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Chapter 6

Percy was still in the infirmary tent recovering from Luke Castellan's attack when we finally realized the second part of Luke's deception. We'd had search parties drawn up to search the entire camp for any signs of Luke, of course they turned up nothing and Luke was considered gone with the wind. However, some of the search parties never returned and once again the entire camp was up in a frenzy trying to search for them as well.

Finally Chiron called the searches off, regretfully informing us that he believed Luke and the missing search parties had joined the Titan Lords side. We lost 13 undetermined campers, 3 Ares kids and a son of Hermes to the Titan Lord, my attackers were among them.

It was a hard pill to swallow. It was especially hard on Travis and Connor Stoll, both sons of Hermes, who like most of camp had looked up to Luke. Luke was their brother though and his betrayal was personal to them. With Luke gone, Hermes cabin councilor fell to Travis as the oldest son of Hermes still with us.

The entire Hermes table was somber and far more roomier than usual but nobody was happy about it. Usually less room at the table meant someone had recently been claimed but this... there's nothing happy about this.

Morale was low and there was a heavy air of sorrow and distrust. Campers were sticking close to their friends and throwing shifty looks at anyone outside their group of friends, but especially at the rest of the undetermined kids sitting at the Hermes table.

Annabeth was in a state of denial and outrage. She refused to believe the worst of Luke and what little progress we had made towards making amends with each other had wilted and withered away with her denials. She avoided me like the plague now and I was both angry and .. well I pitied her.

I know people always say that pitying someone can make things worse or that nobody wants to be pitied, but I was just angry enough at her that I couldn't care less about the disrespect it would show her. I'm aware that they have a history and I'm almost painfully aware that she had a fledgling crush on him but all I can think is that; Luke is a traitor and he tried to frame my brother and when that didn't work he tried to murder him. I would never forgive him. And I saw Annabeth's refusal to believe the worst in Luke as a silent defense of him and what he'd done.

I couldn't help but think that if he asked her to, would she betray us as well? Would she spy on us for him? Her denials and reactions to his betrayal told me that she knew nothing about his plans currently or in the past but that didn't mean she wouldn't betray us in the future.

If she ever spoke up in defense of Luke, I don't know what I'd do, so I'm glad she kept her mouth shut. Denials and disbelief, I could handle, but outright defense? I'd slaughter her.

Clarisse was angry, but she was also very quiet about it, aggressively taking her anger out on the practice dummies in the training field, but not yelling or screaming threats of injury or cursing like she usually did. The loss of three of her brothers had changed something within her. I couldn't quite tell what it had changed just yet though.

My brother woke late the day after he was attacked, but he was still weak and not even laying in the lake for hours had helped with the pain of the residual poison from the pit scorpion. He was healing but very tired and very much in pain. Seeing a child of the big three so weakened probably contributed to the low morale, but all I cared about was getting my brother back to a hundred percent.

My brother apologized to me, looking so guilty, because Luke was the one to arrange for me to be attacked as either a warning that my brother couldn't protect me all the time or perhaps to show him what would happen if he went against him. Percy said that Luke hadn't really been clear about why he had arranged for me to be attacked, just said that it'd been a warning to Percy.

I, of course, told my brother that I didn't blame him for the attack. Why would I blame him for something that someone else did even if he was the reason for the attack? I didn't care. Percy was my brother and I loved him. He wasn't the one who ordered my attack and he had no reason to feel guilty about it.

My words probably did help a little but I knew my brother. The guilt was going to eat at him for being the reason for my attack. He had noticed that I mostly stayed in my female form and I have, at least in public, ever since the attack. Luckily my brother could be distracted.

Ethan was a big help there and his friendship with my brother had grown stronger during their quest so he was my go to for help when dealing with my brother's guilty conscience and almost suffocating clinginess.

I loved my brother but I'd also found a new project to drive me and keep me distracted and busy. I was itching to learn and research more about my new project.

Dad's gift to me had resulted in many new ideas and I itched and ached to dive right in. Enchanter. It struck a chord in me. I hadn't even realized there was a name for what I did and after my brother's quest and attack my hobby was becoming more of an actual job rather than something I just did for fun or to bring my brother luck.

The other campers had seen or heard of my bracelets holding off a curse of a god and absorbing the poison of a pit scorpion long enough to save someone's life. Now other campers were lining up to commission me for their own protection bracelets.

Will, the naiads, Charles Beckendorf from the Hepheaustus Cabin and Silena Beauregard from the Aphrodite Cabin were helping out by gathering the materials that I needed, leaving me with only the weaving and beading of the bracelets themselves.

After my brother's attack I'd come up with a new design. It was a bit complicated and required more material than before but should also provide more protection than before. They were also more draining to make, so I was often very exhausted by the end of the day.

