Thanks for reading and enjoy! I've got a fun adventure planned out for our three heroes, and they will be running into a few of our favorites from the actual books... At least, older forms of them.
Mina
Hours after arriving at Camp Half-Blood, Mina felt awkward standing next to Ace as several of the campers lit the funeral pyre. Twenty-three campers in all had been killed. And still, none of those that survived could give much information about those that had attacked.
Those injured were all on the path of recovery, which Mina guessed was good. However, plenty didn't want to even stay in the cabins they were assigned to. Too many painful memories, Mina supposed. She hadn't gone into any of the cabins that had had an attack. In fact, aside from the Big House and the dining pavilion, the only building she had been in was her own.
After a few moments, while Ingrid was saying a few words about a girl that had been from the Hebe cabin, Mina turned away and began to walk off. She didn't know anyone that had died, and those that had survived didn't seem to like her.
"The least you could do is show a little respect to those that died," Ace said, next to her a moment later. His voice was quiet, like he was making sure he wasn't overheard.
"I don't feel welcome," Mina said. "I mean, yes, it's sad they died, but... I don't know."
"Stay for me," Ace said. She looked at him and saw a bit of pain in his brown eyes.
"Not like you knew any of them either," Mina said. She looked away again and began toward her cabin again.
"No, but they are people that could have been our friends, Mina," Ace said. "Could have helped train us. Could have, been people that we could have come to love."
"Like you'd love anyone but yourself?" Mina questioned looking at Ace. "That's a riot."
Ace stopped walking. "Fine, if you want to be that way." He turned around and began back toward the funeral. Mina was concentrating on ignoring him, but couldn't help glancing back at him as she was nearing the cabins. She noticed that Ace was looking at her, but then realized his eyes were focused on something just past her. She heard a soft sound that she couldn't place, before she heard Ace shout her name. He was running back towards her, so Mina turned to see what he was looking at.
Standing atop the nearest cabin was a boy, mostly covered in darkness, though she could make out his blonde hair, his one blue eye, and one brown eye. He held in his hand a sword, which he had just drawn from a jeweled scabbard. He jumped down, swinging the sword at her.
Mina screamed and fell to the ground in an attempt to walk backwards. The sword barely missed her, and she knew it was just by chance. Standing over her, she noticed that he couldn't have been more than a year older than she was.
"Which one is she?" a girl asked, coming around the side of the cabin, silvery blonde hair in large curls actually shining in the moonlight.
"Does it matter?" a second boy asked. He had black skin and highlights of red in his hair could be made out from the distant fire.
"I don't know," a second girl said, holding what appeared to be a list in hand. She lowered her cat-eye glasses as she peered at Mina. "Can you do me a favor and tell me your godly parent before we kill you?"
"Get away from her!" Ace yelled finally catching up. Mina looked back at him seeing that he had somehow obtained the sword he had had the night before, though she hadn't seen it earlier. She also noticed that others had abandoned the funeral, but were still mostly far off.
"Oh, and you'll be Ace," the girl with the list said. She smiled at the blonde boy. "You may kill him."
The mystery boy jumped over Mina and swung his sword at Ace, who barely reacted quick enough to dodge the attack. Ace swung his sword sloppily and completely missed the other guy.
"Then I'll take her," the other boy said, grabbing Mina off the ground.
"Hey, get your ruddy hands off of me," Mina yelled and kicked at his shin, though it only provided in injuring her toe.
He laughed. "You're kind of cute, but luckily I don't care." With that, he grabbed a trident that was strapped to his back. "Prepare to be fish food."
Mina's eyes widened. "Let me go, you runt of an ogre!" With that, she yelled again, and this time, he did let go, as a blast of electricity shot out of her and shocked him off her and onto his back.
"No way, a daughter of Zeus," the girl with silvery blonde hair said. Mina was breathing deeply as the girl approached.
"Get away or I'll electrocute you," Mina said, backing away until her back hit the cabin.
"I don't think you can control it," she said.
"Vega!" the blonde boy said as the girl with silver hair was drawing a knife. Ace charged at the boy, but he barely glanced at the son of Aphrodite before a swift kick knocked Ace down.
The other girl grabbed the sword right out of Ace's hand. "You're going to hurt someone swinging that around blindly the way you are." She then looked at the blonde boy, clearly in charge of them. "We've got thirty seconds. Vega, if you could take one or two of them down."
