People, I need feedback! I need suggestions! I need Hot Cheetos! I'm hungry. But I would like to know what you guys think of the story, what you think I should improve on and stuff like that. It would be a great help. All my friends tell me the story is fine, but they might just be saying that to not hurt my feelings. Now, onward to chap 8!
We all stood inside of Emily's cabin, waiting for Connor. When he finally showed up, he had this sly look that screamed, ' I know something you don't know'. Slightly creepy.
"Dude, what happened? You were gone for like 20 minutes."
"Nothing. Nico just wanted to chat with me about taking advantage of the newcomers. He said he didn't want the twins already having enemies on their first week here."
"We thought something had happened to you. Like he murdered you or something."
"Aw, thanks for worrying about me Emily. But I can take care of myself." He gave Emily a noogie. A smile lit my face as I saw Emily's mouth twitching. She was trying to suppress a smile. We all said our goodnights to Emily and left for the Hermes cabin.
I dragged my feet and threw myself on the bottom bunk where Angel was suppose to be sleeping. I heard him grumble as he got on the top bunk. I sighed as I closed my eyes. I felt someone poke my side. My eyes snapped open as they did it harder the second time. My face felt warm as the sun hit my face. What? No. I just closed my eyes. It couldn't be morning already. Angel's face greeted me, along with his wide grin. He pulled me out of bed and pushed me towards the showers. I stumbled as I felt other people trying to make their way the showers. A towel was dropped on my head, and a stack of clothes was pressed into my arms. The bathrooms were with the showers. 3 bathroom stalls and 5 shower stalls. A random girl gave me a shampoo bottle as she passed me on the way out. My god. She didn't even have a towel on.
I shuddered as I tried to get the image of the naked girl out of my mind. I began to undress in the stall. When i was done, I set the clean clothes on the little counter in the bathroom. I turned on the shower. I let out a sigh of relief as the warm water hit my face. I showered quickly, not wanting to make other people that needed to shower wait. i turned off the water and dried myself, then I put on the clothes that had been handed to me. Wait. This is my bra and underwear. I hope to god it was Angel that got my clothes. I don't need anyone else seeing what I wear underneath my clothes. With Angel, it wasn't as awkward since he's seen me naked and I him a million times. We shared the same womb, so there was an unspoken connection. I put on my belt and got out the stall.
I quickly got out of the foggy room and went outside. There was Angel and the Stolls waiting for me along with Emily. We walked together to the dining pavillion. Emily looked uncomfortable as eyes followed us. We headed to the Hermes table before we stopped. Emily was looking at a table that looked new and made out of marble. It hadn't been there before. I could tell that the table was for Emily. I grabbed Angel's shoulder and Emily's hand and made my way to the table. I sat down, dragging Angel and Emily with me. Plates appeared. I felt someone sit next to me. Someone sat next to Angel. Connor and Travis had joined us. My mouth watered as waffles appeared on the plate. They were drenched in syrup. I grabbed my fork and ate slowly, savoring the taste. I hadn't had waffles in ssssssoooooo long. My mom said that they weren't healthy and Saint Agnes' School for Exceptional Young Ladies only served toast with jam, oatmeal, and cereal. Yeah. Pretty boring breakfast.
Everyone watched me as I move on to my second waffle. They had all finished. Except Emily. She was savoring pancakes she got. We were eating extremely slow. I slowly chewed on the bit of heaven in my mouth. i swallowed and cut another small piece. Just as I was about to eat it, somebody else had it in their mouth. I glared at grinned at me, the waffle still in his mouth. I pushed my plate away.
"I've lost my appetite." Emily kept eating. Connor started pretending to pick his nose. For Emily, it would look like he was actually picking it. her face made a disgusted look as he brought his finger to his mouth. She stood up and said what I said.
"I've lost my appetite as well." Her plate magically disappeared after she said that, just like mine and everyone else's had. Connor and Travis led us to a shed. inside were weapons. Bows and arrows, daggers, swords, shields, and spears.
"Choose a weapon. It'll be something you'll use against monsters when you go in the outside world so choose wisely."
"Wow. You actually sounded smart for a second." I teased Connor. He ignored me. " Emily, not you. You don't get to choose one. Your mother gave a weapon for you to Chiron. We'll pick it up after they choose their weapons. Do you want to choose a weapon from here? You can if you want to." Emily bit her lip, something she did when she was trying to decide about something.
"No. I'll just use whatever my mom got me." I scanned the table full of weapons. Nothing that interesting. I was about to turn around to ask them if they had more weapons when something shiny caught my eye. It was hidden behind everything else I reached for it and so did Angel. I got to it first. It was a small dagger. Nothing special looking about it. Angel pulled out another one. They were identical. I wiped the dust off the handle. An engraving was on it. I read it out loud.
