Chapter 4

A few days had passed since I had arrived at camp, the stares were less now, but there were still a few. Nobody asked me any questions, well expect for Nico. He was always trying his luck to find something more about me.

"So, how many times did you saw your father?" Nico asked showing up behind me.

"Nice try Nico. I told you already, I can't tell you which one is my godly parent." I replied.

"That's so not far, you know ours." Nico stated. "One thing I'm sure."

"And what is it that you are sure?" I asked him.

"Well, I know I can scratch three of the goods from the list." He replied.

"And who would those three be?" I questioned.

"For once, Hera is not your mother, neither is Artemis. And I know for sure that my father isn't yours." He answered. "Now my only doubt is if your Godly parent is one of the twelve or if is a minor. I'm betting on one of the twelve since Zeus sent you here."

"How about this Nico. You make a list and can take down names when you reach just one name you can try your luck, if you guess right I will let you know." I told him.

Nico was persistent, and I knew that he would keep that in mind and do it. And I would do everything to confuse him the much I could. One because I had to keep it a secret the longer I could, and two because that way I would have some fun too.

Chiron had put me to help in the arena, training the campers. Helping them improve their skills and teach them some new ones. When I was training a group of campers I could see Nico watching me from the other end. I knew that he was trying to see if I showed something that would connect me to one of the Gods. So, I just went with the normal training, nothing much that he could go and say that maybe I was the daughter of Ares.

However, during the afternoon, I was teaching archery, and again I could spot Nico keeping an eye on me. Now I was having some fun, since all my shots were perfect, but that wasn't enough to confuse him. Next when a small group of Hermes kids where passing through me, I knew that they were going to try and steal something from me, so I got the change that Nico was watching and use them to confuse him. How? Well simple by stealing back what they took from me and stealing their weapons from them. When the Hermes kids realized what had happen they walked back and asked for their stuff back. As I return them and warn them not to do it again I could see Nico with a confuse look on his face.

After all that I joined Chiron, he had asked me to meet with him to discuss something. I knew that he was also trying to find the real reason why I had been sent there, by no other than the King himself.

"How is everything going around?" He asked.

"Well most of the campers stopped looking at me like an outsider, I still get a few looks here and there. And then there's Nico. He's going over and beyond to find who am I." I replied.

"And by his look I'm guessing you are giving him a hard time?" Chiron questioned.

"What can I do? He wants to find out, and I can't allow that. At least not for now." I answered.

"I can't say much since Zeus sent you. However, I'm a little on his side and am guessing all the camp his. The thing they most want to know is who is your Godly parent after all." Chiron commented.

"I know that. And I wish I could tell everyone and end up the secrecy. But that decision is not on my hands." I explained.

It really wasn't. Zeus had been very explicit about that. The identity of my father was to be a secret until he said otherwise. I couldn't even share that my Godly parent was my father. All the information on this subject was to be kept a secret. It hurt me a little since I wanted to tell at least one person, but there was nothing I could do besides doing what Zeus had asked me to do, or otherwise he would take me back to Olympus.

"Well there's nothing we can do, also we can't stop Nico from flowing you around." Chiron said.

"Nico is not a problem, I can handle his curiosity." I said.

At dinner time, I sat on the same table as Chiron, as to not show any preferences in any of the Gods. This was the only time I didn't had any eyes on me, everyone was more interest in their food. However, it was also the time that made me think of my time in Olympus, here I was surrounded my other halfbloods, it felt warm. But I still missed Olympus, not because I enjoyed being alone at meal times most of the times, but because I knew that I would see my family, the ones that had taken care of me, even if it was just for training purposes. The moments I enjoyed the most where the ones with my father, I got to see him almost every day. Now I couldn't even speak of him. All because I had been born a girl.

Don't get me wrong, I didn't hate being who I was, or what was yet to come. This was just so suddenly that I was missing home and nothing more. However, I knew that all of this was important, I knew that if anything was going to happen, I might end up with no home to go too, and for all the Gods I would do everything in my power to spot that from happen. I would do everything to protect everything and everyone I loved.

The homesickness was so much now that there was only one thing that I could do to calm it down. I walked to the lake and sat close to the water and I started to sing, the water was calm, but several fishes started to gather, like they were all listening to my song. It was one of my favorite songs, it was a lullaby. But not any lullaby, my father had sung it to me every night when I was a little toddler, it calm me down and made me feel at home.

"Well I guess I will keep Apollo on my list for now. You do have a beautiful voice." Nico said sitting by my side."

"You might need to rethink that, Apollo is not the only God that has kids with singing voices." I said as I stand up and walked way.

It was the best for me to walk away since anything else that I said might catch his attention and reveal the secret, and even so I had already talked too much.