Valeria Valdez
We stepped off the train. I took a big stretch. Kai was relieved to be home, I could tell. He hadn't been home in about two weeks. On the train, you could see that he was a little stressed, he kept pacing back and forth. What Amelia said still bothered him, I mean, it would bother me too. Also, what we found in her journal. She is a child of seven, just like me and Kai. I could also see that Zoe was kinda bothered that we were both children of the seven.
We learned a lot about each other. We also learned a lot from the journals in the bags. I only knew both of them for a little while, but I trusted them with my life, my secrets, with everything. They understood me.
Peleus, well, Zoe would hang around him a lot growing up. He was permanent unlike a lot in her life. I plan to be permanent in her life from this day on. Her parents died when she was still pretty young, if she knew her mom and dad she would be in the legacy cabin, maybe we would have been friends sooner..
We found out about Kai's brother, Sammy. He was named after my great-grandpa. So Kai's mom, well she was born in 1928. She died when she was 13 but Kai's uncle saved her bringing her back to the overworld. My grandfather and her friends, maybe even boyfriend and girlfriend. Anyway, it's a long story. Sammy went missing an over a year ago. They couldn't find anything to lead them to him. Not even a body. Thats probably why Amelia's comment bothered him so much.
"Camp Jupiter here we come."
The walk to New Rome was long. No one spoke. I think we were all mentally preparing for what we were getting ourselves in. We didn't know what our 'Adventure' would be like, all we knew is that it would be very long, and tiring. A little part of me hoped that the adults would take control of it, I would never say that aloud though. Who am I kidding? Kai and Zoe probably feel the same way.
We finally got to a beautiful lake, "We'll just need to cross this lake."
It was the end of winter so I didn't want to. We all rolled up our pants but kept our shoes on in case of rocks. When I touched the water I stopped for a second, "So cold."
I looked over to Kai and Zoe, Zoe looked like she was going to faint. "You okay Zoe?"
"Yeah I am, it's just my insides are moving and they won't stop."
"Don't worry we'll take a break soon."
Kai was the first to get fully in. He looked used to this, kinda felt bad. Next was me then Zoe. It wasn't too deep but still. I'm not really of fan of water, mostly since it involves swimming. I know how to swim so I won't drown or anything, but I don't like bathing suits, too much exposer.
Halfway through Zoe almost slipped, "Zoe? You sure you're okay." She didn't speak, I put my hand on her shoulder.
"Yeah?"
"You okay?"
She nodded, "Yeah, I'm fine."
I nodded, we finally got to the end after twenty minutes. It was hard because of the current, and we took it slow because of Zoe. We took the long walk to the gate, it was guarded by two boys, both looking around 17, they looked like twins.
"Name, and reason for being here."
"I'm Kai-"
He didn't need to finish, "Praetor Franks Son?"
Kai did an awkward laugh, "Yeah."
Both boys got on one knee then stood up
"What the hell," Zoe leaned in my ear
I nodded, 'What the hell indeed.'
"Is my father here?"
The other boy smiled, "Yeah he just got back over two hours ago, he looked in distressed."
Kai nodded, "Thank you." he looked at their name tags, "Eli and Marko."
"Of course!"
"That was something."
"Yep..."
We now sat in front of pretor Frank and Hazle. I didn't know if it was just me but they kept giving Zoe the look, every second sneaking a glance. Her eyes were very pretty so thats probably why I didn't know.
"Ahh Valeria, you've gotten so big," Hazle smiled
Now, I'm going, to be honest. I have never seen this woman in my life. Yes, I've heard of her but that doesn't mean anything. I have seen pictures of her with my parents of course.
"Yeah," I forced a smile
"So, um father, we have news, it's pretty important."
Pretor Frank looked surprised, "Uh, what is it?"
Kai looked back at us, Zoe nodded, "Do you know anyone named-"
He was interrupted by a speaker, just like the one at Camp Half-Blood. Things started going by fast, a guy rushed in the room we were in and came and whispered in Pretors Frank ear, he looked up at us and then back and Hazle and the guy.
"Oh, Shit-"
A/N: Hello guys! I have decided I'm not going to post once a week. I'm just going to post when I finish a chapter. I'll try to post something at least once a week. I have turned my back on many stories but not this one. I have thought too much into it, haha. Please leave more reviews guys. I want to know people are there reading. And it's nice in case I do abandon this story, jk. Well here's a question, I saw there are some people from counties other than us! Im from America, so where are you guys from? Honestly, I'm just adding more words so the word count will reach 1000. Have a nice day!
