Sorry I haven't updated in awhile! Family in town, vacation preparation, but sadly there won't be another update until August or September! I'M SO SORRY.
That night, Thalia spent the night at Nico's cabin. Annabeth and Ell were in the Athena cabin, James and Peter were in the Hades cabin, Jane was in the Apollo cabin. Grover was with Juniper.
Nico
"Hey Thals," I blinked the sleep from my eyes and propped myself up on my elbow to smile at her. "Its time to wake up," I shook her a little, but she didn't wake up. Sighing, I left the bed and showered. The steam, like usual, rolled out around me when I opened the door. Thals was awake then, and the clock read 10:09.
"I'm awake," she smiled as she came close to me. I leaned in slowly, Thals came up to meet me. Our lips touched and I felt her smile. There was no way I couldn't smile too. A knock sounded from my door.
Pulling away, I yelled, "What?!" Whoever it was broke up a kiss.
"Its, uh, Peter," the voice called through the door.
Frowning and facing Thals, I whispered to her, "What me to take you back first?"
"Okay," she replied. I shadow traveled her back to her cabin in left to mine, after leaving her a note.
Back at my cabin, I opened my door and leaned against the frame. "What," I spoke to him.
"What am I-like-suppose to do?" he asked me.
Rolling my eyes, "Get ready for breakfast," I told him. Peter frowned and left. Sighing, I paced around my room an headed towards James'.
I "touched" (aka kicked) him in the balls and said, "Get up. Breakfast in ten."
"Ugh," James rolled off the bed in pain. "Couldn't I have slept longer? Its not like we're on a schedule or anything." He dusted himself off from the floor and said, "Whatever." James left to go and get ready.
Seven minutes later I was so bored I called to the rest of them a step away from leaving, "I'm heading out before all of you. You all take forever! James, make sure Peter gets there okay. BYE!" Outside there were demigods around. They made a path for me to go, like usual. And then there was the red hair. No one at camp has that shade. No. One. I cursed, "She's back."
Thalia
Walking out of my cabin, I saw Nico instantly. He towered over everyone, sort of. Nico shot me a warning look-the warning look. Damn. She's here? And then I saw the hair, the freaking red hair. I gave Nico a come-to-my-cabin look. Nodding, he disappeared. I backed away into my cabin.
"Hey," Nico smiled at me. I only frowned. "Come on, I know she's here. But what can we do about it?"
I took a shaky breath trying to relax myself, "I don't know! Keep here away?!" Throwing my hands up theatrically, I said, "Keep her away from me and Annie. She could barely stand her then, that last time," I trailed off and continued, "and when Percy still here."
"Look," Nico came closer and grabbed my arm, "hey. Think it through. Calm down. We need an oracle."
"I hate it when you're right," I frowned and sat down on my bed. He came closer to me and tried comforting me, but it didn't work. "Is there food?" What? I'm hungry. No breakfast, yet.
"I'll check." Nico got up and went to the fridge. "There's nothing," he said. Frowning, I knew we'd have to go to the pavilion.
"Let's get this over with." I stood in the doorway, "Can't leave Annie alone for so long." I walked out ahead of Nico and saw Annabeth's hair immediately.
"Annie!" I called to her and ran up to her.
Annie lifted her head up holding a pencil and a composition in her hands. "What?" she said.
"She's back. Red," I replied. Annabeth frowned. She was about to turn away from the pavilion when she sighed. "I can't just avoid the pavilion. I need food."
"Same," I said. Nico joined us and we walked to the pavilion together. James and Peter were at the Hades table already with Ell and her. I felt so sorry for them, Ell and James specifically. Rachel had her hands practically all over James and Ell-I could tell-was about ready to blow up and slap Red or something. We all sat together at Nico's table and the three of us plastered a smile. "Hey, Rachel. How have you been?"
"Hey Thalia, Nico, Annabeth, I'm fine. Thanks for asking," she replied and beamed at us.
Fake smile, fake smile, fake smile, I told myself. "Well, we just got here so we need some food. Be back soon." The three of us left again and before leaving I saw James' face. The words "HELP ME" came to mind. We took our time getting food and came back with fresh phony grins.