The girl with the silver hair, drew a bow and a arrow from her quiver. "Which one?"
"To the right," the glasses girl said, a smile coming to her red lips. "Girl, black hair."
Mina looked where Vega was aiming and saw that it was Arianna. "Don't you dare," Mina said and pulled at Vega's hair. Vega yelled and released the arrow, which missed its mark, hitting a tree.
And then the tip of a sword was at her throat and she let go. "I wouldn't do that again," the blonde boy said. She released Vega's hair. The sword lowered but he grabbed her wrist and pulled her against his body. "That was very stupid of you," he said. "I was thinking of sparing you, but now..."
"Let her go," Ace said, standing. "Now."
The boy looked at Ace then laughed.
"I said, let her go!" Ace said again, more forcefully.
The boy released her and Mina ran away, scrambling behind Ace.
"He has Charmspeak," the girl with the glasses said. "Troy, kill him now."
"Don't!" Ace said as the boy with the trident took aim at them. He lightly pushed Mina back, and she understood, stepping back, but keeping her hand on Ace, so he knew when he could back away as well.
Then an arrow zipped past them, and Troy swung his trident to stop it from hitting him.
"We need to move, Vasilis," Vega said. She took aim again, but didn't know who to shoot.
"Just start shooting, Vega," the last girl said.
"Sophia, who?" Vega asked.
Sophia growled and grabbed an arrow head from her pocket. A pole extended from it. "Anyone that you want," she said.
With that, Vega released an arrow.
Sophia side stepped and an arrow sailed past right where she had been standing a moment before. And then she dodged another arrow. And another. Mina realized that Sophia knew where the arrows were going to be before they were released.
"Can we charge?" Troy asked.
"You're kidding," Mina said. "Four on all of them?"
"No, we're not," Vasilis said a smile on his face. Suddenly, he was moving fast... too fast. He ran at the line of approaching Half-Bloods.
Sophia turned her eyes on Mina and Ace and pointed her spear at them. "Have you ever heard of demigod kebab? It's when you've got two demigods skewered on one spear."
"But you're demigods yourselves," Mina said.
"Excuse me?" Vega gasped, placing a hand on her chest. "My mother was not a goddess."
"Our parents, they were titans," Sophia said. She moved to throw her spear at them, but stopped. In that moment, Theo collided with them, taking all three of them to the ground. While Mina and Ace were sprawled, Theo rolled and was back on his feet in a moment, dagger in hand.
"Ah, my true enemy," Sophia said. "This should be fun. We shall see what prevails. Wisdom or forethought."
"Who are you?" Theo asked, his eyes focused on Sophia.
She smiled, stepping back, out of his immediate range and swept her hand through her short black hair. "Sophia Silas," she said. "And this," she indicated to the tip of her spear, "is the arrow head of the arrow that killed the vulture that ate my father's liver, every day, for a millennium. But that matters not. Because you are Theo Alden, Athena's current favorite son." She pointed at Theo. "Wisdom." And then at herself. "Forethought."
"Your father was Prometheus?" Theo sounded very surprised to Mina's ears.
"Prometheus is my father," Sophia said. "At no point did he cease being my father."
"Prometheus the Titan?" Mina questioned. She turned to the battle. Nearest her, Vega ducked a swing of a sword before pulling an arrow, charging it with a silver light, and shooting it, hitting a boy in the shoulder knocking him off his feet. Past her, Troy plunged his trident into the ground, which brought forth a geyser of water, which he directed toward a charging Ingrid. And at the far end of the battle. Vasilis swung his sword slicing through the chest of a boy. Mina remembered that Theo had said that the Titans had been defeated a number of years ago. Apparently, the Titans had also had children.
"So you were the one that saved Ace from Jackie, I suppose," Sophia said to Theo. "We had such high hopes for her."
Mina stood up. "Stand back, Theo," she said.
"What are you doing?" Ace asked, watching her carefully.
"I'm about to show her why the Titans lost," Mina said. She could feel the electricity running through her. The sky rumbled.
Sophia laughed. "We've already established that you don't know what you're doing."
"I think I'm getting the hang of it," Mina said. She yelled and a bolt of lightning lit the battle. Though, it didn't strike Sophia, as Mina had meant it to. Nor did it strike Vega or Troy or Vasilis. Instead, it struck Mina herself. And her scream ripped through the air.
