AN. Sorry this chapter took so long to write
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I freeze, knowing that if I answer that I myself did then despite my immortality, he would probably find a way to kill me. Instead I shake my head.
Mr.D turns around and pulls down on an alarm. "Prepare for war!"
"Wait! Please... don't. You honestly don't understand."
His eyes started to glow a fiery red. "You think so, I ought to -"
I wasn't thinking, and just wanted to get back home. To the time where I belonged. So I smiled and said "Fight me then."
As soon as I had said it, I regretted what I had said so much. There were only two possibilities - I would win (unlikely) or that I would lose - and they would find out that I wasn't just a demigod. And then things would get a lot more complicated.
Uncapping Riptide, I stepped backwards slowly, thinking of how much of an idiot I was. Mr. D made an enormous sword materialise, and then stepped forward. I turn for a second, to see a crowd of shocked campers staring at me.
"There is no threat!" I mange to shout but Mr.D just laughs, running forward, brandishing his sword in front of me. Stumbling, I just manage to avoid an attack, and summon my water powers, to make a small funnel of water rise out of the lake behind me, and using it to drench Mr.D. Of course, it didn't do any damage, it just made him angrier.
Then a half blood, that I didn't recgonize, turned up, and ran over. "I just searched the borders to the camp. There are no monsters here." She said it quietly,afraid of the angry Mr.D. I couldn't help but smirk, as he stopped mid fight, realising that there were no imminent dangers to camp. Slowly, he raised one eyebrow, and hissed "I'll get you back one day Peter..." before walking off.
I didn't bother pretending I wasn't claimed by going back to Cabin Eleven and instead went to the Cabin where I actually belonged. Chiron appeared about an hour after I went there, demanding to know what I was playing at - and when I told him he didn't believe me at first. Until I proved it, by showing my powers over water.
And when I saw Mr.D standing a few metres away, anger flaring in his eyes, I couldn't help but laugh - realising that this was the reason why Mr.D had always hated me.
Days passed by in a whirlwind, while I stayed in my cabin as much as I could, this situation was making me feel awkward. Especially the fact that I couldn't do anything to stop it - any attempts to return home always failed. I was trapped here. Everyone talked about me, about how a "second" child of the Big Three had appeared; and they wondered if I was going to be like Thalia - not reaching sixteen. I couldn't stand listening to all of it, and eventually decided to leave camp. It wouldn't matter anyway, right? I would get home and it wouldn't take years... I hoped.
Sighing, I grabbed a backpack marked "Camp Half Blood" on it that had been lying under the bed, grabbed it and stuffed clothes (that Camp had given me) into it, before jogging towards the boundaries. There, I spotted Chiron standing there, staring out over Half-Blood Hill but carried on walking. He grabbed me by the arm and raised an eyebrow.
"Where are you going? You can't just leave you know Peter, the monsters-"
I just shook my head. "I don't think the monsters are going to make much difference you know," I said as casually as I could.
"You can't just leave. Go to the Oracle first at least," Chiron said, and sighing, I nodded - knowing that it would be easier to obey then to argue. I climbed the stairs in the Big House, up to the attic where I saw the Oracle.
Shivering, but not because of the cold, I asked "How do I get home?"
You will be locked in a battle, your foe to defeat
Strong and sturdy to survive the fray
But are you as courageous as they portray?
A choice you have will determine the road the world will take
To return home to power
Or to stay here for their sake?
Whatever you choose beware
For any choice could bode ill
Unless the Bane of Olympus you ensnare.
That was all it said. And it was pretty clear what it meant. I couldn't go home; and I was going to have to do some kind of quest, right?
But the thing that bothered me was - what is the Bane of Olympus?
P.S I know it is short, but this was the ideal place to stop - sorry about the cliffhanger
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R +R
