Hello guys! I updated as fast as I could! Anywhoz, here's chapter 7!

Virtual Cookie goes to: nicole (she has no account, but all the
same!). Nicole said the there should be LYRAxNICO, to annoy Mell. If
you have any other suggestions, I still have some cookies! Or if you
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Conner: COOKIES!
Me: Conner?
Conner: yes?
Me: SHUT UP!
Conner: okay, okay!
Me: Read on!
Conner: And hold on to your wallets!
Me: CONNER!

LYRA'S POV

Today at dinner, there was more excitement than usual. It was Friday,
the night of Capture the Flag. All the Hermes campers and me were
huddling around eachother and discussing positions for eachother. I
was put as a guard on top of Zeus' Fist, a huge rock that looked like
a fist from one side, and a mound of hellhound droppings from the
other. Our flag was going to be secretly put up there and everyone
trusted me to guard it. I don't know why we put it up there. I mean,
EVERYONE can see it! I guess it was up to the Poseidon cabin though,
the captain of our team. We were sided with Poseidon, Athena, Demeter
and Dionysus. I recently found out that that pudgy man that talked to
us after dinner was the Camp Director, and he was the god Dionysus. He
was put here as a punishment for going after a wood nymph who was off
limits. I found that amusing, but Mr. D obviously didn't. He would
mope every morning and complain at dinner. It was fairly annoying and
we couldn't do anything about it. I wondered if Zeus sent Dionysus
here as Dionysus's punishment, or the demigods's punishment.

After dinner, we had a team meeting instead of a campfire, which was
fine by me. I really didn't want to wait in vain for a Dad who would
never claim his own child. My sword fighting had greatly improved,
even though I had to used an unbalanced sword every time. I kept
whipping Sarina's butt, and I beat Raine the one time I versed her,
but unfortunately I wasn't allowed to verse Mell for safety reasons.
We all cracked up a that.

"Ok," Annabeth laid out a map infront of us, by the lake, "Our flag is
here," she pointed to a sketch of a pile of rocks.
"We have traps here, here, here and a few scattered around here,"
Percy pin-pointed a few places in the forest.
"Our defence modes are secured around the Fist in layers, with Lyra
and Chris standing around at the Fist's base," Sarina made circular
tracings around the Fist, like a radar.
"Actually, Chris fell off his pegasus today, and he sprained his
wrist," Katie Gardner, the head councilor for the Demeter cabin
sighed, as if Chris falling off his pegasus and spraining his wrist
was not a surprise.
"Oh, well I suppose we can place someone else there," Annabeth
murmured, scanning the map.
"We can't, we're already outnumbered. We can't afford to cut off any
attack or defenses," Percy shook his head.
"I can handle it alone," I suggested.
"Alone?" Annabeth looked at me enquiringly.
"Sure, if we move our defenses here and move a trap or two here," I
trailed off, tracing what I was talking about on the map.
"Nothing should be able to get past," Raine suddenly realized, "And if
we place some attacking campers around the outer circle, you could be
defending and attacking at the same time!" Raine said happily.
"You know, they're plan could actually work," Travis and Conner stared
at us in amazement.
"Yes, I've never tried this before. It would be interesting to see the
results," Annabeth stared off into nowhere.
"What do you think?" I turned to Sarina and Percy, the true captains.
"I say we go for it!" Percy pounded his fist on the table.
"Let's do this!" Sarina smiled and reset our defences.
"Nice," Raine and I high fived.

After the planning was finished, Raine and I went to practice our
sword fighting. Raine was an attacker, so we made it that she'd have
to try and get passed me to win. I had to pick out an unbalanced
dagger again, but that was fine, I'm used to unbalanced things now.
Raine charged at me. I parried her attack and saw her moves before she
made them. I liked using daggers better than swords, but I could live
with both. I dodged, attacked and jabbed, but we were equally matched.
Raine was strategic and balanced, and I was skilled and fast. By the
end of our match, Raine's sword had clattered to the floor, and so did
mine.
"Come on," Raine panted. "The game's about to start."

Chiron explained the rules to us and prepared a table full of weaponry
and armor. I had to get one of the smallest sizes, while Raine was
allowed to wear the average size breastplate. I picked up a dagger
that would suit me best. It was a little heavy, but I'll live.
I hope.
Together Raine and I took up our positions in the forest.
After Raine had gone, I climbed up easily to the top of Zeus' Fist and
sat down in front of the flag. A conch horn sounded in the distance
and a hundred or so campers, give or take a few, shouted out battle
cries and charged. I heard metal clash against metal and scrapings of
stones and other things. I saw little explosions of green fire, or
more commonly known as Greek fire, all over the place. I leaned back
against a big boulder amd waited for an enemy to slip through our
defenses. I liked it up here. I had a good view of the unseen battles
of the attacking group, while the the tree nymphs hid other sneaking
campers, courtesy of Percy and the Demeter cabin.
I waited up on the rock for a while, waiting for at least one person
to slip through. I had a spare bow and arrow with me, just in case I
see someone hiding among the bushes. I saw a few people, but they were
all from my team, probably checking up on me.

