Camp Halfblood was huge. There were so many cabins all around. The one that caught my eye was a big, black one with green fire in these pot like things. Wait! Back up, green fire? Okay I am now officially nuts.
"That will be your cabin," Percy said, breaking me out of the trance I didn't realize I was in. "That is Hades cabin. Only one other person lives there."
"Who?" I asked.
"Nico Di Angelo. He is your half-brother. Here, let's go see if he is there. Nico and I go a long way back."
We walked up to the door which was -big shocker- black with a skull on it. Percy knocked and a pale kid opened the door. He had black hair, brown eyes, was as pale as me, and looked fifteen. He wore all black. He didn't even wear that ridiculous orange shirt that said "Camp Halfblood" on it. It's too bad that this kid was my brother because otherwise I would have totally dated him.
"Hey Percy," My brother said. Then he looked at me. "Who's this?"
"Bella Swan. Turns out that you now have a new roommate," Percy laughed.
Nico appraised me with wide eyes and then a smile that would put the sun to shame spread across his face.
"Great. It sucks to be not be able to talk to anyone at night, Nico said with a laugh and then smiled at me again. "So you're a daughter of Dad too? Huh, we don't look anything alike with the exception of our eyes and skin color." Then his eyes went wide and he met Percy's stare and started to say, "Is it possible that sh…"
"Nico," Percy cut off sharply. "Let's talk about this later. Why don't you give her a tour around the camp. You're the senor counselor of cabin 13. And it is just what she will need to get used to her new home. Family showing her around." Percy just started to laugh.
I really wasn't listening to them bicker anymore. I had so many questions running through my head, each one demanding my full attention. New home? New family? What about my old one? What will happen to Charlie? Then I noticed that Percy was gone.
"Well," Nico said. "Let's go tour the camp."
"That's Zeus' cabin, Poseidon's, Hera's …" Nico went on about all the cabins and the training arena where you use real swords and actually cut people. Ick. Then I noticed that some of the campers had orange t-shirts and others had purple.
"What's with the different colored shirts?" I asked, interrupting whatever he was saying.
"Oh, um, the orange shirts are for Greeks and purples are for Romans."
"Which am I? Orange or purple?"
"We don't know yet. I think I have a fair idea, but we won't make it publicly known until we know for sure."
"My dad -I mean my step-father- always loved mythology. His favorite god was Apollo. He said that he wished my father was Apollo and that always confused me. Then we made jokes that if I was the daughter of Apollo, I was a disgrace to him for having a terrible singing voice," I blabbered, afraid that all this was really happening.
Nico laughed and looked at me with a sense of pride. Just when I was about to ask he said, "I'm glad you are my sister. You cool."
I smiled at him as we approached what he said was the Big House.
We all were sitting around the campfire, which changed colors as to what the mood was. I met Chiron, who was very nice even if he's half horse. He reminded me of Carlisle even though Carlisle was blonde, pale, and all vampire. I was deep in thought as to what had happened to me today and what it meant when Chiron stood up.
"I would like to announce the arrival of a new guest. Will Bella please come up?"
I reluctantly got up and stood by Chiron. Nico and Percy both gave me a reassuring smile. I finally started to relax and was about to introduce myself when one of the girls from Aphrodite's cabin yelled, "Who's her parent? Lord of the ugly?" All the girls laughed from her cabin.
"Lisa" Chiron cautioned, but it was too late. I saw red and yelled out in a language I never knew I knew. She laughed at me but that only made it worse. I raised my hand and shot a black stream of energy from my hand that instantly collided with her. She went flying and landed in a heap on the ground. As she got up her hair had streaks of grey and she was so thin that it was unhealthy. You could see her cheekbones and her skin was translucent. She yelped when she saw herself.
Everyone looked at me like I was the most dangerous person in the world and I realized that that must be. Nico stood and announced, "This is Bella, my half-sister. Daughter of Pluto. One of the Romans."
All I could think was Cool, but realized that it must be better if I were a Greek. Then I remembered from history class that the Romans were warriors and loved to fight. Could that be me? Was I really a danger to everyone?
Hey hoped you like it. A little note that I don't know if you got this or not is that the black stream of energy that came out of her hand was the power to suck someone's life force away. Since Hades is the god of the Dead, I thought it would be appropriate if Bella could take away life.
