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Eternal Complications

Chapter 7

I got a little prophecy in my pocket

"You betrayed Percy!"

Those three words bothered me all night. For the rest of the Capture the Flag game until Athena ended up winning, no thanks to me though. We then went back to our own cabins. I trudged back through nearly ankle deep snow to my nearly full cabin that helped me feel less lonely, but I still had an aching feeling in my chest if that made any sense. It felt like I was being pulled in two different directions and each puller tore a little away from me. I decided to sleep on it.

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The next morning I woke at nine AM much to my dismay seeing it was still late and my siblings had all left already. Well, it's something. At least I'm not waking up ay eleven anymore. I stood up careful not to bang my head on the top bunk to change into my jean shorts and orange camp t-shirt. It's not cold at camp because the boundary keeps the weather out, Mr. D or somebody must have just let snow in yesterday.

I pulled on my newly washed orange camp shirt after taking off my old baggy pajama shirt. I quickly ran a brush through my sandy colored hair, secured my knife on my belt and ran out the door.

I walked over to the Pavilion and got some food for myself, at the fire while tossing some of my breakfast as an offering for my mom I remembered Luke. I shook my head. He's healed now; he can find food for himself. I walked over to the Athena table and ate with my siblings. They talked about strategy mainly, tactics to use in this upcoming war. I listened attentively.

When I finished I tossed my plate in the fire and looked over at the Hermes table, expecting to see Cami sitting there looking away from me.

I don't know why she's so hurt, she doesn't even know Percy for crying out loud!

Oh, Percy…

I'm sorry, I didn't know what I was doing, it was just one kiss, it doesn't change anything between us, I'm sorry. I wondered when or what I would tell him, no, I wouldn't.

It was just one kiss…

Wait, where was Cami? I walked over to where Travis and Conner were sitting.

"Do you know where Cami is?" I asked.

Travis raised an eyebrow. "How are we supposed to know? She's not ours anymore,"

"Yeah, she was claimed," Conner said

My eyes widened. "Really? When? Who's her Dad?"

Travis and Conner gave me awkward looks. "You didn't see it? The whole camp did," they said in unison, it was freaky how they did that.

I shook my head. "I wasn't feeling well," I half lied.

"Oh, well, she looked like she was running away from something last night; the stupid Ares kids thought she had their flag so they chased after her. She ran to Zeus's fist and kind of slumped against it, and a little bright light appeared above her head," Travis explained.

"Yeah, we should thank her, if it wasn't for her distraction the Athena cabin wouldn't have been able to steal the Ares flag, but we stole the other team's flags so it's not like you guy's got all the glory," Conner said brightly.

"So her Dad's Apollo?" I asked.

"Duh,"

I looked over at the Apollo table and saw it deserted. They must be over at the archery target range already. I made my way over there and seeked out the Apollo Cabin leader, Zack.

"Where's Cami?" I asked getting straight to the subject.

He looked around quickly scanning his siblings. "She was with us when we ate; I don't know where she went,"

I nodded, thanking him. I wondered where she went so I decided to look for her.

"Annabeth!" cried a feminine voice as I started walking. I spun around on my heels and saw a buff-looking Clarisse running towards me, brown curls bouncing on her shoulders, Gods, how many lessons has the girl been taking from Selena?

Normally anybody would be scared if the camp bully was running towards them but we became close friends since before the past summer, well, before I led my quest into the labyrinth with Percy, Grover, and Tyson.

Clarisse skid to a stop in front of me. She looked around. "Where's the girl that's been at your heels like a dog these past couple months?" she asked me.

"That's rude," I pointed out.

"What? Oh-you mean the dog thing, you know I don't mean it, she seems like a sweet, little, obnoxious girl,"

I rolled my eyes.

"So?" she asked.

"Oh-I don't know, I'm actually trying to find her now,"

Clarisse nodded and I became curious. "So is it something else or did you develop a sudden interest with Apollo children?" I asked.

Clarisse rolled her eyes. "I was just curious, besides, Apollo's pathetic with all his music and poetry,"

"You're just jealous because he's against war,"

"Shut up or I'll break that pretty nose," Clarisse scowled.

A normal person would flinch at her threat, but I didn't. She may punch me on the arm at most—but I did stop.

"Speaking of the girl-I think I saw her outside camp boundaries walking down the road," she told me.

I gave her a confused expression. "But I thought you just asked where she-"My eyes widened-"She left camp! A fairly new half-blood-"I didn't have to finish because Clarisse understood. Her expression changed to match mine, eyes wide, creased face.

Glomp Glomp Glomp

We looked over and saw Grover walking over to us eating a tin can while making as much noise as possible. Clarisse and I exchanged expressions.

"What are you two up to-"he broke off when we both grabbed his hairy arms and hurried out of camp. Grover yelped as we picked him up. "What's going on? Did something happen I wasn't told about? That happens a lot-"Grover noticed where we were. "Why are we going to Half-Blood Hill?" he asked as we past it. "Ok, Now, Really, why are we leaving camp? Annabeth, you should know-"Grover eyes Clarisse seeming to remember something-"And you to Clarisse should know that you can't leave camp with getting a quest or asking Chiron," he said.

