Chapter Eight – What are we going to do?
I honestly don't understand what all that fuss was about. Seriously, I only collapsed after teleporting myself and a dying boy into a room of fully armed demigods. No need to shower me with 'get well soon' s and 'Are you alright?' s. I especially hated the 'you should take it easy' comment. Come on people, if I thought that I could've taken it easy, I would've. But I couldn't. Ever since I went through that black hole like darkness, I'd just been fused with hyperactive energy. I had been skipping everywhere, singing, laughing and bouncing up and down all day. Some of the kids in this mundane camp thought I was crazy. Funny thing is, they were right.
I was snorting at nothing when I made my way over to the woods, skipping of course. I had told Elizabeth that I would meet her there, but I still cannot comprehend as to why she wanted to meet. She could've just told me to meet her on the roof of the Big House, that would have been much easier. Anyway, when I arrived at the destination we agreed to meet at, I knew we were not alone. Not because I heard the newcomers, or because I saw them. No, I felt them. I felt their presence around me. Who were they?
When I turned the last bend, I expected to a small pond, slightly shimmering as the rays of sun shone down upon its surfaces. There would be reeds bending over the water, and lilies emerging from it. Instead of that glorious sight, I saw a dreadful one. People. Well, five demigods, one centaur and a naiad, who was paddling in the small body of water. The centaur was a huge chap named Chiron, who was the camp director that Reece thought so highly of and Elizabeth did not favour. The demigods appeared to be Elizabeth Welsh, Reece Cameron, Jimmy Stevenson, Alexandro Delmar and Aya Igneous. I said appeared to be because I have always known things to not appear as how they truly are. Take Elizabeth, for example. She is the first and only daughter of the great John Welsh, and yet she would rather take her shoes off and walk among the trees then get all dressed up for balls and dances (I honestly don't know what she's on about, dresses are brilliant).
Anyway, I groaned loudly, my skips halting. I didn't want to be pestered with questions about my teleporting, but I guess I'll cannot avoid it now. Judging by the guilty look on Elizabeth's impish features, she did not want to go through with this. I studied Reece next. His grey eyes were defiant, and he stood tall and proud. What in the universe was going on? Jimmy Stevenson was someone that I had yet to interact with, I only knew of him through Elizabeth when she recounted the council meeting that I had so generously graced with my presence. Mr. Stevenson was quite small, though his features communicated to me that he was of my age, he also had messy dark brown hair. Aya Igneous was an acquaintance of mine who had taken a shine to Elizabeth, she was a fiery sight with orange/red curls and deep blue eyes. She was a daughter of Poseidon, the apparent god of the sea.
Finally, there was Alexandro Delmar. He had a demeanour about him that made my usually extroverted-self shy. He seemed to be basked in shadows, which was very interesting. He smiled when I looked at him, the gesture not going unnoticed. I wondered why they were all here. What would such a diverse batch of demigods want with me? I thought for a second, everyone else remained silent as I did so. I only moved when I came up with a perfectly reasonable idea.
"Elizabeth, is this company here because they have come to inform us why you have no need for glasses?" I asked inquisitively. I was met by a couple of confused glances and a light chuckle from Reece. Elizabeth instinctively brought her pale finger tips up to the bridge of her cute button nose. She seemed surprised that her glasses were missing, this made me smug.
"Huh." Was all she replied with. A couple of metres away from my confused step-sister, the pristine centaur cleared his throat. I dragged the gaze of my black eyes over to the mythological being.
"Katja, I wanted to meet with you and Liz today because it is drastically important that we uncover the identity of your godly parents." Chiron stated. I let out a giddy smile while Elizabeth looked intrigued.
"I was under the impression that this was something we can't rush, that's what Aya told me." Elizabeth inquired, and she was not wrong. Reece had indeed informed me of this when we were in the taxi. I was eager to hear Chiron's response.
"Yes, that is normally the case. But this is not a normal situation. We received a prophesy just last week that stated that the next two demigods to arrive at camp will either save or destroy us… depending on their godly parentage." Chiron said gently. The other demigods looked down at their feet. Elizabeth had a look on her face that told me that she was satisfied by the answer she got. I retreated to my mind to think of the possibilities.
"You two are the only demigods to arrive at camp in the past month." I faintly heard Aya Igneous telling us.
"So, obviously we assume that the prophesy refers to you." Jimmy Stevenson finished.
"Another pointer would be the fact that one of you sunk through the ground and the other used some sort of Shadow-travel to get here. Not normal." Alexandro added quietly. His voice was the one to break me from my trance.
"You two are the ones to save us." Reece concluded. Elizabeth looked proud, but I merely raised an eyebrow.
"Hold on," I said, all heads snapped to me. I focused on my breathing, if I was going to ask this question, I would need to be calm. "What if you're not pleased?"
Silence.
"What if," I continue, "Our parents indicate that we will destroy you?"
More silence. This enraged me, so much for keeping calm. By the look of bewilderment on Elizabeth's face, I'd guess she hadn't thought of what I was saying.
"What are you going to do to us?! What are you going to do when you find out that two innocent girls are going to destroy you?!" I was just about screaming now. "Are you going to kill us? Going to kick us onto the streets? I, for one, am not going to let my sister and I to suffer that!"
If I thought it was silent before, it was as if all the noise-makers on earth had died now.
"If you have nothing else to say," Elizabeth told them softly, tears welling up in her eyes. "Kat and I will be taking our leave. Good day."
And with a swift nod of agreement from my part, I walked to Elizabeth and wrapped a comforting arm around her shoulders. We proceeded to walk back to camp.
"What are we going to do?"