Sitting at that table was agonizing pain. Her consistent talking trailed forever on the same things. Soon I couldn't take it anymore! She was even eyeing my boyfriend, Nico. He was squirming in his seat. But still, nothing could compare to Annabeth's act. Annie's eyes held a fiery passion to slap her across the face, multiple times, like not a kid slap but a freak'n bitch slap. Only, Annabeth's pride wouldn't let her do that. She has pride in her image-the good person who never explodes.
"Re-I mean-Rachel, we have to start our classes so...The three of us are going ahead since we're cabin leaders," I gave an excuse for Annabeth, Nico, and I.
"Yeah sure, I understand." Rachel looked a little sad, I started to feel a small bit of sadness for tricking her, but then she said, "Peter's new, right?" And it was obvious what she had in mind. Peter gulped visually and slowly nodded. "Great," she gave a bigger smile, "Let me show you around camp, then."
Shooting him an I'm-so-sorry-try-to-survive look and left as a group.
Peter
Gods oh Gods oh gods oh gods. I noticed the way she looked at me; I can't be alone with her. Where's a way out of this. WAIT. JANE. JANE WHERE ARE YOU. "Rachel, its nice of you to show me around. But can you show my sister too? The both of us are new..." I trailed off.
Contemplating, Rachel said, "Sure. Where is she?"
"One sec," I replied and walked over to the Apollo table and found her. "Jane, want to get a tour of camp?"
"I already had a tour this morning..." Jane gave me a shy frown-smile. "Sorry, Peter." I left her table and walked to Rachel.
"Let's go," I told her. She stood up and laced my arm with hers. As we walked out I felt many pairs of eyes watching us. The two of us strolled around the camp as Rachel pointed out the cabins, the lake, woods, pavilion, big house, and all the places for activities.
We spent maybe the first few hours of the day together-like it was around noon or one-when we finished. And then this green smoke came out of her mouth. All the other came around her. Someone called, "Annabeth Chase! Thalia Grace! Nico Di' Angelo! Will Solace!" and they all came running.
And then Rachel started to talk,
"Two children of the goddess you need,
with the goddess reigning over wisdom and mind,
to find his pieces lost in time
of the sea god's legacies' brains
within a fortnight's constrain."
Rachel collapsed as the green mist disappeared. This person-I think his name is Will or something-let her fall (like everyone else did) and ordered more demigods to carry over to the Big House(?). I saw Nico in the crowd. Tried to follow him and failed, so I looked for Annabeth instead. Finding her and reaching her, we filed onward to the Big House to sit at this ping-pong table.
Annabeth made me sit down next to her and pulled up chairs for all the other people who came seconds later. Nico and Thalia were already talking with Chiron. "Who are the seven people, Chiron?" Thalia said.
"Its obviously two people from the Athena cabin," Annabeth piped in.
"There needs to be children of Poseidon," Nico stated. The room went silent. I don't understand why or how. There's no people in the Poseidon cabin.
"We have two weeks," Rachel said. "Wait, what about the other prophecy?"
"Death destruction brought them apart/Yet already one's forced depart/She will find what she had lost/The most confined, the one that costed/Something will change after all that is done/And it will remain with everyone," Chiron spoke.
"It most definitely involves," Annabeth took a deep breath, "Percy." More silence in the room. Who is Percy?
This brutal looking girl spoke up, "We all know Princess is gone. And he was the only one of Poseidon's."
"Its legacies, Clarisse, so it doesn't mean that it has to be a legitimate demigod child." Annabeth looked a little shaky.
I looked over at her, and whispered, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, yeah," she replied with a tinge of sadness. Her cheek looked shiny thou...maybe tears? But that doesn't make sense...
"Rachel?" Will shouted. She looked like she was having a seizure and green smoke was coming out of her mouth in clumps, not like before in a continuous stream. Rachel fell to the floor as her body shook. The green mist came right out of her mouth and took the form of a woman.
"You cannot interfere!" a voice called out as lightning flashed outside. The great weather outside turned dark. Lightning shook the building, rain pounded on the windows, and thunder rang through everyone's ears.