We stopped abruptly in the snow covered grass-we were outside the camp boundaries.

Clarisse sighed. "Damn, Goat boy's right,"

"But we can't tell Chiron about her disappearance with the camp getting ready for war and everything else on his mind," I said.

"Well then we get ourselves a quest,"

Grover looked more confused than ever. "Disappearance? Who? When?"

"We will tell you later," I said quickly before we ran to the Big House where Chiron thankfully was in front of it. Good, we wouldn't have to deal with Mr. D-oh wait, he's not here anyways. A couple days ago he left to go help out with things, you know, god things.

"Chiron! We need a quest!" I cried as we approached him.

The centaur looked surprised. "Why?"

I bit my lip, unsure of what to say.

"Something doesn't feel right, we wanted to see if there's anything wrong," Clarisse said for me.

Chiron sighed. "Well, go to the oracle then,"

We nodded and ran inside the Big House, up the rickety old stairs and into the cluttered attic of old memories. Grover stayed outside. We walked towards the short little hippie looking mummy. We looked at each other and approached the Oracle.

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Its eyes glowed green and an eerie green mist infiltrated the room as the chilling voice spoke.

"Prepare Young Ones,

For the job is almost done.

Find the Source of Light,

In the City that never sleeps before Night.

When thou return thou must bring back the Light and other.

The Owl must seek out the thieves' brother."

The oracle who had risen a few feet in the air fell back to the floor and the room returned back to normal.

Clarisse looked over at me and nodded as I slipped the piece of paper I wrote the prophecy on in my pocket. Without a word we ran back downstairs and to Chiron.

"So which one of you saw the prophecy?" he asked.

I bit my lip and looked over at Clarisse without turning my head expecting her to be acting the same way, instead she looked straight ahead.

"I did," she said before reciting the prophecy.

Chiron nodded. "Who are you going with?"

"Annabeth and Grover," she said quickly.

Chiron nodded again.

"Let's go!" I exclaimed.

"I don't know what the rush is but you have to get ready first,"

We nodded and ran off in different directions in intention to meet at Half-Blood Hill.

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We all stood at the side of the road, Grover not as confused anymore because we explained it all to him.

"So I'm guessing we're walking all the way to NYC?" Grover asked.

"Yeah," I shivered only in jeans and an orange camp hoodie over my t-shirt.

Clarisse grinned. "I don't think so," she said reaching into the pocket of her black leather jacket and pulling out a slimy, red streaked, gross eyeball. Something I saw one too many times.

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Soon enough well all sat in the back of the black taxi driven by three old ladies with one eye. We were all pretty used to their driving.

"So when you become a Hermes kid?" I grinned.

"What?" Clarisse asked.

"You stole that eye didn't you?"

Clarisse shook her head. "I have my connections,"

I raised an eyebrow.

"What? You think all Ares kids are dumb and fat? If so I'll teach you otherwise punk," she said.

"Never mind," I said.

"That's what I thought,"

"Where do you want to be dropped off?" asked one of the old ladies.

Clarisse pressed her face against the black window glass. "Here is fine,"

The taxi lurched to a stop and the three of us slammed into the front seat. After gathering ourselves we piled out, the Taxi sped away.

Not sure what to do we wandered for a while. I tightened the strings on my hoodie, it was freezing, I couldn't understand how Clarisse could wear only that jacket, maybe the leather was warm…she did only have the camp-t-shirt underneath and it wasn't even zipped up. Well, Ares kids are supposedly built for this.

I stopped in front of a Starbucks. "Come on!" I said heading in.

"The Prophecy said nothing about coffee," Clarisse said.

"But Coffee's good though," Grover said.

"That's what we need to talk about," I said as we passed a girl at a table with a laptop. I peered over, curious. Journalist.

"Coffee?" Grover asked as we sat down in a table next to the girl's.

"No you idiot the prophecy!" I said giving the brown Fedora he wore to conceal his goat horns a tap.

"Prepare Young Ones for the job is almost done is obvious. Find the Source of Light in the City that never sleeps is as well, find Cami in New York before nightfall" Clarisse explained.

"When thou return bring back the light and other?" Grover asked.

"Bring back Cami and someone else, duh,"

"The owl must seek out the thieves' brother," I said quietly. I think I knew what it meant, but why would the oracle want me to seek out Luke? If that's what it meant at all? Or did it mean later in time? I didn't get to finish my thoughts because Clarisse spoke.

"Dad?" she asked.

"What? Ares is here?" I asked.

Clarisse pointed, there, sitting on the opposite end of the café was no one else but the dark skinned god of war, with his leather jacket, baggy pants, his 'threads', sunglasses, and a lot of 'bling.'

"What's he doing here?" Grover asked nervously.

He was staring at something, I followed his gaze. The girl sitting next to us, she looked about nineteen. Can you say stalker?

"I think we got caught in the middle of a god/mortal fling," I grimaced.

Clarisse's eyes narrowed as she looked over at the girl. She stood up, hands on the table. "There is NO way my Dad's going to get it on with that Nerd!"

