Chiron galloped over to us. "Hail Julie Amelia Sparks, daughter of Athena"
Athena. Athena. Daughter of Athena. I was a daughter of Athena. Me. I couldn't believe it. Athena had been my favorite goddess for... I don't even remember. Such a long time. And here I found out I was her daughter! My smile turned into a frown. I was her daughter. Why did she claim me just now? Why not yesterday? Or when I crossed the boundary line? Why now? Now that I was finally getting used to the Hermes cabin? Not that I didn't like the Athena kids. They were awesome. But I was finally happy there. Why now? What? Was she claiming me because of that dream I had? Did she think "Oh, she might be useful, let's claim this brat already." ? I loved my mortal mom, who I always considered, and always would, my real mom. But I always felt like some part of me was missing. Some nights I'd just lay in bed, and out of nowhere, I would just have a desire to cry. And then I'd cry myself to sleep, and I never knew why. Did she even care? Did she even know? Did she ever see me? Or did she give me away and just... forgot about me? I put away my thoughts as Chiron led us to the singalong in the Amphitheater. The Athena kids welcomed me and offered to help me get my stuff afterwards.
"Hey new half sister!" Annabeth greeted. I smiled,
"Hey Annabeth," I said.
She studied me with a suspicious look. "What's wrong?" She was good at reading people's face.
I sighed, "Um, nothing. I'm just... worried about Artemis." I lied. Well, not really lied. I was worried about her. About the dream. About my possible quest. About everything. At the moment, I was just more preoccupied with being mad at my mom. Stop that Julie, I thought, You know gods can't give that much attention to their children... But still...
"Campers," Chiron announced on the microphone, "We have some important announcements before we start." Chiron looked at me and I realized what this was about. Tonight was just great. "As you all have seen during dinner, Julie Sparks, has been claimed by Athena. Coincidence or not, yesterday she had a dream of Artemis asking her to help her, free her." The campers started murmuring. "Quiet down children!" Chiron continued, "Now, we have contacted Olympus and they said they haven't heard from Artemis in a while. We were able to talk to the Hunters and they told us about Artemis' disappearance. Thalia Grace, Lieutenant of Artemis, daughter of Zeus, will be here shortly to give us all the information we need. We believe Artemis has indeed been captured. We don't know who captured her, or why, but to find that out, we will need a quest."
Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. I'm so dead... literally, I thought. I couldn't lead a quest. I mean, me? I had just been claimed, I had no training whatsoever and I was no child of the Big Three, so, I didn't have any cool, special powers to help her. I didn't even have a sword, or a bow and arrow. I hadn't even decided if I was going to use a bow and arrow or a sword. I was so dead.
"And it is only right for Julie to lead this quest, since she was given that dream for a reason." He looked over to me and motioned me to go up to where he was.
As I walked, I could feel the campers staring at me. I heard some whisper "Poor girl," "I hope she survives." "It's only her second day!", which didn't exactly reassure me. Chiron gave me an encouraging nod and I stood at his side.
"Rachel," he said to a skinny and tall girl, with frizzy red hair and green eyes. "Please." She smiled as she came over to me. "Julie, this is Rachel Elizabeth Dare, our Oracle." Chiron introduced. So this was the girl Annabeth had told me about. The girl she was once jealous of.
"Nice to meet you," Rachel said, "I wish we could have met another time, since this first meeting might be a little weird considering what will happen. Even though I won't remeber anything..."
"Uh, what do you mean?" I asked, confused.
"You'll see." She said in a dead serious tone. "But first," she went back to her happy voice, "you need to ask."
"Ask what?"
"About your future, your destiny, your quest to save Artemis... Only then I can give you the prophecy."
"Okay... um, how can I free Artemis?" Then, the weirdest thing happened. She started dancing like a monkey. But she stopped abruptly and green smoke came out of her mouth.
HELLOOOOOO YOU LOVELY PEOPLE! I'm back! I hope you all read the Author's Note I posted here, telling you why I wasn't gonna post for a while. If you didn't, too bad, cause I erased it. HA. And I'm not gonna teeeeell ya. HA, two. Okay, I will. I was away for around 20 days, just as I said I would be, because I moved to another city and I only got my computer back yesterday. So, yeah.
So, she has a quest. I'm gonna be honest with you guys, I just didn't put the prophecy in this chapter because I actually haven't uh... thought of it yet. Hehe. Sorry. I'm not good with prophecies. I'm no Oracle! If anyone can give me some tips, I'd love it. haha.
I'll try to post more soon. REMEMBER TO REVIEW!
Love ya!