" Child of mine, born out of darkness and light and blessed with many gifts, may you protect yourself with my weapon." Angel and I read together. It grew warm in my hand. It glowed before it transformed into a long and beautiful sword. i looked at Angel and he wasn't holding the ugly looking dagger anymore. Instead he was holding a beautiful scythe.
"Wow. I've never seen that here before. Let me see it." Angel held it out for Travis. As soon as Travis took it from Angel, it glowed before turning back into the ugly dagger. He handed it back to Angel. It didn't change back into the scythe. Angel held it in his hand and stared at it intensely. It stayed the same.
" Maybe you have to it again," I suggested, referring to the engraving. Angel said it and it changed to the scythe. Travis grabbed it and it change to the dagger. He recited the engraving and it glowed before it dropped with a clatter on the ground. Travis was hissing and looking at his hands in horror. They were red. It had burned him. Angel picked it up.
" Maybe it doesn't like you." Connor said. Emily nodded in agreement. " Okay. now that you both have chosen a weapon, you'll practice using it with some of the other campers. Travis will pair you up with someone. I have to go take Emily to get her weapon from Chiron. See you guys in a bit." Emily and Connor left the shed and made their way to the white house. I stretched my arms and legs as Travis went to look for someone to pair up with us. Angel just stared off into space. My sword had turned back into a dagger and so had Angel's scythe. I guess it will do that when we don't really need it. I took out a stick of bubble gum and started chewing. I blew a few bubbles before I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around and saw a pretty girl with Travis.
"Hey. I'm Piper, daughter of Aphrodite." I smiled back at her.
"Katherine Adams, unclaimed."
"I remember you. Your mom had invited me and my dad to a New Year's party a few years ago."
" Oh yeah. I remember you now! You showed up in a green dress and it almost seemed like your eyes changed color. Right?"
"That's me. Wow. I knew you would grow up to be pretty, but not this pretty. How your brother?" I looked at Angel and Piper followed my gaze. She smiled and introduced herself to him.
"I never imagined you being a demigod. I mean, I always felt a weird vibe coming from you guys and your mom, but I never imagined you guys would be demigods."
"Yeah. We just found out a few days ago. Anyway, so how's your dad?"
"He's fine. Doesn't know about me being a demigod though. He can't know. He had to take something that would make him forget when he found out the truth about my mother." I gave her a sad smile. "Okay. So are you ready to spar?" I looked around and realized that surrounding us were fellow demigods battling. She was backing away. Putting some space between us.
"Yeah." She glanced at my dagger but didn't say anything. She took out her own. It was so shiny and new looking, compared to mine. She took a stance. I gripped my dagger so tightly that my knuckle became white. She charged at me. I said the engraving and my dagger became the beautiful sword. She had a look of surprise on her face for a second and I charged. She blocked me and we kept sparring. I didn't know what was happening to me, but somehow my body knew what to do. I blocked her dagger and in no time, her dagger went flying and my sword was pointed at her throat. I was breathing a bit faster and I was sweating a bit, but other than that, I had no cuts or wasn't injured, just a bit sore. I lowered the sword and grabbed her dagger from the ground and gave it back to her. She smiled at me.
"How are you not sweatin?"
"Aphrodite's blessing. None of her children sweat. It's 'unattractive' supposedly." I flushed in embarrassment. "I honestly think it's stupid. Next thing you know, we won't have to go to the bathroom because it 'unattractive'."
"Oh."
"Come on. Let's go get water. I'm kinda thirsty." She made her way past other people sparring and I followed her. We stopped at a table full of water bottles and this golden liquid. She grabbed a water bottle and drank half of it. I grabbed one as well. She screwed the cap back on the bottle. "Have you tried the nectar yet?"
"No."
"You should. It's really good." She gave me a cup of it and I took a sip. I coughed as it burned my throat. It tasted like rum. She looked at me weirdly.
"Are you okay?"
"It burns."
"Here, drink some water." I drank a few sips as my throat stopped burning.
"That's weird. Why did it burn you?" I shrugged my shoulders. We stood in silence and just watched everyone else spar. Then I spotted pink hair. Nico was sparring with that guy Percy. They were both moving so gracefully and quickly. I watched them. For a second, I could have sworn I saw Nico turn his head toward me and stare at me right in the eyes for just a second, and I felt a shudder go down my spine. He looked at me like he could see my soul. But when I blinked, he was back to sparring with Percy. I felt someone poke my cheek. I turned around to see Emily. I smiled at her. She held up a sword that looked like it was made out of diamonds and grinned.
"Wanna spar?" I looked back at Piper but she seemed to be lost in her thoughts.
" Yeah." We began to spar and I laughed at her expression of extreme concentration. Our swords clashed and she smiled and whispered, "I approve. He's cute. I just don't like his hair. Hopefully it will be back to normal by tomorrow." I felt my smile widen. Our swords clashed again.
"I just think he's cute. I don't like him."
"Yet." She added. And we continued sparring. This felt right. Like this was how my life should be. And it didn't feel weird. It felt normal.
