AN: Sorry guys, a monthish? Wow okay so just so you know this story will probably be updated monthly or bimonthly. It will be quicker if I get more reviews concerning the story itself and not just the OCs. And...I guess that's all I have to say for an opening AN. Just please READ THE AN AT THE BOTTOM! Thanks.
To put it plainly, Hephaestus was worried he just killed someone. The figure hadn't moved and time slowed down even further. Sarah had wide eyes and an open mouth. Time sped up again and Hephaestus could breath again. Turned out that the arrow did not have enough strength to do any damage, plus it was a dulled safety arrow. The guy stumbled back a step (strong enough to push back and bruise, nothing more.) He looked up and took in the faces of the new and semi-new campers. The boy with ugly acne looked freaked and the girl looked like she was about to faint.
"I'm sorry!" The new kid blurted. Wiping off any emotion he scowled into the tent.
"Whatever. I was here to find Percy? He is teaching this class right?" The boy said, raising an eyebrow.
"Hey Izack! What are you doing here?" Percy asked coming up.
"Chiron told me to gather whoever was good with a bow to go to the archery class with Apollo cabin." Izack said.
"Oh okay, well Sarah here was going to give it a go. Jack?" Percy asked Hephaestus.
"Uh...no. The bow isn't my thing."
"Yeah not many from Hephaestus' cabin use bows. Jack, this is Izack son of Apollo."
And just for a second Hephaestus was light headed. A child of Apollo that didn't wear sunny colors? Izack wore a black hoodie and dark gray t-shirt with a camp necklace with five beads on it. He wore dark wash jeans and black...uh, what did Aphrodite call them? Oh yeah, black Vans. He was built like his siblings though. He was tall and lean, his face was narrow and sprinkled with freckles. His eyes were a goldish brown. Shades lighter than his siblings.
"Izack this is Jack, son of Hephaestus and Sarah daughter of Hermes." Hephaestus was reassured by the fact that he still had blonde hair though it freaked him out a bit how close it was to his fathers'. It was lighter blonde than everyone else's and it contrasted sharply with his clothes.
After exchanging a few greetings Izack and Sarah, along with another blonde haired girl. (They were too far away for him to tell at this point.)
"Let's get back to the others." Percy said as he walked back to the arena. All the while swinging his sword. Hephaestus was now terrified of demigods. They were insane! Poseidon's kid was just waving the sword around! Though the other campers around him didn't seem to care. When they got back to the arena he walked up to the Hermes' twins.
"Isn't it dangerous to swing to sword around like that?" He whispered to the boys.
"What?" The taller one, Travis, he thinks, asked. "Oh, Percy?"
"Na, he would be in more danger if someone gave him a bow and arrows." Connor said.
"Why?" Hephaestus asked.
"As a son of Poseidon he can't shoot at all. I mean, one time he was able to hit me fifty feet away!" Travis scowled, though no real resentment was present.
"Uhh, so? Isn't that good?" Realizing his wording he quickly blurted out. "I mean that he hit something?"
"I was fifty feet behind him." Travis said smiling.
"It was so cool though! It bounced off a shield that some one left halfway to the target." Connor started.
"Why was there-" Hephaestus was cut off when his daughter cut in. Juliet Law was twelve (he claimed all his children almost immediately after they get to camp) and had been a camp a year. She wore jeans and a red tank top and white converse. Her strawberry blonde hair was streaked with blue and was pulled into a braid down her back, reaching right below her shoulder blades. She had a dagger at her hip that glinted menacingly in the sun.
"A Hunter got mad at a camper a threw a shield into the archery range. I guess people just forgot about it."
"Anyways, it bounced off the shield and back at him!" Connor continued.
"He, of course, jumped out of the way and I didn't see it coming and it hit my arm." Travis picked up.
"But since this has been happening since Percy got here he was using a blunted arrow." Connor explained.
"Like, way more blunted than just the blunted ones." Travis said.
"It left a nasty bruise though." Hephaestus thought that smile was a little to big for the brother of the guy who got shot...err, hit? And Hephaestus was starting to get confused on who was talking. They sounded a bit similar, they were talking way too fast and they kept switching off every other sentence.
