I was past all of this crazy crap. No more outrageous surprises, no more weird hybrid animals walking around, no more secrets! But, like always, I was wrong. My head fogged and black circles threatened to blind me and take my consciousness with it. I closed my eyes tight and felt my heart beat loud in my chest. I opened my eyes and Chiron was staring at me with wide, worried eyes. He probably thought I was going to have a heart-attack or something. Not that my heart wasn't beating hard enough for that to happen. I swallowed and turned to look at my brother. As much as this news affected me, we were twins in this situation, so we were both a part of it. His eyes were wide with horror and his mouth hung so low it could have touched the ground. I decided that I was probably the only one in this pair that was ready to talk things through, so I had to take the first step.

"Explain." I said without an ounce of emotion in my voice. I couldn't show Chiron what I was feeling. Heck, I didn't know what I was feeling. My emotions were too jumbled around in my head to sort through them in that short time.

"Well," said Chiron taking my eyes into an unbreakable gaze, "things unexplainable happen on Olympus. So unexplainable, the Olympians don't even know of them. This lead to that, and there you were."

Fabulous. No answers. You're a real help, Chiron.

Clomping his hooves, Chiron began again. "No one was supposed to know about you two. But secrets are terribly hard to keep from Olympians. Hera became mad because, like Andrew Late, you were Gods. She zapped you, Agailia, with the curse of Echo. Adonis fled with the help of your father, Apollo. Artemis got you away before she could do any more damage, and met up with Apollo on the stoop of a new family's home. They thought it was best if you didn't find out until you could come to camp and be safe."

"Except, Chiron, you're missing the fact that we're not adopted." I was fed up with his lies. We already had parents, God Chiron, don't you get it?

"Like I said before, you were adopted."

Ugh, he was no going to let this go was he?

"Then why didn't our adopted parents tell us before, huh? Why would they keep it a secret for all of these years?" I didn't know why tears started streaming down my face, but they came in pools of salty water.

Chiron took a sigh. "They wanted to protect you. Sure, they didn't know who your real parents were or what you really were, but they wanted to keep your life as normal as possible."

I took a deep breath. He must be telling the truth. The evidence was too strong to prove otherwise. And I hated it. Then a single fact stood out like a neon sign blinking brightly in my head.

"Wait, we're Gods?" I asked, my voice rising as I said the last word.

Chiron nodded with an unreadable look on his face. I looked to Adonis whose mouth had finally closed. I guessed unreadable was the new black, because that seemed to be the expression on most peoples' faces nowadays.

"Adonis?" I asked, turning to look up at him.

He looked straight at Chiron without meeting my eyes. "I guess that explains a lot."

"What do you mean?" I asked quizzically.

"Agailia, think about it. We both look nothing like Dad or Mom. There aren't any hospital pictures or anything. Our grandparents don't even seem like they love us. Or like us for that matter. Face it, it's true."

And that right there was the only thing I needed to believe Chiron. The only thing I wanted was to not be alone in this whole ordeal. Thank the Gods I had my brother.

I looked at Chiron again. "Chiron, if we're twins, how come we look nothing alike?" I had noticed it before, of course. But now that I knew the actual truth, I wanted to know the actual reason. Adonis had light blonde hair with piercing blue eyes. My hair was dark brown and my eyes were a dark green.

"That would be because you, Agailia, took most of your traits from your mother. Adonis took most from your father."

I guessed that made sense. Of course, it's not like I've ever met Artemis or Apollo—mom or dad—before so how was I supposed to know?

"Agailia, do you ever feel more alive when the moon is full or wake up late in the morning?"

I nodded. I was always a late riser and I always fell asleep way later then anyone else.

"And Adonis, you get up right when the sun rises, correct? And play guitar or some other instrument?" I felt Adonis stiffen behind me and felt his hands grip the handle of my wheel chair tight.

"Yes." He said taking in a deep breath.

So, it was true. We were the children of the Gods Artemis and Apollo. We were Gods ourselves, actually. We were adopted and our real parents had to leave us on Earth because of Hera's angry tirade. It really all made sense now.

Chiron coughed, breaking the stone silence. "Well, now that you know the truth, I guess its okay to separate you into your cabins now."

Wait, separate?

"What do you mean 'separate'?" I asked eying Chiron curiously.

"Your parents suggested moving you into different cabins. Plus, even though you are her son, Adonis, boys are not allowed in the Artemis cabin under any circumstances. It is her rule over the cabin."

I felt the urge to point a finger at Adonis and stick my tongue out, but now really wasn't the right time.

Chiron lead us out of the door of the dining hall and outside into the cool, winter night. I could have sworn it was hot this afternoon, but as of now, it was freezing. The storm had seemed to let up, so I guess Zeus wasn't as angry anymore. We were in the middle of the "U" of cabins now and my eyes looked around at all of the beautiful little houses.

"Over there, Agailia, will be your new cabin." Chiron was pointing to the silver one with wooden wolf over the door. Now that it was dark, the cabins seemed to glow in the moonlight. Not much of a surprise seeing as Artemis was the Goddess of the moon.

"Over there," said Chiron pointing to a yellow cabin, "Adonis your new cabin awaits. Both of your things have been placed inside your cabins. I'll leave you here. See bright and early in the morning!"

And with that, Chiron took off back towards were we came. I looked at Adonis. "Let's see how well I can stand." I stood up, and surprisingly, my back didn't hurt. I smiled and stretched my legs.

He smiled back. Adonis had become a lot more like a brother since we came to this camp. "Good, I guess I'll see you tomorrow then?"

"Right." I said folding up the wheel chair and tucking it under my arm.

I could see that Adonis really didn't want to talk about anything right now. He wanted to keep it bottled up so no one could see his weakness. That was really the only similarity between us. We kept our emotions to ourselves. Until—like a bottle ready to pop from the air pressure of being shook around—we exploded. But now, he was adding to that pressure, but I was sure I'd see it come out sometime.

We took off to our separate cabins. Once I was at the silver door of the Artemis cabin, I looked back over to my brother's fading figure as he entered his new cabin. The door shut behind him and I looked forward. I twisted the handle and walked into my new home.

Author's Note:

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