings." Chiron scolded. We walked along a little while. "How did you learn how to fight?" He asked me curiously.
"My Mother taught me everything I know." I replied "My father died in a car crash when I was three years old. I don't even remember what he looks like." "May I see your wings" Chiron asked hesitantly. "Sure." I said as I shrugged. I slowly pushed out my wings. And a few minutes later everything was encased in an eerie golden light. "Interesting," Chiron mumbled. "How did you get these wings of yours?"
"They were a gift, from my mother when I was born. Actually more of a blessing, they saved me an hour or two of travel here. I would have been fighting monsters all the way here if it weren't for my wings." I looked at them admirably. "You still defeated them, though it wouldn't have made a difference." He insisted. I shrugged "It would have taken longer." We kept walking for a little while more, then some kids, with motor oil all over them, came up to me. Leo was the first to speak. "Hello Vic-tor-i-ca is that right?" He asked annoyingly.
"Just call me Tori." I said agitatedly. "Okay feisty," he said "we would be really honored if we could reverse engineer your wings." "Okay," I said unsurely, "but can I explore a little first? I just got here, today." "Fine, we'll do it tomorrow." He said calmly. And with that he walked away. I quickly put my wings back in and ran off to explore camp.
The first thing I did was go to the sword fighting arena; I needed to brush up on my sword skills. I started sparing a dark haired guy with sea green eyes.
"I'm just gonna warn you, I've been doing this for awhile." He said, because he was trying to be a nice guy. "Me too," I said "This is gonna be a fair fight." We started sparing I deflected every stab, jab, and strike he tried to make. I landed almost every one of my strikes on him. It was a quick fight I had him disarmed and on the ground without even breaking a sweat.
"Whoa," he said amazed "where did you learn how to fight like that?" "My Mother taught me," I said as I helped him to his feet. "Hello name's Percy, seeing as you beat me, you must be that girl everyone's talking about." "Yeah I kinda showed up and defeated fifty monsters by myself. My name is Victorica, but you can call me Tori." We walked along for a little bit. "Who is your mother?" Percy asked.
"My Mother is Nike, that's why I won, because the odds are always in my favor." "Now I feel bad about that, I've done this for awhile, stuff." I laughed "It's okay, you didn't know." I looked up and saw the sun sinking into the ground. "Would you like to go to dinner with me." Percy asked "Come on you can sit at my table." "Okay," I said defeated "I'll sit with you." And with that we walked to dinner.