Me: Hey there people! Martha, Lina, Tessa, and Alessia are busy kicking monster butt so it looks like I have to say the disclaimer, but first- Thank you Whitherfang and 11 for voting. So far Alessia is winning, and frankly, that doesn't make Lina, Tessa, and Martha too happy. They need your votes people! I also have to thank Whitherfang for the good advice. I will try to make my chapters longer. I do not own PJO or HoO. All rights go to Rick Riordan.
Chapter 7
Lina Ryder's POV
"So where exactly are you taking me?" Alessia asked as we trudged towards the woods. It was six in the morning, and I couldn't help but notice how lively Alessia was. I mean seriously, how was it possible for her ADHD to kick in at six in the morning?
"You'll see," I replied. To me, the morning was an evil thing. All it held was sluggishness and the rare posibility of sleeping in.
I looked over at Alessia to see if her appearance held any clues of who her godly parent was. Sometime appearances did. All children of Athena had gray eyes and every one of them, with the exception of Martha, had blonde hair. Sometimes appearances didn't hold a clue. Take the Hecate cabin for example. Lou Ellen had black hair and blue eyes, Tessa had blonde hair and brown eyes, and Melanie had brown hair and green eyes. Sometimes there were also people who didn't look like most of their siblings. Most of my brothers and sister had golden hair and copper-y colored eyes. I had dirty-blonde hair and sky blue eyes.
Alessia was very tall (5' 7" to be exact) with golden hair that was always in a ponytail or a bun in case she needed to get it under a swim cap, blue-green eyes that were, in my opinion, the color of lake water, and slightly tan skin.
A child of Apollo with her mother's eyes, I thought, no wait, her mother had brown eyes. So did her dad.
That's when I noticed that she was raised by her mom and dad. That also reminded me of her sister Zoey, and the police cars sorrounding her house yesterday.
"What happened yesterday? With the police and everything, I mean."
"Oh nothing. That whatever-it-was probably killed my family, but if this mist stuff is working, the police will probably just think that they were shot."
"Anything else?" I hated to push her for information like this, but I knew she was hiding something that I needed to know.
"I found otu that I was adopted. I tried looking up my adoption records last not on my phone, but the only information it gave me was that my birth mother lives in Kentucky, her last name is also Schmidt, and that I have no other mortal relatives besides her."
"Maybe you should let Martha try getting information. If she's good at anything that doesn't have to do with Greek Mythology, it's hacking into computers. Well, that and memorizing random facts, but that's not important."
"Okay, I will. Now where are we going again?"
"Shut up Alessia."
"That's actually a place? I thought that only existed in Zoey's mind!"
"We're here!" I said, pulling away a branch. Alessia stared at the inside of the hideout that Tessa had built when she was six.
"Wow, for a little place in the middle of the woods, it's pretty impressive."
"Thanks," Tessa said, walking up behind me, "I built it before Martha convinced me to come to Camp Half-Blood. Then after I decided to follow her to Camp-Half-Blood, we started using it as a meeting place. I"m pretty sure that nobody else knows that it's here."
Tessa sat on the ground. About five minutes later, Martha showed up. I explained about everything that had happened to Alessia, and martha was trying to hack into the adoption records in a matter of seconds.
After about fifteen minutes of martha cursing at the internet she said, "I can't get anything, but we have to get going anyway. We can't be late for canoeing." Martha had a devious gleam in her eye. I hoped that Alessia didn't notice, because that would ruin our whole plan.
As we walked to the canoe lake, I noticed that tessa seemed a little sad.
"What's wrong?" I asked, "Did they run out of blueberry pancakes at breakfast?" Tessa had an obsession with blueberry pancakes, but I was pretty sure that wasn't the reason.
"No, they had more than enough, but it's just that Melanie went missing last night and I'm just worried about her."
"It'll be fine," I assured her, "Melanie can handle herself."
Nobody spoke again until we got to the canoe lake.
"Faster!" Tessa yelled, "Jaws is after us, and if we have any hope of making it back alive, we must go faster!"
"Forget faster! All we're going to do is wear ourselves out! Start singing Justin Bieber!" Alessia yelled, "Baby. baby, baby oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh! Like baby, baby, baby, oooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Like baby, baby, baby, ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhh! I thought you'd always be mine, mine!"
"If that isn't enough to kill jaws, I don't know waht is!" I joked.
"He's still alive!" Martha yelled, "We must sacrifice!"
That was our cue. The three of us picked up Alessia and held her over our heads.
"Whoa, wait! Don't you want to get to know me before you sacrifice me! I have so much to offer! I could..." She never got to finish. We threw her overboard before she could. Now we just had to wait for her to come up.
So we waited, and waited, and waited, and-
"Shouldn't she have come up by now?" Tessa asked.
"Tessa, she swims competitively. She can swim fifty meters without taking a breath."
Just then, my phone rang.
"Hey Lina! Guess who beat you to shore?"
"Alessia! Wait, you swam all the way back to shore?"
"Is she an idiot?" Martha muttered, "There are surpents in this lake!"
"We'll be back soon." I muttered into the phone. Then I hung up. Alessia was going to be a fun demigod to deal with.
Some of Alessia's mortal friends are happy with her winning the poll, (Sara cheers in the background) But who says shes going to win? The poll is open until I'm done with the story. Anyone could win!