The green mist shook, and spoke, "Beth," it coughed like it was choking, "Jackson."
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Rachel
I don't know what to say...to them, all those demigods who expect so much from me. I miss those times when I could just hand out there, like a camper, like a normal person. I missed when I was a normal person, who could go to school, who could have a life outside of this demigod world. Right now, I'm on the way to Camp Half-Blood to see how the new demigods are-Peter and Jane Johnson.
"Ah," I whispered as a pain shot through my brain. A vision was coming. My eyes closed as I relaxed my body. Opening them, colored pencils itched on my fingertips. I grabbed the green, then brown, then a mass of colors. In front of me I saw Camp Half-Blood with a Percy and Annabeth smiling together. Another page...
Nico
Something's off about those two, Jane and Peter. They have different eyes. Peter's eyes were almost exactly like Percy's. His eyes are sea-green, vibrant sea-green. And Jane's, they were blue just like the sky. Peter's adopted...probably. I checked his room, not there. Oh well.
"Hey, James. Get up," I yelled to him from my room. "I know it's early, just get up." Really, it wasn't that early, nine-ish, but we were going to be called to the Big House soon. I know it.
A grunt escaped from James room when I approached. "I'm getting up," he shouted back to me. I continued on and let him be.
Sooner or later, a knock sounded on our door. "I'll get it, James." I went over and opened the door a crack and stuck my head out.
"Big House, see you in five," Thalia said.
I blinked back, "Fine, kay." Inside, the door closed, I stood letting my eyes adjust and went to find my aviators. I got them off my bed stand and yelled back to James, "Hurry up."
"What are you talking about?" he asked me by the door.
Chuckling, I said, "Shadow travel there. You need to practice it anyways."
"How do you even...?"
"Picture the place and try it. You get use to it, and well, try it to your room from here," I rolled my eyes at him.
I could see him focus, and breath out; calmly, he stepped into a shadow and disappeared. "Oh gods." Hearing those words, in not the best tone of voice, I raced over to his room.
"Are you okay?"
"A little," James paused, "sick." He was kneeling and had a green tint to his face.
"Shit," I whispered and shadow traveled to get a bucket. "Here," I said.
"Thanks," he said as he puked into the bucket. The smells were the most horrifying thing.
I ran out of the room and went to find my mints. Walking back in, and knowing that he was done puking, I handed him a packet of mints and water bottle. "Drink up, gargle and spit first thou. And then take a few mints."
James nodded. "I'm ready."
"Well, we're already late so..." I paused, "I'll shadow travel us there. Just hold onto my shoulder." He nodded hesitantly. In a few seconds we were there. "How're you feeling?" I whispered under my breath.
"I'm alright," he replied. Overall, he looked a lot better. Together we emerged from the shadow and spooked pretty much everyone at the ping pong table.
"Now that our Hades' cabin leader is here, we may officially start," Chiron said.
"Applaud to that entrance, Neal and Jamie, although over used," Dionysus spoke. James and I pulled up a chair and sat at the ping pong table. Looking over the table, all the cabin leaders were there and also Rachel. Peter and Jane weren't here though.
"We would like to discuss the prophetic-artwork Rachel has brought to us this morning," Chiron began. "Miss Dare, would you mind?"
"No not at all," she replied handing Chiron a sketch book and stood up to uncover a few canvases. I could hear everyone's breathing, that immediate intake of breath when the first see Rachel's work. I sat back in my chair with a smile on my face; if there's one thing Rachel can do, its woo a crowd with her art and you have to respect her for that-no matter how annoying she is. Rachel pulled out a few easels and set the canvases on them.
All of our eyes were glued to the canvases. The first one was an obvious picture of Percy and Annabeth at Camp. The next easel showed a lightning-stricken James and Peter with Ell standing in front of them. She looked to be crying, or something, and seemed so very worried. The last easel I saw myself, just myself, standing there. As everyone's eyes reached the last easel, with only me on it, they gasped. I glanced around the table and I could tell Thalia was worried, Clarisse furious, and Annabeth had a calculating expression.