"Guys! Pay attention!" Percy yelled from his spot in front of everyone. He was sparing with a Hermes girl. She was seventeen, maybe. She was wearing the camp t-shirt and had bermuda shorts on. She wore dirty old white Vans. Her dirty blonde hair was in a high pony tail with hair framing her face on both sides. She glared at her brothers with her green eyes. She held a sword in her hand and it looked like she was previously sparing with Percy. Or at least helping in a presentation.
"Yeah Stolls! Pay attention or keep an eye open tonight."
While Hephaestus' eyes got wide from the threat the brothers just put on a huge 'innocent' smile and Juliet merely huffed and crossed her arms.
Percy then smiled but said, "You can beat them up later Katherine. Let's continue."
Later (lunch)...
"What do you think of camp?" Jake asked him as he sat down for lunch.
"Um, I guess its cool." Hephaestus shrugged and looked down at his food.
"What's wrong?" Jake asked.
Hephaestus looked up wide eyed. Never has anyone noticed when he was sad. During the Council meetings he could be crying and no one would ask what was wrong.
"It's just uhh, I mean, I-" He stuttered out.
"Overwhelming? The sense of belonging?" Jake smiled at his shocked look. "We all experience it when we come here. Even if we had a good life before this it never felt right. Did it ever feel like you never fit in?" Jake asked.
"I guess. Yeah, I always felt left out." Hephaestus confided.
"That's normal. Even before you find out about demigods and monsters you know that you're different somehow. You just couldn't figure it out until you got here."
Hephaestus nodded then continued eating, lost in thought. Jake left him alone to absorb this new information.
When everyone was finished they got up as a cabin and walked out.
"What now?" Hephaestus asked Alex.
"We forge weapons and fix broken ones. If we finish early we can work on our own projects. Since the war we have been swamped with broken and dented weapons. Luckily we're almost done and as a thank you Chiron and Mr. D will give us a day off!" Alex cheered.
"Come on guys, we should get started. The sooner we finish the sooner we can have that day off." Jake said loud enough for the whole cabin to hear. He turned to Hephaestus, "Do you know how well you can forge things?"
'Of course I do. I'm the god of the forge.' He thought. But said, "Well, my step dad was an engineer and he let me help and work on some of my own stuff. But I never forged things." It kind of alarmed him how well that lie came out.
"That's alright. Just try it and then we'll go from there." Jake said, putting an arm around Hephaestus.
When they went inside Hephaestus was bursting with pride inside. It seemed that the younger kids helped with tools, passing them around and such. The older kids were fixing broken weapons and some new ones. The youngest that was forging was Juliet, then an age gap of three years.
"Why aren't the younger kids forging?" He had to ask.
"It's too dangerous. Some of them are too short or not strong enough."
And thus Hephaestus spent the rest of the day helping. It amazed him how well he got along with everyone. They joked and laughed, shared tips on different techniques and a lot of his 'siblings' gave him advice for life at camp. Dinner came and went and before he knew it he was asleep and another dream came. But this time he finally understood why some demigods refused to sleep. This was a demigod dream, one that told of the future and it frightened him.
AN: First off OCs.
Izack was from Robo(Guest). I hope you're still reading it so that you can see your OC come to life! (He will come in more. Like all OCs will.)
Juliet was from shadow queen daughter of hades.
The unnamed blonde that walked away with Sarah and Izack was from Awesome as annabeth. She does have a name and will be introduced later.
And Katherine was one I that made up 'cause I needed a kid of Hermes and I didn't have one at the time I wrote this.
Next: I want Hephaestus to go on a quest. You know, gain the complete experience. So I need quest ideas and quest buddies. (The others going can be any of the OCs or canon characters. I need two.) And if you could please pm quest ideas. I don't want other people to read it if I'm going to use it, I want it to be a surprise.
Last thing: I need two more daughter of Hephaestus OCs and five sons.
And I think that's it. Just remember, even though I love reading about your guys' OCs I do want reviews on the story itself. How is the flow or plot or something.
~Dawnmoon