Part of the design required small long strips of bandages soaked in ambrosia and then left out to dry in the sun. Will was helping me with that.

Another part was the beaded bracelets. That was both the hardest part and the easiest part. It was hard because the design I had in mind required three separate bead strings to each bracelet, so I needed a lot of them, good news was I didn't actually need to do that part on my own. It was also easy because the materials were simple to get and didn't actually cost much to get. Silena was working on them right now.

Aerethia and her girls were helping me out by finding me as many seashells and and pearls as they could find. Each bracelet required at least ten seashells or pearls.

And finally Charles was making as many chain bracelets as he could.

The design required me to weave the strips of bandages through the chains of the main bracelet, braid the three beaded strings together, then attach the seashells or pearls to the beaded strings and then wrap the finished braided beads and seashells around the chain bracelet.

The entire process of putting it together I needed to weave wish magic and mist enchantment into it.

The wish magic would have the seashells and pearls acting as absorbers and curse protection. Each one could handle exactly one minor curse or redirect or absorb the majority of a fatal hit before automatically disintegrating. Major curses or staving off something like pit scorpion poison would automatically disintergrate at least five of the seashells and pearls ten to thirty minutes afterwards. New seashells and pearls could easily be attached in place of the ones that are disintegrated.

The mist enchantment was done while I weaved the strips of ambrosia coated bandaging through the chains of the main bracelet. All it did was encourage faster healing and provide a better mist shield around the wearer that would have mortal eyes skipping right over them.

Each bracelet could hold up to five enchanted charms in the future. Something I hadn't yet worked out yet but already had a vague idea on.

It was Percy's Riptide that had given me the idea. A weapon that could alter it's form when not in use for easier and stealthier travel.

So yeah you could say I was busy and deep in my own distractions after my brothers attack and once he'd healed. None of that included the school packets I had to finish during the weekdays since I was now a year round camper and the other training I had to do before I could even work on the bracelets.

The first bracelet I completed, of course, went to my brother, the monster magnet that he was. He had also decided to stay with me at camp for my first year here, though having completed a quest already and with my new bracelet around his wrist, which Chiron said needed testing to prove it did what I said it would do, he was allowed to leave camp to visit mom so long as he told Chiron and Mr. D ahead of time and reported any difficulties he had while away.

His first trip to visit mom was nerve wraking and I was terrified the entire time, but he returned with ease and reported that the bracelet had probably worked a little too well. Not one mortal had seen or heard him and that was the only difficulty he had in getting to and from moms place.

He'd been forced to stowaway on a bus to Manhatten and then walk the rest of the way to moms place because nobody could see or hear him.

He'd seen a cyclops on the way but from what he could tell the cyclops could not see him, hear him, smell him, or sense him. It had just been there minding its own business and hadn't even realized he was there.

Chiron asked me to replicate the bracelet exactly like Percy's five more times and once I did he picked five random campers, one of them a satyr and then asked them to leave camp and be back in a week to report their findings.

They all returned safe and sound, though one of them had deliberately made himself known to a manticore and six seashells and pearls had disintegrated thirteen minutes after he had killed it and he'd reported having broken a finger in the encounter but by the time he had arrived back at camp it had only been fractured.

After that Chiron had finally given me his endorsement and at dinner that night he was telling the campers of my achievement and the next I knew everybody was trying to commission me for one. I had my brother come up with a name for them since he was the first to test them out. He called them 'DemiProtectors'.

With how busy I was already and how many campers there are at the camp, plus the extra twenty five bracelets Chiron had me make, of which he gave two to any satyr leaving the camp in search of halfbloods, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that a solid seven months passed before I realized how fast time was flying.

And then the border patrol, which was more to keep a look out for Luke than it was for monsters, made a horrifying discovery - Thalia's tree had been poisoned and was now dying, which meant that the barrier around the camp was failing and monsters could now cross into camp.

The DemiProtectors were doing their jobs though, so for the moment we would be safe.

Chiron was worried that with the barrier failing, the Titan Lord would begin sending monsters here and monsters under the Titan Lords command would have an easier time bypassing a fading protection ward and while the DemiProtectors might hold up for a while they wouldn't last forever under repeated assaults.

Something needed to be done.

My brother hadn't yet returned from visiting mom yet and Chiron was debating whether it was a good idea for him to even come back right now. He was currently in talks with mom about it over IM's whenever he could get a chance to talk to her without my brother there.

I'd told Will about what Chiron was doing and he'd spent a good minute snorting in laughter over the idea of trying to hide that I was stuck at a camp that was no longer safe from my very protective brother and that wasn't even considering that my mom would even hide that I was in danger from my brother or not.

I'd tried to mention that mom probably wouldn't even entertain the idea if he did manage to catch her alone, but Chiron said he had to try, so I left him to it.

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