She had fair skin, reddish brown hair, and green eyes. She was pretty actually. "Doesn't look like a nerd to me," I said.

"Yeah, and you don't look like the camp good girl," Clarisse said.

I didn't answer because the girl stood up, picked up a bag that must have had her laptop in it, swung on her jacket and left.

Ares stood up and walked out behind the girl. Now if that's not stalker-ish I don't know what is.

My eyes widened and I stood up, Clarisse was faster.

"Oh no he didn't! There is no way that girl's going to be the mother of any of my siblings!"

We grabbed Grover. "Hey! I just got my coffee!" he yelped.

We ran out leaving Grover's untouched coffee on the table.

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*New POV; Third Person*

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Natalia walked at a fast pace to get back to her apartment. Dusk was approaching, it was cold, and she wanted to get back to her warm couch, pillows, and many blankets. Well, of course she had History homework as well. She knew there was a lot of homework in college but not this much! Who knew getting a career in Mythology and Journalism would be so hard? Greek Historian. Well, not yet. Snow crunched behind her.

Natalia froze and slowly turned around. The street was deserted except for a dark skinned dude who quickly went to lean against a tree when she looked. Natalia panicked and looked around, the police station catching her eye. She ran into the building.

"There's some gangster dude stalking me!" She cried.

One of the two police officers hid a small laugh. "This is NYC Ma'am; we can't worry about every gang member here,"

"But he's stalking me!"

The other officer sighed and walked over to the window. "Who is it?"

Natalia pointed.

"Miss, that's an old lady walking her dogs,"

"Old lady? Man, this mist is fucked up!" the man cursed.

Mist? "You've got it all wrong! It's some half black man with close cut brown hair, wearing jeans, a leather jacket and a lot of gold jewelry!" Natalia cried.

"Miss, your confusing us, I suggest you leave before we have to arrest you on account if insanity," the police officer that was sitting joked.

"Good one," the other officer laughed.

Natalia was outraged. "Well if you hear anything on the news tomorrow it's all your faults!" she screamed stomping out.

Natalia looked around trying to ignore the creepy dude and failing until she noticed a young girl sitting against a wall in a pretty well lit alley way. She wore only skinny jeans and an orange t-shirt that said 'Camp Half-Blood' on it. She didn't seem cold at all though. Another strange thing was that the girl looks about thirteen and she had a quiver full of arrows on her back, a bow on her arm, bronze chakras on her sides, and bronze knives attached to her fingers by string. Her arms were wrapped around her knees.

"No more monsters," she muttered over and over again.

Natalia walked over to the girl and she sprang up holding the knives at her. "Who are you?" she asked.

"Put those knives away," Natalia said. "They could hurt someone,"

The girl looked confused but did as she was told.

"Come on for a walk with me," she said as they began walking. "I'm Natalia Domini, now who are you and why are you alone?"

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*Back to Annabeth*

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We couldn't find Ares but we did find Cami…

She was standing talking with the red head girl from Starbucks. We ran over to them.

"Cami! We found you! You can't leave camp like that! Seriously! You could have gotten-" I began when the older girl spoke.

"Your Annabeth the daughter of Athena correct? And Grover the satyr? And the man creeping me out is Ares? The girl who's talking to him is his daughter Clarisse? God-I thought my studies were all false!" she cried getting excited.

I looked over and saw Clarisse yelling at her dad. "You thought you were going to get some from that nerdy mortal? I think not! Not until you claim some of your children! I don't know why you don't, do you not like them? –And yes, we got sent on a quest and finished it-" Clarisse continued her rant but I stopped listening.

"Cami she's mortal why did you tell her everything?" Grover asked.

"She see's through the mist," Cami said simply.

"We should get back to Camp Cami…." I trailed. She ignored me.

Clarisse walked over to us rubbing her hands together. "That's all taken care of, come on Cami we have to get back to camp, you to Natalia Domini, and yes I know your name, my Dad's weird like that," she said.

And we departed for camp.

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I stepped out of the building where the showers were in my old grey, long pajama shirt. When we got back to camp we were congratulated for finishing a quest and everything even though it wasn't so hard. Of course we had to tell Chiron our reasons behind this, he understood, if not a bit disappointed. Natalia Domini is staying in the Big House. Just then I felt a hand on my shoulder. I spun around and came face to face with Luke.

"You find the Apollo girl?" he asked.

"Yeah, and some mortal that see's through the mist, I don't see her importance," I said.

Luke shrugged, hand still on my shoulder. "She could be, my mom sure is, I wonder is Hermes has any interest in her," Luke said wrinkling his nose.

"You shouldn't be here, people can see you," I whispered.

"We're behind a building aren't we?" Luke asked.

I didn't say anything.

"Besides, I couldn't resist not seeing my favorite girl," he said.

I gave him a little smile. "I need to get back to my cabin," I said pulling away.

Luke nodded before running off into the woods.

I walked back to my cabin. Sure we finished the quest, but I just couldn't stop thinking about the last line on the prophecy.

'And the Owl must seek out the thieves; brother'

End of Part One

*Yay! Part Two begins on the last day of school! Percy comes in! Yay! ^^*