Chapter Eight

Training had,sucked.Afterwards my whole body was swore from running, slashing and just trying to learn how to hold my cursed sword right was difficult. Yet,somehow I felt like it was made for me and everytime I swung it I swore the blade sang.

Word had gotten out that the new kid could used the evil cursed sword,so I had quite a crowd.Including the green eyes hot-head Mary who glared at me the whole time.I was really embarrassed when I tripped over my own two feet and she snickered at me.

Oddly,Karen was silent during my training but I got this weird feeling someone wss watching me.Like coach would back at school while I ran in that proud parent way.I know that's a really odd thing to say,but I have a voce in my head,an immortal mother,and a cursed sword.Thinking about my high school made me rather sad,because I had found out that demigods couldn't use phones anyways.

So there wss no calling my father and after the cyclops at school,I didn't want to leave the safety of camp.Especially when I couldn't wield a sword right. When the corch horn blew singling dinner,I was one sweaty,sad and miserable little Nathaniel.Mostly because Evan had been avioding me since taking me to the weapons shed.

So I had decided to go around camp and ask the campers for some information,which sucked by the way when they either looked terrified of you. Or looked like they wanted to punch you in the face and dump your head in the toilet.The Ares cabin did that to all new campers,and the Hermes pranked them except for me,because I'm special.

Nah,it was most likely because they all thought I was possesed by a demon or something.My point was only proven further when as I walked over to my sad lonely table one kid literally held a cross up.Did demons exist in Greek mythology?I had no idea,but sitting at a table all alone while everyone else laughed and talked?

That was horrible and I kinda wished as the nymphs brought me my plate of BBQ ribs and grapes that I had gotten the traditional greeting...While I ate though I noticed something odd that my cup was empty and that people where walking away with a little food on their plates and...dropping it into a fire?

Remember how I told you it was terribly difficult to get anyone to talk to me? (Especially the Hypnos kids...they were worse then Arua)Well,I had no idea what they were doing wasting perfectly good food.So,I turned to the closest table,it was Mary's table of course.

"Hey um~Why is my cup empty and why are you guys burning food!"I asked and Mary snorted while some of her siblings gave nervous snickers.Her green eyes narrowed at me.

"Its a goblet you idiot and we burn a little bit of our food for the gods,they like the smell."she growled and all I had to think about that was.

Ew.The gods must nose blind because I don't think grapes and ribs burning together would smell good.

Then I realized soemthing,everyone else had gotten a roll,buttered,baked beans and even hotdogs while all I had gotten...Anger flared through me,even the stupid nymphs were acting weird towards me!So what if I was the first child of my mother to be alive in~how ever many years!That didn't mean they could treat me like trash!

Before I could stop myself,I had stood up and slammed my fist on the table, which startled a few campers near me. They I yelled louder then I though possible and the whole dinning pavilion hushed.I tend to draw attention to myself...

"I'm not some kind of monster so stop treating me like one!And the next person who does is going to meet the edge of my blade!"I snarled eye blazing and I realized that I had drawn my cracked sword which gleams in the torch light.The dark crimson stain in the center of the blade seems to glow,but then again I always did have a strange imagination.

I slumped back down into my seat and sheathed my sword while everyone began to scramble towards the amphitheater for the nightly sing along.I glanced down at my half eaten plate of food and grabbed it following my fellow campers.I searched through the crowd to find Evan but I had no luck,even though he should have towered over many of them,he was no where to be seen.

I scraped my food into the fire and watched as the smoke from the red blaze drifted up towards the stars.My gaze lingered on them for a few moments.I took a startled step back as I spotted a female form in the sky,her braided hair flowing behind her feroisly and her arrows ready to strike me

down.

I had no idea how I had seen the constellation so clearly,but I couldn't recall ever seeing it before...And I was pretty good with stars since me and my father when we lived back in Colorado lay out in the plains at night and recite the constellations and their stories...But I had never seen that one,and to be honest it was a bit sad because the constellation was stunning.

I smiled at the girl in the sky even though it was ridiculous as I sat down, away from the other campers.For some reason I felt so drawn to that little arrangements of stars.

"It must be rather lonely up there..."I told her,not caring if anyone heard me.

"Though,I guess you have Orion to keep you company.Yet,I get the feeling you're not the kind of women who needs a man."I really had gone crazy hadn't I?Talking to a constellation in the stars that looked like a girl because I was lonely?Why not though,if I could have a goddess as a mother then who says the stars couldn't hear me.

"I do hope that your bow is only for show,because those arrows look sharp and I rather not get shot."I shook my head and chuckled.I swore to you the constellation seemed to move,turning her head towards me,as if curious.

"Do you think you could help me?I'm so lost and confused..and sailors lost at sea use the stars as giudes right?"I felt tears sting my eyes,here I was pouring my heart out to the freaking stars.I trailed my fingers along the sheath at my hip holding the sword of my dead half brother.A true hero,unlike me.I was just a coward who wss thrown into a world that I never wanted to know about.

I suddenly realized that everyone had gone rather quiet.I glanced around to find that everyone was staring at, Rachel who was standing there next to the fire her eyes glowing green.Her hair drifted around her head in some invisible breeze and my blood ran cold in my veins.Her glowing green eyes settled right on me as green mist began to pour from her mouth.

"A child of revenge is the key."her voice rang out over the whole crowd.It wasn't her voice though anymore,but something ancient and powerful spoke through the young women's body.

"The night holds our lost souls.While the stars bare a guide.Demise in a broken heart,pieced by the arrow.The barrier shall be shattered by the heir.A scythe of the traitor,shall turn back to when the sky fell."Then Rachel collapsed onto the ground and the fire before my every eyes grew a dark black and shrank. Slowly,everyone turned their heads towards me and I felt like I had been dipped into a frozen lake for hours. That's when I did what every hero should do,I stood up and gave some inspirational speech!

No.That's not what I did,and I didn't faint either.I ran away.