Mount Olympus
It was a few weeks later that Chiron gathered all of the winged kids together in front of the Big House. "The gods have summoned you. We are going into the city. We have figured out that mortals cannot we your wings unless they are fully extended and then only sometimes. We do want you to wear jackets without slits to wear over your wings. It will stop you from being tempted to open your wings. Jackets are in the pile on the porch. Leave your weapons where your jackets were. We leave immediately." We all went and grabbed jackets and pulled them on. I hated the feeling of something over my wings.
We took a van into the city and then walked to the Empire State Building. We took the elevator to the 600th floor and got out.
Chiron turned to us, "Take off your jackets and place them by the elevator, you can get them back when we leave." he turned and began to roll toward the main palace. We looked at each other and finally Kaela and I stepped forward to follow Chiron.
We walked into the palace and knelt in front of the thrones on one knee. I glanced back and saw that the other campers had paired off like Kaela and I had.
Just then Zeus spoke, "Rise, we need to talk." We all rose and the as we did the gods stood and descended, taking on a more human figure. "We've noticed your prayers. Unfortunately we can't do anything about the wings. We can't even see your wings unless we are standing near you. But we still need to find a way to be able to identify you from up here. We're going to give you what are basically Celestial bronze tattoos. You can will them away when you're around mortals and they won't be able to see them. You and your partner will have identical with a combination of one of each of your parents symbols in it. Got it?" We nodded. "All right then. Here are your tattoos." All of a sudden I looked at Kaela and she had a tattoo of a serpent and a vine of roses (I'm guessing Christmas roses) running from the dip in her collarbone, up to the right side of her neck, up and around her right eye, and ending with the serpent's head ending between her eyes. I knew it was the same as mine and I loved it.
As we were looking at our partners the gods started fighting about what our group should be called involving birds, probably in reference to our wings. Zeus wanted us to be called the eagles, Athena wanted the owls, and on and on. I realized what was happening and turned toward where the gods were fighting. I put my fingers in my mouth and did something extremely stupid, I dog whistled. All of the Gods turned to face me, "We don't want to be the soldiers of any one god. We exist from almost every god. We're the angels. We can heal and we can fight. Angels are not the symbol of any god and we do not represent any one god. We are used to fighting alone but we will learn to fight together. Because the rifts that divided our parents will not divide us." I turned on my heel and we left the room, I knew without Chiron. We grabbed our jackets and ended up walking all the way back to camp. We talked and I got pats on the back for standing up to the gods. We had willed our tattoos away in the elevator but willed them back as soon as we could. The campers turned and looked at us as we went back. Apparently they already had heard about it. We dropped our jackets and grabbed our weapons and strapped them on. We all lifted off and flew over to the compound. We walked in and when we looked over the railing we saw the gods on the floor. We all drew our weapons and flew down to the floor of the compound. There were none of the formalities of the meeting on Olympus. We formed attack positions and didn't speak.