Suddenly, I saw a red plume of a helmet. An opposer; an enemy. I stood
up and balanced myself on the boulder I was just leaning on. I found
it perfectly easy and I somehow wasn't even afraid of falling. I held
up the bow and aimed it at where I saw the red plume. I let out a
volley of arrows. A voice that was definitely a boy's yelped and
stumbled out from the bush. He had three arows sticking out from his
helmet. He yanked it off and looked up at me. It was Jacob. My battle
armor was weighing me down a bit, but I didn't give in. I notched
another arrow and aimed it at Jake's unprotected forehead.
"Lyra?" he asked uncertainly.
"Retreat," I said sternly, still holding my bow ready.
"Lyra-" Jacob started to say, but I cut him off.
"Jake," I aimed the arrow and shot at the tree next to his left ear,
"Retreat," I repeated. Jake gulped, nodded and backed away,
disappearing into the thick undergrowth of the forest. I heard another
rustle from behind me and spun quickly, only to come face to face with
three big, mean looking kids. From the Ares cabin, no doubt. It was a
trick. Jacob had distracted me so I wouldn't see the others coming. I
shot arrow after arrow at them, sometimes getting the chinks in the
armor, but it was never enough. I didn't even have time to ask how
they got through our defenses. I dropped the bow and arrow and
unsheathed my borrowed hunting knife as big as my arm. I leapt from
the stone and stumbled a bit in front of them. They laughed at me.
"And do you really think you can beat us?" a boy cackled again.
"Um, yeah," I nodded. They all glared at me. One of the campers lunged
at me and I hit him in the head with the butt of my sword, easily
knocking him to the side, unconscious. The second guy and I had a
little duel, and he grazed me on the arm a bit, but I barely felt the
pain. I gritted my teeth and hit the hilt of his sword with my own and
twisted. The move felt wrong with my unbalanced knife and I nearly
dropped it. But instead, the other guy's sword clattered to the ground
and I picked it up and chucked to the top of Zeus' fist. The third
camper wasn't too keen on attacking and instead, retreated with his
unconscious buddy and sibling back into the green of the forest.
"And don't come back," I hissed at them. But I could tell something
was wrong. The Ares' kids looked like he was trying to buy time. He
gave himself away by glancing at the base of Zeus' fist. In the dark,
I could see a silhouette of a girl trying to climb to the top.
"Oh Styx," I muttered and quickly raced back over to the Fist. I
quickly jumped from rock to rock, reaching the top. I was lucky the
flag-pole was tied to the rocks with ropes or I never would have made
it in time. I jumped to the top of the Fist just as the girl brought
out a knife to slash the ropes. I watched in slow motion as the sword
came down.
'No!' I thought and ran over and blocked the knife about a millimeter
away from the rope. I pushed the knife away.
"Not. So. Fast," I said dangerously and turned around to face the girl.
I saw no other than Mell herself.
"Oh yeah, try me," Mell again went to slash the ropes, but I again
blocked her.
"You want the flag, your gonna have to duel with me first," I said
simply. "Or are you too chicken?"
Mell's nostrals flared and her eyes flashed dangerously. Déjà vu.
"You're dead Lyra! And don't ever call me chicken," she hissed.
"Oh you mean like this? Chicken! Chicken, chicken, chicken!" I sang,
laughing. Mell yelled and slashed at me instead. I parried her swing
and pushed her blade against her.
"Oh come on, Imeldes, you can do better than that!" I laughed at her,
remembering when Raine told me her full name. Mell's face was
distorted in rage. She screamed some colorful language at me and
attacked again. I just twisted out of the way. I liked fighting with
Mell, she was just too easy to annoy. But I started to get serious
though. I started attacking her and she blocked. We fought vigorously
and hard until both of us were panting. I was aware of eyes on us as
we fought. People had come to watch. I suddenly felt the darkness
surrounding me becoming heavy on my shoulders, making me feel empty
and weak, as if it was also against me. Oh yeah, it was. I forgot that
Mell's mother was Nyx, goddess of the night. Of course, Mell would be
at her strongest at this point. I was determined to stay focused. I
kept slashing at Mell, and I could tell that trying to get the
darkness to work for her took a lot of energy.
I suddenly felt the sky rumble above us as thunder cracked loudly and
lightning flashed everywhere. My ADHD mind started wondering if a
storm this big would penetrate through the camp borders. Obviously, it
didn't. Sort of. Even though it was raining, it couldn't penetrate the
camp borders, but the lightning could. It flashed through the trees
and I suddenly froze, in the middle of my clash with Mell. I felt some
sort of power rushing through me as the storm got bigger. I felt more
energized than usual and I felt stronger. The sword suddenly felt
weightless in my hand, but I still couldn't move. The power running
through my body felt like I had just gotten electrocuted. Every nerve
was on full alert mode and every cell in my body was jumping around. I
saw Mell pull out her bow and arrow, but she suddenly stopped and
looked up at the sky. I did too, and suddenly, I was engulfed in
bright white light. My brain felt like it was about to explode with
strength and energy, and everything in my body was suddenly more keen
and alert and… better. I could hear the crickets chirping louder. I
could hear campers screaming, besides the static in my ears. I could
see every leaf in the forest, every shade of green. I could see the
horrified faces of allies and foes. I could see the face of Mell, also
horror-stricken.
"Holy sh-" but she was cut off because of the crack of thunder.
Suddenly, the white light surrounding me was gone, but I could still
feel the aftershock of the amazing power I felt. It was as if
everything was paying more attention.
"Wh-what happened?" I asked, confused. But no one was looking at me;
everyone was staring on top of my head. I slowly looked up to see a
fading image of what looked like a white and purple lightning bolt.
"What's that?" I asked. But still no one was listening. Everyone
started bowing for some strange reason. They were bowing to me! I saw
Sarina bow down and yank a confused looking Raine down with her. Mell
jumped back a bit so that she was standing next to the bowing figure
of Chiron. Everyone was bowing except Mell, who was glaring at me
murderously. Sarina tried to tug her down too, but Mell refused. A
look from Chiron did the trick though and Mell hesistantly dropped to
one knee, still glaring daggers. I swear, if looks could kill, I'd be
loooong dead.
"All hail, Lyra Jett, daughter of Zeus, king of the heavens, god of
storm," Chiron said grimly. Daughter of Zeus? Who, me? What the hell?
"It ain't over Sparky, a little flash in the sky ain't gonna stop me
from turning you into a grease spot," I heard Mell mutter as she stood
up from her bow.

