This is chapter ten! Okay, the syocs I got were awesome. Thank you to all of the people who sent in submissions! So very sorry, it was a really hard decision! The final winner was... drumroll, please... I couldn't pick. I will put in all of the ones entered with all of my criteria. Your character ideas were amazing. I made a mistake in the last chapter; I put Monday the 23rd and I actually meant the sixteenth. Sorry this is going to be taking so long for the next week. I'm going to be really busy! By the way, have you guys ever been reading a story and then you look at the reviews and they are all horrible and mean? Like I read this one story and all of the reviews were things like 'do the world a favor and throw yourself off a cliff'! It was so sad I almost cried. So, a reminder, please do not flame. It is just super mean cyberbullying.
Disclaimer: I. Am. A. Girl. 'Nough said.
Piper POV
A few minutes pass as my siblings try desperately to comfort me, promising to beat Jason up and give him permanent green eye shadow (which apparently is completely wrong for his skin tone).
Gratefully, after a while, they get that I just want to be alone and wallow in my overwhelming despair. They all gradually exit and I sit silently on my bed, completely and utterly miserable. My eyes prickle with moisture, but I refuse to shed another tear over the despicable jerk I once called my boyfriend.
I hear a small knock. "Who is it?" I croak, fairly annoyed. I really just want to scream, 'Go away, can't you see that I'm attempting to drown in my own misery here?' But I would never actually do that.
"It's your b.f.f., Kelly," I hear a voice reply. I am instantly lifted a little. Kelly Tides is my best friend at camp.
"Come in!" I yell back and the door to my cabin opens. The tanned, curly haired brunette in front of me smiles. Then she sees my eyes and her jaw drops.
"Piper, what happened?" She asks, running up to hug me. I don't have to get up to be level; Kelly is a relatively small girl, barely five foot three at age sixteen. Her turquoise eyes show that real concern that only your best friend in the whole world truly has.
"Okay," and I tell the story yet again. The longer I go on, the angrier Kelly's eyes seem to get. "And then Lacy slammed the door in his face," I finish. Finally my best friend loses control and I see the water that was in the shower turn into a mini tornado. Did I mention she is Percy's half sister on the Poseidon side?
"How dare he do all of that? He is just a-" I cover her mouth before she can finish. Cussing him out won't help anything. I already tried.
"I know. But I think he isn't the true enemy at the moment. It's her. Reyna," I say, gripping the bedpost so hard that my knuckles go white. There is a raging anger inside of me as I say her name.
Kelly looks thoughtful for a moment. She glances at her bronze key shaped necklace. She grabs it and turns it as if it was actually in a lock. Suddenly she is no longer holding a necklace, but a celestial bronze sword.
"Are you sure we can't run him through with my sword?" She asks, her smile prominent on her bronze colored face. I nod my head sadly and she sticks out her bottom lip. "Pretty please? You can have the first stab!" I can tell she is barely holding back laughter. To tell the truth, I am, too.
"I think we need to have a talk with Annabeth and Percy," I say and my best friend's eyes light up like the water on a crystal clear day. She and Percy are extremely close as are she and Annabeth. We walk across the field and arrive at cabin three.
I hear a growl from behind me and turn around just in time to see a flash of pink. A Stoll prank, no doubt about it. Soon, Percy opens the door, Annabeth right beside him, as always.
"Hey, Kells! What's up?" He asks. As she fills him in to the events of the morning, I glance across the field to the Apollo cabin. Outside stands Harmie Jones, an Apollo child that looks a bit different then the others, with brown hair and black eyes. Her similarity to Reyna hits me abruptly like a brick wall.
I notice she is staring at me, almost like she is analyzing me for a guilty conscience. Her eyes are piercing and dark. She is around five feet tall and sixteen like me. She is normally shy and friendly, but give her a sword and you'd swear she was another person.
She has this huge crush on Leo. It is so totally obvious to everyone- except him. Things get tense at times between her and Kelly, considering my best friend also falling hard for Leo. He doesn't realize this either.
You see, when Kelly got to camp around five months ago, we had just won the Giant War and so everyone was pretty laid back. Leo was on border patrol with Peleus. Kelly had been on the run with her mother, a famed Broadway actress, when they were attacked by a pack of furious and persistent hellhounds. They severely injured her mother.
Kelly risked her life getting her mother to the hospital, just barely making it to camp. She passed out just inside the border, right in Vulcan Valdez's arms. She has been in stone cold love ever since.
Anyway, after Kelly finishes, we all step into the cabin. Annabeth, the strategist that she is, plans out our confrontation. We need to find Reyna, like, NOW. I am ready to kick some Πίσω άκρο!
Suddenly we hear a light double knock. "May I come in?" Asks a tinkling little voice, like wind chimes. I recognize it and go to open the door.
Lexi Harrison, a sibling of mine, a fifteen year old, is standing on the little wooden porch. Her dark brown hair and chestnut colored eyes are kind, but with that oh so common glint that hints at mischief and sarcasm, both of which Lexi likes.
Her lightly tanned skin shines a bit in the sun, giving her the look of a goddess. She stands only a little shorter than me at five foot four. She is thin, but not too skinny. Her silver charm bracelet sits delicately on her wrist, but touch the star charm three times and you have a deathly sword.
Her main topic of conversation on a regular day is Pollux, son of Dionysus. She has a total thing for him, which I do not understand one bit. She and I are pretty close, because she was one of the only kids that wasn't a little Drew. Aside from Lacy and Mitchell, she was probably my favorite sibling.
"Hey!" She says cheerily. "I see you're up and at 'em!"
"Yeah, I'm feeling a ton better," I reply with a forced smile. I braced myself for the usual sarcastic comeback.
"No, I totally thought that you were dead!" There it is. She smiles with her perfectly white teeth before walking over to hug me. "I hope that you will make a full emotional recovery. If you need any help killing Jason, give me a call!" She taps her bracelet a single time as to say that she wouldn't be afraid to use her sword, which she, unlike many of my siblings, was actually skilled at.
Kelly smiles and invites her in the cabin. As I go to close the door, I see Harmie, still outside of her cabin, give me one last facial guilt scan before I can shut the seashell covered door.
Annabeth clears her throat as I sit down. "Okay, here's what we're going to do..."
I hope that you liked this! I am so sorry for the late update. I loved the submissions! They were all amazing and I am thinking about having them as somewhat major characters. I am also going to try to introduce Leo into the story, because, as you all know, Leo Valdez is the greatest character of all time *check out my story 'Leo Quotes'*! I will put up a poll about who Leo should pick- Kelly or Harmie. By the way, Kelly is team Piper and Harmie will eventually be team Jason. Lexi is also pro-Piper. Thanks for reading!- Abby;)
