This is the re-make of chapter 9, hope you guys enjoy!


After my mother's visit, I became an instant celebrity. And how I hated the attention!

Even Connor looked up to me as if I was a higher being than him. Which I definitely wasn't! Why was I the daughter of two gods, and the most unlikely ones at that? And why oh why didn't Zeus like me? What have I ever done to him? What has my dad ever done to upset Zeus so much?

Question floated around my head, seeking answers that couldn't be answered by me, only by the king of the Gods himself.

I just wanted to be normal and belong, but it didn't look like this was going to happen. I would always be the odd one out. The loser without any thing in common with the others.

Later on, Connor helped me put on my armour for capture the flag. The armour was too broad in the shoulders for me, so it felt quite uncomfortable. Instead of sitting at the side with my fellow Aphrodite siblings, I joined my Hephaestus siblings with Athena, Demeter, Poseidon, Hecate and a few Roman cabins in a full out war against Ares, Hermes, Hades and most of the other minor god cabins.

The conch horn blew once we got to our positions, My blue horse plume helmet was knocked off with an arrow just as the game began. Then a wave of Ares campers came to attack me, what was I meant to do? A red head from my team led the attack, her imperial gold bow (named curiously Fuga) was drawn and ready to attack. One Ares camper charged at her, his muscles rippling and sword drawn, ready to strike her down. I panicked, had she noticed him? Her eyes were intensely trained on his face, then she stuck out her tongue. Seeing this change, I realised that they weren't going to kill each other, an idea reinforced when the hilt of his sword hit his team mate in the face, after he let go of it. She threw her bow to another Roman and giggled as he picked her up. From what I understood, it seemed like a wrestling match, but for children of war, even though they were laughing for the duration of the 'fight'. The Roman who caught the red head's bow tutted as she lead the rest of the team towards the 'enemy'. As soon as I saw Clarisse, my mind went into overdrive as she struck her newly polished spear into the chink of my armour.

Thankfully, I burst into flames moments before. The flames that circled my body made the Ares campers back off slightly as Clarisse's now unfixable spear dropped at my feet, in a puddle of celestial bronze. My new found power attracted the attention of my new half-brother Leo, who in return burst into flames when I looked at him. I caught the eyes of another as well, but her eyes were not trained on me … Lucy Mizuki was watching Leo from the shadows, I wanted to know if they had a thing between them. But I shook the thought away, mother's obsession with love would not interest me. EVER.

After I realised this, all the Ares campers just forgot about me, so I did the same to them. There was an opening in front of me, I could see the red flag in the distance. I could do it, I could get there. As always, my luck didn't stretch that much, I had to be the one who got caught in an Ares camper's hunting net.*Sigh* Then to make my day even worse, the trip wire/snare raised me up until I was upside down, and then my fire ran out through my sheer exhaustion. I had never tried to summon the fire before, it had always come during times when I was feeling a strong emotion.

When the Ares campers realised that they had caught me, I was done for. Clarisse looked fierce and her son of Hermes boyfriend was no where to be seen. Great. Clarisse strutted up to me until we were face to face. Her permanent scowl was almost amused by my stupidity of falling into their trap.

"Daughter of Aphrodite, time to die," Clarisse said, glaring into my eyes. I thought that I was all alone in this silent battle, but my Connor came to my rescue, as always. Connor slashed and hacked at the Ares campers, but their father was god of war, and Connor had turned on his own team.

"Connor what are you doing?" I screamed as an Ares camper tried to stab him.

"Protecting my love, I was told to come and find you by Annabeth." Unfortunately, I distracted Connor again, meaning that one of the Ares camper brought the hilt of his sword on Connor's helmeted head. And Connor fell to the floor, for the second time in one day. All this knocking out must be really bad for his brain. As I worried about Connor, there was a scream from many campers as the darkness covered me.

For the … err countless amount of times, I awoke to being in the dark. I thought that this was normal, but there was no window in the 'room' that I was in. I felt awfully claustrophobic, as if the room was eating me alive …

Connor

Sam was gone. Chiron told me that Hades took her, but I knew it wasn't true. I knew why they took her, it was my fault, but they promised that if I listened to them then they would leave my loved ones alone. Leave her alone, and I was stupid enough to ignore them. The god told me to stay away from Sam, that the Earth mother had plans for my goddess, but I just couldn't help myself. She was all I ever wanted, a girl really out of my league who was a daughter of Aphrodite. I guess that I am similar to Leo in that sense, all the girls that I have ever wanted to be with had been either too cool or bitchy for me, but I still loved them.

Morpheus was his name. He told me that he would come back after the second war against Kronos in New York. He told me that Percy Jackson had a score to settle with him, but he wouldn't tell me what either my or Sam's involvement in this matter was. Chiron stared at me with his intelligent eyes, he knew that I knew something, but what would Morpheus do if I told Chiron? What would Chiron do if I told him? I wish I knew what to do.

Sam

I heard voices coming from outside my 'room', it was a masculine voice. He was calling my name in an extremely sweet voice but somehow I could tell that it was false … What did he want? Who was he? Oh, I wish that Connor was here …


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