A/N: Okay, I have a really good idea where this is going but I need to figure somethings out first.
The first thing I need to figure out is who should James' godly parent be. I haven't gotten a lot of votes but I have got some. I would just like more votes so I can really be sure I know who you guys think James' godly parent should be. I'm not sure how much I can write about James if I don't know who his godly parent it. I wasn't going to tell you how many votes each god/goddess on my poll (one review vote) got but here it is:
Apollo: 2
Aphrodite: 1
Zeus: 1
Other: 0
Apollo obviously got more votes but it was only one more. Since you guys seem to like Aphrodite, Apollo, and Zeus being James' godly parent I kind of incorporated traits that demigods whose parents are either Apollo, Aphrodite, or Zeus might have. PLEASE if you read my story PLEASE vote. I don't care if you think it's a piece of garbage and should be tossed off the face of the earth for monkeys from Mars to eat, PLEASE VOTE!
I've got other things to figure out but that's the only thing you need to know.
I would also like to start a kind of contest thing. I've seen people do this a lot and I always have fun with it and have always wanted to try it. It's where you all submit your own character and I choose the ones I like the most to put in my story. This is to help me because I have roles for characters to play but I don't know what the characters should be like. (If that makes any sense.)
Anyway, I need 3-4 characters (maybe 5, depending how many characters I get). And don't just send me girl characters, I know I haven't talked about it but Clair has mostly guy friends. (James and his friends). But don't just start sending me only guy characters because I need at least ONE girl character. If they're are half-bloods they'll have a bigger role to play. I do need one human though. (Clair has normal friends too ya know.) So heres a short of half-blood outline you can follow if you choose to do so:
Name: (I expect first, middle, AND last)
Nicknames: (if any)
Godly parent:
Age:
History: (How they got to camp, life before camp, or maybe this is there first time to camp... you choose!)
Family: (Mortal parent and siblings, if any. Parent might be dead.)
Likes: (Doesn't have to be a super long list, just main interest. Like I like the sun but I would put it in this column unless I was a daughter of Apollo)
Dislikes: (Same thing as likes, doesn't have to be a ten-thousand paged list)
Romance: (Clair doesn't have to be the only one with romance. Oh and if your character has a boy/girlfriend, I hope some of them do, you can make him/her up too. I'll choose both. If you don't want to make the boy/girlfriend up I'll choose a character who doesn't have a boy/girlfriend to be your boy/girlfriend. If it's alright with the creator.)
Other: (anything I missed)
Here's a human outline (doesn't have to be a cool past or anything. I would prefer if it was normal, like no abuse or anything like that. But the character has to be good at making plans.)
Name: (I expect first, middle, AND last)
Nicknames: (if any)
Family:
Likes: (Doesn't have to be a super long list, just main interest.)
Dislikes: (Same thing as likes, doesn't have to be a ten-thousand paged list)
Romance: (Has to have crush or boy/girlfriend. No "is looking for love". Please tell me crushes or boy/girlfriends name. If it's a crush, it can be on one of James' friends.)
Other: (anything I missed)
You will be allowed to submit until March 17 (Saint Patrick's Day) or until I have found the characters I'm looking for. I'll let you know if I've picked your character. (Via PM)
Okay now that that's done. On with the story!
Chapter 3 Mini: Death to Camp Half-Blood
I keep on looking at James through the corner of my eye. He is quite the charmer and he had my mom eating out of his hand in no time. I wish my dad wasn't at that stupid Boards of Ed meeting so that he could see how great a guy James is, so when James and I become boyfriend and girlfriend... Okay, I'm getting ahead of myself. I don't even know if James likes me. What if he has a girlfriend I don't about? Then I would be crushed and I would eat ice cream in my room all day.
But it has to be vanilla.
I start to panic. How could I be so stupid to believe that someone as perfect as James didn't have a girlfriend yet. Or maybe he has a crush on someone absolutely gorgeous and not a plain Jane like me.
"Clair are you okay? You look like you're having a rant in your head over a really depressing subject." James glances at me.
Note to self: Cool it with the internal rants.
"Do you have a girlfriend?" The question escaped my lips before I could stop it.
"No." He tells me, a small smirk on his lips.
"Good." I say without thinking. Shoot! I didn't meant to say that. James raises an eyebrow at me.
"For my friend." I act like I was going to say that the whole time.
"See she has a crush on you but I'm not going to tell you who, BFF confidentiality." I can tell that he's not buying it. He just shakes his head and goes back to eating. Just then Percy decides to speak.
"I have big, important news to tell everyone." He says while I take a sip of my water.
"I have to get to camp early, they need me, so I'll be leaving with the gang on Monday." I spit out the water that was in my mouth into Annabeth's face and I didn't even stop to apologize, I was too furious.
"Are you telling me that the little amount of time I have to spend with you is being shortened?" I yell at him. I don't even wait for him to answer. I keep on yelling.
"The time that I treasure and look forward to every single day of the year is being cut because someone else needs you? Have they even considered the fact that you've got a little sister who loves you dearly and that this little sister might need you too? Might need an older brother to protect her from the bullies at school? Might sleep in your bed for weeks because the aching feeling in her chest can't be filled and it seems like the only way to be close to you? That this little sister fears that one day she will forget the face and voice of her brother? No of course they didn't. Because if they did I would be going with you to this camp, I would be allowed to call you every night or at least on rough days. I would be allowed to see you more often and our visits would never be interrupted. They don't even consider it." Tears threatened to escape my eyes. I goet up from my seat and run to my room. I slam my door shut and lock. I fall to the floor, tears from my eyes falling with me. I'm gasping for air, my heart feels like it was being squeezed. I don't even care if James thinks I act more like a two year old than the fourteen year old I'm supposed to be. Family comes before everything. But apparently not to this so called 'camp'.
I pick up a book that I left on the floor and chuck it across the room, I didn't look to see where it landed. My eyes saw red when I thought of this camp. How can something as little as a camp have so much control over my life? Camps are supposed to be fun, this one ruins lives. I need to get to that camp. To find out why I can't go there. But I need a plan.
And I know exactly who to go to.
A/N: I won't be able to update until I get a human character. You can also submit as many characters as you like.
I would like to change something. I got a review from Musafreen about how that time doesn't work. (Well Musafreen didn't say that, he/she just said he/she was confused.) I'm changing it to after TLH. Lets pretend Percy was saved, got his memory back, and we won the fight against the giants. YEAH! Paul and Sally had Clair during all of that. And Clair is 14 and if you remember from the first chapter, Clair said Percy was 16 years older then her. So if you do the math that's 30. I tried to make him as young as possible and still have Clair be old enough to find romance.
Please review and submit characters!
-The Not So Goddess
PS: This is my longest chapter and it's not even a full chapter. That's sad. And kind of funny... in a way.