You would think that now, because it's summer that a person would have more time to update. Well, a person would but I'm just actually way busier than usual. Also, in the beginning of August, I will be leaving away for two weeks. Yes, unfortunately that means that I'm not going to have access to the computer. BUT I will bring my notebook and pencil and my writers cramp with me to write more of my story so I know that I'm getting my work done. So when I get home, all I have to do is transfer my writing onto the computer and yeah. But before that, I might leave you with more chapters than I would. ANYWAY, let's not worry about that now because chapter 11 is here to save the day!
Chapter 11
I walked slowly towards the middle of the arena, knowing that there was no chance that I could defend myself against Percy. Why was he doing this to me? I'm gonna get creamed.
"Keep your weapons up at all times." Percy said.
Yeah, like that was going to help.
"Ready?" Percy asked. I looked around. All the other campers looked worried and relieved. Like they were lucky it wasn't them up there.
"I guess." I said.
And without warning, Percy suddenly jabbed at my left arm, which he had to know was still recovering from being dislocated. At the last second, I jumped to the right, Percy's sword only a mere inch from my arm. I kept my shield protectively up while I slashed (and failed) at Percy but I was way off.
Percy was slashing at me but every time, I would just hide behind my own shield. He kept advancing towards me and I let him.
Stupid, stupid, stupid! I thought to myself. Okay, jab now! Oh wait! No, now, NO. Should I slash? To Late! Hide!
I would always think to slow and miss my chance while Percy was two steps ahead of me.
"Ow!" I screamed. Percy had just slashed a little bit of my right arm and the blood started to trickle down.
Okay, don't think, just hit!
I was surprised at when I had the guts to push my shield in his own with such force that he stumbled backwards, but there was no time to celebrate the victory when Percy recovered in only a second. I didn't just stop there though.
I started slashing Percy, but carefully, like when he gave an opening. I couldn't reach him enough when he was advancing back, but that was the good thing too, I was advancing up to him trying to corner him in the wall of the arena.
Almost there, I thought.
"Hailey! Percy!" I heard Annabeth call my name and I did the mistake of looking over. Next thing I knew, I was on the ground at Percy's sword point.
"Never get distracted." He said with a smile as he let me go.
I got up off the ground and retracted my weapons.
"Hey guys." Annabeth said as she walked over. Where you here the whole time? You guys are late for Greek mythology."
I looked around and saw that Percy and I were the only ones left in the arena. I guess the other campers already left and didn't want to disturb.
Annabeth frowned at my arm.
"We should clean that off first." She said. I looked at my right arm. Oh yeah.
"I'll see you guys in Greek." Percy said as he walked off.
Annabeth walked me over to bandage up my arm and after that, walked over to the group of campers sitting in a circle in the grass with Chiron. The group was in between the strawberry fields and the forge.
Greek went by fast, learning about the history of the mighty Hercules. After that, it was lunch.
While eating, I noticed people were looking at me funny and were whispering among themselves like they were afraid that someone would be over hearing. I was worried that the someone was me.
I did, though, hear a little bit of what some kids were saying. I heard things along the lines of, 'the big three', 'trouble to all', and 'how to prove herself'. Things were obviously getting, well, obvious!
There was that Dionysius kid after dinner who came up to me, hugged me awkwardly, then he said "Oh child please, you're to young." Then he walked away.
What was going on?
After lunch, it was tracking skills, but I didn't pay attention. I couldn't. What horrible thing was going to happen to me?
Next, it was laundry. I looked at my only pair of clothes which was my concert clothes. Yeah. I'm done. I had like 2 hours of free time until dinner now, so I decided that I should contact my mom.
I remember Percy has told me a little about Iris messages. I walked over to the corner of the room where a little fountain was spraying mist making a visible rainbow. I dug out a drachma from the bottom of the fountain and tossed it in the rainbow. I half expected it to just go through and hit the wall like what you would think, but the other half knew that it was going to disappear, which is exactly what it did.
"Oh goddess Iris." I started saying. I hope I was saying it right. "Please except my offering. Um uh, Clair Montez Pittsburg Pennsylvania."
Next thing I know, I see my mom sitting at our kitchen table. She looks like she hasn't slept in days. Her light brown hair was a mess and tied in a sloppy put bun. She had heavy bags under her dark blue eyes. She was holding a cup of coffee in one hand and was looking at the newspaper in the other but she looked distracted.
"Mom?" I said quietly into the mist.
She looked up, a bit startled, but when she saw my face, relief washed over her worry.
"Hailey! Honey, I missed you so much. Are you okay? I was worried about you I haven't heard anything about you or camp since Chiron messaged me the night you got to camp. Are you alright? I didn't know if you were all right. Are you hurt? What happened?" My mother said.
"You knew about camp?" I asked.
"Of course." She responded. "Your father wanted you to come here. Now, I repeat, are you okay?"
I smiled. My mom didn't want to talk about anything else until she got over my health concerns
"Yeah mom, I'm fine. I got my arm dislocated but it's okay now." I held up my left arm to show her. I saw her worried face soften a little but got hard again as she saw the gauze on my right arm.
"What's that?" She demanded as she looked at my other arm.
"It's just a little cut." I said. "From sword fighting." Once I said the word 'sword' and 'fighting' in the same sentence, I regretted it. My mother threw a fit.
"Oh, you should have taken that shot when we had the chance. Keep an eye on it in case it gets infected. I just knew I should have consulted more with Chiron about that. I'm still not fighting for all the children to wear full body armor that covers the whole entire body when doing any of their activities. Also that when doing the rock climbing wall, no lava, no earthquakes and the children should be wearing harnesses, in fact everyone should be wearing a helmet at all times. No MAGIC whatsoever unless doing the classes, but outside, that should be forbidden. And don't even get me started on the woods!" Yadda yadda yadda.
"Mom, come on." I complained.
She stopped talked and just smiled. That's when Percy walked into the room.
"Hey Hailey," Percy started. "I've got no more clean undies and if I wash them all today, then they're not going to be ready until two days from now. Do you think that I can survive with the pair that I'm currently wearing, even though I've been wearing them for three days now? The pair that I wore yesterday for only two days would be better to wear than these, right?"
Mega. Face. Palm.
I looked over at my mom's face. She was absolutely disgusted and horrified. She has a strict rule that every person should change their underwear everyday and to make sure that you have like twenty pairs. I'm not really in the mood to discuss my wardrobe problem with my sanitary freak mother at the moment.
Percy finally looked over to find out why there was an awkward silence and found me and my mother looking at him. He blinked twice as if to register what was going on. Then he got it. His eyes got wide and his face turned red.
"Oh uh um… Hello, Hailey's mom… I'm just gonna, you know, step out for a minute… Bye!" And with that, Percy ran out the door.
I turned sheepishly towards my mother again and gave my best smile.
"Heh, heh." I managed.
My mom sighed.
"I now remembered that Percy's is your new roommate."
"And, my new half brother." I said matter-of-factly.
My mom smiled.
"How do you feel knowing who your father is now." My mother asked.
I thought for a moment.
"I don't know yet." I said honestly.
I saw that the mist was starting to weaken. I was running out of time.
"I'll message you again soon mom." I said.
"Okay sweetie, stay safe. I love you."
"Love you too." Then, the message disconnected.
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