(A/N: I was initially going to stop here, but I thought that you might
need this!)

That night, I was moved to the Zeus cabin, Cabin 1. The door was
holographic, so whichever angle you looked at it, you could see
lightning flashes. It was pretty awesome. Sarina and Percy were the
two assigned to lead me to the cabin.
"Welcome to Cabin 1," Percy said as he pushed open the door. The first
thing I smelt was ozone. It was nice I guess, calming even. The first
thing I saw was a statue. It was as tall as the cabin itself. And it
was marble. I usually expected marble statues to have blank eyes and
weird expressions, but this one was painted in vibrant colors so that
it looked realistic. It was no doubt Zeus. Dad. His eyes seemed to
follow you everywhere you walked and his expression was something
like: bow-to-me-or-die-an-excruciatingly-painful-death-by-my-hand.
Creepy, right?
"Umm…" I started to say.
"Don't worry, you get used to it," Percy laughed.
"You've been in here before?" I asked.
"Yeah, I have friends who are children of Zeus too, though one's Roman
and the other's a Hunter of Artemis," Percy shrugged.
"What're their names?" I asked.
"Thalia and Jason Grace," Sarina said.
"Blood-siblings?" I asked, shocked.
"Yes, though they don't see eachother often," Percy sighed.
"Oh. Anyway, where will I sleep?" I asked.
"Anywhere," Sarina smiled. I walked around the room, and stopped at a
bunk that looked already taken. There were faded pictures on the wall.
Each one had a picture of two different blond dudes, Percy and two
girls. One of the girls was Annabeth!
"Is that Thalia?" I pointed to the girl with electric blue eyes and
spikey black hair.
"Yeah, and that's Jason," Percy pointed to the younger blond guy. I
could see no resemblance between the two. I would've passed more for
Thalia's sister, or Jason's sister. It was like… it was like I was
the missing link between the two! If you put them together, you could
see no resemblance, but if you put me in the middle, you could connect
us and call us siblings. It was like I made our family look like a
family. I smiled a little to myself and turned to Percy.
"Will I ever meet them?" I asked.
"Thalia maybe, but I'm not so sure about Jason," Percy shrugged.
"Oh," it would've been nice to have a picture with all of us together.
I put the pictures back on the wall and walked over to the bunk next
to Thalia's.
"Here's fine," I said, checking out the blue bed sheets and covers. I
looked up at the ceiling and saw that there were clouds moving around,
some lightning flashing from time to time. It probably reflects the
weather outside or something.
"Well, we'll leave you in peace," Sarina said. "Goodnight!"
"Later Lyra," Percy smiled.
"Night guys," I sighed as they closed the door behind them.
It felt so lonely in here! I had my belongings brought over and I
quickly had a shower, changed and got ready for bed.
When I finally got to sleep, I dreamt about all of the past's events,
and weirdly, my mom. I don't think my life could get any—freaking—
worse.

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